StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 428 New Folsom
If Char was hell on earth, New Folsom was no different.

New Folsom's crater-strewn landscape is extremely unstable, with moving continental plates colliding to create new volcanic mountains and lava lakes or to erase old ones.

The peak temperature of this planet can reach 800 degrees Celsius, the scorching air is enough to burn the human windpipe, the dry and hot cyclone rages on the ever-changing surface of New Folsom, and the only volcanic rocks are baked like red hot irons .

In the Koprulu sector, the number of planets with dangerous environments far exceeds those that are suitable for life, but the rich geological resources of New Folsom are enough to make brave adventurers in the Tyrann Federation take risks to establish new colonies.

Despite the fact that New Folsom has little ground to stand on, the Tyrannian Federation hired the most daring and skilled specialists, material specialists, and terraforming engineers to build a vast, deformable steel mobile platform.

The mobile platform can create the lowest level of natural environment for the workers, and the new Folsom Consolidated Mining Company also came into being.

"The gravitational field of New Folsom is changeable, and the only way to get close to it is to take a powerfully armed military starship and pass through the two main planetary force fields through an erratic orbit." The adjutant of the Hyperion made of steel The lips are closed up and down.

"New Folsom now exists as one of the cruelest prisons for the most heinous political prisoners, terrorists, anti-governmentists, captured revolutionaries and rebel officers in the Tyrannian Federation." The mechanical adjutant's cold electronically synthesized voice didn't have a trace of warmth.

"New Folsom Prison's remote location and daunting terrain in the Tyranid world make breaking out a deadly adventure."

"It's really a hell." Augustus crossed the bridge connecting bridge of the Huberian, facing the new Folsom star outside the porthole: "Unless the prisoners locked inside can fly with wings, that is to escape. Prisons can only be baked dry by the scorching lava of New Folsom."

Outside the porthole, New Folsom seemed to be within reach. Several federal space stations and shipyard weapon systems were continuously firing at the multiple Revolutionary Wraith fighters approaching at high speed.A flash of light that eclipsed the sun flashed, and a federal communication relay station built on the asteroid was hit by the Yamato gun of the revolutionary battlecruiser Ragnarok, and the flames were scattered and torn apart.

As the shipboard sensor array of the Hyperion sent back more image data and data, the splashed wreckage of the communication relay station was almost clearly visible, and the Federation flag standing on the relay station was torn to pieces like rags.

Most of the last communications sent by the relay station to the core world of the Tyrannian Federation were intercepted by the Revolutionary Army fleet, and the data scattered like snowflakes were all uploaded to the Hyperion's supercomputer.With the help of Protoss Time-Space Acceleration Technology, the computing power of human supercomputers is no longer comparable.

All low-level encrypted communications were quickly deciphered and screened for listing on the main screen on the Hyperion's bridge.The most frequently mentioned words in these messages are Augustus Mengsk, Revolutionary Army, and request for reinforcements.

Behind the federal space station is New Folsom. This planet full of volcanoes and magma oceans is shining with angry orange flames. It can also be seen above, like a stripped coconut shell floating in a sea of ​​red.

"New Folsom Prison has hitherto been known for its vicious and brutal reputation. Cha Sara and Ma Sara's prisons are as comfortable as nurseries by comparison." Revolutionary Army said Logistics Sergeant Tykes Finley, looking out the porthole at New Folsom.

"In decades, I've never heard of anyone who escaped from New Folsom, or "returned home" with a good piece of meat left?"

"It would be a great help to me if your knowledge in this area can be compared to the military regulations. The notoriety of New Folsom Prison is enough to frighten the most vicious thugs of the Tyranid Federation-but among them The vast majority of people are not eligible to enter New Folsom Prison." Augustus said, looking at the red planet outside the porthole.

"Behind this high wall are many of our comrades-in-arms. Most of them were arrested by the Federation when they were conducting underground espionage activities in the core world of the Tyrann Federation. The others are our fighters who were lost or captured on various battlefields. ."He said.

"The largest number of people in New Folsom Prison are high-ranking officials who have served in the federal government and popular orators and agitators in the private sector. They have all been arrested on charges of attempting to subvert the government or attempting to steal federal classified information. We'd have to break into New Folsom to get the full list of charges."

This is just one of the reasons why Augustus decided to attack New Folsom. The abundant resources on this planet are also the key to his decision to take it here.

