Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 218 1000 years
The universe is empty, even if the entire galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, and its total mass is about 8000 billion times that of the entire Auri galaxy, such a rich amount of matter will not change its essence of nothingness.

Because in this indescribably huge cosmic celestial body structure, the space between stars is almost barren.

If a particle shoots into this star domain from the edge of the river system at a random angle, and finally passes through the entire river system, the probability that it can actually hit the solid matter is very small, because here, more than 90.00% of the Space is a vacuum.

Just like the nucleus and the electrons revolving around it, they seem to be closely connected, but in fact there is a very empty space between them.

Sometimes Zero wonders, in such a huge space, how many planets can have life like Ori, and can eventually give birth to civilization?
Today's Zerg has an extremely deep understanding of life, and the origin of life on Ori is no longer a secret.

Zero clearly knows that even if a planet has the conditions for the birth of life, it still needs to go through a coincidence that seems to be a coincidence that God himself did it before it actually gave birth to life.

And it takes hundreds of millions of years to develop from the lowest level of life to the spark of civilization!
Therefore, it can be said that life is the most magnificent miracle in the universe!
But if it is in a nearly infinite space, in tens of billions of years, even the slightest probability will eventually come true.

Theoretically speaking, if the time is infinitely long and the universe maintains the status quo forever and will not die, all qualified planets will eventually give birth to life and even civilization!
It's a pity that in the past few hundred years, apart from the mechanical civilization of Mira, the Zerg has never encountered a single planet with life.

Zerg 1000 years, this is a memorable time point for both Zero and Sass.It means that since the Zergs landed on the No. [-] island and experienced an earth-shaking change, it has been a thousand Ori years since now!
From escaping in embarrassment at sea, to conquering the surface and then crossing the interstellar, the Zerg has experienced unimaginable changes in the past 1000 years.

If there hadn't been zero, the small biological community composed of a queen leading a colony would have disappeared in the long river of time. Even if thousands of years have passed, they are still just a group of humble ants. They have been ants since birth, and they are destined to be ants without any change.

If they are lucky enough, they may witness the glory and decline of the lizardman empire as ants, and they may also see the lizardmen, a native race above Ori, successfully fly into space and become stronger step by step.

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The time was too long, and Zero looked back, and the war with the lizardmen was so far away.

For 1000 years, this counts as a node.It took the Zerg a total of 1000 years from the age of ignorance to the current interstellar voyage and control of large galaxies.

The mother star Ori completed a thousand complete revolutions around the central star before the Zerg could reach this point.

Today, nearly 20 years have passed since the first batch of the Zerg's sixth round of colonization fleet set off. This kind of activity has been hosted by Visser, and there is nothing to worry about.

During this time, Sass made some gains in scientific research.The battleship armor from Mira, some of the materials were forced out by Sass. The hardness of these compound materials is several times stronger than that of steel. In the original war, ordinary kinetic energy weapons could not be used. Armor parts deal damage.

Although there is already a synthetic formula for this material, it still cannot be used on a large scale in the Zerg body.

Because one of the substances has extremely active chemical properties, is quite scarce in nature and is difficult to extract, but it is indispensable in the synthesis of this material.

So far, even the accumulation of Zerg in various galaxies is not enough to support the strengthening of the entire Zerg, and it is embarrassing that before this, the Zerg used this material because it was useless. It was left as waste, and the current reserves are quite limited.

Obviously, this thing is a luxury, no wonder even Mira only uses it for the defense of key parts of the battleship.

In the HC-006 galaxy, the Zerg captured many remnants of mechanical battleships through war, but they were able to win with some effort.

Zero plans that after the galaxies are connected in the future, this scarce material can be used in a unified way to create a group of vanguards for the Zerg.

However, it is too early to say these at this time. In the past galaxies, these unused but extremely rare substances and materials were directly discarded by the Zerg, but now that they are used, the necessary collection is also It's inevitable.

This also reminded Zero that in addition to those elements that can be seen everywhere, the Zerg probably still need to store some materials that are currently unused but rarely produced, in case of emergencies.

Otherwise, it will inevitably be more embarrassing to encounter such a situation in the future.

The entire river system is so huge, with hundreds of billions of stars, Zero believes that no matter how scarce resources are, there must be enough in such a wide range.

It's just that the premise of all this is that the swarm can truly connect the various galaxies within its sphere of influence, not to mention real-time communication, but at least have the ability to complete the material exchange between adjacent galaxies within five years.Otherwise, the seemingly huge territory can only be fought separately under the unified command.

