Eve Novel

# Worldview of the Surreal World

## Introduction
A world where "ontology" holds great influence.
People have overcome illness and lifespan, and have advanced into space.
They have also constructed and are active in vast virtual worlds.

Although rare, "Visitors" sometimes appear from parallel worlds, and conversely, some are transferred to other worlds.
On the "main star," Japanese, English, and Latin, brought by former Visitors from the other world "Earth," are widely used.
Furthermore, Earth's anime, manga culture, and science fiction have greatly influenced technological development.
In addition to the human species, the main star has nations ruled by beings such as elves, dwarves, gnomes, and dragons, as found on Earth.
"Sorcery," practiced by elves, is still believed in from the perspective of interfering with existence, but other mystical arts have been denied or deemed inefficient and have declined.
In this world, a certain faith in the mysticism of the spirit has taken root, but gods and spirits remain only as religions and beliefs.
Furthermore, the existence of beings such as energy life forms and spiritual life forms has not been confirmed, and it is believed that undead and ghosts do not exist.

# Overview

## Gravity/Anti-gravity
In this world, anti-gravity technology has not been developed.
Antimatter also possesses normal gravity (this has been almost definitively established).

Gravity weapons and gravity technology are also difficult.
This is understandable from the fact that gravity requires enormous energy, as expressed by [m=E/(c^2)].
In the case of repulsion, there is room for the repulsive force's energy to be small, but it is suggested that the side applying gravity requires significant mass or energy.

## Interdimensional Tunneling
In the extremely small world of "probability" at the quantum level, the location of all existence within the "field" can be expressed by probabilistic formulas.
"Interdimensional tunneling" is the phenomenon where, due to energy level fluctuations in the behavior of extremely small elementary particles, matter passes through dimensions without the interdimensional fields affecting each other.
Matter, while moving through this tunneling, appears to disappear momentarily from that world (a state not determined probabilistically).

## Incantations
In the extremely small world of "probability" at the quantum level, the location of all existence within the "field" can be expressed by probabilistic formulas.
In this world, "sorcery" is thought to act on this "probability," but rather than directly acting on quantum probability, it is more accurate to say that it interferes with the present world by manipulating the "interdimensional tunneling" of elementary particles and the like.

## Summoning Magic
This is the technology to draw (summon) matter moving through "interdimensional tunneling" into our world.
In this world, "summoning magic" is a phenomenon that occurs with extremely low probability, and it is achieved through hundreds of thousands of trials using the high-speed calculations of quantum computing.
It has now been concluded that the transmutation of matter by the previously unstable mystical arts of the past was a result of summoning magic in modern times.

## Interdimensional Transfer
Currently, healing magic in this world is considered an applied field of "summoning magic" and "ontology."
From another perspective, the existence of a certain substance in the universe of this world can be interpreted as having a high probability of existence and energy level.
The ability to capture matter from other worlds through "summoning magic" has given rise to the idea of sending matter from our world to other worlds.
Furthermore, if the total amount of energy constituting the universe remains constant, it is also thought that in higher-dimensional universes than ours, the energy density per dimension would be lower, leading to the idea that matter transfer using "interdimensional tunneling" would be easier.

## Re-summoning and Healing Magic
The higher-dimensional universes to which matter should be sent are universes with three or more spatial dimensions and two or more time dimensions, similar to our own.
If time has two or more dimensions, it is not constrained by the unidirectional time of our universe, and can take on any state along the time dimension axis, allowing for the projection of our universe.
"Healing magic" is a technique that transfers damaged matter from our universe and re-summons the matter before it was damaged.
Of course, problems exist, such as summoning magic itself requiring a vast number of trials, difficulty in influencing large fields or matter, and the inability to obtain the desired matter.
Currently, these problems are addressed by increasing the number of re-summoning trials in a narrow area and gradually moving the re-summoning area.
Therefore, even with healing magic, it does not heal in a matter of seconds. However, healing magic can be applied to any object.

