StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 287 Attack on Char (6000 words chapter)
In mid-October, the Governor's Palace of Antiga.

After handing over the management of Antiga to Mr. Brown, the administrator sent from Umoyan by his father Angus Mengsk, and ordering Rondestein to be the commander-in-chief of the Antiga planetary garrison, Augustus is now Sitting at the desk in the governor's office to organize his belongings to take away.

Including a thick photo album, a laptop computer, a holster with a P-20 electromagnetic pistol, and several sets of military uniforms that have already been sorted out.

The photo album records photos of Augustus walking with the people or the army in places such as Turasis and Mar Sara. It is these old photos that cut out the past time.

The letters of the family are stored in the computer. To this day, my mother and Dorothy are still writing letters to Augustus, even if they cannot be delivered in time, they have never missed a week.My elder brother Arcturus also wrote letters to Augustus from time to time, most of which were about the current situation of the mines he operated, and occasionally talked about the Keha and Mengsk families in the past, which was very sad.

Augustus read these letters from time to time, and never wrote a word.

Raynor's son John was almost a year old, and his nephew Valerian had grown into a handsome blond boy at such an amazing speed that Augustus couldn't help but think how fast time had passed.

John Raynor's psychic gifts are rapidly awakening as he grows up, which can't help but worry his family.Fortunately, the Umoyan shadow guards are looking after the child, lest his too powerful psychic energy hurt others or himself.

Angus Mengsk, accompanied by his wife Catherine, has established himself in Umoyan's elected council, regaining his former popularity among his people by aggressively pursuing a strong policy toward the Kaha.

19-year-old Dorothy Mengsk won praises such as "Dorothy of Keha IV" and "Empty Crown Flower of the Mengsk Dynasty" in Umoyan for her beauty, talent and wisdom.

In order to protect the route in the Koprulu star area from the threats of interstellar pirates, zerg, and protoss, Arcturus established an elite armed force mainly composed of core members of the Sons of Korhal. One-fortieth of the money earned in mining to arm them.

In addition, Arcturus' mines extend to the desolate Dinares sector beyond the Koprulu sector.In order to transport mined crystal ores, high-energy gas, precious metals and other industrial raw materials, Arcturus also built a transportation company across two star regions. About 80 Keha and Umoyans are working for the He works.

However, although Arcturus realized his youthful ideal, he did not feel much satisfaction from it.

Dr. Hansen of Agria, another territory of Augustus, would report to him about the situation inside every two or three months. Except for the Chimera pirates and a few Camerian pirates who had visited Agria, there Did not encounter an irresistible enemy.

Agria's remote location in the Koprulu star sector is no longer a crucial factor to curb its development there. The unique natural environment allows agriculture and biotechnology to flourish there.

After selling large quantities of food to the famine-stricken Kel-Morian Commonwealth, crates emblazoned with the white cross of Agria saved the lives of thousands of impoverished Kel-Morians.

After Angus transferred part of Keha's cutting-edge technology to Agria and carried out directional immigration, the population on this planet has reached 560 million, and the economy is booming.

Some of these emails came from even more distant worlds, even across the Koprulu Sector.

The colonial fleets that escaped from Korhal IV two years ago have already landed on different planets and have contacted Umoyan one after another. Among the remaining five colonial fleets, one fleet jumped into a ship due to a navigation system failure. A single helium white dwarf, more than 20 people died in the accident, with the rest landing in the planet's only remaining giant planet.

On the planet that the survivors had named Ingens—Latin for gigantic, the dead star was only as bright as the two moons of Korha IV.The 15 people who landed there could only rely on the stellar geothermal heat and the vast high-energy gas mines on the planet's surface for light and heat.

That giant planet is very close to Sigmaris, the core world of the Tyrann Federation, so those who landed there did not dare to call for help and had to build their homes on the spot.By the time Angus was contacted, the group of immigrants had lived there for two years and tenaciously built an underground city relying on the ring volcano.

On that planet, the days are extremely long, newborns are born without ever seeing natural sunlight, and the people there are generally fair-skinned and have a disproportionate amount of pigmentation in their hair caused by the radiation of the stars. white hair.The temperature in places far away from the city can even be lower than minus 140 degrees, and it is always in a frozen state under the same atmospheric pressure.

So far, the people on this planet are still loyal to Korhal. While they seek Angus' assistance, they cooperate with some nobles of Sigmaris' moon world Valhalla to seek survival resources.Angus has sent support ships to the planet, but they are still on the way.