If an ordinary biological civilization does this like the Zerg, assuming they have the ability to navigate the star system and complete colonization on various planets, but such a difficult exchange of information is enough to cause a huge empire to fall apart. For the stability of the regime Existence, unless it is absolutely necessary, even if they have the ability, they will not do so.

That is to say, the highly centralized and absolutely loyal race of the Zerg can achieve this step without the technology of faster-than-light navigation.Because they are born with the ability of long-distance communication that transcends the times, Zero can command the Zerg units in every corner to complete what he wants the Zerg to do anytime, anywhere.

But then again, from the development of the ant colony thousands of years ago to today's situation, the cliche energy problem is no longer a problem that plagues the Zerg. With controllable nuclear fusion and biological Dyson spheres, whether it is within the galaxy or In the wilderness of the universe, the Zerg can obtain sufficient energy to ensure their survival.

But the Zerg is constantly developing, and the contradictions are also changing with the strength of the Zerg.There is no doubt that the main contradiction facing the development of the Zerg in a relatively peaceful period is how to connect all the occupied galaxies in series and complete the integration of resources, so that the Zerg can truly turn the potential of occupying these galaxies into a real strength .

Zero is very clear that a sailing speed below the speed of light cannot meet the needs of the Zerg.Because traveling between these galaxies, even neighboring galaxies, takes years, even at the speed of light.

On the cosmic scale, a mere few years is certainly not a long time, but in conventional navigation, it is impossible to reach the speed of light.

If the Zergs occupy so many galaxies, but fail to integrate and utilize the characteristic resources in each galaxy in the end, then occupying these celestial bodies, for the Zergs to do this, there is actually only the ancient and traditional need of expanding the number. , but in the interstellar era, doing these things mechanically doesn't really make much sense to Zero.

Therefore, faster-than-light navigation, and relatively low-cost faster-than-light navigation, is a problem that the Zerg will inevitably need to solve in the near future.

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In the development of these years, it is worth mentioning that the Zerg has some preliminary conclusions on the observation of the "energy vein" of the fourth planet in the Crichtel system.

In the past 20 years, Visser has observed that special cosmic spectacle twice, and each time it happened at a completely fixed position relative to the No. [-] planet.

As if there is something unique about this relatively fixed position, this unimaginable cosmic spectacle is attracted by the side of the No. [-] planet.

The strange thing is, after the observation of the Zerg scientific research unit, there seems to be nothing special about this location, it is very common.

After the first anomaly occurred, Viser tried to send the Zerg to observe it closely. Since this was the first time the Zerg had truly observed this unique phenomenon, it didn't know the rules, so it could only Spread as many Zerg explorers as possible throughout the planetary system to capture that fleeting miracle.

Finally, after the 3892th Origen Day after the First Vision, the same phenomenon happened here again!
An energy crystal that was exactly the same as before quietly appeared on that position after intense but gentle light, as if it was there itself.

The difference is that this time, under Viser's careful preparation, although it only had a fleeting opportunity, it also observed more clearly what happened here before the light was born!
It was a "small" spherical area with a diameter about twice that of the energy crystal. At that moment, it was like an extremely tiny star, emitting violent energy unreservedly into the galaxy. light, and then quickly faded away.

Compared with mechanical civilizations like Mira, the Zerg is relatively weak in specific parameter observation and calculation.

Of course, this is only relative to Mira. In fact, in so many years of development, under the hard work of the brain worms, the achievements of the Zerg in basic technology are no less than that of the intelligent civilization of the same level. The types and functions of units are comparable to the mechanical creations of other civilizations.

This is also the real reason why Visser was able to observe this phenomenon in microseconds. Today's Zerg is no longer the mortal body of the past. They can be living creatures or a living machine!
Different biological structures can give them different abilities, all of which are controlled by the brain worms and change from time to time.

Fortunately, the violent white light was not as violent as the changes in the celestial bodies caused by the activities of the stars, and there was no flow of high-energy charged particles, so it did not cause any casualties to the nearby Zerg, which allowed Viser to observe the truth.

——Although even if it is observed, it doesn't know what it is.

However, since it has been determined that the two miracles occurred almost at the same position relative to planet No. [-], Visser plans to directly send Zerg units to "squat" there.

This is undoubtedly a stupid way, but in the current situation, there is really not much information to use.From the analysis of the information sent by the will of the hive, it can be concluded that before and after the spectacle, all parameters in the universe were operating normally, and there were no strange changes.

