StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 646 Insufficient Mineral Reserves, Open Mines

The emperor's special plane took off from the apron of the palace on time to the central star port of Aurora, accompanied by an air force Wrath Viking fighter jet.

At this time, several huge imperial fleets located above the main city of Aurora were waiting, waiting for the order of Emperor Augustus to set sail.These majestic behemoths filled the sky one by one, like suspended cities, and the bright lights were faintly visible even in the stationary orbit.Thousands of imperial spaceships with sharp steel lines surround these giant ships, with thousands of sails competing to compete.

When the first colony mothership arrived on Tarsonis more than 200 years ago, the ancestors of the Tyranid humans probably never imagined that one day they would achieve such great achievements when they returned to the stars.

To this day, even the most ordinary citizens of Korhal feel sincerely proud of these magnificent ships when they witness them.

"For me, Keha is where it all started." Augustus sat in the seat of the emperor's plane, with Kerrigan next to him and Louis in the middle: "And Augustus is a piece of history. The end is also a new beginning.”

"August Grad is your name," Louis said.

"No, that was the name of your great great-grandfather." Augustus said, "My grandfather was glad I took his name, Angus said, but he couldn't see what happened much later. .”

"Mr. Hansen said that August Grad and the people who built him will be immortal, and the history of Keha will be remembered by everyone in the empire." Louis could feel the complex emotions in his father's heart, but she couldn't figure it out. too understand.

"Well," said Augustus, "Keha is the forge in which our dynasty was hammered into shape, raw and blood-stained on the anvil of history."

"It was... a tortuous experience." Augustus knew that Louis would know all of this sooner or later, but he still couldn't explain it clearly: "At that time, we belonged to hostile camps. Later, we came together after going through a lot of hardships."

For hordes of interstellar pirates, the colonial fleet can be said to be fat sheep with anointed oil, which means that those colonists who have not received official government authorization and lack fleet protection are extremely vulnerable to attacks by pirates .Fortunately, during this period of time, with the imperial government sparing no effort to crack down, the activities of the pirates have basically disappeared.

In fact, the degree of development of the internal resources of the Koprulu star area is still in the preliminary stage, far from the point of lack of resources.But for a huge interstellar empire, the support of enough colonies is very necessary.If you are facing an extremely aggressive race like the Zerg, then you need great depth.

For an interstellar empire, a colony means domination, resources and population, but this is not something that will see results in a short time.But it was visible during Augustus' reign, for a generation or two.

"Why did they go so far?" Louis asked Augustus.

Faced with such a magnificent city, people will inevitably have such doubts in their hearts. Is this really a city that humans can build?
"After the colonial fleet arrives in the New World, the settlers can only rely on themselves to solve the various problems they need to face." Augustus went on to say: "The Sigma Star District is far away, so of course there is nothing wrong with it." Open-eyed pirate."

"These colony ships are going to the Sigma sector," Kerrigan said. "And until now, our understanding of that strange star sector is only the tip of the iceberg of that dark world."

The porthole on the Augustus side is facing the morning light of Augustograd, the warm red sun rises from below the jagged skyline of the city, and under the bright sunshine, the whole splendid and magnificent city can be seen in the panoramic view .Augustograd is also a symbol of excellence in the perfect combination of science, creativity and industry of the Tyranid Empire, displaying the glory of the Empire to all mankind.

Often, the first planets chosen for colonization are true geomantic treasures, but such planets are extremely rare.In this case, the only option is to look for worlds with some minor flaws. Of course, if the detection team had misjudged them back then, this minor flaw might have become a tiankeng.

The imperial capital of Augustgrad is a city of wonders, standing alone in this barren land of radioactive waste and seas of dust.This great city was expanding outward with every minute of her breath, until it occupied the entire eastern wasteland on this continent.

Kerrigan has every reason to justify herself. After all, after implanting the psionic suppressor, Ghost became a butcher knife who could not control his own life.She has killed many people, but not against her own will.Kerrigan, however, would still see it as a sin she committed.

