StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

"The Korykov outpost fell, the Brinoel colony was attacked by zerg, and the sightings of Grommel, Wallias, and Sanger are still increasing."

In the control center of the Augustograd Palace, there are hundreds of control screens that are flashing at the same time, and the information from various departments in all places will be gathered here in front of Emperor Augustus Mengsk.

At this moment, the central main screen is displaying the image transmitted from Brinoel, and the settlers are retreating in an orderly manner under the protection of the nearby imperial fleet.Terrified and helpless people lined up to board the transport ships and warships, and the spaceships took off one after another, leaving the unbuilt cities behind.

The other display screen is a star map composed of countless straight lines, curves, and numbers. The area it belongs to has a golden-red flag inserted, and hundreds of red dots are moving from the lower right corner of the star map at an extremely slow and timely calculation speed. The borders of the empire penetrated.

These red dots have already covered the four empire colonies, and several or dozens of red dots are divided into different clusters by circles of different colors: the green Zulwin Primordial Swarm and the Agdra Primal Swarm , Slivan Primal Swarm, Red Tiamat Swarm, Purple Jormungandr Swarm, Orange Garm Swarm
"How is the evacuation going? Regal is in charge." Augustus was still asleep when news of the fall of Kolykov came back to Korhal.As soon as he woke up, the bad news continued one after another.

Fortunately, Augustus had expected it long ago and did not show any panic in front of people.As the ruler of China, any negativity he has will be magnified among those below.

When disaster strikes, people don't want to see their leader unprepared for it, flustered like an unreliable jerk, and that's the end of it.

"General Regal used all available ships to evacuate more than 6 immigrants from Brinoel in a timely manner. Except for two people who were injured by accident, there were no other casualties." The opposite was an imperial Officials of the Ministry of Security, the department is divided into two departments: the Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of External Security. The former is equivalent to the Department of Homeland Security, while the latter is the Department of Defense.

"The general begs you to punish him, because he thinks he has lost His Majesty's Brinoire."

"I will not punish anyone unless they abandon their own people and flee alone." Augustus's serious expression did not change at all. He would never condemn his generals for such a thing:

"On the contrary, I want to commend Rehgar for making the most correct decision and helping the Empire avoid countless losses."

Brinoel is a potential immigration site that has been discovered in the old federal era. It is extremely similar to the human home planet Earth, and has a single natural satellite similar to the moon that can provide stable tidal forces.

It is a lush planet with numerous low-level flora and native organisms in the insectoid stage.In Brinoel, where its plants struggle to compete with the best of the human crops, farmers just plant the seeds and wait for the harvest.

Such planets are rare on the fringes of the barren galaxy, which means that the Empire can acquire a valuable colony with only a small investment of resources. …

Therefore, when Augustus sorted out the database left by the old federation, he immediately took Brinoel as the first batch of colonial targets.

In the past four years, the number of new colonies established has exceeded two hundred.From a purely rational point of view, the resources of these colonies can be used not only to build fleets to support the army, but also to establish and expand the strategic depth of the empire.

Of course, Augustus formulated a clear policy to protect the interests of these fledgling colonies, establishing a local government with a revolutionary party at the core to improve control.The empire learned the lessons of the old federation, and did not regard the new colonies as sources of raw materials that could be plundered, and explicitly prohibited capitalists from controlling the local economic lifeline.

"Now Brinoel's immigrants are evacuating to the core world, and Grommel, Wallias, and Sange's immigrants have also boarded the ship." The official continued:

"The primordial zerg would have had a chance to intercept, but they don't seem interested in attacking us."

The primordial zerg is said to come from a Dark Templar named Azma, who also appears in the debriefing of Krykov Base Commander Paul.

Dark Master Azma believes that this new species of zerg is the ancestor of the Scattered Swarm, even though the two different races have long diverged in their evolutionary paths.The Dominator Swarm is distinctly hive-minded, while the Primal Zerg emphasizes the individual.

