Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 239 Gravity Controlled
Completely transforming the Velvets into the Zerg's exclusive scientific research tools is Zero's ultimate goal for this civilization.

Regarding the difficult problem of sub-dimensional channels, they have given sufficiently satisfactory results before.If it weren't for the breakthrough in gravity, the Zerg would not be able to explore hundreds of surrounding galaxies at the same time as they do now.

This time, the old Pope once again took over this mission in the name of the future of the Federation, leading the team to once again overcome problems for the Zerg.

Of course, he didn't know this.In recent years, the Federation's strong support for related scientific and technological research has made him feel a little unusual, but he is just a scientific researcher, and everything he does is beneficial to the Federation, and those military and national affairs have not yet come. He went to worry about it, so he didn't take it to heart and accepted it all calmly.

The Zerg lurkers are hidden deep enough. Under normal circumstances, they will not be any different from before. No one can pry into the thoughts of these high-ranking federal officials and discover that they have become traitors to the federation.

Speaking of Zerg lurkers, Zero actually has some ideas. As they are now, while these lurkers consume a lot of control of the Hive Mind, they will also affect individual creativity, making it impossible for the Zerg to attack scientific researchers. The disadvantages It's still too obvious.

Even though the Zerg lurker "seed" played a big role in the process of evacuating the Velvets, Zero is still not very satisfied.

Compared with the Zerg brainworms, the lifespan of the Velvet people is too short. The knowledge they have learned throughout their lives will be dissipated with their death. This has caused the entire civilization to continue to lose its scientific research power. .

Perhaps in the eyes of the Velvet people, this is a common thing. It is normal for living things to grow old, get sick, and die.

But for Zero, who regarded the Velvets completely as assets of the Zerg, this was too much of a waste.

An intelligent life needs to undergo more than 60 years of study since birth before it can initially embark on the path of scientific research.

And to reach the top of a certain field on this road, it will take more than 60 years?

After such a long period of study, one's own knowledge level has reached the top, and then just shine and radiate heat at this stage for tens and hundreds of years, and then it has passed. Isn't this a waste?

Sometimes Zero also wonders whether, in an intelligent civilization like theirs, one day in the future, latecomers will be unable to catch up in the footsteps of their predecessors.

He once read the history of the Velvet people. Since entering the information age, in fact, every generation of Velvet people has become smarter on average than their predecessors.

This increase in intelligence level may not be too obvious for decades, but when the time is extended to hundreds or even thousands of years, this can be clearly seen. There is no doubt that even today's Will The human brain is still evolving, too.

At the same time, the development of medical health, biotechnology and other aspects has caused the average life span of Velvet people to continue to increase.When they first stepped out of their home planet, their average lifespan was only about 170 years when converted into the time unit used by the Zerg.

Before the Zerg appeared that year, they already had a long lifespan of an average of 300 years.

But in contrast, due to the rapid development of science and technology, every individual needs to learn more and more basic knowledge after birth. Nowadays, if a Velvet person wants to complete basic education and be able to have a skill in society, he must at least After 80 years of long education.

Yes, in terms of average intelligence, they are much higher than the "ancients" thousands of years ago, but from the perspective of biological evolution, 1000 years is actually nothing.

However, the development of their technology in these 1000 years is unimaginable in the past thousands of years.

When a Velvet man has gone through hundreds of years of education and learning, and has reached the end of his life before he has been able to make sufficient contributions, how can this not make people sigh?

This is also the fundamental reason why Zero feels that letting these talents die like this is a huge waste.

These are valuable assets of the Zerg. Compared to those federal politicians and officials, they should not be lost in vain over the years.

So, decades ago, Zero was born with the idea that it might be possible to make the Zerg Lurkers a little more useful, turning them, the real talents, into a Zerg that would no longer suffer from creativity. Trauma, further gaining a longer lifespan.

After Sass handed over matters related to Velvet civilization to Todd step by step, he has already started trying to solve this problem, but there is no definite result yet.

Under the premise that the Zerg have basically mastered the development of Velvet civilization, a few experimental samples are not a problem at all. The difficulty lies in how to make these valuable talents available to the Zerg without affecting their creativity.

In contrast, it becomes easier to increase their lifespan after this.Sass is very professional in terms of biological structure. At least at the biological level, it is not difficult to use Zerg technology to further extend the lifespan of Velvet people.

