Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 238 Blueprint
Zero is also very concerned about why the explosion of a gravity bomb can trigger the opening of a sub-dimensional channel.

The occurrence of a phenomenon represents the simplest principle contained within it, and if this can be understood, it represents the possibility of man-made mastery of this phenomenon.

That would represent extremely huge benefits!
Therefore, Zero plans to hand over this brand-new topic to the Velvet people to study in a unique way.

Before that, Zero still needs some validation.

In the Ori system, the main base of the Zerg, Visser personally led the gravitational explosion near the orbit of Planet [-], but nothing happened.

Neither drastic changes in space nor the exit of sub-dimensional passages have been observed.

There was nothing but a silent gravitational ripple.

Visser once again increased the intensity of the blast at the same location, but the result was still the same.

But in Crichtel, just one test had the same effect as Lehman!

Ling Weiwei was a little disappointed, because this meant that perhaps this method could only work in galaxies where sub-dimensional channel exits originally existed.

This reduced the value of this unexpected discovery a lot, but at least it is useful in the three star fields currently occupied by the Zerg, and this result is acceptable.

When the phenomenon in the Lyman galaxy is captured by the Zerg, if no other limitations are discovered later, it actually means almost endless energy crystals!

What the Zerg need to pay is just a batch of gravity bombs.The production cost of gravity bombs is not cheap, but the Zerg, who are sitting in hundreds of star systems, don't care about this at all.

This will be a real "explosion" and can already be put into practice.

Of course, Zero still planned to leave the specific principles to the Velvet people to study. Zero had no intention of hiding this unexpected result from them.

At a time when the Zerg infiltration is getting deeper and deeper, even several candidates for the leadership have not been able to escape the fate of becoming lurkers.

As for the current commander himself, his term is less than 20 years. After that, he will lose his influence on the situation and has basically lost the value of control. Moreover, the swarm has already controlled the voice of the parliament. As long as there is no war, At that time, the commander-in-chief did not have much power to directly issue orders beyond the parliament, so this was equivalent to controlling the federation.

Since the future of the Federation is basically in the hands of the Zerg, in this case, Zero doesn't care how much benefit they get, only how much benefit they can bring to the Zerg!
Even if we take [-] steps back, the Velvets can finally escape the control of the Zerg. Under the same technological conditions, they cannot pose a threat to the Zerg.

Therefore, when the Velvets tested the sub-dimensional channel again, a well-prepared "mistake" happened to the Velvets, who have always been known for their rigor.

The gravity bomb that was originally intended to explode at the same time as the channel opened was "extremely coincidental" offset by six percentage points, and the time was also different by five standard units of time!

For the Velvet people, this was an extremely serious scientific research accident. Of course, no one was aware of this before it happened except Sass, who was leading everything.

It was not until after the incident that someone discovered this "omission" with hindsight because the number of energy crystals obtained was much different than before, and reported it immediately.

A carefully planned "scientific research accident" was picked up by Sass, and in a reasonable way, the Velvet people realized that they did not need to detonate simultaneously at the moment when the sub-dimensional channel was opened to gain anything, they could even be free. Master the time when the channel is opened!
Science is all about getting to the bottom of things.Velvet people have never lacked the scientific spirit. It is the mission of scientific researchers to turn everything that is unclear into known.

However, just as they were preparing to replicate the experiment again for observation and research, another shocking discovery appeared before them.

The previous batch of mammalian creatures sent into the tunnel came back almost intact!
The Velvet people who originally had no hope and it was just a routine matter never thought that such a thing would happen.

The recent surprises and accidents come one after another, as if they were blessed by God. The discoveries in the past few years are more important than all the discoveries in the past hundred years!
The return of these creatures alive means that the risk of the Velvet people personally entering them for detection has been greatly reduced, and there is no longer even a need for the next round of protocol personnel attempts!

But what is puzzling is that hundreds of years ago, those scientific research ancestors also did the same thing, more than once, but there was always no news, and finally had to suspend it due to pressure from all aspects. This is an experiment.

But why did their generation achieve such important results on just their first try?There is no reason for this!

Of course, why the Velvet people hundreds of years ago did not discover the secret of the passage, this is also what Zero wants to figure out.Although this matter itself is innocuous and does not affect the subsequent research, it always makes him a little concerned.

All of this should be known after the Velvet people really entered the tunnel.

It is worth mentioning that since the previous experiment was confirmed to be successful and replicated, the Velvets have once again launched a large-scale expansion operation.

After the energy constraints were released, the Velvites' exploration fleet began to maneuver outside the federal territory, arbitrarily exploring the territory in a broad sense.

Behind them, all worthwhile systems are marked, waiting for engineering fleets and personnel to come and set up outposts to actually make them part of the Federation.

Also engaged in this activity are the Zerg.Centered on the two productive galaxies of Critchtel and SH-009, the Zerg colonists began to gradually expand the scale of exploration. So far, more than [-] colonial teams have entered the super-light passage and headed for distant galaxies. .

Within Lyman, the swarm commanded by Visser was doing the same thing.

