StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 546

Pirates and traitors are two of the worst things in the galaxy.

It is rumored that the Kel-Morian Federation government is hiring pirates and mercenaries to grab resources in the star area for itself. If this is true, then the purpose of these pirates is not pure.

If they were really instructed to sabotage Imperial trade, they were really making trouble.In the style of the Emperor of the Tyrannian Empire, if someone punched him, he would have to beat that person to the ground before giving up.

Who gave the Kel-Morians their confidence?

The Kemerians have always been an outlier in the Koprulu star region. They are the best prospectors and miners, and they are also the most hopeless mineral gluttons, resource locusts.

The consortium they established is actually a super-trust state in which the government and capital enterprises are integrated. There is no clear distinction between the government and the guilds. The state is the enterprise, and the enterprise is the state. .Moria is paradise for the rich and elite, hell for the poor.

The problem is, the Kel-Morians are no match for the Tyranid Empire.The Kelmorian Federation lost almost everything in the past four years of war with the Tyrannian Federation, and they haven't recovered yet. What are they going to use to fight the Tyrannian Empire?

Easter couldn't help but recall the rumors about the Kel-Morian pirates. He heard that these pirates had powerful marauding warships and unstoppable electric field weapons.

The Kel-Morian pirates are inextricably linked to the Kel-Morian Commonwealth government in Moria, and there are even reports that the Guild Guards of the Commonwealth have organically diverted to pirates.The Kel-Morians were famous for their madness during the Guild Wars. It is said that their spies would plant small nuclear explosives on their bodies, and once exposed, they would detonate and die with the enemy.

Regardless of the Kel-Morian pirates of the Commonwealth, the Chimera pirates of Umoyan, or the New Trinidad pirates of the Federation, they are all a gang of deranged thugs.

The Tyrann Empire's crackdown on pirates has increased year by year, and it has only temporarily suppressed the arrogance of pirates.With the continuous expansion of trade routes in the age of empires, the newly surveyed interstellar routes have reached the farthest end of the Koprulu star region. There are so many and so long trade routes that it is impossible for the imperial fleet to defend them all.

The prosperous trade made the pirates get rich, and more and more people took risks with the dream of getting rich.

"Kim, the Kel-Morians are coming in from the pod!" The second officer rushed into the captain's cabin at this moment.He was a tall man with a red nose and a rumpled blue sailor suit.

"Let me deal with these pirates." The captain picked up a notebook from the small table beside the ship, turned to Easter and said, "You follow Owen to the engine room now, if they only have money in their eyes And goods, don't care about embarrassing ordinary crew members."

"This is close to the core world of the empire. As long as a cruise ship receives a distress signal, we will be lucky. Remember, unless you really have great wisdom, don't play tricks with pirates."

Easter hesitated for a moment, and immediately did so. Unless he was a Tyranid superman, he wouldn't think he could deal with the vicious Kel-Morian pirates or make fun of these outlaws with just a few words.

Kim wasn't a nice guy, he was fussy about everything, he was stingy and loud, but he didn't hurt anyone.

He nodded and followed Jin out, but he didn't expect that two Kel-Morian pirates in black power armor were rushing over from the aisle next to the captain's cabin.

As a student of the Stilling Military Academy, Easter certainly recognized it. This was at least Model 300 power armor. The armor was all blacked out without any identification marks on it.

The pirates nowadays are really rich. During the guild war, the Kel-Morian Union could not even wear power armor.

However, Easter had seen Kel-Morian pirate armor patterns in the past, and they liked to add all sorts of illegal weapons, including high-caliber railguns and long piercing lances.But the power armor of these two people, apart from being slightly damaged, also looked too clean.

"Who's the captain?" asked one of the Kel-Morian pirates.

"Me." Jin pointed to himself, and then to Easter: "He's just a young man on a boat, so don't make things difficult for him."

"Very well, our boss wants to see you."

Now, Easter could only follow Jin to meet the pirate leader.

Easter and King were driven to the bridge of the Bedford together. Sure enough, the pirates had taken control of the ship's operating system—in fact, they were actually dismantling it from the old cargo ship. parts down.

