Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 85: Terrifying Expansion Speed
The huge queen of insects lowered her head towards the short Rebecca.

When facing the Queen of Zerg, Kerrigan was no longer as obedient as she was in front of Gao Yi.

Even though she only looks five or six years old, her queen-like aura is clearly evident at this moment.

Looking at the Zerg Queen in front of him, Gao Yi felt that the interstellar alien insects were more in line with the name Zerg in appearance.

"From now on, you will manage this planet for me. You need to control the number of Zerg and expand the Zerg population without disrupting the normal ecological cycle of this planet.

Help the humans on this planet to capture those mushroom people and send them to the factory."

Kerrigan ordered firmly.

"The Swarm will carry out your will!"

After receiving the order, the queen immediately got to work, using her abilities to spread the fungal mat further outward.

As the fungal mat grows larger, more biomass and energy flow into the hive.

And these biomass and energy began to transform into more smaller queen insects.

There is no need for special management and control, the Zerg here will develop on its own according to Kerrigan's will.

After leaving the planet and returning to the battleship, Gao Yi did not leave the galaxy directly, but continued to observe the development of the Zerg. He was still somewhat worried.

More than ten days passed quickly.

The actual swarm's growth rate is even faster than in the game, as there is no 200 population limit in the game.

However, there are still units like the Overlord that provide a population cap in the game.

These giant Zerg units float in mid-air and are covered in thick carapaces.

They act as node organisms, transmitting the swarm's commands to every Zerg away from the hive.

It also plays a reconnaissance role, and the Overlord in the game is a sitting duck.

But here, Gao Yi saw with his own eyes the king insect's arthropod forelimbs easily tearing a mushroom man into pieces.

Hatching pools carrying various interstellar Zerg gene sequences were also built.

This gives the Zerg the ability to produce ground combat units.

A combat unit called a springerling, with sharp claws and teeth and the size of a large dog, was hatched and joined the swarm.

They are the most basic combat unit among the interstellar Zerg. Not only are they cheap, their biomass and energy costs are even only half of those of worker bees. However, through the screening and fusion of genetic sequences, they are natural-born fighting machines, just like the knife worms of the Tyranids.

As the hive expanded, more and more springtails were produced.

Under the command of the Queen, the springtails began their hunt.

They swept away all living things like locusts passing through a land.

Those mushroom people hiding everywhere didn't expect that after just suffering the destruction of humans, they would immediately encounter monsters like alien insects.

The weak have no room to survive in this cruel world.

Once you are targeted, you will either become a complete subordinate or be destroyed.

There's not even a chance to choose.

Regardless of whether they did anything wrong or not, weakness is the original sin. When the human empire expanded, countless kinds of aliens were completely exterminated. Their technology and their people all became the lubricant of the behemoth human empire.

Although their resistance could kill some springtails, the increasing number of springtails completely destroyed their resistance.

Zerglings were originally expendable combat units, so this small loss was completely insignificant to the Zergling swarm, and the dead Zerglings didn't even need to be transported back, as they were directly absorbed by the fungal blanket. A large number of Mushroom Men were killed and decomposed into biomass and energy. The characteristics of the Mushroom Men allowed a single Mushroom Man to produce even a dozen Zerglings.

With a snowball-like reproduction rate, more and more alien insects began to become active on the continent of this planet.

Looking at the exaggerated expansion speed of these Zerg, Gao Yi even began to doubt whether the Zerg Queen could really understand Kerrigan's orders. Would she go crazy and directly devour all the mushroom people?

Gao Yi looked at Kerrigan beside him.

"Kerrigan, is the Queen of the Worms really alright?"

"Don't worry, father. This is the improved Queen Insect. Her brain capacity is larger. She will independently choose the appropriate battle plan. There is no need to formulate a specific development plan for her."

Kerrigan is obviously very confident in her role as Queen of the Worms!

Fortunately, when these Zergs reached a certain number, the Queen ordered the entire Zerg swarm to stop breeding more alien Zerg.

The expansion rate of the fungal blanket also stopped, preserving a part of the planet's original ecology for the mushroom people to reproduce and survive.

And she began to order these Zerg combat units to hunt and drive all the mushroom people towards an ecological area reserved for them.

They no longer just killed and devoured these mushroom people, but completely surrounded their living areas within one area after another.

The fungal mats that cover an increasingly large area serve as the eyes and ears of the swarm.

Once a mushroom man appears somewhere, it will be immediately sensed by the nearby queen insect and transmitted to the nearest springtail.

Gao Yi finally understood that the queen insect was keeping these mushroom people in captivity.

The springtails began hunting in an orderly manner and sent the corpses of the mushroom people to the production factory built by Gao Yi.

Under Rebecca's influence, the chicken-thief believers stationed in the factory were not afraid of this creature at all.

They began to worship these Zerglings as gods, just as they worshipped the pure-blooded chicken thieves of the past.

Seeing that the queen insect could do so well, Gao Yi felt relieved.

With these alien insects, production on this planet has been put on the right track. As time goes by, the entire planet will become an orderly food factory.

The goods produced can also be transported directly using the newly produced Gorgon warships on Agathos.

After all, the cooldown time for the jump is very short and the transportation cost is very cheap.

However, Gao Yi was also shocked by the development speed of this group of alien insects. The human empire, which had suffered great losses from the Tyranids, would probably be scared to death if it discovered that a similar race appeared within the empire.

This is just the case of hatching Zerglings, and the development speed is so fast. If they are completely released, it will probably take a long time for this galaxy to be filled with Zerglings.

However, the Zerg are not completely uncontrollable like the Tyranids, which are driven entirely by their desire for biomass. Gao Yi can fully control these interstellar Zerg, and he can control the speed of their reproduction and development.

The system will not lie to Gao Yi.

Even if Gao Yi later exposed the existence of some alien insects to the empire, he could still say that they were biological weapons developed by the biological sages.

It's just that the design was accidentally a little scary.

Whether it involves heresy or blasphemy is even less of a consideration.

What well-known power doesn't have a touch of heresy? As long as your fist is strong enough and the end result is good, even if someone calls you a heretic, there is nothing you can do.

What's more, Gao Yi's identity is a license to touch aliens, and the identity of a living saint granted by the Divine Emperor himself gives Gao Yi more confidence.

What? You're questioning me? If you keep doing that, I'm going to go chat with the God-Emperor in the Warp and then appear in your dreams!
(End of this chapter)