Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 251 Dismembering the Planet
The swarm of insects did not choose to sneak attack. They just marched towards the target location with an upright attitude. Everything along the way would be destroyed by them and could not resist in the slightest.

Although the speed of the insect swarm was not very fast, the Velvet support fleet obviously had no time to join the battle sequence before they arrived at the ninth colonial system.

Fortunately, the Federation is considered a big company. It knows that it is impossible to resist the insect swarm with only a partial army, so naturally it will not make unnecessary sacrifices.

The Federal Military Staff has determined the strategy of trading space for time, and is determined to fight another battle with the opponent after gathering the main force of the fleet. The production of warships takes time. Even in today's era, modular printing technology is quite mature, but still It cannot be achieved overnight.

It is undoubtedly beneficial to the Federation to give up some galaxies that are destined to be lost.

Before the arrival of the Zerg fleet, civilians and workers in various industries who originally worked and lived in the ninth colonial system were quickly evacuated under efficient organization, and fixed facilities that could not be taken away were also destroyed in an orderly manner. In terms of the organizational efficiency of the Federation, , it will definitely be completed before the insect swarm arrives.

Todd is a little troubled. Nowadays, it is like the left hand fighting the right hand. Although the war goal has been set, how to complete it reasonably is still a problem.

The Federation's strategic decisions cannot be hidden from it at all, but if they fight the Velvets with such an intelligence advantage, they may not be able to survive three rounds in front of the Zerg, even if the Zerg swarm has "abolished their martial arts" to a considerable extent.

What Todd is worried about is how the swarm will continue to "perform" if the Velvets are accidentally destroyed.At least at this stage, the Velvets still have some use. Zero has no intention of destroying the Velvet Federation until their potential is drained or the Zerg technology makes a breakthrough and they are no longer needed.

Some people say that war is an art.But for Todd, this war directed and performed by him is really a complete art.The entire Zerg fleet, including the Zerg lurkers, are all actors in its hands, but how to "act" it well and achieve its own goals is not that easy.

In order to prevent itself from feeling conflicted about using its own spear to attack its own shield, it simply handed over the Zerg offensive fleet to Visser, while it concentrated on using the Zerg lurkers as the core to lead the Velvet people to deal with the Zerg "invasion" , on Todd's side, although it will not use the power of the Zerg, it will definitely let the Velvet people go all out.

What stands out is the dedication, just like a game within the Zerg with the Velvet people as the flag and clear rules.But the outcome of this game is already doomed. The swarm commanded by Visser cannot lose to the Velvets who are going all out, even if Todd, who is also a brain worm, "faces" with him.

Zerg In 1504, Visser's Zerg fleet entered the empty ninth colonial galaxy of the Federation and took control of all galaxy resources including energy veins.

This will be the outpost and base camp where the Zerg swarm will launch attacks on the Velvet people in the future. It first completed a thorough cleanup of enemy surveillance forces throughout the galaxy, and then quickly established a Zerg base.

In 1506, Visser collected enough energy crystals to set sail, and the swarm continued to advance. This time, it took less than two months to reach the front line.

At the same time, restricted expansion to the surrounding star fields is also underway.The swarm will not go all out, but it is necessary to ensure that its own intelligence is not leaked.

In the same year, in a deserted galaxy under actual control of the Federation, the Zerg fleet led by Visser and the main force of the three major federal fleets gathered by Todd had their first confrontation here.

Before this, the Velvet people had tried countless times to communicate and solve the problem through diplomacy, but they were all ignored by Visser.

Its main focus was on leading the insect swarm to expand in the star field it controlled, and it didn't put much thought into this battle.

Even so, relying on their numerical advantage and tacit cooperation, the insect swarm also gained the upper hand here. The federal fleet even used gravity bombs on a large scale, but they encountered the same counterattack shortly afterwards.

The biological weapons of the Zerg are no weaker than them, and their physical strength is even comparable to that of the Federation warships. It is worth mentioning that the physical armor used by the main force of the Federation fleet today was designed based on the research and design of the Zerg outer armor.

Based on Pope's original research results, the federal military has worked hard in this area over the years, and it has also brought some inspiration to the Zerg.

On the battlefield, the fleets of both sides fought fiercely around the central star and the only planet in the galaxy. In the vacuum of the universe, it was pitch black, with only the stars consistently releasing light.The warships on both sides did not take much advantage of each other over long distances. As the distance increased, the war quickly became intense.

The battlefield was quickly divided into hundreds of small units by both sides as they moved, and the battle started based on small fleets.

At the beginning, the Federation Combined Fleet was able to fight back and forth with Visser's swarm after the division of troops, but it soon showed its decline.

Although assisted by quantum computers, the scheduling of the federal fleet has been very good, which can be said to have offset most of the advantages of the insect swarm in battlefield control.