According to Zero's plan, in the future, the Zerg will form a "branch and leaf" traffic system with sub-dimensional channels as the main base and supplemented by super-light navigation.

To achieve this, Ruhr needs to identify more exits.It’s just that it still has a more important task now, that is, to observe what the Velvets did inside the tunnel, and to try to confirm the reasons for the failure of the Velvets’ in vivo experiments hundreds of years ago.

In the year 1321 of the Zerg, Pop at this time would have been over 280 years old if we used the lifespan calculation method of a lizard man.

Judging from the fact that the average lifespan of Velvet people back then was 60 years, Pop had already entered the twilight years of his life.Of course, with the help of life-extending potions, if he stays healthy now, he will have at least [-] years to live.

Today, Popper has become the leader of their group in the Federal Academy of Sciences, and those respected seniors have passed away or retired in the past.

Therefore, at this time, Pope was considered a big boss even in the federal highest scientific research institute, and he controlled huge resources.Of course, this also involves the overt and covert support of the Zerg lurkers.

Over the years, Popper has contributed a lot to the research on subdimensional channels. Although Sass directly or indirectly provided him with some important information, he was able to find out the essence from these phenomena and related the Velvet people. The basic science of sub-dimensional channels has advanced to this point, and Popper is indeed worthy of the zero attention devoted to him.

Nowadays, he no longer needs to personally oversee some experiments. His disciples and more "Bomen" members will do these things well.

After a series of screening and selection, the Federation finally determined the candidates to enter the passage. In fact, there was only one Fowler who signed the interest treaty. The size of the entrance to the passage could not accommodate more people.

Since it is a human experiment, it is naturally not possible to directly use gravity blasting to open the channel. The relevant mechanism has not been sorted out yet. Doing so is tantamount to killing him directly.

So we can only wait for it to open naturally.And inside the tunnel, Ruhr is already in place. Unlike last time, it doesn't plan to show up this time, and its own Zerg unit will watch their every move.

At the exit of the passage inside the Velvet star field, Ruhr had already successfully positioned himself inside the passage, so it was not difficult to monitor them.

Since the operating space is really small, apart from personnel, the Velvets cannot carry too many large and medium-sized equipment, and the same is true for the few small mammals sent into them last time.

Zero did not pay too much attention to this matter. In fact, whether it was a Zerg unit or other creature, after entering the passage, he could not continue to observe and could only learn everything from Ruel afterwards.

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As the only brainworm stationed on the Velvet side, Todd has made great progress in recent decades. Perhaps the Velvet people have provided it with too much "nutrients", and it can understand a lot of knowledge without much learning. , so many years since the birth of the Zerg, its growth conditions can only be compared to the original Sars.

It is also because of this that Sasse, who was originally in charge of all affairs here, has recently gradually let Todd participate in all this.Long before, Zero had already made up his mind to gradually let the Cerebrates take charge of their own affairs and lead the Zerg race to develop into a broader universe.

With the existence of the Hive Mind, they will not lose contact because of the distance.Today, all the lurkers in the entire Velvet Federation capital are under Todd's control.

After the experiment began, the Federation passed a resolution to continue to strengthen scientific and technological support, while increasing energy supply for the exploration of unknown galaxies and formulating a feasibility plan for the largest-scale mining of energy veins.

The Velvet people have not stopped continuing to study gravity. Different from the way the Zerg use it, a mature intelligent civilization will try to figure out all the principles of what happens, so as to formulate the simplest and most economical way to implement it.

For example, the control of gravity bombs, today's Velvet people are already trying to constrain it from the experimental level to meet the application under different conditions.

The development of the entire civilization will not advance by leaps and bounds just because of the breakthrough of one project, but the research on sub-dimensional channels is indeed leading the Velvet civilization to move forward.

The power of civilization has begun to expand at an accelerated pace, and the weapons and armor systems have also ushered in a new round of updates. In the future, the enriched energy crystals will also be used by civilians, driving the development of this series of industries like an Arrancar. Let the entire civilization begin to glow with a new round of vitality.

Zero is happy to see this happen.

As for the penetration of Velvet civilization, although the progress has slowed down, it has continued. After the federal high-level officials have basically come under control, in addition to scientific researchers, key positions in various leading industries have also appeared on its target list.

So far, the Velvet people's understanding of the Zerg is still limited to the laboratory, but the Zerg has infiltrated them into a sieve.

The time has come to 1327, and a small part of the Zerg colonial team that previously launched a large-scale super-light voyage has arrived at the target star field. At the same time, they brought with them a large amount of energy crystals. These reserve energy will support them to further achieve the ultimate goal. Explore the surroundings at a fast speed.

In the same year, the brainworm Luer took the lead in returning to the real universe. In addition, it also brought back news about the Fowler man.

He was lost in the sub-dimensional channel!According to Ruhl, if there was no guidance, maybe he would go out through other exits, or simply die there.

The positioning system he carried could not be used inside the channel at all. After the channel was closed, all places here were almost unchanged. After simple exploration, he had lost the ability to discern direction.

