Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 224 Zerg Fever

With the lifting of the ban on the No. [-] colony galaxy scientific research station, creatures like the Zerg have officially entered the public's sight along with the scientific research teams returning to various galaxies. Various media are rushing to report, and even some simple scientific research results have been revealed. out.

Before that, the Velvets had encountered alien races, and the four habitable planets were not barren, waiting to be occupied by the Velvets. They each gave birth to their own civilizations, the most powerful One has even begun to explore the interior of the galaxy.

Under the iron-blooded methods of the Velvet people, after going through quite a long war, they finally took these habitable planets into their pockets and became their own colonial planets.

Even during this process, the Velvet people had to make a compromise, allowing some of their non-native civilization elites to join the federation, and giving them certain citizenship rights in name.

However, among these alien races, there are really not many that can surprise the already powerful Velvets in some respects.

It can't be said that there is no such thing at all. Every time a living planet is occupied, the technological level of the Federation will experience a small leap. The exploration of these alien creatures and technological systems has indeed benefited the Federation a lot.

But there has never been an alien race like the Zerg, which is full of treasures!
Their biological armor is of great significance to the military's warship production and space operations. Their bodies contain endless genetic codes waiting to be analyzed. The reproduction method of growing from microcosmic aggregation to macrocosmic individuals has opened up the Velvet's mind. , and even their body cells contain the secret of prolonging lifespan!
Of course, the research results of these key properties are still kept secret and have not been opened to the public, but even if only the creatures suspected to come from high-dimensional space are revealed, the entire civilization has been in an uproar!
Civilization has developed to the point where even ordinary citizens have scientific literacy that cannot be underestimated. After all, a certain degree of education is inevitable if people want to become useful talents.

It can be said that the amount of knowledge possessed by ordinary individuals in advanced civilizations may be comparable to that of professional scientists in ordinary civilizations!
Because for the latter, knowledge that belongs to cutting-edge technology may be just common sense for the former.Of course, when it comes to speculative ability, it is another matter.

Therefore, the Zerg unit suspected of coming from high dimensions may bring another take-off to the entire civilization.

This is also an instruction from the top leaders of the Federation. After nine years of news blockades, there is a need to explain to the public about the capture of Zerg individuals and the martial law at the No. 9 Colonial Galaxy Research Station.

Moreover, things have become controllable, and a series of exciting scientific research results have been born. This will undoubtedly be a major achievement of this leadership, but it only reveals some room for imagination. Reason not to advertise.

Of course, after this matter was announced, there was an additional procedure for checking the entry and exit gates of various galaxies, but this is not something that is difficult for ordinary Velvettes to accept.

Interstellar navigation is so troublesome. The relevant procedures already existed before, but it was just added. Although some people who did not know the details questioned it in a short period of time, the matter was quickly subsided. Later, Gradually, I got used to it.

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Twelve years later, No. 12 colonized the galaxy, Fowler's star.

This is a living planet, located in the habitable zone of the galaxy, with a mass of about 1.52 Auri, on which the ocean and land are almost evenly divided.

Here, it used to be the home planet of the Fowlers, the low-level citizens of the Federation, and there are still a large number of Fowlers living here today. Of course, in fact, most of them exist as second-class citizens.

Thousands of years have passed. Under the rule of the Velvets, generations of resisters have been wiped out. The relics of the wars of that year have been dusted. , whitewashed the deaths of billions of Fowlers as a struggle between a tyrannical ruler and a righteous liberator, and settled it.

As for how much blood and tears the ancestors of the Fowlers had put in to fight against the aggression of the Velvets, no one would care after thousands of years had passed, as time gradually wiped everything out.

Under the education of the Velvet people, today's Fowler people have forgotten their once glorious civilization, and instead take pride in serving in the federation. As a minority, they, together with other wise survivors, actively Striving for the right to speak in the federation, trying to improve their own status.

It has to be said that the Velvet Federation is indeed enlightened enough to a certain extent.

Although discrimination and oppression will always exist, the vast majority of Fowlers will always be at the bottom of the society due to their different levels of education, serving the citizens of Velvet all their lives, but there are still a very small number of Fowlers who rely on their own excellence His talents and abilities shine in the middle of the federation and exist as a "role model".

With the help of federal legislation in name, Fowler elites can also live a good life. They were not exterminated because of their defeat in the war. Instead, they were still able to preserve their ethnic group and join the federation, and eventually gradually integrated into it.

The reasons for the current situation are very complicated. Of course, the most important factor is that the idea of ​​the Fowler surrender faction saved the Federation a lot of energy and at the same time won certain rights for itself.

Coupled with the fact that the later Fowlers were docile enough and showed their own value, the Velvet people finally believed that it was not a cost-effective thing to eliminate them, but it would be more profitable to keep this race.

