Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Explored universe, Vege Empire, main star field.

The new emperor Assolon had just ascended the throne and faced a severe test.

To put it simply, during the exploration of a new star field, the Imperial Immigration Corps was invaded.

The Veggie Empire has seen too much about colonial resistance. For countless years, there have been too many opponents, or existences that cannot even be called opponents, have fallen at their feet. To this day, the Veggie Empire's real opponent There are only two, the Hero Federation and the Korva Empire.

But this time is different. This is not a colonial resistance, but an invasion!

In other words, the empire does not occupy a dominant position in this "war", they are the passive party!

From the birth of civilization, the power of the Vege Empire has been obvious to all, and it has made its way to the top of the explored universe. They have never been afraid of powerful enemies, but this time they felt a sense of powerlessness for the first time in a long time.

During the pioneering activities of the Imperial Immigration Corps, targeted exploration can easily reveal the important civilizations within the entire target star cluster. Their strength is naturally the main response target of the Empire.

Therefore, the Imperial Colonial Fleet has launched large-scale liquidation activities within this brand-new star cluster in the past six hundred years.

Unlike the Hero Federation or the Korva Empire, the Vege Empire's foreign policy has always been extremely tough.

Except for the two civilizations of the same magnitude that can truly compete with it, all existences it encounters have only destruction.

This is the way the Vegeans think. The strong survive and the weak die. This is inseparably related to some activities in the early stages of civilization, but it is also because of this that the entire race has maintained almost absolute racial purity from its birth to the present.

In other words, within the Vege Empire, there are almost no citizens who do not belong to the Vege race!

Even for the envoys of Korva and Hero or other immigrants, it is difficult to obtain the citizenship of Vigi.

This is in sharp contrast to the Hero Federation, which is nominally open to all races.

Therefore, during so many years of expansion, almost all entities that were enemies of Weegee suffered a devastating blow.

However, in this star cluster named Sevan, Veggie encountered a reverse invasion!

It is a kind of "pollution" on the spiritual level that can spread on the Veggies at an extremely strange speed, but it is not the most serious, and it is definitely not worth the emperor's headache.

In the past, the Vege Empire has suffered many setbacks in its expansion process, but these so-called setbacks, at best, only caused the colonial fleet to return in embarrassment. What is remarkable is that part of the fleet was completely annihilated, and the black men of the local civilization were Technology can always be unexpected, but after attracting the attention of the empire, without exception, they all suffered from crushing wars, or fled far away, or were exterminated!

But this time, in the past thousands of years of expansion, Vege was attacked by an opponent for the first time and spread to its "homeland"!

That kind of weird "pollution" can't be isolated on the physical level!

Although it is separated by the endless star field, it can affect the territory in the core area of ​​​​the empire's central star field to a certain extent!

This seems to be a real "curse" on the entire race with some mysterious connection, which makes everything different.

Because of this, a crazy "spiritual pollution" began to spread in the core area of ​​​​the empire.

At first, it didn't attract much attention. It was just that the empire had wiped out another group of races. It was really not worth mentioning.

But then irrational individuals appeared in the colonial fleet, and when similar cases appeared in various star regions of the empire, "it" was regarded as a new disease targeting Vege, and Korva was even suspected for a time On the head of the empire, because their research in this area is at the pinnacle, and on the biological level, it is not surprising what kind of technology they have.

And when the situation really expanded, both in terms of casualties and social influence, it finally entered the vision of the empire's top officials and began to be paid attention to by civilized leaders.

Unfortunately, this matter does not even have anything to do with the early or late discovery. At the time of initial contact, based on the phenomenon, one of its important characteristics was quickly revealed.

That is, "it" doesn't really exist!

At least with the existing technology of the Veggie Empire, it is difficult to explain it. No physical principles can describe its existence. Even "it" itself is a word given by Veggie in order to make it concrete. Generation name.

After a period of efforts that yielded no results and the situation continued to escalate, the Vege Empire even took the initiative to ask Korva for help as a last resort, but all this had no effect.

Korva dispatched a group of outstanding scientific researchers to participate in the joint research. In the end, although it cannot be said that nothing was achieved, they were still unable to do anything about it.

This takes this matter to another level, because as we all know, Korva's life technology is absolutely far ahead even among the three major civilizations. If this matter was not directed and acted by them, In terms of story, it means that the trouble Weji encountered this time is definitely beyond the current level of technology.

Although this is not necessarily true technically, it is inevitable in terms of phenomena.

For the Vege Empire, this even once involved the mysterious side. They advocate science, but someone can connect it to theology, which is enough to explain the problem.

The "pollution" from the spirit makes it impossible for everyone to deal with it. This may be a natural phenomenon, or it may be the revenge of a certain destroyed civilization against the Vege Empire, or it may even be the secret operation of the Korva Empire. , but no matter what, it has actually caused turmoil in the imperial society. Even for an absolutely centralized system like Vege, maintaining stability under such circumstances requires a lot of energy, which is a drain on the resources of the entire civilization. Huge consumption.

Even if the Weji family has a great business, it still finds it difficult to accept such continuous and irreversible losses.

And this was the source of the emperor's troubles. Because this not only involves the image and voice of the empire in the three major civilizational governance systems, but also the fundamental interests of the people of the empire!

If it is not resolved for a long time, it may cause a series of extremely bad effects, and it is not even ruled out that the power structure of the entire explored universe will change as a result!

Therefore, in order to solve this matter, under the decision-making instructions of the emperor and the highest level, the Vege Empire closely monitored the internal situation to minimize its negative impact, and launched carpet searches in new exploration areas that brought about changes. , constantly expanding the exploration team, and assuming a posture of finding its roots at all costs.

On the other hand, the Empire has also increased its exploration of more unknown galaxy systems, trying to find solutions to problems in this way, or at least inspiration.

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As one of the rulers of the explored universe, Veggie's every move affects the nerves of the entire explored universe's governance system. What's more, such a large-scale operation cannot be hidden from those who are interested.