Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 260 Aggression
In the past few thousand years, many civilizations within the alliance have jointly studied wormholes to a certain extent due to some shared technologies.

Exploring outwards through wormholes was once one of the key directions of the alliance in history, but after it lasted for hundreds of years, it soon stopped being taken seriously.

First, the cost is high. Opening the wormhole channel and maintaining its continuous operation requires extremely large amounts of energy and resources, and maintaining its stable operation is also a large expense.

This expense is not worth mentioning to the Zerg, but for an intelligent race that must use every energy as useful as possible, even if it has achieved "energy freedom" to a large extent, for this kind of Consumption cannot be completely ignored.

Secondly, there are areas within the explored universe that are sufficient for their expansion and development, and the population and needs within the civilization have not produced an extremely strong desire to explore outwards.

Without domestic demand, wormhole exploration will naturally no longer be taken seriously, not to mention that expansion into unknown star fields through wormholes also faces huge risks.

At first, it was the risk caused by the instability of the wormhole. After it was solved, it faced an unknown risk that was even more difficult to deal with - the mysterious disappearance of the exploration team.

With Zhu Na's operational efficiency and ability, if they fail to master the method, no matter how well prepared they are, they will not be able to avoid the fate of death in a short period of time.

In addition, the star fields discovered through wormhole exploration also require wormholes to maintain dominance, which is a huge cost.When the investment is not proportional to the reward, this method can only become a game for wealthy travelers or explorers.

Even if the technology has matured.

When the joint wormhole exploration was a popular activity, not long after the Zerg defeated the lizardmen, the wormhole was still a distant thing that only existed in fantasy for Zero, and his eyes had just shifted to In the starry sky above our heads.

Naturally, among the many exits, this so-called pan-galactic alliance did not find the "empty" Critchtel, and of course it did not encounter the Zerg.

Nowadays, the wormhole channel is used more as a communication channel between member civilizations for the Federation. For example, in this meeting and negotiation event, each civilization will send representatives to reach the jointly determined galaxy in this way. .

It is convenient and fast, and due to the long cycle, the average cost is not high.

Zero doesn't know whether giving up or partially giving up the exploration of wormholes is a good thing for intelligent civilization, but for existences like the Zerg, it will definitely do more harm than good.

The most obvious difference is that this time, the Zerg discovered them first, but the other party did not notice the arrival of the Zerg.

Ruhr felt that with civilized caution, some unknown safeguards should be installed at the wormhole exit, even if he did not use them, to prevent unknown enemies from attacking him through such means.

But it no longer cares. The insect swarm has arrived at the predetermined location. Although it is not clear what the situation is outside the passage, there are more than [-] fully armed large insect units behind it, and countless small and medium-sized units, giving it enough The confidence to step out of the channel.

The Zerg wormhole creature is ready. It can control the wormhole exit as soon as possible, allowing the Zerg Fleet to quickly enter the real universe and fully deploy its combat power to deal with possible powerful enemies.

Unfortunately, this time it was destined to hit the air with a heavy punch.

In order to uphold the consistent principle of peaceful coexistence, although this meeting, information and material exchanges also have many military provisions, the armed forces of all parties have not gathered here on a large scale. Now in this galaxy, except for wormholes Apart from the garrison, the only weapons that exist are the guard fleets of each civilization and some inherent galaxy defense measures, and at most some elite civilized warriors.

The so-called wormhole garrison, under the long-term peaceful status quo, has slowly taken on the nature of a ceremonial reception, consisting of outstanding and representative warships selected by each civilization or regime.

The so-called representativeness of civilization, in addition to high-tech, of course also includes some historical heritage, etc. In general, the good and the bad are mixed, and the symbolic significance is greater than the actual significance.

However, the wormhole defense system predicted by Ruhr does exist. Just in case, the coalition has jointly set up strong means of destruction here. If an unknown and invincible enemy appears, the wormhole will be forcibly closed immediately. , and activate all defensive means to isolate the danger within the wormhole.

The Swarm still had the upper hand, though, because they were in the dark.

