Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 267 Civilization Taming Plan
If there is one place that is the most peaceful in the territory of the Velvet Federation today, it is naturally the scientific research institutes distributed in many important colonial galaxies.

These places are undoubtedly the top priority for Todd to control using both Zerg surface units and lurkers.

Although he has captured many intelligent groups in the alliance, Zero still pays more attention to the top scientific researchers of the Velvet people.

Their technological level may seem relatively backward today, but their thinking and methods will not lag behind. They are just lacking in knowledge. In time, they may not be weaker than any other civilization in the alliance. .

Speaking of which, when the Velvet people forcibly controlled the Brocher people, the situation was probably the same. However, times have changed, and today the Brocher people have not been truly integrated, but the entire Velvet Federation has in fact been They became prisoners of the Zerg's demands, just like when the Brochers faced the Federation fleet that straddled the orbit of the planet.

Regarding further research on the Brocher people, and even research on directly replicating this special organ structure at the genetic level using Zerg biotechnology, Sass is already in practice.

According to Zero's plan, the first step the swarm has to do is to "classify" the Velvets.

Todd, who has secretly controlled Velvet over the years, has a lot of experience in how to rule an intelligent race.Although Velvet's status is now different from before, the truth is the same and human nature is not that easy to change.

After accepting the Zerg transformation, if it succeeds, there will actually be no loss to the Velvet people. On the contrary, these races will make great progress in terms of lifespan and physical strength, although they will not reach the level of immortality like the brain worms. The effect is enough to make most people covet it.

But this still sounds difficult to accept. After all, it is a transformation of thinking.If you accept it, it is completely unclear whether you are still "oneself".

The philosophical debate on the level of consciousness, that is, the question of why "I" is "I", has never stopped since the birth of civilization. As a result, many interesting stories have been created, and in the long process of civilization development, gradually formed The perfect "self" concept is deeply rooted in people's hearts in a subtle way.

Of course, Zero can choose to forcibly replace him with a lurker without the other party's consent.

But his "classification" is not superfluous. After all, the swarm cannot control every Velvet with lurkers. If it is to maintain the existence of its population and provide a steady stream of high-level human resources for the swarm, then a certain degree of order is necessary.

In order for them to accept the rule of the Zerg, some means are naturally necessary. According to the relationship with the Zerg, strictly linking the "class" with it is the first method proposed by Todd.

At the same time, the cloning operation for high-level federal talents is also in progress. If it is concluded that genetic inheritance from high-level talents is absolutely superior to breeding in the general sense, it is completely impossible to have a "tiger father and dog son". If this is the case, then Todd's governance model is no longer necessary.

Of course, based on Sass's research, Zero thinks this should be unlikely.

During the research on the Velvet people, Sasse found that although having more "high-end" genes in a certain sense can indeed ensure a higher rate of excellence in offspring, its impact on intelligence depends on the expression of the relevant gene sequences. Affected by more factors.

According to the biological research and statistics of the Velvet people themselves, the number of high-level talents born from natural reproduction in large numbers is also larger.

In other words, in this regard, it seems that the universe has its own rules, that is, "natural" is better than "artificial".Of course, Zero believes that this statement should be another expression of genetic diversity. Sass has also begun to use the advantages of the Zerg to conduct a large number of life studies to confirm whether this is true.

But this is not actually important. Regardless of the outcome, maintaining the existence of some intelligent races will not consume much energy from the Zerg race, but the potential benefits may be excessive.

In 1701 of the Zerg, the Cerebral Insect Ruhr began to gather the Zerg offensive within the Federation star field, ended the pursuit of the entire Federation's escaping fleet, and began to infiltrate Zerg lurkers to forcibly destroy all existing intelligent civilization individuals. Carry out "moving" activities.

This matter was actually based on Zero One's decision. He believed that bringing all civilized individuals together might be beneficial to the subsequent development of science and technology, but he ignored the possible public security problems. In other words, he didn't even think about it in the first place. Too concerned.

But it doesn't matter, Ruhl will strictly implement all Zero's instructions.From the moment they were defeated, these intelligent races were no longer considered "human" in the eyes of the Zerg. In fact, they had never been "human" in the eyes of the Zerg.

The defeated are not qualified to negotiate terms. If they do not obey, there will only be physical destruction.The so-called integrity and backbone will appear very ridiculous under the rule of Zerg lurkers and terror.

As the influence of the Hive Mind further strengthens and the Zerg lurkers continue to penetrate, they will eventually get used to being kept in captivity by the Zerg. The only difference is the length of time.

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If we want to say that the Velvet people have made any contribution to the Zerg in the past hundred years, then the study of a certain mysterious structure coming from the core of the planet is definitely an important achievement.

Although they did not make the expected breakthrough in materials technology based on their shell, the basic physics theory of the strong force has taken a big step forward, which represents a major breakthrough in basic physics. , meaning that the mysteries of the universe have once again opened the door to them.

