Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 194 Dyson Ball Pilot

Since the birth of the first Zerg space weapon, the "landmine", a rabbit-like space creature, the research around it has never stopped.

It took Dagos more than [-] years to come to a relatively mature conclusion. It is no surprise that the principle of its occurrence is the violent reaction of energy in a very short period of time, causing huge damage.

This achievement can be applied not only in weapons, but if it can be successfully restrained and contained, it may increase the space speed of the Zerg once again.

Of course, it won't be done overnight, not to mention that Sass has a new apprentice to teach, which will more or less involve part of his energy.

On this basis, Daggs continued to think about the Zerg's further attack methods. The passive defense of this fixed location is obviously far from the goal that Zero needs the Zerg to achieve. They need a more active attack method.

In this regard, there are several relatively mature examples.

One is what I said before, by adding acceleration structures to this kind of "space mines", they can change from mines that are quietly "buried" in the darkness of deep space to biological "torpedoes" that actively fly towards the enemy .

Under the current situation, at least one pre-technology is required, that is, to increase one's own speed in the shortest possible time to the point where it is difficult for an enemy to dodge effectively, regardless of subsequent return or damage on the way. It doesn't make sense.

This is actually not difficult to achieve, but the focus has returned to the biological structure that constitutes the Zerg's body. Their relatively fragile bodies cannot withstand a short-term burst of energy.

The second is the energy attack method similar to the octopus space-based weapons, but the Zerg does not have energy crystals to provide energy support, and their own release efficiency is far from meeting the demand, so they have no choice but to give up temporarily.

Zerg technology has reached this point, and it has long been linked together. It is no longer an era in which a single aspect of progress can quickly promote the entire Zerg's ability to leap forward.

Using its own advantages to obtain knowledge and information from civilizations whose overall development process is higher than their own should be the fast track for the development of the Zerg, but the problem they are facing now is that, at least so far, in the areas that the Zerg has explored, except for those who have already Apart from the extinct lizard people and octopus people, not to mention other civilizations, even alien life is pitifully rare.

This is also another reason why Zero has spared no effort to push the Zerg to expand and colonize outwards. During these 200 years, he clearly realized that maybe the Zerg could develop to a very strong level one day by relying on itself, but it may take countless time.

1 years is too long, seize the day!
Since there is a method in this universe that can allow the Zerg to develop rapidly, then the step-by-step development and survival can be regarded as abandoning the strengths and choosing the weaknesses, and chasing the end.

But there is no way around this. Zero can't expect the swarm to stay here, waiting for an unknown enemy like an octopus to come. In that case, perhaps what is waiting is not a rabbit, but an extremely ferocious tiger!

Therefore, preparation and investment in the early stage are necessary. The time consumed will lay the foundation for the Zerg's future progress and help them find the prey hidden in an unknown corner of the universe in a shorter period of time.

Regarding expansion and development, Zero needs to find a balance between them.Whether it is blindly forcibly expanding or immersing in the research of technology, it is not conducive to the overall development of the swarm.

It is ZERO's long-standing pursuit to develop the two simultaneously, to have both, and to complement each other, so as to achieve optimal efficiency.

Technological progress is for colonial expansion, and colonial expansion in turn promotes scientific and technological progress. This is the ideal Zerg development state that has always been zero.

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The cerebrums are trying to find a solution from the space mines to increase the speed of Zerg spaceflight in stages, as well as more convenient and powerful attack methods. Zero has refocused his attention on the slow-moving Dyson sphere project. .

Previously, in order to alleviate the problem of unbalanced distribution of energy and resources in the Zerg main base, Sass put his main research direction on the improvement of planetary core thermal energy, and successfully made this situation greatly alleviated. The Zerg The stored energy has also begun to recover rapidly, and now it is accumulating resources to produce the Prov colonial fleet.

According to the current accumulation rate, it will take less than ten years at most to support a swarm of more than [-] bugs to launch colonization activities in the outer galaxy.

Of course, Zero can also choose to let them go now, but as the saying goes, sharpening knives without cutting firewood by mistake is only ten years. If the initial investment is sufficient, then the time saved after the swarm arrives at the target location Only more, He can afford to wait.

Closer to home, although the problem of energy accumulation speed has been alleviated to a certain extent, there is still not much progress in the advancement of the Dyson sphere plan.

After all, Sass only improved and optimized the energy acquisition network on the planet, and did not make much improvement to the planned pilot project on the orbit of the No. [-] planet.

However, it is not without its contribution to this. At least the optimization of the energy network of the Zerg planet has improved their tolerance to continuous high temperature to a certain extent, and the gradually surplus energy can also support the better development of this plan.