Within the Commonwealth's dominion, New Folsom is the largest source of the catalysts needed to cast steel.Although in the Sara galaxy discovered catalyst resources that are equally abundant and much less difficult to mine, New Folsom has become a tasteless tasteless dish, but since the Sara galaxy was completely destroyed by the protoss, Xinfu Once again Pearson is an important source of raw materials.

You must know that the Sara galaxy is actually under the control of the Augustus Revolutionary Army-only they dare to approach the Sara galaxy within the strike range of the protoss fleet.

If Augustus wins New Folsom again, the Tyrannian Federation will have to obtain catalysts from resource tycoons from other origins or the Kymerian Consortium, and the production capacity of fine steel will be greatly limited, which in turn will affect warships and chariots and other weapons production.

In other words, Augustus will then be able to use these resources to build his own fleet.

"It's not easy to break into New Folsom. It's so heavily guarded that not a single fly can fly out." Tychus folded his arms around his chest, but his expression was full of what he said about the New Folsom Prison. dismissive.

"Commander, due to unknown reasons, the Tyrann Federation sent troops several times after the first full-scale war to strengthen the defense of the New Folsom Prison, and at the same time sent more prisoners into the prison." The mechanical adjutant said in Say it at this time.

"At least one entire division of the Union Marines is stationed at New Folsom, nearly half the number of prisoners."

"One division is not enough." Augustus smiled.

"If there are twenty divisions, I will give the defenders here time to surrender."

As he spoke, Augustus walked past the wide porthole of the Huberian bridge, and came to the main holographic projection screen, on which the images of the commanders of several revolutionary warships flashed at the same time.

"Norad III, clear a landing zone immediately. Duke, prepare your men's landing force," Augustus said.

"I will repeat the order of the Marshal Headquarters for the last time to avoid casualties among the prisoners as much as possible. As for whether they are revolutionary heroes who have been imprisoned and tortured until now, politicians and righteous men who once spoke out for the people, or really damned thugs , that is a matter for the telepaths to adjudicate." He said:
"Quick battle. After that, we will launch an attack on the fringe world near the main star of Antiga that is still under the control of the Federation, and connect our scattered points on this star map into a whole plate .”

"My Alpha Squadron is more than enough to deal with the new Folsom jailers in slit pants. If these lowly bastards dare to ambush us, we will kill them all!" Duke has no elegance of Tarsonian nobles. , and he himself prefers to call this the frankness and heroism of a soldier.

Duke's viper-like inverted triangular eyes narrowed slightly, and he roared at the officers of the Alpha Squadron who stood upright, and issued his order: "Alpha Squadron obeys the order, and everyone is ready to fight. Blood Eagles, send you The bayonets are polished sharply, this time, they will see blood!"

"The first shot of the revolution will be fired by Alpha Squadron, Norad III, and immediately search the defenses of New Folsom Prison. Bring the armor, and I will personally command the landing force!" General Duke swore:
"To the Revolutionary Army, to Field Marshal Augustus Mengsk."

"Duke is a smart guy, isn't he? If he wants to be promoted, he must flatter you more." Tychus wanted to light a cigarette, but he thought that Augustus was standing beside him. Still stopped his eager hands.

"At least he knows how to flatter." Augustus stood still.

On the main screen of the Hyperion, Norad III, the flagship of Edmund Duke's Alpha Squadron, is heading for New Folsom in the orange-red wake left by the booster acceleration, more than 120 laser guns At the same time, they fired, and the space torpedoes also ejected out of the cabin one after another.

The battlecruisers under Duke's command have never saved the energy of ammunition and weapon systems. They are used to solving the frontal enemies at the fastest speed and returning triumphantly at the fastest speed.With the exception of Augustus' revolutionary army, few enemies were able to withstand Alpha Squadron's onslaught and sweeping artillery fire.

At the same time, another Revolutionary Army fleet headed by Horace Warfield's flagship Iron Justice stepped up its siege of the new Folsom satellite "Su" and the largest space station. Iron Legionnaires land in APOD transports.Among them, the federal defenders were defeated and soon surrendered.

The New Folsom Prison is indeed one of the most heavily guarded prisons in the Tyranid Federation, but it is only a prison, unable to withstand the artillery attacks of more than forty revolutionary battlecruisers.

There is no need to send special forces to infiltrate New Folsom Prison. Even if the defensive firepower and guard numbers of New Folsom Prison have been repeatedly strengthened after the Korhal Uprising, Augustus' Revolutionary Army still has enough troops to capture it.

