Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 259 The Exchange
The greatest use of the Velvet people to Zero is their large number of outstanding scientific researchers.

These people possess profound knowledge and theories, as well as extremely high scientific literacy and creativity. They are the most precious wealth of the entire civilization.

If it weren't for the continuous seizure of scientific research results from the Velvet people, the entire Federation would have fallen at the feet of the Zerg, no different from the previous lizard-men and octopus-men.

If Sass's discovery can indeed change this, then in fact, Zero's need for the Velvets will be greatly reduced, and he will no longer have to go to great lengths to play war games with them.

The current Federation is a semi-puppet-like existence to the Zerg. In fact, they still have sovereignty within a certain range.

Once the Zerg no longer needs the existence of the Federation, the Velvets and all races within the Federation will become dispensable. The Zerg will use their own way to cultivate "talents" unique to the Zerg.

Sass also attached great importance to this discovery. In comparative experiments, he did not find that there were many differences between the Velvets who had become Zerg lurkers and the normal Velvets. He was still able to draw inferences about some simple scientific issues. This Only then did Sasse feel that the special structure implanted in the Brocher people could achieve the effect Zero wanted.

But the individual used as a comparative experiment was just an ordinary Velvet. Although he had a certain amount of scientific knowledge, he was far inferior to scientific researchers.

To be cautious, Sass still needs to conduct further experiments on these top scientists in the federation.

Zerg In 1567, after the first step of the experiment was verified many times, Sass began to look for candidates in the Federal Academy of Science.

Zero has always regarded these scientific researchers of the Velvet Federation as an alternative asset of the Zerg. Apart from the initial tests, Zerg lurkers have never made a move against them no matter how they infiltrated the top levels of the federation. Even some semi-scientific and semi-administrative staff in the scientific research institute were not touched.

The Velvets have also contributed many achievements to the Zerg. Among them, the outstanding ones such as Popper and Goldman have successively produced breakthrough achievements in just a hundred years, which has attracted Zero's attention.

However, today is different from the past. Compared with the lives of these "valuable items", in the long run, Sasse's research is obviously more important.

As a result, for the first time in history, the Zerg lurkers launched an extremely targeted attack on the last piece of pure land in the Federation.

As a result, Visser stopped his large-scale war plan and waited for the results to be announced.Although this is an accident, the result will directly affect the fate of the Velvet people, even if they don't know it.

Of course, this is a rigorous plan, and the experimental subject must observe it for at least several decades to fully confirm its effectiveness, so it will not affect Todd's actions in the short term.

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Ruhr has recently resumed his daily life of traveling through wormholes. In addition to regular expansion, Ruhr has taken the Zerg units to star fields that have never been reached before, thereby realizing the existing strategy of the Zerg multi-faceted flowering. This is the expansion of the Zerg swarm. one of the important means.

But this time, it was somewhat unsure of the external environment inside the wormhole.

The reason is simple. It discovered a wormhole passage, or a mineral vein passage that was also "opened", but it was not the location of any Zerg expansion known to it.

Although it does not directly lead the Zerg expansion now, Ruhr is very familiar with the Zerg's sphere of influence, especially for determining the internal coordinates of the wormhole. It is difficult for other insect species to do as well as it does.

And Zero has never sent other brainworms to deal with this matter, so it can be determined that this wormhole that is not within the scope of the Zerg's influence, but is still open, is the product of other civilizations!

Ruhr didn't know how the other party avoided the "attack" from inside the wormhole, but it was obvious that it was probably always on here.

Due to the special nature of the interior of the wormhole, Ruhr was certain that he would never be discovered as long as he did not show up inside the passage.At this moment, what it is struggling with is how to greet the other party.

Of course it can't be itself, but if other insect species appear there, the existence of the insect swarm will inevitably be exposed.

——The existence that can directly open the wormhole must have enough understanding of the sub-dimensional space, and maybe it can surpass the Zerg.

It is impossible for the opponent to think that the Zerg are some kind of high-dimensional creatures like the Velvet people do, and will only think that they are an alien race from another star field!

It would be better if we could find out the coordinates of this place in time. Judging from Ruhr's experience, this place should not exceed the range of the origin galaxy. In other words, it is far away from any star with a wormhole in the main body of the Zerg. The domain can't be too far off.

Nowadays, the Zerg power carried by Ruhr is relatively limited, so if the target fails to be achieved the first time and the opponent closes the wormhole channel, then it may be impossible to determine the location of this place in the real universe!

In the end, it did not act rashly.

Since the wormhole here shows no signs of closing, to be on the safe side, it is the most convenient option to return to the nearest Zerg base and lead the Zerg group to directly carry out invasion activities.