# Technology and Warfare

## Propulsion Systems
### Antimatter Particle Generator
"Antimatter Particle Generators" are widely used by the people of this world as devices for energy production. These generators convert the vast thermal energy generated by the annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs into electricity and other forms.
Antimatter particles used in this process are probabilistically "summoned" by repeating hundreds of thousands of trials through the high-speed calculations of a built-in "antimatter summoning machine" (a quantum computer constructed with nanomachines).
If, on average, they appear after 500,000 trials and each trial takes 1 nanosecond, they would be generated in 0.5 milliseconds.
While actual summoning calculations take longer per trial, this is executed in a pipelined manner.
This summoning time can be shortened by using multiple quantum computers simultaneously.
If this calculation were performed on a von Neumann-type computer, the number of trials (in the case of 500,000 trials above) would increase by approximately 650 times.

### Super-High-Speed Navigation (Warp Navigation)
As long as we remain within the field of this universe (spacetime), we cannot travel faster than the speed of light due to the law of the constancy of the speed of light.
Therefore, if we can detach ourselves from the universe's field, faster-than-light travel becomes possible.
This is achieved by creating a field around matter that is not affected by the universe's field.
In other words, it can be considered an extended version of "interdimensional tunneling."

### Normal Navigation Drive
For normal navigation propulsion in space, a hydrogen ion high-compression electromagnetic ejection system is used.
Hydrogen, used as propellant, is collected and compressed from space and stored in liquid form.
This is vaporized, further ionized into plasma, compressed and accelerated at high pressure by superconducting coils, and acceleration is obtained by the repulsive force generated when it collides with a spray nozzle protected by another superconducting coil.
As this plasma ion is compressed at high pressure, it can achieve acceleration and thrust greater than chemical fuel rockets.

### Attitude Control Field Generator
This is used for attitude control in space by utilizing the repulsion between electromagnetic fields and surrounding matter or ejected substances.
It can also be used for defense against electromagnetic and close-range weapons by utilizing repulsive force.

## Offensive Weapons
### Antimatter Bomb
Medium to long-range weapon.
Bombs sealed with antimatter, which are converted into energy according to [E=mc^2] through annihilation upon reaction with matter particles (primarily gamma-ray photons).
For example, the annihilation of 1 gram of antimatter and 1 gram of matter generates 180 terajoules of energy.
Due to its immense destructive power, it is rarely equipped with homing guidance devices to prevent detonation outside the designated blast area.

### Quantum Torpedo
Medium-range weapon.
Torpedoes with homing capabilities packed with phase-sensitive reactive warheads.
While not as powerful as antimatter bombs, they possess a certain destructive force, and their fuses can be adjusted to suit various situations.

### High-Output Pulsed Laser Cannon
Primarily used in space, applicable at any relative distance.
Based on electricity generated by the antimatter particle generator, it is fired intermittently through optical resonance from a medium.
The output is high, ranging from several megajoules to hundreds of terajoules.
If the laser aperture is aligned with the target, it is fired at the speed of light, making evasion difficult and almost impossible to miss.
Rather, the difficulty for the shooter lies in aligning the aperture with the target, and the reason for pulsed firing is to increase the laser's output and hit rate.
Defensive methods include laser polarizers, blackbody shields, and phase-synchronous shields.

## Defensive Weapons
### Sub-particle Chaff
Composed of unstable elementary particles, it forms particles and gains mass when exposed to high energy and absorbed.
Developed to counter the super-energy attacks of "antimatter bombs."

### Blackbody Shield
A defensive weapon that disperses carbon nanotubes with a hollow blackbody structure, which absorb light and electromagnetic waves of all wavelengths, thereby defending against quantum torpedoes and lasers.

### Laser Polarizer
A defensive weapon that refracts and diffuses enemy laser attacks for defense.
When the enemy laser is high-output, the polarization direction must be matched.

### Deflector Shield
An electromagnetic shield to avoid collisions with debris.
Also used to deflect enemy attacks at close range.

