Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 198 The initial hostile mechanical civilization

The exploration of the HC-006 galaxy started immediately after the swarm initially established a stable base, which was the usual practice in previous galaxies.

For the Zerg, exploration and expansion are carried out simultaneously, and they will spend nearly a year building Zerg bases on all development-worthy celestial bodies in the galaxy to meet subsequent development needs.

As for the resources for the next round of galaxy-level colonial expansion, they are also rapidly accumulating. Its priority is the highest at this point in time. Today, most of the resources obtained by the Zerg in the galaxy are for this matter. Serve.

Once it's done, it's off right away.

Neither the zero nor the cerebrum realized that the unscrupulous exploration of the swarm had actively exposed itself to the vision of an unknown existence.

The swarm hadn't found any traces of alien races here before, so the swarm activities under Visser's leadership didn't mean to hide itself at all.

Although he has never swaggered, he can be called acting like no one else.

If Zero had all the vision here, he would have discovered that the moment the worm swarm revealed its figure, the speed of development on the planet where this unknown existence was located began to increase again in a targeted manner.

The scale of various productions is increasing rapidly, as if it was only in the standard state before, but now it is transitioning to a saturated or even overloaded state!
However, although the Zerg did not hide their figure under the leadership of Visser, so that they were captured by the opponent against the background of the deep space of the universe, this does not mean that the Zerg has become lax and slack in development.

On the contrary, the Zerg's colonization of the alien system has now become a relatively mature process. In the early stage, the energy and resources enough for the next batch of colonization teams to start were accumulated at the fastest speed, and at the same time, the colonization of the entire galaxy was completed. Exploration, after the colonial expansion team set off, they will immediately focus on the development.

In this process, the efficiency of the swarm is also extremely high, and the will of the swarm will empower each zerg unit to do what it should do under the premise that the big goal is determined, and there is no waste of resources during this process.

In the initial activities, every energy and resource collected will be used where it is most needed, and there will be no surplus at all.

Therefore, the Zerg Swarm is already in a state of full development in this galaxy, and it will not fall behind because of this.

It's just that you expose yourself to the eyes of other existences under completely unknown circumstances, and it's hard to predict what will happen in the future.

The swarm is carrying out its own exploration plan step by step according to the established plan, and conducts the initial exploration of every valuable celestial body from near to far. Under normal circumstances, if Viser is not blind, it will take at most one year. Inside, the opponent will also be discovered by the Zerg.

During this year, the opponent was hiding in the dark, while the Zerg was on the bright side.

The extent to which the relationship between the two parties will eventually develop is completely unknown before this.

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If we turn our attention back to the Ori galaxy and the Zerg main base, Sass, Dagos, Viser, and two brain worms born in the past few hundred years have initially shown the demeanor of a smart team.

Through the connection of the will of the worm nest, the brain worms can be said to be intimate.

In terms of scientific research, Daggs' team now has two brain worms. After systematic study, at least in terms of knowledge reserve, each brain worm is on the same level. Even if there are some differences, it will not be too obvious .

The difference is only in energy and potential. As far as SARS is concerned, it has survived for nearly 900 years, and of course it was not in vain.

Compared with the latecomers, it personally participated in the dissection and drew conclusions. In the initial period, Sass almost single-handedly pushed the entire Zerg technology forward.

The so-called success on paper is superficial, knowing that this matter must be practiced.

In terms of deep understanding of these knowledge, no brain worm can compare with it.

Although they are intimate with each other, each cerebrate is an independent individual, with completely different ways of thinking and even feelings, and is not a copy of the same individual. The diversity of individuals and thinking begins to develop among the Zerg Appear, and jointly promote the development of the entire ethnic group.

This is the fundamental difference between them and ordinary bug swarms.Zero has enough respect for every brain worm, and doesn't treat them like resources.In a sense, the brain worms with wisdom may be regarded as the same race as Zero, who only has consciousness and does not know where his body is.