Both groups were able to evolve themselves by hunting good genes, but the original zerg emphasized independence and individuality, and the other was loyal to the concept of the group rather than either of them.

The wormhole opened by the new Overlord when he escaped from Char led to the birthplace of the Zerg, the planet called Zerus by the original Zerg.

Obviously, this was also recognized by Emperor Augustus.Zerg are aliens, they did not grow from Char's lava.

The new master's swarm was chasing the original Zerg, and they were too busy escaping for their lives to pay attention to humans.Humans don't have much attraction to the original zerg, which may be one of the reasons.

But since then, the venerable dark patriarch has disappeared, and Augustus believes that he will return to Sacoolas to rescue soldiers.The zerg are at it again, and the Daharam Protoss will not let it go.

In fact, even in the last four years, the protoss have been tirelessly burning bugs across the galaxy.

"I need an exact figure, which must prove that no one was left behind," Augustus told the Imperial Security official:

"Give it to me as quickly as possible."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Augustus, have you figured out the reason for this invasion?" At this moment, Marshal Jim Raynor, dressed in a black military uniform, walked in.Because it was raining outside, there were traces of wetness on his clothes.

"Look." Augustus drew a line on the star map with his hand: "Master Azma gave us a lot of very important information."

"Four years ago, the opposite side of the wormhole opened by the second master is the place where the Zerg was born, and the original Zerg came from there." He said: "Zerus, the hometown of the Zerg."

"When the wormhole opened, Azma and his Dark Templar warriors were also involved, and they have been observing and studying these two very different zerg populations on Zerus since then."…

"He believes that at some point long ago, the first generation of Zerg left Zerus with a part of the Zerg, and this part of the Zerg was the predecessor of the Zerg Swarm. The part of the Zerg that stayed in the hometown evolved For the original zerg of today, they retain some of the genes of their ancestors by contrast."

"After the second generation master returned to Zerus, a protracted war broke out between the two groups immediately, and the entire planet became a cruel battlefield. Countless zergs died and countless zergs were born, and the cycle started again and again. The two Once the races have the same origin, they can all quickly complete evolution by plundering each other's high-quality genes, so the differences between them are constantly shrinking."

"In the end, the primordial zerg were defeated and left Zerus for the first time, and began their escape."

"That means we're fucking on the escape route of these monsters?" Renault's face was clouded.

"That's right, but I guess it's not 'just in time', the master zerg deliberately drove the primordial zerg in our direction." Augustus flickered on the main screen, a Bimino potter-class battleship The super monster, which is much larger than the cruise ship, jumped out.

A Minotaur-class battlecruiser is more than half a mile long, but less than half the size of the tiny wings on its back.

"It's insidious," Raynor said.

"Zongzu, Zuerwen, the dark patriarch Azma has seen it eat a huge swarm Leviathan alive, and even grabbed a handful of Ultralisk's side dishes." Augustus looked at the side Renault said.Of course, it would not be described in this way with the sense of humor of the protoss. This paragraph is described by Augustus.

What is on the display screen is a section taken and sent back by a distant galaxy probe, and even then it only captured a part of Zurwin's body.

Zurwin has the huge curved forefeet of an Earth sauropod and rough skin covered with layers of jointed shield-like scales, each the size of a Goliath robot.But note that its resemblance to lizards or other reptiles such as snakes ends there.

This incomparable primordial zerg was nothing like the vibrating leather-winged dragon that Zulwyn had a huge mouth, a huge body and a pair of huge claws, but its lower body resembled a many-legged crab, Possesses numerous razor-sharp appendages and tentacles, each larger than a Valkyrie frigate.

When flying in space, Zuerwen is more like a green jellyfish with a hard carapace, but its many eyes like molten brass seem to be burning.

"No one is an ally, a school of its own." The spiritual language sent by Zuerwen was captured by human equipment and transcribed into human language, and it obviously knew that it was communicating with humans.