When the first batch of Zerg warships poured out of the wormhole and caused a series of violent reactions, no one could react immediately.Whether it is the wormhole garrison on duty near the entrance of the wormhole, or the warriors of various civilizations maintaining basic order in the space station.

Everything was so sudden, even if they knew clearly that this possibility existed, they didn't react at all for a moment.

Real-time communication between the inside of a wormhole and the outside world has always been a huge problem, because it involves the issue of time flow, making this problem difficult to answer in the real universe.

Therefore, deploying defense forces from inside the wormhole has become a difficult thing to control. Even the Zerg has not been able to do this.

To say that there is no defense against wormholes is not to say that.In the past thousands of years, in order to ensure the safety of this place, the Federation once dispatched the most elite warships to form a joint fleet to be on duty. However, anything may deteriorate in the face of time. Thousands of years have passed, and everything has been peaceful. The wormhole makes it a waste for these elite fleets to stay here.

Even if they knew that this passage to a higher dimension might be dangerous, it would not help.

When the first civilization to evacuate its elite fleets and replace them with conventional garrison forces appeared, this matter was already doomed.

A civilized think tank will obviously not be so short-sighted, but it is actually difficult for them to change anything, especially after the subsequent measures to force the closure of wormholes and the need for civilization to expand outwards to ensure that it remains in the federation. within the dominant position and right to speak.

Beyond that, it's hard to say whether there's some unrealistic self-confidence involved.

But none of that matters anymore.

Swarms of insects surged out of the wormhole like a swarm of swarms. It was as if they had returned to the time when they rushed out of the ant nest and rushed towards the termite nest more than 500 years ago.

However, their size has increased countless times, and the island that originally housed them is now only equivalent to a small part of their bodies.

The coalition responded quickly, but Ruhr was obviously well prepared.

When the wormhole was disconnected and the opponent's first wave of attacks came, the Zerg gravity generator had been deployed and the temporary small channel had been opened.

Then, like an earthworm meandering up, a bug "climbed" onto the edge of the channel. With the huge energy supply, the originally small channel quickly became larger like a "blowing balloon".

Until then, things were unstoppable.The main force of the Hive Fleet quickly descended into the real universe through the exit. The huge, ferocious and orderly sequence of battleships all represented their terrifying combat power. These embroidered pillows in front of them were definitely not comparable to the antiques!

And the last one to appear was the brainworm Luer and its "car".

Since it is judged that there must be an intelligent civilization here, it must appear in person in order to obtain enough information from these civilized individuals!
The coalition's wormhole garrison was defeated in just one Oriday, and this was because the worms spent a lot of time on the road.

Most of the warships were wiped out by the Zerg on the spot. Of course, some old antiques that represented the past glory of the alliance were captured by the Zerg in close combat, and all the life forms inside them became prisoners!

Then, the Hive Fleet was dispatched in all directions, quickly clearing out the resistance forces in the planetary orbit and around the space station. Ruhr personally went to the front line and directly blocked the representatives of various civilizations in the space station!

Without any mercy, a Zerg Devourer began to attach itself to the space station and began to grow crazily.In the desperate cries, pointless resistance and pleading of all civilized and intelligent creatures within it, the entire space station was absorbed into its belly.

After just six hours, Ruhl already knew everything he wanted to know!
The swarm began to build a worm nest base here, and the rocky planets were quickly covered. The resource transportation channel "to the sky" extended directly from the space orbit into the core of the planet. With the help of the zerg energy units and many planet devourers, , frantically extracting energy and resources from the surface, and established a complete Zerg base as quickly as possible.

Then, the huge insect nest mother began to take shape, and countless insect eggs began to grow and hatch with sufficient energy supply.They are the next batch of Hive Fleet!
At the same time, the main force of the Hive was divided into three, and two of them quickly rushed out of the galaxy, and then directly entered the super-light voyage.