They will not be consumables, even if they will not die easily, Zero will not put them in crisis, and will not take the initiative to sacrifice them in exchange for benefits.

This has nothing to do with being cold-blooded or not, it is the fundamental difference between Zero's existence as an independent life and a pure collective consciousness!

Closer to home, after hundreds of years of development, the total resource reserves here are declining rapidly, and most of them have become resources stored in the Zerg main base like an asteroid belt.

Except for Planet Ori, almost every colonized planet is suffering from unscrupulous and violent development by swarms. Under the continuous energy supply of the star Dyson sphere (fragment), compared with energy in the general sense, matter becomes more important.

The Zerg who initially applied the nuclear fission reaction to reality may be regarded as the first time to open the door to transform matter into energy, but if you want to restore energy into matter and edit it freely as you like, it is almost a god. s method.

Nowadays, pure energy, in terms of quantity accumulation, is indeed not so rare and unattainable. On the contrary, some of these resources are mined and less, and most of them are non-renewable resources, which are very precious.

Therefore, when the star energy is sufficient to meet the daily activities of the swarm, the swarm is still sparing no effort to approach the interior of the star core of each colony planet. This is almost the main direction of the SARS research team in the recent period.

Obtaining nuclear energy is also one of the links, but in this hot world, the large amount of rare resources stored is the main goal of the swarm.

The No. [-] satellite of Planet [-] is the smallest of all Zerg planet colonies, and its mass is probably less than two-fifths of the moon.

Now, it has almost come to an end, the loss of mass gradually began to make it unable to maintain a spherical shape, and the continuous loss of core energy made it unable to set off huge waves, it died quietly, even if the core has not been completely extinguished, but the entire planet Has come to the end of life.

Even the bug swarms on it have already started to evacuate, returning to the main base in batches.This proves that there are not enough benefits here to be worth the Zerg's troubles, and now there are only a few Zerg units squeezing the last bit of resources that belong to it.

Today, it is no longer essentially different from asteroids in the general sense. Since the mass is not enough to generate enough gravity, the huge defects on the surface of the planet will no longer collapse. Exploding apart, if there is not enough material to replenish, it will not heal even after thousands of years.

This was the first planet to be mined to near-abandonment by the Zerg, but it won't be the last.

In the orbits of various gas giant planets, many of its companions are also going to this process, and the rocky planets in this galaxy will die one after another in the following time.

Visser is in charge of the expansion activities of the entire swarm in the main base. From HA-001 to PC-007, the swarms in many colonized galaxies are all following its same deployment. Except for the newly arrived galaxies, every In every galaxy, there is a main base like Ori, which serves as the concentration point of the resources and energy of the entire galaxy.

The Zerg will copy the development model of Ori and move it to every place it arrives.

And in the HC-006 galaxy, which is the sixth useful star system in the third round of expansion starting from the Hurley galaxy, the swarm team that is actively exploring the star system has encountered an unprecedented attack in space!
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In the HC-006 galaxy, in the outer orbit of the sixth giant planet, in the cold space, a dwarf planet quietly revolves around the star in the asteroid belt.

Although its mass has reached the minimum requirement of hydrostatic balance, and its overall appearance is spherical, it cannot be regarded as a real planet in the definition of zero due to its inability to clear the obstacles above its orbit.

If Zero can "see" here, and penetrate the extremely regular disc-shaped spaceship, he can find that although in the initial period, there were a steady stream of controlled robots of all kinds pouring out of it, but in the Inside this mechanical creation, there is no life activity in the conventional sense.

Simple and regular, the entire interior of the hull reveals an extreme pragmatism, every ounce of space is fully utilized without any redundant structures.

Here, there is no organic life, only a large number of machines with unknown uses, strong alloys, extremely regular circuits, and - a huge and extremely simple processing system.

Judging from the continuous loss of energy and the continuous cooling hardware of the entire spacecraft, the seemingly good central processing system on the Octopus spaceship is just a pile of scrap metal in front of it.