## New Humans
"New Humans" are a general term for genetically modified humans.
The latest generation is the 14th generation, having undergone 14 genetic modifications.
This generation (and indeed, from a slightly earlier generation) has already overcome the limitations of lifespan.
Their physical bodies, eyesight, reflexes, and immune functions have been enhanced (and are capable of relearning).
Their bodies contain undifferentiated cells, similar to newts, giving them the ability to regenerate from physical loss.
Their skeletons and teeth have been replaced with carbon nanofiber composite fibers, which can be synthesized from calcium and even carbohydrates.
Their teeth wear down and are periodically replaced.
Furthermore, trillions of nanomachines form a network within their bodies, providing support.
This support extends to maintaining physical condition, such as immunity and respiration, as well as a wide range of functions including perception, reflexes, nerve transmission, motor control, knowledge acquisition, automation of actions (skillization), and information sharing with networks.
New Humans can reproduce with pre-genetic modification humans through dominant genetic inheritance.

## Cyborg Soldiers and Full Cyborgs
"Cyborg Soldiers" and "Full Cyborgs" are completely mechanized soldiers.
Not only their power and motor abilities but also their brains are enhanced.
Their brains are called "air brains" and are structures of optical communication and neural networks based on quantum computing, filled with colorless and transparent nanomachines (also known as the "Eightman System").
The consciousness and memories of the original person are transferred to the cyborg body.
Their overwhelming spatial awareness, perception, and reaction speed far surpass even the latest 14th-generation New Humans enhanced by nanomachines.

## Physical Recovery Agent
Although liquid, it turns into a gel upon contact with bodily fluids.
It contains hemostatic agents, antibiotics, high-purity proteins, fats, and carbohydrates that constitute the body, as well as nanomachines for physical regeneration.
It is not something that provides instant recovery, so its effect on fatal wounds is limited, but when applied to a wound, it closes the opening, stops bleeding, and promotes tissue regeneration.
The nanomachines within the agent seal the wound and regenerate tissue by reading the genetic information of destroyed cells.
Since the agent dispersed in the bloodstream is decomposed by the nanomachines within it, it does not cause blood clots.
Inspiration for this was drawn from the manga "Rebuild World."

# Society and Culture

## Nations of the Main Star
On the main star, there are primarily nations based on species.
Species with nations include Humans, Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Dragons, and Octopuses.

### Human Species: Human Republic
- Capital: Genesis City ◎
- Overview:
Possesses vast territories in plains and coastal areas.
Unlike other humanoid species, they were a short-lived race, but the innovative medicine, technology, culture, and ideas brought by Visitors from the other world, Earth, led to a disregard for ethics and existing culture.
However, they rapidly developed science and technology, eventually overcoming the limitations of lifespan.
This influence spread widely to other nations, driving the world towards scientific and technological development in the form of cultural transformation.
Currently, this nation is operated by a presidential election system and a democratic parliamentary system.

### Dwarf Species: United Clans of Dwarves
- Capital: Kurogane Core ◎[⚙]
- Overview:
Territory includes mountainous regions rich in mineral resources, their underground areas, and plains including rivers at the foothills.
A nation of dwarves who have long valued martial prowess and honor, and possess exceptional talent in ironmaking and metalworking.
This nation is a confederation composed of clan systems, and a king is elected from the clan council that governs the country.
However, the political and military structure based on clans was disadvantageous compared to modern nations that could rapidly deploy the military power of the entire country.
Therefore, the Dwarf species nation adopted Borg technology to achieve unified group will.
This technology is based on two pillars: physical enhancement through cybernetics and assimilation technology involving information sharing of senses and thoughts through a nanomachine network.
In the process of this reform, to maintain compatibility with the original clan-based society and individuality, the philosophy of Bushido and "On and Hōkō" (favor and service) from medieval Japan was incorporated.
The king is the supreme leader in politics and military affairs, but does not possess absolute authority, and important policies are decided by consensus.

### Elf Species: Holy Quantum Elf Theocracy
- Capital: El'Vatar - The Quantum Lake City ◎[≈][⚛]
- Overview:
Inhabit forest regions, connected lakes, and plains.
A matriarchal nation with mystical ideas such as sorcery, headed by a queen as the supreme priestess.
However, in the process of adopting scientific technology like other nations, mystical rituals have changed from being objects of awe to being accepted as formal rituals for preserving tradition.
Nevertheless, mystical thought continues to hold a certain influence as sorcery has been linked to quantum theory and repurposed into technology.

