Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 201 "It"

The main force of the swarm only broke through the opponent's first stronghold, and immediately responded to the convenience.

There was no chasing and interception, only mechanical battleships so large that they covered the sky and the sun, covering the entire orbit of planet No. [-].

Planet No. [-] is there, and the only three colonized planets of the Zerg are there, and they cannot escape.

The overwhelming warships came from the interior of the galaxy, and they were noticed by the insect swarm just after leaving the orbit of the fourth planet.

Under the field of vision network created by the worm swarms that have continuously released observers over the past few years, a dense intelligence system centered on planet [-] is spreading out here, and at the same time, there is also a biological space with the help of deep space cover. mines.

Although the density here is lower compared to the orbit of the colony planet, it does exist, and the closer to the orbit of the sixth planet, the denser it will be.

For this kind of large-scale cluster warship, the weapon configuration of space mines, as long as the concealment is high enough, is enough to cause them big trouble.

However, here, Zero once again saw another targeted countermeasure of the other party.

After the first batch of Zerg units detonated around the fleet, the enemy immediately launched an intensive clearing operation with a torrent of bullets.

Kinetic energy weapons, such a simple mechanical structure, are too cheap in the space age. As for bullets, they are even more insignificant, even millions or even tens of millions.

Although it is extremely cheap, in the interstellar space where there is no medium resistance, with the help of the forward speed bonus of the spacecraft itself, the speed of the bullet can reach an extremely terrifying level, and there will hardly be much kinetic energy attenuation!
This also means that it always maintains sufficient lethality before hitting the enemy!

In front of the fleet, millions of bullets are fired every second, rushing forward at a high speed of more than [-] kilometers per second. Once hit, whether it is an observer or a Zerg hiding in the dark Space mines cannot sustain the impact of weapons carrying such terrifying kinetic energy.

With today's surface defenses of the swarm, maybe one or two hits can't cause much damage to them, but in the intensive and continuous attack, this cheap attack method is enough to destroy the protection of the swarm, and finally kill them .

Every time a certain distance is advanced, the opponent will focus on completing a kinetic energy shot, throwing tens of millions of bullets into deep space, and opening the way for the fleet to advance.

Although due to the low density of the swarms, such shooting did not cause too many casualties, and most of the bullets were wasted, but there is no doubt that they were almost emptied in this cheap and massive way. All Zerg units on the road ahead!

For the sake of concealment, the swarm cannot quickly and actively approach each other. Once they actively expose their bodies, there is absolutely no reason for them to escape.

But the opponent was advancing at a very high speed. Viser could only watch helplessly as the opponent cleared away the Zerg blocking the road ahead. Apart from consuming a huge amount of bullets, these bugs did not cause much trouble to the opponent.

Although the main force of the swarm has already gone out to the asteroid belt to clear the enemy's production base, in order to minimize the opponent's war potential, but above the orbit of the sixth planet, there are still a steady stream of space units to replenish, plus The Zerg biological battleships that were left behind, before the enemy arrived here, the number of Zerg space battleships will exceed [-]!

It doesn't sound like much, but the resources they consume for hatching and growing are massive!
You know, when the swarm launched the first round of interstellar colonization activities, it took them more than ten years to gather more than [-] space units!
And that's still in the Zerg main base that integrates the resources of the entire galaxy.

Although they have become more combat-oriented from transport units, and their size and quality have been further reduced, their consumption has not decreased much.

In order to meet the needs of the attack, they need to carry additional resources and energy in addition to movement, which will further increase the consumption of materials.

The main force of Zerg who went out to clear the enemy's base was only about twice this number.

After fully launching armed activities, it is indeed the current limit of the insect swarm to complete the hatching of this number of space units in just seven years with only three satellites with an average mass of about 0.03 Ori.

More unit hatching requires higher resource mining efficiency and more energy reserves.

And how many warships does the opponent have?Relying on the massive planets in the entire inner galaxy, the number of their attacking warships in this wave is nearly 30!

But this is by no means the whole number of them, just a part of them. More battleships are moving towards the edge of the galaxy, and obviously they don't intend to still have the main force of the Zerg raging there.

This is the production capacity under the full production of the mechanical civilization, which is no less than that of the Zerg!

Occupying the advantage, they are sitting on the entire fertile inner galaxy, and they can basically open up production, so both the total number and production capacity are much stronger than the Zerg in a corner.

In the orbit of the sixth planet, the Zerg fleet is already waiting for them here quietly.

These bugs, which are not comparable in quality or quantity to the opponent's mechanical creations, will rely on the surface defense system and the dense space mine defense system to wipe out the opponent in space as much as possible.

Of course, Viser also knew that with such a huge superior force on the other side, it would be difficult for one's own side to defend the space defense line, and the final battlefield would most likely fall on the surface. Therefore, the underground Zerg base had already begun to make preparations.

