StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 779 Interstellar Old Rogue

At this moment, more fireworks soared into the sky, and rows of salutes roared. Warhawks, Banshee bombers, and Valkyrie long-range bombers formed a large formation and flew over the square in an orderly manner. The searchlights from the Gorgon battlecruiser and the sonic booms of the starfighters as they accelerated completely ignited the excited crowd.

When the atmosphere reached its climax, people were easily influenced by the surrounding environment. Thus, tens of thousands of voices began to shout "Long live the empire!" at the same time.
At this moment, Tychus Finley in the UNN broadcast camera was really proud and triumphant. When he climbed onto the huge football field-sized terrace on the Xantos cockpit with a smile on his face, the horrible scar on his face was wriggling like a worm.

Flat head, thick eyebrows, a nose that has obviously been broken many times, strong enough to look like his face is covered with muscles, and his eyes are determined and evil. If this kind of person is put on the promotional poster of Empire, he must be the center.

No one would doubt that Tychus was not worthy of the cheers of the people of the Empire. There were more hideous scars under his clothes. Over the years, the holes left by war were far more than the medals on his body.

At the same time, it is difficult for anyone else to achieve the unique status of Tychus Findlay in the Terran Empire.

Whenever Emperor Augustus led the army to a major battle, Tychus was always following behind him.

When the Empire developed the prototype of Odin, Tychus became its pilot as if it was natural. He drove Odin and continued to fight with the Emperor throughout the Second Total War and the Doomsday War.

During this period, whenever the Empire's army was caught in a tough battle and on the verge of danger, they would receive the highest order from Korhal - to throw Tychus down, just like dropping a Poké Ball containing Pikachu.

"This is the happiest day of my life!" It has to be said that Tychus, who often hangs out in bars, is also a person who is easily affected by the atmosphere.

Tychus never fought for any noble purpose, but simply because he had a desire to destroy and always wanted to smash something. Only the blood and fire of war could stimulate his numb nerves.

"Odin used to be my favorite, but I'm afraid he has to step down now." In front of the camera, Tychus is not at all stage frightened. He likes to play the protagonist in his own world.

"I admit I'm a double-minded person, but Xantos, it's a bigger guy. It's damn good, better than me..." Here he paused, as if he almost said the wrong word: "better than every girl I've ever met."

Tychus is not a very good speaker, nor is he a person who can read the words from the teleprompter in a proper manner. This person likes to improvise, speaks vulgarly, and is not worthy of being in a high-class place. It would definitely be a disaster for him to host a show.

If Tychus hadn't cared about his own image, he would probably have performed a passionate dance in front of the people of the empire.

Slowly, Tychus' words became more and more incoherent, with nonsense like "let's have fun", "let's cool down", etc. Then he wanted to kill Amon, go into the void, enjoy endless gold and beauties, and he could call any serious matter robbery.

But no matter what, the cheers in the Empire Square showed no signs of abating, and people's shouts even came from farther away. They used lights and noise to create a huge movement, which was very powerful.

Although it was just a new weapon display broadcast live across the entire territory, the enthusiasm shown by the people of the empire was unusually high.

One reason is that there have been very few such celebrations since the war began. The other reason is that not long ago, the Terran Empire government had just repaid the first batch of short-term treasury bonds issued before the Doomsday War with their predatory mining in enemy territories, promised not to increase taxes, and relaxed restrictions on a number of wartime materials. These policies were supported by the empire's epoch-making progress in food synthesis, metallurgy, chemical industry and other fields.

Although wars are still going on everywhere and the Zerg invasion shows no signs of stopping, people have reason to believe that the situation has stabilized, they have abundant supplies and are on the rise.

In Tychus's mouth, victory seemed to be within his grasp, and the God of Darkness was just a wild dog that he could kick to death with one kick.

Some people worship Amon, but more people hate him, because the dark god disdains to show his true purpose to what he thinks is a defective product. Amon announced to everyone that he came to bring death and pain.

"This is truly a noble cause, serving all of humanity. I am grateful." After a flurry of reminders and hints from the UNN program team and the Imperial Security Bureau agents in the background, Tychus, who had already gone off topic, finally got back to the point:

"A real man should do what a man should do."

Unexpectedly, before Tychus could utter the last word, UNN immediately cut to the screen of the special plane that Augustus was on.

Amid the rumbling sound of the Royal Arbitration Machine's engine, the true master of the empire arrived.

On the central stand of the Imperial Plaza, Emperor Augustus Mengsk, wearing an Imperial military dress uniform and a dark brown coat with gold thread, with the Sword of a dynasty of the Mengsk family hanging from his waist, slowly walked out of the gangway.

