StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 500 Today You Are All Imperial People

Gohbus, colonist landing site.

Three billion years ago, Gebus once had a vast water area, a dense atmosphere and a moderate temperature climate, and had a satellite that could provide stable tidal force. The fossils collected by the colonists showed that there was also a fantastic alien species.

In the time period of the most recent geological layer, Gebus has undergone earth-shaking changes. The magnetic field of his planet began to weaken until it almost disappeared, and frequent volcanic eruptions also fell off a cliff.This brought catastrophic consequences. The atmosphere of Gubbs began to escape in large quantities, and the ocean was quickly evaporated. The life on it was exposed to strong ultraviolet rays, and it was as fragile as a piece of thin paper in front of the mighty power of nature.

Colonization of the planet is on the agenda even though the conditions on Gebus today are too hostile for humans and their crops and livestock.This is a huge terrestrial planet rich in resources, and it is at the hub of important interstellar shipping lines.

Through a series of terrestrial transformation processes such as detonating volcanic movements to release carbon dioxide and water vapor, rebuilding the planet's magnetic field to supplement the atmosphere, and making Gebus a beautiful world suitable for human survival again.

At present, Gebus's terraforming transformation has achieved initial results, and colonists have already begun to settle on the surface of the planet.It's an adventure with risks and rewards, because the surface of Gubbs is still very dangerous.

New Columbia is the largest settlement of the Gubbs, built primarily around the massive Ardion Crystal Mine.The purity of the crystal ore here is very high, and metal can be directly smelted and cast without refining, and there are even hidden gold mines that have not been really discovered until today.

All the people living here are miners and skilled workers, and due to the proximity of the most prosperous interstellar shipping routes from Tarsonis to Kehal to Tyrador, the tertiary industry of New Columbia is also very developed, with a large number of interstellar ports , commercial centers, bars, and underground black markets, greedily earning credits from oceangoing crew, interstellar travelers, mercenaries, and even pirates.

At the same time, New Colombia maintains a militia force with extremely high levels of combat literacy and equipment, and has absorbed many retired soldiers and local youths.The people of New Columbia fear no one but the biggest pirate orders.

But this time, it was the Protoss.

"Throw those damn kids away, they're not worth the price of getting out of this place." A group of men in gray windbreakers and jackets were driving the Vulture through the streets of New Columbia City, As if to escape from something extremely terrifying.

There were about seven or eight people in this group, all capable men and women with guns, and several of them wore hoods on their heads.Only a world like Gubbs, where the legal system is not complete, can allow these wanted criminals to take advantage of the loopholes. None of these people has no criminal record, and it is normal to be wanted by multiple colonies at the same time.

New Columbia City is built on a high mine, with uneven terrain, and the difference in height between different blocks can reach as much as 450 feet.The buildings here are all modular alloy buildings, and other building materials are also locally sourced.

Affected by the local climate, the streets are always filled with lingering gray-red wind and sand, the sun is also hazy in the sand and dust, and the street lights on both sides are always on and off.

In addition to this gang, there are many panicked New Columbians on the streets, either hiding in their homes and waiting for disaster to strike, or just thinking about pampering themselves as much as possible before dying.

The protoss had just destroyed Braxis and Attica, and by the way, even the space stations of those galaxies were not spared, and the closest to these butchers was Gubbs.

There are about 10 people living in New Colombia, and this is only the number of permanent residents.

At this moment, not only New Columbia, but the Gubbs people are madly trying to escape from this planet. Millions of people are frantically scrambling for flight tickets to other worlds.

Poor people can't afford tickets at all.

"What are you afraid of? Some people want to buy a lot of them. People are willing to pay a high price. As long as you take them out, you won't worry about selling them." Among the group, a tall man in a gray cloak is the leader among them:
"If we lose these three children, we won't be able to pretend to be more people. We won't lose a month's work just to earn a few tickets. When it comes to money, it's not faster to get money by robbing banks now. "

What these pirates do is to kidnap and sell children and other dirty work, but they have a clear purpose.This small gang mainly collects children with psionic talents for the Tyrannian Federation Ghost Project in places such as border world refugee camps. Sometimes these criminals also buy from other human traffickers at low prices and then sell them at high prices. Higher than the risk, they even forcibly broke into other people's homes and snatched the children away.