A Kel-Morian pirate with the appearance of an engineer opened the entire operation panel, searching for the parts and equipment he wanted from the colorful electronic circuits and solid-state electronic components.He was very skillful in dismantling, and dismembered the console in a short while.

Jin couldn't help but contort his face. Perhaps only he knew how much effort he had put in for this classic ship and how many people he begged.

"We have to take over this ship now. It will be used for more important and urgent tasks." In the cab stood a Kel-Morian pirate without a helmet. He was a black-haired middle-aged man with sunken eyes. , with a blue beret on his head and a pipe in his mouth.

"This generation is not peaceful." He seemed to be talking to himself, and finally heaved a long sigh:

"The era of the Tyrann Federation is not like this."

Two years ago, the remnants of the Tyrann Federation were still the biggest threat to the imperial government, but that was before the Federation completely lost Saluset and the Jaandara system.

By this year, only the landowners and squires of Helsingne still missed the former Tyrannian Federation.

"Friends of Camerian, I'll give you all the goods, as long as you don't embarrass my crew." Captain Jin said bravely.

"Maybe you didn't understand." The man in the beret stuffed some shredded tobacco into his pipe-today, only those old aristocrats who pretended to be noble and elegant would pretend to use this kind of pipe.

"We're going to commandeer this ship, and everything on it."

"As for you...unfortunately, my ship is short of manpower. Tell everyone to come out, I need to know their occupations and specialties immediately." He stared at Jin and said, "I understand, let's do it now. "

"Do you think I'm negotiating with you? You lowly businessman, I didn't look at you in the past, and it's the same now. Even in another 20 years, you won't be able to turn around."

Immediately, the pirate leader had Jin pushed out, leaving Easter alone.

"What do you do?" asked the pirate chief.

"On the boat, sir, I just want to get rid of the poor life and seek a living in the core world." Easter opened his mouth and came.

When the zerg invaded Helsingne, Easter was just a 12-year-old boy and killed several zerglings with a gun.If someone despises him, he must regret it.

"What are you going to do in Keha?" The pirate chief looked at his subordinates who were working, and became interested.

"Visiting relatives." Easter replied, "I have a sister who works as a clerk in Keha's trading company."

"Visiting relatives? Keha was still in ruins a few years ago." The pirate leader shook his head and snorted coldly: "Keha's land and factory belong to the emperor, so there is no way out. Augustus Mengsk is the biggest landowner. .”

He muttered again: "The Tyranids are finished, there is no hope."

"It looks like I can't go now." Easter said following the other party's words: "I miss her so much."

"Boy, what do you think of Augustus Mengsk and his Tyrannian Empire?" The pirate leader picked up a few more shredded tobacco and put them into the pipe.

"My family used to run a farm, but now they can't do it anymore." Easter didn't answer this question directly: "The world is hard."

But no, the whole family has gone to Keha, and the farm has to be sold.Helsingne is full of great plains, the land is fertile and suitable for large-scale mechanized farming, and many immigrants have poured in over the years.

He probably noticed that this group of people might not be Kel-Morian pirates at all, but rather a local gang that used their name to scare people.It seems that they are still very dissatisfied with the Tyrann Empire.

Probably also difficult to be satisfied.

The Tyrannian Empire's punishment for pirates is as severe as that for drug traffickers, traitors, and human traffickers.Don't look at the pirates who are rampant now, when they went to the execution ground, they were also crying for their father and mother.

"Look, what the life of the Tyranids has become now. As I said earlier, Augustus Mengsk is still the landlord of Korhal at his core. He is just a thief who is full of lies." The pirate leader looked around. Looking at his subordinates, he lamented that the people were in dire straits.

"Well, you come to work with me for a while." The pirate leader thought for a while, and decided that Easter was a good candidate.

"Being a pirate?" Easter showed a frightened expression: "I don't know how to use a gun."

"Is there any Tyranid who doesn't know how to use a gun?" The pirate leader smiled: "This is a just cause, son. Only by overthrowing the tyranny of the Tyrann Empire can you save your hometown."