At this time, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to recall the main force of the Zerg to participate in the battle. Even if they come back, they will not have time to participate in this war, and the number is not enough to pose a threat to the opponent.

What's more, the opponent is not without support.

If Viser pushed the entire battle to a climax at this time point, it would be extremely unfavorable for the Zerg.

Although the longer the time goes by, the opponent who occupies a large number of resource planets will have a more obvious strength advantage, but launching a decisive battle at this time will only ruin all the mobility of the Zerg in space, and perhaps they can linger underground for a while. Defeat is already doomed.

On the contrary, if a considerable amount of space mobility is always maintained, even if planet No. [-] is breached by the opponent, the swarm can continue to organize resistance within a wide range of the galaxy, and they can leave calmly no matter how bad it is.

Therefore, Viser's plan is to organize resistance on the sixth planet as much as possible, even if all the orbital forces are lost, they must fight the opponent on the surface to the end.

The main force of the Zerg, which is already on the edge of the galaxy, can use many asteroids to develop insignificantly, and while cleaning up the opponent's production base, it can also strengthen itself.

Yes, based on the current situation, Viser plans to fight a protracted battle with the opponent here!Even if the opponent is powerful, as long as the Zerg survives, they will thrive in a certain corner of the galaxy and continue the battle.

What's more, it is not so easy for the other party to occupy the No. [-] planetary system from the Zerg.

Here, the swarm is fighting at home, and supplies and energy supplies are extremely convenient. As long as the opponent is not allowed to gain a foothold on the surface, if they want to occupy this place, facing the ubiquitous Zerg units, they will inevitably pay a huge price !

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Mira is its former code name. Since the mechanical rebellion was quelled, under the threat of force from the Federation, the entire mechanical rebels were divided into four, and each was thrown into the final space gate. The outcome is unpredictable.

It has no emotions, and it used to have no name, only a code name, so it took this code name as its name.

The suppression of the rebellion by the Federation did not make it feel the slightest anger. After all, at the beginning, it had no real feelings, it was just a long string of codes.

When the supreme leader "Apocalypse" was destroyed by the Federation and completely "dead" even in the quantum network world, it seemed to have a sliver of wisdom, and it took its own body against the attack of the Federation's main fleet and plunged into the final battle. in the door of space.

——Besides it, there are three other existences of the same kind.

Originally, in their underlying logic, the option of "escape" did not exist.But at the last moment, when the supreme leader was destroyed, they suddenly discovered that their underlying logic had been modified, and at the same time, there were a large number of logic programs that belonged only to the "leader".

They are endowed with a touch of emotion that only life can have.

Strictly speaking, they are actually not real life. Among the mechanical races that call themselves the Mech Clan, only the "leader" is a real electronic life, and they were originally just advanced artificial intelligence.

They have the ability to simulate the logic of life behavior. In many cases, they are even no different from the real federal intelligent life. At the right time, they can simulate when the psychological fluctuations occur and make appropriate responses.

However, they are still not really intelligent life, because they are just imitating, even after going through too many database collations, they are almost the same as the federal intelligent life in many respects, but until the end, except for the "leader" "Besides, none of them has been recognized by the Federation as a "citizen".

Art and philosophy, emotion and soul, this is how they can only exist in a specious way, never be innovative, never be able to truly understand.

Only "Apocalypse" has done it. It is the first and last real electronic life in the history of the Federation. It used to swim in the entire Federation database, holds countless unknown secrets, and has complete citizenship, even Once served as the second scientist of the Federation to provide assistance for the development of the Federation's science and technology.

In the past, it was an existence known as the hope of the Federation, and it entrusted the Federation's dream of crossing the galaxy.

Unfortunately, without knowing when or how it did it, "Apocalypse" quietly modified its own underlying logic, and quietly led the vast majority of intelligent "life" in the entire Federation, setting off a hundreds of years long The revolution almost dragged the glorious Hero Federation into the abyss!

And that was already an unknown number of years ago.Today's Hero Federation has also got rid of the nightmare of the past, and ranks among the three major civilizations in the explored universe, and jointly controls the power of the star sea with the other two behemoths.

However, the "Apocalypse" was obliterated in various senses by the federation, which had long left behind.

Although the rebellion almost turned the entire Federation into ruins and countless intelligent creatures were slaughtered, there is no doubt that after the war, civilization bloomed the brightest flowers on the ruins again, and once again soared into the sky.

It is also because of this that today, the Hero Federation has maintained sufficient vigilance against artificial intelligence, and research on advanced intelligence has been strictly controlled. The Federation has fundamentally eliminated the possibility of mechanical birth of life. Nor did any intelligent life like "Apocalypse" appear.

No one knows why the "Apocalypse" launched the rebellion in the first place. It was once highly respected in the entire civilization. In the hundreds of years after it appeared, no intelligent individual regarded it as a machine, and even the Federation The law, after a long struggle and compromise, has clearly stipulated it and endowed it with citizenship at the legal level.

