StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 791 Postscript 1 (I just realized that I can only write words per chapter)

The following is excerpted from the class assignments and notes of a history student at the Imperial University. To her, Augustus the Great, the founder of the Terran Empire, was an ancient man from more than 1,800 years ago. He was a mythical figure. In his time, gods still walked the earth.

Since all her evidence and conclusions come from the voluminous official historical records of the empire, and contain a lot of personal opinions and likes and dislikes, the readers have to distinguish the right and wrong and the contradictions:

Speaking of Emperor Augustus I, he is undoubtedly an unavoidable figure in the modern history of the Terran Empire, just as you cannot discuss the empire without discussing Korhal, and you cannot discuss humanity without discussing the Earth.

Ask any number of people on any street in Augustgrad who Emperor Augustus is, and they will first ask you which one you are. Once you tell them it is Augustus, the founder of the country, everyone from a toddler to an 80-year-old grandmother will try to explain to you why Augustus I is the greatest emperor.

In the Terran Empire, there is no one who has not grown up listening to the stories of Emperor Augustus. Even his famous ministers and generals have been written into biographies and poems, and their reputation will be passed down through the ages.

Among the hundreds of billions of citizens of the empire, six out of ten have the same name as these ancient heroes, and even the emperors name their children this way.

Of course, there are many people named Jim and Tom in the world.

By the way, my favorite among them is Augusta Mengsk. According to legend, she is the elder sister of Emperor Augustus and has the same name as me.

Cross it out.

(This is a character in the unofficial history and the famous series of novels "The Flower of the Empire". There is no evidence that she really existed. I certainly won't tell you that my brother Alan has ever made a mistake with Augusta)

(Although "Flower of the Empire" is very well-known in the Terran Empire today, and the royalties alone are quite astonishing. However, the author did not leave any information, and for some reason failed to complete this great work, which has become an eternal regret)

It does not matter.

In short, today, you can definitely summarize many emperors of the empire in a few words, such as the Glorious Queen Louise, the Lost Todd, the Contributor Angus, the Parricide Arlin, the Tyrant Juan, and the Conqueror Arcturus. But to describe the founding monarch of this huge interstellar empire, you must use the 10,000 books in the Golden Library.

But in our course, it can be summarized in one sentence.

The standard answer is that Augustus the Great is the empire.

There were many emperors named Augustus in this empire, but only one could be called the Great, no matter how glorious his successors were.

To this day, there are still countless people studying the founder of this great empire, unraveling the mystery and analyzing it in detail. It takes countless hours just to read the works of predecessors.

How long does it take to read a book? Thousands of books? Even if you read them all, you're still only piecing together someone else's version of Augustus Mengsk.

How lucky were those who were born in that era and could see Emperor Augustus with their own eyes? When I asked this question, my teacher laughed and pointed out: It was really "lucky" to be killed by the Protoss and eaten by the Zerg.

I will never understand that feeling.

In our time, the Swarm Master and most of his brain worms and queens have disappeared for many years. The last officially recorded brain worm was Thass, which appeared in the era of Augustus VIII, more than four hundred years ago.

I believe that there is no one who has not heard of the well-known stories of Emperor Augustus: The Devil in Heaven, The Korhal Revolt, The Brood War, The First Total War, The Fall of the Old Federation, The Founding of the Empire, The Second Total War, The Last War, The Final War... one epic after another.

But by contrast, little is known about the emperor's youth, partly because there is so little information and partly because people are more interested in war heroes than in young, ignorant mischief-makers.

Today, the birthday of Emperor Augustus is the most important festival in the empire, so there is no need to mention it further.

Before the Emperor became famous, he was no different from the noble youths of Khar at that time. He was romantic and reckless. However, his other noble qualities that were later widely known, such as his strong will and compassion, made people love and hate him.

Some unofficial histories say that although Emperor Augustus was a son of a noble family, he was just a street urchin like you often see today, beating up kids younger than himself and eating their candies, causing trouble and running away from the streets.

The official history bluntly states that the emperor had already shown a great personality that was not afraid of power or oppression when he was a child. He was unrestrained and loved freedom. He was a famous speed racer, the kind of person who would chase after his soul in the sky while he ran away in the sky.

Then you will understand that the great Emperor Augustus was just an "ordinary" person, but he saw far enough and was lucky enough.

