StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 493 Augustegler
Korhal IV, Radiated Wastes.

Desolation, dead silence.The desert is connected to the desert, and there is no grass growing. All you can see is gray dust full of radioactive substances, blowing in the wind, and the sky is filled with dusty smog.The sun was dim, and everywhere was gray, like purgatory.

This place is not only desolate and lonely, but also an absolute forbidden area for humans.Even after more than four years, the soil and atmosphere on Korha IV are still filled with deadly radioactive dust.

"In the past, this was a small town far from the city, next to a small ribbon-like river with abundant water and grass. On a cool summer night, with a small lamp, Stilling fireflies will dance around you, yes Dresses and ribbons with a fluorescent green shimmer."

Arcturus Mengsk, wearing a radiation protection suit, stood beside a deep ditch that accumulated rainwater, pointing to the piece of land he measured with his feet: "Our grandfather said: What is life—that is When the sun is about to set and the night comes, a little firefly left by a firefly."

".Fortunately, he won't see Keha IV's current appearance."

The deep ditch that accumulated rainwater used to be the town center of a small town, where there was an elementary school.When the nuclear explosion happened, all the people had been forcibly evacuated by the revolutionary army at that time, but only a piece of ashes remained in the beautiful town that was enough to be reflected on a postcard.

Arcturus, a strong man with a gray beard, made no secret of his sadness and loss. He loved his family and hometown, so when the Tyranid Federation burned Korhal IV with an apocalypse-level nuclear bomb, he was born for the first time in his life. Once in a rage.

No wonder Arcturus fell into madness. In the past, Keha IV was a beautiful planet, with silvery cities and rivers densely covered, and dense forests extending far away along the undulating mountains.The forest in Keha is colorful, mostly red, orange and purple. When the large clouds and the forest are connected together, he will never forget the dreamlike scene.

Therefore, Arcturus and the Korha seek vengeance.The Tyrann Federation wants to burn their homes and kill everyone. This is a bloody feud.

"Even he will cry." In Augustus's memory, his grandfather has become a vague shadow, and he can only find that lost memory from the images of the past.

"Keha, our mother, we are back."

A huge shadow came from a distance, wrapping Augustus in it.It was a number of command centers, starports, and heavy factories in flight. The formation of transport planes whizzed past from the other side of the sky, and the sound of air vibration came whistling.

Equipment such as anti-radiation armored vehicle transport vehicles, space construction vehicles and planetary cranes also landed in the depression a few miles away, and thousands of workers and soldiers in yellow and blue protective suits were descending from the Zeus-class landing ship (Zeus) Another type of lander Hercules transport ship, catapult landing) filed out.

In the desert considered to be a forbidden area for human beings, thousands of construction camps stand in the wind of Korhal radiation that people can't avoid.The first ones to be built were reinforced living stations, supply stations, and sentry automatic cannons to guard against mutated beasts, followed by nuclear radiation detection and removal equipment.

On the poured thick leaded reinforced concrete foundation, countless bronze-colored alloy steel frames are rising from the ground, and the modular building plates delivered to the surface of Keha are piled up high and high, just waiting to be welded and erected.

While the signal lights are flickering, the train tracks across the rivers, mountains, and radiation deserts are expanding every night, and the global power station, space plantation, food processing factory, crystal mine smelting and manufacturing industrial base span the blue ocean covered with radiation dust .

On the ruins of Korha, a great giant city is about to rise in the world.

"How many people want to sign up to build Keha?" Augustus took a deep breath, holding a control panel from his thick anti-radiation suit, with a blueprint for the construction of a city on it.

"There are 2000 million people. This is the data of the Imperial Statistics Department and the Immigration Department. One-third of them are the Keha people who stayed in Umoyan, and then there are people from other planets. The people from Antiga are the most "Although Augustus has not yet announced the establishment of a new government to replace the former Tyrannian Federation, the backbone of the revolutionary army like Arcturus has begun to call this new Koprulu human regime the Tyrann Empire and the Tyranid Empire. their home country.

Of course, these two words, the Tyrann Empire, are not directly related to the empire. Its more precise meaning should be - the territory of the Tyrannic humans, the Tyrannian Dominion, the place dominated and ruled by the Tyrannians.

But this did not prevent the zealots among the sons of Keha from calling their homeland the Empire and Augustus the Emperor.With generals such as Arcturus deliberately fueling the flames, this kind of thinking soon became the mainstream in the revolutionary army.

If someone told them that a secular emperor would be parachuted over your heads to rule over you, the tough Tyranids wouldn't recognize it, but if it was Augustus Mengsk, it would only be him honorific title.