The other colony fleet was much luckier. Before the fuel was exhausted, they found a habitable planet that was not inferior to Keha IV, and still named it after Keha, but the number after the planet was Ⅴ .

The remaining three fleets landed on different planets, one of which is an ocean world covered with large sheets of liquid water, and the other two are warm rainforest worlds and planets covered with a large number of ancient civilization relics and ancient Naganaga portals. lost world.

The proportion of habitable planets in the five fan-shaped regions of the Koprulu star area is much smaller than that of other regions in the Milky Way, and once you go out of the range of Koprulu, it is easier to find those planets that are suitable for human habitation-of course, exploring Visitors may also discover unknown mysterious relics and those intelligent races that were once protected by the Protoss and finally forgotten by time.

This was great news for Augustus, as several colonized worlds were scattered in various locations, far from the nodes of the Zerg invasion.

It will take at least two or three generations of worlds for these colonial worlds to develop, but when Augustus wants to rebuild Korha, the branch worlds from each Korhal IV will definitely send people to support the parent star.

In addition to these things, Augustus has been spending his energy on some trivial things recently.Matt Horner, who he brought back from the Tyrador galaxy, played the role of an apprentice sailor on the Hyperion very well, following Raynor to learn how to command a battlecruiser.

The female colonel Mira Han and Matt Horner, whom Augustus fancyed, belong to different branches of the army, the army and the fleet. Their only means of communication is radio communication, but Matt never answers Mira’s phone calls. .

While waiting for the rotation vacation, when Mira thinks that the two of them can finally have a date, Matt always volunteers to work overtime.

As for Egon Stetman, the clumsy boy did not fail to make his teacher, Dr. Francois, blue in the face, but his talents were never discredited by this blemish.

François told Augustus that the little boy who was so good at communicating with people would cry from time to time. He was a bald, unmarried old man who had to be both a father and a mother.

Also, Tychus Finley was always winning money in the casinos in Antiga and was thought to be cheating, and ended up getting into a fight.Reynolds complained that Antiga couldn't drink No. [-] whiskey but was unwilling to try the expensive liquor in Augustus' wine cabinet, and Augustus could only say that he was a boar who couldn't eat chaff.
When Augustus had packed away all the memorable things, Sarah Kerrigan, dressed in a dark gray Revolutionary Marines uniform, pushed the door open.There was a cloud over Kerrigan's pretty face, the last time Augustus had seen her like that when she was about to get into a fight with Lisa Keshidi by pulling her hair out.

"Even if I figured out why you let me stay in Antiga Augustus." Kerrigan was obviously losing his temper, which was why Augustus had to organize things himself.

"But I don't want to be too far away from you."

"A psyker like you is an extremely special existence to the Zerg. Even a PSI level 5 ghost agent is enough to drive the Zerg into madness." Augustus recounted that he did not allow Kerrigan to go. Char's reason: "Especially you, you're special. Your special connection to the zerg is why they're looking for it."

"Sarah, you have already read the memory of my conversation with the cerebrate Sass." He said sincerely: "You know what the Zerg masterminds are thinking."

"It said that if you hand me over to this world, you will be saved, but you refused." Although Kerrigan understood Augustus' approach, her depression and concern for her lover still lingered.

"Of course I will refuse. Why do you have doubts about this? I will never abandon you, even if you are in the center of disaster." Augustus picked up a red butterfly knife from the table, Pass it to Kerrigan.

"Like it?"

"Weapons of Murder" Kerrigan took over the beautifully crafted butterfly knife, and this deadly weapon immediately spun in her hands. Part of Kerrigan's body.

"You can peel apples with it, my dear," Augustus said, kissing Kerrigan on the forehead, which silenced all the latter's complaints.

"Your task is to follow Warfield to rescue the refugees of Little Atticus and bring them to Antiga. You are responsible for serving as the general's psychic consultant and investigating whether there are federal spies among the refugees." August Stowe spoke softly to Kerrigan—a tone Augustus's men had only heard in his own family.

"Then all you have to do is wait for me to come back. Don't worry, no one can kill me until I conquer the world," he said.

"But who's going to protect you without me," Kerrigan asked.

"The warriors of Corporal Faraday and the Ghosts of Alpha Squadron." Augustus said, "When I get to Char, I will sit side by side with Tassadar, the executive officer of the protoss, and act together. The temple warriors can't protect me, so you can't do anything, can you?"

"You can always convince me," Kerrigan said ruefully.

"Bragging, this is why I can lead those warriors." Augustus held up his laptop, and Kerrigan took other things for him. As for the power armor and other weapons, he had already Transported to the armory on the Hyperion.

