Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 232

Zerg In 1227, the cerebrums headed by Sass finished sorting out and digesting the information obtained from the Velvet database.

The hyperdrive, which had kept the Zerg out for hundreds of years, revealed its secrets to Zero for the first time.

Of course, the principle is well understood, how to implement the Zerg application still needs some research.

From Zero's point of view, this navigation method using energy crystals as the driving energy has almost involved the initial space technology, because it is not the super-light "channel" imagined before, but is released in an instant by energy crystals. The huge energy released by the body allows it to "move" within a limited space, just like an athlete riding a wave, pushing forward on the "wave" of space.

Although it is not a real sense of walking through space directly, it does involve the application of space technology.This kind of propulsion method, the so-called super-light speed engine, should actually be called the warp speed engine, but it uses energy crystals as the energy source.

To his surprise, this type of navigation does not require a high amount of energy, at least not high compared to this type of navigation that can exceed the speed of light. The energy consumption of conventional navigation is just a little higher!

Correspondingly, the reason why the Velvet people discovered the existence of energy ore veins could finally light up the super-light speed navigation technology is because of the "quality" of energy!
The energy from the energy crystal is the most "pure" energy that the Zerg race has seen so far. It is like the essence of energy, which can be used in various ways, and the efficiency is extremely exaggerated.

Being used here by the Velvets, Zero is no surprise.

As for how to turn it into a Zerg, Sass still needs some technological support.Although they are familiar with its principle, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. In addition to completing the theoretical design, the hypervelocity engine, the Velvet's cutting-edge technology, also needs support from other aspects, especially material technology.

To this end, Sass is planning to take action against some senior scientific research officials of the Velvet people.

For outstanding scientific researchers, Zero has now regarded it as his own high-quality property, and will not destroy it easily.But for some Velvet people who have almost exhausted their potential due to old age and frailty, or who have given up pure scientific research and turned to administration and occupy high positions, they are living knowledge bases and high-level authorities.

Now, the Zerg need them to contribute to their own development, and Sass will naturally not be stingy with a few lurker seeds.

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Carlson, or Carlson the Lurker, was a young, promising and high-ranking politician who was initially a Zerg target for infiltration.

Two years ago, it took the Zerg a month to change his low-level thinking and become a high-ranking Zerg lurker.

Under Sass' careful preparation, no one realized that the highest chief of the Ministry of Public Security of the federal home planet no longer recognized his identity as a Velvet in the deepest part of his consciousness.

He helped the insect swarm cover up the information theft from the Supreme Scientific Research Institute, and at the same time cooperated with the Planetary Defense Department to allow the insect swarm to operate freely in uninhabited areas.

This time, he will shoulder the important task of sending the Zerg's lurker seeds to the Federation Council.

The Velvet Federation has a total of nine most important colonial galaxies. If you include the home planet, there are exactly ten galaxies. They are the core area of ​​the federation and the key areas where the entire Velvet people are distributed.

From the Grand Commander down, there are a total of 23 members of the council, with branches on various planets, especially the home planet.

In addition, each colonial galaxy also has its own governor and authority, which exist as a subordinate administrative unit of the federation.

Together, they control most of the power of the entire Federation, and rule this huge civilization with a population of over [-] billion and a territory spanning hundreds of light years. They are the top existence of the Federation!
Of course, according to the different interests they represent and the complicated political situation, among the tens of thousands of members, the most powerful members are only 14.

The Zerg is currently unable to control the entire parliament, but it is not difficult to extend its tentacles into it and select a few representatives from the highest level as spokespersons for the interests of the Zerg.

And this time, Carlson's goal is the deputy speaker.

Legally speaking, members of parliament, including the speaker, do not actually have executive power. That is to say, they do participate in the highest federal decision-making, but they do not have the power to intervene in specific affairs.

As we all know, compared with their power, the law is just a coat that can be put on when needed.

For example, the deputy speaker, Tron, is inextricably linked with the Ministry of Public Security of the Federation's home planet.Of course, it's not just the Ministry of Public Security.

As a minister, Carlson's visit was not unexpected.

That night, the servant found that the usually low-key master looked very happy. He talked with Carlson for a long time in the study and did not leave until late at night.

Only seventeen Oridays later, the top secrets of the Federation opened their doors to the Zerg.

There are many infiltration activities going on at the same time. Sass is turning the leaders of the entire civilization into Zerg lurkers in a way that the Velvet people have never thought of.

Of course, in the process, the Zerg also got what they wanted.

The Velvet's technology database was fully open to the Zergs, including the military's top-secret information, which also entered the control of the Zergs after Sass made some tricks, and the time it took to do this from scratch was no more than Only three years.

