[Multiversal Empire] 4 – ‘Home’ for the Foreseeable Future

Two more months have passed, and my Swarm has only continued to grow. I had assimilated the essence of all of the local Fauna that could be found on this planet, and with that, my Zerg had begun to stagnate. I needed more essence and Zerg Strains, and only one idea came to mind. The Primal Zerg, ever-evolving on their home planet and consuming each other, the strongest of the Primal Zerg, becoming Ancient in age and reaching a power so vast that they had given even the Queen of Blades in her Evolved Form trouble.

That's right, I unleashed a few thousand Zerg and added a total of forty-two different large spawning pools across the planet. While they'd still remain under my complete control, I let their wilder instincts loose and let them begin hunting each other down and the local Fauna. While this would no doubt eventually wipe out the local Fauna, it would also give me new strains of Zerglings I could use with time and grant me insights into how essence changed a Zerg's form, mutating it, evolving it.

Eventually, only Zerg would remain on this planet, not that the losses of the local fauna would be much of a problem, as I had their essence stored in my central Hatchery, one that was rapidly growing to rival the size of some of the Zerg Hatcheries that were seen in the background of Kalidr, frozen in ice.

The Central hatchery was where I performed my experiments, experimented with new strains, collected and stored any essence I found, and hatched a majority of my Zerg Swarm, as the Hatchery was filled with nearly a dozen spawning pools and could spawn a few hundred Zerglings every hour to upwards of ten thousand, if I so wished, not that I would. Amping up all of my Hatcheries to their maximum production would slowly starve my swarm out, as the creep and biomass my zerglings gather would be unable to feed such exponential growth. As I was stuck on this planet, I had to be careful; otherwise, my Swarm would never leave this place.

Hence, why I mainly limited my Swarm to below the surface; that way, we didn't alter too much of the biosphere on the surface while also giving my Swarm plenty of space it could dig out to explore. The 'Primal' Zerg I sent up to the surface would give me valuable insights and data while also hopefully expanding the Biosphere, even though these additions would be Zerg in nature.

To top it off, the Spawning pools I was constructing on the surface would be entirely self-sufficient with the creep that the pools would spawn around it, passively feeding it energy, which it would use to continuously spawn more and more of these 'Primal' Zerg.

With nothing but time on my hands, I let the Primal Zerg experiment continue and went back to focusing on my experiments.

...

[Six Months Since Arrival]

Half a year has passed since my arrival on this planet, and much has changed in this time. My Swarm has grown in massive proportions, and my underground labyrinthian maze of a Hive has grown to rival the size of New York City in its entirety in size below the surface. I'd performed a great many experiments, gaining access to an elementary form of Essence manipulation, and through that, I have made the basic form of a Zerg Mutalisk, only much smaller, slower, less tough, and limited to melee combat.

I'd also begun experimenting with creating a basic form of Overlords by trying to recreate brains. At first, I made error after error, as these...proto-minds would suffer from near-instantaneous brain death as their neurons would fire randomly, and these brains would, quite literally, think themselves to death.

Through these experiments, I had more ideas. What if I could make something like the Flood Gravemind, a biological supercomputer of unfathomable scale and complexity?

With that much brainpower and plenty of Mass and energy at my disposal, I’d eventually be able to find out how to make my own form of a Leviathan, a Zerg organism that functioned as a ‘spacecraft,’ essentially acting as a moving base for the Queen of Blades, Kerrigan.

It would serve my Swarm as the ARK to ferry a part of my Swarm off the planet. If I did manage to create a Leviathan, I would not stop at just one. Instead, I’d like to make as many as possible without destroying the planet's biosphere and fly off as many Hatcheries as I could to distant Star systems in search of habitable planets for my Zerg to form new Hives on.

Speaking of planets, the one I dwell on, I have taken to calling Crèche, as it serves as the cradle for my Zerg to expand out into the stars.

Speaking of Crèche, it appears that before the Protheans built their city across its surface, it was a Jungle Planet with few oceans, if any at all. In my Zerg’s exploration, we found that it had two poles and that the planet's temperature stayed rather high, likely due to the planet being closer to the sun than the Earth I knew of.

The Winters on this planet were not bad, especially when compared to Earth’s winter. The summers, however, were worse than what Earth experienced, with temperatures ranging from a high of 120 F up to 150 F based on the location. 

Luckily, with the Hive being mostly underground, most of the heat was ignorable, though my Primal Zerg up on the surface were having difficulties with the heat. Some of the Primal Zerg were trying to adapt to the heat by assimilating the essence of some of the local Fauna, which were somewhat adapted to resist the heat.

While part of my mind focused on my research and experiments, a small part observed the progress of my Primal Zerg, who viciously hunted one another down. Each Zerg incorporated some sort of trait or essence the other Zerg assimilated or mutated into. Some of the Primal Zerg were starting to appear vastly different from the basic Zerg Larvae that hatched from.

Just as I remember seeing from the cutscene introducing the Primal Zerg, I watched as they hunted one another down constantly. Some of the larger Primal Zerg even started to form basic packs by dominating the weaker Zerg, who were young and had not assimilated or mutated much. 

These packs of Zerg then fought one another, sometimes wiping one side out while other times only weakening each other, allowing another Pack to rise up and challenge the other two.

Before I knew it, dozens of such packs formed around the spawning pools. The area around the spawning pools quickly became littered with the carcasses of my Primal Zerg, who were then eaten by the Zerg Larvae that got out of the spawning pools, creating a vicious cycle in which the weak died and fueled the growth of the strong.