Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 314
It is almost impossible in this era to bring a huge empire like Vege to collapse in just a few decades, but there is no doubt that it is being corroded from the foundation bit by bit at this time.

The empire's combat power is still strong, but many times it can only attack those former compatriots.Even those non-viviparous individuals have their own home planet that they belong to in their hearts, let alone those imperial warriors who were born on the land?
For a civilization as racist as the Verge, the Civil War was undoubtedly painful.

So far, the Imperial Center still has a strong ruling power. Although there are signs of rebellion in various star fields, the first openly rebellious colonial planet has been suppressed. The Imperial Center, which controls a powerful army, still has the power to maintain the entire empire. Operational strength.

Before this happened, Emperor Lord Vige had completed another strengthening of the central power. Although each colony still maintained sufficient autonomy, both economically and militarily, it was unsustainable for the imperial center. Hit.

As long as the most important core star field of the empire does not change, then there will be no real crisis for Lauder.

However, the continuous internal turmoil has also had a profound impact on the military. Many people's thoughts are quietly changing. This is beyond the control of the powerful emperor and his loyal ministers. Today, although they control the most important parts of the empire, The powerful power, but gradually felt a trace of separation.

This frightened them and they sought to strengthen their control over the military at all costs.However, the house leaked and it rained continuously. Not long ago, the royal prince Yin Duo, who had a high prestige in the military, was affected by the "curse" and died suddenly. Almost at the same time, another imperial marshal died of illness.

They hold high positions and have a crucial mission for the entire empire, but at the same time, they are also an important force for the imperial royal family to control the army.

The deaths of the two "pillars of the empire" once again made the empire, which suddenly fell into turmoil, become more turbulent, and the situation took a turn for the worse that could be seen with the naked eye.

In this case, the Imperial Center is already using all means except war.Its own scientific research mobilization failed to achieve results within ten years, and the continued expansion of losses forced the empire to start looking for help from outside.

Korva is continuing to expand its military in order to cope with possible wars in the future, but this does not prevent them from participating in joint research after receiving Vege's invitation.Of course, all this must be done under the noses of the Vegeans.

Before this, although they had been quite prepared for the attack methods of the Veggies, in fact, this was the first time that the Korva people had actually come into contact with the source of the "curse".

As for the fact that research activities must be monitored by the Vegeans, it seems to be a bit of a waste of time, but Korva does not want a war to break out in the future, and secondly, being able to have the opportunity to participate in research means that the same A chance to master ways to fight it, or even master it itself!

All they have to pay is some personnel support, and it's totally worth it.

Except for some ambitious people, no one hopes that a war will break out at this time with the Vege Empire, which has gradually entered a desperate situation and is full of internal conflicts, because even if it can win, it will be a catastrophe throughout the entire explored universe!
If possible, both Korva and the Hero Federation hope to return to the era of peaceful and free expansion.The universe is almost endless, and it is enough for the three major civilizations to divide it up. Why bother fighting among ourselves in a corner?

Weegee is an alien, always thinking about how to perform "racial purification" of the explored universe. Fortunately, after the continuous war from ancient times, many changes have taken place within Weegee, and the most extreme racism has been suppressed, but now But there are already signs of re-germination due to various changes!
If it were not strong enough, Veggie would not be able to exist today.In the past, both Korva and the Hero Federation have tried to export influence to Vege through various methods including but not limited to war.

They did succeed. Over the past ten thousand years, the Vege Empire has gradually moved in a direction that meets the mainstream development needs of the explored universe. At the beginning, their attacks became less determined, and later evolved into difficult negotiations. , and later gradually established the basic pattern of the now explored universe.

But it is obvious that the "Retro Movement" has not stopped within the Vege Empire for a long time, especially the forces led by the royal family, which have been promoting changes within Vege until the new emperor comes to power, and the long-term accumulation of races is at this time break out.

With the outbreak of this disaster, the extreme ideas within Vege became more serious, and some people's proposals were even considered radical by the emperor at this time.