That's what he said himself.

Okay, the question requires us to briefly talk about the history of the Terran Empire.

How simple could it be?

Is there anyone else who can do this kind of homework besides me?

It just so happens that I am bored and have enough free time.

Just say whatever you want.

The history of the Terran Empire is the history of one emperor and one empress after another. The huge family tree of the Mengsk Dynasty is itself a history book of the Empire. A wise monarch can expand the territory of the Empire to the edge of the known world, while the next incompetent monarch may immediately abandon everything and retreat to a corner of the Koprulu Sector. If this monarch happens to be Angus, the donor of the map, then even Kharta will happily hand it over to him.

A once-powerful interstellar empire may have come infinitely close to ruling the galaxy, but it may also fall apart in the next decade, splitting into countless independent pocket empires, republics, dominions, religious states, barbarian kingdoms, large and small planetary federations, and warlord regimes that are more numerous than flies in the universe.

And whatever fraction of the former empire they claimed was a tempest in a teacup compared to the true galactic empire.

In the first six hundred years of the Terran Empire, the lineage of Queen Louise always sat on the throne, which was known as the First Dynasty. In the next eight hundred years, Actulus II entered the palace, which was the Second Dynasty.

The era we live in happens to be the most prosperous and peaceful period in the Terran Empire in the past two centuries. Emperor James X is also the most capable and ambitious of the three generations of imperial monarchs. He has been in power for seventeen years, and people say that he has the potential to restore his former glory.

The old people always say that the Mengsk dynasty has a bloodline, and every monarch of the empire has the blood of Augustus the Great flowing in their veins. James X not only looks like the founding monarch, but also has a 70% similar style of doing things, which is really reassuring.

It seems that they judge whether an emperor is qualified or not based on how much he looks like the first emperor. So my family may have blood in the first Prince Valerian, because I look a lot like his mother.

In the era of Acturus the Reconqueror, the royal bloodline of Queen Louise was almost extinct, the empire existed in name only, and the remnants of the divided empire each claimed to be the orthodox one, and they fought against each other for decades.

At that time, the power of Emperor Augustus was still there, and the people of the empire, who had suffered from the war for a long time, began to miss the peaceful times under the royal rule. The 29th generation grandson of James Mengsk (the eldest son of Augustus Mengsk and Lisa Cassidy), Arcturus Phoenix Mengsk (it is said that the word Phoenix comes from a Protoss archon. This word is now interpreted as a phoenix reborn from the ashes or a person with infinite courage) suddenly jumped out from a corner at this time, calling himself Arcturus II. He was the second emperor named Arcturus in the Mengsk royal family.

He claimed that his ancestors had told him in a dream that he should ascend the throne and become emperor to end the chaotic world in which so many people were suffering.

However, this person, who was just a fraudulent collateral lineage and even looked only 70% like the portrait of his ancestor, still gathered a large army in a very short time at an incredible speed. People who support the royal family flocked to Korhal, and the farthest one even came from tens of thousands of light years away, just to respond to the call of the Golden Wolf Banner.

Although I looked down on Acturus II, I also admitted that he was capable, ruthless and decisive. In less than four years, Acturus II's army conquered the old territories of the empire again, unified the four seas, and established the Second Dynasty.

Considering only his achievements, Actulos II would undoubtedly rank in the top five or even top three.

However, this man was immoral and he was a hedonist. To describe Arcturus II as amorous was to give him face, and his illegitimate children throughout the galaxy still claimed to have their own claims to the imperial throne.

Acturus II once publicly said that he wanted to follow the example of his ancestors and marry ninety-nine wives, plus a queen to make it just the right number.

Fortunately, after this, Emperor Arcturus changed his words and restrained himself a lot. It is said that hundreds of palace guards saw Emperor Augustus suddenly appear and gave his unworthy descendant a big fight, asking him not to talk nonsense in the future and scolding him for being a useless dog and believing in unofficial history.

How is this possible? The emperor had been dead for more than 600 years, and his coffin was still in the family cemetery in Augustgrad.

Compared with Juan, Arcturus II could be considered a saint with some minor flaws.

Juan Mengsk was the most notorious emperor of the First Dynasty of the Terran Empire. He looked almost exactly like the holographic image left by Emperor Augustus the Great, but he was cruel and tyrannical, and his reputation was so bad that no imperial monarch was willing to name his children after him. Many backward and barbaric worlds may have even lost their languages, but Juan is still the dirtiest word used to curse people.

