StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 514 Psionic Crusher

The Formica system, the Imperial fleet's rallying point.

"Captain Frederick requests boarding."

The door of Port F of the Hyperion opened under the push of a hydraulic turbine, and a G-226 transport ship painted with blue and white optical camouflage landed on the flight deck under the command of the landing commander. Several safety officers in orange uniforms The inspectors immediately went up to check the damage to the spacecraft.

"I want to see His Majesty!" Captain Frederick was an imperial officer stationed in Formica, and was sent by the supreme commander of the place, Major Mortier, to report on the current situation of the planet.

Formica's communication was cut off due to the Zerg invasion.

When he came down the gangway, Frederick was still wearing power armor, and there were still mud and condensed white ammonia nitrogen on his spiked boots.He didn't wear a helmet, and his obelisk-like face was upright and solemn.

Frederick served as an instructor in a Marine Corps boot camp when experienced non-commissioned officers were not enough.He was a stern and patient teacher to the Imperial soldiers he took to his boot camp.With his shaggy blond hair and broad nose that hung like a lion, he was a mighty Korhal warrior.

The troops sent to the fringe world during the Zerg invasion were the mainstay of the Imperial Army rather than new recruits, and only the army tempered by the war could withstand the pressure of a lone army going deep into the fringe world and being surrounded by the Zerg.

"Welcome back, Captain." Not far away, Faraday, the commander of the Royal Guard, had been waiting with his people for a long time.

The royal supervisor was dressed in the uniform of the commander of the guard, with his hands behind his back, and the guard soldiers in gold and red heavy armor on the left and right were the best of the best.

Faraday immediately came up to shake hands with Frederick, and led him to the ship's vertical elevator: "His Majesty has sent reinforcements to Formica, and the situation is still under our control."

"I'm afraid no matter how many troops are invested, Formiga will not be taken back. Sir, you don't know what's going on down there." Friedrich followed Faraday into the elevator, talking as he walked.

"Griffin swarms have deployed thousands of hives, hatcheries, and phagocytoids in Formica, and millions of infected humans are flocking to the final stronghold. Carlos' swarm has a large number of Unclean scorpions, the plague virus they spread has no cure!" He said:
"We have done everything we can to save the world. The last option is to evacuate everyone and nuke Formica."

Frederick did not know much about the royal director, except that he was an excellent commander on whom the safety of the emperor and the palace depended.No matter how you look at it, at least he is also a general.

"Evacuate?" Faraday shook his head: "The emperor has ordered a decisive battle in Formica, and the empire will not abandon this planet."

"The main fleet has arrived?" Frederick lit a cigarette, and his bloodshot blue eyes seemed to light up.

"New weapon." Faraday shrugged.

"What kind of new weapon can be worth thousands of troops." Frederick cheered up.

New weapons are enough to change the appearance of future warfare, and psionic launchers and psionic jammers emerged against the background of the times.

It's just that the Zerg also has its own unique technological route, and it becomes more and more powerful with each war by constantly making up for defects.After the king worms of the swarm have generally evolved more powerful psychic organs, the current psychic jammers are no longer useful.

"You'll be amazed soon enough." Faraday didn't mind showing off, since he didn't really know much about psychic pulverizers.

"I hope it wasn't a scare. However, His Majesty has never deceived us." Frederick did not pursue and fight fiercely. Emperor Augustus must have given the order with confidence.

Frederick was also an old revolutionary, and had been an officer since Augustus rose up in Keha.It took him a lot of time to change the name of Marshal Augustus to His Majesty, and many people in the army still used the old title.

After arriving on the upper deck, as soon as Frederick and Faraday stepped out of the straight ladder, they met several engineers with suitcases. On the wide bridge scattered with stars, Emperor Augustus in a golden and red cloak faced him. Planet Formica looking out the porthole.

Standing beside the emperor are familiar figures, Queen Sarah Louise Kerrigan, the emperor's hyena Tychus Finley, and an old man with a gray beard who looks artificial.