Following behind the emperor was his brother Arcturus Mengsk. He had a stern expression and was wearing a full set of gold and red tuxedo. Two gorgeous golden wolf emblems stretched out in the most conspicuous position on his chest. Every part of his body showed his connection with the royal family.

As soon as they appeared on the stage, the royal orchestra began to play music and sing magnificent hymns. The imperial family did not care about ostentation, but on important occasions that showed the empire's strong power, they would never be shabby.

Tychus Findlay was quickly forgotten by the people, and Augustgrad and other parts of the empire were in a frenzy. The crowd in the Imperial Square was even more excited, and if it weren't for the armored imperial soldiers who stopped them, they would have flooded the entire square immediately.

Donny Vermillion, an absolute die-hard fan of the emperor, raised his voice by several decibels, and he praised him with all kinds of words, such as "Augustus the Great is the symbol of the empire, his voice is the proposition of the empire, and his orders are the will of the empire."

In short, he is the empire.

When Augustus arrived, all the imperial dignitaries who had come to attend the ceremony had already arrived, and almost all the generals who were in Augustgrad were also present.

In addition, there are other faces outside the Empire, including Kel-Morian and Umojan diplomats stationed in Korhal, some representatives of the Empire's autonomous planets and even the Protoss.

Strictly speaking, the Protoss envoy of the Daram Protoss is an old acquaintance of Augustus, Arbitrator Aldaris.

According to Dawu doctrine, the Protoss Empire would neither send nor have to send diplomats to other civilizations, because they have always been protectors rather than equals. But obviously, the Daram Protoss now regards the Terran Empire as an equal civilization.

The "diplomat" of the Ihanli Empire is a council elder who has awakened from stasis, like a Protoss mummy sealed in organic meteorite headdresses and void crystals. He is as old as their empire, dating back to the era of separation when the Ihanli parted ways with their Protoss brothers.

Now, after lengthy negotiations, a series of mutual compromises and a large number of clearly written agreements, the Terran Empire and the Ihenli Protoss have redrawn the boundaries on territorial issues.

The Ihanli Protoss have returned to their former homeworld of Tyrador IX, re-establishing their territory on the sparsely populated Antarctic world and mining the void crystal resources that are vital to them.

From then on, Telador became a world jointly owned by a few humans and the Protoss.

Augustus's imperial government was severely criticized for this matter and was accused of being weak and gullible.

Telador is a densely populated and important world, and the people there have never known the existence of the Protoss since their ancestors, let alone coexisting peacefully with these aliens. But since the Ihanli Protoss began to open up trade and cultural exchanges with humans, and even allowed tourists to visit their temple cities built with unique organic meteorites and Xel'Naga kinetic energy engines on a limited basis, Telador's already prosperous tourism industry has immediately reached a new level.

The Ihanli fanatically worship the Xel'Naga, so they will also purchase ancient alien relics from humans.

At the same time, Tyrador has since been protected by a large neutral fleet and has become one of the safest worlds in the Terran Empire.

However, although the Ihanli Protoss are much easier to talk to than their own Tal'darim Protoss, conflicts between them and humans still exist. For example, they regard their former home planet, Telador, as a holy place, and its status is almost equal to that of Aiur to the Dalam Protoss. However, human colonization has greatly damaged the ecology of Telador, causing many species they were familiar with to become extinct.

To this day, the Ihanli Protoss is still a powerful Protoss force, and has retained the martial virtues engraved in the genes of this race. While they continue to send fleets to launch a holy war against Amon, they are also recalling the stasis fleets that have been scattered in deep space for thousands of years.

Although this envoy of Ihanli once declared that he would crush Amon, the slayer of the gods, to ashes and exterminate any race that desecrated the sacred objects of the Xel'Naga, he claimed that he was the kindest person in the Ihanli Council.

However, the Ihanli Council would send such a man to maintain relations between the two empires, probably because he is truly the most friendly and conservative among them.

In general, the relationship between the Ihanli Protoss and the Terran Empire is pretty good. Although they are all living antiques, they are still quite open-minded. The Ihanli even have their own squash team. These tall and long-legged aliens just beat the Telador North Beach Narwhal team last week.

In any case, Augustus finally established diplomatic relations with the Ihanli Protoss, and managed to make these arrogant Protoss follow the Imperial fleet in joint operations and obey unified command.

This is crucial to Augustus' future plans to attack the void.

Of course, the most important figure here is Jinara, the first person to be promoted in the Tal'darim. It is reported that she almost lost in a Rak'shir ceremony initiated by Amon's followers some time ago, and the high-level lord Alarak was watching the whole process.