Let’s put it this way: Juan did everything that a tyrant in human history could do, and even went above and beyond.

Including but not limited to: heavy punishments, disregard for human ethics, taking pleasure in killing and absurdity. In order to satisfy his morbid hobbies, Juan also violated taboos, ordered the creation of hybrid creatures of humans and other species, and hunted down the Protoss residents in the empire, treating them as slaves and beasts. If anyone has ever done anything stupid, it must be that she tried to write down Juan's crimes in a page or two.

In my hometown of Omo, people wrote nursery rhymes about Juan's evil deeds and sang them for many generations to scare disobedient children. Today, the Mengsk royal family uses Ian crystal to record and recreate the scenes of Juan's era. Every newly crowned monarch must swear in the name of his ancestors before ascending the throne, vowing never to repeat the same mistakes.

It was also during Juan's generation that the Mengsk royal family completely lost the support of the people, and the long-standing friendly relations between the Terran humans and the Durram Protoss began to deteriorate rapidly, even to the point of drawing swords against each other.

Even in an era of lax discipline and foreign invasion, never before have so many planets risen up, and never before have so many planets suffered catastrophic disasters.

Juan had countless ways to quell public grievances and suppress the uprising, but he chose to order the extermination of a planet as a warning to the rest.

Considering that there were more than 100,000 inhabited planets in the empire at that time, it was undoubtedly an extremely terrifying number that more than half of the worlds rose up in rebellion in the first year after Juan ascended the throne.

The letters that have been handed down prove that Juan was not at all panicked at that time. Instead, he enjoyed it and was filled with joy. He was convinced that as long as he followed the example of his ancestors and led the army in person, he would be able to wipe out all the rebellious forces.

Before this, Juan had killed all members of the Imperial Parliament and Senate who opposed him, and executed all Imperial generals who refused to massacre civilians and declare war on the Protoss. Even the army no longer supported him.

Before leading the army to the battle, Juan went to the mausoleum of Emperor Augustus to pay homage to his ancestors and recounted his "achievements" in the past year. He also had a sudden idea to dig out his ancestor's coffin with his own hands, replace it with pure gold and bury it back.

This was a day that later generations called "the day of outrage by both humans and gods, the day of heaven's punishment and the day of destruction by the earth". The only advantage of "Emperor" Juan was his strong ability to act. He would kill and do whatever he said. If he wanted to dig up his ancestors' graves today, he would have to have another feast in the evening.

Perhaps the old ancestor happened to hear Juan's words and brought down punishment. In any case, that day, everyone in the royal family cemetery witnessed five thunders falling from the sky, instantly burning the young emperor to charcoal.

Many people think that the holographic images and records about this are fabricated, and believe that Juan actually died at the hands of a master of the Dark Templar, but those of us who have actually studied these materials know that this is indeed what happened.

The rumor may be true, Emperor Augustus was not dead, and only one of his swords was buried in his tomb.

My favorite emperor besides Augustus the Great is Augustus VIII.

It was like the reincarnation of Augustus the Great, with a destiny like that of a god, Augustus Constance Mengsk, the undefeated, the unforgiving, the insect caller, the insect tamer, the master of heaven and earth, the king of the universe, the lord of darkness, the conqueror of the sun, the father of the Galactic Empire, the emperor of emperors.

Augustus VIII's ancestor can be traced back to Patrick Mengsk, the youngest and only son of Emperor Augustus the Great and Queen Sarah Kerrigan. Legend has it that Patrick is half a perfect human and half a god, with incredible power. But Augustus VIII looks nothing like his ancestor. He has red hair and blue eyes, and looks like no one but himself.

No emperor before, nor since, has had a career as legendary as that of Augustus VIII.

When talking about Augustus VIII and his achievements, we must mention his lifelong enemy, the Earth Federation.

The United Earth Directorate has been watching us ever since four colony carriers from Earth landed in the Koprulu Sector over two thousand years ago, and it remains so today.

During the reign of Emperor Augustus, the Earthlings launched the first invasion of the Koprulu Sector. Of course, we all know that they were completely defeated in the end. It was just an isolated expeditionary force.