The sun was shining brightly outside the office of the Governor's Mansion, and a golden-red flag of the Revolutionary Army was fluttering in the wind.The force fields of the psychic disruptors are still protecting Ansardar, the capital city of Antiga. Thanks to the efforts of Rory Swan, the force fields of dozens of psychic disruptors have covered the main gathering places, military bases and farms.

A group of revolutionary army generals are waiting for Augustus, including Edmund Duke of Alpha Squadron, Jim Raynor, Tychus Finley and others. As for Mar Sara Governor Prior, Hanak Hank and other generals of the demons of heaven were sent by Augustus to other nearby planets to rescue the refugees there.

Originally, the main star of Antiga, as the center of the Zerg invasion wave, has always been considered by Tarsonis military analysts to be the most dangerous place in the universe after Cha Sara and Mar Sara. Afterwards, Antiga turned into a gap in the sea of ​​insects that swept across the Tyrann Federation.

The main planet of Antiga changed from a planet destined to be destroyed by Zerg and Protoss to a safe refugee settlement and transit center, and a large number of people were being transferred to Antiga by the revolutionary army from the land ravaged by the zerg.

Even without Augustus to command, the revolutionary generals who had already been able to do it alone could have done the job.The current situation is that, with the bug swarms ravaging the Territory of the Tyrannian Federation, the Federation Fleet and the Revolutionary Army are trying every means to save people.

However, what the Federation only wanted to do was stick to important planets and was unwilling to take care of the life and death of those undeveloped remote worlds, because they could re-establish such colonial worlds at any time.And what Augustus's revolutionary army did was what the Federation was unwilling to do, saving those seemingly worthless refugees.

During this period of time, Augustus put the goal of "rescuing refugees as much as possible" above the overthrow of the Federation. king theory.

Augustus never claimed to be the savior, he was just doing what the Tyrann Federation ruling class was unwilling to do.

"The shuttle is ready, Marshal." Tychus, wearing the No. [-] Revolutionary Army uniform, said to Augustus, "Damn it, I'm the only one of these people who thinks you must be crazy, Anne who is full of bugs. Tiga is not over yet, now you have to go to Char's dead flame world."

"Those people are also crazy, as if it's something to be happy to go to a place full of zerg and magma. During the Kailian War, the Federation and the Kel-Morians were about to nuke Charle. "

"But you still followed." Duke squinted at Tychus with his poisonous snake-like triangular eyes: "Only I am loyal to the marshal and take the initiative to ask for a fight."

"That's good old stuff," Tychus grumbled. "Nobody's stopping you from doing that, and I hope you don't fall into a steaming lake of lava because your left foot tripped over your right."

"I'm not that old, man." Duke countered without showing weakness. "Hope you don't end up with your head in the crotch of the Antiga bitch."

"Shut up, gentlemen, there are plenty of people who are willing to spend a few credit coins to listen to your quarrel, and maybe there are people who are willing to reward you with a few bananas." Augustus turned his head and talked to Kay behind him. Regan says his final goodbyes.

Augustus kissed Kerrigan softly goodbye, drawing a frivolous whistle from the soldiers.

"Yeah." Harnack clapped his hands in praise.

"We'll meet again." Augustus stroked Kerrigan's glistening red lips with his finger: "By then, I must have found a way to kill the Swarm Master and the Cerebral Worm."

"Hope everything in this world is as you expect it to be." Kerrigan kissed Augustus again.

"Then I wish for world peace." Augustus said with a smile.

At this time, several propaganda airships were floating in the sky above the Governor's Mansion, and the sharp-edged protoss fighter jets with blue tail flames spewing out from the tail gradually drifted away over the circular highway in the main city of Ansardar.

"Come on, sir, I've had enough of the sand and red clay of Antigah," Tychus said to Augustus.

As Augustus boarded the shuttle and lifted slowly into the air, he could see the city below, separated by the highway ring and the maglev train tracks.It was morning at this time, and people in Ansardar were walking along the pedestrian streets in the city. People who were going to work or go to school left their homes on the newly opened maglev bus.

People have adapted to the life where the threat of the zerg is gone, and after a while, the men will also be free to drive their cars and take their families on vacation as before.Even the park in the center of the city was re-planted with flowers and grass by Swan's men.

The city of Ansardar, which shone with bronze light in the sun, is definitely not magnificent among the many cities in the Tyrann Federation, but for the current Augustus, its value is even more than that of the wealthy and prosperous Lord Tarsonis. city.