"Captain Frederick, thank you for your hard work." Emperor Augustus turned around, and Frederick immediately supported the reinforced armor on his knees and knelt down on one knee with his hands on his right chest.

"Fight for the Empire," Captain Frederick said to Augustus:

"Your Majesty, in accordance with your orders, the 147th Marine Brigade of the former Keha Regiment has held Formica for two standard weeks and successfully evacuated more than 470 million civilians." He said:
"As long as you give the order again, the 147th Marine Brigade can hold out until the last soldier."

The 147th Marine Brigade is also a unit with a long history. In the Battle of Tarsonis, this army lost most of its soldiers and almost revoked its designation. It was not until the eve of the Battle of Ayr that it was replenished and reorganized.

The brigade's emblem is a golden-crowned Korha eagle, an extinct prehistoric creature that has long since become a mythical monster.

"The 4th Army of the Empire will take over the front line, and the 147th Marine Brigade will be transferred to support and evacuation tasks." Augustus motioned Frederick to stand up: "I got a report that the Griffin swarm has evolved a new variant To understand these terrifying monsters, it is not enough to just read the reports. Tell me, what are they like on the battlefield?"

The 4th Legion was part of what was originally Port of the Dead, and the city on the junkyard is the Legion's main recruiting ground to this day.

The order of Port of the Dead is even worse than a part of the fringe world controlled by pirates. There are more gangsters, drug dealers, outlaws and other scumbags on it than there are rats there, and it is also one of the poorest worlds. .

People from Port of the Dead are willing to serve in the army for a paycheck, to get ahead, or simply to escape that hell.

"The main mutation comes from the queens and polluters, appearing in the Griffin swarm. The queens not only abnormally abandon their nest guarding nature to appear on the battlefield, but also become smarter and deadlier. The Griffin queen will Inject deadly parasite eggs into the victim, and once mature, the parasite will burst out." Frederick seems to be still recalling the terrifying scene on the battlefield.

"The Griffin scorpion is not only larger in size, more poisonous and deadlier, but also has a very high intelligence. Moreover, we have discovered a monster that is even more terrifying than them"

"Infected." Dr. Narud said for Frederick:
"They should not be a variant of scorpions, but come from another species that carries deadly bacteria. At present, there are only sighting reports, and there are no samples of this species that can be used for research." He said:
"The known characteristic is that the infected person can release a terrible vicious disease infection liquid, and also has the habit of storing the infected human being in the huge abdominal sac in the body - it can be spit out when necessary."

"Carlos is an expert who is proficient in infection. As long as he is still alive, new variants will emerge one after another." Augustus nodded, then looked at Frederick and asked:
"Are the soldiers and people on the ground still determined to fight the Zerg to the death, and what about their morale?"

"After learning that you personally led the fleet to Formica, the soldiers all had high morale." Frederick had put away the idea of ​​persuading Augustus to withdraw his troops. He could see that the emperor did not want to give up on Formica. .

Formiga is indeed a rare place of geomantic omen, with a beautiful environment and rich resources, and wood is by no means the only resource here.She is the only planet in this galaxy, and the main mass of the galaxy comes from the stars and the huge icy and rocky asteroid belt at the edge of the galaxy.

These small star belts belonged to all the planets that the Formica system used to have, and there were huge amounts of shattered crystal ore and high-energy gas scattered in it in the form of giant asteroids and gas.It is estimated that the resources here can be mined for 50 years, which is equivalent to the total reserves of Redstone Star, and are easy to mine with lower risks.

Although the Formica system held great value, Frederick wondered how much the Empire would pay to keep her.

"Very good." Augustus still wanted to ask some questions, but his eyes were immediately attracted by the light outside the porthole.

At this point, the Hyperion's radar detectors scanned a zerg fleet approaching from Formica.Griffon swarms and Jormungandr swarms have similar purple carapaces, but the color is darker, which can be distinguished by the proportion of scorpions among them.