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This time, Jinara did not come to the imperial territory to view any new weapons. She was just temporarily brought here by Augustus to participate in the ceremony to show her the powerful military force of the empire.

Of course, no matter how powerful a weapon is, it can only get a fair evaluation from the Tal'darim. The arrogance of the Protoss is fully displayed in the Tal'darim. Even if they are still plagiarizing Daram's technology, they will never admit that the opponent's weapons are powerful.

Augustus greeted each official, general, and diplomat one by one, and asked them what they thought of Xanthos.

Even before the Xanthos had shown its terrible firepower, the Kel-Morians had already spoken out about its strength, and it was believed that they would soon produce similar pirated weapons. The diplomats of Umojan also said the same thing, and there was nothing wrong with it, but Augustus could see that he was not happy at all.

As for the officials of the autonomous territories, they probably dared not harbor any rebellious thoughts, as even a random Imperial Navy fleet could easily destroy their world.

But when it comes to the Protoss, they are much more objective. Aldaris' attitude is very good. He is now completely different from the past and has become more open-minded. It doesn't hurt to praise Augustus.

The Ihanli Protoss saw that the Empire used Xel'Naga constructs and Ulna technology on Xanthos, which enabled them to build machines even larger than Xanthos.

In the words of Augustus, Swan's people have gone crazy, and they even want to build a Gundam now.

This Xantos isn't even a prototype; weapons of this type are already being mass-produced by the Theros Shipyards, and more worlds will begin producing weapons of war in the future.

Just one Xantos is enough to turn the tide of the battle.

However, when it came to Jinara, she only got a comment that didn't quite fit the question: "These Imperial humans are so noisy."

Augustus called this coldness, and Arcturus thought she was tired of living.

"This is what humans, the first ascenders, are like. This is what creatures with mouths are like." Augustus said, "You can't appreciate the benefits of a mouth."

"You indulge them too much." Jinara's attitude towards Augustus was still impeccable. She only submitted to the strong: "In Slane, being kind to slaves is of no benefit. If the master is weak, they will only think of replacing him."

When facing other humans, Jinara's attitude was much worse. When she met someone like Arcturus or the Marshal General who had beaten up the Tal'darim, she could still nod and greet them. In her eyes, other people were not much different from livestock and slaves.

These humans do not even have the courage to initiate the Rakshir ritual to their superiors, so they are not worthy of respect.

Before Augustus could say anything, the crowd cheered again. Tychus had entered the cockpit of the Xantos battleship, and a large number of crew members took up their posts. If someone could see the multiple decks inside the Xantos separated by huge grilles, pipes and steel kits, and enter its huge ammunition depot, they would be stunned by the layers of accumulated ammunition racks.

In the troop transport bay that is large enough to serve as a battlefield, a large number of imperial soldiers are gathering on thick steel plates. When this huge war machine is started, its interior is even as stable as the ground.

Xantos was a terrifying steel monster. The blue light projected from the cab was like the giant's single eye. Its tightly fitted armor flashed a cold metallic light, and the flames released by its thrusters were like dazzling diamonds.

Its devilish, conceited, and invincible giant railgun pointed relentlessly toward the sky, and the fighter planes whizzing past it were at least seven or eight stories tall, yet looked no more than a slightly larger mosquito.

Even Augustus was amazed. It was really shocking to see this incomparable giant soaring into the air.

However, seeing all this, the first person promoted to the Tal'darim could not help but snort coldly. It was not because he was dissatisfied with Xantos, but purely because he had an opinion on Tychus.

This is not surprising, almost everyone has a problem with Tychus, he is not a likable guy. After all, he is already in his forties or fifties, and when he causes trouble, he can be picked up and beaten by the emperor himself, which is shameless.

When Jinara first arrived in Augustgrad, she met Tychus. Both of them were sharp-tongued, so they immediately started arguing.

Not to mention, the Khar had a grudge against the Tal'darim during the Revolutionary Army. Although the Naion faction of Basher had nothing to do with Jinara, Tychus still misses his comrades who were killed by the Tal'darim.

He is narrow-minded and holds grudges.

Jinara was a vicious person, and she would insult people like "primitive creatures, inferior species, pests, scum", but she couldn't choose Tychus. In his words, you are insulting people like you are acting like a spoiled child.

But Tychus was an old rogue. He asked Jinara, "Do you Protoss also have sex? If so, why has he never seen it? Do you Protoss have a surname? Do you let your slaves serve you? Is one enough? What is your relationship with Alarak? Did you get your position through sexual transactions?"

When Jinara became angry and wanted to challenge Tychus, the latter said that he would wait for her in bed and he had not yet tasted the taste of the Protoss.