StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 455 The Fall of Tarsonis

"Officers of the United Earth Council! Don't shoot—don't shoot!"

Unexpectedly, before Mike praised Doni's generosity, the other party turned his head and looked at the UNN announcer Max Speer and the entire film crew behind him who were raising their hands:
"Mr. Speer, did the damn camera record my heroic demeanor of being loyal and fearless?"

For a split second, Spier couldn't react.But Speer was a sharp thinker after all. He looked Dony in the eye and said: "For God's sake, I really hope that the camera that just blown up is still recording, but not very hopeful."

"... My life was hanging by a thread just now!" Doni uttered a series of obscenities, and when he turned to face the earth soldiers, he put on a flattering smile.

"Sir, let me show you the way."

Dony Vormilian is a paradox, a selfish fellow who values ​​his own life so dearly that he can sacrifice some valuable qualities for it, but is willing to take risks in order to get ahead.

"It's a pity, I was just about to fulfill your steadfastness and let you be remembered in history." The power armor of the UED expeditionary officer did not have any troop logo or military rank logo. He is probably a veteran who has served for many years , with ease on the battlefield.

"Give thanks and praise your God while you still have time, for no religion of any kind is to be banned in the UEC's dominion in the future."

Mike resisted the desire to complain, followed the instructions of the UED soldiers to stand against the wall with Spier and other UNN, and Doni, who was forced to smile, got the opportunity to lead the way for the earth invaders.

To be honest, many federal people have strong resistance and hatred for the UED expeditionary force. They would rather die than surrender. Most of these people are educated young people and elites.

Another group of people think that being ruled by people on earth will never be worse than the current federal government. They expect that the earth with more advanced technology and ideas can bring some changes to the stagnant federation.

And Duny, who is used to praising greatness, power, and conquest, doesn't like Earthlings either.

There is always a comparison, and the Tarsonis are always in the middle. When someone tells them that the rebels are about to rule Tarsonis, they will be afraid that it will evolve into a brutal military government, thinking that the Keha people Unorthodox Tarsonis governing the Tyranid Federation is simply unacceptable.

But when the earthlings came, they also felt that the rebels were pleasing to the eye.

At this time, more soldiers in gray power armor came up through the stairs, the number of them was roughly equivalent to a standard 50-man combat platoon.They also carried weapons like railguns and railguns, but those were apparently captured from the Tyranid Federation.

Some of the soldiers were equipped with modified c-series electromagnetic rifles. The scopes and stabs on them were very different from those of the federal army.

About two squads of soldiers passed Mike and others and continued through the winding stairs to the higher floors of the UNN headquarters building. They seemed to be sure that there were no other enemies in the building.

"There should be a backup generator in this building, Corporal Hardman, take someone to start it." The UED officer waved: "We need to get the equipment here back to normal as soon as possible."

"Yes, sir."

"Um, is the battle over? I mean, you have already taken Tarsonis?" Duny asked cautiously.

"The main force of the Tyrann Federation has been defeated." The UED officer said proudly: "The end of this war has been doomed from the very beginning."

He didn't really need to say that much to Duny, but that just proved that the Earthlings might be on the verge of victory.

It is hard to imagine how they defeated the huge Federation fleet in outer space orbit of Tarsonis, and there are more than 2000 million Federation Guards on the surface of the planet.

Although that includes both the regular federal army, the recently recruited reserves, the forced conscripts and even the police force, as well as the additional volunteers from its vast colonies.The training and equipment of these people are very problematic, but they are still an incomparably huge force, equivalent to five thousandths of the current total population of Tarsonis.

Considering the chaos in the federal military command, the actual number of troops invested is far from that much.After the Federation's information network fell completely, it was the UED Expeditionary Command that actually issued orders to the Tarsonis defenders.

There are many division-level and even corps-level troops who have received strange orders from the garrison almost from the beginning, and they still don't know what happened for many hours after the battle started.