As for how to face this unknown civilization after the invasion, that is something that needs to be considered in the future.

All it needs to do now is to "discover" them in the real universe.

Ruhr quietly retreated, preparing to return to the Zerg star domain to gather the Zerg swarms to achieve his goals.

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Although there was no direct invasion, this discovery reminded it that since the Zerg can discover unknown civilizations in this way, then the opponent can also discover the Zerg through the wormhole!
The wormhole passage is never a private property. It can be said to be a public passage. As long as you have a certain level of technological strength, you can enter it on your own.

Judging from the existence of the universe, the Zerg cannot be the first race to use wormholes to travel. Those ancient and powerful civilizations may also be looking for traces of other civilizations in this way!
In this way, the door of the wormhole is somewhat like Pandora's Box. Once opened, it not only means that you can travel to more star fields, but it may also bring unknown dangers.

Maybe this is the price of using it, but sometimes it can be very high.

Although the Zerg are completely different from civilization in the general sense, certain countermeasures are needed to deal with such uncontrollable changes.

The previously established plan to briefly open the wormhole supply passage seems to be necessary.If you think about it, it will be as fleeting as the original mineral vein channel, so you can avoid this risk to the greatest extent.

But that's not enough, but Ruhl thinks maybe this time it can find some useful information elsewhere.

After all, a civilization that can open wormholes, no matter how bad it is, can be similar to today's Velvet people. Since there is no interference from the Zerg, there is no reason for the other party not to be aware of the dangers caused by opening wormholes for a long time.

Well, this can only mean one thing, that is, the other party is very sure that doing so will not bring about that kind of crisis!

In other words, they hold more secrets about wormholes!

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In 1581 of the Zerg, the brainworm Ruul appeared in the nearest Zerg base. Then Zero learned of all its discoveries and supported it in executing its plan.Although Zero seemed a little reckless about this kind of thing, he still maintained an indifferent attitude.It is just a civilization whose overall technology may surpass the insect swarm. Can it also cross the wormhole and destroy the insect race that is now all over the river system?

The Velvets at the time were considered an advanced civilization compared to the Zerg, but now they can only exist as useful puppets.

If the other party is really able to clear out the insect swarms in the entire river system, then there is no reason why they would be discovered by the Zerg instead of them being the first to discover the Zerg!
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Two years later, in Zerg 1583, the Zerg with all their strength assembled a Zerg Hive Fleet with 12 Zerg large space units, which also included countless small and medium-sized Zerg species, and marched through the Zerg in a mighty manner. Pass through the wormhole of the galaxy where it is located, and head towards the target location under the guidance of Ruhr.

For more than ten years, Sasse has continued to conduct continuous observations on the experimental plan he established, and at the same time, he has not stopped studying such things as lethal genetic materials.

After using a particle accelerator to destroy the dense structure that was suspected to be the technological product of an advanced civilization, the Velvets, including Todd and Sass, all conducted research on its internal structure and scattered fragments.

For Zero, even the "shell" that wrapped the internal structure was of great significance. It may involve the principles and applications of the interaction force between particles, and it can play a role in the future development of the Zerg in related aspects. play a certain guiding role.Not to mention, it may be related to the research on the unification of the four fundamental forces of the universe by some advanced civilization millions of years ago.

But talking about this now is still a bit far away for the Zerg. He is more concerned about the function of its carefully protected internal structure.

After opening the "shell", I thought I would encounter some extremely complex structures, but I didn't expect that it would be equally simple and clear inside.

——There are only two parts in total.

One is the energy supply part. The reason why it can be directly judged that it is an energy supply unit even if it has stopped working is because a large number of energy crystals exist there.

This is somewhat incredible. After all, although the energy stored in the energy crystal is very large, it is enough to be consumed in millions of years.

However, when it was opened, there were still many intact energy crystal energy donors inside.

The second one is the functional components. Sass and Todd are still researching this part.It doesn't look complicated. In the structure that is hundreds of meters long, there is only a prism with a wide front and a narrow back connected to the energy supply unit at the rear.

But it is precisely because of this that the Velvet Federation and the brainworms cannot easily draw conclusions about it.

Do we need to "open" this and the polyhedral prism?This is the common sentiment shared by Todd and many federal researchers.

It has obviously been damaged, the power supply unit is no longer functioning properly, and there is no trace of the interference with the magnetic field that could be detected before.

The research has come to a standstill at this point. No matter whether it is the research on its energy supply unit or its functional parts, it has lost its clues. Only some detailed discoveries have made both sides marvel at this technological creation in front of millions of people.