If there is any knowledge that the Zerg cannot obtain for a while, then there are only some ideas and unpublished results in the minds of some top scientific researchers.

Among the information that has been obtained, one of the ones that Zero is more concerned about is the technology related to the hyperlight engine, including its front-end technology and subsequent development.

The second is what we have noticed before, the Velvet people's research on energy ore veins.

Through this information, Zero learned that not long ago, that is, about a few decades ago, the Velvet people had overcome a technical difficulty and confirmed the influence of gravity on the vein channel.

Theoretically speaking, if a drastic gravitational change is caused near the exit while the passage is open, it can have a certain influence on this "mineral vein passage", prompting it to "stay" for a long time.

Of course, the specific impact needs to be judged based on the actual situation, but judging from the simulation results, as long as gravitational fluctuations occur, the results should be relatively optimistic.

For this reason, they restarted the previously stagnant gravity technology, intending to make efforts in this area to overcome the problem of energy ore veins.

Although the superluminal engine does not consume a lot of energy crystals, for a civilization, there are only three mine veins and the output is so low. As the civilization continues to grow, the energy crystal reserves will always be in a hurry.

Therefore, the Velvet people urgently need more reserves to meet the never-ending pace of development of civilization.

However, decades have passed, at least from the information obtained by Zero, the other party's achievements are still limited.

Back then, the main reason for the development of gravity bombs was to strengthen the armament of the Federation Fleet, allowing it to have more capabilities on both offensive and defensive ends.Among them, the main driving force is the military.

As the Federation defeated many competitors and became the undisputed overlord of the entire star field, and has so far failed to encounter an enemy that requires civilization to go all out, this kind of "flashy" attack that is extremely difficult to research The method gradually became unpopular, and as time passed, even the military itself put it on hold.

Slowly, as the old man who promoted this project passed away, it was finally classified as an indefinitely suspended project, and few people care about it.

It was not until more than [-] years ago that this technology was brought back to the table due to a breakthrough in the research of energy ore veins.

After hundreds of years of development, the Federation's current technology has made great progress compared to before. However, even under today's conditions, it is still not an easy task to realize the vision of the past.

Zero was not disappointed at all. The Velvets were able to research energy veins to this extent, far surpassing the Zerg. These achievements were also meaningful to the cerebrates.

It's just that if this is the case, the channel detection plan made before can also be prepared for implementation.

Although Todd just joined the cerebrate group recently, as the only cerebrate of the Zerg in the Velvet, he would naturally not be mobilized by Zero to perform this task.

Therefore, the Zerg cerebrum who personally participated in the experiment seemed to be able to choose only among the remaining three.

However, although Zero intends to start this experiment that is very likely to bring great results to the Zerg as soon as possible, it cannot be carried out immediately.

The reason is very simple. If you want this cerebrum to participate in the experiment, you must let it arrive from Ori to Krichtel, the hometown of the octopus.

But it is [-] light-years away from the Auri galaxy. If the Zerg arrived slowly at the current speed, the eighth brain worm of the Zerg would have been born there.

Even if the Zerg Swarm can complete the Zergization of the Superlight Engine before this, there is no energy crystal as an energy supply in the Ori galaxy, and there is no way to activate this technology to transport Zerg units.

The fastest solution is to wait for the Zergization of the superluminal engine to be completed, transport the energy crystal directly from Crichtel to Ori, and then bring the brain worm back.

But then again, since their birth, these brain worms have never left the Auri galaxy. Except for Todd, six brain worms are now active in the Zerg main base in the inner ring of the Auri galaxy .

For a while, Zero also thought about spreading out these brain worms and going to various colonial galaxies to meet different needs.

It's just that because the Zerg doesn't have too many key star fields to defend, and the Cerebral Worms also have the ability to command the Zerg regardless of distance with the help of the Hive Will, it has never been possible.

Now that I think about it, it might be a good choice to send brain worms to station in various key galaxies, including the newly discovered extragalactic galaxies.

For example, star fields like the Velvets, or galaxies with energy veins like Critchtel.

Although it may be dangerous to stay away from the Zerg hinterland, there is actually not much real significance for them to gather together.

Cerebral worms are growing very fast, and perhaps they can now take charge of their own. It may be a good way to let them out and let them develop on their own.

Every cerebrum bears the mission of expanding the swarm, and it may be a bit wasteful to use it only as a scientific research unit, especially now that the Velvet civilization is being gradually eroded by the zerg.

It's just that all these plans have a premise, that is, the Zerg must first let the Zerg unit with the ability to travel faster than the speed of light come out.

After obtaining the Velvet's scientific research results, Sass and several brain worms have carried out tests on the Zerg based on the previous results. It doesn't take too much time to apply the technology that the Zerg can't obtain materials to the Zerg themselves.

