Hi~ o(*￣▽￣*)ブ Damai's "StarCraft 100,000 Whys" is meeting you again! It has been a long time since we updated the Star article. Recently, we finally took time to continue our relationship. Although Star may withdraw from the domestic server in the future due to NetEase and Blizzard , we can still continue to explore interesting settings in StarCraft. So, today I want to tell you how Zerg swallowed an entire planet in StarCraft?
About devouring the planet has always been a fascinating setting. Imagine that when creatures reach the size of a planet and even can swallow it, it will undoubtedly fully stimulate people's giant phobia. Like the Hell Star written by Junji Ito , Zelos in the Sarroman Snake are all quite classic examples.
And we often hear such descriptions in StarCraft, "The swarm of insects gains energy by constantly devouring the planet", but in the settings known to players, even the largest Leviathan is only several kilometers long. How did they devour a planet? In fact, the so-called devouring actually has multiple meanings.
Biology , the insect swarm eats all the creatures on a planet as food, and the early primitive insects will not distinguish the genes of the creatures they eat without discernment. Later, in the era of dominance, they will actively distinguish which genes are useful and which are useless genes and selectively absorb them.
However, the energy obtained by this kind of stolen is not efficient, and it is only 10% or even lower on average, because the energy obtained only through feeding will be greatly lost in the process of transmission between organisms. So later, after genetic evolution, the swarm began to turn to more efficient parasitic methods.
The energy conversion rate seized from the host through parasitism can reach more than 70%. While parasitizing, the host can also be quickly assimilated into a member of the insect swarm, until in the end, all the creatures on the entire planet are converted into members of the insect swarm, which is biological swallowing.
There is another kind of devouring that is to actually eat the entire planet. After the insect swarm later assimilated the tunnel insects, it parasitizes the soil of the planet through the tunnel insects. Countless tunnel worms that are dozens of kilometers long are hidden under the planet, constantly absorbing organic matter and minerals in the soil, thereby providing nutrition for the reproduction of the insect swarm.
After they transfer the nutrients they absorb from the soil to the insect nest, they will transfer the body structural materials that form the insect swarm, such as the chitin carapace that the Thunder Beast cannot penetrate even the shells, the special skin of the flying dragon that can withstand the severe cold and cosmic rays in outer space at absolute zero degrees, etc.
It is also because it absorbs a large number of special minerals from various planets, which makes the Zerg's technology develop in an incredible direction. As organisms, they have biological propulsion engines, biological transition engines that can move superluminal speed , and even develop organelle reactors.
is like the self-destructing small aircraft in Interstellar 1. When they explode, they not only produce chemical damage that can corrode steel, but rely on the cell organelles reactor in their bodies to turn themselves into a small plasma bomb. Just a few explosive mosquitoes can easily destroy a Yamato ship!
Therefore, for the Zerg in StarCraft, devouring planets is more of an assimilation process, turning the entire planet into part of the Zerg life system. Even the gods said that for a planet that has been completely infected by the Zerg, there is no possibility of recovery, so they directly burn glass to burn all the lives on the entire planet.
