Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 254 Goldman’s final contribution
Humiliation and grief are the portrayal of the entire civilization of the Velvet people today, even though the vast majority of them have never met the tens of billions of people who died on that planet, and they may not be destined to meet each other in this life. , but the sense of civilizational identity that has existed for thousands of years makes them almost empathize with it at this moment.

Even ethnic minorities such as the Terler or the Fowler who were not welcomed in the past, when they died under the Zerg's space-based cannons, they were extremely sad.

At this moment, the previous barriers between races were quietly dissipating, and the entire Velvet civilization, under the massacre of the Zerg, finally showed signs of becoming one.

In times of peace, it is extremely difficult for Todd to achieve this through various mild means through Zerg lurkers. For hundreds of years, Todd has been trying to eliminate discrimination within the federation so that scientific ideas can flourish. It can be said that it spares no effort, and this is one of the few ways it can actually benefit the Velvet people.

But the effect has been poor for a long time. It is difficult to change the concepts formed over thousands of years in a hundred years. What's more, the general life span of the Velvet people has reached more than 300 years. During this period, there is not even one generation, and it is difficult to truly It worked.

But this time, through war oppression, Todd did not even need to do anything, and he had already achieved this easily.

But this is just one of the many goals Todd wants to achieve, to transform the entire federation into a militarized state, further allowing a large amount of social resources to serve the war, and fundamentally reversing the hedonism formed by the Velvet people during the long period of peace. This provides the ground for military technology to flourish.

And this is just the beginning. Controlling the Velvet Federation will be Todd's most important task for a long time to come.

For example, at the moment, the swarm of insects has stopped moving forward. It seems that the last war also caused a lot of losses to them, at least in the eyes of the Velvet people.

However, Todd is still paying attention to the Supreme Scientific Research Institute located on the Federation's home planet.There, Goldman, a Fowler native, was conducting the most important research of his scientific career.

Dark matter, this exact concept proposed by the Brochers, was carried forward here.

If the Brochers are just a hypothesis that has not yet been verified, then Goldman has actually confirmed its existence.And he was still not satisfied with this and tried to study it more deeply.

Therefore, he proposed the theory that the annihilation of dark matter creates a large number of energy crystals soon after, and finally confirmed this with the heterosexual differences of high-energy electrons.

And then, it was as if he knew everything, and inspiration began to flow through him.

First, the idea of ​​trying to actually "touch" dark matter was theoretically verified, then there was confirmation of the existence of dark matter, and finally the idea of ​​"extracting" this material whose mass proportion even exceeds the total mass of all macroscopic celestial bodies was proposed.

Now he's trying to make it a reality.

In recent decades, his pace has been so fast that many scientific researchers with the same research direction and who are also top scientific research talents in the federation can't keep up. So fast that even stopping to wait for them has become a huge task. waste.

Because of this, when Goldman's research reached this point, he didn't even have anyone to communicate with.

Even the theory he proposed 12 years ago is still very difficult for many people to understand, let alone discuss with him and participate in his latest scientific research progress.

Today, within civilization, he is already at an unprecedented level in this field. It will take decades for latecomers to catch up, even if they just digest his theoretical results.

But he himself doesn't know it. At least in this universe, there are still intelligent creatures that can understand his theory and confirm its correctness.

They are brainworms.

When these novel theories were placed in front of Todd, who had fully accepted the Velvet scientific system, he quickly knew that Goldman's argument was flawless, both in mathematics and physics.

It is as perfect as a picture of the universe drawn by God!
Similarly, Todd also provided conveniences to him to various extents, and even communicated with him indirectly in a unique way. He looked forward to the day when they could work together in this way to find places everywhere in the universe that no one could find. A "treasure" to ask about.

Goldman's talent is very high, and can even be said to be unique. He is much better than Pope, the Federation's previous generation of scientific research giant.

But he didn't have much time.

Fowler's own lifespan limits his height, not to mention his own health condition in recent years has also been worrying. If it weren't for the Federation's medical technology that has improved a lot under the stimulation of the Zerg over the years, he would have been in the emergency room several times. Goldman has probably died several times.

But despite this, to this day, he himself is already showing signs of running out of energy. The Federation can replace his organs and even change his life span from a genetic level, but it still cannot make him live longer.

It's as if this is not a biological problem.

Zerg In 1542, Goldman died quietly in his office while writing a phased summary.Doctors who were on call around the clock for his health started rescuing him immediately, but he had indeed completely lost his vital signs and was truly dead.

Until the end, he failed to completely complete his theoretical design, leaving only a semi-finished product that many people could not even understand.

Todd was a little regretful. It could understand and master the theories created by Goldman, but it did not have the original ideas and inspiration like him. The passing of this Fowler man made it feel like a loss of property for the first time. It feels like even if the Zerg slaughtered tens of billions of Velvet people more than ten years ago, it could not make it feel like this.