But one fact is before our eyes, that is, the Vege Empire has reached a fork in its destiny, and it is time to make a choice.

As a result, scientific "support" from the Hero Federation and Korva intervened in the research of the Vegeans for the first time.

The preparations for the battle between the two have never stopped, because it is very likely that the results of this research will determine the future direction of the entire explored universe.The Veggies who were in despair at that time most likely no longer had too many worries.

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The current situation of the Zerg has gradually reached a delicate balance. As the Zerg swarm becomes larger and larger, their number fluctuates and rises in an almost random increase and decrease.

Every time an accident occurs, the number of dead Zerg units increases. Zero has made simple statistics, and there seems to be no pattern in the number. Sometimes it only increases by tens of millions compared to the last time, and some It is not unusual for the time to double.

The only rule is that it always increases and never decreases.

Zero feels that this should not be necessarily related to the proportion of the overall number of Zerg, because if calculated according to proportion, this number has been fluctuating randomly.

He is determined to give priority to the development of space technology and find the homeland of the three major civilizations to obtain more intelligence, but this does not mean that he will be indifferent to this change like he was to the alliance's attack.

Through multiple data collection and analysis, although it cannot be as accurate and diverse as Mira, we can still draw some conclusions.

Numbers don't lie. Even if it is difficult to achieve absolutely accurate statistics on zero, you can still get a rough idea.

The first is the relationship between the number of deaths and the overall number of Zerg mentioned before. Generally speaking, in the face of such irregularity, one can conclude that the two are unrelated. After all, this is not just The conclusions drawn by the Zerg also include the research results of many intelligent civilizations under the rule of the Zerg, and there are generally no errors or omissions.

The second is the study of individual Death Zerg within each star field, and it was during this study that Zero suddenly noticed something.

Although the death of Zerg individuals has occurred in almost every corner of the Zerg's current rule, from the Zerg mother nest to the surface units, there is an almost indiscriminate probability of death. However, after repeated statistics, Zero was surprised to discover A surprising conclusion!

When faced with the insect swarms in the star fields near the alliance's defense line and within its subsequent expansion range, the mortality rate was more than five times that of the insect swarms in other star fields in other directions!
Since the number of Zerg is too large, the number of individuals who die each time is scattered throughout the entire race, which is a bit too small compared to this size. This is easily overlooked, but it is just such a simple statistics. , this conclusion soon surfaced.

Why does it lead to such a result?

One conclusion that can easily be thought of is that Zero's previous guess was correct. It was indeed the Alliance. After all, in this direction, the only enemy the Zerg faced was this one!
But if we continue to study carefully, why they can do this, that is, make the death rate of the insect swarms near the border reach five times that of other star field insect swarms, Zero really can't figure out how the other party seems to do this.But this also strengthened his determination to find this enemy and figure out all this!

Analyzing in terms of time and space is almost the limit of what the Zerg can do. In addition, everything with research value has been examined and studied in the most careful way. Zero can't think of any other direction to start from. .

Sometimes he also thought that if he handed over all the known information about the Zerg to Mira for analysis, he might get many different results, and he might even be able to find a solution directly, but Zero did not do this at all. Intend.

To put it simply, this attack does not harm the Zerg enough to make Zero use all means, and the relationship between the Zerg and Mira is not really close.There is no need and no basis for implementation.

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Zero had no intention of actively interacting with Mira, but the movement of the Zerg all over the world could not be hidden from Mira.Of course, Zero never thought of hiding this.

Looking at the information obtained from the surveillance system, Mira analyzed it almost instinctively.

It is indeed true to say that the power of the mechanical fleet covers the entire Zerg-dominated area, but it is nonsense to say that it is accurate to every planet.

The insect swarm is not completely unresponsive to Mira's monitoring operations. Once discovered, they will be chased and destroyed without mercy, without any mercy.

Because of this, although Mira had a rough idea of ​​what was happening within the Zerg, she was completely unable to obtain first-hand data like Zero.

