Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 294 Military Fortress
The outcome of the war actually didn't matter. In the end, the opponent's warships voluntarily evacuated, and the swarm did not achieve any results.

Of course, Zero noticed the other person's presence.

After the Zerg's sphere of influence has almost expanded exponentially, it is impossible to say that Zero can still pay attention to every detail within the Zerg's sphere of influence as before.

After all, he is not a god, and his energy is not endless. It is impossible for him to pay attention to the trillions of Zerg units at all times, but it is impossible for Zero to be unaware of the Zerg fighting with such a special enemy.

Compared to the time of first contact, Zero no longer knew anything about the Federation.The information from Mira gave him some understanding of the Federation's past. These warships fighting against the Zerg had very different styles. It was thought that they might be a joint fleet composed of civilizations affiliated with the Federation.

He thought so and didn't pay too much attention to it. After all, the Zerg were still powerless against such small groups of harassment. Of course, they could not pose a threat to the activities of the Zerg swarm.

But what Zero didn't know was that shortly afterwards, this small fleet appeared in a star field far away from the influence of the insect swarm, and uncharacteristically released a large number of formed industrial equipment!
Obviously, these finished devices came from the native star field endless light years away, and they were quickly assembled and put into use here.

Then, support ships gradually arrived via jump, and before long a production chain connecting the planet's surface to space was completed.

Although due to cost constraints, direct transportation from the mainland is expensive, this time the three major civilizations have reached a rare agreement. Vigi, who has always been wealthy, provides energy support, and the Federation has also taken over the important task of space transmission. As for those universal The industrial equipment and some personnel support are provided directly by Colva.

After truly completing the research on the characteristics of the Zerg, the three major civilizations, which originally had their own evil intentions, finally chose to unite.

As the initiator of the initiative, the Federation naturally tried its best to promote this matter. However, the Korva Empire on the other side quickly changed its previous attitude, and finally persuaded Veggie to participate together, and through an agreement, the preliminary decision was made. The purpose and ultimate goal of this action were clearly defined, and their respective responsibilities and obligations were divided.

Weigi, who was originally not very interested in this and had just overcome the crisis, chose energy support, which was always the empire's advantage. In addition, it only promised to provide some military elites as a staff after the war started. .

The Hero Federation has initially achieved its goal, successfully spreading this crisis that is bound to come in the future evenly to various civilizations that have explored the universe, and they only need to provide part of it in the final negotiation process. Technical support is available.

The most unexpected one is Korva.During the negotiations, their diplomatic team seemed to be "performing abnormally". Not only did they eventually take over the task of establishing a fleet in the new star field to resist the swarm, they even promised to directly provide most of them in the possible war. Staff support.

Of course, this is just an initial draft, which represents the recognition of cooperation by the three parties. As the situation develops, this agreement will not be static.

Judging from the current results, the three parties can be regarded as getting what they need, and the responsibilities and interests are distributed relatively evenly.

Federation diplomats, and even Veggie's diplomatic elite, are actually very aware that Korva, who seemed to have suffered a loss, had a significant change in attitude after receiving specific information from the Zerg. It was not so much that they suffered a loss. , but it was actually the other party who took the initiative to promote this matter. There was no doubt that they wanted to be the first to contact the insect swarm, and they rarely even tried to cover it up.

Everyone knows this well. Korva has always been known for its superb biotechnology, and all the support they have promised now is nothing to this huge empire.

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Just after the joint forces of the three major civilizations were established, the surveillance and obstacles encountered by the insect swarm gradually increased during their expansion.Zero realized that the other party should have taken some measures against the insect swarm, but this obstacle was still almost nonexistent for the insect swarm.

And for this "camp" currently dominated by Korva, everything has just begun.

Support from the mainland was much more convenient after the three-party alliance, which allowed this colony to quickly start complete industrialization.

