Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Following the birth of the first Zerg space weapon, the sit-and-wait space biological "mine", research surrounding it has never stopped.

It took Dagos more than thirty years to come to a relatively mature conclusion. The principle of its occurrence is unsurprisingly the violent reaction of energy in a very short time, thus causing huge damage.

This achievement can not only be applied in weapons, but if it can be successfully restrained and contained, it may once again increase the Zerg's space speed.

Of course, it won't be achieved overnight, not to mention that Sass has a new apprentice to teach, which will more or less involve some of its energy.

On this basis, Dagos continued to think about the Zerg's further attack methods. This passive defense at a fixed location was obviously far from the goal that Zero needed the Zerg to achieve. They needed a more active attack method.

In this regard, there are several relatively mature examples.

One is that as mentioned before, by adding an acceleration structure to such "space mines", they can transform from mines quietly "buried" in the darkness of deep space to biological "torpedoes" that actively fly towards the enemy. .

Under the current circumstances, this requires at least one front-end technology, which is to increase one's own speed in the shortest possible time to a level that makes it difficult for the enemy to effectively dodge, regardless of subsequent return or damage on the way. It just doesn't make sense.

This is actually not difficult to achieve, but the focus returns to the biological structure that makes up the Zerg body. Their relatively fragile bodies cannot withstand a short burst of energy.

The second is an energy attack method similar to the octopus man's space-based weapons, but the Zerg do not have energy crystals to provide energy support, and their own release efficiency is far from meeting the needs, so they have no choice but to give up temporarily.

The Zerg technology has reached this point, and it has long been an era of interdependence. It is no longer an era where progress in one aspect can quickly push the entire Zerg ability forward by a large margin.

Using one's own advantages to obtain knowledge and information from civilizations whose overall development process is more advanced than one's own should have been the fast track for the development of the Zerg. However, the problem they are facing now is that, at least so far, in the areas that the Zerg has explored, except for those that have already Apart from the exterminated lizards and octopus people, not to mention other civilizations, even alien life was pitiful.

This is another reason why Zero spares no effort to promote the continuous expansion and colonization of the Zerg. In the past two hundred years, he has clearly realized that perhaps the Zerg can one day develop to an extremely powerful level on its own, but that may require countless efforts. time.

ten thousand years is too long, fight for now!

Since there is a way for the Zerg to develop rapidly in this universe, then the step-by-step development and survival can indeed be regarded as abandoning the strong points and taking the weak points.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Zero cannot expect the swarm to stay here, waiting for unknown enemies like octopuses to come. In that case, maybe what is waiting is not a rabbit, but an extremely ferocious tiger!

Therefore, early preparation and investment are necessary. These wasted time will lay the foundation for the Zerg's future progress and help them find prey hidden in unknown corners of the universe in a shorter period of time.

Regarding expansion and development, Zero needs to find a balance between them. Whether it is blindly forcible expansion or immersed in researching technology, it is not conducive to the overall development of the insect swarm.

It has always been Zero's pursuit to develop both simultaneously and complement each other to achieve optimal efficiency.

Scientific and technological progress is for colonial expansion, and colonial expansion in turn promotes scientific and technological progress. This is the ideal development state of the Zerg race.

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The Cerebrates are trying to find a solution from space mines to once again increase the Zerg space speed in stages, as well as a more convenient and powerful attack method. Zero has refocused his attention on the Dyson Sphere project, which has been making slow progress. .

Previously, in order to alleviate the problem of uneven distribution of energy and resources in the Zerg main base, Sass focused his main research direction on improving the thermal energy of the planet's core, and successfully alleviated this situation greatly. The Zerg The stored energy has also begun to recover quickly, and resources are now being accumulated to produce the Prov colonial fleet.

According to the current accumulation rate, it will take less than ten years at most to support a swarm of more than 100,000 insects to launch colonization activities in outer galaxies.

Of course, Zero can also choose to let them set off now, but as the saying goes, it only takes ten years to sharpen the knife and chop wood. If the initial investment is sufficient, then the time saved after the insect swarm arrives at the target location There will only be more, and He can afford to wait.

Closer to home, although the problem of energy accumulation speed has been alleviated to a certain extent, there is still not much progress in the advancement of the Dyson Sphere project.

After all, Sass only improved and optimized the energy acquisition network on the planet, and did not make many improvements to the pilot project on the orbit of Planet 1.

However, it is not without its contribution to this. At least the optimization of the Zerg planetary energy network has improved their tolerance to sustained high temperatures to a certain extent, and the gradually surplus energy can also support the better development of this plan.

Zero has been optimizing and researching this plan proposed by himself over the years, aiming to completely solve the conventional energy problem for the Zerg. Now it can be considered a trivial achievement, but compared to the entire plan To say it is still an understatement.

In the past, Zero had made rough calculations through tests. If the resources needed for the current growth and reproduction of the Zerg surface energy network were calculated, a Dyson sphere that completely enveloped the entire star would be built about 30 million kilometers away from the star's surface. Even emptying out the entire galaxy wouldn't do it.

Then a simple theory emerged. There are only two options to solve this problem, one is to reduce resource consumption, and the other is to reduce the construction area.

The former is the key point that Zero hopes to solve, and it is also the goal of his continuous experiments over the years. However, even after decades, it has only reduced the reproduction cost by five percentage points.

If it can be fully constructed, the resources reduced by reducing consumption by five percentage points will be a very scary figure. However, it is a pity that even the original consumption of 95% has not been achieved at all. possible.

Therefore, this achievement, which was not a small one in the first place, became tasteless, and this was the best result that Zero could achieve in the short term.

As for reducing the scope of construction, this is a temporary solution. It can at least increase part of the energy output, and the resources consumed during it can be recycled in the end and most of the materials can be reused.

Zero has the heart to start establishing a pilot project about 10 million kilometers within the orbit of Planet No. 1. However, considering that the third batch of colonial fleets heading to Prov has been waiting for a long time, it is determined that they will not be fully carried out until they set off ten years later.

Before the three main colonial fleets arrived in the new star system, Zero Wu sent teams to farther stars. Even if he was eager to meet an intelligent race, he never forgot the principle that if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.