StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 432 Heroes
A planet hopper took off in the rising jets of thrusters and the sweltering heat of New Folsom, loaded with scrawny prisoners.

This is a large apron in New Folsom Prison, on which there is a signal tower with radar and signal receiving equipment.The transport ships and fighter planes parked on the apron were taken by the revolutionary army as a matter of course. At this moment, a long line of prison inmates were quickly boarding and evacuating.

The only and largest transport ship of the Revolutionary Army, the Xel'Naga Spaceship Eldridge, is anchored in the twisted and dangerous synchronous orbit of New Folsom. Its size is equivalent to that of a swarm Behemoth. Achievements in fields such as engineering and materials science cannot cast spaceships.

Today, the USS Eldridge serves as a supercarrier and carrier-based aircraft platform that supplies the entire Revolutionary Army fleet and can absorb tons of firepower if necessary.

"Warriors, wherever and whenever you go, don't forget - you are a hero."

Augustus, standing next to a small galaxy flea about to stow the ladder, spoke to the ship's closing porthole.

"In Antiga, in Umoyan, in Mar Sara, in the lands you have fought and defended, a thousand triumphal arches await you, where flowers bloom and banners adorn, where maidens wear Silver and white dresses, the people there will greet you like heroes."

From the porthole, Sergeant Berghoff and other Revolutionary Army soldiers and revolutionaries imprisoned here are looking at Augustus.All of these fighters were brutally tortured by the interrogators of the Tyrannian Federation in the prison of New Folsom, in order to make these young fighters submit and betray their beliefs.

Yet they did not bow their heads until they were tortured like skinned skeletons and silently wailing souls.

Now these soldiers are all wearing the brand-new revolutionary uniforms brought to them by Augustus, with several medals on their coats.Their hair is also carefully groomed, so that the respectable Revolutionary Army soldiers can regain the dignity they once lost in New Folsom Prison.

Some of them were crew members of the Revolutionary Army Fleet. Their ships were destroyed in a fleet battle, and their lifeboats were captured by Federation warships.Some are agents who have infiltrated into the core world of the Tyranid Federation or the backbone of the revolutionary party who propagated revolutionary ideas in the vast federal territory. After their identities have been ruined, their fate will not be much better than that of the captured Umoyan spies.

When the spaceship lifted off, Augustus clenched his right hand and placed it flat on his chest. This was not a military etiquette, but a fist-clenching salute from the son of Keha, which symbolized respect for the warriors.

At this moment, both the people on the spaceship and the Revolutionary Army soldiers standing around made the same fist-clenching salute, and Arcturus Mengsk was one of them.

"In Umoyan, the best hospital has all the beds ready, and the most famous doctors and experts are present, but even they can't heal the wounds of body and mind at the same time." said Arcturus to Augustus with his usual coolness.

Arcturus is a quiet and serious person, and when he smiles, it makes people feel refreshed, but no one has ever seen this man who seems to have a body of steel cry.The tears he said had been shed long ago when Keha IV was destroyed by the Tyrann Federation, and there will never be any more in the future.

"That's the best result." Augustus nodded with a heavy heart.

Augustus learned that New Folsom held only those who had survived the torture, usually fewer than 1000 per 100.

Not all the captured Revolutionary Army fighters have iron-like wills, they are also ordinary people with mortal bodies, and faith cannot suffer for them after all.

Many people succumbed, only asking the Federation to give them a happy time, and some even turned to the government, betraying their former comrades-in-arms and inflicting on them a thousand times the pain that the Federation had inflicted on them.

Many more people survived for a few days, and they were either crazy or stupid, or just wanted to die.After that, the Tyrannian Federation will send this part of the people to the resocialization factory to transform them into federal soldiers who obey orders, and order them to raise their guns at their own people.

No one other than the protoss has been able to reverse the resocialization process, and the damage caused by this brutal modification of the brain is also permanent.The reformed soldiers of the Revolutionary Army have lost all memories of the past, and they firmly believe in the false past. They cannot question any order issued by the federal officer, even if they are ordered to shoot their former best friends, they will not hesitate at all. .

