StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

The residents of the Victor V were still enduring the severe and extreme weather. They hid in solid concrete buildings hidden deep underground when the sandstorm came, completely unaware that a force of three frigates and small airships were using plasma thrusters. Lifting into the sky in brilliant jets of flames.

When the fleet entered the hyperspace channel under the guidance of the flagship, Victor V just hid in their safe home and looked forward to the early arrival of the spacecraft carrying scarce daily necessities for the colony.

The hard and poor life had worn away the colonial people's yearning for a better life. Their crude observation instruments and gray eyes were simply unable to see the hundreds of billions of stars in the sky through the gray storm.

This pieced together fleet only had forty-nine ships left when it jumped into the hyperspace channel, and all the ships were filled with loot and people.

Four days later, the first fleet of the Korhal Revolutionary Army jumped to a star system marked only with a series of numbers on the star map. The sun of this star system was dying, and the light and heat it released were gradually weakening. But for the next hundreds of millions of years, its light will still illuminate the entire galaxy.

The fleet was parked in the orbit of an Earth-like planet with a highly toxic atmosphere in this galaxy. Several transport ships left the fleet and landed on its only satellite, which was rich in high-energy gas mines.

Then the workers of the Revolutionary Army drove the space engineering construction vehicle out of the cargo hold of the spacecraft, and built a high-energy gas refinery on this lunar planet where giant craters and mountains were left behind by the meteorite impact to provide the fleet with the necessary energy. Fuel refill.

Augustus chose to stay briefly in this system to await the reinforcements arriving from Korhal. On Umoyan, a fleet consisted of a Behemoth-class battlecruiser Hyperion and six Sarengers. -class cruiser and a fleet of more than 10,000 Umoyan volunteers who had just left their hometown have set off.

Unlike the temporarily modified civilian ships of Kohana, Umoyan's fleet is all genuine warships.

According to the guarantee given by the Umoyan Protectorate Army before departure, this force will join Augustus' fleet in the second sector in May.

While Augustus was waiting for the arrival of the support fleet on the first day, a spaceship carrying several Zerg specimens and a live larva flew to the other end of the Koprulu sector.

At this moment, in a galaxy in the territory of the Tyranid Federation that serves as an interstellar transportation hub, a technology company called Cerberus Engineering is worrying about the large-scale withdrawal of investment by its main investors.

Cerberus Engineering shareholders are hesitating whether to continue working on cows and other biotechnologies or move into the increasingly popular field of prosthetics and body modifications.

Perhaps the wealthy people of the Tyranid Federation will need an army of modified humans, these modified soldiers have received varying degrees of mechanical prosthetic modifications. In terms of physical fitness, strength and offensive methods, the transformed soldiers will be far superior to ordinary people.

But this tech company, eager to get out of trouble, has repeatedly hit a wall with the federal government. The reason is not that corrupt and short-sighted officials are neither willing to invest nor optimistic about the prospects of this field, but that they think it will cost a soldier. Excessive costs. By comparison, the resocialized soldier was perfect enough.

Augustus didn't know that the Cerberus Project was impatiently waiting for a new sponsor to take over, and whoever was willing to pay would be their father.

On the third day, a "messenger" beacon that could travel between various galaxies with the ability to travel beyond time and space was captured by Augustus' men while flying over the galaxy.

The beacon is only slightly larger than the smallest galaxy hopper and looks like a football made of titanium alloy. This beacon running on an intelligent program is drifting in the boundless universe like a drifting bottle, carrying the letters that countless people miss forever.

Usually it will only stop briefly on a colonial planet, and after being repaired by the operating company, it will take off with more letters and images.

The interior of the beacon may store millions of ordinary letters or just an image. The only difference is whether the person using it is willing to buy it permanently at a very high price.

Augustus finally smiled as the beacon unfurled its stand on the frigate's lower deck and immediately began playing video.

It started as a text message: My dear Augustus, my brother. It has been five months since we last met. That in my memory seems to last forever.

Next is the image of Arcturus Mengsk. This image was recorded in advance two months ago, and Augustus also believed that the beacon had been wandering for the same length of time before it was revealed on his body. The positioning device found here.

Arcturus Mengsk in front of the camera is wearing a dark brown thick cotton textile jacket and a yellow, eye-catching safety helmet on his head. Although there was some unwashable oil stains and wet mud on his clothes, Arcturus' calm expression hardly made people associate him with a miner rather than a nobleman.

Arcturus will remain calm at all times. If he is facing other people, he will definitely find a clean formal suit and ensure that he is in the best condition. He will look the way he wants to show to others and Attitudes are shown.

But when talking to Augustus, Arcturus seemed much more casual and relaxed. Arcturus loves his family more than he hates anything else.

"I just received news from my mother." Arcturus' gray eyes looked in other directions at this time, and he didn't know whether he didn't want to face the news or his brother.

"Mom said I had a son. I thought she was joking, but it turned out that I laughed too early and too inappropriately." He showed an indescribable expression: "I haven't seen her angry for a long time. It was like The lion roars in my ears.”

"Even Angus used his mother to show off his power in front of me. I swear I have never been so embarrassed in my life."

It seems that Augustus' brother did not take the slightest pleasure in the incident, as he acted as if he had eaten a plate of dead flies.

"We all thought there would be no problem. Juliana should take birth control pills, unless she wanted to get pregnant out of wedlock. I don't think my responsibility should be greater than Juliana's in this matter!" Aktur Si showed his true nature as a scumbag that surprised Augustus.

"Later, I thought about this issue carefully." Arcturus said painfully: "Although I never shouldered the responsibility of a father in the seven years when that child grew up, I should try to be a father. Father, after all, he is my heir."

