Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 241 Electromagnetic Signals in Deep Space
It must be said that although the plan proposed by Goldman is crazy, it has its theoretical basis.

There is no doubt that there will be some price to pay if it is really implemented, but it is indeed possible for the Velvet people to do it, and the advantages will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

Goldman is not just talking nonsense. If his wormhole theory can be realized, this matter will no longer be a fantasy.

Compared with Pope, Goldman is obviously much more radical. This means that the Zerg have not infiltrated the scientific researchers from beginning to end. Otherwise, Zero would have doubted whether the Fowler was a Zerg unit in disguise.

The normal average lifespan of the Fowler people is only about two-thirds of that of the Velvet people. Under the premise that their intelligence levels are almost the same, this makes it very unlikely that they can grow to the same level as the Velvet people in their lives. Small.

The original life extension potion gave Fowler people more life possibilities, but there was still a considerable gap between the two.

From this perspective, Goldman, as a Fowler, ranks among the Velvets and is convincing, which is enough to reflect his extraordinary origin.

The Fowler people were originally a brilliant civilization, and there are still billions of individuals today. It is normal for one or two amazing talents to emerge over the thousands of years.

On the contrary, the previous policies of the Velvet people had suppressed them, and perhaps many talents who could have become the pillars of the Federation were buried in the market and unknown to the public.

This is also one of the reasons why Todd tried his best to promote equality among all ethnic groups after taking control of the top leadership of the Velvet Federation. Like those unknown chronic genocide plans formulated by the previous federal government, Todd has never continued to implement them. Relevant agencies and Staff were also being laid off, and everything was slowly being laid waste.

Now the Federation controlled by the Zerg will naturally not oppose Goldman's plan. After his proposal was submitted to the Parliament, he successfully "convinced" the members of the Parliament, and was finally confirmed by the Grand Commander. It entered the practical stage under the name of a major federal scientific research project. .

Based on all previous federal research on sub-dimensional channels, Goldman conducted a detailed demonstration.For a civilization, the implementation of a major plan does not happen overnight. It is destined to take a lot of time to complete. If it does not go smoothly, it may even take hundreds of years. After all, not every difficulty will be solved. Find solutions in time.

Zero is not in a hurry. The results obtained from the Velvets allow the Zerg to pass stably between various galaxies through the sub-dimensional passage. Although the entrance is too small to be of great use, it does provide brain worms and a small amount of supplies. For example, it is completely sufficient for the flow of energy crystals to travel through.

As for more, seriously speaking, there is not much substantial demand today, but of course, it is still necessary.

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Zerg 1436, seven years have passed since Goldman proposed his plan and passed it.Although it has received strong support from the federation, unfortunately, the progress of this ambitious project is still slow. This idea, which is like a whimsical idea at this stage, does not seem to be put into action at this time. The federation has not cleared up the obstacles in front of it. All obstacles.

As federal elites, every year of their scientific research life is precious to these scientists who are already at the highest level of the federal academy of sciences. Seven years of stagnation is enough for some of them to question this, and even more Some even announced their resignation from the team.

Although this is a key project endorsed by the federal government with official credibility and supported by a large amount of resources, if there is no progress, there is no progress. At this point, their material life is already sufficient. Pick one of these people at random, and their patent The cost can take them several lifetimes.

The federation can call on them to join the team and participate in project research and development, but it has no right to restrict their freedom. Even Todd, who controls the top federation, cannot interfere much in this.

By coincidence, another major discovery came into view of the people of the Federation at this time, attracting a lot of attention from the scientific community.

——Two weeks ago, a communication came from the Federation’s Third Fleet. When they were expanding their territory further away from the edge of the star field, an exploration ship captured a strange electromagnetic signal!
Different from some meaningless cosmic radiation, this signal has obvious rules, and it keeps repeating the same piece of information, which is obviously man-made!
Since there is no dictionary, even if Velvet has abandoned the old electromagnetic transmission in terms of communication in the star field, he will not be able to truly decipher it for a while.

But one thing is for sure, after nearly a thousand years, the Velvet people have once again discovered traces of alien civilization!
And it seems that if the other party did not deliberately show weakness, their level of civilization should still be relatively primitive.