Over the years, Zero has been optimizing and researching this plan proposed by himself to completely solve the conventional energy problem for the Zerg. Now it can be regarded as a little bit of achievement, but compared to the whole plan It is still not enough to say.

In the past, Zero has made approximate calculations through tests. If calculated based on the resources required for the growth and reproduction of the Zerg surface energy network today, a Dyson sphere that completely wraps the entire star at a distance of about 3000 million kilometers from the surface of the star, even It is impossible to hollow out the entire galaxy.

Then a simple theory came into being. To solve this problem, there are only two solutions. One is to reduce resource consumption, and the other is to reduce the construction area.

The former is the key point that Zero hopes to solve, and it is also the goal of his continuous experiments over the years. However, even after decades, it only reduces the reproductive consumption by five percent.

If it is really possible to fully build it, reducing the consumption by five percent will be a very terrifying figure, but unfortunately, even the original consumption of 90.00% five is completely impossible to realize.

Therefore, this not-so-small achievement has become tasteless, and this is the best result that Zero can strive to achieve in a short period of time.

As for reducing the scope of construction, this is a temporary solution. At least part of the energy output can be increased, and the resources consumed during the process can be recovered and most of the materials can be reused in the end.

Zero intends to establish a pilot project at a distance of about 1000 million kilometers within the orbit of planet No. [-], but considering that the third batch of colonial fleets to Plov has been waiting for a long time, it is determined to go all out after they set off ten years later.

Before the three main colonial fleets arrived in the new star system, Zero had no intention of sending teams to further stars. Even if he was in a hurry to meet intelligent races, he never forgot the principle that if he wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapons.

Because the Zerg's top speed is there, it takes too much time to go to a farther galaxy!

Ten years, whether it is long or short, the observation in the Zerg main base shows that Auri has orbited the star for ten revolution cycles.

When the fourth interstellar colony team of the Zerg had assembled at the main base, accelerated to shake off the gravity of the star, and headed for Plov, which was 9.4 light-years away, among the three teams that set out before, the nearest star He Leigh, still 4.3 light-years away, still needs about 150 years of sailing time to get there.

Not to mention the other two teams.

With the speed of the Zerg, this is destined to be a long journey, so long that at least one brain worm will be born before they reach Plov!
So far, the first batch of star system colonization teams in the zero plan have all been dispatched, and there is no need to explore more distant galaxies at present, so he can refocus his attention on the Ori galaxy, the origin of the Zerg.

There is no colonization plan for the time being, and the resources and energy produced by the entire inner galaxy began to be zero-mobilized and concentrated towards the No. [-] planet.

Zero's plan is to build a small pilot site, its size should be about a quarter of the cross-section of the "moon". It is said to be "small", but it is actually a big project. After all, even if the "moon" itself is just a small point in the star system , but it is also a planet with an average radius of more than two thousand kilometers!

A quarter of its cross-sectional area is a huge area of ​​more than 300 million square kilometers. Even if this area can only be regarded as an inconspicuous small black spot to the entire star, it is nothing to the Zerg. Controversial big project.

Since the Dyson sphere project is closer to the star than the first planet, it is the most economical to transfer materials to it from here.

Fortunately, the revolution period of planet No. [-] is relatively short, and there are at least ten opportunities to deliver materials to this pilot that also orbits the star every year.

——Its orbit is on the same plane as the orbit of the No. [-] planet.

As for meeting the energy demand for its expansion, after its functions gradually get on the right track, it can be self-sufficient to a certain extent. If the expansion stops, it can already provide positive output.

For this point, Zero had expected that the essence of the Dyson sphere project was to solve the problem of energy production for the Zerg.

Its energy output efficiency has been confirmed in previous experiments, otherwise it would not have promoted the development of this plan.

The reason why the surface area of ​​the pilot is only so large is that the resources accumulated by the Zerg can only be established for the time being in addition to the consumption in the conventional sense.

And until the breeding consumption of the Zerg energy unit used in the Dyson sphere project is further reduced, we will be quite cautious about the expansion of the Dyson sphere.

Zero is busy directing the swarm to build the Dyson sphere project pilot, and the resources produced by all the inner galaxy colonies, including planet [-], are no longer transported to the main base, but are gathered here on planet [-].

On the contrary, the energy output from the inner galaxy is continuously supplied to the Zerg main base, which causes a phenomenon in which the speed of resource accumulation drops sharply while the total amount of energy steadily increases in the main base. Here, for the first time, the reserve structure of the Zerg develops in a relatively harmonious direction.

Time passed bit by bit in such a busy schedule. 12 years later, Dagos verified and completed the research on the Zerg "torpedo", and planned to improve it again and develop it in a more flexible and powerful direction.

