Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 281 The Invaded Empire
Explored universe, Vege Empire, main star field.

The new emperor Assolon had just ascended the throne and faced a severe test.

To put it simply, during the exploration of a new star field, the Imperial Immigration Corps was invaded.

The Veggie Empire has seen too much about colonial resistance. For countless years, there have been too many opponents, or existences that cannot even be called opponents, have fallen at their feet. To this day, the Veggie Empire's real opponent There are only two, the Hero Federation and the Korva Empire.

But this time is different. This is not a colonial resistance, but an invasion!
In other words, the empire does not occupy a dominant position in this "war", they are the passive party!
From the birth of civilization, the power of the Vege Empire has been obvious to all, and it has made its way to the top of the explored universe. They have never been afraid of powerful enemies, but this time they felt a sense of powerlessness for the first time in a long time.

During the pioneering activities of the Imperial Immigration Corps, targeted exploration can easily reveal the important civilizations within the entire target star cluster. Their strength is naturally the main response target of the Empire.

Therefore, the Imperial Colonial Fleet has carried out large-scale liquidation activities within this brand-new star cluster in the past 600 years.

Unlike the Hero Federation or the Korva Empire, the Vege Empire's foreign policy has always been extremely tough.

Except for the two civilizations of the same magnitude that can truly compete with it, all existences it encounters have only destruction.

This is the way the Vegeans think. The strong survive and the weak die.This is inseparably related to some activities in the early stages of civilization, but it is also because of this that the entire race has maintained almost absolute racial purity from its birth to the present.

In other words, within the Vege Empire, there are almost no citizens who do not belong to the Vege race!

Even for the envoys of Korva and Hero or other immigrants, it is difficult to obtain the citizenship of Vigi.

This is in sharp contrast to the Hero Federation, which is nominally open to all races.

Therefore, during so many years of expansion, almost all entities that were enemies of Weegee suffered a devastating blow.

However, in this star cluster named Sevan, Veggie encountered a reverse invasion!
It is a kind of "pollution" on the spiritual level that can spread on the Veggies at an extremely strange speed, but it is not the most serious, and it is definitely not worth the emperor's headache.

In the past, the Vege Empire has suffered many setbacks in its expansion process, but these so-called setbacks, at best, only caused the colonial fleet to return in embarrassment. What is remarkable is that part of the fleet was completely annihilated, and the black men of the local civilization were Technology can always be unexpected, but after attracting the attention of the empire, without exception, they all suffered from crushing wars, or fled far away, or were exterminated!

But this time, in the past thousands of years of expansion, Vege was attacked by an opponent for the first time and spread to its "homeland"!
That kind of weird "pollution" can't be isolated on the physical level!
Although it is separated by the endless star field, it can affect the territory in the core area of ​​​​the empire's central star field to a certain extent!

This seems to be a real "curse" on the entire race with some mysterious connection, which makes everything different.

Because of this, a crazy "spiritual pollution" began to spread in the core area of ​​​​the empire.

At first, it didn't attract much attention. It was just that the empire had wiped out another group of races. It was really not worth mentioning.

But then irrational individuals appeared in the colonial fleet, and when similar cases appeared in various star regions of the empire, "it" was regarded as a new disease targeting Vege, and Korva was even suspected for a time On the head of the empire, because their research in this area is at the pinnacle, and it is not surprising what kind of technology they have at the biological level.

And when the situation really expanded, both in terms of casualties and social influence, it finally entered the vision of the empire's top officials and began to be paid attention to by civilized leaders.

Unfortunately, this matter does not even have anything to do with the early or late discovery. At the time of initial contact, based on the phenomenon, one of its important characteristics was quickly revealed.

That is, "it" doesn't really exist!

At least with the existing technology of the Veggie Empire, it is difficult to explain it. No physical principles can describe its existence. Even "it" itself is a word given by Veggie in order to make it concrete. Generation name.

After a period of efforts that yielded no results and the situation continued to escalate, the Vege Empire even took the initiative to ask Korva for help as a last resort, but all this had no effect.

Korva dispatched a group of outstanding scientific researchers to participate in the joint research. In the end, although it cannot be said that nothing was achieved, they were still unable to do anything about it.

This takes this matter to another level, because as we all know, Korva's life technology is absolutely far ahead even among the three major civilizations. If this matter was not directed and acted by them, In terms of story, it means that the trouble Weji encountered this time is definitely beyond the current level of technology.

Although this is not necessarily true technically, it is inevitable in terms of phenomena.

For the Vege Empire, this even once involved the mysterious side. They advocate science, but someone can connect it to theology, which is enough to explain the problem.

The "pollution" from the spirit makes it impossible for everyone to deal with it. This may be a natural phenomenon, or it may be the revenge of a certain destroyed civilization against the Vege Empire, or it may even be the secret operation of the Korva Empire. , but no matter what, it has actually caused turmoil in the imperial society. Even for an absolutely centralized system like Vege, maintaining stability under such circumstances requires a lot of energy, which is a drain on the resources of the entire civilization. Huge consumption.

Even if the Weji family has a great business, it still finds it difficult to accept such continuous and irreversible losses.

And this was the source of the emperor's troubles.Because this not only involves the image and voice of the empire in the three major civilizational governance systems, but also the fundamental interests of the people of the empire!
If it is not resolved for a long time, it may cause a series of extremely bad effects, and it is not even ruled out that the power structure of the entire explored universe will change as a result!
Therefore, in order to solve this matter, under the decision-making instructions of the emperor and the highest level, the Vege Empire closely monitored the internal situation to minimize its negative impact, and launched carpet searches in new exploration areas that brought about changes. , constantly expanding the exploration team, and assuming a posture of finding its roots at all costs.

