Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 191 Dyson Ball Project

As the star that is actually the closest to the Ori Galaxy, the galaxy where this blue dwarf is located is called Hurley by Zero.

This name used to be the name of the largest city on the eastern border of the Lizardmen, where Torrell led his army to stop the Zerg from advancing westward, and it was also the beginning of the demise of the entire Saadman Empire.

Today's Heli City has long been turned into ruins in the mottled time. Most of the remains of civilization have been buried. Perhaps there are still some ruins left in some unknown place, but no one cares anymore.

Giving it to this galaxy with a binary star system is a commemoration of Zero's closest star system to the Zerg, and it is quite appropriate.

After all, when the Zerg came out of the jungle to the west, the first lizardman Xiongguan they encountered was Hurley.

Now, as the closest star to the swarm after they left the solar system, the name is just right.

And it is indeed among the first batch of solar system plans that the Zerg is planning to go to. If there is no accident, it will also be the first alien system that the Zerg will arrive, just like Heli City back then.

Sass and Dagos are still working hard to increase the maximum space speed of the Zerg. Zero's psychological expectation is to reach [-]% of the speed of light. Of course, this is only a minimum requirement. If this level cannot be reached, then the so-called interstellar Sailing is an elusive dream.

From [-]% to [-]%, this is obviously another huge leap, and it is much more difficult than the original increase from less than [-]% to [-]%.Zero is not sure how far they can go along the original train of thought of Sass.

But the requirement is here, [-]% of the speed of light is the goal that must be achieved, no matter what, before this goal is achieved, Zero will not allow the Zerg to step out of the galaxy.

—He didn't have thousands of years to waste on journeys.

It is worth mentioning that more than a hundred years have passed since Dagos was born.If Zero's previous guesses come true, maybe after a while, the Zerg will usher in the third brain worm in history.

Of course, that was just speculation, and Zero didn't have any evidence to verify this conjecture.In terms of the birth of the brain worm, it is still a mystery to Zero today.

From the beginning to the end, he has not figured out its specific mechanism, what is the unobservable substance, and what kind of laws it follows, and there are not enough samples to provide data support, so it can only be guesswork.

Maybe it will come as promised, maybe not, I don't know.Zero keeps looking forward to this, and is also mentally prepared that it will not appear in the short term.

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The Zerg's colonization activities in the star system have never stopped, and the scale of the Zerg's main space base has also expanded again and again. The "warehouse" for storing resources and the giant biological "battery" for collecting energy are growing wantonly, and each of them is a huge honeycomb. The structure is generated under the connection of the channel, it is like an artificial asteroid, lying in the middle of the galaxy, orbiting the star.

In the very center of it are the laboratories of Sass and Dagos.

A large number of resources are directly concentrated here. This is the center of the entire Zerg main base. So far, except for experiments that must be carried out under specific conditions such as extreme high temperature tests, most of the research results of the Zerg are in the generated here.

In the short term, even if the Zerg can successfully launch interstellar voyages, the galaxy where Ori is located will be the well-deserved center of the Zerg. play an important role.

The extremely rich resources here will not be abandoned, and at the current mining speed of the Zerg, this star system will not lose its value in the next hundreds or thousands of years.

Zero is not obsessed with the idea of ​​a time and a place. The Zerg should not be limited to a planet or a star field. Strictly speaking, as long as they can navigate freely in the universe, they do not need the so-called sustainable development. .

It's just that compared to the boundless universe, although the current Zerg has stepped out of the planet, it can only be regarded as developing from the infant stage to the childhood stage, and the whole world is still mysterious and unknown to them.

This is true from all aspects, so Zero still needs to be cautious about it. At least for now, having a stable base is beneficial to the Zerg.

Said that he was waiting for the research results of the brain worms, but during this time, Zero did nothing.With the help of the Zerg scientific research unit, he observed and recorded many galaxies around Ori.

With the help of the scientific data of the Octopus people, number all possible valuable galaxies in the observations from zero.

Perhaps the Zerg Swarm can't reach such a long distance, but the stars within the scope of detailed observation are potential colonization objects of the Zerg Swarm in the future, and it is of course necessary to understand and record them.

In order to achieve the purpose of observation more conveniently, around the main base of the Zerg, several large scientific research insect species were generated here.They will be Zero's eyes looking up at the sky. Compared with the surface of Ori, it is obviously much more convenient to observe here.

In addition, after the completion of the construction of the follow-up giant planetary colony, the resources concentrated in the Zerg main base began to increase. Every one or two months, there will be a transportation team from the edge of the galaxy or the inner rocky planet. When they come here, they will not go back the same way after completing the task, but directly integrate themselves into the expansion of the entire main base as part of the transportation resources.

This can be regarded as a characteristic of the Zerg. Although they have the ability to freely navigate in the galaxy, they are actually just ordinary units. There is no difference between the basic units that ran on the surface when the Zerg was first born. The essential difference is only the product of resource accumulation, but the cost is higher.