It seems that the only way to continue research is to "open" it again. For such a civilized creature, such a rough approach is obviously a waste of natural resources, but there is no way. We have come to this step, and we can only bite the bullet and go on. Don't give up halfway.

Sars also hopes that the research here can provide some inspiration for its ongoing lethal genetic information.

Now, it is basically certain that a powerful technological civilization made some kind of intervention on that living planet millions of years ago.

The "extra" genes in these organisms must be inextricably related to this matter. Whether it is out of curiosity or in order to obtain more advanced scientific and technological knowledge, we must learn from these huge "relics" Get started.

In fact, Sasse still feels a little frustrated. After all, he has not been able to draw any useful conclusions in the field he is best at. He must rely on other aspects of research to get some enlightenment. This matter itself is enough to combat the bug.

Its talent allows it to avoid many detours on the road of life sciences, so that all the technological civilizations the Zerg have encountered so far are difficult to compare with the Zerg in this regard.

But this does not mean that the Zerg are already "unique in the world", not to mention that the difficulty of setting up a puzzle is obviously much lower than the difficulty of solving it, especially under the premise of insufficient information, this is normal.

Fortunately, the prism inside is not some kind of dense structure, it is just a material in a general sense. Although it also contains relatively advanced technology and the overall integrity is quite terrifying, it is obviously not used again in a particle collider. Degree.

It seems that the outermost layer should be a kind of protection, maybe to resist the huge pressure inside the planet, maybe to prevent the civilization that later discovered it from opening it easily.All in all, although it took some effort, the Velvet people were able to open it as intact as possible.

This time, there is finally no nesting like a layer cake, and the most core components inside are exposed.The dense mechanical array and extremely delicate and efficient component layout reveal the beauty of machinery everywhere. Its complexity and perfection are enough to put Velvet people to shame.

I thought that if it had not been forcibly opened, it would have been a natural structure, but now, a crack has been opened, and it looks like a muddy footprint on the snow, which is quite a kind of work of art. The feeling of being violently desecrated.

But no matter what, the goal has been achieved. The next thing to do is to figure out the role of each component in order to deduce the purpose of these behemoths buried underground on the planet.

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In the year 1586 of the Zerg, in the Reed Galaxy, at the space trading station, a civilizational exchange was taking place once every 50 reeds, a standard time of 77.42 Ori years.

This is a public place for the Pan-Galaxy Civilization Federation, aiming to unite many peace-loving interstellar civilizations to exchange their knowledge.

Different from the unified alliance like the Brocher people, the so-called pan-galactic civilization alliance is just a loose organization. It does not have any constraints on individual civilizations and will not interfere with the normal development of other civilizations. It only It exists as a collective term for a whole.

Before the standard time set by 6200 Reeds, two growing galaxy civilizations met each other. However, due to various coincidences, they did not enter into a life-and-death war. Instead, they contacted and understood each other in a relatively peaceful manner, and finally established a Diplomatic relations as equals began to exchange what was needed, and developed and expanded to the surrounding areas.

This was the predecessor of the Pan-Galaxy Federation, which was essentially a loose system maintained by diplomatic relations.

In the following time, they once again encountered some strong or weak civilizations. The strong did not exceed the combined strength of the two, and the weak were not considered "newbies" in the interstellar era. They had initially tasted the power of the two to a certain extent. After sharing the benefits of "common development", there is no life-or-death hatred between them, and there is a tendency to unite.

As a result, a loose alliance was established. Until now, the alliance has included five different civilizations. They have maintained unity to a certain extent, but they also ensure their high degree of independence.

Of course, there is also extreme xenophobia. When they first met, they chose confrontation rather than communication because of the difficulty of coexistence. But today, under the pressure of the coalition, although they did not use force on a large scale, the other party finally regarded it as After recognizing the reality clearly, although I didn't really join in, I began to integrate into it to a certain extent.

This makes the entire consortium grow larger. Although it is not a unified civilization and it is difficult to truly complete the deployment of internal resources, the exchanges between all parties have allowed the internal civilization to develop rapidly, showing vigorous vitality under mutual promotion.

Although there is no shortage of competition and contradictions, overall it is still in a virtuous cycle.Perhaps after a long period of time, they can truly integrate and become a complete civilization without barriers.

In the eyes of the Zerg who follow the laws of the dark jungle, this can be regarded as a miracle in the sea of ​​stars.

Wormhole technology is not a secret among them. During the joint research that year, they sensed the crisis based on the "flow" of dark matter inside the channel, and later determined the best way to open the wormhole. Period, which is also the agreed-upon interval between transactions.

(End of this chapter)