The Imperial fleet immediately entered a state of battle, a large dense orange-red barrage swept across the black space, and the light of the shield rising illuminated the bridge.

"This guy can't sit still," Tychus said.

"The Griffin lacks a large air force and fleet, and this deficiency is even more pronounced without the help of the other cerebrate clans," Kerrigan said:
"However, Griffin has never been a clan that is accustomed to defeating the enemy on the frontal battlefield. The disease is their weapon."

Griffin has been using viruses to deal with the human fleet, which is also the usual trick of the brain worm Carlos - silently injecting viruses and parasites into the human fleet and marine soldiers, and then awakening them after they return to the spaceship and battleship these viruses.

At this point, all the soldiers and warships became Carlos's possession.Viruses are hard to guard against, so Carlos has tried repeatedly.

The Imperial Army once suffered a big loss. A behemoth-class battlecruiser named Gray received a few friendly transport ships during a search and rescue mission and ended in an extremely tragic end.

No one thought that these transport ships, which were fully capable of matching security codes, passwords, and genetic locks, would be filled with infected humans and zerg.

But after Augustus vigorously promoted the production of nano-serum, Carlos' virus became ineffective.The protoss scientists hired by the empire are still improving the serum based on the Zerg virus samples, which can be said to have helped Augustus a lot.

Tassadar is now leading the protoss of Dalam. He is not only a benevolent and enlightened leader of the protoss, but also a good friend of Augustus.

"No wonder Carlos can't sit still," Augustus said. "Bring up the map of Formica."

Immediately a map of Formica appeared on the tactical console, and with the Fortress of Formica as a shield, the 147th Imperial Marine Brigade established a defense line seven miles deep to hold off the endless hordes of the Infested.

More than 3/4 of the residents of Formica took up arms and stood with the imperial army to defend their homeland together.Although Augustus could only get a glimpse of the tragedy of the Formica battlefield in the past two weeks through Major Mortier's report, and saw Formica's determination to defend the homeland even if it lost a million young and strong labor force, but he You can also imagine what the soldiers and suffering people have been through.

The Swarm does not accept surrender, nor do they have human values.

However, Carlos once used this to take down a fringe world with a population of more than 1000 million and a large militia, just a dozen parsecs away from the Formica galaxy.

The dazed federal governor was so frightened that he surrendered to the Zerg, and Carlos used this to plunge the planetary defenders into civil war and fall apart, crushing the world without any effort.

"Carlos' nests are mainly concentrated near the former main city of Formica, more than 400 miles away from our fortress." Augustus said:

"The cunning Carlos will definitely not stay in such an obvious enemy, but we must also take this place as a breakthrough to defeat the Griffin swarm.

Now, the former cities of Formiga have fallen and lost their strategic value.

"Take Mira Han's comm," he said.

"Your Majesty, Mira's marauders are ready." A female general with bright pink short hair appeared on the other end of the communication. One of her eyes has been replaced with a blue prosthetic mechanical eye, which looks downright. He is no different from ordinary people, and some burn marks can be seen in the corners of his eyes.

But this time, Mira replaced her own eye with a mechanical prosthetic eye, because this eye allows her to see things that she couldn't see before.

"Take the Psionic Smasher and set off immediately. Nova Squadron will provide you with fire support."

"Okay, boss, ask Matthew (Matthew "Matt" D. Horner) for me why he never uses those channel codes I gave him to contact me." Mira looked around in vain. The man, no longer maintaining a serious posture, even blew a kiss to Augustus.

"It's really sad."

As we all know, Matt Horner lost himself to Mira Han in a game of poker and was forced to marry him, and he swore that he would never touch cards again in his life.

"I will." Augustus gave her a glare and defended Matt. "This is not the time for love."

Then, the emperor looked at his queen again: "I have always regarded her as my younger sister."

"What do you explain?" the queen was puzzled.

"All right, lads. Get ready to land, the angels are with us."

(End of this chapter)