StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 160 The Last Voyager

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This was the second day after the Revolutionary Army fleet arrived in the Tarsonis galaxy. Like all the soldiers in the fleet, Augustus Mengsk hadn't closed his eyes for 42 hours.

Augustus's subordinates completely defeated the federal fleet defending Tarsonis and the other two fleets that came to support at different times, totaling 21 battlecruisers, destroying eleven and forcing the rest of the federal warships to retreat briefly. .

But the Revolutionary Army fleet also paid a heavy price. Augustus lost nine of his 26 battlecruisers forever. damage.

Right now, Renault's Hyperion is dispatching ships to several immobile battlecruisers with damaged propellers to retrieve their crews.

The Norad II and the other nine Behemoth-class battlecruisers of the Revolutionary Army opened fire on the main facilities on it from the upper and lower directions of the Tasonis Wochen high-altitude orbital platform. The ships in front of Augustus Under the bridge porthole is the dense torrent of bullets from the rail platform automaton turret.

At this time, the shield energy of the battleship has been exhausted, and the Norad II is using thick armor plates to resist fierce artillery fire like other battlecruisers.

Augustus watched everything in front of him calmly. For forty hours now, his ears have been rumbling, the sound of many people talking on the bridge and the gunfire of the fleet on the main screen from beginning to end. It never stopped.

On a zoomed-in main screen, a Tarsonis high-altitude orbital defense platform was sinking into the planet's atmosphere.According to the calculations of Norad II's intelligent adjutant, the landing of this orbital platform is located on a prominent peninsula on the Tarsonis continental plate, triggering a forest fire that swept across ten Tarsonis cities, bringing earthquakes and tsunami.

"How is the situation of the landing force, Sarah, have the people from Tychus returned?" When the time on the main screen was fixed at 6:22 pm on June 19, Augustus looked at Sarah beside him Kerrigan, his lieutenant and Umoyan's lieutenant are either in the main control room or already on their way to the front.

"Thirty-two of the 45 landing troops have successfully returned." Standing beside Augustus, Kerrigan put on the uniform of the Umoyan Shadow Guard. They were all dressed in black tight-fitting pseudo-light combat uniforms.

After speaking, even though she already knew what Augustus wanted to ask, Kerrigan waited quietly for him to ask.This is the way of communication between them now, otherwise Augustus would not have to speak at all.

"How many have returned?" asked Augustus.

"Less than 2000 people." Kerrigan slowed down her speech, and she observed Augustus's expression: "Most people died on the way to and from Tarsonis and the fleet. Casualties are less than 20.00%.”

Augustus just sighed and didn't say anything.The troops that Takha brought out were almost depleted, and too many people died in foreign lands and were buried in the starry sky.

"According to the information provided by Umoyan and August Security Committee agents, our fighters successfully 'looted' five federal scientific research stations and weapons laboratories, and part of the guards there were transferred to protect local officials ’” Kerrigan reported.

"We found many technologies in the database of the command center and scientific research station in Tarsonis, including the power armor of the CMC series, the vulture car, the arc tank, the Goliath armed robot, the Avenger fighter, and the Cerberus modification of Ke Morian. Fighters, Wraith fighters, APOD transport ships," she said.

"The design concepts, prototype data, and structural drawings are all complete. As long as they are uploaded to the data network in a standardized heavy factory, the foundry can immediately produce these weapons."

"The data is being uploaded from the data disk to the Norad II's terminal network."

The good news made Augustus breathe a little easier. His heart was bleeding every time he lost a battleship and every soldier, and he couldn't help but feel hatred.

"Hey, Mengsk, I've got something nice for you." Tychus walked out of a valve that kept opening and closing to the bridge, his crimson power armor a dozen more hole.It seems that it has fought a lot of bad battles since landing in Tarsonis.

"A revolver—the Colt Arms Company ceased production more than 100 years ago, and there are very few that have been maintained until now except for private maintenance." Augustus took a revolver from Tychus. Put the heavy revolver, pistol in the reindeer leather holster.

