The Eighth Fleet has reduced its slowdown time from ten years to three years, and has finally arrived in the Dark Sun system.

The Dark Sun Star, or "Barnard Star", is a red dwarf star that has been described many times before, and it is located 6 light-years from Earth and 6 light-years from the Lighthouse. It has a rocky planet, which is the famous Snow Star.

In the Secret Archive of the Firmament, the Snow Star is not called the Snow Star, this name is given by Baizi Xiong, as the captain of the action of the Demon Cave Operation that year, when he went to the Vermilion Bird Universe, he landed on a planet called "Snow World" in the connected universe location, so this planet was also named after it, and was called the Snow World Star.

It has two satellites, Xueyuejia and Xueyueyi. The mass volume of the Snow Star is similar to that of the Earth, the gravity is 0.8 times that of the Earth, and the atmospheric composition is extremely similar to that of the Earth, so on the Snow Star, the Chinese people do not need to wear any equipment to survive, while the Odlai and the Wind Clan still need to wear nose ornaments, and the Tyno people do not need auxiliary equipment like the Chinese and can survive.

So the landing force was chosen to be composed of both the Chinese and the Taíno.

During the three years of this voyage, the soul master conducted thousands of soul wave reconnaissance on the Snow Star, its two moons, and the entire Dark Sun Galaxy, and found no trace of the Scaly Armour, nor any trace similar to a wormhole.

However, there is a very detailed understanding of the Snow Star Bugs, for example, the most famous of them is the plasma worm that fights against the Scaly Ones, and there are many other kinds of bugs.

In the introduction to the Zerg, the Snow Star Zerg is very similar to the Zerg as follows: a biological population that is intelligent, social, and takes the body as the evolutionary route, or integrates technology into the body.

The biggest characteristics of the Zerg are as follows:

First, the single Zerg society is composed of four major species: the queen, the male, the worker, and the soldier, and the Snow Star Zerg also has a unique species: the hive.

Second, in the Zerg society, except for the males, all individuals are females, but only the queen is a complete female, and all the other workers and soldiers are incomplete females, or they do not have the ability to mate with males, only the queen has this ability. The purpose of this is entirely to maintain the Queen's absolute dominance in the Zerg society.

Third, the queen is the soul of the entire Zerg society, and only she has a complete mind and can dominate the entire Zerg society. Only queens have the ability to mate with males. Zerg societies do not have the concept of inbreeding, which means that the queen can mate with any male, including his own breeding.

All the other insects, including the male insects and the soldier insects, have no mind of their own, and are all under the command of the queen.

Fourth, the Zerg have no language, and their communication is brain waves.

This is the general structure of the Zerg society.

And the Zerg of the Snow Star were investigated in more detail:

The Zerg mentioned here is a single Zerg society, which means that it only occupies a small piece of territory, and such a Zerg society is called a Zerg swarm, which is equivalent to the tribe of ancient humans, but no matter how backward the human race is, each individual has an independent thought.

Above the swarm is the alliance, an alliance will basically occupy an entire continent, the alliance consists of a central swarm and several joining swarms, the queen of the central swarm is the queen of this alliance, and all the other joining swarm queens are the descendants of the queen of the alliance (strictly daughters and granddaughters, because all queens are females). ）

Occasionally, two or more alliances will appear on a continent, and in this case, there will be wars, and in order to fight for territory, there will often be insect alliance wars between alliances.

Although the alliance is outwardly unified, there are often wars between swarms and swarms, which is called swarm wars. In general, it's all about turf.

Before the Eighth Fleet conquered the Bug Star (that is, the Snow Star), it was necessary to give a detailed introduction to the Zerg of the Snow Star, which was also the result of thousands of soul wave reconnaissance by the soul masters in the past three years.

In the case of the swarm, first of all, it has a queen, a very large insect with wings, but it can't fly, not only can't fly, it even has a hard time crawling, because it's too big. It is a cylindrical thing, and because of the difficulty of walking (crawling), half of its body is buried in the dirt, half is exposed, and its diameter is at least twenty meters long.

Because the queen has no ability to fight, nor does she have the ability to take care of herself, she completely relies on the soldiers and insects to protect herself, and the worker insects to feed herself, so in a sense, it is not only the queen, but also a reproductive machine in the swarm, so it is also called the mother nest.

In the Snow Star Zerg, the hive is a special individual, and they are also a species of the Zerg, which means that the hive is also alive. In other Zergs, there may not be the concept of a hive, but the Snow Star Zerg does, and the hives are also complete females, and they all have the ability to mate with males.

Because the queen is also a type of hive, it is also called the mother nest.

In the entire swarm society, all individuals are bred directly or by the mother nest.

A swarm society has thousands of males, and these males run from nest to nest. The male, like the hive, has no combat power and no ability to live, so it is also a reproductive tool in the swarm society.

The female nest, or queen, mates with males to produce worker insects. Under the mental control of the mother nest, the worker insect can dig into the earth to form a soldier's nest. Like the brood, the Soldier's Nest does not have the ability to fly and crawl, and half of its body is in the dirt and half is outside, and its body is huge, comparable to that of the Brood.

The nest mates with males to breed soldiers. Soldier insects are important individuals in the swarm society, because they are combative and aggressive. The plasma worm introduced earlier is bred from the soldier's nest, and its strong combat effectiveness can be seen.

At present, all the insect swarms of the Snow Star do not yet have the ability to leave the homeland, let alone the ability to travel interstellarly. So they are still relatively primitive zergs, but they have super combat effectiveness.

And the Ming Navy's requirement for the Eighth Fleet is that in the process of attacking the Snow Star Zerg, the use of biological and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons is prohibited, and all weapons that damage the environment are prohibited! Because the follow-up fleet will have to live on this planet for a long time when colonizing the Dark Sun System, it is necessary to protect the environment, which creates a very big difficulty for the eight ships to occupy the Snow Boundary Star.

However, he said that before the landing operation was about to begin, the visiting commander of the A company of a certain unit of the Marine Special Combat Team, Xia Lei, was talking to Sergeant Major Xia Xingcheng, "Old Xia, I want to convey to you a great trust from the superior leader, and you must protect Xia Mingyue's safety in the future landing operations." ”

"Why?"

"Because she is the granddaughter of the consul, and she is dear."

"Huh?"

"Ah what? Can it be done? ”

"Don't worry, chief, I'm sure to complete the mission! But ......"

(End of chapter)