Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 309 Mira joins the war
Zero keenly felt the changes on the frontal battlefield, as if from a certain moment, the opponent completely lost his will in the subsequent battles. First, he stopped attacking, and then he stopped even taking the initiative to attack. Even the raids inside the Zerg changed. Much less.

It didn't take long for the Alliance warships that responded to Hawut to shrink their defense lines again. As for the Imperial fleet led by Hawut, under the siege of the insect swarm, they had to retreat further. Finally, under the forced order of the Empire, they mercilessly The evacuation was completed reluctantly.

Weegee no longer cares about the battle between the front line and the Zerg.

All imperial forces are evacuating. The empire has made it clear that it will no longer care about any trouble on this line of defense. No matter what the Hero Federation and Korva do, they will not deal with it. In other words, Veggie has voluntarily given up on Keep up the hard work on the front lines.

Faced with this situation, the entire alliance is actually at risk of disintegration. The three major civilizations in the explored universe have jointly formed a complete ruling system in the past, and now they are suddenly in fierce competition with each other. friction, and even the possibility of a large-scale war is not ruled out. Whether such an alliance can still exist, not even Hero and Korva themselves know.

Of course, they can try to keep the system functioning normally, but their achievements will be enjoyed by Veggie. Now that the wormhole passage has been closed, they cannot actively open it to attract the swarm to attack.

For a moment, the two major civilizations were somewhat silent.

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However, just when there were problems within the three major civilizations and the Zerg were quickly regaining their lost ground, Mira suddenly took action.

From the perspective of the Zerg detectors, a mechanical battleship that was completely different from what they had seen before appeared in the light from the dark deep space facing the light of the star. The next moment, it was entangled with the Federation fleet.

After experiencing another major upgrade in combat power, Mira is back!
A lot of results have been obtained from the Alliance Industrial Galaxy before. Although the progress of reverse research has been quite slow, as time continues to pass, no matter how difficult the problem is, as long as there is the possibility of solving it, there will always be a day when it can be overcome.

And seizing the very few shining points in the endless possibilities is what Mira is best at.

While the mechanical battleship is being upgraded, Mira itself is also iterating all the time.

Today, it has a deep enough understanding of the way the Hero Federation positioned itself hundreds of years ago. Mira is convinced that it is absolutely impossible for the other party to use this method to locate its "body" again.

It can even be said that Mira has hidden herself in this endless mechanical battleship. No one knows where the hardware equipment it relies on for survival exists. That is its biggest secret, and also the entire mechanical fleet. Biggest weakness.

Of course, for Mira itself, it really wants to get rid of this constraint, place itself alone in the quantum world, and live forever in that simple digital system, which may not be its ultimate pursuit.

However, the universe is so big, and Mira, who once aspired to make all the unknown known, now has other goals that need to be accomplished.

Many words that belong exclusively to intelligent races, especially those related to emotions and other delicate feelings, were not something Mira could understand at one time, even if it already had fundamental characteristics that were different from machines.

But as time went by, Mira gradually became able to experience an unprecedented feeling. If emotions such as anger and joy were the reason why she completely transformed from a cold machine into a "warm" one after getting rid of the influence of the apocalypse. In terms of life, this feeling made Mira feel for the first time that she was truly integrated with the universe.

Over the years, Mira has not done anything wrong with other civilizations.

In addition to the battle with the Zerg, Mira has encountered several intelligent races. Of course, it cannot be said to be "encountered", after all, it was Mira who came to the door.

Out of curiosity, it took the initiative to search for traces of the existence of intelligent civilizations, and in the subsequent process acted as an "alien", explicitly or covertly "reading" the historical and cultural information of several intelligent civilizations. ".

From these words, he summed up his current feelings in one word: loneliness.

Although she could not empathize with what these intelligent race individuals felt about loneliness, Mira felt that this feeling that gradually emerged in her heart and was not controlled by data and logic should be loneliness.

If Zero still has many brainworms with whom he can communicate, then Mira is truly alone.

This complex feeling directly motivated Mira's subsequent series of actions, such as trying to "copy" herself, and today's large-scale offensive operations.

The former ended in failure. To this day, Mira still doesn't know how Apocalypse created a life like her, or something else happened in the space channel that she was forced to enter, which caused a cold code It turned into a slightly stiff life, but no matter how hard Mira tried and how she studied herself, she could never find that single "aura" that was unique to life.

For strong intelligence, it can reproduce in batches, but it cannot grasp some ethereal things at all.

As for the latter, it comes more from the "complex feelings" towards the Hero Federation.After a long period of self-research, Mira finally came to an unreliable but indeed possible conjecture. Her birth, including the existence of the Apocalypse, should be closely related to the Hero Federation.

So far, all the intelligent beings like herself that Mira knows about were born directly or indirectly in the Hero Federation. It makes no sense that the universe is so big and all advanced civilizations have not been able to give birth to real intelligent life, but it happened that year The Hero Federation can actually appear one after another.Whether it was for her own "clear heart" or to get rid of loneliness, as her combat power soared again, Mira was no longer willing to back down, although it was unclear why the opponent suddenly gave up the attack. The Alliance fleet slowly retreated, and the mechanical fleet mobilized by Mira pressed forward unceremoniously.

But this time, the Federation was surprised to find that the single combat power of Mira's battleship had almost reached the level of the Federation about 100 years ago!
The reason why it is said to be two thousand and one hundred years ago is because this period was a special historical period for the Hero Federation and even for the three major civilizations. During the 100 years before and after that time, the expansion of the three major civilizations was almost at the same time. Encountering a "barrier", the new exploration star field of the Vege Empire discovered a very strong indigenous civilization, and a protracted war began between the two sides. In the end, Vege won the battle with its absolute size and energy black technology. The war once again completed its important task of "racial purification", but for the next 200 years, it was unable to develop a new star field.

