StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 226 2491 years

Agria, New Kurdish Fort.

In two months, a city called Fort New Kurd had sprung up north of the Agria colony.

The new city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is located on an alluvial plain at the southernmost tip of the long and narrow continent of Agria, which is rich in water and grass. The city is close to the Tropic of Capricornus, the climate is warm, and the spring and winter seasons are not obvious and short.The monsoons from the ocean bring abundant precipitation every standard year, thus nourishing the lush green vegetation here.

The plant seeds brought by the Keha people and the animals preserved using embryo freezing technology have adapted to the air composition and the wavelength of natural light in Agria after several twists and turns, and gradually developed a thriving population on this planet.

The native species of the Koprulu Sector that have been domesticated by humans, the giant rhinoceros, the iguana and the Umoyanskrussia, the cow and the mammoth beetle, were introduced into Agria along with the cattle and sheep of Earth.At the same time, in order to control the number of these docile herbivores, the Keha people introduced their natural enemies, the scorpion, the whip-tailed leopard and the famous Keha wolf.

This fertile land was quickly given to the Keha people and gifts who chose it. The humus soil here can grow rye, wheat and corn without fertilization. The long and stable direct sunlight time and abundant precipitation throughout the year make The new settlers began to try another crop from the old earth - rice.

Agria's rich marine biological resources also make people in the new colony no longer need to worry about protein supplements. The vast ocean of this planet has derived a complex biome, the ancient biome of ammonites and nautilus and Early vertebrates evolved a variety of biological chains in this ocean.

Fishermen from Korha soon established the first ocean-going port in Agria's oceans, naming it after a fishing village.Fishing immediately became a pillar industry for Keha's settlers in Agria. Agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing made the settlers no longer need to worry about food.

Geologists and deposit scientists discovered several crystal veins around the settlement and high-energy gas springs in the mountains, which immediately gave the new Korha settlers a shot in the arm.

The newly discovered Ardion crystal veins are buried under the deciduous broad-leaved forest south of Fort New Kurd, and even two-thirds of the veins are exposed on the surface, and the new settlers can pick them up when they walk in the forest. These blue crystals are beautiful crystals.The mining difficulty of this Ardian crystal vein is much lower than those of Korhal IV's deep underground mines.

A high-energy gas refinery with tall alloy chimneys towers over high mountains covered with dense jungle, and the workers of the gas refinery do their jobs in their new homeland.They drove the SCV space construction engineering vehicle to remove the canned and sealed green gas from the conveyor belt of the refinery, and skillfully operated the space engineering vehicle to send the canned high-energy gas into the trailer.

Requiring only a handful of engineers, technicians and supervisors to keep a highly automated refinery running, these yellow and black SCVs are like hardworking worker bees in a hive.

The settlements in Agria soon showed a thriving scene, and their development speed far exceeded the imagination of the local settlers.

When Augustus's revolutionary fleet was preparing to leave the Agria galaxy for the center of the Koprulu star region and enter the core area of ​​the Tyrann Federation territory, the new colony established by the Keha people in Agria was already able to achieve self-sufficiency Self-sufficient and simple trade with native settlers.

At this moment, Augustus, who was standing on the bridge of the Revolutionary Army flagship Hyperion, was looking at the blue-green Agria and another dark blue companion star through a huge observation window.In front of the holographic projection control panel and console next to Augustus are the pictures of the city center of Neukuldberg and the pictures taken from orbit by geostationary satellites, all except Warfield, Rundstein and Duke The generals of the revolutionary army are now standing beside Augustus.

The Huberian was Augustus's first battlecruiser—after the Battle of Tarsonis, the Norad II had always been the flagship of the Revolutionary Army fleet, because she was relatively old-fashioned Huber Both the weapon system and the defense matrix of the Lian are much more advanced.

It turned out that Augustus took a fancy to the new flagship Norad III of Alpha Squadron and wanted to use it as the new flagship, but this move was immediately strongly opposed by Duke and criticized by Renault for its behavior of liking the new and disliking the old.

In the end Augustus repurposed the Hyperion as the flagship of the Revolutionary fleet, not because he was a nostalgic, but because Rory Swann told him that he and Victor Kaczynski had done the Hyperion The upgrade of the HMS Hyperion, which adamantly claimed that the Hyperion would be the coolest battlecruiser in all of humanity.

