StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 562 Primal Zerg
At the beginning of 2499, the largest naval battle since the founding of the Tyranid Empire kicked off in the Bracken galaxy in the southwestern border.The number of warships and troops deployed by the Imperial Fleet at Bracken was so large that even the largest remnant of the Commonwealth's counterattack against Jaanda Fever could not be compared.

Commanding the First Fleet of the Empire is the famous general Edmund Duke, who is known as the sword of the emperor, the hero of Tarsonis, and the mad dog Duke.

(Mad dog rabid dog refers to the affectionate title of Marshal Jim Raynor, which is an affirmation of his excellent strategy and tactics)
The first fleet is the ace fleet of the Tyrannian Empire Navy. Its predecessors are Alpha Squadron, Delta Squadron, Crimson Squadron and Beta Squadron.

After the larger, thicker, and more powerful Minotaur-class battlecruisers were launched on a large scale, the size of the First Fleet expanded several times.

The fleet has absorbed a large number of outstanding officers from the old Federal Navy, and the newly graduated officers of the Imperial Navy Academy have also undergone a new round of blood transfusion.The experienced, skilled, and enthusiastic officer system is the core of the imperial army. They must not only be competent for their own duties, but also be able to clearly understand and execute orders. When necessary, they must also motivate their subordinates and maintain respect for the emperor. loyalty.

There are a large number of imperial naval bases, ship-based home ports, and mobile fortresses to provide support. The supply system of support ships such as tugboats, barges, oil tankers, and supply ships is enough for the First Fleet to launch a war of annihilation alone.

The opponent of the Empire's First Fleet is the original Zerg that appeared for the first time. Although the two sides have never had a record of confrontation, the latter is fierce and its strength cannot be underestimated.

The subspecies of the original Zerg differ greatly from its distant relatives in form. They were originally closer to the highly evolved large theropod dinosaurs, and have a variety of distinctive traits, such as abnormally developed combustion-supporting glands, specialized The giant skull and unusually developed chewing muscles, pressurized glands capable of ejecting bony spears, and huge membranous wings with a wingspan of up to forty feet.

In the universe, the original Zerg advances with a variety of extremely large single creatures as motherships, the largest of which are the original main nest and the original war nest. These ancient and lonely giant creatures originally lurked in Zerus all over the volcanoes and The underground of the jungle feeds on various primitive zerg.

After the overlord led the broken zerg back to Zerus, an endless war broke out with the original zerg on the planet.Those who survived these ancient primordial zerg absorbed the genes of their enemies and allies alike, growing enormously and gaining the ability to travel in deep space.

The largest of these is even comparable to a Swarm Behemoth.

Other incomparable super primitive zerg are the best among the chiefs of the wildly evolved primitive swarm tribes. They stand at the top of the food chain of Zerus in the endless death and survival of the fittest.

For example, Slivan, the Eternal Worm Mother, is the most terrifying original Zerg ruler except Zongzu Zuerwen, and it has now evolved into a terrifying monster.When it passed Krykov, the lunar base of the Tyranid Empire, its shadow even covered half of the moon.

The eternal worm mother of the original swarm is an extremely weird patriarch even in her group.

Slivan is the mother of the great swarm, and the tens of millions of incubators in her body are endlessly hatching newborn zerg every minute and every second. Most of today's swarms are Son of Slivan.It never tires and never stops multiplying.

What broke into the Bracken galaxy was a primitive swarm attached to the Slivan swarm, consisting of multiple primitive main hives and a large number of primitive zerg flying creatures capable of flying in the universe.

When the first Primordial Hive jumped to the Bracken system through the wormhole, the war was on the verge of breaking out.

Duke's flagship Norad III was in front, and it poured two rounds of firepower on the giant creature floating in the deep space in just a few minutes. A total of 24 groups of laser cannons continued to fire continuously until it hit the giant creature. Black blood flowed across the green enamel armor covered on the surface of the giant beast.

The primordial zerg immediately launched a counterattack, and a large number of flying creatures never before seen accelerated towards the Imperial fleet.

Mutalisks have similar varieties in the original swarm, but they are also noticeably larger, have more wings or more claws, and are far more powerful than ordinary Mutalisks.Others were strains the Empire had never seen before, and it was the first time they had appeared in the Bracken system.

