Experience

In fact, as elite guards, they shouldn't have been so incompetent.

When Hasmu first ordered them to cover the rear of the communications soldiers, no one showed the slightest fear; their willingness to die perfectly encapsulated their state of mind at that moment.

Even the most resilient person cannot withstand the torment of the insects, which seem to be playing with them. They had countless opportunities to wipe out the entire Guard Team, but each time they stopped short, leaving the Guard Team to suffer the agony of impending death.

It felt like a knife was constantly falling and rising on my neck; it was terrifying.

The creatures besieging the Guard Team were naturally the Swarm's combat units; however, the repeated torment of them was not due to Rowan's freakishness.

Since their inception, the Swarm has never experienced a war of civilization. Even the internal strife among the Rat-folk only occurred during the era of cold weapons; before the development of combat with firearms to a large scale, the entire Rat-folk were unified.

Therefore, not only Rowan, but even those Intellect had little experience with modern warfare; all military simulations existed only in their imaginations.

Now, the Swarm has gone to great lengths to create such a perfect environment. Deep underground, with no escape route and signal jammed, everything that happens here will remain unknown to the outside world.

Finally, a fully equipped elite squad of soldiers was brought here. They were like a group of on-site instructors and whetstones, allowing the Swarm to test the combat capabilities of each unit, understand their strengths and weaknesses, and improve their combat patterns and coordination.

We can also learn from their responses to attacks, including their methods of small-scale inter-unit coordination, command and coordination, and various emergency response measures.

At the same time, you can also see the weapon technology of the Riken Race, understand their types, collect various data, and analyze their advantages and disadvantages.

Rowan even assembled a group of linguists to analyze the language of the Guard Team based on some of their attack instructions.

There are almost no talents in this field among the Swarm, because the Intellect are all created from the souls of the Rat-folk, and the history of the Rat-folk is not very long, and their language even evolved from Rowan's teachings.

Therefore, their history is very simple, and they have never developed into multilingual or minor languages. Naturally, very few people study these things.

Fortunately, the meaning of these attack commands, combined with the actions, is easy to guess.

With so many advantages to the Guard Team, it's natural not to wipe them out in one fell swoop; they should be utilized repeatedly, over and over again.

Of course, the Swarm never considered the feelings of those involved when it did this.

Suddenly, mud and sand flowed down the blocked passage, and an insect crawled out, temporarily breaking the atmosphere of despair.

This new type of Spider War-Bug was created by Rowan based on his observations of the Riken's physique and equipment. The old version of the Spider War-Bug had short Venom Fang, which greatly reduced its effectiveness when facing protective suits.

Moreover, the enemy we face now is not the wild beast of the past; we cannot inject poison and then slowly wait for the prey to die. Because during that time of waiting for death, the armed soldiers could continue to fire dozens more bullets.

Therefore, the new version of the Spider War-Bug prioritizes direct lethality, with its two pairs of limbs strengthened to enhance its piercing attacks. The tail stinger and internal venom sac have been removed, reducing production costs and lightening its weight.

Meanwhile, including the aforementioned Bat-Beast, they all adopted the breathing and internal circulation templates of native organisms. This allowed them to directly breathe the air of the Big Origin Star and survive.

The advantage of doing this is that it can save a lot of production resources and can quickly form Swarm army using the same resources.

The Swarm currently possesses two types of space biological templates. One is the internal ecological capsule system, which was first researched by Rowan. It achieves self-sufficiency by forming a miniature ecological capsule within the body, thus adapting to the oxygen-free environment of space.

However, the kinetic energy conversion efficiency of this template is too poor, and it can only maintain the survival of living organisms. If a battle occurs, their energy supply will be insufficient.

This resulted in Swarm combat units produced based on this template lacking combat endurance and burst damage. Therefore, this template has now been phased out.

The second type of space biological template is a modification of the Atmospheric Creature template. This template has the advantages of abundant energy supply, strong explosive power, and even the ability to generate power at higher frequencies.

However, the downsides are poor battery life and high cost. Those body structures that can generate and confine electromagnetic fields, and even utilize plasma, require enormous resources and special mineral materials.

Even the Swarm can only produce their Larval Form versions, which then absorb energy to grow. To put it simply, the resources required to produce one electromagnetic Spider War-Bug are enough to produce more than fifty regular Spider War-Bug.

Of course, this is a comparison of production resources based on adult insects of the same size.

However, if only fingernail-sized Spider War-Bug Larval Form produced and allowed to absorb radiation to grow on their own, the production cost per larva is reduced significantly, but this requires a large amount of time.

The original exoskeleton armor of the Spider War-Bug has been replaced with keratinous armor that grows with its body.

Therefore, it would take a very long time to produce a Zerg army using this template.

Even though the main battle group produced at such great expense is cannon fodder, we still need to save resources wherever possible.

After Rowan's main body descended upon Big Origin Star, it quickly destroyed one of its own, and another hatched the Mother Nest. Once the Mother Nest was formed, it began to produce Insect Empress in large numbers.

With the addition of the dozens of Insect Empress landed with Rowan, the Swarm's strength on Big Origin Star increased significantly.

All the previous version of the bugs from the Eco-pod have been recycled, and all the bugs sent out for scouting have been replaced with biological templates native to the Big Origin Star.

Reconnaissance activities no longer need to be carried out with extreme caution; even if captured by the Riken, they will find nothing unusual through dissection.

Through this insect generation, Rowan suddenly realized that these local biological templates were inexpensive to produce and did not require any special mineral materials.

For example, with the new version of the Spider War-Bug, if the electromagnetic template is replaced with a local template, it can directly produce Insect Egg. Combined with the existing technology of the Swarm, as long as resources keep up, they can hatch in seven days and become combat-ready.

Meanwhile, with their domestically produced engines, energy supply is no longer an issue, and their combat capabilities and endurance are quite good.

Furthermore, because it is cast in one piece and is equipped with the original Exoskeleton Armor, its actual combat power is in no way inferior to the electromagnetically driven version.

Through this real-world test, these new Spider War-Bug performed remarkably well, demonstrating particularly outstanding combat capabilities in complex terrain environments.

This solidified Rowan's beliefs.