Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 256 Klonbrocher

Around every asteroid belt and even every larger asteroid, the drone swarms of the insect swarm and the Velvet people started a fierce competition, and the focus of the battlefield was a dwarf in the asteroid belt. planet.

There, the main force of the Zerg and the main force of the Velvet fleet cooperated with the planetary defense systems spread across the starry sky to start a crazy fight.

The swarm has used various means, including kinetic energy weapons that have been gradually abandoned. In order to interfere with these dense planetary defense arrays, cheap and tiny kinetic energy weapons are obviously the most effective solution.

Of course, their power is very limited. Most of the time, they cannot even penetrate the armor of a fixed target. However, their unparalleled huge number, with the momentum of ants devouring elephants, can defeat these precision weapons that continuously fire at the insect swarms. Fixed armed systems launched the attack.

The distant central star cannot bring much light here, making this dwarf planet look very dim. It is cold and lifeless, but it is the core of the first line of defense of the Federation in this galaxy. To crack this hard bone, it is obviously Not something that is easy to do.

If this place is not taken, the Zerg will be in trouble in terms of subsequent material support based on the "personality" established by the Zerg swarm led by Visor.

Visser does not intend to break the "rules" agreed with Todd. Of course, it does not need to do such a thing. The strength of the Zerg is sufficient.

Currently, the entire galaxy is managed by the Federation into an iron barrel. Breaking through directly from the top of the heliosphere does not have much practical significance other than expanding the scale of the battlefield.

Still, Visser is confident he can win this fight.Within the defense system of the asteroid belt, the insect swarm still occupies an absolute advantage in terms of numbers. On the frontal battlefield, the insect swarm often launches a surprise attack on an asteroid with a dense attack array in the form of a small team. Pay some casualties as a price to destroy the federal permanent defense system.

Near the dwarf planet, with the all-round attack and defense system on the planet's orbit firing wildly, two huge fleets started the fiercest fight here.

The energy cannon began to take effect at mid-range. Visser withstood the attack of the Federation fleet and prioritized attacks on these difficult-to-move space cannons, destroying them bit by bit. At the same time, they attacked the automated defense fortresses on the surface of the entire dwarf planet. A devastating blow was carried out.

After the insect swarm lost about one-fifth of its combat power, the main fleets of both sides began the first round of confrontation in the true sense.

In the asteroid belt where the Zerg had made a frontal breakthrough, fierce close-range fighting continued.

Countless small celestial bodies were exploded under the starry sky, blooming with the most brilliant sparks, and countless bodies of steel or flesh and blood were shattered into pieces in the darkness.

If you observe it from God's perspective, you will see a grand fireworks made of life and steel!

On the battlefield, both sides have attacks and defenses. The Velvets win because of their perfect defense system, while the Zerg win because of their large numbers.

If we look at the number of battleships alone, they are more than five times that of the Velvets!
Of course, the Zerg have not divided their forces, so at this moment, other federal fleets in nearby defensive systems must be on their way.

But Visser is confident enough to capture the entire galaxy before that happens!
Perhaps in a short period of time the Velvets were able to fight back and forth with the Zerg swarm with the help of their extensive defense system, but as the main force of the Zerg biological fleet fought against the Velvets near the dwarf planet, it quickly entered a one-sided state. There are already loopholes in the defense system.

As the saying goes, one move can affect the whole body. If the main fleet fails here, the existence of those fixed and permanent defense systems will have no meaning.

Therefore, the Velvet people are fully supporting the dwarf planet, assuming a posture of blocking the insect swarm from the first line of defense at all costs.

But this is destined to be meaningless. On this battlefield, the insect swarm used its superior force to blow up federal unmanned ships one after another in the darkness. A large number of warship residues streaked across the dark vacuum universe. If from this Observed from a dwarf planet, they are as bright as a meteor shower!
On other battlefields, due to the deployment of troops, the insect swarms are also rapidly destroying defensive weapons and making a comprehensive breakthrough.

The entire defense line of the Velvets was like a leaky sieve at this moment, meaningless.

The new federal commander Valov certainly knew this, and he had no choice but to order the defense line to shrink inward.

Of course, at this moment, he and most of the federal soldiers controlling the fleet were not on the frontal battlefield.

In such a vast battlefield, there are [-] warships, among which there are only just over [-] real Velvet warriors.

They are responsible for controlling the overall direction of the battlefield at close range and providing real-time intelligence to the rear with the unique agility of intelligent creatures.

Although the latest version of the Federation's unmanned ship fleet already has a very high combat effectiveness, it is still subject to certain limitations in many cases, which requires some real Federation soldiers to come to the front line to participate in the war.

Of course, with the development of related technologies and the exploration of tactical applications, the demand for manpower in this area is rapidly decreasing.

Based on the most ideal situation of the Federation, maybe one day in the future, they can realize the true "all people are soldiers"!
However, that requires a terrible amount of production capacity, and untrained personnel cannot be put to use at all. It is just a waste of federal resources.