"It's very expensive, but the power is not bad." He simply commented: "Jim just needs a gun."

"?" Tychus froze for a moment, then spread his hands and said, "Okay."

"You came back alive, brother. Where are the others?" Augustus pinned the pistol to his waist.

"Seven or eight good brothers died. They were all real tough guys. No one was captured." Tychus said in a low voice: "The people in the Tarsonis Police Department are a bunch of cowards, but in the hands of socialized soldiers But they are all real guys."

"We raided a scientific research station, but there was nothing in it but a few 'fat pigeons' in suits." He continued: "I left a few people to copy the documents, and then I went to the levitation in Tarsonis. The train track base station scouts the enemy."

"The data has been uploaded, you can see for yourself."

Augustus nodded frequently, and the bridge deck of the Norad II was still shaking violently while he was reading these materials.A scanned and uploaded drawing caught Augustus' attention: it was a heavy armored chariot suspended on the ground, with two symmetrically arranged railguns mounted on the angular body.

The drawing came from a thick leather-bound document bag, and on the cover was the skeleton of a curled-up snakelike creature with icy-blue holes in its skull.

"Rattlesnake——" Augustus recognized this, his eyes lit up, and he began to read the information: "Rattlesnake Chariot, a conceptual chariot that is still in the theoretical stage, uses magnetic levitation technology, and is equipped with Executioner electromagnetic tracks The armor plate of the Cannon Fernand tank is initially positioned as a high-speed, suspended tank that can effectively target heavy armor."

"Good stuff, a new gadget of the Federation." Tychus was amazed.

"Leave it to the chief engineer Rory Swan, he knows what to do." Augustus made a final decision: "Maybe we can install the rail gun on other vehicles, but the research and development of the battery is a problem."

"That Kel-Morian dwarf is going crazy," Tychus grumbled.

"It's not a problem if you have money," Tychus said.

But after a while Augustus changed his face. He looked at the list of items given by Tychus and said angrily: "Artworks, antiques, record players from the 50s after the colonial ship fell, high-purity crystals, towers Sonny's Erotica Collection."

"The city of Tarsonis gathers all the latest cutting-edge technologies of the Tyrann Federation. Let's see what you brought back."

"It can't be helped, there are only a few useless scraps of paper in that scientific research station." Tychus didn't care: "There are at least two army groups and a mechanized division in the central city area, and it is impossible for us to catch the one from the Tagore family. old woman."

"I landed on the ground after a near-death experience. It would be a pity if I didn't get something." Tychus had his own reasons: "There is an old saying on Earth, you don't take advantage of it, you bastard."

"It's my fault that I didn't get some beautiful noble ladies back for you. I forgot to ask what you like, flaxen hair or red, brown skin or white enough, or do you really like With a handle."

"Forget it, I didn't expect you to do anything serious." Augustus felt that he didn't need to get angry with Tychus.

"Marshal, we have contacted the last landing force that has not yet returned to the fleet. Their landing point has deviated from the intended position by about a thousand miles, and is sandwiched between two army brigades. In the last communication, this force Our commander, Captain Ireland, rejected our offer to send reinforcements to the ground."

"I remember that Captain Ireland was the eldest son of the Ronderstein family." Augustus stopped talking.

"Why not just raze Tarsonis City." Tychus scratched his helmet with the tip of his power armor knuckled index finger.

The Revolutionary Army fleet did not attack Tarsonis, although they were fully capable of forcibly breaking through the blockade of high-altitude and orbital defense platforms to conduct indiscriminate orbital bombardment of Tarsonis at the beginning, they did not do so.

Augustus only sent a landing force of about 2 people to various areas on the surface of the planet. The landing force fought in many places on the main star of Tarsonis. Design drawings of new weapons in the research station.

"That's right, but we can't do that." Augustus glanced at Tychus, his cold gray eyes reflecting the gorgeous deep space outside the porthole.

