StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 127 There is a fleet, but only a little bit
"The giant-class cargo ship you want me to modify has been modified, and now you can call it the first giant-class frigate. Well, I guess you will call it that?"

In the narrow bridge, engineer Rory Swan, dressed in orange-gray overalls and holding a toolbox in one hand, pointed to the cables on the bridge and a console and said to Augustus: " The ship is 400 inches long by 128 feet wide, and the kid is a mid-size cargo ship, with lots of new rooms from the lower deck to the main beam cargo hold. If you insist on stuffing people in, then It can hold about 67 people."

The lighting facility on the bridge ceiling seemed to be an extremely bright white light ball, and under its light, the control consoles on the bridge connected with the winding pipelines could be seen at a glance.Some of the opened bulkhead covers were full of cables of various colors entangled like a group of snakes, and the poorly circulated air was mixed with the smell of lubricating oil and sweat.

The bridge of this ship is not as wide as that of a battlecruiser, and there are only a few driving seats facing the portholes in front. Augustus walked into the bridge together with a dozen guards including Sarah Kerrigan. The space seems to be narrow, and there are not many people standing in front of the bridge portholes, which are used to overlook the battlefield and broaden the captain's field of vision.

The Hyperion in Umoyan's orbital dock won't be repaired until at least the next month.Prior to this, this frigate converted from an interstellar cargo ship was Augustus's largest warship at present, and he had to accept the shabby fact that this warship was to be the flagship of the Keha Revolutionary Army fleet.

While Augustus was looking around at the layout inside the bridge, Sarah Kerrigan, who was wearing a dark gray Revolutionary Army uniform and a golden wolf armband, began to inspect the facilities inside the bridge as usual.She is straddling a C-10 rifle, and her long fiery red hair gathered behind the hat is tied with a white ribbon, and the long hair tied is like a dancing flame as she walks.

"Swan, what's new? I know you're a genius."

"Thank you, but you don't need ten sentences to praise me nine." Swan's face was smeared with oil: "I made a small improvement. My team and I added an extra one to this spaceship." With a Titan engine and a new central reactor, the jump engine maintained by a professional team of jump technicians will allow you to race in the hyperspace lane."

"Sounds like I don't have to worry about power anymore," Augustus said. "What about the weapon system? I've seen you add extra ship armor and laser pulse cannons to the ship."

"Yes, there are a pair of ship-mounted laser pulse cannons under the bridge, and a missile honeycomb that can be deployed on each side. In addition, this modified spacecraft is also equipped with a large number of small plasma torpedoes. Of course, due to The drawback of the modification is that we have to manually push the torpedoes out of the airlock and fire them manually with a hammer if necessary."

Swan said to Augustus: "Based on the original armor, I added thicker armor plates and a lightweight energy matrix shield."

"Shield shield technology? This is an epoch-making advancement." Augustus' eyes lit up.

"It's actually not difficult to do this, the key is to be willing to spend money." Swan said: "Speaking of this, boss, is the funding for the Keha Weapons Research Institute going to be approved a little more? The research and development of new weapons are all money."

"There will be funding." Augustus' voice became louder: "I'll talk about this issue later."

Now the entire Keha, ground fortresses, high-altitude orbital defense platforms, anti-aircraft missile arrays, government investment, fleet and army maintenance, etc. are constantly spending money. The former are big money eaters, and there are millions of mouths It depends on the new government to fill it up.

The finances of the new government have long been unable to make ends meet by relying on taxes alone. If the rich and generous Umoyan government had not provided huge war loans with low interest rates, Angus would have hanged himself.

The Umoyans thought very clearly. If Keha IV's uprising failed, then the next war in the Koprulu sector would inevitably be the battle between the Tyranid Federation and Umoyan, so they spared no effort in their support.

The little money that Augustus made in the army was not enough to have a bathroom on Hyperion. At this time, he couldn’t help but miss his elder brother Arcturus who was still digging at the edge of the Koprulu sector. .

Since they are brothers connected by blood, they must always support each other.Moreover, Augustus gave part of the start-up capital at the beginning, which can be regarded as a stake in Arcturus' mining industry.

"Then I'm relieved." Swan didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at this time.

"Also, do you have any idea about the design of the new main gun of the Behemoth-class battlecruiser?" Augustus said.

"Using the nuclear reactor of the battlecruiser as the power source to use a strong magnetic field to focus the controlled nuclear explosion into a condensed beam of energy. I have to say, this is a crazy idea." Swan said: "Sometimes I always doubt your Did the intelligence department make a mistake, maybe the Federation's Naval Research Institute just created a folder on the terminal host to cheat funds."

"If we want to restrain a controllable nuclear explosion and make it condense, we need the support of our technological breakthroughs in multiple fields of materials science and engineering. In detail, you can't understand it, because I can't figure it out myself ."He said.

"In general, it's easier said than done."

"Then let's get the design blueprints after the experiments of the people from the Federation are successful." Augustus didn't have any expectations for this newly established weapons research institute, although it was filled with the Talents poached by technology companies, but in fact, the top talents in the entire Koprulu sector have always been in Tarsonis and Umoyan.

Augustus didn't expect them to be able to develop the classic Yamato gun of the battlecruiser earlier than the Tyrannian Federation, but what if?
"What about the joint research with Umoyan?" Augustus asked again.

"We're still talking, the other party is very interested in this." Swan's thick eyebrows and beard stretched out: "But I'm worried that those cunning Umoyans will throw us away and go it alone."

"But then again, we don't have battlecruisers, and I don't know what you're worrying about." The grumpy Mrs. Meinho issued a torture that hit her soul.

"... How many frigates of this type do we have?" Augustus was hit hard.

"Three, seventeen more are being converted in docks around Korha, and we have over fifty scout craft converted from civilian transport craft, ranging in size from 50 feet to 65 feet (165 to 10 meters) , These scout boats are equipped with small laser cannons, but the damage is very touching, and the laser beam hitting the armor of the battlecruiser is like tickling." Swanby stroked.

"biubiubiu—um...like this."

"This is really a huge fleet." Augustus sighed.

At this time, Jim Raynor's iconic laughter came from the narrow passage leading to the bridge. As the fleet commander under Augustus, this open-minded and optimistic young man was already gearing up for a big fight up.

"Good morning, my lovely friends." Renault poked out a bald head.

It is not easy to take a hot shower on the battleship. The sonic bath can remove dead skin and dirt from the body but is not effective in dealing with greasy hair, so Renault always likes to shave his hair during this time.

Behind Renault was the tall and burly Tychus, who was a bit reluctant to walk in this narrow passage.

"Hi, baby," Swann said, "Good morning."

"Oh—here's another big one."

(End of this chapter)