Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

As the star actually closest to the Ori galaxy, the galaxy where this blue dwarf is located is called Hurley.

This name was once the name of the largest city on the eastern border of the Lizardmen. It was where Turrell led his army to stop the Zerg from advancing westward, and it was also the beginning of the demise of the entire Sadman Empire.

Today's Heli City has long been turned into a ruins in the mottled time, and most of the ruins of civilization have been buried. Perhaps there are still traces of ruins in some unknown place, but no one cares anymore.

Giving it to this galaxy with a binary star system is a kind of commemoration of Zero's nearest star system to the Zerg, and it is also quite appropriate.

After all, when the Zerg came out of the jungle to the west, the first lizard man they encountered was Hurley.

But now, as the nearest star to the worms after they left the star system, this name is just right.

And it is indeed among the first batch of star systems that the Zerg are planning to go to. If there are no accidents, it will also be the first outer star system that the Zerg swarm arrives at, just like Heli City back then.

Sass and Dagos are still working hard to increase the Zerg's maximum cosmic speed. Zero's psychological expectation is to reach three percent of the speed of light. Of course, this is only a minimum requirement. If this level cannot be reached, then the so-called interstellar Sailing is an elusive dream.

From two thousandths to three thousandths, this is obviously another huge leap, and it is much more difficult than the original increase from less than one thousandth to two thousandths. Zero is not sure how far they can go along with Sasse's original thinking.

But the demand lies here. Three percent of the speed of light is a goal that must be achieved. No matter what, Zero will not let the Zerg take a step out of the galaxy until this goal is achieved.

——He did not have thousands of years to waste on journeys.

It is worth mentioning that more than a hundred years have passed since Dagos was born. If Zero's previous speculation comes true, maybe in a while, the Zerg will usher in the third brain worm in history.

Of course, that is just a guess, and Zero has no evidence to verify this conjecture. The birth of the brainworm is still a mystery to Zero to this day.

From the beginning to the end, he has not figured out its specific mechanism. What is the unobservable substance and what laws does it follow? Moreover, there are not enough samples to provide data support, so it can only be guessed.

Maybe it will come as promised, maybe it won't, we don't know. Zero retained his expectations for this and was mentally prepared that it would not appear in the short term.

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The Zerg's colonial activities in the star system have never stopped, and the scale of the Zerg's main space base has also been expanding. The "warehouses" for storing resources and the giant biological "batteries" for collecting energy are growing wantonly, and each one is huge in the shape of a honeycomb. The structure is generated under the connection of channels. It is like an artificial asteroid, lying in the middle of the galaxy and orbiting the star.

At the very center is the laboratory of Sass and Dagos.

A large number of resources are directly concentrated here. This is the center of the entire Zerg main base. So far, except for experiments that must be carried out under specific conditions such as extreme high temperature tests, most of the research results of the Zerg are in the generated here.

In the short term, even if the Zerg can successfully launch interstellar navigation in the future, the galaxy where Ori is located will be the well-deserved center of the Zerg. Therefore, the Zerg main base located here will have a long-term future. plays an important role.

The extremely rich resources here will not be given up, and at the current mining rate of the Zerg, this star system will not lose value in the next hundreds or thousands of years.

Zero has no attachment to the idea of ​​one place at a time. The Zerg should not be restricted to one planet or one star field. Strictly speaking, as long as they can sail freely in the universe, they do not need the so-called sustainable development. .

But compared to the boundless universe, although the current Zerg have left the planet, they can only be regarded as developing from the infant stage to childhood. The whole world is still mysterious and unknown to them.

This is true in all aspects, so Zero still needs to be cautious, at least for now, having a stable base is beneficial to the Zerg.

It was said that he was waiting for the research results of the brainworms, but it was not like he did nothing during this period. With the help of the Zerg scientific research units, he observed and recorded many galaxies around Orui.

With the help of Octopus Man's scientific research data, Zero began to number all galaxies that may be valuable in observations.

Perhaps at such a long distance, the insect swarm cannot reach it yet, but the stars within the range that can be observed in more detail are all potential colonization targets of the insect swarm in the future. It is of course necessary to understand and record them.

In order to achieve observation purposes more conveniently, several large-scale scientific research insect species are generated here around the Zerg main base. They will be Zero's eyes looking up at the starry sky. Compared with the surface of Orui, it is obviously much more convenient to conduct observations here.

In addition, after the construction of subsequent giant planet colonies was completed, the resources concentrated on the Zerg main base began to increase. Every one or two months, there would be transportation teams from the outer reaches of the galaxy or the inner rocky planets. When they come here, after completing their mission, they will not return the same way. Instead, they will directly use themselves as part of the transportation resources and integrate themselves into the expansion and construction of the entire main base.

This can be regarded as a characteristic of the Zerg. Although they have the ability to sail freely within the galaxy, they are actually just ordinary units. There is no difference between the basic units that ran on the surface when the Zerg was first born. The essential difference is just the product of resource accumulation, but the cost is higher.

It is undoubtedly very uneconomical to allow them to return to the colony planet where they came from, and it is not necessary for the Zerg.

On this point, the difference from ordinary intelligent civilizations is particularly obvious. For them, although they may have the ability to quickly produce spaceships, they will never have the luxury of using them once and then completely recycling them.

The entire Zerg main base is like a glutton that can only be entered but cannot be exited, devouring resources from various colonial planets in the galaxy and constantly expanding itself.

Bugs produced by Sass and Dagoth experiments are generated and tested here at every moment, and a large number of Zerg units are re-turned into basic resources here at every moment.

Busy and organized.

However, in addition to the difficulty of improving energy utilization efficiency, the Zerg are also facing another problem that is not big or small.

After all colonizable celestial bodies were landed by the Zerg, as time passed, their respective resources and energy collection eventually experienced a process from no output to rapid growth, and finally stabilized.

Currently, all the Zerg colony planets are producing positive output and seem to be thriving.

But there is a problem. Strictly speaking, it is not a trouble. It will not affect the activities of the Zerg in the short term.

However, Zero is still a little concerned about this.