It's a pity that there is no talent like Goldman in the Federation today, at least that can enter Todd's field of vision. Neither the Velvet nor any other race can match him in talent, or even come close to him.

Now his research results can only be tried by the brainworms to move forward.

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Speaking of the war between the Zerg and the Federation, in the 12 years since the first phase of the war was achieved, the biological warships organized by Visser have continued to launch penetrating attacks on the Federation on a small scale. Confronted with the Velvites who had reorganized their armed forces.

The battle that lasted for 12 years kept the Velvet people tight and did not dare to relax at all.

And as time goes by, the number of these small-scale invasion fleets increases.Everyone knows that the other party is rapidly "restoring its combat power" and will one day continue to launch a large-scale invasion of the Federation.

Over the years, the Federation's research in armor, energy, and life sciences has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Compared with the beginning of the war, their armor strength has increased by at least 30.00%, and the controllable maximum output power of energy weapons has nearly doubled!
Thanks to the pressure of the Zerg, they have made significant progress in the area of ​​unmanned fleets and cloned biological warriors.Of course, the uses of the latter are currently very limited. After all, it is impossible for the Federation to send a group of untrained underage Velvet clones to the battlefield. It would not only be a waste of their lives, but also a waste of the Federation's property. .

But for the former, the Federation has almost made revolutionary innovations.The various types of cheap warships they will produce will be controlled in real time by quantum computers in the hands of many professionally trained personnel, enabling ultra-long-distance "remote control" operations.

To put it simply, there is no need for a large number of personnel to go to the battlefield in person, but only to consume resources to build warships, and to hand over the control of these warships to a specific group of people who have undergone targeted training in a "game" manner.

In this case, even if the federal fleet is completely lost, there will not be a large number of casualties, and these people only need to change a fleet to control them to achieve the same effect.

The only drawback is that this approach consumes resources too horribly, especially some rare resources. According to the federal budget, it is very likely that they will be exhausted in the next 200 years.

To do this, they had to launch more planet mining plans.Fortunately, after completing this innovation, the Federation seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and various related industries were booming. It was not easy to maintain such fighting spirit even after the defeat.

Of course, the research results in this area are of limited use to the Zerg, but they are not without merit.

Their rapid-fire simple battleship uses some interesting modules and is made of a biological structure similar to that of the Zerg, but it is much more sophisticated.They obviously got a lot of inspiration from the Zerg lifeforms that were captured in the first place.

This further reduced the cost of their warship production and also made Todd's eyes brighter.

This method of application is really very Zerg-like. Although it is not mature, it is certain that the Federation has endless potential in this regard.

Perhaps one day they too will be able to design truly self-growing bioweapons.

Maybe they will be in the same vein as the Zerg, or they may form their own faction, but in any case, this is a good thing for the Zerg.Even if they cannot reach the heights of the Zerg, their design ideas, behavior patterns, etc. are worth learning from, and it cannot be denied that there are indeed people like Goldman in the Federation who can single-handedly move in one direction. An existence that drags the entire civilization forward a big step.

Without him, it might have taken the Federation at least 200 more years to reach this point in its understanding of dark matter.

Maybe one day, they will also have such amazing talents in the field of biotechnology, which can make the brainworms and even Zero pay attention to them.

And this is a good start, and even this little result has given the Zerg a lot of inspiration in the modular design of fine growth.Those large and sophisticated scientific research components may also be related to the insect swarm.This is the benefit that this war has brought to the Zerg, but in fact it has only just begun.The Federation has not yet completely completed the transformation that Todd expected, and it is preparing for the next large-scale attack.

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After Goldman's death, he was buried back in his native town as a Fowler native.

——The third colonial system of the Federation.

In a heroic way.

For the Federation, he is a unique talent and has played a huge role in promoting the Federation's scientific research.

For the Fowler people, Goldman is considered one of the landmark figures in the history of their race.

Since joining the Federation that year, the Fowler people have always been at the bottom of the Federation. Although they have slowly improved over the years, they have always been very limited.

Until the generation of Stagira and Goldman were born, the former allowed the Fowler people to regain a greater say in their home planet, while the latter significantly increased the importance the Federation paid to the Fowler people. A level up!
Coupled with the help of the war, the Fowler people felt integrated into the Federation for the first time in history!

However, among Goldman's belongings, federal agents discovered something else.

It was a letter, a suicide note to be exact.

But this is not the point. The point is that this suicide note shows that Goldman’s lifelong research process does not seem to be limited to the current scope.

After the living samples of the Brocher people were sent to the Federation, he also participated in it and seemed to have reached some interesting conclusions.

But even Todd, who had been paying more attention to him, never noticed this!

Underneath Goldman's residence, there is a secret research room, which contains all of his biological research results.Especially the part about the Brocher people is placed in a very obvious position.

Obviously, when Goldman knew that his time was running out, he chose to make his final research results public.

