Starfleet: Genesis of Data
Chapter 50

Koprulu Sector (Please keep reading-the read-through boost is so low)

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Koprulu Sector, an unnamed star system.

The Eternal Fleet appeared silently within an asteroid belt.

Eleven Long-range Type cruisers quickly spread out, activating Stealth Mode as they sailed in all directions.

Qingyang was the first to look at the star map. After confirming it was safe, he waved a hand and tapped the virtual screen before him several times.

[Local Star Net activated] [Connecting to signal data within a radius of one thousand light-years] [Retrieving data] [Confirmed civilizations: Terran—UED Council (Level 4 Mid-Tier Civilization, status unknown, must enter its territory) Sub-human—Terran Empire (Pseudo Level 4 Civilization, weak memetic contamination, low willpower) Psionic Organism—Protoss Civilization (Level 4 Mid-Tier Civilization, Excellent Willpower, humanoid) Genetic Organism—Zerus Zerg (Level 4 Primary Civilization, Collective Will) High-Dimensional Being—Xel'Naga (Level 7 Biological Civilization, extremely few members, around a hundred survivors after the Civil War)] [Koprulu Sector star map loaded]

Qingyang's originally serious expression froze.

The basic information on the previous civilizations was roughly within his expectations, but the Xel'Naga were actually a Level 7 Biological Civilization?

With so few members, all of them being High-Dimensional Beings was not that hard to believe. What truly stunned Qingyang was that the Xel'Naga still had around a hundred members left?

When he played the game in his previous life, he had never realized that the Zerg, Protoss, and humans had reached the level of Level 4 Civilizations.

Was this really only a fifteen-percent difference?

"Search for detailed information!"

[Sixty percent of the Protoss forces are on an expedition to other galaxies. The Zerg suffered a suicidal counterattack from twenty percent of the Protoss forces. The Terran Empire split off from the UED Council.]

[Only twenty percent of the Protoss forces remain. Due to the death of the First Mother, only thirty percent of the Zerg forces remain.]

"...Fine."

The Protoss Main Force had left, and much of their technology was missing. The remaining Protoss had dealt the Zerg a devastating suicidal blow, while the Terrans were colonists who had broken away, inheriting incomplete technology.

They were basically all severely weakened.

Even so, the three races should still have been far stronger than they appeared in the game.

Qingyang was certain that the Zerg Biological Warships and Terran warships had shields. They might not have been as strong as Protoss shields, but they definitely had them!

Through the Terran Empire and Protoss Data Network connected through the Star Network, Qingyang roughly learned the current point in the timeline.

The Overmind had been dead for several years, and Kerrigan now ruled the Zerg.

The Protoss Race was divided into three factions. Among them, the Main Bloodline had already selected a new Hierarch—Artanis!

He was preparing to regroup his forces and retake Aiur, their homeworld occupied by the Zerg.

At the same time, the Terran Empire's High-Pressure Tyranny had triggered a certain backlash. A Rebel Army called the Rangers was igniting sparks of freedom everywhere.

[Rangers flagship, Hyperion, is heading toward Mar Sara.]

"Hmm?" Qingyang was slightly stunned.

This period seemed to be Operation: Zero Point?

Even though a long time had passed, Qingyang still remembered it clearly. Rangers leader Jim Raynor found an Xel'Naga Artifact Fragment on Mar Sara, triggering a frenzied Zerg assault.

When Qingyang had played this mission on Brutal difficulty, he had nearly thrown up.

The Zerg offensive had been absurdly fierce.

Qingyang's eyes flickered. "If nothing unexpected happens, Jim Raynor is one of the Chosen Ones."

"Fleet! Enter Stealth Mode and travel through Dark Space! Destination: Mar Sara!"

Mar Sara.

The once peaceful inhabited planet had been completely swallowed by war, with billowing smoke rising into the sky.

Beyond the planet, three terrifying behemoths blotted out the heavens. Their twenty-to-thirty-kilometer-long bodies could even be seen clearly from the ground!

Massive wreckage from steel warships drifted all around them!

Countless fleeing Terran civilians stared in terror at the three familiar yet unfamiliar colossal creatures.

The Zerg's strongest Biological Motherships—the Leviathans!

Zerg demons that had once existed only in reports and films!

"Ah!!"

