Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 179 Cosmic Robbers and Technological Revolution
In the vast universe, in the unknown star field, like a solar eclipse receding, a young star slowly took off the "coat" that had covered it for an unknown number of years.

As a star, it finally ended its history of humiliation. After an unknown period of time, it was able to re-illuminate the galaxy that should belong to it, scatter its own light and heat under the starry sky, and declare to the universe once again. own existence.

Shortly thereafter, on the edge of galaxy cluster No. 16 of the Hero Federation, the Federation's pioneer fleet was crossing the boundless and desolate universe belt, intending to spread the glory of civilization to the more distant universe.

Countless warships straddled up and down in the dark sky. There is no distinction between east, west, north and south, and there is no distinction between up, down, left, and right. They don't even have "speed" in the general sense.

If you use the star system millions of light years away as your reference system, you will find that these warships, like stationary warships, are not moving continuously in the entire space of the universe.

Just like jumping in space, before a few standard units of time, they were still at coordinate a, but in the next moment, they abruptly appeared at coordinate b. Calculated on a distance scale in the general sense, each time they "jump" "The distance traveled is more than 1 light-year.This length, whether it is for the Zerg or the Octopus, is quite a long distance.

Even the light needs to be timed in years to complete this distance, but for them, it is just a jump.Of course, this kind of jump is also discontinuous. After each jump, they will maintain a regular voyage for a period of time, but the distance they advance during this regular voyage is negligible.

Undoubtedly, this is a technology for traveling faster than the speed of light, and there are countless space warships traveling faster than the speed of light at the same time!
Strangely, the term jumping itself is not rigorous.Because if they can be observed, their speed relative to the reference system is actually not fast. Under normal conditions, this speed is less than one percent of the speed of light. Speaking of it, it is no different from turtle speed.

So strictly speaking, they themselves do not have a speed beyond the speed of light, and even on a cosmic scale, it can be said that they basically do not move.

Rather than saying that they are jumping in the void of the universe, it is better to say that the space becomes abnormal here!

The concept of space in the general sense is blurred here, just like a piece of paper that has been folded in half. When two points on the plane that were far away from each other are folded, they overlap once in a three-dimensional space.

It's just that here, what is folded is not a piece of paper or a plane, but the universe!

It can even be said that the spacecraft itself did not move, but the space was compressed and folded at a certain moment, thus "sending" these spacecraft to a long distance!

Compared with the clumsy mooring of the octopus, this seems to be the correct way to open space navigation.

However, at a certain moment, they stopped this leaping rapid movement.

A long-distance real-time communication from a high-level Federation has changed their ongoing expansion mission.

"Galaxy area numbered W-9625, "robbers" appear, the signal area has been locked, energy level: average; danger level: intermediate!"

"According to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph 3, of the Colva-Hiro-Vij Joint Convention, dispatch military forces nearby to implement Plan No. 6, order the 7th Fleet to terminate the escort mission, and go to intervene immediately. The colonial fleet jumped backwards, and the Greek The second colony fleet of the Luo-16 galaxy cluster took over the escort and returned to the galaxy to stand by."

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The mother galaxy of the Vigil Empire, the central star, and the ring world.

This is a huge and prosperous world surrounding the stars, and the energy from the central star is effectively used. Generally speaking, any individual civilization here will not be troubled by the energy requirements.

The material is extremely rich and the energy is extremely abundant. This is the center of the empire and the paradise of civilization. Of course, it belongs exclusively to the Vigils.

At this moment, in the space dock on the edge of the ring world, an equally huge fleet is orderly entering a huge spherical area that is no different from an asteroid, and then disappears in the ring world.

At the same time, the highest hall of the main star of the Korva Empire, the scepter representing the supreme power of the empire, is in the hands of the emperor Sharp Korva at this moment.

If Zero's gaze could see this place across the galaxy, he would be extremely surprised.

Because at this moment, a shrunken version of the multi-faceted luminescent crystal that is identical to the "gem" swallowed by the queen ant was quietly suspended on the top of the scepter, exuding soft rays of light, enveloping the entire hall. The reflection is mixed with light and dark.

Under the flickering light, a face flickered in and out, tall and majestic.

Just now, Sharp Korva issued the latest order to the garrison far away in the frontier galaxy through ultra-distance communication. Not long after, a huge space carrier full of barbaric style changed its course and entered a jumping state.

According to the timing method where zero is above Ori, after only 224 sidereal days, the Hero Federation Seventh Fleet has already arrived at the designated area.

This is the galaxy numbered W9625, which belongs to the frontier of the Korva Empire.