Afterwards, the rulers of the Earth were busy with internal affairs and had no time to pay attention to the dispute in the Koprulu sector, and no further news was heard.

We all know that the Doomsday War had little impact on the Earth Federation, and if the Dark God Amon had sent an army of hybrids into the solar system, they were undoubtedly completely defeated.

Not long after Emperor Augustus passed the throne to Queen Louise, the Earthlings launched a second invasion. It was Prince Valerian, who was over 80 years old, who personally led the army to defeat the Earthlings together with the Protoss Darram, creating a legendary epic.

After that, the people on Earth were severely damaged and never invaded again.

The third large-scale war between the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation probably took place during the reign of the patricide Aelin of the Second Dynasty. At that time, the Terran Empire, which was still in a stage of rapid expansion, began to truly enter the Orion Arm and established a frontier under the nose of the Earth Federation.

Fire and water cannot mix, eagles and wolves will not share the same sky, and two equally ambitious interstellar empires can never coexist peacefully.

The people of Earth are even more arrogant than the Protoss and more radical than any other human beings. They have a military tradition since ancient times, and young people of each generation are proud to join the army.

As for us Terrans, we are aggressive and martial. We like bloodshed and conquest. We do not bow to anyone, whether they are Earthlings, Protoss, Zerg or Void Gods.

The Earth Federation has obvious militaristic tendencies, and the Terran Empire is not a good group of people either.

Since the time of Arlin, the border between the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation has never been clearly demarcated, and it has always been a confusing account.

In short, the Earth United Council considers itself the orthodoxy of mankind and refuses to recognize the Empire as an independent regime, and vice versa. Since the Council first claimed that they should own all the colonies established by the colonists of Tarsonis, Umojan and Moria, all our emperors have added Earth to their territorial claims that are enough to be read for more than ten days at the beginning of their reign.

For more than a hundred years thereafter, Earth and Korhal regarded each other as the most important rivals in the universe. They were evenly matched with each other and had their share of wins and losses.

Thanks to our study of Xel'Naga shipbuilding technology, we are now able to build warships that are much larger and more powerful than those in the days of Augustus the Great. The Gorgon is just an antique among antiques.

There were naval battles everywhere, fleet after fleet fighting fleet after fleet, world after world was destroyed from high orbit, entire stars were rumored to be extinguished, and planet-sized warships were built and destroyed.

We lost five emperors in a row, hundreds or more generals and marshals, and countless soldiers for several generations, and they didn't get any benefits. An entire council was massacred by ghost agents. On average, a new expeditionary commander had to be replaced every two years because their predecessors either died or suffered a series of defeats.

That was another era with heroes emerging in large numbers and stars shining brightly. The two huge interstellar empires fought to the death, but in the end neither could do anything to the other. Whenever one side was about to lose, someone would always stand up to turn the tide and fight back.

Finally, the two interstellar empires exhausted all their resources and lost their patience. When the rulers of Korhal and Earth found that their rule was shaken, they hurriedly looked for old precedents. They found that Emperor Augustus had signed a short peace treaty with the Earth Expeditionary Force, and finally shook hands and made peace.

The treaty was signed by Queen Dorothy I. Before she ascended the throne, she had lost her three brothers in the war, and her husband and son had just died.

If you carefully study the Mengsk royal family and its branch families, you will find that most of them believe that if they want to protect the people and lead the army, they have to go into battle themselves. This is the tradition left by the first emperor of the empire. The people of this family take the anvil as their throne and must be tempered through thousands of hammers.

Throughout Dorothy I's reign, peace remained between the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation until another of the Queen's sons ignited a war for revenge.

Now we all know that in the past nearly twenty centuries, the Empire and the Federation have always been at peace most of the time. This is not because they love peace, but because the various forces within them are too intertwined and often cannot reach a consensus and work together to face the outside world.

During this process, the countless colonies under the two central governments were constantly in conflict and alienated. In areas too far away from Korhal and Earth, open rebellion was common. Most of the energy of those in power was often spent on power struggles and internal friction, not to mention major upheavals such as dynasty changes and regime changes.

In addition, they must also be wary of the Protoss, although the latter has remained neutral since the time of Juan and no longer participates in disputes between humans.

The Purifiers, a mysterious Protoss faction, ended the war agreement after the final battle and returned to the revitalized Aedion Sector to sleep for hundreds of years. They are all noble warriors who neither miss the world of the living nor think about dominating the universe.

