Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The universe is cold and dark, and you will inevitably feel lonely when you are in it, especially when you see almost the same stars no matter which direction you look at.

When a race steps into space and faces the seemingly endless darkness alone, this loneliness will be infinitely magnified, allowing it to clearly see its own smallness and weakness.

From being humble to being strong, in the end, you still find that you are just a drop in the ocean, and the road ahead seems to be endless. Sometimes, Zero always feels an inexplicable sense of sadness.

The development of the Zerg on Planet 2 did not produce any setbacks. As expected, there was no sign of life here and it was a completely deserted planet.

The harsh environment caused some inconvenience to the activities of the insect swarm, so that within more than ten years, they were unable to completely occupy Planet 2.

The Zerg giant species that connects the surface and space has been redesigned by Sass and has begun to be deployed on Orui. Its growth will take some time, and Sass and Dagoth have once again shifted their scientific research goals.

The further you go to the star, the surface environment of a desolate planet similar to Planet 2 will become worse, but correspondingly, it will be more convenient and faster for the Zerg to collect energy.

And this is zero comparison.

Even with the emergence of Dagos, Sass has not been idle at all. New projects come one after another, never ending.

In order to solve the current predicament of the Zerg, it moved its position with its apprentice Dagos and began to study once again the enhancement of the tolerance of the Zerg unit.

At this stage, Dagos is still following the pace and has few opportunities to intervene.

Even so, Sass was so precious to Dagos that he wished he could give it to him right away.

It is always much slower to explore alone than to get something for nothing directly from other civilizations. Looking at the development history of Zerg technology, the two leap-forward developments were built on the corpses of two intelligent civilizations and absorbed their wisdom. and knowledge to improve yourself.

When working behind closed doors, even if the brainworm is extremely talented, it will be difficult to make breakthroughs in multiple directions at the same time.

With only the power of Sass, it still has to be distracted from teaching Dagos. It is even busier now than before Dagos was born, and it is not known when its investment will pay off.

On the basis of previous research, further improving the Zerg's tolerance to the environment, especially extreme temperatures, is indeed a challenge for Sass, who only took advantage of the opportunity to integrate the knowledge of the Octopus Man to solve it not long ago.

It has only been a few decades since the last time he went from flesh and blood to space. Even if the time consumed in the original research is included, it is only a hundred years.

And this was with the help of Octopus Man's technology. It can be said that at that time, Sass had done his best in this regard. In that state, it has reached the limit of what it can do to improve the Zerg's space adaptability.

The next step is to reach the top of the hundred-foot pole. This step may not be much simpler than reaching the top of the hundred-foot pole.

In smart civilizations, generally speaking, there is a phenomenon that when science and technology develops to a certain level, it is difficult to promote the overall advancement of the science and technology level of the entire civilization with the help of one or a few brilliant scientists. .

When science is classified in detail and those details are brought to the forefront, each branch requires a lot of energy to learn and research. In this case, it is difficult for a single individual to promote the development of civilization, even if they are better than before. People are equally good, and even far beyond, and they cannot do this either.

The Zerg situation is slightly different, but not much different. Although Sass is actually fighting alone, and his only assistant, Dagos, is currently of no use, but with the bonus of the Hive Mind, his intelligence is naturally much higher than that of a single scientist from a single intelligent civilization. But the singularity of thinking is destined to have some blind spots, and this is why Zero also values ​​Dagos.

As for now, all Zero can do is wait.

Waiting for Sasse to give a conclusion, waiting for Dagos to grow up, waiting for time to give the final answer.

There is no trick plan, so just take it step by step. I have no confidence that the Zerg today will not be in danger of survival easily.

On the "Moon" base, energy and resources began to accumulate. After satisfying its own consumption, a large amount of resources began to accumulate.

This means that the Zerg's colonization here has been basically completed. If the "moon" has any other value to the Zerg, in addition to surface resources, maybe one day the Zerg can directly attack the entire planet, and perhaps it can be completely conquered. The value has been squeezed out, but now there is no need to think about it.

When all the valuable minerals under the earth's surface are turned into resources in the nutrient pool, there will be nothing left to miss here except for energy collection.

Even regarding energy, Zero is still brewing a big plan in his mind, which is still difficult to achieve with the current level of biotechnology of the Zerg.

If there is a chance in the future, the energy collection system on the planet's surface can also be retired.

But by then, it will probably be time for the insect swarm to leave the star system.

After the resources became sufficient again, Lingpian also began to entertain the idea of ​​expanding again. Now that it was free from the resource limitations of the earth's surface, facing the vast universe, it accumulated all the useful resources it could collect and waited for future technological breakthroughs. time, it can be put to use directly.

There are no enemies here. Apart from star explosions or planetary collisions, there seems to be no natural threats. After the death of the octopus people, this place became the exclusive territory of the Zerg. There are four rocky planets and one natural satellite in the inner galaxy. Among the three outer gas giant planets, the number of satellites that have reached hydrostatic equilibrium alone exceeds double digits, not to mention those huge but irregular celestial bodies.

The resources contained in this star system, which is very similar to the solar system, are immeasurable.

Nowadays, the Zerg on Planet 1 are temporarily unable to land, so now that Planet 2 has started colonization activities, it is a matter of course to turn their attention to the outer Planet 4.

However, going outward is no better than going inward. As the orbital radius expands, the distance between Ori and the closest point of the orbit of Planet 4 exceeds 100 million kilometers, and the opportunity for both of them to reach the closest point at the same time is rare in tens to hundreds of years. See.

Therefore, even launching a colonization plan requires rigorous calculations and arrangements, and will also consume a lot of time and resources.

On the outer planets, the energy from the stars will weaken sharply. Although this is the deep space of the universe and the density of matter is extremely low, energy will still escape during the propagation of light. As it moves toward the outer reaches of the galaxy, it will be affected by The smaller the influence of the central star, the slower the energy collection.

At a time when the Zerg's main conventional energy source basically relies on stars, colonization activities far away from stars are bound to face energy problems.

Speaking of which, on the "Moon", apart from the necessary consumption, the various resources collected by the Zerg still have a lot of surplus. It was not obvious at the beginning of the construction of the colonial base. When the Zerg quickly launched their attack on the "Moon" After the comprehensive development of , the accumulation speed of these resources suddenly accelerated.