Of course, all this belongs to the Zerg.

Research on material science and technology based on the theory of strong force has been carried out since then, with ready-made samples. The progress was not slow at first, but then it was quickly discovered that there seemed to be some kind of bottleneck, restricting the insect swarm. Get closer in that direction.

Obviously, strong force is only one of its front-end technologies, far from all of it, which makes Zero a little helpless. In terms of scientific research, if it can't be done, it can't be done. Only when the conditions are mature, everything will fall into place.

In addition, after it was originally opened, the Velvet people focused on studying its internal structure, especially the energy supply system. However, after so many years, they have only come up with some immature results.

It can only be determined that this seems to be related to the "creation" and annihilation of dark matter, but how it is carried out specifically, because it has stopped working, even the brainworms have difficulty restoring it, and can only leave it to the future, when the Zerg attacks the dimension With more understanding and understanding of dark matter, etc., breakthroughs may be made.

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Although it is much easier to use one's own knowledge system to figure out the scientific and technological achievements of advanced civilizations through ready-made objects, and to deduce their scientific and technological theories than to explore on one's own, it is not that simple.

In the past hundred years, there have never been astonishing figures like Pope and Goldman in the Velvet Federation, who single-handedly pushed civilization forward. Perhaps it is for this reason that their research results are scattered and difficult to analyze. The analysis of its energy supply structure is truly complete, let alone its functional components.

This creation of an unknown civilization millions of years ago has been difficult to truly study until today. Thinking from this aspect, if it still exists today, its power would be unimaginable.

Zero intends to combine all civilizations in the entire union to complete the final research on it, so as to actually apply these technologies to various combat units of the Zerg.

The loyal cerebrates faithfully carried out Zero's instructions, and the only remaining intelligent creatures in the entire alliance quickly began to concentrate and fuse under the semi-violent push of the Zerg.

Of course, this process will not be peaceful. The various races captured by the Zerg are no different from the cattle and sheep whipped by the herdsmen at this moment. Countless individuals have died due to resistance, resistance, chaos, disease and other factors. It was not until Zerg 1736 that this process was initially completed.

This speed is already very fast, and it is even less time than it took Ruhr to completely defeat the entire coalition one after another.

The reason why it can be so fast is naturally indispensable for the Zerg's strong modification ability of itself. Large-scale Zerg transport units suitable for different races can be mass-produced in just a few months, but similarly, comfort is not at all considered by Ruhr. Inside, once someone dies, they will be decomposed immediately on the spot.

In addition, the old, weak, sick and disabled people of various races with obvious health problems, disabilities, intellectual disabilities, etc. are not eligible to be relocated at all, even if there may be some potential stocks among them.Up to this time, of the total of more than 300 billion intelligent races that had been captured, only a little over 3000 billion were left.More than half of the individuals disappeared into various aspects of the entire plan, without causing even a drop of water splash.

In this process, Ruhr was violent and inhumane. Countless individuals of intelligent races became the nourishment in its mind, and the "remnants" of the entire coalition trembled under its silver power.

After dispelling all the illusions of these surviving individuals with absolute violence, Rule began to think about how to carry out Zero's instructions more thoroughly.

There is no doubt that those individuals with real potential will take the lead in becoming "non-staff members" of the Zerg, assisting the Cerebrates in their lifelong struggle for the scientific research of the Zerg.But more ordinary people naturally couldn't give up directly. It took so much effort to gather them together, and of course it was not to kill them.

On the contrary, compared to the brutal killings before, now they can truly live a somewhat stable life.

Before this, many people from masters to prisoners had difficulty changing their mentality for a while, but after the completion of the Great Migration that spanned hundreds of light years, most of these intelligent races that advocate freedom and love life have already understood Reality.

This is the reality. If you don't have the courage to die, you can only accept it.What's more, sometimes it's hard for them to die even if they want to.

As for how to make them truly serve the Zerg wholeheartedly, Zero has authorized Ruhr to use some of the applications related to the Hive Mind. Now it can take over part of the authority from Todd. After ensuring that the only high-end talents currently left can be controlled, Establishing a puppet regime in the service of the Zerg was Ruul's main goal for the next hundreds of years.

Of course, that's assuming Zero doesn't change his mind.

After Velvet was controlled by Visser and Todd by force, there was actually no need for so many lurkers. Over the years, the Hive Mind has developed tremendously under the exponential expansion of the Zerg, but even so , the total number of Zerg lurkers still cannot be infinite, so even if the number is much larger, there is still a limit.

This time, Ruhr is going to use limited resources to rule this race, which so far has more than 3000 billion intelligent individuals, including the Velvet Federation actually controlled by Todd, with a goal of 500 years to complete their control. "tame".

