StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 165 The First Action of the Son of Keha

Xiluo Autonomous Prefecture, Revolutionary Army Camp, Marshal Command Post. August 2489, 8, 17:19 local time.

In the Hero Autonomous Prefecture near the equator in the southern hemisphere of Mar Sara, the deadly fireball in the sky is always begging for nothing in the orange-gray sky. The long sunset process burns the clouds into red bit by bit, It seems that God hangs a gradient red cloth on the horizon.

There is a set of old-fashioned air conditioning equipment in the dome tent used as the temporary command post of the Marshal. It is an obsolete product from the main star of Tarsonis four generations ago. It is said that the temperature, humidity, and even air pressure can be adjusted according to the mood of the user—Aogu Stu thinks this isn't false advertising in the sense that the temperature in the entire tent depends entirely on how hard he presses the regulator button while shivering from the cold.

In the center of the yurt is a long alloy table brought from the armory of the Norad II battlecruiser. Next to the table are weapon racks for more than a dozen different electromagnetic and laser guns and a shelf for hanging revolutionary army officers. Branch coat rack for hats and military coats.On one side of the wall lined with plain steel plates, there are more than a dozen paper wanted warrants and a news report cut out from a newspaper.

Everything in Augustus’ barracks was simple, but the chairs he and Renault were sitting on were incompatible with the solemn and cold barracks.The imitation Tarsonis-style palace chairs in the lair of the local gangsters are made of exquisite materials and fine lines. Thousands of light-years away, Pegasus, Umoyan Dominion.

"Only a handful of members of the Pegasus Brotherhood are still at large, but I swear to the good people in Mar Sara who believe in God, they will be brought to justice by me sooner or later." In the command post, only Renault and There were two Augustus, so Renault had nothing to do. The Major of the Revolutionary Army consciously put his legs up on the long table.

"It's like that, Sheriff Jimmy." No one remembers when Augustus called Jim Jimmy, which is a kind of endearment, and Renault has only reluctantly accepted Augustus. And Tychus called himself that, he'd be uncomfortable with anyone else—it didn't sound like a tough guy's name.

"Isn't it? We have now helped the sheriff of the local town arrest more than [-] criminals, including smugglers, drug dealers, and maglev train thieves. Those gang members hiding in town." Augustus wore only a gray army shirt, and whenever he was in the barracks he took off his Umoyan moldable mask to reveal his true face.

"They still think that the Federal Marine Corps took away their stronghold in the wilderness and took away those accomplices who have not been heard from - the Marine Corps is an army, independent of the Mar Sara militia and the police. Except Governor, no one can find out which fleet has been wandering around here recently."

Augustus is 19 years old this year, and he has only spent more than a year in the Koprulu sector. Even so, the fair skin that was originally cultivated in the noble environment has turned into a healthy wheat color , but also trained a strong and powerful muscles.But Augustus still didn't grow a beard, which was no different from his previous image.

"These villains deserve to be called cowboys. They basically did all the evil things they can do." Renault obviously disliked the gangs who fell into his hands: "I believe the sheriff here must be working all day long. Fell asleep."

"The agents of Ogbo (Keha-August National Security Council) obtained a few identification cards by spending money. When they sneaked into Echo Town a few days ago, they found out that the position of the sheriff here is vacant, and has already Having been idle for so long, the Sheriff doesn't appear to be in any rush to recruit a new sheriff to lead the leaderless sheriffs and constables."

"What is that judicial officer thinking?" Renault shook his head: "Has the local sheriff resigned? It looks like he was transferred to the core world."

"I heard that his body was hung at the entrance of Echo Town. The part from the chest down disappeared, but there was still a bloody spine. No matter what happened to him during his lifetime, the person who killed him must be They hung him up with the slaughterhouse equipment and slaughtered him." Augustus said lamentably, "Many townspeople felt sorry for the magistrate who 'died in the line of duty', saying he was too upright."

"It's a pity," Reynolds said. "The criminal who killed him must have lost humanity."

Just as he was talking, the curtain of the tent was lifted by Rory Swan, and he rushed in frizzy, turned around in a circle to adapt to the intensity of light in the command post, and sat down with his body covered in dust. A court chair worth much more than his suit.