The federal army that actually entered the battlefield was quickly defeated by the hybrid and the UED's elite two-wing wing. Their headquarters were often destroyed by the superior air firepower of the earth army not long after the war began, and the federal fleet had obviously already Flat out.

"Lead the way, where is the studio in this building?" he said to Duny.

"The studio is in the basement, and the roof is where the high-level offices are located, and above that are the signal towers and data transmission base stations." Doni explained.

"The current Tarsonis signals have been strongly interfered, even if these devices are back to work, it is difficult to send any news to the outside world." Another UNN staff member said:
"Tarsonis has been disturbed by a strong electromagnetic pulse wave, which has almost paralyzed the communication of the entire city. If the radio signal is strong enough, it can also break through this interference. There is such a device in the headquarters building, but it It didn't work as expected."

Even now, the other Commonwealth colonies only know that Tarsonis is under siege by the UED expeditionary force, but know nothing about the actual situation.

"It's none of your business—" the UED officer cut him off.

Just then there was a sharp, frightening roar from the city outside, and Mike bet it was mixed with gut-wrenching screams.

Mike had never heard such a sound before, he had an audio clip of the roar of the zerg lair guardian, the scream from the terrifying alien seemed to come from some prehistoric monster.

But this kind of roar is another form, like the sound of scratching glass with fingernails, which makes people get goosebumps and can make people feel physically disgusted.

"What's that?" Duny exclaimed.

"The beast in the cage." The UED officer pushed Doni hard: "You don't want to know what it is, it is the most hateful monster in the universe."

"Sounds like a voice from hell, but it's not a zerg," Speer said. "You hired demons."

"Shut your mouth, or I'll order the medic to sew that up with a nano-suture gun." The officer ordered again, "Now, let's go to the high-level office. You follow, and if necessary, what do I order you to do?" Just do."

As a result, Mike had to follow these UED soldiers to continue climbing the stairs, and he had the same gloomy expression as his mourning colleagues.In any case, they are now captives.

Mike walked with Speer, communicating only with eyes in the dark.The two journalists who have experienced the storms have no idea in their hearts, but they are sure that they will be able to save themselves from danger as they did in the past.

The UNN headquarters building is more than 60 stories high, and climbing the stairs when the elevator is not working is enough to make Mike breathless.Every stair corner has a window overlooking Tarsonis city center, and the higher the floor, the farther you can see.

In this building, the higher the position, the higher the position.

The battlefield outside is still very fierce, and half of the sky is lit up by artillery, anti-aircraft turrets, arc tanks, and Goliath armed robots.

Huge UED Goliaths marched through the ruins of Tarsonis' central park, each so staggeringly large that even tall soldiers in power armor dwarfed them.It was a real steel giant, and the tremor when the giant mechanical feet hit the ground could be clearly heard in the dark night.

What a magnificent sight that is, countless giant Goliath robots are advancing on the road, stepping on the bunker of the Federal Army.The delta ailerons behind their cockpits are more like spread wings, which makes these giant mechas that are bigger than tanks even more terrifying.

Hundreds of soldiers in power armor marched on the streets and highways. Broken flags, wreckage of chariots, and uncontained corpses were piled up in a haphazard manner in the formerly bustling and beautiful city center.

Their opponents were the Federal Army, which was still loyal to the Federal Government. The garrison of the central city was mainly composed of Marines from Delta and Omega Squadrons, who stubbornly resisted the UED attack on the other side of the city.

The UED may have been able to declare to the outside world that they have captured Tarsonis, but the fighting may continue into the next month, and the fighting will continue in the streets and corners of various cities, on the wasteland and tundra.

At this time, the Federation has not yet lost the main city of Tarsonis, and the Federation army is still trying its best to assemble troops to launch a counterattack even though the command and communication system is greatly limited. This means that this army has extremely high quality.

