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【data import. 】
Massive amounts of data were imported from the information database into the device where the master intelligence resides. It was like changing a brain for a human being. The master intelligence instantly became a tactical genius.
All these information on commanding the battle come from the Battle of Cadia, from the High Lord Creed who commanded the regular army and the Tyron army in the Battle of Cadia.
When the Tyrone Army received Creed's orders, their power armor collected the order data, and also collected data during subsequent battles. This data was aggregated into a data model that could be used.
The main control intelligence that has accessed the model is equivalent to a more sharp-minded Creed. Within three seconds, based on Creed's model, it can enumerate all the tactics that the Tyranids may use in the war, as well as how to crack these tactics.
Although Creed has never dealt with the Zerg, and it is impossible to deal with the Iron Man, its data model can predict how he would fight if he faced the Zerg, and how he would deal with the Iron Man if he were the commander of the Zerg.
Any possible tactics the Zerg could use were exhausted.
Some of the Ironmen in the Ironmen force were mobilized to deal with any tactics that might be implemented by the Zerg in the future.
The Hive Mind saw some changes in the formation of the Iron Men. For example, ten thousand Iron Men were inexplicably deployed four hundred kilometers away to the left of the main force.
There are many similar situations.
And when the Hive Mind was preparing to use new tactics, it found that all the tactics it could use had solutions to the enemy. Those iron men who were inexplicably drawn out made it impossible to apply any of its tactics.
The form of war can only change back to an extremely pure war of attrition.
The Tyranids and Iron Man are like two giants at war. They punch the enemy with one punch and receive another punch themselves. The competition is to see who is more durable and who can stand longer.
This too pure war of attrition even made the Hive Mind feel a little desperate.
Hostile predators are tailor-made natural enemies for all organisms, leaving no biomass behind when they die and preventing scattered biomass from being picked up by organisms during combat.
The enemies we faced before were actually more difficult to deal with than Iron Man because they used decapitation tactics, but that was only difficult from a micro perspective. From a macro perspective, as long as there was enough biomass, they could still be killed by energy consumption.
However, the current battle for the Hive Mind is not about waiting for the result. Although the enemy can restrict the use of tactics and the capture of biomass, it cannot limit the evolution of the insect swarm.
After another thought about calling all synapse sub-individuals, the Hive Mind realized that there were two evolutionary routes in front of it.
First, against another predator's arc weapon evolution, the sub-individual is completely encased in a specialized chitin carapace, which will neutralize the arc.
But there are many problems with choosing such an evolutionary route.
First of all, the fully wrapped sub-individuals cannot observe the outside world, but this is not a big problem. The Tyrant Guards also have no eyes. They rely on the command and mobilization of higher-level synaptic creatures.
Another problem is to evolve the sub-individual into a fully encased chitin carapace, which will greatly increase the consumption of biomass that cannot be replenished. If the enemy's weapons have also evolved, defeat will come earlier. .
The second evolutionary route is to make the sub-individuals evolve to be more agile, lighter, and have biological weapons with more powerful decomposition fields.
Since the defense is ineffective, then give up the defense. Anyway, whether it is a samurai insect or a tyrant whose chitinous carapace is thicker and covers a larger area, it will shatter as long as it is penetrated by an arc.
However, the second evolutionary route has more problems than the first.
The most fatal problem is that if the more agile and lighter individuals can either gain an advantage in a short period of time, or they will be completely in decline and be slaughtered unilaterally.
After a brief thought, since this war was no longer aimed at repelling hostile predators, the Hive Mind chose to try more and choose the best of the two evolutionary routes.
The insect sea on the surface left a small number of individuals to delay the enemy, while the rest retreated towards the digester.
A new kind of bug with almost no chitin carapace protection, but an attack powerful enough to cut off the body of an iron man, began to be reproduced by the queen.
Bugs above the samurai bug have evolved towards being fully covered with chitin carapace.
Taking into account the characteristics of the enemy, the Hive Mind also adds the property of swallowing metal to the resource-grabbing bugs. These metals certainly cannot be used to build a complete war beast, but they can at least be used to produce the carapace of an armed war beast.
The Zerg's tactics also changed accordingly.
The Tyranid war beasts no longer confront the Iron Man on the plains, but dig more underground tunnels so that the war beasts can approach the enemy covertly and gain more survival time before facing arc weapons.
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When the Tyranids began to evolve, the master intelligence released detection waves to scan the galaxy.
Some biological battleships began to be eaten by the Zerg themselves. The purpose of this practice was obviously to use the biomass to produce more bugs.
Anyway, those biological battleships cannot withstand the two anti-orbital light spears carried by the giant Iron Man battle body, so they are really of little use.
After the first batch of new types of bugs were produced, the main control intelligence immediately learned of the Zerg's new evolutionary plan and began to formulate an improvement plan for Iron Man based on this evolutionary plan.
