Seeking Change

"Haven't you found a way to forcibly intrude into their internal network yet?" The Epoch Clan official was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

Since the New Epoch Clan inherited the name of the Epoch Clan, there has been a history of hundreds of thousands of years. In such a long time, there must have been Swarm that did not want the Epoch Clan or other foreign races to access their internal network.

However, weakness is the original sin. The frail new civilization was simply unable to withstand the technological gap. Their self-righteous internal network protection was as good as useless in front of the Epoch Clan.

However, the Swarm was completely different from the stubborn elements they had encountered before.

"Not yet, sir, I'm sorry." An Epoch Clan crew member lowered his head in shame. He usually boasted about how amazing his hacking skills were, but now he looked like a clown.

"Useless!" the officer roared, throwing the water glass beside him aside. He had been given a task before coming here, but now that the project was more than halfway done, his team hadn't made a single contribution.

"Sir, perhaps the Zerg are telling the truth; they really don't have an internal network," a technician suddenly said.

"What? Are you stupid too? Without an internal network, do they communicate with their eyes?" Epoch Clan was getting a little angry, not expecting his subordinate to make such a childish statement. When civilization reaches a certain level and knowledge accumulates to a certain degree, more efficient means of transmission are inevitable. It's simply impossible to memorize everything by brain. Not to mention anything else, just the theory of a warp drive alone would take forever to memorize, even with a stenographer.

"But they don't even have a communications satellite, and our instruments haven't detected any network signals. Now, let alone intrusion, we don't even know where the door is." The technician firmly believed that the problem wasn't with his technology, but with the Zerg themselves.

"The Zerg follow a biological route. Who says they have to use communication satellites to transmit information? Those giant insects floating in the sky might even have similar communication satellite capabilities. Stop making excuses for your incompetence! Now! Immediately! Find a solution right now! I don't want to hear 'this can't be done,' 'that can't be done.' I want to hear what I want to hear, or none of us will have a good time!"

The officer was getting angry; his technicians must have lost their minds, coming up with all sorts of ridiculous excuses. The Zerg regularly conduct long-distance information transmissions, and these transmissions can be intercepted, although their unique Primary Color Encryption Technology makes it impossible to decipher the content.

This at least shows that the Swarm also possesses information transmission technology; it's just that they haven't discovered it yet, and they haven't found a way in. Once they find a clue, given their technical capabilities, infiltrating the Zerg's internal network will be a piece of cake. He doesn't believe that the content on the internal network is entirely encrypted.

Unfortunately, despite slowing their construction speed to the extreme, they made no progress until the project was completed, leaving the technical staff somewhat bewildered.

During this period, they did attempt to infiltrate the Zerg's settlements directly using physical means to investigate. However, in practice, they found difficulties everywhere. Although they knew that there must be a large number of Zerg settlements hidden on this planet, the Epoch Clan spaceships could not perform large-scale scans, and the Zerg's Crypt were shielded by magnetic fields, rendering some small scanning devices ineffective.

Therefore, they didn't even know where the Zerg's gathering place was, let alone how to infiltrate it. Moreover, even if they had a location, how to avoid the ubiquitous Overseer in the sky was another problem. These things, whether living or not, left the Epoch Clan, who knew nothing about them, somewhat helpless.

In an effort to understand them, the Epoch Clan even orchestrated an accident, successfully capturing a small Overseer and stuffing it into a special container to prevent it from sounding an alarm. However, when they tried to dissect it, they encountered the same embarrassing situation as the Riken Race: the Overseer's genes collapsed the moment the probe was inserted, turning into a thick liquid.

Unwilling to give up, they continued their actions until they received a warning from the Swarm, at which point they stopped.

And so, the resentful Epoch Clan construction team left. They needed to meet up with their counterparts in the Sandstorm Star System and stay there for a while. Unfortunately, their counterparts there also gained little. After all, the Sandstorm Star System was more primitive than the Proxima Star System.

In the days that followed, everything seemed calm and peaceful. Rowan waited for the next move from the mastermind behind the scenes, but it never came. The Swarm seemed to have been forgotten.

A few years later, the Swarm Trade City was completed and inspected. The Epoch Clan ships left the Swarm territory and returned to the Riken Star System to set up camp. Unlike the cold reception they received from the Swarm, the Riken Race area had been developed into an important research base.

It is said that there has been considerable progress in recent years, and some finished products have been produced. Of course, Rowan's covert assistance has played a crucial role in this. With greater control over himself, Rowan has become more adept at interfering with Node Unit. Remotely controlling them to mutate their genes slightly in experiments is a basic operation for him. And he does it cleanly, leaving no trace.

Time passed, and nearly a century went by peacefully. During this time, Rowan found nothing suspicious or that could be considered a follow-up action in the Swarm territory. This strange situation made Rowan wonder if his previous guesses were true.

However, he quickly dismissed this idea, realizing that although he was physically old, his mental age was still too "young". Over the years, Rowan had also collected a lot of information through various channels, including information about the Epoch Clan and other ethnic groups.

In the records of those civilizations with hundreds of thousands of years of history, some strategies and plans that take hundreds of years to prepare are nothing special, and those that take thousands of years are only considered average. There are even schemes that take tens of thousands of years and span several generations.

Compared to that, the Swarm's inactivity for nearly a century seems insignificant. However, this situation of being on the chessboard but not knowing where to place his next move is making Rowan somewhat uncomfortable.

The arrival of a large number of Ji Epoch Clan and the production of some finished products in the Riken Race area attracted even more people from other tribes. Although the finished products were produced by the Epoch Clan and had little to do with the Riken Race, the Riken people were heavily involved in many aspects of the production process.

Moreover, these goods were traded in the trading city, generating tax revenue. The trading city had expanded several times, and the massive flow of people had boosted their economy and progress. On this basis, the strength of the Riken Race grew rapidly.

The growth of strength is often accompanied by the growth of ambition. With the Epoch Clan and their laboratories, plus a large number of interactions with other races, if a war breaks out in the Riken Star System, it will offend more than just a few simple forces.

Therefore, the unsuspecting Riken Race wanted to seek more, and what they wanted first and foremost was the integrity of the Riken Star System.