Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 298 Hit a Wall
Todd has always been very clear about the needs of the Zerg in this regard. To a certain extent, it can be said that he controls the future development direction of the Zerg.

In the past few hundred years, with the rapid expansion of the insect swarm, one potential conqueror after another became a member of the insect research base, and they would soon succumb to Todd's art of rule. Next, it will ultimately shine and release heat for the further development of Zerg technology.

In the living environment directly provided by the Zerg, it is difficult to survive without being "sympathized with the Zerg", and the recent incident of the continuous relocation of scientific research base stations has indeed made some individuals notice something.

Of course, they couldn't afford to make any waves. It's just that such a large-scale migration abandoned too many facilities that had been built in the past with a lot of resources. After embarking on a journey that often lasted for decades, many projects had to be terminated. .

Zero has no effective means of defense against the continuous invasion of the opponent's small military units. The Zerg broods in various star regions are trying their best to incubate countless small Zerg units, trying to include the darkness outside the galaxy under surveillance. , but this is undoubtedly very difficult to achieve, and has achieved little success over the past few decades.

In order to more accurately determine the extent of the opponent's penetration, Zero even did not hesitate to build a large-scale "camouflage" fleet to "seduce" the opponent to attack.

It did play some role at first, but then it was discovered that this kind of war achieved nothing. In addition to continuing to launch destructive attacks near the front line, the other side became silent in the rear.

Zero knows that this is not because the other party has really given up on infiltration and invasion, they just haven't found a valuable target!

In today's Zerg ruling system, apart from the Zerg Hive Fleet of the Cerebrates, the only obvious targets are special intelligent race scientific research base stations.

Even if they have not been attacked anywhere so far, this may be related to the fact that the Zerg's dominance is disproportionate to the number of base stations, but if this continues, it is only a matter of time before they are directly attacked.

In order to deal with the opponent's infiltration and fleet precision strikes, Todd has recently been leading the research on an "early warning system" for the opponent's space jump.

That is, within a certain range, the spatial changes formed before the opponent completes the jump can predict the enemy's invasion in advance.

There is nothing too difficult about this research, but to be honest, this thing is not very useful. Before the opponent's fleet completes the jump, the Zerg can only monitor abnormal changes for a few hours at most.

What can you do with this little time?Probably just predicting the collapse of another star system's governance system in advance.

But this is what the Zerg can directly study at this stage, and it is the most convenient way to learn about the opponent's jumping technology.

I have to say that this is a bit shabby, but since the war began, the Zerg have never completely captured the opponent's ship hull, and they can't talk about directly controlling the opponent's jump engine.Piecing together the ruins and fragments, and thinking about the phenomenon caused by the other party's completion of the jump, is the main way for the Zerg to try to realize space jump technology today.

The lack of theoretical foundation made this work extremely difficult. The Zerg's space theory was originally derived from the "exchange of needs" in the war with Mira.However, this attack capability is not enough to cause damage to the opponent. How can it support this kind of progress that spans the ages?
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After starting to expand her combat power, Mira became out of control.In response to the main frigate that was displayed in front of her during the previous invasion of the federal fleet, Mira carried out a targeted ship design in a certain sense.

Of course, they still cannot compare with the opponent's warships in terms of quality, but it doesn't matter. The planets that have been destroyed by violent mining one after another are prepared to deal with them!

In these years, Mira has escaped the tracking of the federation, and the previous positioning method has been discovered by it, and it has completed self-"cleaning" from the inside out.

At this time, it was on the "front line" of the war between the Zerg and the Alliance. Compared to the Zerg swarm, it was undoubtedly closer to the Alliance's "defense line".

Through long-term observation and calculation, it has roughly confirmed the direction of the opponent's ruled area, but there is no doubt that this positioning method cannot directly confirm the opponent's location. After all, the distance is unknown, and a slight difference can make a difference of thousands of miles.

Mira is not moving forward with great fanfare. Nowadays, it has some meaning of Zerg expansion. It is constantly accumulating strength-in a form of almost exponential expansion!
No longer directly threatened by the Federation, Mira has completely let go of its hands and feet. Whether it is changing its development strategy or taking revenge, it is now fully prepared for war and has become completely different from before. appearance.

In the original war with the insect swarm, except for the initial active attack limited by the underlying logic and the last time she had to drag the insect swarm into the water, Mira was basically in a passive state. Every time she was attacked by the insect swarm, Once discovered, it will quickly evacuate after a brief engagement.

In a sense, it can be said that Mira at that stage was quite "peace-loving". She had no intention of wasting time in a war with the insect swarm. After all, it meant nothing to both parties.

But now it's completely different.After being "invaded" by the federation, it carried out two comprehensive upgrades of its computing power. Now, Mira's hardware body has a new iteration method, achieving another epoch-making breakthrough in computing power.

Now, it has invested more than 60.00% of its computing power in war-related undertakings, including the design of battleships, the research and development of war technology, and the expansion of the mechanical fleet!
The fleets under its direct control are getting larger and larger, and the burden placed on Mira itself is heavier, but now it actually doesn't care much about this. Its "body" is expanding, and it no longer pursues "carrier-based ships". "After that, even if the technical means are not advanced enough, it can complete the enhancement of its own computing power through expansion.

Of course, this is very dangerous, and it has not completely pinned its hopes on it. While using 30.00% of the computing power to continue to update and iterate itself, Mira is also constantly building more spare hardware bodies for itself.

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In 2497, after more than seventy years of development, the Zerg swarm has not undergone any significant changes. In addition to the enhanced targeted combat capabilities of elite warships, they still have not been able to obtain the ability to counter the alliance's infiltration and invasion in essence. means.

On the contrary, the expansion of the front line has been repeatedly frustrated this year.

