Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 272 The Surprised Pronde Man

What is the purpose of launching a war?

For the lizard people, it is to defend their homeland; for the octopus people, it is to fight for living space; for the Velvet people, it is to regain lost territory; for the Federation, it is to defend the territory.

For the Zerg, this has always been clear, that is, to become stronger!
There is no civilization in this universe that does not want to become more powerful, and they achieve this through various means.Politics, economy, military, technology, culture, etc., but in the Zerg, everything is simplified to war and conquest.

Of course, this is not the exclusive right of the Zerg. In this vast universe, any civilization can embark on this path and make itself stronger in this way.

Therefore, such a kind of civilization-predators was born.

After civilization developed to a certain level, they either tasted the sweetness of civilized plunder, or they have maintained such characteristics of civilization since ancient times. In short, due to various chances and coincidences, they took some or even all of their ethnic groups and began to attack the entire The universe is advancing, but the target is extremely clear-those civilizations that are not highly developed and have a large gap with themselves in terms of military development.

Of course, they will occasionally use their elusive abilities to attack the strongholds of some advanced civilizations in order to gain a lot of benefits.

The latter will undoubtedly help their development, but the former is the main goal of this type of civilization in the universe.

Because for them, ensuring their own safety is the most important thing, and lower civilizations may not have their own characteristics.They are also fascinated by the unique scientific research ideas and the unique technologies that are closely related to the history and culture of their own people.

Best of all, it's easy to achieve and the risk is minimal.

Not all intelligent civilizations can take this path, but those who have taken this path are all intelligent civilizations that once struggled to survive on the surface of the planet.

But now, after tens of thousands of years of space navigation, they seem to have already thrown away their humbleness and suffering in the garbage heap of history. With their superb war technology, they are fighting against those who are still in their "infancy". The intelligent race struck hard.

Of course, there is no sympathy or pity in the cold universe. The so-called cooperation and transactions are basically based on almost the same strength.

The Zerg have no qualifications to criticize this kind of civilization, after all, they are also one of them.

But there is no point in blaming. Treating the Zerg as lambs under the iron fist and slaughtering them wantonly. This kind of blatant act of war has only been done once by the Octopus Man so far.

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Dagos was surprised by the retreat of these strange fleets, but he quickly reacted.

It is obviously unrealistic to pursue them. Although it is very dissatisfied, it also understands that, let alone the issue of whether it can catch up, even if it catches up, the Zerg cannot actually do more.

The shortcomings in combat made the insect swarm lose all meaning of taking the initiative before gathering a numerical advantage sufficient to crush everything.

However, these warships should never have taken away the remains of the Zerg's body.Moreover, they are still living remains.

Although the current insect swarm has not fully understood the nature of this attack, some things are actually obvious.

Since this raid was launched, but they retreated midway with an absolute advantage, and before that, the opponent occupied a Zerg planet base and took away a large number of Zerg biological samples, it is easy to conclude that Two possible conclusions.

First, the previous judgment was wrong. They came not for the living planet of Sk, but to obtain biological samples of the Zerg. After achieving their goal, they naturally retreated.

Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility. Looking at the previous posture of the opponent and the slightly hasty deceleration process during the retreat, this conclusion can basically be overturned.

As for the second one, the opponent's decision to retreat was obviously made after they captured a Zerg base, so it can be speculated that they obtained something unexpected from this base, which allowed them to Thinking that they have gained what they want, or making them feel that they can no longer achieve their goals by continuing to move forward.

If you speculate carefully, the possibility of the former is very small. After all, no one refuses to get more if they can easily get it without paying any price.

Therefore, the latter is fully highlighted.

They learned about the characteristics of the Zerg from the Zerg base, so they judged that even if they wiped out the Zerg swarm in the entire galaxy, they would not be able to get what they wanted, and would even cause a lot of trouble. Therefore, they turned around and left in time. Stop loss.

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Although this is just the speculation of the brainworms and Zero, it is indeed the case.

In a star system deep in the starry sky, there is a massive rocky planet, and a large number of regular and uniform spindle-shaped artificial celestial bodies are suspended above its orbit like satellites.

Each of them is similar in size to a Zerg medium-sized space unit, but the functions they carry are completely different.

They are where the entire Prand civilization now lives.

As a predator civilization, after lighting up the interstellar navigation technology, the Plandes discovered the secret of energy crystals, and then quickly entered the role of predators.

It took them 500 years to get rid of their home planet, build more than [-] "Home" transport ships, and lead most of the tribe on a journey to seek broader development in the vast universe.