The other branch was led by the brainworm Luer and returned to the wormhole!
It knew that although the previous war went extremely smoothly and the Zerg swarm did not even receive any effective resistance, the news of the Zerg invasion had been passed back to the respective parent civilizations of the alliance.Of course, in such a short period of time, the opponent may not be able to figure out the specific characteristics of the Zerg. This is the opportunity for the Zerg!And it is a unique opportunity, because as the war that will inevitably occur later proceeds, the understanding between the two sides will rapidly deepen, and there will never be such an intelligence advantage as now!
Therefore, Ruhr decided to create an information gap as quickly as possible, using two ordinary Zerg fleets as a feint attack, and personally led the existing main force of the Zerg Hive to one of the most powerful civilizations in the alliance - Song. Go to the territory of Rossai Civilization!

After thousands of years, since Mira's defeat, it is the first time that the Zerg has fully developed its military power in this way, because what Ruhr wants is to disarm all civilizations and related civilizations in the entire union as quickly as possible!

Now that it has appeared directly in front of them, it is too lazy to do things like Todd's secret control.

As an exploring brainworm, it is cautious and curious, which is the job and responsibility given to it by Zero.

But this time, as the Zerg commander authorized by Zero, it immediately showed its resoluteness!

As the saying goes, when you are in your position, you will seek your own government.Different identities will naturally lead to different behaviors. Ruhr grasped this very well.

All along, intelligent brainworms have their own ideas.Although Zero has given enough freedom and rights to all brainworms, he will not deliberately restrict their own development, nor will he overrule their decisions under normal circumstances.

But all Cerebrates know very well that although there are currently eight Cerebrates in the Zerg clan, and there will be more in the future, only the first three named by Zero are the most important to him.

Namely Sass, Dagos and Visser.

Especially Sass, who has been born with the Zerg all the way from the ancient times of the Zerg, and has almost the same memory as the Overlord.

For more than 500 years, only Sass has always been responsible for the most important task, and will always remain in the place where Zero attaches most importance.

There is no problem in saying that it is the closest existence to Zero. Even to a certain extent, it is not Zero's "subordinate" or vassal. In those first days, it played more of a "partner" character of.

Of course there will be no jealousy or fighting within the Zerg, at least as long as Zero still exists, such things will not happen.Even Sass and the others were the "teachers" of these later Cerebrates, teaching them bit by bit all the knowledge the Zerg had when they were first born.

But none of these latecomers don't want to be more valued in Zero's eyes, and Ruhr is certainly no exception.

As the sixth brain worm of the Zerg tribe, the name Ruhr means to study. After it was born, it referred to "Visser", which is the code name chosen for itself after the pronunciation of wisdom in the ancient lizard people language.

Over the years, it has tried its best and has not made any mistakes.Back then, Visser suffered a big loss in front of Mira because he was not cautious enough, but Ruel has always been careful enough. It never went into dangerous places. When it was looking for and dealing with the split of "Zhu Na", it Although he put in a lot of effort, he never showed up.

But this time, Ruhr, who had always seemed extremely cautious, suddenly became bold and radical, showing a completely different side from before.

Instead of sitting in the newly established base camp of the Zerg, it chose to lead the Zerg Hive Fleet to attack again.Before the Colossians are sure that the Zerg have located their exact coordinates, raid their territory!

As for the other two Zerg fleets, they will use conventional super-light navigation methods to head towards the civilized territory closest to the coalition's gathering star field, using another method to draw the attention of the entire coalition.

Of course, there is no so-called main attack and assist here for the Zerg, they are also the main direction of attack for the Zerg!
As for the tens of millions of small and medium-sized Zerg units carried by the previous Hive Fleet, they are rapidly spreading to every corner of the galaxy, destroying all possible technological creations!

Although some of his characteristics may have been revealed, Ruhl didn't care.Even if the opponent has made preparations to close all the wormholes connected here, it can still locate the mineral vein channel closest to the target as quickly as possible and lead the main force of the Hive Fleet to move forward again from there!
Zero stared silently at this star system where only the rapidly developing hive base was left, without feeling much emotion.

Of course, what Ruhl knew, He already knew.

This huge organization, which consists of five intelligent civilizations as the main body, and four "supernumerary" civilizations as candidates, is the most powerful force that the Zerg has encountered in history.