After all, they use electromagnetic signals to transmit information and have not mastered wide-area broadcasting technology. For a civilization like the Velvet people that has applied gravity to weapons, it can indeed be described as primitive.

This is undoubtedly good news. In the history of the Federation, it has encountered intelligent civilizations four times. Now the descendants of these civilizations have become part of the Federation, and their home planets have become de facto colonies of the Federation.

Of course, thousands of years have passed, and these ethnic minorities have already become part of the Federation. Even if the Velvets were secretly promoting genocide, these were all things under the water, and they now control the entire Federation. Todd has corrected this action that was detrimental to the Zerg. At least on the surface, the Federation is still that inclusive and powerful civilization.

Therefore, when the information about the possible encounter with strange intelligent civilizations was transmitted back to the mainland, the sensation caused by Goldman seven years ago had gradually subsided, and researchers involved in related projects also began to focus on this matter.

After all, the emergence of a new civilization, especially a low-level civilization, for the Federation, in the long run, it even means no less than the benefits of the sub-dimensional channel!
Perhaps today's federation is becoming more and more tolerant towards ethnic minorities, but when they were discovered back then, the federation gained huge benefits from various civilizations!

In addition to the most superficial benefits of a possible habitable planet, the technology, humanities, resources, and even themselves of a complete civilization are immeasurable wealth!

Today's Federation has long put on the cloak of civilization. At least on the surface, they regard themselves as a very tolerant civilization. They still need to cover up their barbaric actions. After all, as former victors, there is no way for them to return to the Federation today. There are nearly [-] billion descendants of other defeated civilizations.

But no matter what, since it has been captured, it can be foreseen that in the near future, all walks of life in the Federation may undergo a drastic change because of this.

Especially 14 Oridays after the news came, more than [-]% of the spaceship yards in the Federation had suspended the production of civilian spacecraft. So far, the discussion about the new civilization has reached another peak within the Federation.

Todd is also paying attention to the information transmitted by that electromagnetic wave. Of course, the brainworms have not been able to decipher it because it is short enough. Although it is obviously meaningful, it is indeed difficult to confirm its language due to the lack of sufficient data comparison. system, deciphering its message may take quite some time.

For this matter, Todd expressed enough attention. After all, it can be said that the general direction of the current Federation is almost determined by the Zerg. Of course, it can also let it go and let the Velvets handle it by themselves, but a brand new The civilization is undoubtedly worthy of the attention of the Zerg.

At least their location and specific information must be confirmed, whether there is a threat, etc., before a final judgment can be made.

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The emergence of new hot topics made Goldman's research from a popular project to "cold" in a short period of time.

Of course, there are still some top talents in the entire team. They are either experts in this field. Like Pop, their main goal in life is to study sub-dimensional channels, or they are experts in this field. They are a group of "brainless" pure scientific researchers who are unwilling to give up halfway.But in general, as a Fowler man, Goldman does not have the same leadership ability as Popper. After seven years of dedicated research without enough strong results, many people have lost their minds. Patience, thinking that it is the technology of the future, and shifting his attention to new things.

Goldman himself, however, paid no heed to this.He carried on his own business as always, and thanks to the full support of the Federation, almost all of his scientific research applications were quickly approved under Todd's care.

He did not retain those who left. He just silently led the remaining personnel as usual, trying to overcome the difficulties one after another little by little, just like the original gravity generating device.

To be fair, for a scientific research project that can bring huge benefits to civilization, seven years is nothing at all. Those people should have had better patience, just like the members of the Popper team, an important The project has been united for more than ten years or even decades, and they have never given up. Even at the beginning, they did not know when they would achieve breakthrough results.

The problem still lies in Goldman's identity. Although the federal government has improved the situation of minorities at the legal level, some deep-rooted ideas still cannot be eradicated, especially when one day an individual from a minority group begins to After leading them in turn.

Rather than saying this is a kind of giving up when encountering setbacks, it is better to say it is an invisible protest.

Todd did nothing about it.Time is still long, the Zerg is not in a hurry, and it is also very interested in this unknown civilization that may exist.