The opponents of the Augustus Revolutionary Army were these people, well-trained professional soldiers and resocialized dead soldiers.To put it bluntly, with only the army in Augustus' hands, it may take another ten years to develop to win Tarsonis.

In the flames rising into the sky with the fleeting light of the explosion, Mike can still get a glimpse of the beauty of the city of Tarsonis in the flames of war.

Skyscrapers and spiers towering over the darkness wove cog-like lines like the edge of a black forest.The colorful viewing avenues, forked intersections and open parking lots surrounded by greenery in the park have now been replaced by scattered fortification walls and barbed wire.

There is a wide artificial lake in the center of the park, and the canal dug around it is like a clear ribbon, flowing along the avenue.The avenue that stretches for several miles has a majestic momentum, which symbolizes the strength and tolerance of Tarsonis, but now it has been destroyed by artillery fire, and it is a mess.

There was originally a bronze statue of Marines in Central Park, which was originally cast with money donated to commemorate the children of Union soldiers who died in the Guild War.Now, it too has collapsed under heavy artillery fire.

The raging fire and thick smoke covered the entire city center, and the acrid smell of gunpowder filled the sky above the city.

The stately and austere landmarks of the city center lay silent in the dark, illuminated by a sudden rain of fire.In the clouds illuminated by the fire, countless wreckages that once belonged to a certain battlecruiser are falling, most of them have been burned up before landing, and those that successfully landed caused a big fire in the urban area.

In a certain direction, a battlecruiser that was cornered was falling, and its huge hull, which was almost intact, fell into the central city. People die in flames in a matter of seconds.

Even at this time, Mike still did not believe that Tarsonis would fall.If the most impregnable planet in the Tyranid Federation fell to the UED in less than two days, it would be no problem for them to take other colonies.

When Mike and Speer stepped into the top floor of the headquarters building, UED soldiers from afar were rummaging through the high-rise office.But many more made it onto the rooftop deck, where the signal tower is located.

Mike is not ignorant of technology, he knows how to use these incredible value equipment.The signal tower can send data to the nearest star system a few light-years away under the condition of strengthening the signal. If you are lucky, it will be enough to break through the communication blockade of the UED expeditionary force.

He soon realized that the UED's communication must also be affected by the electric pulse wave, and the communication technology brought by the people on earth would not be much better than that of the Tyrann Federation.But no matter what, the people on earth obviously have their own unknown solutions, and electrical pulse interference is not effective for all means of communication.

The typhoon on the roof of the UNN headquarters building made Mike feel cold. He was surprised to find that it was raining unknowingly in the sky.In the misty rain, a battlecruiser sailing over the main city of Tarsonis looked even more dazzling.

It was an iron-gray battlecruiser, and the hull also had the classic hammer-head structure of a Tyranid warship.At this time, the red light of the warning light was flashing on the majestic sampan armor of this battleship, showing its existence to the people here, which also means that most of the anti-aircraft firepower points in the main city of Tarsonis have been muted. fire.

This battlecruiser has a prestigious name, Alexander.

Just when the golden eagle flag of UED was raised, the soldiers announced that they had occupied the planet in the name of humanity.

"It shouldn't be difficult for you to find a way to get this signal tower working again." The UED officer shouted to Mike.

"No matter what, let this old antique move immediately."

"Okay." Mike saw Doni Vormilian standing dejectedly playing with the tangled cables, and other UNN employees also had different expressions.

After all, Mike is a member of the Pan-Tyranian Revolutionary Party. This organization has always had a tendency towards great Tyrannism, and it will never sit back and watch the people on Earth rule the Tyrannian Federation.

When activating the main control panel of the signal tower, he found Max Speer and said a few words to him in terms of work: "Take this opportunity, we have to spread the news of Tarsonis so that everyone We all know what happened here."

"Don't worry, I know a communication channel from the Korha Revolutionary Army. People on Earth don't want to rule Tarsonis safely, even if the Federation is destroyed."

(End of this chapter)