Existing resources are still very sufficient.
The atomic structure conversion device in the mothership is converting the stones captured by the nanoworm swarm into metal. In one breath of an organic life form, a batch of iron men can be printed and put into war.
This means that developing improvement plans is not limited by resources.
Considering that the enemy's bugs had the ability to eat metal, the main control intelligence began to adjust the resource production plan.
Use the transmutation device to add a sharper atomic structure to the newly created metal, which can destroy the organism after being eaten by the bugs, and if the Zerg want to use the metal to produce carapace or weapons, they will definitely die in the production process. insect.
The second step is to produce a new type of combat body that is more dexterous and agile. This combat body will have double-blade arms, will be small in size, and will have a combat program that analyzes the enemy's combat skills to counterattack.
This is for those bugs who drop their defenses.
Secondly, arc weapons still need to be fielded, but it is impossible to use all arc weapons.
Enemies also have bugs that are fully covered in carapace, necessitating the production of melta weapons.
The nano-swarm should also be improved, and the organic structure must be reused, so that at least it will not be affected by the bioelectric field of the bugs. Before the Zerg starts a new evolution for the nano-swarm, those bugs wrapped in full carapace will be killed by the swarm. .
These are the improvement plans.
This war of attrition is inevitable, but we just need to know more about the characteristics of the Zerg.
In order to achieve this goal, the main control intelligence believes that it can accept the damage of at least one trillion iron men.
After the improvement plan was finalized, the mothership released the scanning wave again, and this time some abnormalities occurred.
The scanning results showed that a biological warship suddenly appeared on the edge of the galaxy, and the insect swarm on board reacted with subspace energy.
Obviously, the enemy has psionic units.
In order to deal with psychic units and win this war of attrition more quickly, the main control intelligence had to design a decapitation tactical plan.
The decapitation tactic is very simple, just teleport the iron man over and kill the tyrant or psychic unit.
But this requires an iron man who is stronger, better at fighting, capable of collecting more microscopic data, and capable of conducting real-time analysis and decision-making on battles.
The main control intelligence quickly thought of a plan.
Allocate a portion of the computing power to give the Iron Man individual independent intelligence, and then carry out specialized transformations to ultimately create an individual similar to the Zerg Tyrant.
……
dark.
Endless darkness.
Closed senses.
Can't see anything.
All sorts of feelings surfaced in Heat Death's mind.
[Conventional combat unit, sub-individual number X8312. 】
[The wake-up program is starting. 】
Heat Death's senses are liberated and it looks around.
In the field of vision is a dark production workshop, where countless similar products are being manufactured by printing devices suspended up and down.
Heat Death lowered his head and looked at his body. His arms and lower body had not yet been printed.
[Enhanced combat program loading. 】
[Enhanced sensory program loading. 】
[Downloading agreement...Progress: 921/8722]
Information appeared in Heat Death's field of vision. It no longer saw darkness. A HUD panel appeared, which accurately displayed its body integrity, map, and scan result display...
The body's completeness is only 30%.
When the arm was printed, it was 100 percent complete.
The self-test program is activated, and the result of the self-test program is perfect.
[Combat mission: Kill the Zerg synaptic creatures. 】
Another piece of information appeared in the field of vision, and Heat Death fell off the hanger and landed with a crash.
A drone carrying a melta weapon flew in front of Heat Death.
At this time, another information emerged.
[Conventional combat unit, sub-individual number X8312, perform your mission. 】
Other combat units also woke up one after another. They also detached from the hangers and landed with a crash, and then obtained their weapons from the drones.
"We...what war are we fighting?" Heat Death asked the people next to him.
The eyes of the same kind flashed with red light, and they slowly straightened up and looked forward without any response.
"What's wrong with it?" Heat Death felt that this kind of creature was abnormal, so he asked another of its kind.
The same kind didn't react at all and stared straight ahead.
Heat Death looked around and found that all the similar people here were cold and unresponsive, and then he realized that he was the one who was abnormal.
[Repeat the combat mission: Kill the Zerg synaptic creatures. 】
[Conventional combat unit, sub-individual number X8312, perform your mission. 】
"I am not a numbered individual, I am Heat Death, and I have a name." Heat Death said to the air.
Nothing responded to it.
The 100,000 newly shipped iron men all landed on the ground and were armed. Then the light of the teleportation device lit up, and the next second everyone arrived on the surface of a planet.
There is a war going on here.
A white storm swept across the sky and the ground, and those flying organisms, even if they numbered in the billions, were instantly decomposed to nothing.
Everywhere is the sound of weapons firing, the sound of organisms screaming...
When Heat Death looked at the organisms, they were labeled.
[Tyrani War Beast].
A giant battle body stepped over the head of Heat Death and fired an electric arc at the giant Tyranid war beast crawling towards the opposite side.