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On the battlefield, as the federal fleet fought and retreated, Visser quickly eliminated the resistance on the forward route and followed the retreating federal fleet toward the second line of defense.

The first line of galaxy defense carefully built by the Velvet people only lasted 41 Oridays before it was completely broken.

With the continuous development of energy technology, the speed of navigation within the galaxy is also constantly accelerating. In addition, energy crystals are no longer so rare. Both the Zerg and the Federation warships have greatly improved their mobility.

This also speeded up the entire war process. In the past, it would take anywhere from a few months to several years to travel between planets within the star system.But now, even reaching the vicinity of a star from the outermost reaches of a galaxy can be completed within 100 Oridays!
But this time, the swarm continued to penetrate deep from the first line of defense of the federal organization until it encountered strong resistance again, which only cost the swarm 14 Oridays in total.

At this moment, it was only sixty Oridays before the war really started.The Federation fleets supported from other galaxies are still sailing at super-light speeds. With their engine technology, it is roughly estimated that it will take at least more than seventy Oridays to reach here.

By that time, there is a high probability that the remaining Velvet corpses on the battlefield will be completely cold!

A lot of resistance was lost on the first line of defense. Even if the federal fleet once again shrinks the defense line, it is actually difficult to organize the same level of resistance as before.

Only 17 Oridays later, the second line of defense of the galaxy was broken. All fixed defense facilities were destroyed by the swarm. The federal fleet had to retreat to the last line of defense, which is the planet closest to the star in the galaxy. Generally, Generally speaking, the Zerg are accustomed to calling it Planet No. [-].

It was said to be a retreat, but in fact it was more of an escape. After the unmanned fleet suffered heavy losses, these Velvets, who had not had to confront the insect swarm head-on, had to go to the battlefield in person.But compared to the fearlessness of the unmanned fleet, although these warships are more flexible and have greater adaptability, when their compatriots die tragically in front of their eyes, these real flesh and blood bodies will still be afraid and collapse. .

But at the same time, everyone clearly knows that they have no way to escape. If they are outside the galaxy, they may be able to quickly enter a state of super-light navigation under the cover of the remaining unmanned fleets, as long as they are lucky enough. , you can escape from the battlefield.

But this place is near a star, and they have absolutely no ability to forcefully initiate faster-than-light navigation.

There is only one way to survive, and that is to rely on the last line of defense and persist until reinforcements arrive.

But this possibility also does not exist.

Zerg In 1550, Visser led the Zerg swarm and spent 96 Oridays to initially eliminate the Velvet resistance in the entire galaxy before the Velvet reinforcements arrived.

It was not until seven Oridays later that the first batch of federal support fleets arrived belatedly.

What they faced was a Zerg fleet that, although somewhat depleted, no longer had any defensive restrictions and occupied a favorable position in the entire galaxy.

The attack is obviously impossible. They alone are unable to break through the star system guarded by the Zerg warships, and there are no compatriots in the system that they need to save. While waiting for support, they prevent the Zerg swarm from continuing to advance beyond here and become their The only goal.

……………… In recent years, in addition to dealing with the invasion of the Zerg, the Velvet people have also been secretly conducting research on the Brocher people.Even at the most critical moment of the war, this research never stopped.

This is not just Todd's control, but more importantly the overall tendency of the Velvet people.

It's okay if you don't know. Once you know what kind of benefits this kind of thing has for you, the desire that belongs to intelligent civilization will begin to expand.

Whether it is an individual or a group, this is a good thing. A large interest group has a unified goal to promote one thing forward. Even Todd, it will take time to forcibly stop it without exposing the Zerg lurkers. A lot of tricks, not to mention that it has no position to do so.

Through continuous research and experiments on expanding samples, the Velvet people finally came to a more certain conclusion about the distribution of structures that can cause "aura" in the brains of Brocher people.

It is almost the same as the previous guess, but slightly different.

This special biological structure indeed only appears in a certain group of people. They were the main aristocratic branch of a certain nation when the Brocher people were in the national era.

But not every member of this group can have such a structure. During research, the Velvet people found that there is a strong correlation between its appearance and blood inheritance, but it seems to only occur in some very few. can be expressed within the individual.

There is another point, equally crucial, but irrelevant to the study of the Velvetites.In Todd's research, it directly and accurately found the connection between this expression and genetic material!

From the history of the Broche people, Todd confirmed an important fact.That is to say, the reason why the Brocher people can have such an extremely rare mutation is actually related to some strange combination behaviors within this group. These behaviors allowed them to give birth to this special kind by chance under impossible conditions. Gene fragments that cannot be inherited through normal combination.

And even if you have such a gene, whether it can be expressed is quite accidental.

This is also the reason why this kind of genetic material has always been difficult to spread to the entire ethnic group. At the same time, it is inevitable that it will gradually disappear as history advances.

If the Velvets had discovered the existence of the Brochers after a thousand years, there might not have been any Brochers with this gene by then.