This is very unusual, because Zero is very clear that nothing will appear out of thin air, and in this universe where he firmly believes in materialism, such phenomena should not exist.

Or, the technological level of the Zerg is too low to recognize or observe the real reason for this spectacle.

Or, it violates the basic laws of the universe!

Zero does not think it is the latter. Although the technological level of the Zerg is still not developed today, various phenomena show that this and the world are materialistic and scientific.

Since it is scientific, then everything exists for a reason, and now it is only the first observation in a real sense. Zero believes that as this phenomenon continues to happen, the Zerg will definitely gain something from it.

For example, this time Visser directly dispatched the Zerg who observed the relative coordinates of the place where the spectacle happened!

As long as this kind of incident still occurs next time, Zero can be sure that, whether it is good or bad, the Zerg can get some useful information, which may be helpful in solving the mystery brought about by this peculiar phenomenon.

As for the energy crystal itself that comes with the wonders of the universe, although it seems that it is quite tasteless to the Zerg due to the quantity, but there is a faint feeling that it is very likely that it is a very important in the universe. H!

In addition to testing its application method, Zero is also collecting it, and can only get one piece every few years. This frequency is enough to explain its scarcity. After learning the lesson, of course it must be properly preserved now.

Of course, through two consecutive observations, plus the accidental experience that the swarm reached the edge of the galaxy before, Zero can at least get one piece of useful information.

That is, my previous guess seems to have been confirmed a little bit. There is no regularity in the occurrence of this strange phenomenon in time, at least not too obvious.

From the time when the Zergs came to the edge of the Crichtel galaxy to the first time the Zergs actually observed this cosmic spectacle, more than 6 Ori years have passed, and the interval between the first time and the second time , but there are nearly 9 Orielian years!
The location is relatively fixed, but the time seems to be irregular, which is likely to be the reason why the octopus civilization has no time to use these energy sources to survive!

Although this conclusion is of limited use in the study of this spectacle, it can be regarded as slightly alleviating some of Zero's doubts. The mystery must be solved step by step. This mysterious cosmic phenomenon will be revealed by the Zerg sooner or later!

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In addition to researching "energy ore veins", the development activities of the bug swarm in many galaxies have never stopped.

Among the many colonized galaxies, Krichtel is a bit special, and there is no difference between other colonized galaxies of the same batch.

Under the command of the cerebrum Visser, who has become much more stable after learning a lot, the Zerg carefully develops every galaxy occupied by the Zerg.

Zero once instructed Viser to pay attention to the traces of Mira's existence during the expansion of the swarm. He always felt that this mechanical life used a spark to blow up his car at the beginning. If the HC-006 galaxy escaped, then the most likely destination is the nearest galaxies in this round of expansion.

Unfortunately, Viser still has no news about this point.It is confident that under the all-round development of the Zerg, as long as the opponent does not jump out to attack the Zerg at the beginning, then as the Zerg gradually integrates the resources of the entire galaxy, even Mira cannot pose a threat to the Zerg here. !

Although the swarm cannot completely monitor every star system without leaving any dead spots for monitoring, even if Mira is here, it can't make any waves.

If it weren't for the sneak attack at the beginning of the war, the Zerg would never have fallen into such a difficult situation.

As long as these exploitable large-mass celestial bodies are occupied, and the Zerg Devourer is released, allowing it to wantonly clean up the many asteroids in the galaxy, in the absence of a foothold, if there is no absolute technological advantage, the Zerg will not Fear any enemy!
This is Zero's strategy. He is not sure whether Mira still exists, or in which corner he is watching the Zerg, but this enemy that makes him feel troublesome, as long as he is not given a chance, he cannot pose a threat to the Zerg.

In fact, Zero really wanted to completely eliminate the existence of Mira. After all, if the other party's technological level improved to a certain level, it would definitely be comparable to or even surpass the existence of the Zerg to some extent!
He couldn't help being afraid!
It's a pity that the other party's life and death are unknown now, even if Zero has the intention, he is powerless, so he can only use this stupid method adopted by Viser to find it as much as possible while guarding against surprise attacks.

This kind of luck-based method is actually very difficult to work, but with the Zerg's current ability, there is no other way.

In the final analysis, the technological level of the Zerg itself is not high enough. If Mira, who was called the weakest state at the beginning, can have enough technological advantages, maybe he can really wipe it out in one fell swoop, instead of being so indifferent now. state.

It can be said that the original bug swarm missed the opportunity to eliminate Mira at the lowest cost without knowing it!
(End of this chapter)