It is undoubtedly very uneconomical to let them return to the colony planet when they came back, and it is not necessary for the Zerg.

In this regard, the difference with ordinary intelligent civilizations is particularly obvious. For them, although they may have the ability to quickly produce spaceships, they will never be so extravagant to use them once and then completely recycle them.

The entire Zerg main base is like a glutton that can only go in and out, devouring resources from various colonial planets in the galaxy and constantly expanding itself.

At every moment, the bugs produced by Sass and Dagos experiments are generated and tested in it, and at the same time, a large number of Zerg units are re-turned into basic resources here.

Busy and organized.

However, in addition to the difficulty of improving energy utilization efficiency, the Zerg is also facing another problem that is not big or small.

After all the colonizable celestial bodies have been landed by the Zerg, as time goes by, their respective resources and energy collections have experienced a process from no output to rapid growth, and finally stabilized.

At present, all the colonized planets of the Zerg are producing positively, and they seem to be thriving.

But there is a problem, strictly speaking, it is not a trouble, and it will not affect the activities of the Zerg in the short term.

However, Zero still cares a little bit about this.

Compared with the consumption of various resources, the energy consumption of the Zerg is much larger. After all, the necessary prerequisite for the existence of life is the support of energy.Whether it is active or dormant, as long as it is alive, it needs energy support, more or less.

Therefore, whether it is hatching Zerg units and maintaining their daily survival, or space bug species shuttle between distant planets, all are large and large energy expenditures.

In comparison, Zerg's demand for various resources, especially common resources, is not so huge, and they are only added to the growth of various Zerg units as a necessity when they hatch.

And after these resources are consumed, as long as the Zerg units still exist, they can be used again later, and the loss during this period is insignificant compared to energy.

This has caused a phenomenon, that is, in the Zerg main base, various resources from various colonial planets gradually occupy a huge volume. So far, the resource warehouse is expanding every day, and with more Continuous transportation of multiple resources, this process will not stop.

However, the growth of energy is much inferior. Due to the large consumption of the main base and the needs of each colonial planet, although the energy accumulated in the main base is also increasing as a whole, the speed is extremely slow, and it is a kind of repetition. It is growing by leaps and bounds, it is being consumed in large quantities all the time, and it is replenished at once by various transporters. As long as the transport is stopped, the energy stored here will continue to decrease irresistibly.

This was not obvious at the beginning, but over time, the gap between the two has widened, and it still has no impact on Zerg activities, but this development is obviously unhealthy.

Of course, Zero does not dislike too many resources, but the imbalance between the two parties makes him feel very sorry.

Because this means that as time goes backwards, Zerg will have a lot of resource redundancy.This will continue until they are exhausted.

To put it bluntly, it is because today's Zerg energy units are not efficient enough to obtain various types of energy. Almost all Zerg unit hatching production cannot do without the combination of the two, but now there is unilateral redundancy, which means It means that the development of one of them must not keep up with the progress of the entire swarm.

Logically speaking, the quantitative relationship between the two should be reversed, that is, a large amount of redundant energy and slow growth of resources. This is the healthiest development model for the Zerg.

Only in this way, when one day the Zergs have mined all the useful resources of this galaxy, they can consume energy and take a large amount of surplus resources on a journey to find the next target, instead of waiting until the galaxy is mined, because there are not enough The start-up energy can be used to stay here and wait, or even give up the hard-earned resources and travel alone.

Today, Zero has already begun to plan for the future voyage of the Zerg. This huge and rich galaxy is indeed the starting point of the Zerg, but the Zerg will never occupy it permanently.

They are insect swarms, and after the shackles of the planet are lifted, they will never have a completely fixed territory, unless there are resources that can never be exploited.

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Energy issues have plagued Zerg since the era of ants.For so many years, the form of energy utilization by the swarm has undergone earth-shaking changes, and various inefficient ways of supplying energy have been abandoned. Until today, Zero is even preparing for them to sail across the galaxy.

However, when energy utilization efficiency improves, mining and collection become weaker.

Although the current reserves are indeed continuing to grow, it is clear that once the swarm encounters a problem, for example, when zero needs to use all resources to incubate the swarm, the problem of the total amount of energy will be the first to limit this. process.

As a result, a plan that originally existed but has not been put into practice by Zero due to technical reasons emerged in his mind.

However, the only two brain worms are now thinking and practicing in order to improve energy efficiency, so this can only be done after interstellar travel becomes a reality, and before that, Zero wants to do it first. Test whether your idea is feasible.

With the current development momentum, as long as the insect swarm does not exert all their strength on a large scale, the energy stored in the main base will only increase, but at a slower rate.

This status quo is just a little worry about the long-term development of the Zerg, and it will not immediately dwarf the development needs of the Zerg. After all, so many planetary colonies of the Zerg are not in vain.

This also means that there is still time.