Along with it, there are tens of thousands of real warships.

Of course, there are also a large number of ethnic individuals who are unwilling to travel far and stay on the home planet, existing as another branch of civilization, but in fact, since the departure of the voyage fleet, the two sides have almost gradually lost contact. Between them, they gradually became two civilizations.

Thousands of thousands of years have passed, and no one in this temporary galaxy camp would think about going back and "reuniting" with the "mother civilization" that had been left on the mother star. To plunder them would be considered as an act of benevolence and righteousness.

However, at this moment, the current Prudential executives are not satisfied with the gains from staying here.

Although the universe is so vast, the fire of civilization can always light up in a corner, and along the way, they have indeed eliminated many races and gained huge benefits, so that they can reach what they are today. situation.

But this time I stayed here, but my gains were very limited.

Among the two races that have just entered the interstellar world, the Plande people only obtained some scraps, and most of the technologies are useless to them. Compared with them who migrated in large numbers, this time can be regarded as a one-time event. Loss-making transactions, waste of energy and resources, and secondarily, the main reason is the stay time of hundreds of years, which is too much of a waste of time for a predator civilization.

A predatory race often does not have the tenacious scientific research will of ordinary civilizations. Everything can be obtained from robbery, so why bother to study it?
This is not to say that there are no scientific research talents within this race, but this is the ethos of the entire civilization. For a long time, these scientific researchers have been patching things up on the basis of plundered results. They lack the momentum to make progress all the way from scratch.

Therefore, for them, a long-term idle stay is a huge waste of special resources such as time.They believe in the rules of the dark jungle and believe that if civilization and technology do not advance, they will retreat, and if they retreat, they will perish.

In the past 60 years, they had been preparing to leave, but at this moment, in a star system 922 light-years away from themselves, they discovered a civilization that came here through a wormhole.

After sending forces to conduct simple reconnaissance and observation, they confirmed the opponent's biological attributes. The skilled means of transforming the planet must be something only intelligent races would do.There is nothing more to say next. It is easy to judge that the other party's technological level is far inferior to our own. If we do it again before leaving, we may be able to gain more, at least we will not really waste these 300. After years of thinking, a small fleet immediately set off towards the goal.

However, it was this time that it almost caused a big trouble for the tribe.

Due to the evacuation, many redundant warships have been mothballed and destroyed. It is very uneconomical to carry the excess mass on a long voyage.

Then dispatching a small fleet to deal with this matter became the most reasonable arrangement.

The initial development of the matter was as expected. Our own warships were advancing steadily. Although the opponent's number was surprisingly large, they were unable to stop the fleet from advancing. They could only retreat while continuing to pay a large number of casualties.

This was originally an excellent thing. It showed that at least the judgment of the opponent's technology was not wrong. Then the life planet that quickly approached the opponent's development center, as usual, destroyed the opponent's civilization, captured enough intelligent individuals, and obtained enough technology. Information is a matter of course.

No matter what kind of subjects the opponent has on the other side of the wormhole, they are not within the scope of their consideration. Having the ability to evacuate at any time is the most important guarantee for their existence.

But as the war progressed, the situation became increasingly delicate.

Our side has always firmly occupied the initiative in the war and is still continuing to move forward.

But in such a short period of time, it has caused nearly one-third of the casualties to the opponent, but no trace of any mechanical creation has been found. All the war debris are related to the ultimate use of the biological level.

This is not surprising at first. After all, the enemy was originally judged to be a race that was suspected of focusing on life sciences as its main development direction. It happened that the life sciences of the Plande people themselves were also real shortcomings, so it was normal for mechanical creations to be rare. .

However, when occupying an outer planet, the Zerg base on it quickly attracted the attention of the base camp.

It's not that the densely packed incubation pools inside the Zerg base and the terrifying number of growing Zerg units frightened them. In fact, they had forcibly blasted open the Zerg biological base before this, directly exposing the internal structure to the universe. middle.

Cosmic rays and vacuum in the general sense cannot kill the insect swarm, and even the hatching larvae are immune.

For ordinary life, this is actually shocking enough. After the hatchery was broken down, the scene of tens of thousands of Zerg larvae struggling unprotected in the vacuum of the universe but not dying for a long time was enough to make it difficult to truly explore the universe. The race that survived was surprised. At the same time, just like the Velvets, the Pronde people realized the benefits of this almost immediately.

And this is only the first surprise for them to really come into contact with the Zerg, but it also comes with equally huge risks.