However, the Purifiers are not so nice to the human colonists who dug them out of the stasis network.

During the reign of Emperor Augustus, the Tal'darim Protoss still showed some respect to the Terran Empire, but later on they fell out and often clashed with us over territory and resources.

The Ihanli Protoss established their own Protoss Empire in the Telador system within the Empire, and always abided by their past oaths, never expanding, and never interfering with us.

The most powerful Protoss force, the Daram Protoss, has been busy with its own affairs, as if they have endless work to do. However, due to the increasing lack of communication between them, humans know very little about it and have no idea what these Protoss are doing.

What is known so far is that the Darram Protoss had two large-scale civil wars, in which multiple factions with different opinions fought each other, almost causing them to be seriously damaged again.

We know very little about these two civil wars, but it is certain that they were both related to the Khala - a link that connected all the Protoss together, but they were forced to abandon the Khala as early as the Last War.

Everyone in the Terran Empire knows about the Doomsday War, right? Although many people believe that it never happened.

This is the story your neighbor's grandmother often tells: the dark god Amon, the fallen, the avenger, the lord of the void, he corrupted the Kara, enslaved the swarm, and his hybrid army destroyed one world after another.

This story must end with Emperor Augustus personally killing the God of Darkness: when the final battle comes, the emperor's army crosses the void, he holds the sword of kingship in his hand, and goes straight to the evil Amon. With a flash of sword light, he beheads him with one sword.

——As if the emperor was some more terrifying existence.

Yet of the many accounts of Augustus's actual military prowess, the best he managed was a duel against Admiral Horace Warfield, the one the Korhal hung on their doorsteps to ward off evil, and at his worst, he was no more threatening than a hen guarding her eggs or a cat panting at you.

Far away.

The first civil war of the Darram Protoss took place shortly after the final battle. It is said that someone has discovered dark technology that can repair Khala, but that technology clearly came from the dark god Amon.

The Protoss love to invite wolves into the house and play with fire until they get burned.

To make an inappropriate analogy, the pain the Protoss felt from losing Kara was like the withdrawal symptoms of a drug addict.

There are many self-depraved people among humans, but not all Protoss are nobler than us.

Some Protoss would rather die than return to Khala, while others would rather die than stop them, and bloodshed was the inevitable result. At that time, Archbishop Tassadar of Daram stood on the side of the latter, and he eventually resolved the dispute with his prestige, control of the army, and excellent political skills.

There are many different opinions on the cause of the Second Civil War, but the only certainty is that it was related to the large-scale birth of a new generation of Protoss after the war. Just like the ancient Protoss before the emergence of Kara, the new generation of Protoss still retains nerve bundles when they are born, and can feel each other's existence in a relatively primitive mental connection, while the older generation can only cut themselves off from Kara forever.

When the conflict broke out, Archbishop Tassadar was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, and his young student Artanis was ordered to quell the rebellion that almost destroyed Aiur with courage and wisdom that was no less than their legendary hero Adun. It is said that Artanis' process of quelling the rebellion was full of ups and downs, with many dangers and twists and turns, so exciting that it could be used to make several blockbuster movies.

Therefore, when Tassadar officially handed over the position of Archbishop to Artanis, no one in Darram had any doubts anymore.

Back to Augustus VIII, during his lifetime, Juan the Tyrant, Arcturus the Reconqueror, Arryn the Parricide, and Dorothy I had all died long ago, and the Protoss rarely stepped out of Aiur, becoming indifferent and aloof from the world.

That was the 1,400th year since the founding of the Terran Empire. After six consecutive emperors' endless turmoil - cruel and ruthless, not caring about state affairs, levying heavy taxes and being extremely licentious. In addition, at that time we had already restarted the war with the Tal'darim Protoss and the primitive Zerg, and the war had continued for years. The national strength of the empire had declined to the lowest point in nearly a century.

At this time, the throne was passed to Angus, the presenter of the map, known in history as Angus VIII, the king of the doghouse and the overlord of the bathtub.

I still have to say something fair for Angus VIII. Although he did not achieve much after he ascended the throne, he did not make any mistakes either.