"Run! The shelters have limited space! If you get there late, there'll be nothing left!!"

"..."

The chaotic Terran civilians fled in terror in every direction. Countless people were trampled to death, and the entire planet fell into panic and chaos.

The three Leviathans cruised around the orbital perimeter.

Spores and drop pods carrying vast numbers of Zerg were continuously launched from them toward the planet's surface.

In just a few hours, fungal carpet covered one-tenth of the planet's surface. Dozens of enormous Zerg Hives could vaguely be seen within it.

They were far larger than pyramids!

Millions of Zerg ravaged every corner of Mar Sara. The few defenders tried to resist, only to be effortlessly torn apart.

Unlike the game's plot, the force invading Mar Sara now was not merely Zerglings and Hydralisks, but a massive combined Zerg army supported by an entire Biological Fleet!

Corruptors three to four hundred meters long cruised through orbit, while tens of thousands of Zerg Mutalisks shrieked through the stratosphere, shooting down escaping ships everywhere.

Roach-like Zerg as tall as three stories rampaged across the ground, mixed with even larger Fire Roaches equipped with heavy firepower.

The Decomposition Spores on their backs were powerful enough to destroy an entire building!

The terrifying Zerg forces vaguely seemed to be preparing to completely seal off the planet.

Mar Sara, Imperial Mineral Base.

This was the Zerg's primary target.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat!

Dense gunfire rang out wildly, mixed with the thunder of heavy artillery and missiles!

Two or three fighter jets swept through the sky, raising small mushroom clouds wherever they passed.

"Hey, Jim, there are too many of these damn bugs!"

The Mercenary King Tychus, holding a six-barreled rotary cannon, stood atop the barracks and fired madly at the distant Zerglings that resembled tigers and leopards.

The violent metal barrage blasted more than a dozen Zerglings to pieces.

At the front of the position, tens of thousands of marines in blue Power Armor blocked wave after wave of Zerg attacks.

In the central area of the mineral base, hundreds of tanks in artillery mode fired continuously, their powerful Plasma Cannons blasting into the Zerg army.

Arcs of flame dozens of meters high erupted, swallowing hundreds of Zerg in an instant!

Yet despite the seemingly ferocious firepower, it still could not stop the overwhelming Zerg horde.

Even though hundreds-of-meters-deep mining ravines surrounded the base and only two bridges needed to be defended, the defensive pressure remained immense.

The two-hundred-meter-wide, fifteen-meter-thick Military-Grade Alloy Bridges could not be destroyed in a short time.

Moreover, because the bridge decks were too wide, the Zerg could constantly gather into sizable swarms and charge the defensive positions.

If not for their army of tens of thousands, their considerable heavy weaponry, and their stockpile of Fusion Bombs, the defensive line would have already fallen.

"Hold the line! Third Company, reinforce the bunker on the right!"

"SCVs! Speed up repairs on the Missile Turrets!"

"Sixth Company! Enter the central Defense Turrets! Don't let the Mutalisks get close to the artifact!"

Inside the Command Center, a tall figure in gray-white Power Armor stood before the command platform, swiftly adjusting gaps in the defensive line.

Jim Raynor, leader of the Rangers!

"Sir! Bridge Two, Sector Three-Two needs fire support!" Upon hearing that, Raynor immediately ordered several tanks and Missile Turrets to bombard the area.

Raynor glanced at his watch, his brows furrowing slightly.

The Zerg army was far more ferocious than expected. The intensity of their attacks had never dropped, and the position would not hold for much longer!

"I hope the fleet arrives before the defensive line is breached." Raynor sighed, somewhat worried.

The alloy Bunker Cluster on the front line.

Large numbers of soldiers pulled their triggers, raising their Magnetic Rifles and firing wildly.

Hundreds of Zerglings and Hydralisks were instantly cut down by the dense firepower, but the Zerg quickly filled the gap and continued their assault!

As long as the firepower weakened even slightly, the Zerg could advance another step.

Boom!!

A violent explosion suddenly erupted across the bridge, and the ground began to tremble faintly.

The officer at the position frowned and stared at the smoke-filled battlefield.

As the trembling grew more pronounced, dozens of enormous Zerg over ten meters long suddenly charged out of the smoke. Their thick carapaces reflected a metallic sheen, while powerful energy fluctuations radiated from their backs.

"Fire Roaches!"

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