"A new batch of Ardian crystals has been loaded on the ship, just waiting to be sent to the fleet." Swan said, stood up and dusted the dust under his buttocks, and looked at Augustus: "I'm sorry, boss, I didn't knock on the door before I came in because I couldn't find where the door panel was."

Lieutenant General Warfield of the Revolutionary Army was preparing to lead six of the more severely damaged battlecruisers out of the fourteen to Umoyan Dockyard for extensive repairs, and it happened that the empty battlecruiser warehouse was used to load cargo.

The wandering Augustus fleet did not live very comfortably. They lacked medicines and ammunition supplies, and there was no replenishment loss of soldiers, and Mar Sara didn't even have a few production lines that could produce C-series Gauss rifle ammunition.If it weren't for the fact that there are indeed rich mineral deposits here, it would be impossible for the revolutionary army to stay.

In addition, as reported by UNN, at least six federal navy squadrons are searching for traces of the Revolutionary Army fleet in the Koprulu sector.The news editors used the words that the fleeing rebel fleet could be found and defeated soon or in a few days, and emphasized that the rebel ships were running out and vulnerable.

But relatively speaking, it was difficult for the Federation Fleet to notice Ma Sara in the backcountry.

"Tell the new workers that they can take a break—temporarily," said Augustus. "How many crystals are there?"

Augustus only remembers that Mar Sara's xel'naga artifact came from a mining outpost, and he came to the planet to collect the fragment first.In this way, regardless of whether he can find the remaining fragments to assemble the artifact, he can also take the initiative first and prevent the artifact from falling into the hands of other forces.

"Based on the standard of Camerian, it should be 2000 cubic meters, which is equivalent to a larger swimming pool. If the market remains the same as before, we can probably sell [-] million Umoyan citizen points. This is a huge sum However, it is not enough to repair the battleship, provide supplies for the people in the new city of Umoyan, and help them rebuild the city and industry." Swan reminded Augustus.

"If it wasn't for our lack of factories for cutting and refining Ardian crystals, then we would not only earn money for raw materials. Ma Sara is too far away from Umoyan, and the round trip alone will take nearly a month. Time is too wasteful."

This is equivalent to a month's production of the canyon mining area, which was marked as A-1 by Augustus. The A-1 mining area is currently managed by a cousin of Rory Swan. It is mainly composed of local gang members who are undergoing labor reform, the Kelmerians hired by Augustus to train the miners, and a revolutionary army guarding them. even.

Now Augustus still has two small mining areas in his hands, and the combined output is only equivalent to one-tenth of the A-1 mining area, but the advantage is that they are not far from each other. Able to send reinforcements.

Each mining area is guided by a second-level political commissar of the Revolutionary Army personally appointed to conduct ideological and political education for the miners who have finished work every day. Many places in the mining area have pasted performance index forms and "labor is the most glorious" Such a tagline.

At the same time, political commissars also acted as military chaplains to recite prayers for religious believers among the miners, whether to God, Jesus, Allah, evil spirits or Mar Sara itself.

"You are a real Kemerian, Swan." Augustus smiled and said, "At present, we can only sell to the Umoyans, and even the Peak Peak mining area in Arcturus is only sold to the Umoyans." To supply Umoyans, the Kel-Morian Consortium is not worthy of our trust right now."

"Unless we set up a factory in Mar Sara to refine impurity crystals into high-purity crystals and then process them into armor plates for battlecruisers or other products, we will not be able to make more profits from the mining area." Renault is not interested in mining He has no research at all, and he cares more about the Revolutionary Army than Tychus Finley, who only cares about himself.

After being away from the battlefield for nearly a month, the engineers of the Revolutionary Army can only make minor repairs to some of the electronic equipment of the battlecruisers. To restore these battlecruisers to their pre-war conditions, they must return to large military shipyards. Inbound maintenance.

"You know that it is impossible for us to spend a lot of money to establish a complete crystal ore processing industry chain on this planet." Augustus just shrugged: "The federal fleet will arrive at any time, so we have to clean up at any time Preparations for evacuation."

"Maybe we can move the factory to the ship, a large mining ship—do you know the whaling ship in Tyrador, hunting and processing are all done on the ship, and the mining ship is the same as this." Swan said.