Those who persisted to the end were sent to New Folsom Prison for incarceration, waiting to one day be used as bargaining chips with the Revolutionary Army. warrior.

More and more shuttles and transport ships flew into the planet's atmosphere in the rising thermals of New Folsom, disappearing in the barely visible light of the stars.

Augustus sighed softly, blaming himself for not coming earlier.Although at that time, the fleet that entered New Folsom was very likely to be besieged by a large number of federal fleets that jumped in, bringing more people into it.

Duke was at this point radioing to ask Augustus if he wanted to destroy New Folsom Prison, his Alpha Squadron was ready to destroy the main fusion reactor so that most of the platform holding the prison would sink under the lava, As expected, Augustus scolded him.

Therefore, General Duke, who thought he understood the thoughts of the Marshal of the Revolutionary Army, had no choice but to order his soldiers to continue cleaning the battlefield.The military control area of ​​New Folsom Prison and the armory near the main base are full of weapons and ammunition piled up in boxes and boxes. More than forty arc siege tanks covered by green cloth are quietly parked in the warehouse middle.

Alpha Squadron was honored with the use of these weapons for their role in the capture of New Folsom Prison.

"As I said before." As more and more transport ships rose into the sky, Arcturus, standing beside Augustus, pointed to the high walls in the prison and the bridges erected on the road. Bunker groups and dense anti-aircraft missile towers said.

"New Folsom Prison will be where you will punish the rebels. You should be kind to the people, so they regard you as a wise king. You must also let those who oppose you and betray you know the consequences of what they do."

"Acturus, it shouldn't be like that—this dreadful prison once left such a terrible memory for my most precious warrior." Augustus said.

"It's impossible for everyone to love me. Being awe-inspiring is also a way of ruling, but I don't want to be the person who is eager to throw him in prison as soon as he hears opposition." He said.

"I decided to keep New Folsom in order to leave a home for the former rulers of the Tyrann Federation."

"Blood for blood, tooth for tooth." Arcturus laughed, and there was no warmth in his laughter: "The Federation built this nightmare prison with their own hands, and they should enjoy it themselves."

"This is the only right I will finally give them," Augustus said.

Speaking of which, the angles at which the two men of the Mengsk family looked up at the sky were almost the same.

"The federation happened to provoke the worst group of people in Koplu." Sacco Angelini stood on the other side of Augustus, as if he was standing next to a hero, pointing out the country and scolding Fang Qiu.

"Narrah dude, you're about to take a shower, you stink like a zerg-infested wretch." Tychus deftly squeezed Angelini away with his big armored ass, This is a trick he has always tried time and time again.

"What are you doing?" Angelini thought that Tychus had something to report, but when he was probing the idiot's brain, which seemed to be stuffed with corrupt bonito, the old Tychus was imagining the scene of himself dancing a striptease and Disgusting for this powerful psyker - he did indeed do such shameless things as mentioned above.

"This position is the privilege of the old demons of heaven," Tychus said.

"It's the first time I've met someone like you." Angelini quickly realized that Tychus was a rotten person, and decided that he must stay away from him after working under Augustus.

At this time, almost all the transport ships on the apron had been lifted into the air, and the Hercules transport ship carrying the Revolutionary Army's engineering regiment and collection facilities occupied the original berthing area.

These extremely large transport ships lowered the pull-up hatches of the cargo compartment and dispatching compartment, and at least a hundred T-280 space engineering vehicles drove to the apron platform, lined up under the orders of their respective captains, and rushed into the opposite direction without stopping. Restoration and expansion work at New Folsom Prison.

According to the plan, New Folsom will build more mines and refined steel catalyst extraction facilities to meet the increasing demand for various alloy steel resources in the Revolutionary Army shipyards and heavy factories.

Relying on a huge mobile platform floating on the sea of ​​​​New Folsom Lava Lake, this rusty prison will be built into a new Revolutionary Army base and fortress, and those vacant cells will be temporarily used to hold the original jailers and soldiers. Federal soldiers, from now on, this place will also become a nightmare for federal officials.