On the other hand, the Empire has also increased its exploration of more unknown galaxy systems, trying to find solutions to problems in this way, or at least inspiration.

……………………………… As one of the rulers of the explored universe, every move of Weegee affects the nerves of the entire explored universe’s governance system, not to mention such a large-scale operation. It can't be hidden from people who are interested.

As a result, under the water, some decisions and conspiracies that were restrained by concerns about the powerful Vege Empire in the past were gradually reactivated, and the existing hidden plots and back-up plans were also ready to move.

The Hero Federation, the Korva Empire, and the races and civilizations that rule or are ruled in the entire explored universe are all trying to use this opportunity to expand their scope of influence or change their situation.

All of a sudden, the storm is coming.

In order to deal with these monsters and monsters, the always strong Vege Empire began to frequently show its power to the outside world.

First of all, a group of Zhuna clones that appeared in the empire were completely controlled and contained. The process was so simple and pleasant that it was unimaginable. It was not at all like the Veggie who had scruples about this 2000 years ago.

And this is just the beginning.

Subsequently, Weegee launched a series of iron-blooded measures, including expelling a newly discovered fifth-level civilization from their home galaxy with a crushing attitude, and chasing it northward with absolute force, leaving hundreds of billions of civilizations Individuals bleed the universe!

This alone has nipped the petty ideas of many intelligent races below the three major civilizations in the bud.

As for the subsequent internal monitoring and cleaning, many civilizations have re-recognized the power and heritage of Vege, but these are just leftovers.

Of course, for ordinary civilizations, such power is enough for them to extinguish their little thoughts. At least, they will never dare to take the initiative to provoke this behemoth without a reliable "reliance".

But for the Hero Federation and the Korva Empire, at this time, the more Vege shows his strength, the more he shows weakness.

Especially for Korva, this powerful civilization that is also highly centralized but is committed to unifying intelligent races as vassals has learned a lot of advance intelligence from its previous cooperation with Vege, and they have a deep understanding of the maintenance of the civilization at this moment. What is the Kyrgyzstan Empire facing?

As de facto competitors, they made no secret of their coveting of Weige.

Cooperation or competition, the boundaries between their size are very flexible.

As for the Hero Federation, at this moment, they are paying close attention to all Weiji's movements.

As a high-level civilization that prides itself on freedom and equality, the Hero Federation has always had quarrels with the two highly centralized imperial civilizations. Although the three have mostly cooperated over the years, the contradictions between the three cannot be ignored. .

Although he does not know as much information as Korva, the real information in Vege society cannot be hidden from anyone. This does not prevent the always shrewd Heroes from taking this opportunity to test this old opponent.

Of course, all this will not be done on the bright side, but apart from that, there are too many ways to stumble the opponent.Support the other party's enemies, support the democrats within its territory, strengthen the export of its own values, take a tougher stance in the diplomatic year, etc.

These are all temptations. Once Weggie shows even a hint of weakness, it will lead to a series of consequences that they were never willing to bear in the past!
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On the Zerg side, at this point in time, Ruhr completed the transformation of the Zerg's new generation of explorers and released them on a large scale from the entrances of various wormholes, pushing the Zerg's aerospace activities into a new era. .

Endless Zerg individuals began to advance towards known or unknown galaxies in the sub-dimensional passages. In just a hundred years, more than 20 billion new Zerg bases in star systems have been established, not to mention using them as The node expands outward into the star field it occupies.

The entire galaxy of origin is rapidly becoming the sphere of influence of the Zerg. Some creatures or civilizations hidden in the corners are discovered by the Zerg either deliberately or accidentally. Some of their potential races have entered the Zerg's intelligent civilization to "raise" Therefore, Todd had to expand and expand the scientific research base he created during this period.

But more individuals who were considered worthless have all turned into the most basic matter in the universe, turning their bodies into a part of inorganic matter again.

Regrettably, they have never encountered a force as powerful and unified as the original alliance. Although they have eliminated or expelled many civilizations, they have not given much help to the Zerg in terms of technology. In the past hundred years, Most of the achievements achieved by the Zerg Swarm were achieved by relying on the Zerg scientific research team.

In the Lyman Galaxy of the past, since the space weapons were broken through by the Zerg, killing Zhuna was no longer something that could only be accomplished by relying on the right time and place.

Of course, it is still impossible for the Zerg to capture them as easily as Veggie.

However, since then, Gore has been able to lead the swarm of insects to quickly shuttle through Lyman through the wormhole, quickly squeezing Zhuna's living space through the Zerg interstellar explorers, and turning this almost "silent" place of life The galaxy is "liberated" bit by bit from Zhuna's "rule".

As for Herman, when he "personally" watched Mira almost wipe out the main body of the Pronde civilization, and the remaining ships fled like wild dogs that had lost their backbones, Skok had already become obsessed with this man who had once been forced to do so in the past. The race that had to give up its hard work to build the planet completely lost interest. Similarly, the Zerg's sphere of influence in the Hermann galaxy was also expanding rapidly.

At the same time, in the unknown sub-dimensional passages, there are still an unknown number of Zerg explorers "traveling" in them. The surrounding galaxies are discovered by the Zerg one after another. In a very short period of time, the Zerg swarm has It has begun to expand into many surrounding galaxies, and is turning these galaxies into the territory of the Zerg at a rapid speed!
It is worth mentioning that in the past hundred years, the swarm has encountered Mira several times. It has obviously rebuilt the model for the zerg, confirmed the current expansion method of the zerg, and conducted calculation simulations with extremely large amounts of data. It made a helpless choice.

——Sail away again.

(End of this chapter)