But the power of Mira is reflected in this. Through long-term observation and collection, it has established models about the Zerg, and as time goes by, it continues to update and delete, and continuously streamlines the possibilities. .

Until the end, it almost reached the same conclusion as Zero!

Research on the Zerg has always been an important topic for Mira. The database contains analysis and research on the Zerg. If a large number of models containing various variables are input into a smart civilization main computer of the same technological level, It's enough to overload it and kill it in an instant.

But for Mira, this is only a small part of its huge "memory".

Its powerful modeling ability is its talent that is ahead of all intelligent races, and the birth of the life attribute has also made up for its last shortcoming, allowing it to truly add some machinery into the probability statistics and will never consider it. variables that go in.

Due to less information, even it cannot determine the true source of what is happening to the Zerg. The model built based on a large number of possibilities is getting larger and larger, but there is not enough deterministic basis to collapse the variables to streamline it. What it does best is draw the most likely conclusion that led to the matter.

So, it chose to continue observing.

Until shortly afterwards, during an accidental exploration, a familiar material came into view in a special way.

It is a material with almost perfect performance in terms of strength. It is not even a metal or a non-metal. Even Mira herself has a hard time describing this kind of "material" that is completely natural and has no flaws.Of course, this is not worthy of its surprise, because it has discovered similar technology from the Zerg a long time ago. Unfortunately, the particularity of this material makes it difficult to apply it to the mechanical fleet. Can be used in key areas.

The reason is simple. For a mechanical fleet that aims to win by quantity, the cost of this material, or the productivity required for production, is almost much more expensive than the battleship itself it covers, but at the same time However, it cannot resist the attack of space weapons at all and must rely on the same level of technical defense. Facing the fleets of the three major civilizations, it is really a bit useless.

The same is true for the Zerg, but in comparison, the scope of use of the Zerg is larger. After all, they are "rich" and don't care much about the loss of time.

Of course, it does provide many new possibilities for Mira and Zerg warship design, and the increase in combat power is also considerable.

However, the focus at this time is not that, because what Mira encountered, or what its mechanical fleet encountered during its expansion, was another race that had suffered a similar experience to the Zerg, and this material , it is also the first time to see the real, original version!

The reason why it is said to be similar is that what this self-proclaimed "Herki" civilization once experienced was just the same "spiritual curse" as when the Vege Empire first suffered a "curse" event, but its method of transmission was exactly the same.

The Hukki were once lucky enough to find its origin, but due to their prevailing idealism, they finally chose to sacrifice it to the "gods", which in a sense permanently sealed it.

Mira actually learned a lot from the Zerg. For example, in terms of sending small hidden units to provide intelligence support before the official "meeting", the Zerg did a good job.

Of course, it is also because of this that the Zerg explorers who have been dedicated to monitoring Mira have not been able to keep up with these "peers" this time, or in other words, they have never kept up.

At this moment, Mira is using her powerful advantage over the intelligent civilization information system to unscrupulously access the intelligence of the entire civilization.

At the beginning, it was just some public information. After the initial cautiousness, Mira had roughly figured out the other party's civilization level, and simply stopped being cautious. That kind of top-secret information that was strictly guarded seemed to be in front of its eyes. It looked like a safe protected by an old-fashioned mortise lock from decades ago, and the breakthrough was basically completed without much effort.

And this information and this material were easily obtained by Mira.

Compared with the way the Zerg obtains information from the minds of intelligent individuals, Mira's method is more convenient and comprehensive. Of course, it is limited to some civilizations that are not in-depth enough in omnic research. Any of the three major civilizations Mira's main computer cannot complete the breakthrough silently.

Zero never expected that while he was still leading the Zerg forward, trying to find the three main bodies of civilization, Mira had basically figured out the root cause of the inexplicable attack on the Zerg this time!

Of course, Mira still needs more experiments to make a final determination. Mira has always been the most interested in such unknown events in the universe. This is true for the Zerg itself, and even more so for this unknown "curse".

(End of this chapter)