Through the high-level Zerg lurkers, Todd learned all the information.

In Goldman's explanation, by chance, he discovered that in the consciousness area of ​​the Brocher people, there was a structure that was difficult to detect but completely different from the existing intelligent races in the Federation.

At first he didn't take it seriously, just thinking it was the characteristics of different intelligent races.But with in-depth research, he gradually discovered that this tiny structure actually played a strange role in the brain structure of the Brocher people!
It is not the main node in brain information exchange, but it has the ability to greatly increase the activity of neurons in a short period of time!

Goldman was very interested in this, because it meant that the Brocher people might be able to become a lot "smarter" in a short period of time!
Therefore, he conducted more in-depth research on this. Although due to the scarcity of samples and the fact that his energy could no longer keep up with the research needs of the two aspects at that time, he finally concluded that it might be related to the so-called "inspiration". The relevant conclusions will not be further studied in depth.

As for why this research was conducted so secretly instead of being made public, Goldman also gave a more reasonable explanation in his suicide note.

Although as an "executioner" who dissected Brocher Man, he seemed to have no position to think about the problem in this way, he still raised his concerns.

Once this structure can really play such a role, it may turn the Brocher people, who would have been smoothly integrated into the federal group, into a "breeding farm" where the federation extracts biological structures.

As a Fowler, he developed a subtle empathy for this race he had never met, so much so that he kept his achievements hidden until now.

This sounds strange and ridiculous, but even if the horoscope is not yet revealed, this kind of worry is indeed possible, provided that this structure can achieve the same effect on the Velvet people or other ethnic minorities.

At the last moment of his life, Goldman must have thought a lot. At the end of his suicide note, he wrote down his worries, but in the end he still sided with the Federation. The invasion of the Zerg made him strengthen his belief and choose Speak out about it instead of letting it sit in the dust.

And this is his final contribution to the Federation and his own race.

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But it was obvious that Goldman did not tell the whole truth, because in the only remaining research records in the laboratory, federal professionals found clues that he had tried to connect this structure with himself.

After speculation, it seems that he used bioelectricity of a specific frequency combined with a special mechanical device to stimulate this delicate structure to function, but the result is unknown, and the relevant experimental data and equipment have basically been destroyed.

But judging from the results, it seems that in the last period of Goldman's life, his scientific research level was indeed completely different from his original self.

Of course, even if this is true, it does not affect his contribution to civilization. Regardless of the means, those results and conclusions are real.

Regardless of his status as the top scientific research talent in the Federation, he is just an ordinary individual. His thinking is complex rather than single. He has his own thoughts and concerns, so that his actions appear full of confusion. contradiction.

But this is actually understandable. He was once a living and legendary wise man, but at the last moment of his life, he personally stepped down from the altar and classified himself with all living beings.

This will not be a stain on his life, nor will it affect his status in the history of civilization.

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Now, as the Brocher people are gradually integrating into the Federation, some elites of the Brocher Federation who have voluntarily submitted have begun to seek opportunities to learn about the Federation.

Although they were at war, the Velvets still allowed their actions, allowing these Brochers to enter the few remaining prosperous core galaxies of the Federation.

This is helpful for the Brocher people to integrate into the Federation more easily, but the most important reason is that they cannot make waves under the control of the Federation.Therefore, the Velvet people did not mind that they knew the truth of the current war, and they did not even hide the fact that they were at a disadvantage.

For the Brochers, before Goldman's conclusion was announced, Todd still paid more attention to it. After all, they were the place where the federal dark matter research was enlightened. This seemingly backward race was not necessarily as intelligent as Beville. Werthers should be lower.

Therefore, Zerg lurkers are also infiltrating into the Brocher people, which to a certain extent promotes their initiative to integrate with the Federation.

As the insect swarm grows with each passing day, the Hive Mind becomes increasingly powerful, and the number of lurkers that Todd can control is also increasing.

Under its promotion, the Brochers are expected to become the sixth race in the Federation within the next hundred years.

But as Goldman's research results entered the forefront of the federal hierarchy, a secret study on the Hubroche people was inevitably launched, and Todd himself was one of the important promoters.

Judging from the results, Goldman's concerns are justified. Once it is confirmed that this biological structure can play its due role, it will be difficult for the Brocher people to become one of the intelligent races of the Federation. Where will they go in the future? It's no longer as certain as before, but Todd doesn't really care about this.

Because in a sense, if all this is true, then their body structure may be more precious than themselves.

Of course, all this still depends on the final research results.The so-called "inspiration" has always had an ethereal feeling. It seems to be out of control, and it seems to be closely related to the knowledge reserve and thinking agility of intelligent creatures.

Before this, Zero had never thought that there was a macroscopic body structure that could directly affect this. Maybe even the Brochers themselves didn't know that they still had such potential.

Todd will verify the details personally. As for the final fate of the Brocher people, Zero will not make a decision for the time being.

(End of this chapter)