However, the Federation fleet, which has not experienced a real space war in the past millennium, is very unaccustomed to the Zerg's life-and-death fighting style. This feeling is especially obvious after the "hand-to-hand combat" between the two sides!

Even if a small advantage is gained on a local battlefield for a moment, it will soon be offset.Although there are many unmanned fleets in the Federation fleet, those controlled by the main fleet are all real Velvet citizens!

When they died, they were really dead, but the insect swarm had no such concerns.

In the overall situation, the loss of a large number of warships caused the federal fleet to quickly begin to retreat. Although it has not completely lost its ability to resist, it has already fallen into a full disadvantage. If it continues, it will be a matter of time before it fails.

And Visser didn't pay much attention to this side even after the war started. At this moment, it was busy with another thing.

Speaking of the expansion of the Zerg in the universe, we have to mention Ruhr. After it returned to the real universe in 1505, it stopped exploring wormholes.

Back then, it discovered a strange phenomenon on a living planet, and after conducting preliminary exploration, it was handed over to Visser.

At this time, Visser was dealing with this matter.

Over the years, the Zerg have developed smoothly in this star system where life exists, but the exploration of the planet itself has always been the focus of Visser's desk.

In order to understand all this, it first conducted a careful study of the genetic material of the creatures on it, but apart from enriching the Zerg gene pool to a certain extent, it did not gain much. Although they were a little strange, they In essence, it is still not much different from other life forms. Different environments create different individuals, which does not seem to be a problem.

So Visser turned his attention to the planet itself.

The Zerg energy unit continues to extract the core energy of the planet deep underground. Visser has no worries here. Compared with a living planet, it cares more about the secrets hidden in it.

Originally, it didn't have much hope of making discoveries in a short period of time, but it didn't expect that it would soon notice something strange from the Zerg energy units that almost completely occupied the planet's crust.

There seems to be something strange beneath the planet's mantle that is affecting the magnetic field of the entire planet!
For ordinary planets, the Zerg occupies not more than [-] but also [-]. The Zerg have established quite complete data on various types of rocky planets.But this time what exists in the core of the planet has never been seen before.

It is already extremely widely distributed in the part above the mantle. However, Visser can be sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Deeper below the mantle, there may be an even larger body of this kind of thing!

This must be the reason why this planet is so strange!
Visser thought this way and made up his mind to figure it all out.

As a result, large insect devourers began to hatch on the planet.Visser no longer worries about destructive development of this planet. Originally, a planet was not a precious resource for the Zerg, not to mention that it now hides unknown secrets that Zero is curious about!
It wants to dismember the planet!

Not only on the surface of the earth, there are also giant devourers of the worms in space orbits. They are hatched and generated under the continuous supply of material and energy on the surface of the earth. Limited by the gravity of the planet, the swarms of insects on the surface cannot grow without limit, but in It’s different on the track!
Giant insect species with a body length of hundreds or even thousands of kilometers can also be generated as long as there are sufficient resources and time!

The large devourers on the planet are responsible for destroying the planet, while the giant insect species in space take care of the aftermath.

Strictly speaking, this should be the first physical destruction attempt by the Zerg on a planetary scale, but Visser was full of confidence.

In the Ori system, the former base camp of the Zerg, some small satellites have long been hollowed out by the Zerg swarm. They were dismembered in space, and their hot cores were also cooled in the cold universe. In the end, except for some excreted by the Zerg devourers, Nothing remains except the debris and ruins.

On the scale of planets, the swarm has not tried yet, but it is not because it cannot be done, but because there is no need.

The insect swarm quickly took action, ignoring the life still surviving on the planet's surface. They had lost all their value.Under the surface of the planet, the energy unit began to crazily absorb energy to strengthen itself, just like the root system of a tree so huge that it could be based on the entire planet, forcibly extending its tentacles deeper into the ground. Wherever it passed, lava Slowly cooling, the entire planet was dying bit by bit under the desperate development of the Zerg.

This speed is not fast, but it will continue forever. If it is just like this, it may take hundreds of years, but Visser obviously cannot wait that long.

After the energy unit penetrates to a sufficient depth, countless Zerg Devourers will "relieve" the burden on the entire planet from about two hundred kilometers underground, and at the same time punch through the passage, followed by the passage from shallow to deep. The "geocentric bomb" array based on gravity bombs spreads across the entire planet!

That would be a huge power that is countless times more terrifying than the simultaneous detonation of countless high-yield nuclear bombs inside the planet.

Dramatic changes in gravity will cause collapse inside the planet. At that time, the uneven gravity of the entire planet will directly "tear" it apart, and the giant devourer of the Zerg that straddles the orbit of the planet will also take action at this time to complete this. A major event that caused drastic changes in the entire galaxy environment.

By then, whatever is in the core of the planet will be revealed.Visser didn't have much patience to wait, so he adopted a relatively violent method, but it was also the fastest way.

