StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 545 Age of Empire
No matter the era, interstellar travel has always been long and grueling.Technology is always improving, but they are not being used to keep pace with the poor.

Easter fushs agrees wholeheartedly with her sister Loren fushs, except that they have nothing in common.

"King wants you to fix that microwave in the captain's cabin. Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you. If you lose something, he'll hand you over to the Imperial Sheriff at the next stop."

"Even want me to help him pee?" Easter poked his head out of the narrow berth between the cabins with difficulty: "Why didn't I find out that he is a miser with an underdeveloped cerebellum when I got on the boat."

"The whole ship knows about it, but don't say that in front of him." The crew on the opposite side waved their hands and walked towards the next equally crowded cabin while holding the aluminum handrail.

"Yes, he still holds grudges to death." As Istel said so, he quickly put on his work clothes and went down the safety ladder to the lower cabin. Various goods stacked in the cabin.

The Bedford is a 374-foot-long (about 114 meters) cargo ship. It was originally a scrapped ship of the Angel family, and was later bought by the current captain Jin at a very low price.

The refitted Bedford is now a ship that travels between Antiga-Helsion-Tarsonis-Veritya-Keha all year round.This is the busiest route in the empire, with tens of thousands of ships of different types coming and going, traveling thousands of miles.

In the original route, there was a large passenger fleet operated by the Angel family, which was dedicated to transporting immigrants at a low-profit price.The terrible thing is that Easter just missed the last bus, and the next one will have to wait for half a month, which means that he will probably miss the start of school.

As a last resort, Easter had no choice but to choose the Bedford.

Whether it is the old Federation era or the current Empire era, the interstellar passenger transport industry is usually an accessory of bulk freight. If you do not have a lot of assets, it is not easy for individuals to travel between the stars by boat.

The Bedford, which has been repaired for three years, is much older than Easter. Three-quarters of the spaceship's interior is occupied by engines, life support systems, pressurized hangars, and cargo holds.There wasn't enough space left for the crew, let alone a good spot for a hitchhiking passenger like Easter.

Captain Jin is a typical interstellar traveler. He doesn't want to waste the available space in the spaceship, so even the crew cabin and aisle are filled with bundles of Helsingne flax, tea and olive oil. The bottom is stuffed with high-quality wool.

After the route was re-opened, the sales and prices of agricultural products from the peripheral world in the core world continued to increase. Therefore, there were still a lot of Antiga yellow potatoes and turtle meat stored in the Bedford's cold storage.

Fortunately, Bedford was a space ship and didn't have to land on the planet, otherwise Easter really doubted that it would fall down with a thud as soon as it entered the gravitational field.

Relying on carrying raw materials from the fringe worlds to the core world in exchange for industrial products and shipping them back, these interstellar merchants travel between worlds to make profits.In order to earn more money for a round trip, businessmen will try their best to do other jobs, such as taking some passengers along the way.

On the Bedford, the place where Easter Foss usually sleeps and rests is located close to the engine of the spacecraft, which is full of dense cables, pipes and instruments.These old antiques are as difficult to serve as Bedford itself. Many parts are no longer produced now, and they can only be found in garbage recycling stations.

Bedford's air circulation system is still a product of the last century, and it can only be said to be better than nothing.The spaceship was actually broken because of the shell, which caused the air pressure inside the spaceship to become unbalanced, and the ship was almost destroyed.

And just for this classic ship, Easter also had to pay 930 imperial credits, a price that could buy a brand new KMC multifunctional combine harvester in the marginal world.

In the fledgling agricultural world, a multifunctional combine harvester is capable of clearing wasteland, gravel, soil preparation, seeding, etc., and a hardworking family can build a farm with the help of a harvester.

In the past, Easter would never have been able to afford this amount of money.

"Hey, boy of Helsingne, be careful not to step on my furs." A fur trader from Vanass called:
"Don't play tricks!"

Vanas is a colony of the Protoss Empire that has been abandoned for a long time, with extremely rich forest and animal resources.Although Varnas is not under the protection of the Tyrannian Empire fleet, there are always some people who will take risks for the resources above.

"Your foot is stepping on mine." The other person didn't know what was going on, but there were four local accents from the colonial world in his sentence.

"Watch out, frizzy bad boy," someone yelled.

There are also many people sleeping between the ribs of the inner hull structure and the pipes covered with heat-insulating materials.Although it is not very comfortable here, as long as the temperature is kept constant, it is still reasonable.

This is the third year since the establishment of the Tyrannian Empire. The founding monarch, Emperor Augustus I, worked hard to get rid of the abuses since the old federal era. He formulated laws to promote human rights and morality, reduced taxes, and allowed the people to recuperate.He ordered the powerful imperial fleet to sweep away dissidents, reopened shipping to allow hundreds of worlds to communicate with each other, and formulated trade policies to protect the fragile industrial structure of the weaker world.

The most obvious change is that agricultural planets like Helsingne quickly regained their vitality, and the originally poor soil of Antiga Prime became the most important industrial hub planet of the Tyranid Empire.The recovery of the economy gave people in each colony more opportunities to communicate, and many people took advantage of the opportunities.

Easter ignored those yelling voices, and crawled through the long and narrow cabin, before squeezing into the captain's cabin after ten minutes.The so-called captain's cabin was no bigger than the other cabins, and what King deserved was that he was as stingy with others as he was with himself.

He saw the smoking microwave oven at a glance, and he didn't know which garbage dump Jin picked up from. There was an old-fashioned holographic projection device next to it, and it turned out to be the screen of the election of the Imperial Senate and the Imperial Parliament. .