"I know that Kel-Morians have such ships. They have many plundering fleets composed of giant mining ships." Augustus nodded: "But the Kel-Morians never sell their mining ships."

"The situation has changed now." Swan's understanding of the current situation of the Kelmorian Federation is obviously better than that of Augustus: "My relatives who stayed in Meinhof told me that because the Mining Association is weak Repaying the Commonwealth treasury bonds issued in large quantities during the four-year war, the Commonwealth's economy is on the verge of collapse, and most people cannot eat enough to eat."

"At this time, they are willing to sell even battlecruisers."

"Well——I originally planned to go to Moria." Augustus nodded.

"Is there such a good thing?" Renault put his foot down on the table: "You are a Kymerian, how could you let us do such a thing."

"If people can't survive, what's the point of other things?" Swan sighed and said, "The Revolutionary Army will provide Ke Morian with a large amount of Umoyan's foreign exchange reserves, which can at least solve the urgent need."

"everything will get better."

"What's the matter? What are you whispering, let old Tychus listen too." At this time, the sky was getting dark, and Tychus came in wearing a long trench coat, holding a few cards that had just been echoed from nearby. Newspapers from the town.

"What's the matter, Tychus, I heard that you went to the town to have fun?" Renault looked at Tychus and said with a smile.

"Now I'm a wanted man—unless I'm crazy to do something like that. I'm in a relationship at the moment with a Revolutionary Marine lieutenant, and I'm just going into town to buy some clothes, you Do you understand me?" Tychus glanced at Raynor.

"Boy Jimmy, you're only a boy after all, you don't understand anything."

"It's a revolution now, and it's too early for me to get married." Renault explained: "Besides, this kind of thing is about fate."

"Do you expect two people to see each other at the same time? It's as unbelievable as two male Mar Sara marmots falling in love." Tychus showed a playful expression, and sent several wanted warrants and a copy of the latest Marmot ·Sara Global Evening News put it on the table: "Don't talk about this, I think there are some things that you need to take a look at."

One of the most wanted posters is the portrait of Augustus' father Angus Mengsk - an Arabic numeral 5 followed by a series of amazing 0s, and Augustus's one is only lower than his own father. [-] million, and the photo he used was still the one at the Turasis Marine Corps boot camp. At that time, Augustus had just shaved his head and looked like a prisoner who had just been released from prison.

"That's right, if the Revolutionary Army can't get rid of it. You can exchange Angus's head for money." Augustus commented.

Then, Augustus drew another one, which seemed to be a recruitment poster for the local sheriff, and the date was posted only yesterday: "Jimmy, there is an opportunity for you to 'reform your mind' right now, you You can try it and see if you can get a part-time job in the government."

"Ma Sara needs an upright sheriff." Renault smiled: "You can even run for the mayor of Hiro."

"Maybe?" Augustus also smiled, but when he picked up a newspaper, his smile gradually froze.

A newspaper with part of the font erased with red paint reads: On July 7, a synthetic intelligent drone assembly factory of the Tagore family on Tarsonis Prime suffered a fire. Of the hundreds of employees on duty that day, only two None of the material buyers who disappeared after vacation was spared, and a group called "Sons of Korha" was quickly declared responsible on the website at an anonymous address.

The publisher left only one sentence at the end: This is just the beginning.

An expert invited by the newspaper believes that the accident will destroy a large number of drone finished products and components in the factory. Not only that, Tagore Group will also pay huge liquidated damages for failing to deliver to customers on time.Compared with the substantial shrinkage of the Tagore Group's assets caused by the large number of shareholders selling their stocks due to this incident, the liquidated damages and losses of factory equipment are insignificant.

The first terrorist act of the Sons of Keha caused a huge shock to the Tarsonis equity trading market, and the chief of the Tarsonis Police Department, who had been unable to close the case for a long time, could only be forced to take the blame and resign.Just as the Tarsonis entrepreneurs dramatically increased the security of their factories, the Sons of Korha disappeared, never to be seen again.

"Happy, Mengsk," Tychus said. "Who did it? All I know is that it must have been the Korha—maybe I just took it for granted that someone is using your name for good."

"I don't know," said Augustus, "but I can guess who did it."

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(End of this chapter)