Not all parents—in fact, quite a large part of them have listened to the federation's nonsense, believing that after handing over their children to the federation, they will be able to get ahead. At this time, someone must do this kind of thing.

"Who the hell wants these spooky kids besides the psychopaths of the Ghost Project?" another woman, also wearing a cloak, asked rhetorically.

"The Tyrann Federation was finished a month ago, and now the people on Earth are controlling Tarsonis, and they won't pay a high price for these children."

This is a woman wearing a black leather jacket and leather pants. She has an unbelievably good figure. It can be seen that it is the result of plastic surgery.She wears earrings and a nose ring, and her bare chest, neck and thighs are tattooed with a motif of a beast, a monster with the head of a lion and the body of a sheep with the tail of a snake, the mark of the infamous Chimera pirates.

In terms of notoriety, only the Pirates of New Trinidad can be compared to the Chimera, although the former's villainy is more to harass the star shipping.

In the vulture cart on the woman sat a bald man a good eight feet tall, strong enough to kill a bear-tooth chief with a single punch.His battered jacket was stuffed with small packets of drugs and needles, which he obviously couldn't live without for a moment.

A child between four and ten years old was tied to the back seat of the following vultures, and they were all falling asleep due to the effect of the medicine.

"As I said, I don't have to worry about the buyer—if it doesn't work, I'll sell it to the Yumoyang people." The tall man suddenly stopped his vulture car, and the cars behind also stopped:

"Joe, you idiot, where the hell is the boat parked? If she's anywhere near here, the sensor in my pocket should be beeping.

"Boss, I don't know anything at all. We used to stop here."

"Damn it, if you can't find that ship before the protoss burns this place to ashes, I will make your life worse than death!" the tall man roared.

Everyone in the Koprulu sector knows what kind of brutal race the protoss are. They can burn a planet into glass crystals with a snap of their fingers, and all the people on it will be burned to ashes.

The Protoss are a race of warlike aliens, crazed space Roman gladiators, and the largest group of arsonists ever created.As far as humans know, the Protoss can only bring destruction.

"Want a ride? Brother, the price is easy to negotiate, absolutely fair." At this time, several long shadows appeared on the streets of New Columbia.

They wore blue or slate-gray power armor, all old CMC-200 armor that had been altered beyond recognition with various extra weapons units and batteries crudely embedded in them.The weapons carried by the mercenaries are also various, but none of them is a large-caliber weapon that is not enough to blow up a human's head.

"I'm Graven Hill (Graven Hill), a talkative mercenary." The leading man hurriedly introduced to the pirates: "Here is my business card. There must be a lot of business to talk about in the future."

"As long as the price is right."

"Thank you brother, I don't need it today, we are rushing to go for a ride." The tall man put one hand on the electromagnetic pistol under the windbreaker, knowing that these mercenaries in power armor are definitely not himself, two or three kittens able to handle.

He started the vulture car and was about to leave, but more mercenaries came out, occupying almost the entire street and blocking the way of these pirates.

People who live in the fringe world also have a food chain. Mercenaries and pirates usually mix in various gray areas, where there is cooperation and conflict.But when the benefits are sufficient, they don't mind killing each other.

"You stopped us, are you trying to provoke trouble?" The tall man looked around while talking, and ran away when the preparation time was not right.

"Someone paid me to come here to clean up the mess. Of course, it is more accurate to save lives. To be honest, I don't care much about the role of mercenaries in various incidents. Mercenaries have always been used to talking about money." Hiring The soldier boss Hill said slowly:

"To put it simply, someone hired me to maintain order in Gubbs and evacuate as many refugees as possible. They may not have enough manpower now, and there are wars everywhere in the galaxy, which would be great—but as long as If you have enough money, it’s the same even if you ask me to kill the people here.”