Augustus Mengsk pointed to a position on the map of Korhal IV, and the Tarsonians gathered the Tyranid Federation architects, bankers, and representatives of construction group shareholders, all vying to say that we will build a city for you .

When Augustus didn't speak, they changed their words and said that they were building a city for all the Tyranids.

"It's unbelievable, we really did it." Augustus felt a burst of pride, proud of his warriors and those who inspired to rebuild Korha:

"In Korhal, we want to achieve the revival of the Tyranids, so that the people of the empire will no longer have to suffer from the threat of zerg and protoss."

"Yes, yes, Augustus, we would never have done it without you." The excitement drove away Arcturus' inner sentimentality, except for the overthrow of the Tyranid Federation and the bloody debt of the Tarsonis Creation Family. Apart from blood compensation, his long-cherished wish is to bring Keha IV back to his past appearance——

Even if it is an impossible thing, this beautiful planet that gave birth to the Keha people should be inhabited.

Keha can be rebuilt and used as the new capital of the Tyrannian Empire. There are many obstacles in the throne world of all Tyrannian humans.Not everyone loves Keha as much as Arcturus, but fortunately his brother has his word.If you promise to rebuild Korha, you will do it.

This made Arcturston feel relieved that it was his own brother after all, and Keha was their birthplace.

Judging from the blueprint, this will be a city that is far larger than the former capital of Keha, Stilling.The foundation is dug down a mile deep, and the entire city will be built on steel and concrete. All the cultivation soil on the city comes from another earth-like planet eight light-years away to remove and isolate nuclear pollution and ensure the future. Children born in Keha IV will not be troubled by problems such as deformities and premature deaths.

The planning of this city is majestic. The designer started to build the government administrative building in the center, and then went to row upon row of skyscrapers, light-energy trolleybuses around the city, and parks and green spaces.
A miraculous city made of alloy steel and glass, the human center in the barren land.That would be a super city not inferior to Tarsonis City, and the so-called great achievements of mankind were nothing more than that.

As early as when Keha was just destroyed, Augustus summoned all Keha IV and some Umoyan architects to build a plan to rebuild Keha, but it has been stagnant.After retaking Tarsonis from Stukov, Augustus restarted the plan to rebuild Korha while planning to form a new government.

According to the plan of a master architect, Augustus planned to build a brand new city on the land 1000 and [-] miles north of the ruins of the former capital city of Keha IV, the city of Stilling, his birthplace. , as the political, economic and cultural center of the future government of the Tyranid Empire.

Of course, this decision put a lot of pressure on Augustus, because Keha was not the only choice for him.Even though Tarsonis had been greatly damaged in the war, and the time loss in just one night exceeded hundreds of billions of federal credits, it was still the absolute center.

Why do we have to build our homes on the ruins?Such problems are not uncommon.However, it was necessary to shift the center of the Tyranid Empire from Tarsonis in the former Tyranid Federation to Korhal.

But Augustus still resisted all opinions. He wanted to shape the dignity and honor of Tyrannic humans in Kehal and reshape the soul of this nation.The planets that Augustus was determined to vigorously build were Antiga Prime and Keha IV, and he wanted to make the people of the Tyrann Empire proud when they mentioned these places.

"In just four to five years, by 2498 and 99, this new city will be built, and then it will be able to accept immigrants from other worlds." Augustus said:

"It is necessary to formulate a positive policy to encourage immigration. In addition to rebuilding the cutting-edge technology industries that Keha IV relied on in the past, it is also necessary to transfer economic industries from Tarsonis. Those industries left by the founding family of Tarsonis are all owned by the empire. accept."

Building an empire is a very different thing from running it, and Augustus had little experience with it.

"Taking over the founding family's business will make other entrepreneurs and cross-galactic companies terrified. Those high-ranking financial giants in the past also bowed their heads to you." Arcturus was happy.

"If those Tarsonis nobles who fled have any objections to this matter, they can come to Keha to find me." Augustus paused:
"I welcome—"

Augustus left here amid Arcturus' hearty laugh, and went to a scientific research station not far away for monitoring radiation values, which was mainly managed by scientists from the Alpha Squadron scientific ship Amerigo. we build.

There were more than 20 ex-Federation scientific ships in the Revolutionary Army, and later the Revolutionary Army's Antiga Starport built some of its own.The scientific ship was originally a scientific research ship and research ship for the Tyranid Federation to open up outer galaxies. Compared with the status in the military, the traditional scientific ship undoubtedly plays a greater role in the construction of people's livelihood.

