Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 281

Taking the Initiative

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Kundera's words were like a wake-up call. Zhang Han knew that his thoughts and actions would affect the entire Swarm, but he never thought that it would cause such serious consequences.

At this moment Zhang Han thought of a country, the Big Brother in northern China. She was once a beacon of human civilization. She was born from the most noble ideals of mankind and was finally destroyed by the most despicable desires of mankind.

"Sorry, Kundera, you are a noble Swarm Node, I will work hard to cooperate with you, let us defeat Zagara together." Zhang Han said seriously.

"Noble? You can't use this word. Where there is nobility, there is also despicability. And I am just an ordinary Swarm Node. Everything I do is for Swarm's long life."

"The reason why I have to take on the hardest part is because I am the only one who has the strength to fight head-on. If you hold Zagara down, I won't worry about you."

"By the way, we can make a connection between Swarm Network. If necessary, we can contact each other."

Kundera didn't care at all about Zhang Han's feelings. Zhang Han couldn't help it. What Kundera said was true. He had no choice but to establish a network connection with Kundera first.

After the connection was completed and the two Swarm Network became a parallel parallel network, Kundera began to say goodbye, "I can't chat with you anymore, although I like chatting with you. Take action, Zagara will not waste time, I have to prepare an attack plan."

After Kundera finished speaking, he disconnected the communication. Zhang Han also had to prepare his own expansion and development plan.

The current situation is that he already has sixteen galaxies, three million Swarm fleets, and the number of fighting bugs has long exceeded tens of billions. As long as he wants to, Hatchery will be hatched, and he will not be able to defeat all the fighting bugs.

It is he himself who limits the scale of Zhang Han Swarm, not the production capacity of Hatchery. It is still the same problem. His mental strength is not enough to support such a huge Swarm Network.

In the past, it was considered that the scale of Swarm was expanding too fast. To stabilize Swarm Network, he could only spend a lot of time calming down the trend of thought.

The ideas and methods were sound, but the situation changed too quickly and he had to make some compromises.

It is to give more rights to the lower-level networks and let them assume the role of the core of the network, so as to continue to expand Swarm. Otherwise, the defeated Hatchery cannot be merged, which is meaningless.

Naturally, there are disadvantages to doing this. Once the lower-level network is separated from the Zhang Han network for too long, it will naturally become independent, and the permissions of Zhang Han will no longer exist. Just like the main server and the sub-server.

In the past, Overmind did not worry about splitting because every Swarm unit that was born was connected to the same network. Even if the nodes had different intentions, their Swarm would not agree.

Another drawback is that as the scale expands, the combat effectiveness of Swarm will definitely decrease.

The reason is also very simple. The computing power and Cerebrate are limited and precious. It is impossible to control every Swarm unit in detail. Nodes that can control tens of millions of units in detail are excellent nodes.

Overlord can only assume the responsibility of connecting to the Swarm unit. The command is still done by Swarm Node.

It is precisely because of the large scale that Swarm Node sometimes forgets to command some Swarm units. They will only execute orders to attack the enemy and are often fooled around by the smart council troops, making them look very stupid.

Nodes that can be commanded have always been scarce for Swarm. Zhang Han is thinking about merging the eagle network and letting those thousands of harpies take on the node responsibilities.

However, for the tens of billions of fighting bugs, the number of banshees is still too small. Moreover, their mental strength is so poor that even if they are transformed, they cannot command too many fighting bugs, let alone command the Swarm fleet. They do not have the knowledge and ability.

The person who solved this problem was Abaddon, who proposed a way to simplify nodes.

It is to hatch some combat bugs with bigger and smarter brains. Their logical thinking may not be as good as that of mature normal nodes, but they have instinctive fighting talents. Just like wild beasts, they are fully responsible for the grassroots command and completion of combat tasks.

This method has been used by Swarm before, and it is enough to solve the urgent need. When the crisis is resolved, Zhang Han will slowly incubate more complete nodes.

Now that the internal problems of Swarm have been solved, we need to solve the external problems. The first step is to independently separate several lower-level networks. Who will serve as the command node?

It seems that he still has a few choices at his disposal. The four specializations Cerebrate, Kajat, Kagar, and Abaddon are all Swarm Node with rich experience.

But these four are all defeated, Zhang Han is still a little worried, and Abaddon still has work to study Shroud.

The nodes he trained himself, Cam, Chloe, Stars, Rosestad, and Skadi. They all have a problem, they lack experience in commanding interstellar wars.

In fact, there is another node, Queen Typhon, but now it has been sent to Johnny by Zhang Han.

In terms of development direction, Zhang Han must be divided into at least three armies, corresponding to the directions of the three hyperspace channels, to completely spread out the three million Swarm fleet and annex the surrounding Hatchery galaxies.

Just when he felt a headache, Zhang Han suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding again, and human consciousness had led him astray. Human beings always like to use factions, direct descendants, and kinship to divide those who can use it and those who cannot.

Swarm has never been like this. Swarm only looks at abilities. As long as they are of the same race, they have extremely high trust.

Kajal's Hatchery is the largest in scale, and his ability is also very strong. Although he can only compete with Kajal 50-50 in the simulated battle, the reason is that his tactics are restrained.

He will lead the strongest Swarm fleet, with a scale of 1.5 million. Cam and his brothers will put this Kagar together, expand along the hyperspace channel with the most branches, merge when they encounter Hatchery, and let Cam and the others colonize the galaxy when they encounter it.

Except for Cam, the other nine siege beasts are stupid, but they are not allowed to participate in fierce wars. It is enough to develop Hatchery as the core node and accumulate the Swarm fleet.

Swarm is not particular about colonizing galaxies. As long as there are hyperspace channels and planets, it will be fine. Habitability? Swarm is very good in this aspect. If it is not possible, asteroids can be made do with it first. Once the Dyson membrane is built, it will be fine.

The second squadron was led by Cagat and had a size of 700,000.

Although this Roach has mediocre qualifications and is sometimes very unreliable, it can still clear out some small Hatchery with its military superiority. Moreover, with the help of the worms, the Swarm fleet of Zhang Han is extremely powerful.

Chloe was also arranged to be with Cagat, allowing her to familiarize herself with fleet operations in space. As Swarm Node, her military talent is really quite high.

As for the work of stitching together the fragments of consciousness, you can leave it to Isa and Node Cerebrate. They are both good at matters in the spiritual field, and human consciousness has begun to stabilize. It is only a matter of time before they are stitched together.

The last 800,000 Swarm fleet is led by Zhang Han personally. His purpose is to attack Stellaris Council's fortress planet. Skadi is with him. She is the most sensitive if anything happens to Shroud.

Swarm must break the confinement if it wants to develop. The hyperspace range of three hundred star systems is too small...

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