Judging from the results, this policy has been successful.

Today's Fowlers are already active in various places at the bottom of the Federation, doing jobs that the Velvets are absolutely unwilling to do. At the same time, in order to improve the status of the race, they are also the vanguard of the Federation's expansion.

A small group of Fowler elites have even obtained full federal citizenship, participated in the construction of the federation in various capacities, and truly regarded themselves as members of civilization.

This is the power of time, and it is also the success of this policy of the Velvet people.

Today's Colonial Galaxy No. [-], with Fowler Star as its capital, the Federation has established a scientific research base here, and tens of thousands of Federation citizens work here.

As one of the Federation's main colonial planets, this scientific research base has contributed a lot to the Federation in the past, including the research on various biological races in Fowler's native land, which has greatly promoted the development of civilization technology.

Of course, this research base has another identity - one of the largest research stations of the Velvet Federation military.

Because the third colonial galaxy is also the residence of the Federation's sixth main fleet!

Today, this research base has ushered in its new research specimen - Zerg.

Departing from the No. 14 colony galaxy scientific research station, the spaceship that entered the superluminal voyage took 156 years in the macrocosm to span a distance of [-] light years, and sent the Zerg here.

The scientific researchers from the No. [-] colony galaxy will communicate with various research stations to conduct a detailed analysis of this creature on the basis of previous research, and squeeze out the secrets hidden in their bodies bit by bit.

As a research station mainly serving the military, their main research direction is naturally military technology.

For example, the use of Zerg biological armor on the armor of federal soldiers and even the structure of battleships, the improvement of Zerg dormancy technology for ship dormancy systems, and so on.

All this work is under the sole responsibility of Professor Nair.

Although Professor Nair is a scientific researcher, he is also quite respected in the army.There is no other reason, the reason why the super-light engine of the Federation Fleet can consume a small amount of energy and support the fleet across a distance of three hundred light-years at a time is inseparable from her achievements.

It is also because of this that Professor Nair was able to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general as a scientific researcher, which is extremely rare in the entire Federation.

The nominal person in charge of this scientific research base is Admiral Baker, the commander of the Federation's Sixth Fleet.But in fact, most of the time, this research station is directly in charge of Professor Nair and others, and the tens of thousands of people working in this three-acre area all accept her semi-military leadership.

After the Zerg samples arrived, Professor Nair led the team that had already prepared to start research.The high level of productivity of the Federation has provided them with sufficient support. There is no shortage of equipment and instruments that existed in the No. [-] Colonial Galaxy Research Station and even the Federal Academy of Sciences.

As a member of the team, Stajila can be said to be conscientious. As soon as the Zerg samples arrived, she took over the project related to physical activity.

As a Fowler person, the most important reason why she was able to join Professor Nair's team and participate in such an important scientific research project, besides the fact that she is indeed a rare genius among Fowler people, is that Her parents and grandparents have obtained the full citizenship of the Federation, and her parents are still working in this scientific research base with a military significance. It can be said that she is the extremely rare third generation of Velvet among the Fowlers. citizen.

This provided a great boost to her scientific research career in Colonial Galaxy No. [-]. In addition, Professor Nair was also relatively friendly to the Fowlers, so she was able to get to where she is today.

Of course, the current Fowler people have already been completely tamed by the Federation, or they have already integrated into the Federation and become a part of it. The entire ethnic group has given up their cultural traditions and tried to get closer to the Velvet people. So many years have passed Now, the cultural imprint originally belonging to the Fowler people has basically disappeared, replaced by a high degree of consistency with the entire federal culture.

It can be said that although the Fowler civilization retains an individual body, it has actually perished long ago.Under the propaganda and indoctrination of the Federation, they no longer consider themselves to be aliens, but members of the Federation.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the Federation's enlightened policy here.

The Fowlers, or the current bottom citizens of the Federation, are absolutely loyal.

Being able to work in a scientific research base and gain the recognition of many colleagues, Stajila is a complete supporter of the Federation.

She has received education from the elites of the Federation since she was a child, and has been indoctrinated with information from her parents. She is already a citizen of the Federation since she was born, and the Federation is the civilization she is loyal to!
With her own talent and wisdom, she was appreciated by Professor Nair and joined her team, and took on such an important job without any discrimination because of her Fowler identity. Stagiela believes that she is happy.

As a result, she worked harder to achieve higher results.

However, what she didn't know was that in Professor Nair's confidential documents, there was a secret investigation plan about the Fowler people, which was authorized by the Supreme Council of the Federation, and its name was-racial screening.

At this moment, Stajira is working hard to conduct various experiments on some of the Zerg bodies in his hands, paying close attention to the various data produced, and has no knowledge of the secret plan of the Federation.