The Hero Federation suffered the 17th large-scale trust crisis in the history of civilization. As a result, the top leader of the Federation was forced to step down. In the end, it took a lot of energy to quell the turmoil and re-exist as a complete civilization.

As for Colva, they had always been low-key and could not stay out of the situation at that time. Unlike the first two, which were either blocked in their expansion or suffered from internal turmoil, the Colva Empire was "invaded" by an unprecedented powerful enemy. ".

In short, in the era not long after the birth of the Zerg, the three major civilizations each experienced "setbacks" that were rare in the history of civilization. As a result, each of them was unable to take the opportunity to interfere with the other when it was blocked, so each was able to survive.

But it was also in the hundreds of years after this period that the three major civilizations that ruled the entire explored universe completed a leap in technological development!
It could be called a revolution, war and plunder, or self-development. Each of the three major civilizations benefited a lot, and eventually completed an almost all-round technological revolution, thus laying the foundation for the main fleets of the three major civilizations today. Prototype!
And this means that in the eyes of the Federation, the performance of Mira's mechanical battleship is not far from that of its own today!
Maybe it will be the next time, maybe it will be the next time. At this rate of development, it is no longer out of reach for the opponent to master an operable space jump!
When they cross the boundless star field in front of them and reach the Federation mainland in a matter of decades or at most hundreds of years, how will we face the torrent of steel that floods the star sea?
Today's main battleships of the Federation can easily crush these immature mechanical battleships, but according to the opponent's terrifying progress rate, who knows when they will be able to compete with the real main force of the Federation?

At this moment, everyone, including Korva, who had received the exact information, was gnashing their teeth at Weegee's sudden "betrayal of the alliance."

Now the two even need to take into account the tight defense of the homeland, for fear that Veggie will suddenly be unable to think of a surprise war for themselves. At the same time, they must always face the infiltration and attacks of the two strange races on the front line, delaying the opponent's progress as much as possible.

According to previous theories, the two parties facing the alliance are likely to have reached an alliance. If the insect swarm has made such terrifying progress since then, the complete defense system that the alliance has worked hard to establish will be simply destroyed under this round of internal and external difficulties. It can be directly declared that it is broken.

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Mira's attack was basically completely in Zero's eyes. He could even be said to have "personally" watched the war between the two sides quickly enter a white-hot stage from the outbreak. Many Zerg explorers simply came to observe closely without caring about themselves at all. Possibility of being discovered.

After paying a certain amount of losses, Zero successfully obtained relatively detailed information about both warring parties.

Obviously, the Hero Federation is still the Hero Federation, but the mechanical fleet at this time is completely different from the mechanical fleet that allowed the opponent to gallop freely in the past!
They have initially gained the power to counterattack. Through macroscopic observation, Zero can easily distinguish the battleships lost by both sides, and can therefore roughly calculate the battle loss ratio of both sides within the two Ori months.

It’s about one to two thousand four hundred!
Judging from the numbers alone, this is still a huge gap that is difficult to bridge. It seems that the two sides cannot be compared at all. However, if you compare the information with the five-digit number 100 years ago, you can immediately find out. The qualitative change!
What's more, in terms of numbers, whether it's Zero or Mira, they will always have the upper hand.

From the observation, Zero quickly discovered Mira's progress. Its mechanical fleet still had not improved much in terms of attack capabilities. What really allowed them to significantly reduce the battle damage ratio was their maneuverability!

Many of the attacks that the federal warships originally had to hit were being dodged by Mira. Faced with the opponent's lock on Mira, Mira also had targeted interference methods. With the cooperation of both parties, there was almost a qualitative improvement in survival!
Only by preserving oneself can one attack better. For the mechanical fleet, this truth is particularly obvious. The ironclad proof is that the federal fleet in front of them is retreating at an unprecedented rate!

Since the beginning of the war, as long as it is a head-on battle on the frontal battlefield, unless the other party takes the initiative to retreat, either Zero or Mira can only turn the war into a protracted and protracted war with huge losses.

But now, the Federation fleet, backed by a star system, is showing signs of failure for the first time in history under the crazy attack of the mechanical fleet!

You must know that it is an entire alliance fleet with more than [-] ships, not just a lone detector!
Although this result was achieved due to numerical suppression, it undoubtedly means that Mira has gradually gained the power to counter the Hero Federation!

The only pity for Zero is that the one who achieved this achievement was not the Zerg.

Although Mira's offensive operation was quickly defeated by the federal support fleet that subsequently arrived, Zero saw everything.

Of course, although Mira has taken the lead, the Zerg are not slow either. As early as the invasion of Hawut, the Zerg scientific research unit and the brainworms have already produced another phased achievement in space technology.

Small particles such as protons, neutrons, etc. within short distances can already move across space!

Zero noticed that it was quite different from the Federation's space jump. Its interior mainly drew on the "leap" ideas from Zhuna. Perhaps in principle, it was on a different path from the Hero Federation and even the three major civilizations. But its effect is the same.

The Zerg have also made rapid progress in terms of mobility because of this. Although Mira is already more beautiful than before, the Zerg swarm cannot lag too far behind!

Zero could feel that after being harassed and hindered by the other party for such a long time, the day when he could fight back might not be far away!

The door to space jump opened its first gap to the Zerg more than 300 years ago, and a small window was opened not long ago by the scientific research group led by the brainworms. One day, this kind of thing that once made Zero jealous Technology will become the real weapon for the Zerg to travel through the universe!
(End of this chapter)