Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

If there is one place that is the most peaceful in the territory of the Velvet Federation today, it is naturally the scientific research institutes distributed in many important colonial galaxies.

These places are undoubtedly the top priority for Todd to control using both Zerg surface units and lurkers.

Although he has captured many intelligent groups in the alliance, Zero still pays more attention to the top scientific researchers of the Velvet people.

Their technological level may seem relatively backward today, but their thinking and methods will not lag behind. They are just lacking in knowledge. In time, they may not be weaker than any other civilization in the alliance. .

Speaking of which, when the Velvet people forcibly controlled the Brocher people, the situation was probably the same. However, times have changed, and today the Brocher people have not been truly integrated, but the entire Velvet Federation has actually been integrated. They became prisoners of the Zerg's demands, just like when the Brochers faced the Federation fleet that straddled the orbit of the planet.

Regarding further research on the Brocher people, and even research on directly replicating this special organ structure at the genetic level using Zerg biotechnology, Sass is already in practice.

According to Zero's plan, the first step the swarm has to do is to "classify" the Velvets.

Todd, who has secretly controlled Velvet over the years, has a lot of experience in how to rule an intelligent race. Although Velvet's status is now different from before, the truth is the same and human nature is not that easy to change.

After accepting the Zerg transformation, if successful, there will actually be no loss to the Velvet people. On the contrary, these races will make great progress in terms of lifespan and physical strength, although they will not reach the level of immortality like the brain worms. The effect is enough to make most people covet it.

But this still sounds difficult to accept. After all, it is a transformation of thinking. If you accept it, it is completely unclear whether you are still "oneself".

The philosophical debate on the level of consciousness, that is, the question of why "I" is "I", has never stopped since the birth of civilization. As a result, many interesting stories have been created, and in the long process of civilization development, gradually formed The perfect "self" concept is deeply rooted in people's hearts in a subtle way.

Of course, Zero can choose to forcibly replace him with a lurker without the other party's consent.

But his "classification" is not superfluous. After all, the swarm cannot control every Velvet as a lurker. If it is to maintain the existence of its population and provide a steady stream of high-level human resources for the swarm, then a certain degree of order is necessary.

In order for them to accept the rule of the Zerg, some means are naturally necessary. According to the relationship with the Zerg, strictly linking the "class" with it is the first method proposed by Todd.

At the same time, the cloning operation for high-level federal talents is also in progress. If it is concluded that genetic inheritance from high-level talents is absolutely superior to breeding in the general sense, it is completely impossible to have a "tiger father and dog son". If this is the case, then Todd's governance model is no longer necessary.

Of course, based on Sass's research, Zero thinks this should be unlikely.

During the research on the Velvet people, Sasse found that although having more "high-end" genes in a certain sense can indeed ensure a higher rate of excellence in offspring, its impact on intelligence depends on the expression of the relevant gene sequences. Affected by more factors.

According to the biological research and statistics of the Velvet people themselves, the number of high-level talents born from natural reproduction in large numbers is also larger.

In other words, in this regard, it seems that the universe has its own rules, that is, "natural" is better than "artificial". Of course, Zero believes that this statement should be another expression of genetic diversity. Sass has also begun to use the advantages of the Zerg to conduct a large number of life studies to confirm whether this is true.

But this is not actually important. Regardless of the outcome, maintaining the existence of some intelligent races will not consume much energy from the Zerg race, but the potential benefits may be excessive.

In 1701 of the Zerg, the Cerebral Insect Ruhr began to gather the Zerg offensive within the Federation star field, ended the pursuit of the entire Federation's escaping fleet, and began to infiltrate Zerg lurkers to forcibly destroy all existing intelligent civilization individuals. Carry out "moving" activities.

This matter was actually based on Zero One's decision. He believed that bringing all civilized individuals together might be beneficial to the subsequent development of science and technology, but he ignored the possible public security problems. In other words, he didn't even think about it in the first place. Too concerned.

But it doesn't matter, Ruhl will strictly implement all Zero's instructions. From the moment they were defeated, these intelligent races were no longer considered "human" in the eyes of the Zerg. In fact, they had never been "human" in the eyes of the Zerg.

The defeated are not qualified to negotiate terms. If they do not obey, there will only be physical destruction. The so-called integrity and backbone will appear very ridiculous under the rule of Zerg lurkers and terror.

As the influence of the Hive Mind further strengthens and the Zerg lurkers continue to penetrate, they will eventually get used to being kept in captivity by the Zerg. The only difference is the length of time.

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If we want to say that the Velvet people have made any contribution to the Zerg in the past hundred years, then the study of a certain mysterious structure coming from the core of the planet is definitely an important achievement.

Although they did not make the expected breakthrough in materials technology based on their shell, the basic physics theory of the strong force has taken a big step forward, which represents a major breakthrough in basic physics. , meaning that the mysteries of the universe have once again opened the door to them.

Of course, all this belongs to the Zerg.

Research on material science and technology based on the theory of strong force has been carried out since then, with ready-made samples. The progress was not slow at first, but then it was quickly discovered that there seemed to be some kind of bottleneck, restricting the insect swarm. Get closer in that direction.

Obviously, strong force is only one of its front-end technologies, far from all of it, which makes Zero a little helpless. In terms of scientific research, if it can't be done, it can't be done. Only when the conditions are mature, everything will fall into place.

In addition, after it was originally opened, the Velvet people focused on studying its internal structure, especially the energy supply system. However, after so many years, they have only come up with some immature results.

It can only be determined that this seems to be related to the "creation" and annihilation of dark matter, but how it is carried out specifically, because it has stopped working, even the brainworms have difficulty restoring it, and can only leave it to the future, when the Zerg attacks the dimension With more understanding and understanding of dark matter, etc., breakthroughs may be made.

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Although it is much easier to use one's own knowledge system to figure out the scientific and technological achievements of advanced civilizations through ready-made objects, and to deduce their scientific and technological theories than to explore on one's own, it is not that simple.

In the past hundred years, there have never been astonishing figures like Pope and Goldman in the Velvet Federation, who single-handedly pushed civilization forward. Perhaps it is for this reason that their research results are scattered and difficult to analyze. The analysis of its energy supply structure is truly complete, let alone its functional components.