"So it's Gubbs's federal government that hired you?" The tall man wanted to say that he was also a refugee, not because he couldn't face it, but because they looked like human traffickers now.

"Times have changed, buddy, now is the era of the Tyranid Empire. Oh, this is the latest news, the people on Earth have been defeated by Augustus Mengsk, and the emperor of the Tyranid Empire is the Koprulu Sector speaking The most talkative person."

"We are Chimera pirates, and this matter will never end—" the pirate leader was anxious: "Listen, buddy, I don't have time to talk to you, either let us get out of here, or we will die."

After all, they are mercenaries, and they can be taken wherever there is money.But the protoss is coming soon, you don't want to die, I want to die!

"I want you to guess." Hill seemed to draw out his pistol faster than the sound. He and the pirate leader raised their heads at the same time, and the head of the other party was blown off with one shot, and a cloud of blood immediately scattered in the air.

All of a sudden, Hill's mercenaries and Chimera pirates fired at the same time.The mercenary's marksmanship was extremely accurate, and the heads of the pirates were blown off in a few hits.

"The Chimera pirates who were driven by the revolutionary army and the peasant rebels ran all over the star area, and they dared not let a single fart go to us." Remy Harris, Hill's deputy, snorted:
"Bah! What a disgrace."

"Look at those children." Hill shouted, and several mercenaries immediately went to rescue the children kidnapped by the pirates.

Then, Hill nodded in one direction. It was a former federal ghost agent who worked as a mercenary.

It is said that the taciturn Ghost agent was rescued by Augustus Mengsk's Revolutionary Army, and he did not join the Revolutionary Army after that, but chose another life.

The ghost agent has only one subsidiary requirement to join Hill's mercenary group, that is, as long as she meets children who have suffered the same experience as her, she must save them.

"What are these children going to do?" Harris took a petite blond girl from a mercenary. At this moment, this cute child was sleeping soundly in his arms.

In her pocket was a note - Delta.Delta Emblock.New Sydneysiders.

"It doesn't matter if there are more mouths in the regiment to eat. The employer of the Tyrannian Empire may be able to take them in." Hill doesn't like children, and he has no interest in saving people, but his rare saving grace is that he keeps his promises.

"Citizens of New Columbia, the emperor of the Tyrannian Empire hired me to rescue you and sent a lot of transport ships. Now you can go with us." Hill looked at the child and said loudly through a loudspeaker.

Usually mercenaries will not reveal the name of their employer unless it is required by contract.

"We have spaceships, and the emperor of the empire, Augustus Mengsk the Great, has already paid for your fares." He said loudly, "Don't take anything with you, go quickly. The emperor asked me to bring you a few words—— Regardless of your birth, religion, creed or political leanings, you are all Imperials today."

"Live to pay back the money!"

As if to prove Hill's words, multiple transport planes appeared from the hazy clouds, and the people immediately exclaimed and shouted ecstatically.

Hearing Hill's words, the citizens hiding at home suddenly felt very hesitant.Among them, those who had heard the name of Augustus and his enthronement speech packed up their things and went out almost immediately. The rest of them saw that someone was robbing them all, and they ran out as soon as they didn't have a seat.

Nothing mattered as long as it got them out of this dying world.

Suddenly, the streets are full of people with families.

When they walked in front of the mercenaries, no matter whether these people had the intention or not, they were all shouting about the Tyrannian Empire and the emperor. Some people burst into tears, while others screamed and jumped with joy.

"I suddenly feel good to do good deeds." Seeing this, Hill opened his armored helmet, revealing the face wearing sunglasses.Say to your good friend Harris next to you.

"This is not like you, you iron cock." Harris said sarcastically.

Although the matte mask of the power armor can completely replace the role of sunglasses, but even if he wants to wear sunglasses, he must wear them even if he can't see his fingers.

"Hill, the Gebus galaxy has detected the signal of the Tadalin Protoss fleet." A mercenary reported to his head at this time.

"They are here."

Hill hummed, and looked at the ecstatic people around him:

"It's time to increase the price."

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