I Am the Swarm

In the war with the Liken tribe, Rowan's basic strategic goal has actually been completed.

Things continued to develop without third party involvement. When the swarm settles in the direction of the star and spawns the infrastructure, it will destroy the light sail facility of the Rickon tribe.

This rudimentary Dyson ball primary device has delivered a large amount of clean energy to the Rickens. If this place is destroyed, it is estimated that the various high-energy-consuming weapons on the defense line of Riken's home star can only fight a high-intensity war for a few days, and more than 60% of them will be reduced to scrap iron.

Civil and military dual-star defense system will also be affected to a certain extent.

When the Rickon's firepower is exhausted, the swarm will not destroy them in one go, nor will they negotiate with them. It will only take a close-range tour of Riken's home planet as a routine daily operation.

With the close-range oppression of alien races, the rising fear will spread rapidly. They may try to take the initiative to attack, but the crushing strength of the swarm will teach them to be human.

Because of the previous persuasion to surrender, the desperate Riken tribe will not fight desperately, but will ask the council to negotiate with the swarm. But the Zerg's non-contact attitude can leave the Rikens scratching their heads.

The continued inaction of the Council will turn the fear of the Rickens into anger, and they need to vent. And Chairman Antonio will find that his so-called power is useless at this time, and he will become a scapegoat to bear the anger of the Riken people.

A new leader of Rickon will be elected, he will successfully contact the Zerg, and the Zerg's not harsh acceptance conditions will make his reputation reach the peak.

But in fact, through this change, half of Rickon's leadership has been replaced by Zerg intelligence. These Rikens were slowly developed by the Cross family many years ago, and the seven-day reasonable isolation period kept their number small.

But then, the real operation begins.

Rickon, who was the first to inject the life-extending potion, was basically a high-ranking official and wealthy businessman. The life-extending potion lasted their lives for fifty years. When they died, they would be transformed into intelligent bodies, and then re-"born" to Liken.

They will start "their own life" again from young children. They have "previous life" memories, and their rich life experience and knowledge accumulation will make them stand out in various fields.

And their number is unmatched by the intelligent body that was forced to transform for seven days.

When a hundred years later, this group of intelligent bodies will once again ascend to the pinnacle of power, and more than half of the top political, military, and business leaders will be disguised by intelligent bodies. At this time, it was only a matter of time before the bug swarm completely controlled the Riken tribe.

If relying on natural evolution, given the longer life cycle of the Riken tribe, it may take thousands of years. The Riken tribe will completely become like the ratman civilization. The group continuously provides high-quality materials. If it is more aggressive, combined with the seven-day mandatory conversion, this time will be shortened.

But in any case, for a long-lived species, no matter what, it is acceptable.

As for which solution to choose, Luo Wen was still a little entangled at the beginning. But thinking of the third party that was eyeing him, Rowan still chose the former. Although it is very sweet to completely control the Riken tribe in a short period of time, too many seven-day forced conversions are still easy to expose some problems, especially when there are third-party spectators.

Although it takes more time and cost to slowly evolve and infiltrate, it is safer and more traceless in comparison. As long as the chess watchers need the continued existence of the Riken tribe, then this plan is destined to succeed.

According to the planned process, the bug swarm occupying the planets No. 1 and No. 2 of the Riken star system and the corresponding orbits can now start to attack the light sail grids, but a new discovery made the bug swarm temporarily stop all actions.

Outside the Rickon galaxy, the Euglenas disguised as meteorites in the void found a fleet approaching.

The Euglena in the void only absorb radiation to maintain the most basic needs, and usually only rely on ordinary optical observations to observe the surrounding conditions, which makes them not produce any energy fluctuations, just like real meteorites, which will not attract attention.

But the disadvantage is that the units observed by them are generally very close to them. Of course, they do not rely on performance to win, but rely on quantity, and early warning is only a part-time job. Spreading nodes and extending the coverage of the swarm network is their main job.

Due to the high level of technology of this fleet, the speed in the void even exceeded half of the speed of light.

The effective observation distance of Euglena's ordinary optical observation is only about one light-year, and these fleets are only a little slower than the speed of light.

This made them less than five months away from the Euglena when the Euglena found them.

But five months is enough time to make some preparations.

Any technological route is complementary. The newly emerged third party has surpassed the swarm and the Rickon in the speed of the spaceship, and the same is true in other aspects.

The stealth coating of unknown materials makes them transparent in the radars of the two races, otherwise, they may be discovered several light-years away. But precisely because they are closer, Rowan has obtained more information. Some things can be hidden, such as the energy system, wiring, software aspects of the spacecraft, etc., but some things cannot be hidden.

Their technological route is very obvious. The cold and beautiful mechanical creations let them know that they belong to the mechanical technological civilization from the outside.

Their battleships generally exceed fifteen hundred meters in length, and there are even many warships exceeding two thousand meters in length. You must know that these mechanical creations are not just as big as you want. Every time you increase the level, the difficulty of manufacturing will also increase by a level. If the technology is not up to standard and forced to manufacture, you may not be able to see it at ordinary times, but when you are engaged in high-intensity combat or high-speed flight, you don't need the enemy to attack, and you may disintegrate on your own.

In terms of weapons, although the battleship has an obvious gun body structure, it is not clear what kind of system it is, but from some details, intelligence bodies in related fields believe that they are more likely to use energy weapons. After all, when traveling long distances, it is easier to carry energy blocks than physical shells.

In terms of engines, the technology used by the newly emerging third party is very similar to that of the Ricons. This can be seen from the overall structure and shape and the fireworks sprayed. They are at most an upgraded version and do not belong to a brand new theoretical system.

Observation systems such as radar, because they are all hidden designs, can't see anything.

Such a configuration, although the technological level surpasses that of the Rikens, in fact, they do not meet the setting in Luo Wen's mind of a chess player.