However, this proposal was rejected by Zero, and it was required to research on improving the vitality and defense capabilities of the Zerg's large space units.The reason is that the Zerg colony team advancing towards the Torrell star system collided with an unknown group of lost celestial bodies running in the dark at extreme speed, and lost nearly 0.2% of the number at one time, and more than two hundred Zerg colonial units lost their vitality. And was forced to change course before it even had time to be recycled.

Benefiting from the research results of the Dagos biological "torpedo", Sass began to try to apply the ability of explosive growth in a short period of time to large insect species, and achieved key results 17 years later.

In theory, the maximum speed of the Zerg can be increased to [-]% of the speed of light, a full one-third increase!
Unfortunately, the several Zerg colonial teams that have entered the mooring state are limited by their own structural integrity and insufficient total resources, so they cannot complete the change in the first time. They can only continue to move forward at this speed. They are still It will follow the established trajectory until it reaches the target and settles down.

Before Zero continues to send colonization teams to other galaxies, there will not be much room for application of this extreme speed. It will become another milestone base point for Sass research, so as to climb to a higher place.

In the past 30 years, the Dyson sphere pilot with a total area of ​​more than 300 million square kilometers has been completed.

When Planet One intersects with it nearly every month, it can be seen relatively clearly as a small dark rag covering an insignificant area of ​​the gigantic fireball that covers the entire field of vision.

And if this angle of view is placed on the planet Ori, even if the two sides and the stars are basically on the same straight line, it is completely invisible to the naked eye, and even a small black spot cannot be distinguished.

Extremely tiny.

A brand new Zerg base is generated on its back, which will be responsible for transporting energy from this vast area to the main Zerg base for storage.

However, regardless of its small size, the total energy output on it has reached 70.00% of the "moon" output in the same period!
You must know that the average area of ​​the "moon" facing the stars to keep collecting stellar energy is more than 2000 million square kilometers, which is about seven times that of this "little rag".

Coupled with the energy collection from the star core, after Sass has improved the entire energy network, it is already an extremely large number. Its 70.00% is almost equivalent to the three satellite colonies on the orbit of the No. [-] giant planet The sum of all energy outputs.

This is because the Zerg energy unit has not had time to be strengthened again, otherwise it may be even higher.

This huge and magnificent project shows its ability to collect energy.

It's a pity that the cost is really too huge. There are four planets and one satellite in the entire inner galaxy, a total of five colonial planets. In the past 30 years, no resources have been sent to the Zerg main base. All of them are used to supply energy units in space to grow and grow , even so, it has only been expanded to the point where it is now.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the follow-up resources are not stingy, the current pilot area of ​​more than 300 million square kilometers can continue to expand to provide more energy.

But Zero didn't intend to continue in a short time.

Because the current output of the Zerg is already in a relatively healthy ratio, if it continues, it may affect the production activities of the Zerg.

Moreover, regarding the consumption of energy unit reproduction, the cerebrates need to try to reduce it, and the plan to further expand the Dyson sphere will be discussed later.

Regarding the strengthening of the flesh and blood of the swarm, it has been carried out many times since its birth. However, even the long-distance spaceships of the octopus civilization cannot resist the attack while sailing at extremely fast speeds, and the swarm naturally cannot do it.

In this regard, Zero is not asking Dagus to increase their body strength to the extent that they can resist the meteorite hitting their side at an extreme speed of thousands of kilometers per second, that is unrealistic.

He just hopes that these bugs will not die immediately when they are attacked by this kind of attack, but can consume energy to restore themselves. Simply put, it is to enhance their own vitality.

This requires them not to have a macro fatal weakness, similar to the "brain" used by the Zerg basic unit to receive instructions, which is their fatal weakness. How to dilute this is Zero's requirement for Dagos.

In essence, they don't need to have too much intelligence, they only need to accept the unified deployment of the will of the hive, and obey their instincts.

Today, Dagus is already a mature brain worm. This requirement is actually not a difficult task. If there is no accident, it should be able to achieve it soon. Continue to study the attack ability.

As for Sass, it is now a long-term project to increase the space speed of the Zerg under conventional energy. The third cerebrum, Visser, has gone through nearly 30 years of study. Like the original Dagos, it has gradually begun to be able to Take on some more menial work.

In the future, it will also be responsible for one aspect of research alone, just like Dags.After more brain worms appear, Zero will build a scientific research team based on them, and the previous state where all the scientific research work of Sass is shouldered is gone forever.

In the future, even the command activities of the Zerg will no longer require Zero to do it himself, and the loyal cerebrates will be distributed on various positions of the Zerg to shine and radiate heat.

(End of this chapter)