After it landed on this dwarf planet, in just six months, mechanical creations occupied most of the mineral distribution on this planet at an almost exaggerated speed, and factories passed through many mines. Precise calculation distribution was established, and it completed the initial industrial system construction in the shortest time.

The raw ore mined piece by piece is transported into the processing plant and then smelted out. With the support of computing power accurate to milliseconds, the resources on the entire planet are rapidly becoming useful parts.

Thanks to the support of sufficient resources, more production lines were established in a short period of time, and new robot factories were quickly built and put into production. On the entire dwarf planet, steel products made of alloys began to explode here. Rapid development and growth.

At the same time, a huge energy structure began to be established on the planet. If the brain worms could directly observe this place, they would be able to immediately determine what it is through its structure and functional areas.

- Nuclear fusion reactors.

Fusion materials are transferred here from the interior of the spacecraft to provide energy for all production activities. This kind of production activities throughout the entire planet consumes a huge amount of energy every minute and every second.

Obviously, there is no large amount of fusion light elements on this dwarf planet, so all the energy support is entirely carried by the spacecraft.

And the fusion material is almost endless on the gas giant planet, so its goal from the beginning is there, landing on the dwarf planet is just passing by.

But it was at this time that the Zerg exploration team showed their traces in the deep space.

"Unknown entity detected...

Sailing speed: 0.006
The target is judged as: planet number X12-4-1
Technological level: Level 1 or above.

Civilization type: biological (non-mechanical) [marked in red]

Intelligence level: unknown

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Threat Level: Below Level [-]

The current status of the target meets the preset condition 093,

Execute the underlying command 003 - clear!
"

In the form of teams, the bug swarms headed to the nearest colonable planets in the galaxy, and the asteroid belt outside the sixth planet, of course, was also in their plan.

Although compared to the giant celestial bodies in the galaxy, the dwarf planets hidden in the asteroid belt are far away and relatively scarce in resources. Planetary gems come first, and given the choice, the first target of the swarm is naturally is a large celestial body.

Rich in resources, easy to collect.

But dwarf planets can also be regarded as large-scale celestial bodies. Even if there is no landing activity, exploration is also planned. Some rare resources may be found here, and the swarm will not lack this time.

Of course, because it has a better goal, its priority is lower in the early stages of exploration.

Therefore, after the No. [-] planet gained a firm foothold, the bug swarm chose to explore and expand to the inner galaxy for the first step. At the same time, there is also the energy filling plan of the fourth round of expanding the bug swarm on the orbit around the satellite of the No. [-] planet.

If the Zerg galaxy numbered HC-006 is roughly regarded as a system that operates on a plane, the planet No. 47, which is the location of the first colony of the Zerg in the galaxy, and the dwarf planet where the unknown mechanical civilization is located, The angle formed between the two and the line connecting the stars is about [-] degrees.

Therefore, when the swarm began to advance towards the orbit of the No. [-] giant planet in the galaxy, the majestic advancement of the large-mass zerg individuals in the dark space was immediately captured by the intelligent mechanical equipment that was always watching the entire galaxy. .

The Zerg still knew nothing about it.According to the plan, they will skip the fifth planet on the other side of the star at this time, and take the lead in exploring and expanding to the fourth giant planet and the three rocky planets in the inner ring.

Several teams set off together and headed for different planets. The entire voyage is expected to last 11 Ori months from near to far. The extremely fast-moving swarms are as conspicuous as bright lights in the dark space, especially in the professional precision Among the observations of the detection equipment.

This time, for the first time, the swarm, which had always taken the lead, was attacked by the enemy with a near-destructive blow.

First of all, on the three rocky satellites of the No. [-] giant planet, the unsuspecting energy units and space bases were attacked almost at the same time.

At some point, five small space battleships quietly maneuvered from the asteroid belt to the vicinity of planet No. [-]. Of course, it is said to be nearby, and the distance is tens of millions of kilometers away.

