Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 320
The universe is quiet and deep, with stars as the background. The endless darkness is like a huge evil beast that swallows all sound and light, hiding all the materials hidden in it.

The Zerg, a race that was born only more than [-] years ago, is developing itself quietly under this background, hiding in the darkness.

Transporting energy from within the galaxy has long been an option, only matter is indispensable, but in this era, nothing can stop the development of the insect swarm.

The intelligent race in the scientific research base is working hard to promote this technology that has almost opened a gap and can truly see the light ahead. There is no need to worry about the specific Zerg transformation. Wait until it can fully adapt to the long-distance jump of Zerg's large-mass units. It’s never too late to meet the demand.

Zero noticed that probably due to the fusion of some of Zhuna's jump fur, the small-mass short-distance jump of the Zerg requires very high energy quality. Conventional energy is almost impossible to start. No matter how bad it is, it still requires energy crystals or Zhuna's body. level.

Of course, at this stage, this is not a problem. Zerg energy enrichment, including obtaining energy from antimatter annihilation, can meet or partially meet these conditions.

But there is still a limitation. If the Zerg still needs to rely on such energy for large-scale forward leaps in the future, it will be an extremely terrifying number.Every large-scale war may drain away the hundreds of years of accumulation of countless nearby Zerg bases.

To put it simply, the efficiency of the Zerg in obtaining high-level energy is too low. Although it has not yet been truly used on the main group of Zerg, this problem obviously cannot be ignored.

Zero doesn't know what kind of technology the Hero Federation uses for their jumping technology, but at this moment, the Zerg do need a convenient way to obtain energy.

Therefore, life like Zhu Na, with its extremely strong sense of existence, once again entered Zero's field of vision.

It's not that I want to capture it and use it as a "battery". So far, although the Zerg theoretically has enough materials and methods to restrain large-scale advanced energy, they are unable to truly capture this kind of life. Within the scope of a star's rule, In such a wide space, Zero cannot completely constrain such an existence, so it is naturally out of the question to capture it.

He estimated that to achieve such a goal, it would probably not be as simple as researching space jumping technology from scratch.

At least for now, his idea is very simple, that is, to replicate Zhuna's transformation of stellar energy so that the Zerg can also have this ability to "sublimate" energy levels, thereby providing the Zerg army with a steady stream of jumping energy.

Ideally, this should be done before long-distance jumping technology becomes completely Zerg-like, and there's still time.

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With the Zerg's research and understanding of Zhuna over the years, many observations that were previously unthinkable have now become logical.

After all, Zhuna's stellar energy transformation is no longer completely secretive to the Zerg.Possessing the power to kill the opponent, the Zerg's observations are no longer limited to "looking out" from a distance. They even use various means to come near the dark stars and observe the stars under the deep darkness at close range. The roar of stars, a series of changes that seemed incredible at first.

Zhuna is as "difficult to get along with" as ever, but the Zerg is no longer the original Zerg, and Zero doesn't have to abide by any privacy issues with it. Since it can't do anything to the successive Zerg swarms, it can't change Zero's decision.

Zhuna's most superficial secrets were finally revealed bit by bit by the Zerg 2000 years after their encounter. As for its origin, those hidden deeper secrets that Zero suspected still need time to explore.

But that's enough!

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In Zerg 3451, the first long-distance jump navigation experiment of a small-mass insect species was successfully completed. A land insect species with a mass of 41 kilograms completed a 320-nine-light-year jump.

In addition to the quality issues that are still somewhat difficult, the only regret is the issue of fixed-point jumping.

In this experiment, this little bug set off from the inside of the galaxy and completed a long distance jump of 4.2 nine light years in just 320 hours. However, this position was not the result of the Zerg's self-selection. There is a considerable deviation from the previously calculated jump position, both in distance and direction.

This is another problem that needs to be solved urgently.But no matter how you say it, the most fundamental and difficult problem has been solved, and the rest is undoubtedly just to find and fill in the gaps and expand and strengthen the foundation. It may be trivial or complicated, but there will no longer be that kind of natural chasm. A chasm looms before us.