Maybe this is why the original Velvet biological experiment failed?
Zero is a little reluctant to believe it. This is a bit too childish. Are all the Velvets or Fowler people who entered it in history lost?This is unlikely, and the Velvet people will not be so stupid.

But just looking at it at this time, maybe this is one of the important reasons.Or maybe there is something hidden inside, but we don’t know yet.

Ruel helped him once and guided him back to his previous position, but the price was to make him another Zerg lurker of the Fowler race. Then, while bringing all the information inside the channel back to the Federation, he continued to travel in Weir. There is information related to the Zerg hidden among the Veit.

As a minority of the Velvet civilization, the Fowler people, to be honest, do not pay much attention to their infiltration, whether it is Sasse or today's Todd. After all, it is not their turn for the Federation, the descendants of the defeated, to give orders.

But this does not mean that the Zerg cannot make them puppets, it is just not cost-effective under the current circumstances.

On the Velvet side, the next time the passage opens, they will get all the information they want to know except the existence of the Zerg.

This matter has come to an end. Stimulating the scientific research enthusiasm of the Velvet people is Ling's main purpose of doing this matter. Now it has been achieved. As for how they will research and develop in the future, he does not intend to pay too much attention and provide guidance. After that, the Zerg just need to absorb their scientific research results.

Velvet Civilization, in Zero's positioning, is just a scientific research farm. It can provide it with certain help when necessary, but focusing its main attention on another civilization is undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse.

From then on, the cerebrum Todd will take full control of the Velvet's affairs, including the Zerg units that were originally lurking in the barren galaxy, and they will also be assigned to it.

If one day the Zerg are exposed to the Velvet people and the situation becomes irremediable, Todd also has the ability to suppress it with force.

Just as the Velvets did this to the Fowlers, the Zerg did the same thing to them. They could even do it better with the help of lurkers!
Using them now is just a form of maximizing relative interests. When necessary, Zero doesn't mind letting these peaceful federal citizens experience bloodshed and killing.

Zerg 1340, Velvet Federation.

The older generation of researchers is withering one after another, and young blood has replenished into the federal scientific community.Civilization is like a grand epic, which pushes the wheel of history forward in a form of succession.

This year, Pope is already three hundred years old.

Even with the help of the life-extending potion from the Zerg's body, his body functions were irreversibly slipping towards the worse side.

Life must eventually come to an end.In the federal scientific community, there is a saying that has been making noise in the past hundred years.That is to retain the federation's aging scientific research talents in a dormant manner, waiting for them to reawaken after the development of biotechnology in the future, so as to gain a longer lifespan.

They call it the Future Support Plan.

In fact, this plan was proposed long after the Velvet's dormancy technology was relatively mature, but it has never received such support like it is now.

The reason is still that the observation and research of Zerg units in the laboratory over the past hundred years has put a possibility on the table that can continue to greatly increase the lifespan in theory. Although it is not possible now, it does not represent the future Can't do it either!

But Pope himself scoffed.He is unwilling to do this, and his point of view is also very simple. The knowledge in his mind now can be said to be at the leading level of the entire civilization, and it can still promote the development of civilization at a negligible speed.

But hundreds or thousands of years later, how will an old man who wakes up from his twilight years adapt and survive even if he has a longer lifespan?

Secondly, for the scientific community, this so-called "support for the future" is unprecedented.

After living for 300 years, Popper actually had a very clear understanding of the world.Some things always have good intentions at the beginning, and it seems wonderful to send scientists who are no longer able to make outstanding contributions due to age to the future to shine.

But who can guarantee that this so-called "elderly" will not transfer to younger people?
Everyone has the desire to live longer, and if things go on like this, it will inevitably affect the current development.

If you can't guarantee the present, how can you talk about the future?
This is what Popper thought and did. Therefore, at the age of [-], he is still active in the scientific community and contributes his modest contribution to the development of civilization.

It was also in this year that another major federal research project was put into his hands.After the confirmation, Pope knew very well that this might be the last time in his life that he would contribute to the federal scientific research.

This is a strategic vision proposed by the Federal Development Strategic Planning Department, or a part of the strategic vision.

Although this is just a blueprint, it once again ignited Pop's fighting spirit.

——"Research plan blueprint for building stable energy crystal output and navigation based on sub-dimensional channels"

At the same time, all the information provided by the Fowler people who entered the second-dimensional channel was also transmitted.

Soon after, the Fowler man himself was sent to the Federal Supreme Scientific Research Institute.

Through this document, Pope has clearly seen the future development of the Federation, because in it, the basic demonstration of its feasibility has been completed!

Although it was unclear where the Federal Development Strategic Planning Department obtained its argumentation results, he read it carefully and found that although there were many unconfirmed inferences, the process was rigorous and the conclusion was almost impeccable.

What he needs to do is to lead the team again and turn everything from plans and blueprints into reality.

Of course, this is actually the strategic development blueprint of the Zerg, and it has even entered the preliminary application level among the Zerg.But there are still too many restrictions, such as the scope of the passage entrance and so on.

Zero chose to leave it to the Velvets to solve it for the Zerg.

(End of this chapter)