It doesn't make sense to increase the defense facilities of New Folsom Prison. When the war comes, the extremely unstable geological movement and magma lake will probably cause more damage to the prison than the enemy.

The main task of the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps is to establish an orbital defense system, hollow out the only satellite in New Folsom to build an unprecedented super shipyard, and directly use the rich resources of New Folsom to build battlecruisers.

Considering the scale of this project, even at the fastest speed, it will take five years to build, that is, it will not be put into production until 2499.

Augustus wasn't planning to use the heinous torture devices at New Folsom Prison to torture Union soldiers, but the jailers and FIA agents who had tortured Revolutionary soldiers were not so lucky.

"A lot of federal soldiers guarding the prison fell to us at the last moment, and they claimed to know nothing about the tragedy inside the prison." A communications soldier walked up to Augustus and reported.

"Lieutenant Colonel Nolan asked you how to deal with these federal soldiers."

"If they are willing to join the Revolutionary Army, then I swear that I will treat them the same as all Revolutionary Army soldiers." Augustus thought for a while and said.

"Whether treatment or equipment is in accordance with the standards of their respective troops, there will be no deductions. I guarantee the honor of the Mengsk family, and I will never let any former federal soldier act as cannon fodder to attract firepower. When all the wars are over, I will will bring them back home."

"However, I must go through a mind-reading test to confirm whether they have surrendered falsely."

"Yes, sir," said the signalman.

With the outbreak of the first full-scale war, the continuous war caused the death rate of the federal army to rise extremely. Even with the support of patriotic enthusiasm, the number of voluntary enlisted soldiers was simply not enough to support the federation to protect the huge colonial world.

Under such circumstances, the federal conscription department can only bite the bullet and force the recruitment of soldiers. Fraud has no effect at all, and they force adult males of the right age to set foot on the battlefield.

This of course caused an uproar in the Tyrann Federation, because although the Tyrannian Federation treats everyone equally on the bright side, they will not recruit a prosperous core world population on a large scale to avoid shaking the economy, and that will make the wealth of the founding family huge. shrinking in size.

At the height of the war, the Tyranid Federation even sent the entire population of the colonies destroyed by the Zerg to the resocialization factory, and then announced that the population of this world had died out in the protracted war.

Therefore, Augustus knew that there was nothing wrong with the average Union soldier in the war, they were just those who were dragged into battle in this era.Many Federation soldiers still think they are fighting for justice and honor, but the Federation is just using them as cannon fodder.

As for the most elite federal troops, most of them stayed in the core world to guard the rear and the properties of the nobles. Those who fought on the front lines were mostly resocialized soldiers who could not think about it and marginal world militiamen who were determined to fight to protect their homeland.

"Although in recent years, as the training time for recruits has shortened, the quality of recruits has also decreased a lot, but after all, they are well-trained professional soldiers rather than local militias." Arcturus pointed out.

"Absorbing these Confederate soldiers would greatly increase our strength—they're just going to the Lord."

"You're right, Arcturus." Augustus nodded, turned and walked towards a shuttle in the center of the tarmac, not intending to stay longer.

"The UED is also ordering the surrendered federal soldiers to fight for them, but compared to the people on Earth, they are definitely more willing to rely on us who know everything about it." He said.

"If the Earthlings' offensive is fast enough, they must have looted a large number of people from Bronte Prime to expand their army."

"Marshal, this is an urgent communication from Jim Raynor's expedition to Char's fleet flagship." Kerrigan walked towards Augustus at this moment, and after the latter nodded slightly, an unfolded triangular bracket projected Looking at the bearded face of Jim Raynor.

"I'm Jim, this is the message I sent back in Charl, how did you say that sentence-Marshal Augustus Mengsk himself." This is a video.

"We fought the zerg as soon as we got to Char, but it didn't take much damage," Raynor said.

"The protoss said that the fusion of the new master has been completed, but its mind is immature and it is in a state of chaos. This is what I want to report to you. Phoenix and I are preparing to make that monster suffer." "Everything is fine with me, except for the endless volcanic ash that goes into my boots and the overwhelming, squealing bugs," he finally said.

"I hope it's the same with you."

(End of this chapter)