In the year 1344 of the Zerg, Ruhr, the brainworm, located the third Zerg star system with energy veins in this galaxy based on the nearest dimensional passage exit, and led his own Zerg unit into it, turning it into a Zerg development Another important node in the process.

It is a star field more than 2300 light-years away from the main body of the Zerg Ori system. It has reached the edge of this cantilever. Moving outward, although it is still inside the galaxy, the density of stars will decrease significantly until it reaches another branch. to the cantilever.

At this time, Zero gradually made plans to "move". Although the Ori system was indeed the origin of the Zerg, and the Zerg's home planet also existed here, the Cerebrates were placed in a single star system, and It doesn’t fit in with His previous plans for the future.

Ruhl and Todd have taken the first step. They travel between various galaxies based on sub-dimensional channels.The other has gradually taken another huge civilization tens of thousands of light years away into his own hands.

But now the Zerg have seven Cerebrates, most of which are still in Orui's main base.Zero plans to release them all later. With the crazy growth of the Zerg clan, it is not impossible to control all the Zerg swarms with a single brainworm or Zero itself, but as long as they are living creatures, there must be energy limitations. Many Sometimes it is impossible to control the details so perfectly.

At this time, it is undoubtedly the best solution for the current situation to let each cerebrum take charge of its own affairs and allow them to develop on their own, while zero-center commanding.

Therefore, He intends to move the Zerg main base to Crichtel, which has more convenient "traffic" in the near future.

It was once the home planet of the octopus people, and now Zero intends to occupy the magpie's nest, and from there, extend the will of the Zerg race through the second-dimensional passage.

As a result, a batch of energy crystals was urgently called and transported directly from Krichtel to the Ori system for the Zerg to "move".

This is actually not troublesome. After all, moving is just a matter of picking up the brainworms. As for everything in Orui, there is no shortage of it in Critchtel.

In 1347, the Cerebrates arrived at Critchtel, which in the Octopus language system means the place of origin.It will serve as another base camp for the Zerg for at least hundreds of years to come.

The existing cerebrates will start from here, and extend the Zerg's tentacles to more distant places through the proven sub-dimensional passages.

As for Lyman, it will be the habitat of the eighth brain worm of the Zerg race in the future, but its specific coordinates within the sub-dimensional passage have not yet been discovered by Ruhr.

Among the galaxies with energy veins that have been discovered by Ruhr, in addition to the three galaxies of the Velvet people, there are also the SH-009 galaxy, Critchtel, and the brand new star discovered by Ruhr this time. Domain - Due to the expansion through sub-dimensional channels, it is no longer determined by the original naming method. In the end, Ruhr called it Alvara, which means territory.

In the SH-009 galaxy, Zero does not plan to directly send brainworms to take over. It is not far from Critchtel, so it will only serve as an exit from the channel in the future.

Ruhr is currently still shouldering the important task of continuing to explore the passage, so Alvara needs a cerebrate to go there. Zero intends to let Visser go. As the third cerebrate of the Zerg clan, it has the ability to lead the development of the swarm. Hundreds of years of experience.Dagoth began to build a new Zerg base in Critchtel. Before more star systems were located by Ruul, the Cerebrates still needed to carry out their own scientific research tasks here.

After the emergence of super-light technology, it has become much more convenient for the Zerg to communicate between various star systems. Distances of tens or hundreds of light-years are no longer a long journey that takes hundreds of years to cross. For a very small number of individual star systems, unique Resources, the Zerg have enough ability to transfer.

While the Zerg are developing and building themselves, the Velvets are not idle either.

At the end of Zerg 1348, at the age of [-], Pope led the team to overcome a series of problems in the laboratory, making a stable gravity generating device theoretically possible bit by bit.

The argument about it started a day after the concept was proposed. In this matter, the Federation has given great support, and of course it has a corresponding emphasis on scientific research results.

It is not impossible that it sometimes takes hundreds of years for a major achievement to go from verification in the laboratory to actual application.

Therefore, just the birth of a theory is not enough. Even if the demonstration is successful, it still has a long way to go before it matures. As for how far it is, it depends on when the various strengths of civilization can meet its basic requirements.