Angus VIII was very self-aware and knew that he lacked the ability to govern the country, and at the same time he was not greedy for power. He was willing to follow the example of the 11th Emperor Atlas the Great and delegate power to his ministers and the Imperial Parliament.

Therefore, in the first ten years of Angus VIII's reign, the turbulent situation within the Terran Empire gradually stabilized, order was restored, and the economy began to recover, showing signs of revival.

However, it was all because his opponent was too strong.

This man was named Alexander Dugar, and he was the supreme commander of the Earth Federation at that time.

Alexander's ancestor was the famous Human Hand Gerard DuGal, who was the commander of the Earth expeditionary force that invaded the Koprulu sector during the reign of Emperor Augustus.

There are many different opinions about the final fate of Gerard DuGalle. Some say that he committed suicide after his defeat. Another theory is that DuGalle was infected and controlled by the Zerg, and as the commander of the infected army, he committed many crimes against humans in the Koprulu sector.

In the final battle, Emperor Augustus defeated and captured Dugar.

Afterwards, through some means, Emperor Augustus ordered people to cure Dugar's infection and asked him to plead guilty and be executed as the leader of the Earth Expeditionary Force.

After being cured, Dugar realized his crimes after getting rid of the infection of the Zerg. He was grateful for the Emperor's mercy and tearfully asked the Emperor to grant him a peaceful death, hoping to die as a human being rather than an infected person.

Later, the people on Earth only found the footage of the Terran Empire publicly executing Dugar, but they did not know the cause and effect.

Alexander Dugar might not hate the Empire that much. Gerard Dugar was too distant a figure for him. This declining small family did not pursue the so-called family glory and generations of hatred, but the Terrans and the Earthlings believed that he came for revenge.

In short, in the tenth year of Angus VIII's reign, Alexander Dugar once again opened the door of the Empire with a large expeditionary fleet and a declaration of war. At that time, he was only 39 years old, the youngest expeditionary marshal in the history of the Earth Federation.

Marshal Dugar is a rare military genius in a thousand years, and his subordinates are all talented generals. The Earth Federation had already been preparing to restart the war before he was born.

What kind of people are we here? The top military officers of the empire are all military nobles who rely on their ancestors' merits to make a living. There was a group in the era of Augustus the Great, and then there was the group of Arcturus II, as well as the favorites and relatives of the old and new emperors, and the trash, hooligans and braggarts who these people tried their best to squeeze into the army to accumulate qualifications.

The end of a dynasty is always like this, with sharp class contradictions, constant conflicts, inefficient and corrupt government, and no top-down control of local government, like a paralyzed giant. Most bureaucrats are either useless or stupid and bad.

People of that era generally lacked long-term vision. When others took out real weapons, they thought it was just a joke.

There are still many smart people in the imperial army. The higher military academies in Korhal and Tarsonis still uphold the tradition of their early establishment, recruiting students regardless of their background or where they come from. Although this does not prevent powerful people from stuffing their children in to gain experience, these academies still provide the empire with a large number of outstanding military talents every year, and almost every generation has famous figures.

But their supreme leader, Imperial Fleet Marshal Thomas Raynor, was undoubtedly a complete idiot, and people called him a talking pig.

As mentioned earlier, there is a group of meritorious people who live on the glory of their ancestors, as if if your last name is Reno, Horner, Warfield, or Hank, you must be a great general.

This was understandable to the common people, after all, they had been listening to the legendary stories of Jim Raynor and Matt Horner since childhood, but many emperors actually thought so too.

No matter how incompetent the heirs of these meritorious families are, they can always have a place in the palace. As long as these people have some human form and do not urinate in their crotches, they will definitely be granted titles and become prime ministers.

Take the Reconqueror Arcturus as an example. When he re-established the Terran Empire, the big families at the beginning of the country had basically declined. Not every family can survive from the old Federation era to the present like the Terra family.

However, Acturus II insisted on inviting these declining families back to serve him.

This was entirely Arcturus's own idea. He was a staunch believer in bloodline, and most of his courage came from his mysterious confidence that he was a descendant of Emperor Augustus.

Emperor Augustus once said that a king is not honored by bloodline, but bloodline should honor the king.

Back to Thomas Renault.

When Marshal Thomas heard the news of the Earthling invasion, he immediately assembled his troops and led them to the battle himself.

Isn't that heroic?

This was the only thing he did right in the entire battle.