### Dark Elf Species: Dark Elf Senate Territories
- Capital (de jure): Silent Citadel ◎
- Overview:
A species with dark skin, said to have diverged from the same ancestors as the Elves.
Their territory is in the mountainous regions and deep forests adjacent to the Elf nation.
This nation has held psychological grudges against the Elf species for some time.
Politics are conducted by a senate system, with senators being the heads of specific organizations or schools called Grandmasters.
Their culture is highly unique, emphasizing belonging to an organization and training the mind and body under a Grandmaster, and even among their own kin, they tend to be secretive towards other organizations.
Furthermore, they are influenced by Taoism brought from Earth, but the concept of immortality was rejected due to the advanced state of their scientific technology.

### Gnome Species: Gnome Trade Union
- Capital: Hubton ◎
- Overview:
Their territory is in the hilly regions and underground areas sandwiched between the three nations of Humans, Elves, and Dwarves.
They prosper through trade with each country, striving to avoid conflict as much as possible.
It is a consensus-based political state composed of wealthy merchants.

### Dragon Species: Dragon Territories
- Capital: None
- Overview:
There is no central government; it exists as a confederation composed of the territories inhabited by individual dragons or groups.
Dragons themselves possess high intelligence and great power, and could communicate with each other over long distances via radio waves, so humans did not adopt a hostile stance towards them.

### Octopus Species: Octopus Deep-Sea Federation
- Capital: None
- Council Meeting Venue: Abyss Forum ◎
- Overview:
Soft-bodied creatures inhabiting the oceans, measuring 3-4 meters in length.
Unlike Earth's octopuses, they have achieved long lifespans, granting them high intelligence and the ability to share and inherit knowledge within their species.
They communicate through color changes and gestures, and are adept at using tools.
As octopuses are naturally solitary creatures, their culture has developed loosely as a network of mutually supportive communities spread over a wide area.
Their political system evolved from assemblies to a representative democracy.
They possess vast territories on the seabed, but their civilization was not confirmed by humankind until modern times.

### Dolphin Species: Dolphin Collectives - Uplift Zones
- Capital: None
- Overview:
Originally intelligent creatures, they did not possess civilization or industrial technology and did not form nations.
However, humans provided dolphins with robots and nanomachines for biological science, military research, and marine resource development, enabling them to gain productivity and rapidly form and develop societies.
While they have not yet formed a nation, they are consolidating into collectives.

## Dragons
- Dragons are oviparous, scaled, reptilian creatures with large, bat-like wings and four legs.
They possess multiple air sacs within their bodies, similar to fish, allowing them to fly.
They have no lifespan, but they continue to grow until death (including their brains), so older dragons have extremely large bodies.
- They rarely vocalize for communication, instead using internal radio wave transmission and reception organs.
By transmitting these radio waves with AM/FM mixed modulation, they can communicate not only sounds and emotions but also images directly.
Furthermore, simple intentions can be transmitted using only AM modulation, allowing for transmission over hundreds of kilometers.
They can also use these organs like radar (idea from the manga "Summoned to Japan"). Active radar is disruptive to other dragons, so its use is regulated among dragons.
- Dragons do not prefer to gather in large groups, and this tendency is stronger in older individuals.
Dragons sometimes vocalize when calling out to or warning other creatures or humans, but this is because they know these creatures communicate through sound.
Additionally, dragons may emit sounds like yawns or sighs, but these are considered closer to breathing than vocalizations.

## Cultural Revolution
The culture and technology of the other world, "Earth," had a significant impact on this world, leading to what can be called a "cultural revolution."
During this time, conflicts between species and nations accelerated this cultural revolution, and ethical issues were disregarded.
Currently, Japanese, English, and Latin from Earth are widely used on the main star.
Besides science and technology, a major influence from Earth is otaku culture, including anime, manga, sci-fi, and light novels.
These fictional works utilized technologies and concepts beyond scientific capabilities, further contributing to the disregard for ethics when incorporating Earth's culture.