At the same time, Rory Swan inserted a few void crystals found by the Revolutionary Army in Mar Sara and a Kedarin crystal found in the Baisherta Darin base near the main engine room of the Hyperion. .

Although Swan still can't figure out how these crystals work, the xel'naga crystals and protoss crystals do continue to power the Hyperion's main engines and the life support systems and weapon systems on the battleship.

This kind of pure sharp-edged man-made crystal energy is inexhaustible. If humans can figure out its working principle, then the Protoss crystal can undoubtedly replace the nuclear fusion reactor to provide cities, factories, and buildings far exceeding the size of the Behemoth-class battlecruiser. Battleships provide energy.It is foreseeable that, in the eyes of the protoss, human nuclear energy is still a primitive and backward technology, and their energy technology is far more advanced than human beings.

From orbit, New Kurdish City is just a silver-gray dot, and the camera keeps zooming in to reveal its standard colonial grid town.The new city was built by the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps and Bernard Hansen's Agria Construction Company. It combines the architectural styles of Tarsonis and Khal IV. All the box-shaped houses are made of cast iron. The silver alloy plate is built, and the house has gleaming transparent glass and antennas.

New Kurd has no soaring skyscrapers and grand buildings with silver alloy frames and glass. All the buildings are low-rise single-story and multi-story buildings. Only one high-rise building in the city center stands alone.

Two jewel-like blue rivers flow through the center of the city, and the broad-leaved forest surrounding the settlement complex is dyed. The silver-white buildings in New Kurdish City seem to be white metal squares shining in the sun.

To commemorate the city of Fort Kurd, which was destroyed in the Battle of Keha, and to commemorate the feat that almost all adult men and women of the city residents joined the revolutionary army, which made the once prosperous city look extremely cold and lonely. Adding the suffix NEW before it will also call it Fort Newkuld.

"Our home world has one more." Augustus opened the route star map of Hyperion, manually marked Agria as green and marked it, indicating that it is a planet that can be docked .

In Augustus's vision, Agria would become a huge granary after five years or more, providing supplies for the entire revolutionary army.

When the new colony of Agria was built, the construction plan also included its dark blue companion star.Augustus also planned to establish a biological laboratory and an interstellar airport on the companion star marked as Agria Satellite I, and deploy a permanent fleet in this galaxy.

The strategic significance of Agria lies not only in its rich resources, which can provide rich minerals and almost inexhaustible food, but also in the fact that it is located at the easternmost end of the Koprulu star sector, adjacent to the Kelmorian complex planet Mainhorn. Husband and the immigrant planet Haven.

If Augustus wants to establish a solid base in the eastern part of the Koprulu sector, then Agria is the best choice.Through the settlement of Agria, Augustus can reach the Baishere settlement on the edge of the Koprulu star area and several planets occupied by the Tadarin Expeditionary Fleet, and can reach the Sara galaxy in the west and Villitia main star.

"This is a new beginning." Reynolds, who was standing beside Augustus, said: "The Keha people have gone through hardships, and finally a new home has taken root."

"We finally have a stronghold of our own." Tychus's way of speaking is not at all like a soldier of the Revolutionary Army who is committed to liberating all mankind, but a gangster: "The people on the two planets of Kalis It takes a lot of time to develop.”

"I think you just want to take a hole in those two colonized planets, and when there is a territorial dispute with the Federation, the Kel-Morians, or some messed up aliens, we can just say that those two planets are K Kazakh territory and an inalienable part since ancient times.”

"Haha——" Augustus said to the navigator of the Hyperion with one last look at Agria.

"Second Lieutenant, send us out of orbit. To Umoyan, we need the support of the Umoyan Guardians," he said.

"Where's Ariel Hansen?" Tychus said in Augustus' familiar tone as the Hyperion accelerated into the hyperspace channel, "Why didn't you take your little lover away, you I thought she was wearing glasses so I couldn't see your flirting~"

"Why are you willing to leave that little black-haired beauty in Agria? I'm not willing to—"

"Don't act like a pedophile, Tychus, Augustus is not as bad as you." Before Augustus could speak, Kerrigan pointed at Tychus' nose and cursed.

"She was right, Tychus," Augustus said.