Of course, Korha IV had only four science ships, and the rest of the science ships left with the Revolutionary Army fleet dispatched to other areas in the Koprulu sector.

"Marshal Augustus, the last time we met—" At this moment, Dr. Narud, who was leading several researchers, walked towards Augustus.

The current Dr. Narud has been hired by Augustus as the chief alien biologist of the Tyrannian Empire, and he has been assigned a heavy army and even stationed in the national laboratory of the Protoss. It is absolutely safe and has no hidden dangers, and will not let anyone hate Naru Germany's former UED expeditionary force soldiers have the opportunity to murder him.

Dr. Narud himself is already an academic leader in this discipline, but he recently told Augustus that he also has a little research on architecture, and that he has a set of experiments using biodegradation technology to remove nuclear pollution, but he lacks funds.

And Augustus was very happy to keep this person in his sight, so he asked Narud to follow.Even if Narud didn't say so, Augustus would try to get him to come.

At present, Narud does not cause any harm, but can greatly help the technological advancement of Tyrann humans.

This guy is happily playing his role as an anthropologist, hoping that Augustus can reuse him so that he can further implement his plan. Unexpectedly, the other party treats him like a monkey.

Even without the psychic shielding equipment, Augustus has tempered the ability to fabricate and conceal his thoughts in front of psykers. In addition, Narud himself looks down on humans, so he never thought that Augustus already knew the possibility of his full set of plans , He also thinks that he can play this human being in the palm of his hand like in the past.

"It was the last time." Narud choked on Augustus' words.To deal with a person like Narud, you must not fall into his traps and traps when talking to him.

"Hehe, you are so humorous." Dr. Narud smiled awkwardly, acting like an embarrassed little old man.

"I heard you were a bit displeased with my decision to destroy all UED labs, is that true?" Augustus asked him.

"No, no, I mean, if these hybrids can be used to deal with the enemies who invaded the Koprulu sector, it is better to die on the battlefield than to be destroyed in vain." Narud knew Augustus's attitude towards the hybrids. He has a tough attitude, but judging from the words revealed by the other party, he does not completely disagree with the value of hybrids.

In other words, Narud was being swayed by Augustus, thinking that there was still a big turning point for this matter.

"Yes, but the hybrid is uncontrollable, that's what you said." The worry on Augustus's face was not fake.

Now in the Koprulu sector, receiving those former Federation planets and clearing away the possible remnants of the old Federation on them is the first problem Augustus faces.This means that Augustus is unlikely to stay in Korhal for too long.

This new government, which has not yet announced its existence to the world, will inevitably face many difficulties at the beginning of its precarious establishment, not to mention the sudden large-scale invasion of foreign enemies not long ago.

Based solely on information coming back from fringe worlds, the reemergence of hostile protoss forces is likely to be on a larger scale than during the Contact Wars or even Total War.Augustus can confirm that they are Tal'darin, and most likely not a branch, but the orthodox Tal'darin protoss from Slayn (Slayn Tadarin Protoss, meaning slaughter).

Because Augustus is too familiar with the face of our high-ranking lord Allah (rua) Nak in that image.Of course, this future Tadarim high-ranking lord may still be an ascender, and the first or fourth seat in the Tadarim Ascension Chain, or even a lower seat, is likely to be caught in an internal power struggle He was kicked out as a gunman.

And the fleet sent by Stukov somehow provoked them inexplicably.

As for the zerg, although their number is not as large as before, the swarm has obviously changed its strategy against humans. The new terrifying virus is becoming more and more contagious, making it impossible to prevent, and the death it brings is far greater than in the past.

Internal and external troubles.

The people of the former Tyrannian Federation desperately need their savior and leader who can turn the tide.

"Okay, okay, but" Narud flinched again:
"I don't mind warning you that I have nothing to say."

"Augustus, the Minister of Empire Construction asked me to confirm to you the name of the capital of the new empire - Augustegrad." Arcturus said to Augustus at this time:
"Sounds like that's your name."

"Not in my name, but in our grandfather's." Augustus shook his head.

It is the center of military politics, scientific and technological research, trade and production of the future Tyrannian Empire, and it is the undisputed birthplace of human beings.

Keha.

Augustgrad.

In front of it is a flower bed built in a radiation shield, with new shoots and green leaves.

The soil in the flower beds was gathered from a cup of soil that the Keha people took from their hometown before they evacuated, including Augustus's share, which was soaked with the tears of this troubled people.

　This concludes the discussion of the merits and demerits of regimes, and I would like to write for a few more years.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)