At least at this level, in 400 years, the Zerg have truly approached the level of the three major civilizations.As for other technologies and materials, even if the gap with the opponent is greater, they are not necessary for the Zerg.

In Zerg 3464, just a few decades ago, the Zerg swarm has been able to successfully complete unit jump transfers within 20 light years with a single mass of [-] tons under the joint research of intelligent races and cerebral worms, and the accuracy is also high. With the improvement of quality, deviation is inevitable, but the scope has been greatly reduced, and finally it will not go in the opposite direction.

But this is not enough. Since the development of the Zerg, the mass of a single space combat unit is no longer limited by a mere 20 tons. If this kind of jump is compared to a train, then this little capacity is not enough for the enemy to hit with a gravity cannon. of!

The Zerg need greater mass transportation. Even if they cannot jump together with a large-scale fleet like the Hero Federation, no matter what, the large insect species in active service must be able to complete the jump alone.

Of course, this does not mean that this technology cannot be used at this stage. In fact, after the first experiment was successful, the three major civilizations formed an alliance and worked hard to establish an "invisible line of defense" in front of the Zerg. , it can be declared to exist in name only.

Although the distance is not far, the consumption is very huge, and even the direction cannot be completely locked, there is no doubt that the Zerg has been able to initially get rid of its dependence on wormholes in this way. Under the absolute number, even if it is only extremely small, Even with a small probability, a certain result will eventually be achieved, no matter how huge the deviation caused by their jump is.

But now that it has undergone another strengthening and improvement, the distance of this jump has been lengthened and the stability has become better, which has truly made the alliance's defense line useless.

At this moment, the swarm is spending a huge amount of resources to continuously advance forward. Places that used to take years or even decades to reach, as long as the energy is sufficient and the quality is not limited, only one or two Oris are needed. You can get there in a day!
This is undoubtedly progress across the ages, and it also represents the distance that the Hero Federation could easily cross back then. Even though it was a lot of trouble for the Zerg, it no longer needed to be "measured with feet."

In the vast universe, if they were still taking "public transportation" before this, then at this moment, the Zerg have initially had their own universe pass!
Even if the face value is small, it is still a real space jumping ability!

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The small-scale experimental Zerg transformation on the front line cannot yet be fully popularized on large-scale Zerg species. Of course, this "small scale" is only relative to the size of Zerg.

Zero is still waiting for the emergence of a single jump engine that can finally adapt to the Zerg's main units, and for the energy conversion system from Zhuna to fully mature.

Stars, these existences that add a touch of warmth to the cold universe, are the cheapest and most convenient energy source in the entire universe. Even stars that have entered their twilight years can still emit extremely large amounts of light and heat. The only difference is Artificially promoted or naturally occurring.When the Zerg first entered space, the Ori Central Star generously provided the necessary energy for the Zerg. Until now, even if it has the ability to extract antimatter from sub-dimensional space for annihilation to obtain higher energy, Zero has still returned to its original state. way to bring them into view again.

Of course, all this is inseparable from Zhu Na's help. Under its "teaching by words and deeds", the insect swarm, which is not afraid of death, finally achieved some success in its special energy conversion method.

The Dyson Sphere project of that year once again had room to use its remaining energy. They began to be used by the Zerg as a test point for a new generation of energy supply proposals, and they were completely "renovated" from top to bottom.

The ancient insect species were devoured and replaced, and replaced by brand new energy conversion species carefully designed by the brain worms, and then a new round of iterations began.

They will store a large amount of available energy for the Zerg before the Zerg space jump engine completes the first round of practical improvements, and also accumulate strength for the subsequent comprehensive expansion.

The only thing that made Zero uncomfortable was that, whether due to bad luck or something, the first batch of 96 Dyson sphere "energy conversion stations" collapsed in just three years due to the sudden death of the Zerg units that constituted the energy system. , there are a full 31, nearly one-third!
Zero quickly found a solution, and the Cerebrates began to reduce the number of Zerg units that made up the entire Dyson Sphere as much as possible to avoid the risk posed by this temporarily irresistible damage to the greatest extent possible.

Of course, research on it has not stopped, but in this matter, it is difficult for Zero to come up with a solution quickly.