"If the Empire is overthrown, who should lead the Tyranids?" Easter asked.

"Of course it's the Tyrannian Federation." The pirate leader said impatiently, "How many years have passed, do people nowadays not remember the Tyrannian Federation?"

"Federation? Are you from the Federation?" Easter showed a joyful expression: "My father was a member of the Federation Marines. When he was still alive, he often told me to serve the motherland.

Weird.

If the case is solved, this group of people is likely to be a supporter of the Federal Restoration Movement or a terrorist who opposes imperial rule.

The current remnants of the Federation have long since faded away.

Easter had studied the cases of the Unification War and the Battle of Saruset.

It was a brutal battle between the Tyrann Empire and the remnants of the Federation. The empire would gather stars, including Warfield, Reynolds, Duke, Mira Han, and Martin (mentioned in the bottom scroll of the Wings of Liberty UNN News) However, he is a retired Imperial General.), while the Old Federation concentrated more than forty battlecruiser capital ships.

This battle was the last swan song of the Tyrann Federation, spanning 47 star systems and lasting two months.The details of the battle were not reported to the newspapers, but its tragic degree is likely to be the worst at the end of the 25th century.Millions of Union soldiers were captured, and more than a dozen Union generals, including Marshal Gasther Duke and General Quigby, committed suicide or were captured.

After this battle, the Tyrann Federation completely became a powerless force, and the rest were stragglers.But it is undeniable that their influence still lives on, and many of today's Imperial Rebels were forerunners of these surviving Federation forces.

"Your father is a respectable soldier." The pirate leader looked at Easter and felt a little kinder.

In fact, no matter what Easter said was true or not, the pirate chiefs were determined to catch the strong men.

It is not easy to make a revolution these days. — Can’t recruit people.You have to tell someone to be a pirate, that's okay, otherwise he will die, and the crime of treason will be serious, unless he doesn't care about his family.

Times have changed. Except for those colonies that didn't want to be merged into the empire and the planets where there are many war madmen, people cherish the hard-won peace very much. No one wants to fight, and everyone wants to live a good life.

Compared with the old Federation, the Tyrann Empire is the real beacon of humanity.Although the emperor Augustus Mengsk was born in a noble family, he really knew that the people's livelihood was difficult and he was sympathetic to the people.

"Are you even pirates now?"

"Funds are tight, and the provisional government is not rich. Since the empire issued a new currency, the bank accounts of the old federal era have been in trouble." The pirate leader complained, and the revolution also needs to eat:
"Even if it is a just cause, someone has to be sacrificed. And we are just the lackeys of the empire who snatched some interstellar merchants and betrayed the Federation."

"Okay, what do I tell you about this?" The pirate couldn't help sighing, thinking that he was also a member of the privileged class who benefited from the federal system in the past, but now he has to do this kind of business.

"Guys, we have to go back to port after dismantling this ship." He shouted, "How about radar monitoring?"

"Sir, there is no sign of government troops," replied one of the pirates.

"Shit, we are the government army!" The pirate leader jumped like a lion whose tail had been stepped on, blushing angrily.

"He, Augustus Mengsk, is the emperor now, and he was just a recruit in the barracks. At that time, I could whip that Augustus' ass with a pointer and make him look like a fresh shit lie on the floor!"

"That was almost eight years ago, Major Quigobai. At that time, you were just his boss's boss, and you didn't know him at all. You still regarded Augustus as your lucky star. If it weren't for the devil of heaven If you have done meritorious service, you too," said a pirate who knew the real history:
"Everyone knows that you are only able to reach your current position because you have a general father!"

"Damn it, don't say a few words...forget it." Kui Gebai's face was ugly: "Go back to the ship after getting the parts. The people from the empire will come at some time. These bastards are as slippery as mud."

"By the way, what's your name." He said to Easter:

"Ester Foss, sir," said Easter hastily.

"Come with me, rookie," shouted Marcus Quigby. "I'm going to train you to be the bravest Union soldier!"

Easter's heart tightened.

"Do as he says." At this moment, a voice in his heart said suddenly.

(End of this chapter)