"Kill, or die."

(no allegiabe killed.)

"...It's ridiculously big." Lei Nuo stroked his recently grown beard: "It seems that the Master called his mother here."

"Zulwin may be the largest single creature we have observed so far, and it is the oldest known hunter among the original Zerg." Augustus called up the intercepted picture of the original Zerg Swarm and zoomed in:…

"The difference between this race and the dominator swarm is that there is no psychic connection between the original zerg, and they often fight on their own. So psionic launchers, psychic jammers and psionic pulverizers will not work on the original zerg .”

"Since you can't use psionic technology, you can only use real ones." Renault looked at the enlarged picture of Augustus: "These guys look more like mythical dragons, but they are much more grotesque."

Some of the original Zergs flying around Zurwin looked like Tyrannosaurus, and some were more like Stegosaurus, with rows of bony plates on their backs, but for some reason, these monsters all evolved similar Because of the wings and fumaroles of pterosaurs, and they all have various shapes.

"Stettman told me that the zerg came from a direct copy of a segment of the gene, so these bugs are basically identical," he said. "But these, these original zerg were not."

"The good news is that the number of primitive zergs is nothing compared to the swarms behind them." Augustus called out a shocking number on the display:

"Bad news: There are ten original Zergs one by one, and the powerful individual among them, the individual known as the patriarch, is even more terrifying."

The red area in the small right corner of the star map is still expanding, and it is obviously only a small part of the huge insect swarm.

"Zerus is in the central area of ​​the Milky Way, and we are on the edge of the Milky Way, separated by a quarter of the Milky Way. Who knows how many races they have swallowed along the way, and how many high-quality genes they have absorbed." Augustus Say.

"Old man, the Zerg now is much stronger than it was four years ago. And they have learned a lot of new things from the original Zerg. There are Zerg guards of different strains inside a certain Zerg nest to protect the brain. insect."

"But you predicted this situation four years ago, and you've been preparing for it every day since then," Reynolds said, "but the idiots of the Federation only know how to make trouble for us."

"Well, I have had trouble sleeping and eating every day in the past." Augustus nodded and turned around:
"I originally thought that Juggernaut would directly locate Char's coordinates to open the wormhole, but now it seems that it either dared not do so, or gave up for some other reason."

The second generation is really afraid of being beaten. Think about it carefully. Anyone who was beaten by a protoss and human hero when he was just born will walk around when he sees him in the future.

"It's better for them to come from the visible direction than to appear in the hinterland of the empire inexplicably."

"Fortunately, we have new weapons and an ace army that is not what it used to be." Augustus said to Raynor: "I have ordered Warfield and Duke's First Fleet and Second Fleet to send Noa, Dolan, and Aegean, where they will snipe the original Zerg."

"As long as the original swarm can be held back, they will be bitten by the zerg behind them."

"That old man Duke was so happy to hear the news that the Zergs were coming back, I almost thought he was with the Zergs." Raynor paused, looking at the flickering star map:
"But what about me? What am I going to do now?"

"I think you know the answer." Augustus still replied to Renault: "I need you to stay with me to deal with other unexpected situations that may arise."

One wall of the control center is a huge picture window, which is deeply set between the brass-colored all-metal frame.It was dark outside, and it was raining heavily.Bright beams of light flickered in the clouds, left behind by the Imperial fleet heading for low Earth orbit.

There is no one on the street, and a boy is running in the rain far away.

School dismissed early today and he overslept.

"It's time for a formal pre-war mobilization. Keha doesn't know that the war is coming." Renault said:

"Is the speech ready?"

"Just open your mouth." When Augustus walked out of the control center, the main screen behind him had completely dimmed.

Dense worms.

Layer upon layer of swarms of biological battleships occupy the entire Brinoel galaxy, even blocking out the starlight and the sun. It is nothing more than a transit of locusts.