240 days ago, an energy storm occurred here, and a new energy mine appeared here, but it was quickly looted, and there will be no output in the next hundred years.

In the w9625 galaxy, apart from the central star, there are only two gas giant planets, and there are no valuable resources, worthy of the Korva Empire's garrison.

This is indeed the sovereign territory of the Korva Empire, but it has never been taken seriously.

The Seventh Fleet of the Federation lies beyond the galaxy, waiting for the arrival of the host.

As the military force closest to this place among the three major civilizations and whose strength is sufficient to complete this mission, they arrived first, but they never went beyond the thunder pool.

Soon, space fluctuations intensified, and the starship from the Korva Empire arrived.According to the joint agreement, this "bandit incident" will be dominated by them.

Then came the leapfleet of the Vigil Empire. For this incident, they can be said to have spent a lot of money.

Even the Hero Federation, which has the deepest space research, will not easily start the stargate transition unless it is a special case, let alone this kind of one-way positioning transition, which will consume a lot of resources!
It's no surprise though, Weegee has always shown an unabashed seriousness about the operation.The reason is still related to the development direction of its civilization.

After all, everyone knows that in the explored universe, although the three major civilizations basically maintain a balance of power, they each have their own advantages in mainstream technology, and the Vigil Empire is famous for its extreme use of energy!
They do not lack energy, but the "cosmic robbers" who are energy life and feed on energy mines are naturally on the opposite side to Viki, and their research value to Viki does not know that it exceeds the so-called cosmic energy How many times the mineral deposits.

Therefore, in every incident, the Vigil Imperial fleet played the role of vanguard, without exception.

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According to intelligence, the interstellar "robber" incident this time is still within the routine, and the three major civilizations already have a mature solution to this kind of incident.

Cosmic bandit, codenamed "Zhuna".The only energy life that has appeared in the universe has been explored so far.It feeds on energy to maintain its own existence, and is especially keen on the "cosmic mines" where energy crystals are rich, and uses this to strengthen and multiply itself.

"Zhuna" is extremely difficult to eliminate, let alone capture and research.Over the years, although the three major civilizations have experienced such incidents countless times, they still can only threaten their survival to a certain extent, and the expulsion is more than enough. It has been done once in a dominant operation, and it is not certain whether it has actually achieved complete annihilation.

The existence of this kind of life is of great research value for the three major civilizations, especially since it does not have too high intelligence itself, so it cannot be called a complete civilization, and there is no need to worry about it.

Therefore, when "Zhuna" was "foraging" in the explored universe, the targeted hunting activities of the three major civilizations were also carried out. Although the difficulty was extremely high, all scientific assessments believed that the body of "Zhuna" Has a very high value.

In addition to the attraction of energy life itself, "Zhuna"'s ability to "predict" random energy deposits is also one of the main reasons.

Whether it is the Hero Federation, which is known as the most spatial dimension, or the Korva Empire with extremely advanced biotechnology, or the rich and powerful Viki Empire, they are very enthusiastic about every appearance and attack of "Zhuna".

Among them, Virgil is the most.

Three months later, the huge fleets of the three major civilizations caught up with the "Zhuna", which is invisible under optical conditions, in the barren universe.

An unknown siege is unfolding here. There is no weapon launch in the conventional sense, and there is no exciting intersection attack such as laser rays. These attacks are ineffective for the energy life "Zhuna", and may even would be an addition.

Here, the three major civilizations each displayed their own cutting-edge technology. In this void that seemed to be endless darkness, a war that could not be called encirclement or expulsion was waged. The final result is unknown. Calculated, after 62 sidereal days, the fleets of the three major civilizations accelerated and entered the return journey of superluminal voyage...

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40 years have passed, and the planet Auri today is no longer the devastated and lifeless planet it was back then.

Under the continuous reproduction and replacement of algae, a new ecological system dominated by Zerg is rebuilt on the surface of the planet.

The creatures that survived the extinction caused by the octopus people began to adapt to the new environment again. In just a hundred years, the environment of the entire planet has undergone two drastic changes, which has caused great challenges to the native species on the planet. After all, it is impossible for them to change their own characteristics in a targeted manner anytime and anywhere according to the changes of the environment like the Zerg.

Today's surface is already green. This is not the recovery of the planet's native plants, but the complete occupation of the Zerg's energy units.

Looking up to space made Sass focus on research in this area. 40 years ago, after the octopus became extinct, Sass once again entered the state of "blessed soul" in his mouth, which made Zero speculate about this, and actually greatly promoted the technological progress of the Zerg.

