Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Ori's natural satellite, Zero still habitually calls it the moon, even though its volume, appearance and mass are completely different from the moon in his impression.

A long time ago, Zero had imagined that one day he would lead the insect swarm up to see it. It was so far away from Ori that when observed from the surface of the planet, it was only one-third the size of the moon in Zero's memory.

Landing on the moon can be regarded as a simple wish, and it is also a part of his development plan for the Zerg. And this has gradually become possible with the rapid development of the Zerg.

The Zerg swarms that came to space improved their mobility step by step through Sass's continuous experiments. They were updated very quickly. Because each generation of Zerg units hatched, Sass would quickly find the crux of the problem and quickly make improvements. and updates.

After having the initial navigation ability, it has solved more than 90% of the problems of the insect swarm in space navigation. The rest is just continuous improvement on this basis. Although it is not simple, the biggest The difficulty has been solved.

This process only took Sass fifteen years.

From zero, waking up on the initial island, with only Queen No. 1 in front of you, to the Zerg landing on the mainland for the first time, to the first Zerg unit hatching in space through the giant seed, this process is only three times. Just over a hundred years.

In just over three hundred years, they have almost completed the journey of the octopus people from the ancient times of ignorance to the tens of thousands of years in space!

How magnificent it is to develop from an ant to what it is today!

So far, everything seems to be going well. Soon, the Zerg will be able to embark on a journey to the stars for the first time.

However, many problems began to appear at this time.

The Zerg swarm that landed in space was not in a hurry to expand, because it was obvious that Sass's improvement of the Zerg swarm's ability to move in space was still on the rise. Zero did not intend to expand the Zerg on a large scale before it encountered a bottleneck. Quantity, that doesn’t mean much.

In addition, there is another important reason, which is also the main external factor that forces Zero to control the scale of the Zerg as much as possible.

It's funny to say that after carrying out such a large-scale activity, the Zerg's energy acquisition above the surface gradually began to make ends meet.

Energy and materials are transported from the surface of the earth into space through the Zerg giant species. The energy lost in this process is extremely huge.

Before, Zero had almost exhausted hundreds of years of energy accumulation of the Zerg, forcing the progress of the biological space elevator plan, and this huge life was consuming extremely huge amounts of energy every moment!

Zero cannot make it go into sleep, because in its current state, it can only resist various threats from the external environment by remaining active.

Nearly 30% of the energy collected by the energy units of the insect swarm all over the world is used for daily life activities, not to mention that it also shoulders the important task of transporting materials, which is a huge expense.

Sasse had not thought of this beforehand, and even Zero had not cared about it. It's not that they were careless. The total amount of energy accumulated by the Zerg over the past hundred years was an extremely terrifying astronomical figure. Moreover, at the beginning of the plan, Sars also retained a large amount of reserve energy as a backup.

But no one thought that after it grew up, its energy consumption would be so terrible!

It requires a huge amount of energy and material to fight against the natural damage from the high-altitude outside world at all times, and its huge size is also an extremely terrible resource consumption to maintain its own life activities.

Coupled with Sass's almost uninterrupted space experiments for more than ten years, to this day, the energy produced by the Zerg energy units on the entire planet's surface through their own accumulation has become less and less. Until now, the Zerg has The energy reserves are basically no longer growing.

It would be a bit fanciful to rely on this surplus to sail within the galaxy.

It is not that Zero has not thought about using them to transport the required materials directly into space after the Zerg units initially possess the ability to fly into space, thereby avoiding the waste of resources caused by the direct transportation of giant species to space, but it is just a simple The test made him give up this choice.

It is true that this method is more economical than the former, but it will be much inferior in terms of transportation speed and transportation volume. The most important thing is that he discovered that if the energy consumed by the Zerg giant species to resist the environment is excluded, the latter actually consumes more energy than the former!

This sounds incredible, but it is true. If we put aside the energy consumed to resist environmental threats and transport the same amount of resources to space in the same time, the final consumption of material and energy will be more than 20% more than the former!

This further highlights the importance of the Zerg giant species. For it, Zero had a plan at the beginning of its design. It is by no means just a fulcrum, and it will never be what it is now. With the further advancement of biotechnology, the energy consumed to fight environmental threats and even maintain one's own survival will be optimized, and its advantages will be retained forever, so Zero will not give up this method easily because of this.

But then again, with the energy consumption reaching such a level, even Zero himself felt a little ridiculous after learning about it. It was really an exaggeration.

That is a huge planet with a radius of more than several thousand kilometers and a surface area of ​​nearly 500 million square kilometers!

Rather than completely covering the entire planet, it would be modest to say that the Zerg energy units occupy 80% of the planet.

A large part of the energy provided by such a vast area supplies the daily consumption of a "needle"? If all these resources were used to hatch Zerg units, I don’t know how many individuals could be produced!

But that’s the truth, no matter how ridiculous it feels, it’s already here.

Zero once thought that the Zerg energy units scattered all over the planet's surface would allow it to stop worrying about energy problems before embarking on interstellar voyages. However, it is only in the testing phase now, and it has already begun to be stretched.

Although it is not bankrupt, the Zerg still has a considerable amount of energy reserves to this day, but it is obviously unrealistic to use it as unscrupulously as in the past.

To put it bluntly, the Zerg's conversion efficiency of energy from the sun is still too low.

When he first received the Octopus Man's theoretical knowledge, Sass had made a major change to the Zerg energy units, so that they no longer simply relied on photosynthesis to accumulate chemical energy, but to a certain extent began to directly use solar energy. Obtain.

However, in that blissful state of mind, Sass spent most of his energy thinking about how to overcome the insect swarm's adaptability to the space environment and how to complete the flying plan. He neglected the subsequent improvement of the energy unit. This has led to the current situation.

The seemingly overwhelming greenery on the surface of the planet has become a shortcoming of the entire barrel for today's Zerg, and needs to be strengthened again.

Without giving priority to solving this problem, it would be difficult for Sars to maintain a high frequency of updates to the space insect species.

After all, the Zerg units on the entire planet are currently maintaining an active state, providing resources for the Zerg activities in space, and rarely enter a dormant state.