Sure enough, in Zerg year 1241, only fourteen Ori years later, two Zerg space units powered by conventional energy appeared on the edge of the Krichtel galaxy.

There is not much difference between them in appearance and the previous asteroid devourers, but their body shape is much more regular. The overall look is like a huge octopus swimming in the heart of the space ocean. The surface of the body is once again After going through the enhanced biological armor, the defense ability is enough to resist the close-range conventional attacks of the blasters. The kinetic energy weapons used by Mira, such as the torrent of bullets, are basically unable to pose a threat to them.

In addition, the many tentacles arranged around the propulsion unit behind them are not just decorations to show their zerg identity, they are tools for them to capture and approach macroscopic celestial bodies, and also take into account the function of directly extracting and collecting small celestial body resources. It can even be used as a melee weapon if necessary.

Its flexible and strong structure can pull tens of millions of tons of small celestial bodies towards itself, and it can also directly use huge force to crush and decompose larger asteroids.

Seriously speaking, their functional effects are far stronger than their combat effects, which has a lot to do with the technology currently mastered by the Zerg.

Of course, this is just a test unit, and the main test target is, of course, the Hyperdrive.

It is worth noting that due to the complex gravitational environment near massive celestial bodies, even the Velvets cannot forcibly start superluminal travel inside the galaxy, so this scene happened today.

Under Zero's attention, the two space units of the latest version of the Zerg "slowly" broke away from the gravity of the star and entered the cosmic space.

The next moment, they moved in the direction of Ori and activated the hyperdrive.

A piece of energy crystal instantly became much darker in an almost imperceptible time, and at the same time, the two Zerg units also disappeared from the Zerg observers' field of vision.

What kind of experience is it to travel faster than the speed of light?This is the first time the Zerg have come into contact with this field since thousands of years.

If there is anything to feel, Zero doesn't feel anything special. The speed of the two bugs has not changed at all. If there is a frame of reference, they are still sailing at the original speed.

It’s just that it’s not in the cosmic space, but in a peculiar kind of “space bubble” called by the Velvet people, moving along with the space affected by the superluminal engine.

Under this condition, the insurmountable speed of light outside is broken, and in a sense, they are passing through the "inside" of the space!
Of course, this description is not accurate. Perhaps the word "sliding through" is more appropriate.

If all goes well, the distance of 200 light-years would take nearly 7 years to reach in conventional voyages, but this time in Sass’s calculations, it only takes [-] years!

Sass has always been very reliable in this regard, and all the arguments have been basically completed before. Although practice and theory are two different things, it can always do its best at the beginning.

What's more, Zero didn't put all his hopes on these two bugs. Even if they failed this time, the biggest loss would be just a few energy crystals. I can't afford it.

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Zerg In 1248, near the Ori galaxy, two Zerg space units appeared here.

Although they have always existed in this space, they are invisible macroscopically, and only when the state of superluminal navigation is lifted, they really appear in this star field.

In front of them, an ordinary "star" was embedded in the darkness, which looked no different from the other stars around them.

However, this is indeed Ori, and it is also the place where the Zerg was originally born.

Although it was the first test, there is no doubt that they succeeded!
It's almost the same as Sass's calculation. It took them only seven years to cover a long distance of fifty light years, and the price they paid was only one energy crystal!

According to the conclusion drawn by the Velvet people, the huge energy provided by the energy crystal can change the state of the nearby space, so that the ship can "control" the space at a normal speed, achieving the goal of surpassing the speed of light.

The spatial scale of the changed state and the degree to which the space is affected are called the power of the engine, and it has nothing to do with the sailing time, the mass entering it, and other factors, but only with these two factors.

That is to say, the larger the range of the space to be changed, the higher the degree to which the space itself is affected, that is, the faster the "speed" in the general sense, the more "advanced energy" that is needed to start the engine, that is, the amount of energy crystals. The bigger it is.

Of course, this is just a theory. In fact, after the advent of the hyperlight engine, the Velvet people have been trying to improve the efficiency of the engine and seek alternative energy sources.

The former has made considerable progress in so many years of development. After generations of improvements, the latest achievement in the hands of the Zerg has, in a macro sense, its maximum "speed" that can reach about seven times the speed of light.

This means that as long as Zero is willing, it will only take about 30 years for Zerg units to travel through the current area, which is an average distance of nearly two hundred light years!

Zero is already very satisfied. Although today's cross-stellar super-light travel is still restricted by the number of energy crystals, it is impossible to allow the swarm brigade to travel, but this still does not affect the epoch-making significance of this successful experiment.

The energy problem can be solved in many ways, such as improving the "quality" of conventional energy, or trying to increase the output of energy mines, which are more feasible solutions.

(End of this chapter)