Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The universe is empty. Even if the entire galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and its total mass is about 800 billion times that of the entire Ori galaxy, such a rich amount of matter does not change its nature of nothingness.

Because in this indescribably huge celestial structure of the universe, the stars are almost deserted.

If a particle is shot into this star field from the edge of the river system at a random angle, and eventually passes through the entire river system, the probability that it will actually hit physical matter is very small, because here, 90% The space above nine is a vacuum.

Just like the atomic nucleus and the electrons rotating around it, they seem to be closely connected, but in fact there is a very empty space between them.

Sometimes Zero wonders, in such a huge space, how many planets can have life like Orui, and can eventually give birth to civilization?

Today's Zerg have an extremely profound understanding of life, and the origin of life on Orui is no longer a secret.

Zero knew clearly that even if a planet had the conditions for the birth of life, before it could truly give birth to life, it would still need to experience a coincidence that seemed to be God's own hand.

And it takes hundreds of millions of years to develop from the lowest form of life to the spark that gave birth to civilization!

Therefore, it can be said that life is the most magnificent miracle in the universe!

But if it is in a nearly infinite space and tens of billions of years, even the smallest probability will eventually come true.

Theoretically, if time is infinite and the universe maintains its status quo forever and never dies, all planets that meet the conditions will eventually give birth to life and even civilization!

Unfortunately, in recent hundreds of years, apart from the mechanical civilization of Mira, the Zerg have never encountered a planet with life.

The 1000th year of the Zerg is a memorable time for both Zero and Sass. It means that since the Zerg landed on Island No. and experienced earth-shaking changes, it has been a thousand ori years until now!

From escaping in embarrassment at sea, to conquering the surface of the earth, to crossing the interstellar space, the Zerg have experienced unimaginable changes in the past thousand years.

If Zero had not appeared, the small biological community composed of a queen ant leading an ant colony would have disappeared in the long river of time. Even if they were extremely lucky to have their own tribe passed down from generation to generation, Even though thousands of years have passed, they are still just a group of humble ants. They have been ants since they were born, and they are destined to remain ants forever without any change.

If they are lucky enough, they may witness the glory and decline of the Lizardman Empire as ants, and they may also see the Lizardmen, a native race above Orui, successfully fly into space and become stronger step by step.

………………

Time has been too long. Looking back, Zero realized that the war with the lizardmen was already so far away.

A thousand years, this is considered a node. It took the Zerg a total of a thousand years to go from the era of ignorance to today's interstellar navigation and control of large tracts of galaxies.

The mother star Ori has completed a thousand complete revolutions around the central star, allowing the Zerg to reach this point.

Now, nearly twenty years have passed since the departure of the first colonial fleet in the sixth round of the Zerg. This kind of activity has been hosted by Visser, and Zero has nothing to worry about.

During this time, Sass made some gains in scientific research. Some of the materials in the battleship armor from Mira were forced out by Sars. The hardness of these chemical materials is several times stronger than steel. In the original war, ordinary kinetic energy weapons could not attack people with this kind of material. Armor parts cause damage.

Although there is already a synthetic formula for this material, it is still unable to be used on a large scale in the Zerg body.

Because one of the substances has extremely active chemical properties, is quite scarce in nature and is difficult to extract, but it is indispensable in the synthesis of this material.

So far, even the accumulation of Zerg in various galaxies is not enough to support the completion of the strengthening of the entire Zerg swarm, and what is embarrassing is that before this, the Zerg swarm had used this material because it was of no use. It was left behind as waste, and today's reserves are quite limited.

Obviously, this thing is a luxury product. No wonder even Mira only uses it for the defense of key parts of the battleship.

In the HC-006 galaxy, the Zerg captured many remnants of mechanical battleships through war, but they were able to defeat them with some effort.

Zero plans that after all galaxies are connected in the future, this scarce material can be used uniformly to create a group of top soldiers for the Zerg.

However, it is too early to say this at this time. In various galaxies in the past, these unused but extremely rare substances and materials were directly discarded by the Zerg. But now that they have a use, the necessary collection is It's inevitable.

This also reminded Zero that in addition to those elements that can be found everywhere, the Zerg probably still need to store some substances that are currently unused but rarely produced, in case of emergency.

Otherwise, it will inevitably be more embarrassing if we encounter such a situation in the future.

The entire galaxy is so huge, with hundreds of billions of stars. Zero believes that even the scarcest resources must exist in sufficient quantities within such a vast range.

However, the premise of all this is that the insect swarm can truly connect the various galaxies within its sphere of influence. Not to mention real-time communication, it must have the ability to complete the exchange of materials between adjacent star systems within at least five years. Otherwise, what appears to be a huge territory can actually only be fought independently under unified command.

If an ordinary biological civilization does this like the Zerg, assuming they have the ability to navigate the star system and colonize various planets, such difficult information exchange is enough to cause a huge empire to fall apart. For the stability of the regime, existence, unless they have to, even if they have the ability, they will not do it.

That is to say, only a race like the Zerg, which is highly centralized and has absolute personal loyalty, was able to achieve this step without super-light navigation technology. Because they are born with the ability to communicate over long distances, which transcends the times, Zero can command the Zerg units in every corner anytime and anywhere to complete what he wants the Zerg Swarm to do.

But then again, from the development of the ant colony thousands of years ago to today's point, the common energy problem is no longer a problem that plagues the Zerg. With controllable nuclear fusion and biological Dyson spheres, whether in the galaxy or in the In the wilderness of the universe, the Zerg can obtain sufficient energy to ensure survival.

But the Zerg is constantly developing, and the contradictions are also changing with the strength of the Zerg swarm. There is no doubt that the main contradiction faced by the Zerg in the development of the relatively peaceful period is how to connect all the occupied galaxies and complete the integration of resources, so that the Zerg can truly turn the potential of occupying these galaxies into real strength. .

Zero knew very well that sailing at speeds below the speed of light could not meet the needs of the Zerg. Because even traveling between these galaxies at the speed of light, even to adjacent galaxies, would take several years.

On a cosmic scale, a few years is certainly not a long time, but in conventional navigation, the speed of light is impossible to reach.