"Tychus, everyone knows you are a bastard." Raynor also spoke for Augustus.

"Come on, you're jealous chief," said Harnack, who would put Augustus in everything.

"Ariel Hansen is about to go to Tarsonis to go to university, how could she follow us to die... This is a revolution, you think it's just playing tricks or some cool robber." Reynolds said.

"That's what I said. You can't be like this..." Tychus was speechless because he just wanted to tease Augustus.

"Especially you, Jimmy, that revolver in your hand was snatched from Tarsonis with all my might, otherwise you'd have to wait at least five or six years to get it," he said sourly.

"It's heartless."

"Okay." When Renault was thinking of something to say, Augustus pointed to the main screen on the bridge of the Hyperion and said.

"Looking at the recent news, we don't have much time to vacation in Agria anymore." Augustus looked at the head of the mechanical adjutant on the screen.

"Adjutant, play the UNN front line bulletin for August 8th."

All the media signals that arrived in Agria came from more than two months ago. These delayed news are one of the basis for the Revolutionary Army to understand the recent major events in the Tyrann Federation - because when an event even UNN starts When it is reported, it means that the federal government has failed to cover up their scandal.

"I would like to announce the sad news that Colonel Edmund Duke of Alpha Squadron has been confirmed to be under the control of Augustus Mengsk's rebels with psychotropic drugs. The Walking Dead."

"I am Gordon, a military reporter. The First Fleet of the Federal Navy has arrived at Mar Sara. The rebels fled in a panic and were routed. The people of Mar Sara who have been devastated by the rebels warmly welcomed us, and the atmosphere at the scene is warm!"

The picture of the main screen is switched to the camera picture. Next to the host's feet are a pile of flaming Molotov cocktails and wooden obstacles. From the edge of the lens that has been deliberately blurred, a Union marine in power armor can be seen Roughly dragging the struggling Ma Sara out of his own house.

"You have to be censored for smearing jam on a slice of bread! You have a flag in your room, and it's not the red and blue star flag of the Federation." Tychus dubbed the silent video with a grotesque voice.

"I can imagine what happened to the Mar Sara people after we left, but that will only make them hate the federal government even more." Renault's expression was very ugly, and he couldn't imagine the towns and taverns they had stayed in. what happened.

"Actually, according to the reports of the troops who stayed in Mar Sara, they inflicted a lot of losses on the federal troops who landed through guerrilla warfare. At the same time, the Mar Sara people who supported us also brought a lot of trouble to the federal troops." said Augustus.

"see this."

The screen on the main screen began to change with Augustus's words, cutting to a series of reports.

"The high-altitude one-way suspension train track in the main city of Tarsonis was blown up, a suspension train derailed and fell, and more than 800 people died-a family member of the elder family Dorian family also died in the accident."

"Ander Tagore was found dead in his family's bathroom. Before that, he was considered to be the heir most likely to succeed 'Queen Tagore' Andrea—"

"Senator Tyran Doyle of the Federal Parliament has been involved in an unprecedented sexual assault scandal. It is reported that hundreds of federal government officials have been involved in this scandal—"

"After 12 years, it has been declared that Abram's rebels have been completely wiped out and appeared on the main star of Antiga."

"—The Sons of Kehal claim responsibility."

"Your brother Arcturus did a good job." Tychus commented, "Kill those founding families, that's what it should be."

Augustus remained silent. There were hundreds of pieces of news about the sons of Keha. During the period when the revolutionary army disappeared, the sons of Keha occupied the headlines of various news media.

Arcturus Mengsk commands his Sons of Korhal thousands of light-years away from Tarsonis, and the organization has gradually become the target of criticism for its bloody, brutal and unscrupulous revenge against the Founding Family. .

Before Augustus could say anything, the main screen suddenly switched to such a piece of news.

"The federal outpost of Sardin III was destroyed by an unidentified armed force. Local residents claimed that they saw mysterious lights and warships in the cloudless and moonless sky that night, and claimed that those lights definitely did not come from stars. Or lights."

"It's the Tal'darin protoss, and they're taking revenge," Augustus said.

At this moment, under the bridge of the Hyperion, a dozen or so iron-gray behemoth-class battlecruisers were simultaneously sailing into the hyperspace channel.And it will be 2491 years after this fleet reappears in the material world.

(End of this chapter)