After 20 years of continuous research by Sass, the octopus people's cognition and technological application of the universe were finally initially integrated and began to be applied and implemented.

The crazy growth of "plants" above the ground is one of the important experimental projects.

This project requires a lot of resources and energy, and its specific feasibility has been theoretically verified by Saas. However, due to the huge cost, it is still under preparation even after 20 years.

According to the theoretical concept from the octopus and zero's thinking reference, Sass finally proposed a means for the Zerg to enter space smoothly.

That is, the "Biological Space Elevator" project that belongs exclusively to the Zerg.

Based on the surface of the planet, a giant "plant" that proliferates almost infinitely is used to extend the tentacles of the Zerg upwards, pass through the atmosphere in a nearly vertical posture, and enter outer space.

According to the knowledge system of the octopus people and the particularity of the Zerg itself, this matter is theoretically feasible, but it is still unknown what kind of difficulties they will encounter in specific actions.

It is worth mentioning that in this process, based on the space travel of the Octopus people, Sass also theoretically initially overcame the environmental problems faced by the Zerg in space, the most important of which was the initial "inner circulation" "Based on the new generation of biological cycle system, its emergence has allowed the Zerg to truly begin to get rid of the category of surface organisms.

Although its practicability has not been tested in practice, it can be said that all the research of the Zerg on the survival of the universe today is above the theoretical level, but in the next actions, Sass will gradually verify this point.

These two are the main conclusions that Sass has drawn during this period, and besides that, it has backup plans.

In addition to the idea of ​​a biological space elevator, Sass also proposed the concept of "aerial insect species" based on the octopus aircraft as a sample and based on the Zerg's new-generation biological cycle. This has extremely high requirements for the Zerg's physical strength. Although it has been strengthened again and again, there are still some difficulties.

On the contrary, the energy problem of Feitian has been basically solved. The use of conventional energy by the octopus has given Sass a lot of inspiration. Today's Zerg energy units collect and transform energy, which is no longer the low-end form like sugared sweet potatoes. , Their current output is based on the energy battery of the octopus, which is directly stored in the body of the Zerg to supply energy. Compared with the previous one, it has been qualitatively improved, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is an energy revolution!

This is the confidence behind Sass's space program and the root of all actions.In addition, the concept of insect species similar to the octopus satellite detection satellite was also proposed by Sass. If the flying plan is successful, then the Zerg will usher in a huge change in space!

This is the main achievement of Sass in these years. Under the blessing of the state he called "blessed mind", the Zerg leaped over the huge obstacle like a chasm, solved many problems they faced before, and let the The endless starry universe above my head opened a window to myself for the first time!

Although it hasn't really gone out yet, this is no longer a fantasy that stays in Zero's mind, and the Zerg is starting to turn it into reality step by step!
The key role in this is undoubtedly the aerospace technology from the octopus people. These memories are like a living encyclopedia of civilization. In 40 years, it has surpassed the achievements of hundreds of years of accumulation and hard work of the Octopus people!
Of course, SARS’s own 200 years of research accumulation also contributed a lot, especially the unique gene editing ability, which is the biggest prerequisite for all these achievements.

Zerg creatures have been played out in its hands. In the past few decades, an unknown number of failed experiments have appeared in the hatchery and were silently recovered. It was transported back from the ore veins and became the nourishment for the hatching Zerg units under its leadership.

Of course, during this process, the diggers themselves have undergone a great change. They are no longer just bugs that focus on opening underground passages for the Zerg arms to move forward. Today, they are even bigger in size under Zero's deliberate request. , and the functions are also enriched a lot.

The most important of these is the ability to exploit conventional resources on the planet!By eating, they can initially refine the ores stored in the veins.

This is a major advancement in Zerg biotechnology, because it represents more than just the purification of mineral elements.

Zero had always believed that there would be a considerable gap between the gene editing of the Zerg and the products of intelligent technological civilization such as the Octopus, and the other party's technologies such as metal smelting could not be used on the Zerg accordingly.

But it turns out that this is not impossible, it's just a different way.

The so-called metal smelting, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than the separation and recombination of substances. The principles of those physical and chemical reactions have been explained in great detail in the knowledge system of the octopus.

By analogy, it didn't take him much effort to achieve a similar effect through the transformation of the Zerg Digger.

It is no longer the Sass that only relied on imitation to transform Zerg individuals. Today, it is not as good as the Supreme Academy of Sciences in the heyday of the octopus civilization, but its knowledge system is not much worse!
Those problems that once plagued it have been solved one by one, and now it is facing a greater cause and a more severe challenge!

(End of this chapter)