On planet No. [-], with the improvement of various functions of the energy unit, especially after the birth of insects capable of penetrating into the magma, the original hell-like environment here is no longer a threat of insect swarms, and even general geological activities are difficult. Can't do anything about them.

Therefore, Dagus, who was in charge of maintaining the colonial system here at all times, no longer needs to pay attention to the wind and grass on the entire planet all the time, so he can free up his hands to join the research plan of Sass, and gather the power of the two insects to promote the Zerg technological progress.

But at this moment, Zero set his sights on the planet closest to the star. To put it bluntly, although the energy system of the Zerg is all over all the colonial planets, the creeps are deep in the ground of every rocky planet. It grows wantonly everywhere, but here, Planet No. [-], is still the most important source of energy for the Zerg.

If calculated according to the proportion of energy transported from various planets in the Zerg main base, the energy from planet No. 20.00 accounts for at least [-]%.

You must know that the number of Zerg colonies today has reached fifteen planets alone, not to mention that there are many irregular celestial bodies.

The test to be done by Zero is in the orbit of the No. [-] planet, specifically, to build a miniature energy collection station on its "side".

This energy collection station is not a production unit, at least not yet, it only exists as a test product.

Therefore, the amount of resources needed to build it is not the key point. Even if it cannot make ends meet, it is not a problem. The material support from Planet One is sufficient to maintain its daily operation.

What needs to be explained is that it is located in the orbit of planet No. [-] and maintains synchronous operation with the planet by adjusting its speed. That is to say, it does not exist as a satellite of Planet No. [-], that is, it does not revolve around the planet, but It is to get rid of the gravitational force of the No. [-] planet, and to do a circular motion around the star together with it.

The experiment that Zero had to do was actually quite simple, but it was of great significance.

He wants to test the operating efficiency of this man-made energy harvesting station here, to ensure that it can "survive" and grow.

—and the amount of matter it consumes to grow.

This is very important, because what Zero wants the Zerg to do later is an extremely grand and even whimsical plan!
And this time the test is just an extremely small step towards the goal.

At the moment when Sass and Dagus couldn't free their hands to solve the problem, Zero could only do it himself.

And as long as there is a glimmer of hope for this project to succeed, He will go on unswervingly, no matter how long it takes and how many resources will be spent in the process.

Because once it succeeds, it means that the swarm will not have any troubles at least in terms of the "amount" of conventional energy, and the effect can be said to be once and for all!
This project has a well-known name in Zero's mind.

— Dyson Sphere Project!

It sounds like a fantasy, and it seems impossible to realize it.

What kind of concept is a star?

Take the one in front of you as an example, its radius has reached an astonishing 75 kilometers, which is equivalent to more than 100 times that of Ori!That means it's a million times the size of Ori!
Its mass exceeds 90.00% of the entire star system, and its surface area reaches an exaggerated 70 trillion square kilometers!

And this yellow dwarf star is definitely not a big man among the stars in the universe.

It seems very unrealistic to build a "Dyson sphere" that has only existed in science fiction so far near it.

To be honest, today's Zerg does not have the ability to realize this huge and grand plan, and it is very likely that they will not be able to complete such a grand plan in the next few hundred years.

Not to mention, with the various resources needed by today's energy units to reproduce on the planet's surface, it may not be possible to empty out all the other planets in the entire galaxy if they are to be copied to the stars' orbits to complete coverage.

But this does not mean that this plan has no possibility of realization.The test that Zero is doing now is trying to figure out the amount of specific substances that Zerg energy units need to consume to reproduce and grow here, so as to judge the distance between the current Zerg and the minimum requirements for this project.

Yes, Zero's plan is to try to establish a pilot in a closer orbit than Planet One by reducing the amount of material needed for Zerg energy units to reproduce in space.

If one day, Zerg energy units can reproduce themselves simply by absorbing energy, then this project will no longer be such a difficult problem.

But even if it is just to achieve this point, the difficulty is enough to make Sass and Dags exhausted their brain cells.

It can be foreseen that this must be a plan that must go through a long time span and the future is uncertain. What Zero is doing now is just the first step in a journey of a thousand miles. When will it reach the end, or even whether it will reach the end? , is still an unknown.

However, the unknown is not a reason not to do it. At least in theory, as long as the prerequisites can be met, it does have the hope of being realized.

Of course, with the resources and time required for this project, it is definitely not something that is in sight. It can only be regarded as a long-term plan, and there may even be no hope of success in the next few hundred years.

Naturally, it cannot solve the problem of energy collection speed that the Zerg is facing today. Therefore, the planet colonization plan is still the top priority for the survival and development of the Zerg.

After Sass and Dagos complete the current project research, further optimizing the energy absorption efficiency of the Zerg and sending the Zerg colony team to other galaxies is the top priority.

　I will also be forced to drink fake wine tonight,,,,,,,, tomorrow may still not be able to update at ten o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)