## Human Species Origin Theory
The "Human Species (Homo sapiens)" could naturally interbreed with other humanoid species on the "main star" (Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes), but had significant differences in genetic factors related to lifespan compared to other humanoids.
Therefore, they were considered a species that diverged early in the biological tree.
However, during investigations after genome analysis became possible, the base sequences of the DNA of Earth transferrers and the humans of the main star were found to be completely identical, leading to the theory that the Human Species might be descendants of "Visitors" from Earth long ago.

## Social Capital Productionism
- This is a policy and ideology where the state and government monopolize the right to issue currency, and the government issues government paper money annually as administrative budgets based on domestic production capacity, strongly demanding labor and production from citizens (private sector) through fiscal stimulus as social demand.
- In practice, the government does not issue government paper money; the "Central Bank" under state control monopolizes the right to issue banknotes, and the government issues government bonds to "issue banknotes" (credit creation).
Citizens engage in economic activities using the acquired banknotes. In other words, they purchase goods circulating domestically with banknotes.
In this society, the government nationalizes and monopolizes certain companies, such as those involved in energy and infrastructure.
- Although there are many private banks domestically, since only the Central Bank holds the right to issue banknotes, they cannot issue their own banknotes.
Private banks can request the Central Bank to "issue banknotes" (credit creation) and provide loans if private companies or individuals request borrowing.

## Information Socialism
- The state considers all information within virtual worlds as national information resources (social sharing of information) and collects it.
(Citizens are concerned about potential privacy violations.)
However, the state does not seize the rights to information created by individual citizens or companies.
Others within the country can purchase publicly available information at low prices from government-run online shops.
(Some publishing companies with limited financial resources have been absorbed by these government-run enterprises.)
Furthermore, citizens can obtain publicly beneficial information for free.
Payment to the rights holders for this information is covered by the government's special accounts.

## Treaty on the Prohibition of Offensive Satellite Deployment
An international treaty prohibiting the deployment of satellite weapons for ground attack.

# Virtual World
Networks based on quantum computing have pushed the "virtual world" to near-perfect replication of the "real world."
Furthermore, with the dramatic increase in memory density, people no longer access virtual space from terminals; instead, their entire consciousness is transferred to memory, and that consciousness "exists (is instantiated)" in the virtual world.
Consciousness in memory is not affected by the physical body in the real world and truly exists in the corresponding memory space of the virtual world's location, allowing for high-speed access.
Currently, in many virtual worlds, time passes 10 times faster than in the real world.
Of course, the physical speed of computers does not change, so even if computers within the virtual world are relatively fast, if large-scale calculations are performed, individuals within the virtual world may perceive the computers as operating at 1/10th the speed.
However, virtualized individuals have also improved their computational power with the help of quantum computing and virtual nanomachines.

## Time Progression within the Virtual World
One day in the real world becomes 10 days in the virtual world.
To bridge this time difference, the time equivalent to one day in the real world is further divided into 10 parts (Day 1 to Day 10) in the virtual world, with residents living lives such as having the 4th and 5th days, and the 9th and 10th days as holidays.
The lifestyle of the inhabitants of that world is not significantly different from that of urban residents in the real world.

## Eightman and Virtualized Individuals
As quantum computers came into use and research on neural networks advanced, brain science also developed.
Concurrently, in the fields of genetic engineering and cybernetics, "brain augmentation" based on sci-fi concepts such as expanding human brain working memory and memory capacity, and speeding up neural processing, was actively researched.
Amidst this, research into whether human brains, consciousness, and memories could be completely replicated within computers also progressed.
The initial goal of this research was to completely replicate the human brain, including its biochemistry.
When nanomachines could penetrate the blood-brain barrier and monitor/analyze the functions of brain cells, such as seeing, hearing, thinking, and dreaming, the research accelerated greatly, eventually leading to the complete replication of the brain.
This made it possible to completely store the brain, consciousness, and memories of living humans in computer memory.
At this time, human genetic modification had reached the 8th generation, and personalities recorded in computers came to be called "Eightmen."
(Humans at that time still had lifespans.)
Needless to say, the influence of the sci-fi manga of the same name is also implied.
Currently, based on the elucidated mechanisms of the brain, data is constructed by replacing biochemical processing with mathematical algorithms optimized for neural networks, omitting the biochemical processing.
This data is what constitutes today's "virtualized individuals" in the virtual world.