It is true that a lot of results have been obtained and many doubts have been answered, but the Zerg still lack understanding of this form of attack itself, let alone prevent and counterattack.

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In Zerg 3489, Zero discovered a wonderful thing.

It seems that he has been stolen.

The cause was a disappearance of a Zerg unit within the star field. For the Zerg, which always appeared in groups, such a single disappearance was almost impossible to happen, but it did appear within the Zerg territory.

And right under Zero's nose.

Generally speaking, the so-called "disappearance" of the Zerg means either death or complete isolation of information. However, due to the existence of the Hive Will and Zero, the latter is difficult to achieve. Missing in the general sense, in fact, It defaults to death.

It was the same this time. Zero didn't take it too seriously at first, but not long after, Zero witnessed a jumping experiment of the Mira mechanical fleet. The basic principles and jumping methods cannot be said to be very similar to those of the Zerg. It can only be said that It's... exactly the same!
Zero felt a little subtle, maybe he was angry, but there didn't seem to be much fluctuation. The matter of secretly learning seemed to have been alternating between Mira and the Zerg.

In the beginning, it was Mira's space weapon that made Zero determined to start research in this area. However, just 700 years ago, Zero discovered through a joint war between the two sides that Mira's anti-matter cannon had actually pushed the Zerg far away. Left behind!

As a result, the Zerg also studied the other party's achievements and quickly achieved results.

But this time seems to be a little different. In all previous actions, both sides were at war. No matter what they got from the other party, they could be counted as spoils of war.

But now, for thousands of years, it can be said that the two sides have been on an equal footing, and there were even some joint actions at one time. Not to mention closeness, it was still a trivial "friendship", but Mira did not hesitate to choose In order to "steal learning" in this way, and also showed it openly in front of the Zerg.

what is this?
Zero felt that it did not mean to provoke. If judged by behavior, this was already a proper act of war. However, Zero was really not interested in launching such a useless and meaningless war.

After all, the Zerg could get very little from Mira through war.Although I am not afraid, I still feel that it is not worthwhile.

However, while zero was weighing the pros and cons, the Zerg intelligent unit scientific research base located under deep space directly received a complete set of research information that was unsigned but appeared openly in the document inventory.

It contains all of Mira's research results on the "curse" incident, as well as a large number of results in materials technology, weapons technology, etc.

Obviously, many of these can help the evolution of the Zerg, and even if they don't, they can still be used as a reference.It can't be said to be very precious, but it is indeed of great help to today's Zerg.

So, before this, Ling was just in a subtle mood, but at this moment, he was really in a state of laughter and tears.

What's the meaning?Forced buying and selling?

Of course, the core technologies of the Zerg race are not directly stored in the information database of the intelligent race. They are directly managed by the brain worms, and Mira cannot directly steal them from this aspect.

Of course, Mira showed off her presence to Zero this time.

In order to avoid the attacks of the three major civilizations, the location of the Zerg scientific research base was constantly moving even in the darkness of deep space. Although the speed was slow, it did ensure its concealment to the greatest extent.

However, Mira was able to accurately find this place and complete it without causing any alarm. In addition to its superb information technology, it also means that its understanding of the Zerg is quite profound.

It's not surprising to say that although this should be one of Mira's methods for this operation, Zero actually doesn't care too much.After all, it is impossible for Mira to really monitor every Zerg unit, just like Zero can't determine Mira's true location. The two sides are completely different, but very similar.

If Zero cannot completely surpass Mira in terms of its nature, it will be difficult to truly defeat such an existence. Of course, the opposite is also true. It is basically impossible for Mira to destroy the insect swarm.

No matter what, Zero decided to let this matter go in the end. It was Mira's ability to obtain precious information from the Zerg, not to mention that it paid a lot of "price" within its power.

With the help of these achievements, combined with the recent research results of the Zerg in engine technology, in Zerg 3517 shortly afterwards, Zero finally overcame the last problem that blocked the large-scale advancement of the Zerg.

The Zerg large-mass unit's long-distance jumping experiment was declared a success after only six failures!

At this point, facing the three major civilizations whose specific locations are unknown, Zero can finally say, offensive and defensive aliens!
(End of this chapter)