Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Although the nuclear fission reaction has been realized in the hands of the Zerg, it still requires some effort to make it controllable.

Of course, at this level, it is barely enough to be used as a weapon. As long as the raw materials are enough, it can even be copied infinitely in theory.

Some things are just like this. When they are not there, it always feels like there are thousands of barriers that cannot be broken through. However, once you have it, you will find that it is nothing more than that.

The Zerg, which controls an entire star system, and even parts of other galaxies, are not short of raw materials. Even the heavy elements settled inside the planet are potential fission resources, but the technical difficulty is much higher.

Of course, communication across star systems is still a problem for the Zerg today. It’s not about the exchange of information, it’s mainly about the circulation of materials.

The distance in light years divides the insect swarm into semi-independent groups on a galaxy basis. In addition to sharing information, if they want to have material exchanges with each other, with the current ability of the insect swarm, it will take at least nearly a hundred years. time!

The situation seems to have returned to the time when the various colonial planets were colonized. Because the distance is too far, each planet is almost self-sufficient, with little material circulation.

Later, this problem was solved by improving the efficiency of stellar energy output, and finally the establishment of the Zerg space main base completely integrated all the colonial planets in the galaxy.

But when this distance becomes between star systems, even if the Zerg's space navigation speed can reach the speed of light, each one-sided material communication still needs to be measured in years.

What's more, in regular navigation, it is absolutely impossible to reach that level of speed. This is true whether it is in Octopus Man's knowledge base or Zero's memory.

The rapid increase in speed will eventually cause a drastic change in mass, and the energy required will increase rapidly in an extremely terrifying situation. When it is infinitely close to the speed of light, the mass of the object will become infinite. At that time, even if the mass of a star is Complete concentration of energy is just a drop in the bucket.

This is not a myth, but a theory that has been basically confirmed.

In many science fictions, going beyond the speed of light has always been possible only by finding another way. For example, the octopus man once imagined the future, and another example is the science fiction story of mankind.

Regarding this naturally existing gap, Zero currently has no choice but to allow each galaxy to develop freely, and together they form a Zerg force that is extremely centralized in spirit and extremely loose in material terms.

At this point, even if the Zerg further overcomes the difficulties of nuclear fusion in the future, there will be no fundamental change.

Because in this case, the amount of energy is no longer the decisive factor. What really affects all of this is another technology.

After occupying the frozen planet in the Prov galaxy, the development of the swarm here has not changed again. Everything is the same as before. The resources of the entire galaxy began to transfer to a fixed base, and in a nearly The fixed rate of increase accelerates until it reaches saturation before reaching stability.

In 764, the Zerg arrived in the galaxy numbered HA-001 and started colonization activities. This represented the beginning of the second round of interstellar expansion of the Zerg.

In the next ten years or so, from HA-002 to SA-004, a total of 10 star systems were successively arrived by the Zerg and fully explored.

Until now, among the teams in the second round of expansion, only three teams starting from Plov are still on the way, but they will reach the target star system in the next thirty years.

During this period, the application of nuclear fission energy brought an increase of more than 40% to the Zerg's space speed, reaching a level close to 9% of the speed of light!

Because it requires a smaller mass of matter but provides a huge amount of energy, achieving this is expected.

As for the original Octopus Man, he clearly had almost mature fission technology, but he could only reach the speed of seven percent of light through energy crystals. One of the important reasons was that there was only one energy crystal, not to mention They also need to bring hundreds of tribesmen and corresponding vitamins, otherwise, it will definitely be more than that.

Another important reason lies in the use of energy.

It's not that the energy generated by nuclear fission is not enough to propel the spacecraft forward, but that the use of energy by intelligent races must require many transformation processes.

Take fission energy as an example. The nuclear fission reaction converts nuclear energy into various forms of energy, mainly thermal energy, and then converts this thermal energy into the internal energy of water to produce high-pressure steam, which is then transmitted through a steam turbine to generate power.

And this is also the general principle of so-called nuclear power, commonly known as boiling water. Whether it is chemical energy or nuclear energy, in terms of power application, its essence is the same, but the form of boiling water is different.

So it's not that fission reactions cannot produce a large amount of energy in a short period of time. The huge energy released during a nuclear explosion can prove this. The biggest reason is that their methods of using nuclear energy are really limited and they cannot release it faster.

At this point, they faced the same dilemma as the previous swarm when they used stellar energy.

However, the difference is that the Zerg unit is a living creature. This unique structure gives them an advantage over intelligent races in this regard, at least in terms of energy transfer.

Therefore, they can increase their speed to this step after fission energy is controllable.

The mass of a moving object is always larger than that of a stationary object. This is not obvious in low-speed motion and can basically be ignored.

But when the speed reaches a certain level, the impact in this regard will become more and more obvious. The closer to the speed of light, the more rapid the increase in mass will be.

This also means that the Zerg cannot increase the speed forever at the speed of light. Even if it has not been touched yet, it will inevitably face this in the future.

In other words, if the interstellar colonization system currently constructed by the swarm wants to be able to communicate with each other like the interior of the galaxy, it will definitely require a navigation technology that exceeds the speed of light. This is very important for today's zerg. That said, it's still too far away.

However, this does not prevent Zero from taking the lead in sending out swarms of insects to conduct enclosure movements. Even if they are unable to communicate with each other, with a star system as the foundation, the zerg will never be lacking in materials and energy.

Just like Ori, after hundreds of years of development, the energy and resources here have been greatly enriched. If one day the insect swarm hollows out this place, then it will be time to leave.

If there are no accidents, the swarm of insects will start from the Ori galaxy and gradually encroach to the periphery. At the same time, they will expand the area of ​​​​activity of the worms into many unowned galaxies, expanding their sphere of influence in a nearly exponential growth form.

——If there is no control, they will turn into real interstellar locusts at a very fast speed in the future!

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What time has brought to the Zerg, in addition to energy utilization, is also the further strengthening of resource extraction capabilities.

On the planet Ori, the activities of the insect swarm have come to a standstill. It does not mean that the resources here are already scarce. As the origin of the insect swarm, out of some simple emotions, Zero did not let the insect swarm completely destroy this place. Due to destructive mining, hundreds of years have passed, but the place still maintains its original appearance and even becomes vibrant again.