The number of insect swarms in the occupied systems is constantly expanding, but this does not affect the Alliance's warships' targeted elimination plan.A large number of wormhole passages were continuously destroyed. Although due to the subsequent counterattack of the insect swarm, it was difficult for the opponent to truly stay here and "close" the wormhole safely, but the trouble this caused to the insect swarm was not as minor as it seemed.

Especially after the recent large-scale Zerg explorers entered the wormhole and "never returned".

In the past, the Zerg explorers would appear in the explored universe within more than ten years at the latest, bringing a new direction to the Zerg expansion, but this time, they have not made any move.

There is zero reason to suspect that the other party played a role in this. It is most likely some kind of means to deal with the Zerg invasion. After all, the expansion in other directions has not been affected in any way.

It was as if they had hit some kind of invisible wall, as if they had disappeared into the universe, unable to be seen or contacted.

However, there is no effective way to deal with this worm swarm. The only thing that can be done is to continue to release a large number of explorers into the wormhole in hopes of what changes they can bring about.

Of course, the universe is so vast, and the overall expansion of the insect swarm has not been greatly restricted by this. The will of the hive is being strengthened every moment due to the growth of the insect power, which in turn strengthens the strength of the insect swarm, including scientific research power. All aspects of Zerg development.

Zero is still not sure how far the other party has penetrated him, which makes Zero quite concerned.The rats hiding in the dark worried him more than the direct attacks on the surface. Maybe the other party would have aimed their Star Destroyer Cannon at Ori, the Zerg home planet, in the next moment.

It's really hard to feel comfortable being under constant threat.Perhaps this is one of the opponent's strategies to deal with the insect swarm. The power hidden behind the open attack is even more elusive.

Zero tried to improve the range of locating the opponent's jump fluctuations, but compared to the previous simple observation, this was too difficult, and there was not much progress over the years.

But it can’t be said that nothing has been found. At least in these years of observations, Zero has established a vague concept of the approximate distance and time required for the other party to complete a space jump. Unfortunately, if this simple theory is used, Inferring the current extent of the opponent's invasion, over such a long time scale, if the opponent exerts enough power, it will be enough for the enemy to include the entire Zerg sphere of influence!

Of course, this requires extremely terrifying execution. Under the premise of uncertainty about the actual area controlled by the swarm, this matter is not as simple as theoretically, but there is no doubt that this is bad news.

Because it may mean that many of Todd's previous hiding and migration activities have become useless, and the other party may launch a surprise attack on one's own important areas at any time, just like what was done to the fleet commanded by Sk last time!
Of course, having learned from the past, Zero was not completely unprepared for this. All the brainworms no longer stayed in areas where their existence would be obviously exposed. They scattered and tried their best to hide themselves.

Due to the opponent's intelligence superiority, this is really helpless.And it is impossible to be sure whether this process also fell into the eyes of the other party.

During this period of time, Zero finally experienced the all-pervasive feeling of facing the Zerg against the many enemies he had encountered over the years.

The so-called Hedong in 30 years and Hexi in 30 years are probably like this.

Of course, Zero will not be as afraid as when they face the Zerg. After all, it is unrealistic for the other party to destroy the Zerg swarm or directly attack Himself.

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Mira was also encountered by the Zerg. Of course, it was not the invaded party, but Mira's exploration fleet also encountered the same situation as the Zerg explorer.

But unlike Zero, relying on the perfect model established in the past, Mira quickly came to many more likely conclusions. It had also encountered Zhuna, and even observed their "healing" bugs at close range. Although Dong's ability failed to complete the re-engraving, it is not difficult for it to confirm the methods that the other party may implement.

Unlike the insect swarm that was forced to accept infiltration, Mira was in a true offensive position at this time, even though it had not actually engaged the opponent's fleet at this time.

It doesn't care at all whether the area it rules is penetrated. At this time, the only thing it is calculating or thinking about is attacking!
In Zerg 2522, Mira's fleet collided head-on with the Alliance's exploration battleship, and unceremoniously beat it up. After interfering with the opponent's startup of the jump engine for the first time, even though the opponent's mobility was still far away, Although she was stronger than herself, Mira still left it under this cold darkness forever.

At the same time, the alliance immediately paid attention to this special existence.In a sense, Mira didn't have many secrets from the Federation.After all, in the last invasion, although Mira was the final winner, in this process, it was a completely passive party.
The issue of how to deal with this intelligent life began to be discussed within the alliance, but except for the Federation, neither Veggie nor Korva had the consciousness to trouble Mira while preventing the invasion of the insect swarm.

This intelligent life is obviously the Federation's own trouble, and there is no reason for the entire Federation to pay for it.The temporary agreement they signed simply used the Zerg as the imaginary enemy and did not include a unanimous external agreement.

At this time, they were conducting an overall analysis of the Zerg based on existing intelligence. The continuous closure of the rear passage gave them enough time, and they did not have any need to actively make enemies.

In this regard, the Federation adopted an indifferent attitude. They knew that the technological level of Mira and the Zerg were very close to each other. They may have surpassed it, but there was no epoch-making gap.

This also means that it is impossible for it to directly cross the alliance's defense line and invade the mainland. As for the attitudes of Veggie and Korva, if Mira's attack is just a coincidence, there is nothing to fear at all. If not, then sooner or later, the entire alliance will Everyone will be dragged into the water, whether they want it or not.

As for capturing Mira alive again, it will be extremely difficult for the Federation, which has now lost its positioning ability, to implement this.Those lost secrets were destined to become irreversible secrets with the death of Apocalypse, and Mira herself didn't even know what was special about it.Maybe it did in the past, but after it appeared in the universe again, it was already a brand new life.

(End of this chapter)