If it wasn't for Augustus who wanted to rescue the criminals in New Folsom Prison, then the Revolutionary Army fleet didn't even have to send troops into the prison, it just needed to drop an orbital strike from New Folsom's high-altitude orbit to detonate the planet. With an unstable continental plate, everyone in the prison will die without a place to die.

The strength of the Revolutionary Army fleet has long been different from what it used to be. With the help of starship experts and scientific and technical personnel sent by the United States of Umoyan, the Antiga Star Port and the Altera Orbital Shipyard provided Augustus with ten brand new giant ships. Beast-class battlecruiser.

At the same time, the United States of Umoyan also provided Augustus with six decommissioned Umoyan-class battlecruisers for free-but, in the words of Tychus, these decommissioned battleships are just as fucking as It's like building a dock.

Up to now, with the escalation of the conflict between the Umoyan United States and the Tyrann Federation, the Federation Parliament and the Umoyan Parliament have also torn their faces, and even the established Umoyan National Guard directly put on the Keha Revolutionary army uniforms attack Federation planet happened.

However, under the premise that the first full-scale war has just ended and the Earth UED expeditionary force invaded, the Tyrannian Federation can no longer take Umoyan into account, and even the Kelmorian Federation, which has been completely defeated by the Federation in the Guild War, is also waiting and watching Is it time to revive their mining empire in due course?

The continuous wars made the Tyrann Federation step up its efforts to oppress and exploit the people to form their huge naval fleet, but that also further ignited internal conflicts.

The fringe world went bankrupt due to tax payment, but the federal fleet only guards the main star world!

Now the decadent bureaucratic system of the Tyrann Federation has long been unable to control such a huge territory, so it has no choice but to retreat to the scope of the core world.

There was a jolt from the Hyperion's bridge, the signal to accelerate through New Folsom's gravitational field.New Folsom under the bridge zoomed in rapidly, and didn't stop until Augustus could see the column of magma rising from the explosion.

"Augustus, next we should march on Onuru Sigma, where my old unit of the Federation's 33rd Assault Division was still stationed." Augustus' brother Arcturus Mengsk walked away at this time. Into the bridge, wearing power armor he got from nowhere.

The power armor of Arcturus was personally built by Hiram Fick, the armor technician of the Devil of Heaven, and Rory Swan, the chief engineer. The former is the inventor of the firebat power armor, and the latter leads the team. Developed stronger Marauder power armor.

This crimson-colored gold-rimmed power armor is painted with the insignia of the Golden Wolf and the son of Korhal holding the whip ring. The exhaustive workmanship makes this armor look much more gorgeous, comparable to the Ky Morian Union It is a ceremonial armor for sacrificing ancestors.

"Being implicated by me, many of them did not live very well. Even though they made repeated military exploits, they were not promoted, and they were even persecuted by the federal secret police and agents." Arcturs said.

"But as long as I return to Onuru Sigma, they will definitely rise up, and the people there have already had enough of the Tyrann Federation's brutal rule."

"Of course, this planet is also on my battle map." Augustus looked at Arcturus and said, "Since the Guild Wars, Onuru Sigma has always been a united force between the Tyrann Federation and Kelmorian. The focus of the body's competition, there is a crucial strategic location, which can be attacked when advancing, and can be defended when retreating."

"A full-scale counterattack is about to begin, and the Federation will once again remember the fear that the Mengsk family once brought to them!"

"Let them tremble." Arcturus went to Augustus and asked him:
"After this, what are you going to do with New Folsom Prison?"

"Of course it is to completely flatten this heinous prison. Since the Antiga Uprising, so many people with lofty ideals have been tortured to death in New Folsom Prison." Augustus said after thinking for a moment.

"No, you should keep it," Arcturus said. "Keeping New Folsom is the best option."

"Why? I don't need this prison," said Augustus.

"In the future, the prison of New Folsom will make your enemies and opponents tremble. If you want to be the ruler on the throne, you must keep your promises, keep your promises, and if necessary Punish cruelly those who might betray you and attempt to subvert you."

"You have to scare them so that your position can be stabilized!" Arcturus looked at Tychus Finlay next to him when Augustus's expression gradually changed, and stopped at the sergeant's rank on his shoulder. down.

"Mr. Finley, the last time I saw you, you should have been a major. Now, I have to say, I've never seen anyone advance as quickly as you."

"Made a small mistake not worth mentioning." Tychus slapped haha.

"Just drank a little wine and exchanged ideas with Swan's group. That's right, a member of the engineering team."

(End of this chapter)