"It's not a problem to be escorted by the Fourth Fleet along the way." Augustus looked at the city of Aurora outside the porthole.

Augustgrad is not a belt-shaped industrial city like Stilling City with a large area of ​​farmland on its outskirts. Its dense roads and steel buildings are as inseparable as fine blood vessels and blood.But this is not a monotonous city made entirely of metal, because as long as you walk in the city, you can't ignore the large green belts, parks and tree-lined avenues.

We all know that space pirates are a group of opportunists, they wander in the star sea like hungry hyenas and sharks in search of lone prey.

These memories are still tormenting Kerrigan. If she hadn't met Augustus, the guilt and kindness in her heart would have been exploited by someone with a heart, and embarked on an irreversible dark road.

"Gorgon battlecruiser," Kerrigan replied. "Pride of the Tyranid Empire."

"Every inch of Keha's land is engraved with our time, and her story is our story."

Aurora City is located at the intersection of Wolfrec Province and Keresh Province.This majestic city is much smaller than Augustgrad, and its appearance is much more exquisite. It is itself a super giant city formed around the central starport. It is a city composed of countless engineering stations, ports, platforms and maintenance facilities. The giant structure formed by it looks like a dazzling high Gothic church crowned with countless spires from a distance.Surrounding the city of Aurora, two rivers reappeared due to geological changes meander around the city and flow into the distance.

Whether it is now or in the past, the Tyrannic humans have never stopped expanding outward.A new world means new risks, new opportunities and new hopes.But some people never dare to step out of the land they live under their feet. Space also means unknown, mysterious and desolate like the deep sea for life on planets.

In the era of great escape to escape the nuclear attack of the old federation, the scattered Keha people have established more than ten different colony worlds.Today, under the further colonization of the empire, these colonies that have inherited the Keha culture have become quite large.Some colonies became trade transit points, others exported grain to Keha, and others provided meager soldiers.

The Tyranid humans have ruled all the worlds they know, but their expanding ambitions will not stop there.This is an era of progress and enthusiasm. In order to survive in the gap between the Protoss and Zerg, humans must keep moving forward.

"It's a long, long story." Kerrigan blinked. "It won't be finished in a while."

These supercarriers are very similar to the ones that brought the ancestors of Tyranid humans to this world, and this is probably to pay tribute to the pioneers of humans.Each mothership is filled with ambitious settlers and the necessary supplies to establish a settlement, that is to say, each represents a colonized world of the future Tyranid Empire.

There are few people here, and a huge railway running through the desert connects Augustgrad and Aurora, like an umbilical cord.Every moment, these suspension trains galloping on the rails are transporting massive resources and manpower, and in times of war, they become soldiers, armor, cannons, ammunition and various supplies.

"But what is that?" She pointed in another direction.

Kerrigan looked at Louis and then at Augustus, hesitated to speak, she never showed her side as a federal killer in front of her daughter.After all, that was Kerrigan's darkest past, and a lot of good people died at her hands.

The current Augustegrad can be said to be the largest complex industrial city in the Tyrannian Empire. Countless busy suspension trains and underground railway systems connect industrial parks, complex commercial complexes and residential areas. Forests of steel and glass are passing through the city. The sun shines brightly through the clouds. .

They will record everything on the planet, including the composition of the atmosphere, terrain and water systems, and note the available resources, flora and fauna.And one day, the data imported into Korhal will eventually come in handy.

The destination of the colonial fleet had already been determined before the spaceship was built. It belonged to a habitable planet that had already been discovered and marked by the exploration ship, examined in detail, and then evaluated by the Imperial Immigration Department.

In order to build this imperial capital that will surely leave a strong mark in the history of the empire, Augustus summoned the elites of the human world of Koprulu, among them there are even Earthlings from the distant Orion's spiral arm.

