One colossal Star Gate after another was rapidly printed into existence. Stars were forcibly captured and sealed away, transformed into natural energy sources to sustain the operation of the Star Gates.
With the Empire's technology, if the rebellion had not come from within—if it had not been a struggle within the imperial family itself—the lower strata would never have had any chance of overturning the Empire.
Perhaps that was why the White Calamity existed.
When not a shred of hope could be seen, utter despair would ferment into something called a calamity—destroying oneself, and destroying the world that had already rotted away.
The mind possessed power. Even in worlds where physical laws were airtight and no supernatural factors existed, the power of the mind was real. It would still cause the faintest ripples across higher dimensions, lower dimensions... and all manner of strange dimensions.
One individual or two was nothing, but once there were enough of them, grains of sand piled into a tower and drops of water gathered into an ocean; naturally, heaven and earth would be turned upside down.
At the edge of the universe, matter had already become exceedingly sparse, but space itself was instead even more solid.
Right at this frontier, a colossal laboratory was being constructed at tremendous speed.
The laboratory had a spatial diameter of ten light-years. Its entire shell was made from DRT-7896 material, a transparent anti-quantum film only 0.01 micrometers thick, capable of effectively isolating the disturbances of the apocalypse.
Five cycles ago, it was through the maturation of this technology that the Empire extended the final destruction point to one hundred years later.
The film was constructed from one hundred billion quantum generators, distributed evenly throughout.
At the center of the laboratory was an artificial planet, ten million kilometers in diameter,