"Throwing aside the possibility that the founding family has already escaped and hid in an underground shelter that can withstand nuclear strikes, we do have a chance to get rid of the founding family." He said calmly:

"Throwing an apocalypse-level nuclear bomb towards the center of the main city of Tarsonis - it's easy to aim, because the city's plan is a regular and changeable geometric shape that overlaps each other, and the Sky Tower of the Creator Family is in the center of the center. "

"Right, as long as there is such an apocalypse, the creation family and their ugly hearts will be finished together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After today's incident, the Federation Fleet will definitely greatly strengthen the defense of Tarsonis. Next time It won't be so easy for us to drop by here." Tychus nodded.

"But do you know how many people there are in the densely populated business district of Tarsonis and the nearby residential areas?" Augustus said a number: "Nearly [-] million people."

"One billion people will be affected. At that time, the revolutionary army will be called a butcher. We are the revolutionary army, rebels, not terrorists."

"What you're doing isn't much different, is it?" Tychus never considered himself a part of the Revolutionary Army.

"The federal government doesn't care how many people die in Keha, but we can't and don't care about civilians in Tarsonis. That's what makes us different from the federation," he said. All the people of London know."

"I'd rather let the people of the founding family live and let them continue to rot until they can't be cured, than let hundreds of millions of innocent Tarsonis be buried with them." He said: "I don't have no choice. "

"Your heart isn't dark enough." Tychus sighed and said, "If it was your brother Arcturus, he would have fired all the nuclear bombs."

"Or you push the others out, saying that your general pressed the red button privately."

"I understand this." Augustus looked at Tychus: "This is a dark age, and if you want to succeed, you must use any means. Sacrificing a dozen people is a serious humanitarian crisis, and destroying a dozen [-] million people is just a matter of politics."

"So what are you going to do?" Tychus asked.

"My fleet will wander like a ghost on the border between the Kelmorian Federation and the Tyrann Federation." Augustus said: "I have an enemy in the dark, and as long as the Federation is exhausted, they will be exhausted. Wait until the Federation begins." After giving up control of the fringe world and shrinking the defense of the core world, we have achieved a preliminary victory."

"I will spend the rest of my life fighting against the Tyranid Federation until one of us falls forever."

"Don't be kidding, you are only one after all." Tychus smiled and lit a cigar, taking a deep breath of air to circulate the smoke in his lungs: "Can the Tyrann Federation live as long as you?"

"So, you want to use the monsters on Victor V that the Federation scientists call Zerg to deal with the Federation?" Tychus said, looking at the profile of Augustus.

"They are simply the most perfect weapons for genocide. They will not produce any pollution at all, and they will be thrown away after use. They can even be made into food cans after the battle, and they can also be used to feed the beetles in the Umoyan Beetle Ranch. brute."

"The Federation is really thinking well. No one will suspect them. In the end, they will send troops to deal with those monsters, and the victims will praise them."

"The truth will be revealed to the world one day." Augustus shook his head: "And the Federation doesn't know how terrible the Zerg is, and their number is far more than they estimated."

"The Federation is playing with fire. We must control the zerg through other, more reliable methods."

At this time, the Norad II's sensors detected a large number of transition signals.Although Korha was not the first planet to be colonized by Tarsonis, it is located at the core of the Tyrann Federation territory, and the fleet located in Korhal can arrive in only two days.

But at this time Edmund Duke's Alpha Squadron was still missing, and Captain Jackson might still be walking him on the edge of the Koprulu Sector.

"Notify the fleet, prepare for the jump."

"Where are you going?" Tychus asked him.

"Sara Galaxy." Augustus said: "Send the coordinates of this galaxy to the entire fleet."

"What are you going to do there?" Tychus knew in his heart: "a remote place——I understand what you mean. It's a good place, far away from Tarsonis, and it's one of the main star worlds. It's a good place to dominate .”

"What do you understand?" Augustus ignored him, and instead issued an order through the command channel of the entire fleet: "Everyone return to their positions, and tie the wounded to the acceleration seat."

"It's all over," he said.

"But it's not over yet," Tychus added.

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