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This is the second time Zero has observed the creatures of the other party's civilization, but what surprised him was that she was actually two completely different races from what she had seen before!

At the beginning, Zero realized that maybe the other party was a civilization composed of multiple races. Although he couldn't understand it, he still observed silently.

Perhaps it was the previous research that gave the Velvet people enough confidence to suppress the Zerg breeding and avoid risks. Although this time they still "meet" the other party through heavy protection, it is obvious that the other party's wariness against the Zerg has dropped many.

This is all thanks to Sass. It dominates all this and gives the opponent enough confusion, but this is not enough. Zero needs a chance, a chance for the Zerg body, even the microscopic bug species, to come into contact with more entities.

With the opponent's current level of protection and caution, it is still not enough for him to achieve this goal, especially on the premise that the opponent has already noticed the "reproduction method" of the Zerg.

Therefore, more misleading means must be adopted to guide the results in a direction that is beneficial to the Zerg.

The micro-units of the Zerg that exist in the void of the universe have spread over the years, but compared to the vastness of the galaxy space, it is still a small probability event to encounter macroscopic celestial bodies. How long it will take is zero. unconfirmed.

Unsurprisingly, the microscopic bug species in Colonial System Nine underwent a bit of search and kill, further reducing their success rate in the short term.

Zero is still very patient, even if more than ten years have passed, he has never felt anxious.

Fighting against such a civilization, especially under the premise that the Zerg cannot fully develop from the beginning, impatient will only make the current situation worse.

Of course, in this process, He did not gain nothing.

The main reason why Sass's misleading action was called a success by Zero is that besides making the opponent relax his vigilance, it also had another effect.

As the Zerg units were used as experimental materials by the Velvets to carry out incubation research in various scientific research bases, the number of Zergs in this star field has grown unprecedentedly.

Although compared to the various colonized galaxies of the Zerg, this number is pitifully small, and they are not qualified to be compared at all, but the increase in their number is actually quietly expanding Zero's field of vision!

At the moment when the Velvets were fully conducting research on the Zerg, with the output of each Zerg macro unit, the total number of Zerg units in a galaxy finally exceeded three digits.

And at this moment, Zero was finally able to elevate his vision in this unknown star field, no longer limited to a single Zerg individual, but could observe the entire area from a macro perspective!

This is an extension of the will of the hive, and it is a collection of a large number of Zerg individuals!
Although the coverage area of ​​the field of vision is still limited to the interior of each research base, Zero has also gained the ability to truly obtain the intelligence of the other party's civilization at this moment!
He saw the scientific researchers coming and going on the corridor, the instrument dials outside the airtight container, all kinds of scientific research equipment, and the torrent of data scrolling on the screen.

For the first time, the other party's text information appeared in his eyes, and the cerebrates were able to decipher the basic information of this civilization.

This work is not very difficult, but quite time-consuming.Fortunately, the most important thing for the Zerg today is time. After all, they still have nothing to do in this star field other than waiting for the results of Sass' guidance.

The emergence of the Velvet civilization made Zero see the hope of another leap in Zerg technology. The so-called good things take time, if you want to gain something, you have to pay. something.

At the same time, Zero did not forget to let the Zerg units continue to enter the channel with this cosmic spectacle. So far, except for this batch, no Zerg individuals who have entered it have been able to appear in the real universe, but There is no doubt that they are all still alive, but the specific situation of their "inside" is unknown to Zero, and the only way to increase the probability of their appearance is in this way.

At the other end of the passage, after the Velvets simply cleaned up the Zerg micro-units left in space, they started mining energy crystals again. After all, the demand for energy crystals in the federation can be Said it was quite urgent.

The Federal Fleet needs to use their powerful energy supply properties to open the superluminal navigation channel, even if they already have three energy mines, and the superluminal engine has been improved time and time again since its birth, reducing energy consumption, but this in the Federation Reserves of such strategic resources are still stretched.

If it hadn't been restricted in this respect, perhaps the warships of the Federation would have been criss-crossing the entire river system now!
It is also because of this that the sudden appearance of the Zerg has received such attention.

For a long time, in order to obtain more energy crystals and increase the Federation's strategic resource reserves, the researchers of the Velvet Federation have proposed two ideas, one is to find more energy veins, and the other is to expand individual energy veins output.

The former requires enough luck, at least so far, the Velvet Federation has not discovered any regularity in the appearance of mineral veins.

As for the latter, it has always been an important topic that the Federal Academy of Sciences is committed to solving.

The Zerg, a creature that emerged from the passage, means that life can survive in this suspected high-dimensional space. While providing an important reference for previous research, it also seems to indicate another possibility. Appear.

- Mineral vein detection.

(End of this chapter)