Even today's Velvet people, if they encounter them head-on, will only be defeated as long as the Zerg do not intervene.

There was no other reason. In the memories of these representatives of civilization, Ruhr discovered that in addition to their unusually powerful conventional military technology, which was far beyond the comparison of the Velvets, there was another crucial point!
They, or rather the entire consortium, are jointly conducting a research that spans the ages!

——Space technology!

At the beginning, Zero got some information about the Hero Federation from Mira, and it was mentioned that even the Hero Federation ten thousand years ago had already initially mastered space technology!

This seems to be an iconic technology in intelligent civilization that divides the level and strength of civilization, just like the original energy shields and gravity bombs.

And this is another important reason why Ruhr is so hasty. It hopes that it can get the latest research results of this technology for the Zerg as soon as possible, so it does not hesitate to personally lead the Zerg to attack the Colossians!

Over the years, the main source of Zerg technology has been inextricably linked to the Velvet people. Although Todd has controlled the lifeblood of the Velvet people, at least until Sass's experiment achieved conclusive results, the Velvet people There is still considerable value.

Such as wormhole technology, gravity generators, gravity bombs, etc., are all related to the Velvet people.On the contrary, the Zerg's own research results are very few. The only one that can be used is Visser's observation and research on Zhuna, and strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as an achievement, but can only be regarded as a discovery, because it is currently impossible to What contribution did you make to the Zerg race?

This also made Zero pay more attention to intelligent races. The reason why until today, Sass has clearly discovered a method that can replace the scientific researchers of the Velvet people to a certain extent, Zero still asked him to carefully confirm whether it is true. It has no impact on their intelligence.

These numerous intelligent creatures are valuable assets of the Zerg race. Perhaps an ordinary civilian can have a person as stunningly talented as Pop and Goldman among his descendants!

Even today’s Zerg cannot fully understand the magic of genetic combinations.

But now, the Zerg seem to have more choices.Of course, the premise is to conquer them!
Unlike the original Velvet people, today's insect swarm can be said to have been openly exposed to these races. The other party's technology is more powerful and their understanding is clearer. For creatures like the insect race, there will naturally be extremely strong wariness.

And Ruhr is no longer willing to control a race in the same way as it dealt with the Velvets. It is more willing to use force to make the opponent submit than Todd!

Of course, from a superficial point of view, the opponent's technology can be said to be far ahead of the Zerg, and even the space field that has never been really touched is undoubtedly a black technology for the Zerg, but Ruhr But not afraid.

Because it’s never the swarm of insects that should be feared!
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Zerg In 1590, Ruel led the main force of the Zerg Hive Fleet and appeared in an unoccupied and desolate star system.

The other party was obviously prepared. There was no wormhole opened in the coordinates originally determined from the memories of those civilized missions.

Ruhr is unwilling to wait for the opportunity for the mineral vein channel to appear naturally. From the memories of these civilized individuals, it seems that the other party also has technology that can affect the periodic opening of the mineral vein channel. Such waiting is unrealistic.

It simply stopped waiting and decisively chose the nearest passage exit, leading the main force of the Hive Fleet to the real universe.

The positioning coordinates show that this place is 714 light-years away from the star system that the insect swarm attacked before, and the closest point to the territory of the Colossian civilization is only 44 light-years away!

With the Zerg's current super-light navigation technology, the Zerg Hive Fleet can reach there within three years of macroscopic time!
The swarm quickly set off, and with the support of a large number of energy crystals in this unoccupied mineral vein, it started its own hyperlight engine.

As for this star system, it was established as another base for the Zerg, directly connected to the previous star system!
Although the material here is much poorer, there is only one rocky planet and one giant planet, and there are no material-rich star systems within twenty light years around.

But it doesn't matter. Using this as a springboard, the Zerg can get a steady stream of supplements from the previous star field. What's more, in terms of fighting to support war, the Zerg is unique in the world!Every occupied galaxy will become a new base for the insect swarm. The powerful acquisition efficiency allows them to not worry about insufficient combat power in most cases.

(End of this chapter)