Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The Zerg's sphere of influence has expanded to four star systems, but they still haven't encountered any life. It was as if the universe, except for Ori, was completely silent.

But that's obviously not the case, at least Octopus Man can prove it.

The birth of life requires too many coincidences. The Zerg are definitely not alone. Among these trillions of stars, there must be some lucky ones who can obtain unique external conditions like the lizard people, plus some indispensable factors. His luck finally ignited the spark of civilization.

What kind of environment is around the insect swarm, and what kind of civilization exists, are all unknown.

Zero once entertained the idea of ​​sending a Zerg version of the "Voyager" as a pioneer to explore the universe, but later quietly gave up.

Because for the Zerg, they can explore and colonize, so there is no need to waste that time.

Among the colonial teams released in the first round, only the team headed for the Prov system 9.1 light-years away is still on the way.

While other teams have already launched vigorous colonization activities, they still need a full hundred years to travel from their destination.

However, even so, Zero has already begun planning the next round of expansion.

Today, the maximum speed that the Zerg space units can reach using stellar energy is 6% of the speed of light. This is also the highest speed that Sass and the others can currently allow the Zerg to reach.

If we send teams from the three star systems that have already begun colonization and head towards the nearest galaxy, there will be more than double-digit galaxies within twenty light years.

For these unknown stars, the Zerg have limited knowledge and can only make inferences through rough observations, but this method is not very reliable.

For example, the planet in the Heli galaxy was hidden under the light of the star. Before the Zerg arrived there, Zero never thought that it could exist stably in such an environment.

A long time ago, Zero began to number every star that the Zerg could accurately observe in the sky. The so-called exact observation naturally meant being able to determine the type of star.

In the dark night sky, it is not just the stars that shine. Some of the light may have come from millions of years ago. It may have come from a distant star field!

Regarding the cosmic environment in which he is currently located, Octopus also judged that he should be in a whirlpool-shaped barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 15 light-years by observing other star fields in the universe and combining it with the common characteristics of his own star field. , and is located outside the center of one of the cantilevers.

Naturally, Ori, who is only fifty light years away from the octopus home system of Krichtel, is also within this area.

Determining one's own position is crucial to the development of civilization. Unfortunately, when you are in it, it is always difficult to see the whole picture. You can only make a rough estimate. Fortunately, at least the nearby stars are basically observable.

When the Zerg started sailing between stars, everything was on the fast track.

Navigating through the universe at 6% of the speed of light, it only takes less than seventeen years to complete one light-year. Before Sass and Dagos advance nuclear energy research to a controllable level, this may be the way for the Zerg to travel. The maximum speed of travel in the universe.

Therefore, Zero quietly changed his colonial thinking, and it was still too slow to develop like this.

The swarm of insects went to the only planet in the Heli galaxy to carry out colonization activities. They used the rich geothermal energy on the planet to turn the available resources on the entire planet's surface into space units as quickly as possible, and then devoted all their efforts Begin to accumulate energy for their voyage.

Yes, in this round of colonization activities, Zero decided to abandon the plan to prioritize the development of colonial planets and instead carry out interstellar enclosure missions.

That is, after the Zerg colonial team arrives in the new star field and completes basic exploration, it will prioritize accumulating resources, send a small number of space units to new star systems within ten light years of the surrounding area, and then develop itself.

This decision is quite bold, almost completely opposite to Zero's previous prudent decision when he launched the first round of colonization activities in the Ori system.

However, referring to the process of the first round of interstellar colonization plan, after careful consideration, he thought that it would be okay to be bolder, and the risks would still be within controllable limits.

Compared with the powerful threats that may be encountered, accelerating colonization activities will not put the Zerg group in a more dangerous situation, but may instead make the existence of the zero-sum Zerg group safer.

A larger area means that the Zerg are everywhere, and as long as they are alive, the Zerg will not perish.

If you are really unfortunate enough to encounter a civilization or other threat that is powerful enough to destroy the Zerg race, there is nothing wrong with initiating an escape plan.

Compared with the benefits, this risk is nothing, but the time investment may make Zero feel uncomfortable.

However, he believes that Sass and Dagos, as well as the many brainworms who will join the Zerg scientific research team in the future, will one day improve the Zerg's aerospace capabilities again, or they will find a more developed civilization and steal knowledge and skills from them. .

Although it is taboo to change orders from morning to night, more than two hundred years have passed, and even if the furthest colonial team has not reached the target, it is not considered to have been changed from day to night.

What's more, during the first round of colonization, Zero basically understood the environment in the void of the universe. In general, it was not much different from what he had expected before. He did not encounter any unpredictable dangers and everything seemed very ordinary. .

It is indeed deathly silent here. Except for the meteorite belt, which has been drifting randomly here since the birth of the universe and has no rules at all. It can be said to be very rare, there is only eternal silence and darkness.

The insect swarm did not encounter the light brought by the supernova explosion during this process, nor did it encounter the major cosmic event of the collision of black holes. This is the ordinary void of the universe. Apart from darkness, most of the time, what is here? nor.

Therefore, accelerating expansion has a basis for early exploration, even if it is pitiful.

I don’t know when the brainworms will be able to come up with a conclusive answer on space navigation, so Zero is ready to start directing the insect swarm to conduct enclosure movements.

As for Visser, he is responsible for presiding over the overall situation and developing and developing the galaxies occupied by the swarm led by Zero according to the plan.

The era of flowers blooming on all sides will eventually come.

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After the first four star systems to which colonization teams were sent, in order to more easily distinguish the many stars, Zero numbered them.

To put it simply, from the four star systems closest to Orui, they are directly occupied by colonial teams sent by them, which are numbered A-001. For more detailed distinction, the starting point is added, that is, HA-001. It represents the first colonized galaxy in the first round starting from Hurley. Similarly, there will also be TA-001, SA-002, etc., which respectively represent the first colonized galaxy in the first round and the first colonized galaxy starting from Turrell Galaxy. The first round of colonizing the galaxy from the Sommer Galaxy.

If there is no important meaning, zero will no longer name them, and they will be replaced by numbers.

According to observations, there may be more than 50 billion stars on the cantilever where the Zerg is located. If we name them one by one, no matter how persistent Zero is about naming, he will always be at a loss for words.

The numbering is different. The numbers are endless. If it doesn't work, just create a new set of numbers.