The last time the Zerg appeared as a fully organized entity was two thousand years ago, when the wandering human race officially settled in the Alliance. At that time, this future interstellar race was still in obscurity.
The war between the Zerg and the Alliance lasted for four hundred years. During that time, humans served as laborers on the battlefield, carrying supplies. Soon, oppression became unbearable, and humans united with other equally miserable races. To escape the Alliance's brutal exploitation, they cultivated wasteland planets while hunkering down within the Alliance, accumulating strength.
Finally, at the end of the 400th year of the Alliance's war with the Zerg, the Empire was established.
The Empire was under siege from both the Alliance and the Zerg, the former seeking to quell a rebellion, the latter simply seeking to exploit the weak. The depth of the conflict is beyond description, but in the end, humanity's feat of slaying the Zerg Queen inflicted immense hatred on the Zerg, and they remain at the top of the Zerg's hate charts to this day.
The Empire gradually gained the upper hand, and humans began to have a say in the Alliance. Both sides implemented a consensus from beginning to end - to wipe out the Zerg.
Humans have some room to maneuver with fantasy creatures like dragons and sirens, because civilizations have strengths and weaknesses, but not superiority or inferiority. However, this is not the case with the Zerg, because they eat humans.
It's no exaggeration to say that humans are walking delicious supplements to the Zerg, especially the advanced ones. It's like a huge joke played by the universe. When the first Zerg gnawed on humans, it must have been incredible.
This race, which has never been associated with enjoyment, finally has a contribution to make to the cosmic recipe book - at the cost of every page being soaked with human blood and tears.
But now the remnants of the Alliance are collaborating with the Zerg? Even if the Empire believes that there are more than just humans left, even a single one would be a betrayal of everyone who has died at the hands of the Zerg, and a massive threat to the entire universe.
The immortals had much deeper memories of this. Most of them had witnessed such hell with their own eyes. It was the most barbaric and cruel scene they had ever seen since they were born... After all, humans looked so similar to them.
Two thousand years, from the time they first saw this race to the present day, traces of humanity are everywhere, even in the invisible distance. Two thousand years is enough time for a dragon to survive its fragile incubation period, for a merman to grow from infancy to middle age, and for an elf to reach the pinnacle of everything.
And humans, a race that comes from a dead gray-blue planet in a galaxy that can be reached in 2.5 universe hours from the Imperial Capital Star, have staged a legend with their mayfly-like lives.
This cannot be entirely attributed to fate. It's like the fantasy species possessing great power and a long lifespan, but their nature is hard to change, they are not good at business, and they operate according to primitive social systems.
Human beings have the freest thoughts and souls. They are active and enthusiastic about all production and construction, just to create a better future - just like they leave their home planet and rush into the universe.
All races in the universe knew that the reason why the Zerg were so rampant during the Alliance period was, on the one hand, because these bugs liked to eat ores and were always robbing resource stars or resource ships. This was not a big deal, as the universe was big enough and they could just move to another place. On the other hand, the Zerg's individual soldier quality was ridiculously high at the time. Mechas, which had been popular in the interstellar space for two thousand years under the promotion of humans, were already in the hands of every Zerg at the time, and they had mastered the art of playing with them.
The Zerg are powerful, but most of them are mindless weapons. Among high-level Zerg, fighting and hatred against each other in order to compete for the favor of the Zerg Queen often occur. The Zerg Queen herself is happy to see this happen. Selecting the best and inheriting the best is her instinct to shoulder the responsibility of reproduction for the entire race.
Although humans are weak, mechas have greatly compensated for this. In addition, with the continuous iteration of technology, the gap between humans and Zerg still exists, but it is a solvable problem. After all, the fantasy species are not inferior to the Zerg, and humans are good at uniting strength, using strategies, and finding weaknesses.
This inherently weak race even called it the "Martial Art." Even the dragons, acknowledged as the most belligerent, never deviated from the original meaning of combat, while humans had simplified warfare into an aesthetic.
Someone once asked in a post on StarNet discussing the differences between the two: what if the two were combined?
The answer was that it would be a disaster. We would face a powerful enemy who knew us inside and out. Unfortunately, the Zerg were much more reckless than the fantasy species.
"Once the war begins, it also means a divine war is brewing," Ronnie said during his analysis. "The Temple of Nature, the Temple of Light, the Temple of Elements... none of them will be spared."
All wars in the mortal world are fought for profit, but the wars between gods are only for power.
"The God of Plague was only a minor evil god a long time ago," Ronnie said. "That's because it's very difficult to cause a plague among the Fantasy Races. Firstly, they have strong self-healing abilities, so they can recover from the disease before it spreads. Secondly, clergy like those in the Temple of Light and the Temple of Nature are spread across the galaxy, and a simple healing spell can solve the problem."
"A plague was eradicated before it could spread widely. Naturally, the Plague God could not gain any power. While it is relatively easy to achieve his goal on a fringe planet without a natural or light temple stationed there, the population is sparse, so his power cannot be greatly enhanced."
"...until the arrival of humans." Ronnie's eyes were complicated. When he was young, he first saw this race that was extremely similar to himself but extremely weak on a mining planet. Those humans were like a group of lambs living together, with tired and bright eyes full of curiosity.
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