These primitive Zergs are shaped like floating giant octopuses or blunt-headed king squids. They have huge heads and ferocious and ferocious beaks. They use floating sacs filled with special mineral liquids and powerful tentacles to move quickly.

Such a bizarre biological form is the product of the convergent evolution of the primordial swarm and the master swarm. These ferocious and cunning primitive corrupt flying insects are the kings of the skies of Zerus, and their acid can even kill the murderous Leviathan.

Despite possessing these highly evolved and efficient killing organs at the same time, no two corrupt flying insects are the same, just as it is impossible to have two leaves with the same veins, and their body shapes are also very different.

Certain primordial corrupt flying insects can be called the kings of their species, and they must have devoured too many of their own kind or enemies to have such a large size and such a ferocious character.The largest of these, the Corrupted Flying Worms, are undoubtedly the most evolved creatures, capable of piercing armor with only their beaks and claws, which are harder than diamond.

As for other extremely cunning and vicious primitive insects, they are a bit like feathered snakes in mythology, like scorpions with wings.Primitive flying snakes are so ferocious and violent that they will eat their own kind even in flight to gain lost energy.

In addition, the strange appearance of the original Zerg is out of the infinite possibility of evolution. Except for the rare species such as the original king worm and the original blaster, the other original Zerg is simply a hodgepodge, as if the tree of biological evolution The shape chart is spread out in front of human beings.

But no matter what, the functions of every organ in its body are similar, and they were all born for the purpose of killing with extreme efficiency, so the difference is not unimaginable.The original Zerg is the ultimate embodiment of natural selection, survival of the fittest, law of the jungle, and the winner is king.

In the face of the menacing army of primitive Zerg, the First Fleet of the Empire did not back down in any way. More than 100 Minotaur-class battlecruisers and more medium-sized frigate-class ships formed an attacking formation to face the Zerg swarm directly. Tens of millions of turrets Together with tens of thousands of bright flames, they immediately formed a death forest-like firepower network in front of the fleet.

In an instant, thousands of primordial zerg were pulverized by the fierce artillery fire, and the bloody storm swept across the starry sky of Bracken.It turns out that even brutal creatures as zerg are flesh and blood after all.

General Duke on the Norad III was very pleased with the effect of the first salvo, but he was not too far from being carried away by it.

You know, Duke thinks that the feat he wants to achieve is not just as simple as killing some primitive zerg. Only by defeating all the zerg can he show his greatness.

While Duke increased the deployment of reconnaissance ships and radars, he ordered the fleet to form a defensive front to resist the impending impact of the primitive swarm.Even with his conceit, he is not so arrogant that he thinks that with a bayonet installed on his battleship, he can face the Zerg head-on.

The primordial zerg didn't flinch from such terrible casualties, as if they didn't know what fear was, they advanced in the dense firepower net of the imperial fleet.

All Imperial ships have captured an extremely strange sight, that is, even in the midst of a war, the primordial zerg are still savagely feasting on the corpses of their kin smashed by human artillery.

Such a sight might not be enough for well-trained Imperial Navy soldiers to be horrified, but commanders with keen eyesight and careful observation soon discovered that the original Zerg that had devoured the corpses of their own race was growing larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and It seems that the special organs and characteristics of the original Zerg that they ate grew out of their bodies.

Those smaller primitive zerg individuals may not pose much threat to the Minotaur-class battlecruiser, but the largest individual among them is not only close in size to a human capital ship, but even the armor covering the body is not weak at all.

Among them, several giant primitive zergs shaped like whales quickly attracted the attention of Norad III's tactical analysis system. According to the comparison of the database, it showed that they were highly similar in shape to whales.These elegant space creatures are not unique to Baishir, and the primordial zerg must have hunted these poor creatures somewhere in the galaxy anyway.

However, these primitive zerg are completely different creatures from the docile cetaceans, more like space mosasaurs with huge mouths, and rows of colorful sword plates on their broad backs.It appears to be some sort of sail that absorbs energy from the star and is accelerated by the raging solar wind as it passes the edge of the star.

The whale-like creature was covered with deadly scales, and it was swaying. The gigantic monster with giant fin-shaped claws was also extremely flexible. They avoided the firepower of the imperial battleship and advanced at an extremely fast speed, approaching the battle of the First Fleet. flank of the group.