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What is a natural discovery for Todd is not so easy for the Velvet people to make. However, in this matter, Todd does not intend to keep it to himself. Although this thing is equally beneficial to the Zerg, it is only Brainworms have needs.

But for the Velvet people, if handled properly, it may lead them to a better "future".

Of course, since it has been confirmed that this is the specific expression of a certain gene sequence, it is not difficult to copy and "produce" it using Zerg biotechnology.As for the scarcity of successful expression of this gene, it is actually not a problem. Under large-scale production, sufficient samples will definitely be obtained.

However, Todd did not intend for the Zerg to do this, although it could easily be done.

In terms of genetic engineering, the Velvet people have been developing rapidly in recent years. It may be difficult for them to find the gene that controls this trait quickly and accurately, but they are indeed experienced in cloning humans.

After obtaining relatively accurate information, the overall arrest and research activities against the Brocher people began to decrease a lot, which made some of the senior officials of the original alliance who were informed and participating breath a sigh of relief.

But what followed was not the harmonious coexistence they expected.The Federation requires the puppet government of the Brocher Alliance to search for the aristocratic legacy on a global scale and hand them over to the Federation for disposal.

To be honest, compared to the previous crazy experiment, this requirement is not too harsh. After all, according to statistics, among the main branches of the noble group, there are only a few thousand that actually meet the requirements. Compared to the entire race Say, a drop in the bucket.

Soon, the Velvet people achieved their goal. It was completely different from the urgency when conducting research before. This time they didn't even do it themselves.

These remaining individual genes were quickly copied. Just in case, these Brocher individuals would be properly "kept" by the Federation. From then on, they would be the assets of the Federation.

Due to the special nature of this incident, the main group of Brocher people was fortunate to not be affected on a large scale.Therefore, the assimilation and transformation that the Federation has been undergoing for decades will continue. In the future, the home system of the Brochers will still become the tenth colonial system of the Federation and truly join the Federation.

As for the hurt and humiliation they suffered during this process, it is just rubbish buried under the dust of time and no one cares about it. Who cares?

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Todd has obtained the information it wants, and the Velvetites will soon establish a biological factory with the main goal of cloning the Brochers.

Of course, before that, they still need to try to make it work on the main groups of the federation based on Goldman's original research results, just like what Goldman did in his later years.

Judging from the conclusions of his research, Goldman must have mastered some kind of technology that can be applied practically, but there should be quite a few flaws, because since then his own physical condition has begun to deteriorate, most likely because of this incident. It's over.

Unfortunately, due to the reasons mentioned in his previous suicide note, Goldman, who was struggling at the time, did not leave a complete experimental record. Only a few lines were left between certain lines, which could only provide a rough outline for the federation's subsequent research. direction.

But this is enough. Although there are no more amazing talents like him in the Federation, the many scientific researchers in the Academy of Sciences cannot be underestimated.Among the nearly [-] billion people in the Federation, who among them is not a genius?

The research on the Zerg back then made the Velvet people's biotechnology very advanced. In addition, due to the impact of wars in recent years, the Federation has attached great importance to this aspect. Now they have enough technical reserves to complete this matter.

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In 1554, the Federation applied the special structure from the Brocher people to the body of the Velvet people for the first time in the form of simulated bioelectricity.

However, this experiment was not completely successful, because the individual as the experimental subject soon developed serious complications and died within a very short period of time.

But obviously, it did play a role after being implanted into the Velvet body, at least partially.

But the consequences are still too serious.

-It is almost fatal.

No matter what, this can be regarded as the first step. As long as this problem is solved, the Federation may reach a new level.

The life-extending potion brought by the Zerg increased their life span by nearly one-third, and this gift from the Brochers may usher in a spurt of development in the science of the Velvet Federation.

The contribution of these two to science is that it allows a federal researcher to do more things in his lifetime.

Improvement and experimentation have not stopped at all. With successful examples like Goldman, many steps in biological experiments can be skipped, and the former also makes them absolutely sure that this road can be followed.

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In the past four years, the Zerg swarms commanded by Visser have fought several high-intensity wars with the Federation fleet at the edge of the galaxy, aiming to consume the Zerg fleet and keep the Federation tense enough. Under the premise of taking the initiative to attack, he led the swarm to defeat three federal fleets that came for support, and once again set up camp in the new border system.

Of course, the Federation has not been idle either.During this period, their industrial activities were rapidly spreading to various star systems, and related technologies developed rapidly. The mining system directly applied to the desolate planet has been completely modularized. With the help of energy crystals, each batch of The size of the fleets sailing out of each star system is expanding.

At the same time, the Federation's training of combat-related talents has also been on the right track. After passing rigorous tests in a unified format, a large number of talented personnel have been recruited into the military academy to participate in training. They will be the backbone of the Federation's future control of unmanned fleets!
Today, the Velvet people have gradually caught up with the self-limiting insect swarm in terms of production capacity. Some people already believe that perhaps the strategic counterattack stage will come soon!
(End of this chapter)