If all goes well, it will all be completed within three years.With the numbers and means the Zerg have here, if they go all out, they can even go faster.

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Although Visser's main focus was on dealing with this planet, in 1506, the biological fleet disguised by the Zerg successfully defeated the Velvet Federation's combined fleet, and at the same time continued to advance into the hinterland of the Federation non-stop, putting on a show of The appearance of annihilating the Velvet people in one fell swoop.

In this battle, although the Federation used a large number of unmanned warships, the casualties still exceeded 90. Countless Velvet warriors died in the directly destroyed spacecraft. Even after the war, this star field There are still a lot of debris among them, mixed with some biological residues that have long lost their activity.

After the First World War, the Federation gathered its remaining forces and continued to retreat. It was no longer able to face the edge of the swarm. However, in the inner hinterland, all space factories were fully activated, including many colonies, and they all turned to wartime status. Construction in the space docks was day and night. There is an endless stream of transport ships transporting resources back and forth.

War propaganda is already in full swing. After the United Fleet is defeated, there is no need to hide this news. War mobilization is fully launched. A large number of Velvets, Fowlers and other ethnic groups are recruited and mobilized. First, they are called to retire. Soldiers and reserves, and then colonial mobilization, a large number of recruits began to carry out intense war training on training ships, and the atmosphere of the entire civilization was suddenly changing from top to bottom!
The Velvets are fully developing their war potential and quickly transforming it into actual combat capabilities!

On the other side, in the ninth colonial galaxy of the Federation occupied by the insect swarm, biological warships that are exactly the same as before are rapidly being formed. In this war, the insect swarm does not have an absolute numerical advantage, and its own losses are not there. A few, and they need to be replenished quickly.

Of course, according to the agreement between Visser and Todd, the production capacity of the insect swarm is limited to less than 5.00%.

But even under this premise, it is nearly double the current level of the Velvet people. The peace for so many years has allowed the Federation to "abandon its martial arts" to a certain extent. Many shipyards are already quite old, and they need to spend a lot of money. It will take time to restore its own production capacity, fully activate its own industrial capabilities, build more factories and docks, and recruit more troops, but this will take a lot of time.

For this reason, the Federation adopted a strategy of trading space for time. This was also their only possible plan to withstand the attack of the Zerg biological fleet.

Time moved forward bit by bit, and the federal fleet fought and retreated. It never engaged in large-scale battles with the insect swarm. It only set up a large number of obstacles on the way the insect fleet could pass, or launched harassing attacks from ultra-long distances to hinder the insect swarm. The pace of the group's advance will maximize time for the civilized subjects behind them.At the same time, it is also rapidly evacuating personnel, resources and equipment in various galaxies behind it.

Their actions did have an effect. At least these mysterious attacks did in fact hinder the progress of the insect swarm. Even if Visser didn't care about casualties at all, he had to consider the consequences of the insect swarm after constantly wading through the "minefield". Do you still have enough offensive capabilities?

This is the home ground of the Velvet people. They use guerrilla warfare to attack the insect swarms from all possible places in the galaxy. They even left behind a backstop inside the planet, causing considerable damage to the insect swarms that landed.

In order to deal with these harassments, Visser had to release a large number of standard Zerg surveillance units to eliminate these designs that would affect the progress of the Zerg swarm and provide early warning for sneak attacks by the Velvets.

At the same time, Visser's goal is also very clear, which is the Federation's seventh colonial system.

It is the hometown of the Terle people, a minority ethnic group in the Federation, and it is also one of the most important administrative centers of the Federation!

There are 270 billion Velvet people and 43 billion Terle people living inside it, as well as many other races such as the Fowler people.The economy here is prosperous and the industry is prosperous. It was an important node for the federal expansion.But now, it has become a veritable frontline!
Nervous emotions spread throughout the galaxy, and the unknown civilization biological warships coming from the front continued to approach, causing great panic among the ordinary people here.

No one knows whether the federal fleet will be able to "defend the enemy outside the country" in the end. In this case, escape becomes the first choice.

Civilian spaceships heading to the Federation's home planet or other important colonies are taking off at full capacity every day. Due to insufficient transportation capacity, the cost of traveling to safe starfields has risen sharply in a short period of time, until these normally public resources have become exclusive vehicles for the rich and powerful. .

The chaos and panic caused by the unknown fate cannot be calmed down in a short time, but now is wartime. In order not to affect industrial production, the Federation has adopted tough measures. The military has taken over all star ports and begun to restrict travel internally. Everything was in the service of the war effort, even civilian ships began to be requisitioned.

Under the strong pressure of the military, the vast majority of federal citizens who have no "access" can only hope that the swarm will not be able to invade here. Otherwise, these unarmed Velvets or Tellers will have no room for resistance.

(End of this chapter)