Although the Zerg biological warship in front of them seemed not worth mentioning, through precise observation, the commanders far away in the base camp finally made an accurate judgment.

That is, the intelligent race they want does not exist here. This is a star system completely occupied by such bugs!

Insufficient research capabilities in independent scientific research does not mean that their judgment skills are insufficient. On the contrary, because they have experienced more wars and crises, the Plande people are quite experienced in collecting intelligence and judging conclusions.

Just through a short period of research on a Zerg base, they have concluded that this is a race that is commanded by an intelligent group behind it and is completely based on non-intelligent units!
Although such a group has not been encountered before, it is obvious that for the Purande people, they not only cannot bring much expected benefits, but also represent considerable trouble.

Because you can't judge where the other party's real subjects are at all, let alone eliminate them, let alone obtain information directly from the other party's database, or capture real intelligent individuals for torture and research.

In addition, our trip is not without success. If the research goes well, the particularity of this insect body will be enough for civilized individuals to take another step forward.

As for going deeper, after reaching the previous conclusion, there is no need at all.The top priority is to lead the tribe to leave here as soon as possible and once again find a new star field for exploration and development.

Therefore, in Dagos's eyes, there was a scene where the enemy retreated in full force in the middle of the war when our own side was completely at a disadvantage.

But as Zero said, if they want to retreat, the Zerg cannot stop them at all, and they cannot stop them, but they should not take away the biologically active Zerg bodies and larvae.

The other party obviously thought of the rules of activity for large Zerg units, so they were very careful. They only took away some of the most basic body structures. At the same time, they also took quite insurance measures to try to isolate possible prying eyes.

However, although these Zerg larvae and biologically active structures that have not yet hatched and grown into adulthood cannot use the Hive Will as a carrier to bring precise positioning to the Zerg, since they were taken away, it means that these biological structures have certain significance for the other party. If it is of sufficient value, it will obviously not be killed easily.

Therefore, one day, there will be a day when the Zerg individuals have grown up enough to be included in the influence of the hive consciousness in the other party's research. At that time, just like how they dealt with the Velvets, the Zerg swarm will come to them in person. .

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But then again, this is the first time in so many years that the Zerg have encountered such a completely unmatched existence. That kind of crushing strength makes Zero feel unable to deal with it.

Of course, fear is not enough. Today's Zerg has its own way to go. The "relics" left by the unknown existence are enough to guide the Zerg swarm to move forward. Sooner or later, they will be able to be like each other. Like this.

However, for Sk, this time it was really embarrassing. For the sake of its own safety, it had to escape into the wormhole and gave up the planet environment that it had worked hard to create.

Although it was not destroyed in the end, since this happened, Sk cannot remain indifferent.

Zerg In 1849, Sk appeared in the star field previously explored by Ruhr. At the same time, he also knew everything that happened after that, and was deeply ashamed of it.

Unfortunately, the swarm knew nothing about the opponent's navigation technology, and the gap in speed was also obvious, making it basically impossible to track them in the conventional sense.

It's no wonder that as a predator, concealment and maneuverability can be regarded as special skills. What's more, the opponent has demonstrated a technological level that is enough to crush the insect swarm. It is not surprising that the insect swarm cannot track it.

Therefore, at least at this stage, in a short period of time, it is impossible for Sk to wash away the shame of abandoning his home and fleeing and complete his revenge.

It can only wait, waiting for the taken away Zerg individuals to bring new information to the Zerg swarm, or for them to appear in front of the Zerg group again.

As for the weapon that can silently destroy part of the body of the Zerg, according to the judgment of the Cerebrates and the United Civilization scientific research team, it is most likely related to antimatter, and the opponent's shield that almost isolates everything is also attributed to it. .

The Zerg have just begun to study this substance, but the opponent is obviously quite mature. Zero has reason to suspect that the opponent's mobility, which far exceeds that of the insect swarm, is also related to this.

This is the generational gap in technology between the two sides. Generally speaking, it is extremely difficult to erase.

However, it is not impossible for the Zerg to overtake in a corner, not to mention whether there is a gap in the speed of technological development between the two sides. From the original space instrument research of the Colossians and the "relics" of civilization left by unknown existences, the Zerg has already When some applications of this substance were discovered, it was concluded that although it was difficult to calculate the process, it would undoubtedly speed up the process infinitely.

Zero has this confidence. The next time the insect swarm finds or encounters each other, they will pay a heavy price for this careless invasion and massacre!

(End of this chapter)