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As early as the year 1724 of the Zerg, Todd had basically completed the preliminary "transformation" plan for the Velvet people. The Zerg had a sufficient foundation for early rule in the Velvet Federation. Compared with the Ruhr, Action is much simpler.

Including the Brochers, it took the Zerg swarm just 20 years to complete the basic integration of the entire race. Some disturbances were quickly suppressed. At this point, the entire Velvet Federation officially entered a state completely controlled by the Zerg. In this era, there is no longer any right of free passage.

Of course, turbulence and chaos will inevitably occur during this process, resulting in a sharp decline in population, etc., but unlike Colossae, Todd did not implement Ruhr's "streamlining" plan because of his deep enough control, and it was relatively peaceful. Completed the entire process.

Next comes intensive monitoring and a long wait.Zero was very patient about this.

Of course, a group of the best scientific researchers in both directions have taken the lead in completing the transformation of Zerg. Zerg lurkers have eliminated their inner resistance and hatred towards Zerg and turned it into Zerg wisdom from the root. unit.

Before this transformation, there were still irreparable flaws, but now, most of this problem has been solved.

Fortunately, after simple verification, more than [-]% of this group of scientific researchers have fully received the "inspiration organ" from the Brocher people, and have not become a person with a huge knowledge reserve due to the assimilation and infection of the Zerg. "waste".

They are lucky. At least in the next few hundred years, they will be able to save their lives by serving the Zerg, and most of those who failed have no value in using them.

Because experiments have proven that the impact of multiple implants of this "inspiration organ" on the same individual will not change. Therefore, no matter how knowledgeable and wise these researchers were before, they will all be lost after that. But everyone.

If their inherent identity has enough social influence, they can also shine and radiate heat for the Zerg in another form, but if not, in order to save the cost of controlling the Hive Will, he will lose his identity as a lurker. The end can only be death.

These successful candidates will take over the previous research results of the Velvet people and form a joint scientific research team to conduct research on the large number of special structures previously obtained by the Zerg inside the living planet.

Later, as the Hive Will continues to expand and the entire intelligent race system under the control of the Zerg becomes increasingly stable, more and more outstanding scientific researchers will join it, like a real intelligent civilization scientific research team, and the brainworms Together, they continue to push the Zerg to new heights.

At this point, the war launched by Ruhr has come to an end. A brand new "organization" has appeared among the swarm, and the scientific research of the worms has entered a new era.

Next, the insect swarm will return to its former rhythm and continue to expand the scale of its rule. The mysteries of the universe will eventually be completely revealed through their continuous exploration, but there are still many problems ahead.

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While Zero's "taming" plan was slowly unfolding, in 1723, during the Zerg's exploration of the Lyman Galaxy, Gore noticed the "track" that Zhuna had moved for the first time.

This is not something that can be done suddenly. In fact, after taking over the Colossians' information on space research, all the brainworms have a great influence on the "semi-finished products" they used before. interest of.

As a result, in the Lyman galaxy, a simple reproduction experiment began under the organization of Gore.

As expected, many experiments were basically unsuccessful. Even if it controlled the experimental conditions almost exactly the same as when the Colossians succeeded the first time, it would not help. It was like the other party's success was indeed a success. It's completely accidental.

But it did exist. The inability to reproduce it is obviously due to errors somewhere. After all, it is impossible to reproduce it under exactly the same conditions. No matter how many experiments are performed, in the end we can only ensure that it is as close as possible.

However, although Gore failed to successfully replicate the experiment, Gore did not gain nothing in the process.

By chance during the experiment, the appearance of "Zhu Na" gave this activity a completely different development!

Before, once Zhuna entered a state similar to long-distance navigation, the Zerg were completely unable to detect its existence. But this time, the ongoing experiment was suddenly interrupted just before it appeared. .

That was a destructive interruption, and although the time between the two was very short, Gore, who was already fully focused, was still very sure that their sequence was correct. That is, after the experiment was interrupted, the "Zhuna" clone appeared in The outer edge of this wormhole galaxy, in front of the Zerg's field of vision.

This is enough to show that Zhuna's navigation ability does not have the concept of transcending space, but the Zerg do not have a deep understanding of it!

More importantly, the original Colossians did not have Zhuna as a "helper". Its appearance may add new variables to the insect swarm's experiments, making Zhuna's "trace" a beacon for the Zerg!

All this is because, at the moment when the operation of this special space "instrument" was forcibly interrupted by Zhu Na's arrival, the distorted space seemed to allow Gore to observe Zhu Na's "figure" in an unknown state!
It was almost invisible under normal conditions, but at that moment it was as dazzling as a torch in the dark!
That was an ability that completely surpassed the Zerg's current highest navigation technology. At this moment, he finally revealed a corner of his veil to the Zerg for the first time, even though Gore didn't know what that state meant.

　Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone! ! (Okay, I’ll say it again tomorrow)
　　
　
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