The population of Keha IV has now exceeded 70 billion, and 2/3 of them are concentrated in Augustegrad.With the imperial capital as the center, the economy, technology and culture of the empire flourished like a blowout during the reign of Emperor Augustus, and the human population of Tyrannosaurus also followed the expansion of the territory, the progress of synthetic food technology and nano-medicine technology. Steady growth.

However, the current imperial exploration fleet is quite reliable. In order to find a new home suitable for human survival, they are the loneliest and bravest group of people in the universe.Some were much older when they returned home, and some never returned.

Aurora is a city of star ports, a huge port city in itself, mainly to share the pressure of Auguste Grad's route.In the sky above the towering launch port bracket of Aurora Star Port, colony motherships as large as cities are climbing into the air with a magnificent momentum, and the fuel pipes connecting these motherships and launchers have long been disconnected. Each one is surprisingly thick.

Back then, your mother was going to chop off your grandfather's head with two knives, and then did your father and your aunt again.I didn't realize that your father had figured everything out, so he planned to catch your mother, and he was so obedient.

"For the continuation of mankind, and to open up a new home in this vast sea of ​​stars." Augustus said to Louis: "The past is our ancestors, and now it is our turn."

"Those ships are really big." As the spaceship got closer and closer to the city of Aurora, Louis was gradually attracted by the giant mothership that occupied the entire sky.She had lived in the palace since she was a child, and this was the first time she had seen these behemoths with her own eyes.

Looking down from the sky, Augustegrad looks like a silver beetle lying in the sun, exuding a beautiful metallic luster.This is the outstanding contribution made by Augustus the Great to the place of his birth, and all imperial historians cannot avoid hindsight when writing this great history, saying that Keha was born after the birth of Augustus Mengsk. It is destined to be extraordinary from day one.

"Dad, you and Mom met for the first time on Keha, what happened then?" Louis asked such a question abruptly, it seemed that she was very curious about the past of her parents.

Many people in this era grew up in the neo-colonial environment. They knew nothing about their parents' hometown, and they thought the world was only that big when they first opened their eyes.

What's more, most of the current pirates don't have the courage to attack the official ships of the Tyrannian Empire. Even if they only harass the civilians, they must be careful, for fear that one day the imperial warships will suddenly arrive at the door of the house and Yamato cannons collect taxes.

Following that direction, one can suddenly see a corner of a giant ship with a lot of turrets.It was a Gorgon-class battlecruiser, larger than any colonial mothership, and loaded with enough main guns to level a city.

Most of the immigrants have undergone genetic modification, or in other words, such seeds have long been buried in the genes of Tyrannic humans to ensure that they can adapt to the changing and diverse environment of the new world.

The emperor's special plane gradually flew out of the range of Auguste Grad, and he had a panoramic view of the boundless desert between the two cities.By the fifth year of rebuilding Keha, this dark blue desert had been revitalized under the governance of the imperial government. Grasslands and forests were taking root on the revived land, hundreds of thousands of light blue Lakes dot the grass-green expanse.

It's not like this happened in the early years. Due to negligence, the colony ship landed on a planet that is not suitable for human habitation, and the atmosphere of that planet is poisonous to humans.

"Oh." Louis didn't ask any further, because at this moment she had seen the main city of Aurora standing in the sky from the porthole behind Augustus.

"It's really big!" Louis raised his hands high, as if he was holding up the sun in the sky, and almost poked her emperor's father in the nostril.

Augustus suddenly had a sense of absurdity that this kid might also want to drive a battleship.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from General Matt Horner—directly to you." At this moment, a holographic screen suddenly flashed in front of Augustus.

"Lorcadia, the world of the Protoss Empire, was attacked by an unknown force." Augustus was really surprised when he continued to look: "Research shows that this unknown force is related to the force in the Glacius facility." The Purifier Protoss is highly similar."

Why did this group of mechanical protoss suddenly pop out of the coffin? This is to fight for the inheritance left by their ancestors?
Who the hell knocked on the coffin boards of these living ancestors?Looks like it's very hot to wake up.
(End of this chapter)