This is a project promoted by Zero alone, and of course He is also paying attention to all this.

A stable gravity generating device may only be used in some specific situations in normal times, and may even seem useless.

If it weren't for the fact that the opening of the sub-dimensional channel is affected by severe gravity, not many people would pay attention to its existence.But now, even the average Velvetite knows what it could mean!
Popper was very confident. Although the research time this time did not last more than ten years as usual, the discovery of the truth had nothing to do with the length of time.

In an ideal world, only one absolutely strict constraint is needed to go from an uncontrollable gravity bomb to a controlled gravitational response.But in practice, this is actually a false proposition, because this so-called absolutely strict constraint only exists in an ideal state.

To this end, Pope found a new way and spent seven years using an ingenious idea to bypass this demanding requirement, and finally achieved extremely reliable results.

Of course, although it has been initially verified in the laboratory, there are still many difficulties that need to be overcome in the application process.

But most of these questions are no longer Pop's job.The Federal Supreme Academy of Science gathers the scientific research elite of the entire civilization. There is no reason for an old man in his twilight years to be responsible for realizing a deterministic theory after proposing it.

Through the influence of the Zerg in the Federation, Zero provided the greatest support for the realization of Popper's theory.

In this project, all their reasonable demands will be met as much as possible. It can be said that they are asking for people and money for money.

Of course, in a huge group, there will always be some trash that fishes in troubled waters, or even trash that takes advantage of others.

Zero had already anticipated the filth within the intelligent civilization. In the past, he had held a wait-and-see attitude towards the development of the society of the Velvet people, whether there were moths, etc. Zerg has nothing to do with it.

Neither Zero nor the brainworms care much about these.But this time it was different. Todd knew clearly what kind of future development Pope's conclusion might represent. To this end, it mobilized the influence of the Zerg, forcibly suppressed many other voices, and fully tilted resources here.

These Velvets reaching out to this at this time, for Todd, is equivalent to poaching the corner of the Zerg tribe. How can this be allowed?

In this regard, the inspectors of the Federal Inspectorate took heavy action, leaving no room for error.Although most of the important positions in the Federation are now controlled by the Zerg, the Zerg lurkers have only changed their thinking, and they have not turned these Velvet elites into waste. Their abilities and professional standards will not be reduced as a result. .

They are professionals in dealing with this kind of thing, not to mention they have all-round intelligence provided by Todd.

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With the participation of the Zerg brainworms, Pop's project is stumbling forward. Occasionally there will be problems that are difficult to solve, and some necessary materials even only exist in the imagination, but all of this will eventually be overcome. , because the way forward is clear!

As time passed, some problems were successfully solved, while others were never solved.This situation is expected. Popper's theory is only based on experimental data. How to implement it is a problem for other professionals.

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The development of science and technology will not happen overnight due to individual will, but there will always be people who will step forward to introduce trends.

In 1359, without being recognized, a young Fowler man used a unique biotechnology to complete the perfect design of restraint materials for the first time, putting many Velvet elites to shame.

A breakthrough in this work is equivalent to removing the last big stone blocking the application of the final results.

So far, the controllable gravity generating device has officially entered the construction stage!

And this young Fowler man is named Goldman. His real name is unknown, but his grandmother is Stajira, who was once known as the star of the Fowler people!

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Zerg 1370, this year is an extraordinary year for both the Velvet people and the Zerg.

When the ice and snow in the northern hemisphere of the planet Ori began to melt, Pope, a contemporary outstanding physicist, biologist, and academician of the Supreme Academy of Sciences with many shining titles, left this world.

He was unwilling to accept the so-called plan to support the future and calmly accepted his death.

The Velvet people do not have any specific beliefs, but the people have infinite respect for Pop who single-handedly brought higher possibilities to their lives.

Just these four words of life-extending potion were enough for Pope to leave a mark in the history of the Velvet people, and for countless ordinary Velvet people to praise him even after his death.

Unfortunately, he did not live to see the day when his last completed theory became a reality.

Just four months after Pope's death, the first complete gravity generating device was debugged near the sub-dimensional channel of the Federation's seventh colonial galaxy and officially entered the experimental stage.

After 14 Oridays, a dazzling light that seemed to never go out dimmed the stars that had illuminated this galaxy for thousands of years...

(End of this chapter)