"This is a difficult decision for me. I never wanted to start a family, let alone be bound by a family."

"Fuck, especially since I almost forgot about that night. But is it my fault? Why didn't Julianne contact me? I. We had a baby and if he had been born, I wouldn't have let him She aborted the child," he continued.

"I'll go to Umoyan. If Valerian is like you were when you were a kid, then I might be able to find some good ways to get along with him."

Arcturus was obviously too troubled by this information, so he acted full of complaints, but he quickly put the matter behind him: "I won't mention this annoying matter, I want to talk to you. Talk about bad news.”

"At the beginning, I hired a few skilled workers and took my original subordinates to explore the mineral deposits in the edge world. Because I dared to go to places that others dared not go and do things that others did not dare to do, I added With some professional analysis and good luck, I discovered a smaller mine of high-purity crystal. The value of this mine was enough to pay off my previous debt."

"Later I discovered a larger crystal mine. This mine was enough to make me a rich man." Arcturus said: "But because of the harassment of the Camorians, I had to sell this mine." Mine goes to more distant galaxies, which is why you couldn’t contact me at all in the beginning.”

"According to an old detection report, I traveled to a distant world called Peak Peak. After months of futile detection, my persistence was finally rewarded - there is so much wealth that even our children and grandchildren can't find it. It’s endless, the minerals discovered alone are enough to buy half a Stirling, and I suspect that the entire planet’s interior is filled with sparkling crystal mines.”

"The Camorians and the Terran Federation will devote legion-level troops to the Peak, and this will even become the trigger for the second total war. This joy diluted the shock and confusion when I learned that I had a son. At a loss.”

Augustus was sincerely happy for his brother, because his next words made him overjoyed: "Augustus, I want to tell you some good news. I think that based on your initial offer to me, Sponsor, you deserve two-fifths of this deposit.”

"Old Meng, dear brother!" Augustus maintained his original expression and looked around on the lower deck to see no one around. Finally, he couldn't stand it any longer, so he broke out in his hometown dialect that he had not used for a long time.

"I think you should make use of these." At this time, Arcturus's expression became serious. More than two months ago, Korhal had not rebelled, but he was wise and already understood that it was only a matter of time. .

"Augustus, my beloved brother. As long as my team is still discovering new deposits, there are two-fifths of yours in them. And if I die in the process of exploring, then take my Leave it to mother and Dorothy." When Arcturus said these words affectionately, he forgot that he seemed to have a son.

But it doesn't matter, Valerian and his father are, after all, examples of a loving father and a filial son.

Augustus also didn't think about his poor nephew. He was already thinking about how to spend the money. First, Augustus wants to build new warships, recruit more manpower, and bring high-potential technology companies such as Cerberus Engineering under his wing.

On May 7, a force from Korhal consisting of six Fomorian-class frigates and over 200 transport ships and airships joined Augustus' fleet.

By May 10th, the support fleet from Umoyan finally arrived. At 10:32 ship time, Augustus, the overjoyed Renault and others took a shuttle and boarded the much wider flight deck of the Hyperion.

The fleet soldiers of the Umoyan Volunteer Army in white military uniforms warmly welcomed Augustus and held several bouquets of precious flowers. All non-commissioned officers, lieutenants, and colonel-level volunteer officers of the battleship declared their independence in Korhal. The war was absolutely at the command of Augustus.

To Augustus' relief, the Umoyan Council did not send another general to compete with him for command of the troops, otherwise he would have had a headache.

What satisfied Augustus even more was that although the Hyperion was in tatters due to the hasty repair time, in general, she could at least still fly.

Except for the engines, life and gravity support systems, about 70% of Hyperion's other systems and cabins cannot be used normally. Even the laser cannon group can only fire on one side because other weapons Umoyan engineers Not fixed yet.

Surrounded by Umoyan officers, Renault and others, Augustus enjoyed the treatment of a head of state and visited the interior of the Hyperion. Although the corridor inside the battlecruiser is still not wide, it can still accommodate two marines walking side by side.

All passages have been designed to save as much space as possible to create additional storage compartments and make room for necessary components such as weapons, living and computer systems.

Directional arrows and safety and warning signs are outlined with white paint on the floor and walls of the passage inside the ship. All decks appear quite empty and tidy. The empty hangar also shows that the warship lacks necessary fighter cover.

"Do you feel anything familiar when you walk here?" Augustus asked Jim Raynor next to him.

"Well, it seems that I was born to control this ship, but I don't think I have saved enough money in my life to buy a taillight on the Hyperion." Renault spread his hands and said.

"It seems that I am the only one who is kept in the dark." Tychus said while smoking: "I usually call people who can afford to drive such a boat my brother."

"With this ship, we are one step closer to defeating the corrupt federal government and saving more people!" Kerrigan said, clenching her fists.

"Oh - I have to tell you, this is not the same thing." Tychus said to Kerrigan: "The only way to live comfortably is to not care about the life and death of others and stay farther and farther away from trouble!"

"Hey, boss, you must have made a fortune." At this time, Rory Swann, the chief engineer of Augustus, came over.

"It will cost a lot of money to modify this warship according to your requirements." He said.

"Are you rich this time?"

As long as Augustus's men have to continue fighting on the Hyperion, they must continue to repair the Behemoth (Behemoth-class) battlecruiser that seems to be falling apart at any time.

Although the Behemoth-class battlecruiser was the well-deserved capital ship in the Battle of Kailian, as the war progressed, new designs and weapon systems continued to appear and be added to the newly built battlecruisers. The Hyperion has gradually fallen behind the times.