The interstellar merchants rarely care about politics, and the policies of the old federation are also changing day by day. They would rather be black households than register with the federal customs to avoid the various tax items of the federal colonies.The Bedford was one such ship in the past, and when the shrewd merchants discovered that the trade policy promoted by the empire was beneficial to them, their attitudes changed immediately.

The captain's room is actually covered with the empire's interstellar trade preferential policies, and there are all kinds of flamboyant notes below.You know, Easter has heard about what kind of person Jin was in the past. He is no different from an outlaw except that he did not commit suicide.

Hong merchants travel between different worlds all year round, rarely stay in any area for too long, and have a very weak concept of the country and the government.In the old federal era, these small merchants never dared to hope for the protection of the federal police. As long as they were not extorted a lot, then thank God.

Not only that, but there is a framed portrait hanging opposite King's bed.It was a man on a horse, with gray hair and gray eyes, wearing a black wolf fur coat, a mink cap, and carrying a torrent shotgun in one hand.

Three years ago, this man was not well-known in the entire Tyrann Empire world, but now there is no one who does not know him.It was a portrait of the grandfather with the same name and surname printed on it, the portrait on the large denomination imperial credit currency.

After careful consideration now, the old Mengsk is indeed a majestic lord of Keha. He may not have thought that his descendants could directly overthrow the Tyrannian Federation and become emperor in Keha.

In the past, to the citizens of the Empire in Easter and other backcountry places, this was just an ordinary bad old man.But now, he is a symbol of wealth and power.

For Easter, the changes related to the empire came so quickly.Now, the Halcyonians don't say they are Federation or Halcyon, they only say that the Empire is Imperial, because the Empire's agricultural revival policy saved the farmers on that planet.

Suddenly, a piece of news attracted Easter: the latest Minotaur-class battlecruiser of the Tyrannian Empire has begun to serve in the Imperial Navy. Emperor Augustus Mengsk attended the First Fleet flagship Bucephalus The launching ceremony of the Bucephalus at Bennett Shipyard, followed by the test of the Viking fighter Archangel.

The Marine Corps also ushered in the replacement of the CMC400 power armor, and the new piercing siege tank also appeared in the military parade for the first time.New equipment will sooner or later obsolete the old ones, but Federation-era mechas and tanks like Goliaths and Vulture vehicles still serve in the Empire's vast armed forces.

Seeing these new weapons, Easter felt a sense of pride spontaneously.That's right, he is also one of the armed forces that overwhelm the Koprulu sector.

The year is 2497, and six years have passed since the zerg invaded Istr's home town of Helsanne.Princess Louise is also one year old, and the day she was born seems like yesterday.

Easter is gone.

He has grown up and is much taller than his sister.All the girls in the village expected to marry Ister, because he was strong and tall, with beautiful blue eyes.

Not only that, Easter is also a qualified mechanic, and he maintains and repairs most of the harvesting robots, irrigation facilities and communication equipment in the village.It was because of this that the captain of the Bedford was willing to let Easter on board. This was a free maintenance worker, and he could save an employee's money.

Easter knew that his life was not destined to be spent in the golden fields of Helsern.

After Easter was admitted to the Styrling Memorial Officers Academy (Styrling Memorial Officers Academy) of the Tyrannian Empire with honors, his life has undergone tremendous changes.

Stilling Memorial Academy ranks second only to the Royal Naval Academy at Augusta Grad and the USA Ghost Academy among all military academies.

The former trains the best naval commanders for the Tyrannian fleet, while the latter trains the best psykers in the empire.After graduation, students of the Ghost Military Academy can choose to become Ghost Agents to continue their studies, or they can enter the Imperial Prosecutorial Department.

Parents who send their children to ghost academies these days expect their children to choose the latter, and that tendency is growing.

The Stilling Memorial Academy is an officer academy for the Marine Corps, and Easter proudly believes that the Imperial Marines are the most powerful army, and their duty is to defend the Emperor and the Empire, and to guarantee this new justice. The system, as always, has become the benchmark for the whole star region.

Easter repaired the microwave oven in his hand while paying attention to the news, and couldn't help feeling aggrieved that the Navy had such a powerful warship.The Navy is already so rich, what else does the Marine Corps have?

"Everyone go to the engine room immediately, block the door and weld it." At this time, Captain Jin's voice suddenly came from the Bedford's broadcast:
"It's the Kel-Morian pirates. Their ships are fast, and we can't escape. Don't panic. The Kel-Morian pirates only want money, they don't kill people."

Before Easter could react, a tall and muscular middle-aged man rushed in.His face was fleshy, and the back of his head was clearly scarred ugly from missing a chunk of skin.

"Why did the Ke Morian pirates come here? This is already an area close to the core world." Easter asked the captain.

"Who can know about this." Jin's face was ugly, but he was still calm.In the dangerous life of traveling north and south in these years, he had seen all kinds of pirates, and the Kel-Morian pirates were the most difficult ones to deal with.

However, Kel-Morian pirates are principled pirates, and they generally don't want the lives of merchants.

"I have already sent a rescue signal to the nearest imperial trade outpost. If there is a cruise ship nearby, it will be rescued." Jin looked at Easter.

"Boy, don't even try to fight against these vicious pirates, follow them to survive." He said.

"We can't be a match for the pirates."

At this time, Easter could feel the hull of the Bedford shaking a little.This is a common method used by pirates. They will first use firepower to force the merchant ship to stop, and then use mechanical claws to fix it with the pirate ship.

Then, the pirates will use powerful laser cutters to cut open the hatch and rush in.

The pirate families of Kel-Morian are arguably the most fearsome and notorious pirates in the galaxy, and their methods are brutal.If a hijacked ship resists fiercely, they will either kill everyone after taking the ship, or blow up the ship.

"Then what about your goods?" Easter dropped the wrench and screwdriver in his hand.

"I bought insurance," Kim said.

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