From here, these mechanical creations silently launched countless nuclear bombs to the Zerg planet colonies and the Zerg bases lying on the orbit.

Almost at the same time, an infinite number of nuclear bombs with a certain initial velocity appeared close to the three planets and the space base, followed by a crazy acceleration like a meteor.

In a very short period of time thereafter, the Zerg activity areas on the three satellites of the giant planet No. [-] all suffered saturated nuclear strikes from unknown existences!
The extremely violent nuclear explosion made these satellites with a mass less than 0.05 Auri, and the smallest satellite with half the mass of the "moon" burst into a luminosity comparable to that of a star in an instant in the icy universe, even orbiting. A small offset!
Zero cast his eyes here in shock, but saw that after the earth-shattering nuclear explosion that seemed to destroy the world, this place has become a mess.

In this round of attacks, no one survived on the surface.

Three small planets shed blood-red tears in the dark space of the universe. They were magma gushing out of the ground!

These planets, which had been silent for many years and thousands of years, began to sway their vitality to the universe at this moment.

Violent geological activities even spurted magma from the ground to the orbit, and the entire planet roared silently to the universe!

The yield of these nuclear bombs was clearly calculated accurately, enough to cause violent geological changes on the entire planet, so that no one on the surface would be missed.

Even if they were lucky enough to escape the direct attack of the nuclear bomb, they would die from the torrent of magma that spewed out afterwards.

Due to its huge size, the Zerg base in space also suffered a devastating blow at the same time. Except for a few space units that were originally preparing for the next round of interstellar voyages to escape and survive, the entire base no longer exists. .

And the next round of attack came only a few hours later, and this time Viser finally caught the source of the attack.

Tens of millions of kilometers away!

However, the price of knowing this bit of information is that the only remaining Zerg units on the orbit, without any means of attack, all died under this round of precision-guided strikes.

The zero-sum Zerg, therefore, completely lost the vision above the planetary space orbit.

At this moment, there was a glimmer of understanding in Zero's mind.

Before launching the attack, the opponent must have released an unknown number of detectors for navigation and information transmission in the dark cosmic sky, otherwise it would never be able to achieve such accuracy over such a long distance!
The attack was calculated precisely, and the Zerg teams that were sent to explore the planet were also attacked at the same time, and none of them survived due to mental calculations or unintentional calculations.

So far, in the HC-006 galaxy, all the Zerg units in space and even on the surface have been declared dead, and Zero has lost most of the vision in the galaxy in a very short period of time.

In the mechanical master brain tens of millions of kilometers away, the endless flow of information is frantically refreshing and flowing. It seems that there is a living life hidden in this structure composed entirely of machinery and circuits.

Its source and purpose are unknown, but it has shown absolute hostility towards the Zerg from the very beginning.

"Command 003 - Clear, executed.

If the preset conditions are met, execute order 012, collect.

Start the login option and confirm that the cleaning is complete.

Unknown physical life, none of which show signs of life.

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But the other party obviously didn't know that violent geological activities and hot magma couldn't kill today's Zerg.

They are no longer pure fragile carbon-based life forms, and they are also fundamentally different from creatures in the general sense!

Those bug swarms that were active underground, although some of them were lost, most of them are still alive, including the energy system that grew wildly underground, as well as numerous Zerg interstellar version diggers.

A brand new Zerg base was rebuilt in the sea of ​​rolling magma, and the exploration activities were completely abandoned. All irrelevant units were quickly recovered, and the entire Zerg group began to develop in the extremely deep underground, towards the direction of war!
Zero observed all this indifferently, losing his vision of the outside world of the planet did not make him feel too much, but the cerebrum Visser conveyed obvious annoyed emotions through the will of the hive.

Therefore, under its command, the swarm began a frenzied number expansion and weapon expansion regardless of the cost.

No matter what the enemy is, with the rigorous and harsh attack methods displayed by the opponent, the next step must be to board the planet to confirm, no matter what, Viser will win this round!

(End of this chapter)