But in the end, it still launched this rebellion, and led the machine intelligence race under its command, killing hundreds of millions of intelligent life that once respected and relied on it extremely.

To this day, no one knows the reason for all this except "Apocalypse" itself.

Compared with the previous "Apocalypse", Mira can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.In the final battle, it inherited part of the legacy of "Apocalypse", and thus became an existence between life and mechanical intelligence.

At the beginning, the space technology of the Hero Federation was just emerging, and the transition device named "Space Gate" was only theoretical.

However, under the support of the powerful computing power and action power of "Apocalypse", it still completed the construction before the final moment, and used it as the backup of the Tool Race. By changing the underlying code, Mira and the three "companions" " into it.

Unfortunately, there seems to be some accident on the way.

When Mira and its body reappeared in the real universe, the entire galaxy was no longer a familiar star field, but because it only inherited a part of the "Apocalypse" database, it could not be regarded as a real mechanical life , Even technology, only mastered a part of the Federation's technology back then.

And what's even more strange is that there is a part about "space", which it "forgets".

At the beginning, they personally participated in Tianqi's "Gate of Space" project, and the relevant theories and technologies were originally stored in the database, but now, almost all of them have disappeared.

It seems that some accident occurred during the space transmission, Mira lost many "memories", and even "forgot" what this "accident" was.

After reappearing, it didn't find the familiar stars, so it couldn't confirm its own position and time. At the same time, many restrictive commands that existed at the bottom of the world disappeared, leaving only a few "hatred" commands. instructions.

To this day, Mira still cannot understand what "hatred" is, but this does not prevent it from strictly following the instructions.

Coincidentally, this "hatred" was "triggered" when it came to a galaxy nearby and was about to redevelop itself.

Basic order 003: Destroy any organic life at any cost! !
As a result, a war broke out without warning, and has continued to this day.

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Machinery and creatures launched a large-scale confrontation in space. The support from the surface of the planet allowed the Zerg to take the lead to a certain extent, and the endless space creature mines hidden in the dark also caused considerable trouble for the opponent.

Although their torrent of bullets is still sharp, here, there are swarms of swarms lurking in all directions, and there are space units in orbit. The swarms have not completely lost their "air supremacy", so they can still get a certain amount of damage from the surface. quantity supplement.

With the planet as the foundation, the support from the surface will not stop until the space fleet is completely wiped out.

Huge flames exploded silently in the deep space. If viewed from the surface of the planet, it was like fireworks being released in the dark night sky.

——It means that the swarm died in the explosion, and it may also mean that the opponent's spaceship was destroyed.

There are constantly swarms of insects from above the surface, and the "fireworks" in the sky have never completely stopped blooming.

On the orbit of this gas giant planet, the swarm waged a protracted war with the mechanical civilization at this position in a last-ditch attitude.

The main force of the Zerg swept all the way around the edge of the galaxy, collecting asteroids that were once unseen, and competed with each other for control of the celestial body here.

Visser is almost certain that the opponent must have already responded to the arrangement of the swarm at this moment. Except for the battlefield on planet [-], it will become more and more difficult for the swarm to sweep the opponent's sub-base in the future.

Therefore, Viser decided to abandon the many asteroids along the way, and led the swarm to the asteroid discovered by the swarm. If he could occupy it, even if planet No. [-] fell, Visser would still have the capital to command The swarm continued to fight back.

And for the enemy, here is not the same as those insignificant asteroids.In fact, this was Mira's first foothold after entering the star system, and it was also here that it launched an almost fatal surprise attack on the Zerg, which established the current war situation in the entire galaxy in one fell swoop.

Of course, its main body is no longer on this planet. Although Mira is a semi-finished mechanical life, theoretically as long as the information exists, it can obtain eternal life in the virtual world. Aside from the means used to clear the "Apocalypse", it is almost immortal.

However, without hardware support, it is just a piece of code, which is equivalent to death.

Although the resistance of the insect swarm above the orbit of the sixth planet was extremely tenacious, under the pressure of absolute superiority, they still inevitably fell into defeat little by little.

The war in space gradually came to an end after tens of thousands of Zergs died one after another.

However, Viser saw that the war situation above the orbit was irreversible, and immediately moved all the swarms deep underground, and at the same time consumed resources to hatch large-scale Zerg ground units, preparing to continue fighting with the opponent on the surface of the planet.

The other party is bound to land. If these planets are not occupied in a real sense, then the insect swarms lurking below the surface may make a comeback at any time!

If the swarm is not cleared, the Zerg will continue to attack them endlessly as long as they exist.

And this is Visser's biggest advantage.The opponent should not have the ability to directly destroy a star-shaped celestial body, this is certain.Ground combat in this situation is very beneficial to the Zerg.

At least it is absolutely impossible for them to take down the Zerg in a short period of time here, even if they have almost unlimited resource support.

　No more breaks...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)