Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In the vast universe, in the unknown star field, just like a solar eclipse receding, a young star slowly took off the "coat" that had covered it for countless years.

As a star, it finally ended its history of humiliation. After an unknown period of time, it was able to re-illuminate this galaxy that should belong to it, spread its light and heat under the starry sky again, and once again declare to the universe. own existence.

Shortly thereafter, at the edge of the Hero Federation Galaxy Cluster 16, the Federation's pioneer fleet was crossing the endless barren cosmic belt, intending to spread the glory of civilization to the more distant outer reaches of the universe.

Countless warships are straddling up and down in the dark sky. There is no south, south, north or south, nor up, down, left, or right. They don't even have "speed" in the general sense.

If we use the star system millions of light years away as the reference system, we will find that these stationary battleships are not moving continuously throughout the universe.

Just like jumping in space, a few standard units of time ago, they were still at coordinate a, but in the next moment, they suddenly appeared at coordinate b. Calculated based on the distance scale in the general sense, every time they "jump" "The distance traveled was more than 1 light-year. This length is considered a long distance for both the Zerg and the Octopus.

Even light takes years to complete this distance, but for them, it is just a jump. Of course, this kind of jump is also discontinuous. After each jump is completed, they will maintain a regular voyage for a considerable period of time, but the distance they advance in this routine voyage is negligible.

There is no doubt that this is a technology that enables faster-than-light travel, and there are countless densely packed space battleships that are traveling at faster-than-light speed at the same time!

The strange thing is that the term "jump" itself is not rigorous. Because if they can be observed, their speed relative to the reference system is actually not very fast. Under normal conditions, this speed is less than one percent of the speed of light. This is not true for a desolate cosmic zone that often measures hundreds of thousands of millions of light-years. In short, it is no different from a turtle speed.

So strictly speaking, they themselves do not actually move faster than the speed of light. Even on a cosmic scale, it can be said that they basically do not move.

Rather than saying that they are jumping in the void of the universe, it is better to say that space has become abnormal for them!

The concept of space in the general sense is blurred here, just like a piece of paper that has been folded in half. When two points that were originally far apart on the plane were folded, they overlapped in a three-dimensional space. .

But here, what is folded is not a piece of paper or a flat surface, but the universe!

It can even be said that the spacecraft itself did not move. It was the space that was compressed and folded at a certain moment, thus "sending" these spacecrafts to distant distances!

Compared with the octopus man's clumsy parking, this seems to be the correct way to start space navigation.

However, at a certain moment, they stopped this leaping and rapid movement.

A real-time, long-distance communication from the top of the Federation changed their ongoing expansion mission.

"In the galaxy area numbered W-9625, "robbers" are infested. The signal area has been locked. Energy level: general; danger level: intermediate!"

"According to the provisions of Article 18, Paragraph 3, of the Colva-Hiro-Vegi Joint Convention, military forces were dispatched to the nearest location to implement Plan No. 6, and the 7th Fleet was ordered to terminate the escort mission and immediately intervene. The colonial fleet jumped in the reverse direction, and the The 16nd Colonial Fleet of the Luo-2 Galaxy Cluster takes over the escort and returns to this galaxy to stand by."

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The home galaxy of the Vege Empire, the central star, and the ring world.

This is a huge and prosperous world that surrounds the star. The energy from the central star is effectively used. In general, the energy demand is not troubled by any civilized individual here.

Extremely rich in materials and abundant energy, this place is the center of the empire and a paradise of civilization. Of course, it belongs exclusively to the Veggies.

At this moment, in the space dock at the edge of the ring world, an equally huge fleet was orderly entering a huge spherical area that was no different from an asteroid, and then disappeared into the ring world.

At the same time, the highest palace of the Korva Empire's main star, the scepter representing the empire's supreme power, is currently in the hands of the Imperial Emperor Sharp Korva.

If Zero could see this place across the galaxy, he would be extremely surprised.

Because at this moment, a smaller version of the multi-faceted luminous crystal that is the same as the "jewel" swallowed by the queen ant was quietly suspended at the top of the scepter, exuding soft light and lighting up the entire palace. The reflection is a mixture of light and dark.

Under the flickering light, a face flickered in and out, upright and majestic.

Just now, Sharp Korva issued the latest order to the garrison in the frontier system through long-distance communication. Soon after, a huge space carrier full of barbaric style changed its course and entered a jumping state.

According to the timing method of Zero on Orui, only 224 sidereal days later, the Seventh Fleet of the Hero Federation would have arrived at the designated area.

This is the galaxy numbered W9625, which belongs to the frontier of the Korva Empire.

240 days ago, an energy storm occurred here. A new energy mine appeared here, but it was quickly looted. There will be no output in the next hundred years.

In the w9625 galaxy, apart from the central star, there are only two gas giant planets. There are no valuable resources worthy of the Korva Empire's garrison.

This is indeed the sovereign territory of the Korva Empire, but it has never been taken seriously.

The Federation's Seventh Fleet lies outside the galaxy, waiting for the arrival of its host.

As the closest military force among the three major civilizations and capable of completing this mission, they were the first to arrive, but they never crossed the threshold.

Soon, the space fluctuations intensified, and the star carrier from the Korva Empire arrived. According to the joint convention, this "bandit incident" will be dominated by them.

Then came the jump fleet of the Veggie Empire. For this incident, they spent a lot of money.

Even the Hero Federation, which has the most profound research on space, will not easily initiate a stargate jump except under special circumstances, not to mention this kind of one-way positioning jump, which requires a huge amount of resources!

But this is not surprising. Weegee has always shown an unabashed importance to this operation. The reason is still related to the development direction of its civilization.

After all, everyone knows that in the explored universe, although the three major civilizations basically maintain a balance of power, they each have their own advantages in mainstream technology, and the Vege Empire is famous for its extreme use of energy!

They do not lack energy, but as energy beings and "cosmic bandits" who feed on energy mines, they are naturally on the opposite side to Weegee, and their research value to Weegee is unknown to exceed the so-called cosmic energy. How many times the mineral deposits.

Therefore, in every incident, the Vege Empire fleet plays the role of vanguard, without exception.