As for the social issues in the Velvet Federation, it had already set the tone hundreds of years ago, the Zerg lurkers would naturally work hard in this direction, gradually turning the entire civilization into a Zerg shape.

Hundreds of years have passed since the Zerg encountered the Velvets. The Zerg's sphere of influence has now surpassed theirs, but perhaps they were just a little bit unlucky. In the process of the Zerg's expansion, not to mention intelligent civilization, even No planet with life has ever been encountered again.

In the past few hundred years, the nearby star field seems to be deserted. With the support of sufficient energy crystals, the Zerg's sphere of influence has expanded to about three times what it was before encountering the Velvet people. However, except for the three dimensional channels, Apart from the exit, there are no other valuable discoveries.

Sass is now fully responsible for this "native star field".However, within such a vast range, apart from the Zerg itself, only Ori still has life.

Including the exploration of Ruhr, nothing else has been discovered in recent decades except for several channel exits at different locations within the river system.

It is worth mentioning that so far, all energy veins have been discovered inside galaxies, without exception.Zero speculates that this is most likely due to the complex gravitational environment inside the galaxy, but there is no definite support for this.

But they didn't expect that in terms of discovering civilization, it was the Velvet people who came out on top.

In this way, they are indeed lucky enough. After successfully entering the interstellar era from the primitive era, the energy veins are actually in this galaxy!
Not counting the Zerg, this is already the fifth alien civilization the Velvets have encountered.On the other hand, the intelligent civilizations the Zerg have encountered so far, if you don't count the unique Mira and the mysterious energy life, plus the Velvets themselves, there are only three.

No wonder Todd takes it so seriously.A civilization that is mature enough can join the Zerg scientific research team in a controlled manner, and if it is not that mature, it can also contribute to the Zerg scientific research in another form. No matter what, it is a good thing.

As for posing a direct threat to the Zerg, in this day and age, it seems impossible to talk about it.

Zero did not believe that there would be such a powerful force that could completely destroy the Zerg whose sphere of influence had spanned the river system.

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There are Zerg lurkers in all the main fleets of the Federation. They are either fleet staff officers, captains of a ship, or simply fleet commanders, or even both, all of which can play a key role. Location.

The Federal Third Fleet that discovered the electromagnetic signal is no exception. The chief of staff of the fleet, including two captains and a staff officer, is reporting the situation to Zero and the cerebrates in real time.

Compared to the hundreds of thousands of fleet members, the number of lurkers was pitifully small, but their location meant that Todd could easily obtain the latest information.

The order from the Federation was naturally to continue moving forward while tracking this strange electromagnetic signal.

This place does not belong to any star system, it is a complete vacuum zone, but it is here that the fleet received an unknown electromagnetic signal, and it did not attenuate much!
This can only mean two things, either the other party has reached an extreme level of electromagnetic wave technology and can still maintain sufficient information authenticity over long distances.

Or, the signal source is nearby!
Zero doesn't think it's the former. In theory, electromagnetic waves can indeed propagate very far away, but they still rapidly attenuate in an inverse square manner. The Velvet people have tried to change this, and have paid a certain amount of time and price for this, but obviously it has not Nothing came of it.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party has some black technology, but in a completely unknown situation, Zero still speculates in the direction with the greatest possibility.

If it is not the former, then it means that perhaps the Velvet fleet has arrived in the star field where the opponent's civilization is located, or at least has arrived near the location of the signal source!

As a result, a countercurrent pursuit of an unfamiliar civilization was launched, and it attracted the attention of most people within the civilization.Countless people are looking forward to this great discovery that belongs to the era of the universe, and even in this era, aliens are rare for thousands of years.

And their generation can definitely be regarded as witnessing history.

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Zerg 1439, the Federation's Third Fleet stopped in a deep space according to the direction that had been pointed out.

There, floating quietly, was a "primitive" spacecraft that emitted electromagnetic waves into the universe at a fixed frequency. It was slowly moving forward at a speed that, in Zero's opinion, was not much faster than a turtle crawling.

Without any accident, it was captured by the Velvets. After experiencing the same treatment as the Zerg, this primitive spacecraft entered the scientific research warehouse of the Velvets.

(End of this chapter)