Another part of the giant primitive Zerg is quite funny, and some are even a tyrannosaurus or monitor lizard that has just grown a nozzle and a floating sac. This kind of weird form may be difficult to fly beautifully on the planet. , but it is just right for use in space.

One primordial zerg resembled a cross between a wild boar and a porcupine, but its hind limbs were endowed with myriad squid-like tentacles resembling those of a corrupt flying insect.Its tentacles are composed of elongated organic muscle strewn with cancerous cells, like brush bristles scattered behind it.

These cancer cells can proliferate continuously and grow in reverse, and can release a strong electromagnetic force to distort the surrounding gravity in the process of devouring the surrounding tissue, so as to achieve the purpose of flying.

The genes of the corrupt flying insects are extremely miraculous, even if their brains are cut off, they can still grow new ones.

That being said, the monster looks like the bristle-backed patriarch sprinting through the universe.

All in all, even beyond the limits of human imagination for strange species, there is no such thing as these primitive zerg that cannot grow.

"They're coming at us!"

"The shield is full!"

"The main gun fires!"

Facing these space behemoths were the Ranger, the Constitution, and the Korhal Ambition, with some twenty Mino-class battlecruisers deployed about 150 miles or so in each direction.

To deal with these huge monsters, the upgraded Y-type Yamato gun of the Minotaur-class battlecruiser can come in handy.

After about ten years of upgrades, the current Yamato Cannon has greatly improved both in power and range.The Minotaur-class battlecruiser can destroy the Behemoth class with a single Yamato cannon in a one-on-one duel, and at the same time can withstand the opponent's Yamato cannon without any damage. This is the generation difference.

In just ten seconds, thousands of communications were carried out in the tactical command network of these dozens of Yamato cannons to ensure the consistency of the attack targets, and to avoid wasting too much ammunition on the same target and causing damage. A series of problems such as lack of successors.

Almost all Tyrannian captains feel a sense of dominance when the Yamato Cannon is activated, especially when they see the Yamato Cannon turn the Zerg Hive into a pool of blood.

Even in a space environment, the Yamato Cannon is capable of destroying hordes of densely packed Zerg, but Battlecruiser captains usually use that on Leviathans or more threatening foes.

After a burst of supernova flashes, many giant primitive zergs were smashed to pieces by Yamato's bombardment, and the lightest one was torn apart.

But then, bathing in its blood and thirsting for its blood, the primordial zerg grew bigger, mutations and evolutions that took millions of years to complete in the blink of an eye on these fearsome monsters.

Finally, a behemoth broke through the firepower net of the Imperial fleet, pounced on the Hope and damaged the straight deck under the bridge of the battleship.

It was shaped like a gigantic many-legged dragon, as big as a Minotaur-class battlecruiser.

But immediately after, the Gothic and Babylon, which occupied a powerful position, shattered the back armor of the monster, exposing its flesh and bones.

"What kind of monster is this?" On the Norad III, Duke's adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Scott couldn't hide his shock.

Before the war, Duke’s staff officers and tactical analysis consultants believed that the original Zerg was far less united than the Overlord Zerg, because they valued the individual rather than the entire group, so this seemingly powerful army of the original Zerg was not well-trained to advance and retreat. A unified army also lacks the spirit of sacrifice for the ethnic group.

But they still underestimated the fighting will of the primitive zerg. Every primitive zerg has been fighting to the death since its birth.They may lack the spirit of unity and cooperation to a certain extent, but once they start attacking, they will die.

It can be said that no one knows what kind of evil deeds the master's swarm has done in Zerus to drive such an axis of primitive zerg out of their homeland.In other words, the original swarm was terrified of the Overmind.

"It is the job of imperial scientists to study these monsters, and our duty is only to win this war for Emperor Augustus." Duke's bravery is his excellent quality as a soldier, that is, gods and ghosts stand in front of him, Give each other a few slaps at least.

Although not very popular with his colleagues, Duke is indeed a qualified general. He knows the strength of his own fleet well, and at the same time, he despises his enemies extremely both strategically and tactically.

The most commendable thing about this person is that he always takes the lead, and the flagship must be at the forefront of the fleet.

"Even if they evolve plasma cannons and energy shields, the result is the same."

　The gene of the flying snake is from the scorpion + the original allosaurus, there is no problem in appearing here/
　　
　
(End of this chapter)