The "renovators" from Colva are like screws on a huge machine. With the Federation's superb three-dimensional printing technology and the latest industrial drawings that are most suitable for this galaxy, this place is developing rapidly.

At the same time, Korva's characteristic technological achievements have also been developed here. The perfect combination of machinery and life has always been the empire's proposition, including intelligent individuals within the empire. Clothing has long been a trend of civilization.In a sense, they are the ones closest to the fusion of "soul" and machinery.

Their warships use biological materials on a large scale, but in terms of strength and performance, they are not inferior to other civilizations. But everyone knows that the cost of Korva's fleet, even in this country with the most resources, is not far behind. The era of worthlessness is also horribly cheap!
Of course, this is another consideration for them to accept this arrangement.

From the very beginning when he took over here, Korva has been preparing for a war with the Zerg. This is the original intention of the three major civilizations to establish cooperation, and it is also the most necessary part.Their purpose is to try to find ways to suppress or even exterminate this race while slowing down the expansion of the Zerg as much as possible in the future.

No matter what little thoughts the parties have, there is always a consensus on this point.

Therefore, after the first production line was established, the main battleships from Colva began to be mass-produced here.

In addition, although the Vege Empire and the Hero Federation are temporarily only auxiliary in the specific confrontation, it does not affect their establishment of their own military power here.

In the explored universe, both Korva and the Hero Federation have begun to mobilize the "servant armies" of their subordinate civilizations to prepare for supporting the front line from the mainland when the insect swarms get closer.

This loose system they currently call an "alliance" is just a start-up, but it already has the appearance of a military alliance.On the mainland, there is far from any talk of settling the old grudges between the three and working together to deal with the outside world. The turmoil hidden under the water has never ceased, such as the conflict between Weegee and the Federation, and Korva's relationship with Weegee. Plots and so on.

But at least when it comes to dealing with the Zerg, at this stage, all three are doing their best.

As investment increased, the alliance began to have its first fleet in this direction.Compared with the number of Zerg, this fleet with a total of only more than [-] battleships is not even a fraction of the Zerg Swarm, but compared to this, their quality is enough to make it difficult for the Zerg Swarm to compare. .

The alliance's industrial base has begun to spread to various star regions. With the three major civilizations sharing the cost, it is no longer unacceptable for the race to establish a huge military production base even in such a distant place.The cost is still huge, but the speed of construction is rapid. With the increasing expansion of the industrial base, its ability to be self-sufficient has become stronger and stronger. The initial investment has quickly been greatly reduced, and the dependence on the local area has also been rapidly reduced. reduce.

This means that the alliance has already established a firm foothold in this unfamiliar star field in just 22 years!
And this place will be their frontline against the Zerg's advance, and it will also be an outpost.

The industrial base here will continue to expand, and military production capacity will continue to increase. In this regard, the three major civilizations have no intention of saving. Resources and energy are readily available. When everything is on track, there will be few real wisdom. Except for the civilized individuals and the fact that they basically don’t feed back to the homeland, this place is not much different from a brand new colony.

For the "Alliance", this is indeed considered as "the country is far away". In the following time, the long space between the two sides is the strategic buffer zone they have reserved for themselves.

Of course, although the production lines established here are equally advanced, the equipment they produce are not truly cutting-edge technologies currently in service. Most of them are products that have already been installed and will soon be obsolete.

This can be regarded as a small projection of the internal filth of the three major civilizations. It is impossible for each of them to put the most cutting-edge technology on the table for the other to study.

The "alliance" between the three parties is only limited to dealing with the Zerg. The long-standing conflicts and even hatred will not be resolved so easily. If they had not been helpless to each other for so many years, the war between the three parties would have swept the entire world. The universe has been explored.

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After decades of development, after the "frontline" production line was on track, and the first main fleet was installed and Korva provided close control support, preparations for the second meeting on dealing with the Zerg began. held.