Aside from those annoying class contradictions, the people live and work in peace and contentment is the world Augustus expected.

The shuttle flew safely into space and entered the docking orbit of the Hyperion.As the shuttle slowly drove into the dock, Augustus could also see several Mammoth-class and Hercules-class transport ships passing through the atmosphere of Antiga, full of refugees from other planets.

This means that at least tens of thousands of people saved their lives.

The only problem that followed was that Antiga's lack of material reserves could not support the large population that was constantly pouring into Antiga. For this reason, Augustus had to ask his old mercenary friends Hill and Kelmorian to join forces. and the Umoyan government for help, asking them for ships and supplies.

Of course, even the "minimum employment price" and "materials at cost price" that uphold the humanitarian spirit are astronomical sums, and this is not enough for the money that Augustus earned from mining in the past few years. Can only rely on his brother Arcturus to pay for it.

It is worth mentioning that some planetary people who were not rescued in time escaped in time through their own efforts. They tried everything they could, either to repair the old antique immigrant ships left by their ancestors, or to send Trade convoys and even pirates passed through the system seeking help.

Augustus took Renault, Duke and others to board the bridge of the Hyperion through the straight ladder in the ship, and when he walked through the bridge gate that was automatically identified and opened, Swan, who had been waiting in the bridge for a long time, immediately Walked towards Augustus.

"Boss, I analyzed the Protoss what they call Kedarin crystals - they got it from the Protoss building that was destroyed by the Zerg in Antiga, I don't know if it counts Steal, but who cares so much.” Swan still wore his orange-gray woolen overalls, bright goggles on his forehead, and his Meinhof accent mixed with a lot of Keha. .

"Guess what happened?"

"I guess you've had a blast, old chap," Augustus said with a chuckle.

"Good morning, Swan," Raynor said. "Have you any beer?"

"What did your shiny dwarven head find?" Tychus said.

"Thanks, Jim, I've got beer and brandy in my cellar if you'd like," Swann replied to Raynor.

"We found a lot of interesting things. For example, the Kedalin crystals contain inexhaustible energy just like the void crystals we found in the corridors of Mar Sara's purgatory," he said.

"Kedarin crystals are definitely not naturally formed. How should I put it, there is actually an intricate matrix structure inside, one ring after another, and the structure is tight, comparable to our highest-precision micro-circuit electronic components, no, it should be said Our electronics are comparable to theirs, ah, that's not the same level of stuff at all."

"Can you imagine the protoss carving a sun into a crystal."

"I can probably imagine it." Augustus nodded. "Perhaps the gap between us and the protoss is like the gap between paramecia and humans."

"You must have got some inspiration from the Protoss kydarin crystals, or you'd rather be in the armory and get your face dirty with motor oil than come here," he said.

"By applying the energy storage and utilization method of Kedarin crystals to our own technology, I may be able to improve the efficiency of the Hyperion's energy and weapon systems, making our energy shield more durable and strong enough to deal with Terrible solar wind," Swan said.

"The 'one-shot city-destroying' fusion strike cannon you asked me to work on made a breakthrough in Umoyan's weapons lab."

"This means we will soon have a powerful ship-to-ship weapon." Augustus was overjoyed.

"So."

"I know what you're going to ask." Swan touched the back of his head: "The Umoyans said that a few rounds of such weapons can destroy a city after calculation, but no one knows if this is true. After all, there is no Real cities to conduct shooting experiments."

"Okay. You're right." Augustus said to the navigator on the Hyperion. "Get ready for the jump, Captain."

Outside the bridge porthole of the Hyperion, the Norad III of the Alpha Squadron and another capital ship are entering the dark and twisted hyperspace channel.

Considering that there are still two federal fleets hovering near the main star of Antiga, Augustus only brought three capital ships and hundreds of ships to Char.

Augustus also ordered Rondstein to strengthen the defenses in the outer space orbit, deploying a large number of space mines and Mag mines on the only way the federal fleet must pass to prevent the federal fleet from surprise attacks and orbital bombing.

Farther away is the incomparably magnificent Tassadar Protoss Expeditionary Fleet. The number of Protoss aircraft carriers alone exceeds 150. Thousands of Protoss fighters and transport ships surround their mothership. The military strength of the country is enough to easily flatten the main federal fleet.

In addition to the fact that the Zerg has not yet gained a firm foothold in Char, this is also the confidence that Tassadar dared to lead the army to the hinterland of the Zerg territory.

The glorious and shining protoss fleet will arrive in Char before Augustus's human fleet, and they will be the main force in the battle against the zerg.

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