At this meeting, in addition to strengthening further cooperation among the three parties in dealing with the Zerg expansion, the Federation also proposed a feasible plan to turn the original intention of establishing the alliance into practice.

In previous observations and research, the Federation has confirmed the main form of Zerg expansion now, and it just so happens that whether it is Vege, Korva, or the Hero Federation, which is already good at this, it is difficult to locate potential Zerg. It can be said that the exit of the cave has been studied for a long time. After all, they had already passed this stage back then.

The federal plan is also based on this. The core of the plan mainly has two points. First, detect potential wormhole exits in the direction of the worm swarm's advance, and allocate military power to garrison it. This is the first step. It is also the most basic step.

At the same time, interfering with the generation of wormholes is also part of this plan. If the Zerg have already arrived, then they will be eliminated and the galaxy will be cleared by using the fact that the opponent is initially weak in terms of combat power.

And if it is a star field that has not been occupied by the worm swarm, immediately try to intervene in the generation of wormholes and build fortresses and industrial bases on the spot to prevent the expansion of the worm swarm.

This step does not pose a technical problem for the three major civilizations, but the workload is really huge. After all, in this star field, their power is also quite limited, and the explorers of the insect swarm have long been unable to Counting them, no one can predict when they will appear from which exit.

And if this step can be achieved and the expansion of the insect swarm is initially contained, at least preventing them from "blooming everywhere" in this direction, then the federal strategic plan will begin to move to the next stage.

That is to rapidly expand their combat power and compete with the Zerg for galaxies using wormhole space as a node in exchange for a larger strategic space.

However, everyone knows that even the first step is not easy to complete, not to mention whether the so-called forward movement will still be supported by then is still unknown.As long as the insect swarm can be prevented from advancing, the purpose of this temporary alliance has been achieved.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the plan itself, and all three parties have expressed their support for it.Soon after, the fleets established on the front line began to disperse according to their respective positioning conditions, trying to artificially "draw" an "isolation zone" before the insect swarm arrived here.

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Zero didn't know what the other party had done, but according to the information provided by Mira, the other party must have launched an operation against the Zerg.

This can be clearly verified from the fact that the other party's harassment in the galaxies near the edge of the Zerg territory is becoming more and more frequent. In response to this, the Cerebrates have also carried out some chasing and killing, but it is obvious that the purpose of the other party is not to fight with the Zerg. In swarm battles, Lu would most of the time rely on his more agile mobility and powerful deep space monitoring capabilities to calmly leave before the insect swarm arrived.

The only few traps that worked were of little use, but the harvest was very little, and the damage caused to the opponent was extremely limited. I could only comfort myself by saying it was better than nothing.

Zero didn't care at first. After all, the expansion of the insect swarm would not be affected in any way. He, who had fully released his authority, didn't care about this harassment.

But as the swarm advances, this sense of obstruction becomes more and more obvious, and the opponent's destruction within the swarm's territory begins to become bolder. It seems that they have determined that the swarm cannot do anything to them.

This made Zero gradually become impatient, but the Zerg Swarm was indeed far inferior to the other party in terms of hardware, and the Zerg Swarm's scientific research team could not close the gap between the two sides in such a short period of time.

And as the insect swarm continued to move forward, this somewhat powerless feeling became increasingly clear.

In fact, this is no wonder. In the earliest days, the Federation did not establish enough basic production lines in this star field. All kinds of support needed to be transported from the mainland. The cost was too high and the quantity was naturally small.

With the establishment and expansion of production lines, the newly built alliance gradually began to play its role here. The increasingly larger industrial base made everything simpler. Coupled with the characteristics of Colva itself, the cost was infinitely compressed. Next, relatively cheap military products can be put to use on a large scale.

Information about the Zerg is being collected rapidly, and within the scope of the Zerg's rule, the penetration from the other side is also getting deeper and deeper.Although it may be difficult to count, the three major civilizations are indeed trying to figure out the true sphere of influence of the Zerg!

(End of this chapter)