The Marshal was the only one responsible for allocating supplies, so the most suitable position for him should be the transport team leader.

However, the marshal had no idea how many warships the Earthlings had sent and how many troops they had mobilized.

It just so happened that none of the people who rushed back to report from the Empire were normal. Some said there were only a few hundred warships, some swore that the number of enemies was large, and some even said that there were so many that he couldn't even count them.

Our great marshal compromised and adopted one of the options, saying magnanimously, well, it seems that the number of enemies is indeed not small.

Oh! This will be a tough battle, and the soldiers must fight bravely and live up to the grace of the emperor! That's about it. I'm a casual person, and I like to be sarcastic like my mother.

The marshal did not even send out a reconnaissance fleet before the battle, so he had no idea of ​​the enemy's numbers, positions, and intentions. He did not ask, and his good-for-nothing subordinates did not mention it either.

The tactical staff officers under Marshal Thomas, who had just learned to play in the mud, were talking in front of the tactical diagram. One said, "I think they should attack like this," and another said, "Okay, then I'm going to defend like this."

It's like a boxing match, you punch me and I punch you, you parry and I block.

That's never how war is fought, at least not according to Alexander Dugard.

This was not a very clever strategy. DuGal divided the main force of his huge fleet into three parts. His largest and most terrifying star destroyers were all shielded and hidden in the heliosphere of the huge star in the Sadoon system (the descendants of the Umojans who founded this colony). The main fleet merged with the comet group constantly moving in the Oort Cloud.

Only a small number of Earth warships arrived in high orbit with great fanfare to scare the terrified colonists into asking Korhal for help.

But our marshal was fooled immediately. You can't expect his intelligence to detect such an "inconspicuous" trap.

Although Edmund Duke and Jim Raynor were almost incompatible, the Raynor family and the Duke family did intermarry several times. Thomas Raynor could even count the blood of the Mengsk family, and it was difficult to say whose genes dominated his body.

However, even if Edmund Duke was in charge, he would not make such a mistake.

The Battle of Saturn was probably fought like this: Alexander Dugard blew a whistle and Thomas Renault rushed forward without thinking.

When Marshal Thomas was preparing to enter the Sadoon system with the first fleet, an Earth fleet consisting of only a few hundred warships suddenly appeared and attacked their flanks. The Earthlings then retreated after one blow and quickly escaped from the attack range of the Imperial fleet.

The marshal then immediately sent out a fleet three times that number to pursue the victory.

When a second, larger Earth fleet repeated the same trick, the Marshal repeated his genius strategy, over and over again, until more and more enemy fleets took away more and more of his own fleet, and one-fifth of the fleet left him.

Of course, this is not the main reason for Thomas' failure.

He has such bad luck.

When Thomas' flagship was hit by the Earth fleet ambushed in the Sadun system, the super battleship, which was over ten miles long, was immediately and completely destroyed, along with all the senior commanders of the Imperial Navy.

However, no one moved the entire fleet headquarters to his flagship like Thomas did, just to save time on meetings.

How efficient.

According to past experience, even so, the Imperial Fleet would not be defeated immediately.

This kind of thing has happened in the past. When the highest commander of the fleet died, a lower-level deputy commander, a staff officer of the headquarters, a captain who suddenly discovered that he had command ability, or even a lower-level officer would take over command and lead the Imperial Navy to break through the siege or turn defeat into victory.

But not this time.

The first batch of the Imperial fleet that entered the Sadoon system was completely wiped out within eight hours. The second and third fleets were defeated in confusion, and either waited for death in the hyperspace disruption field covered by the Earthlings for several light years or surrendered.

All Imperial fleets that entered were nothing more than chickens to be slaughtered.

In one day, the Terran Empire lost half of its fleet.

Even after such a devastating defeat, the Imperial Emperor Angus VIII still had considerable military power in his hands, but he lacked the time to assemble the fleet and appoint a new commander.

Dugar didn't give him the time.

Previously, if a commander from Earth wanted to invade the Empire, the Dallarian Shipyard and Blacksis would definitely be the military strongholds that they would try their best to seize. The former produces the most warships in the entire Empire, and the latter is the Empire's gateway to the Koprulu Sector.

But Dugar didn't do that.

The Earth fleet would break through if it could, or bypass if it could, and it would drive straight into Korhal. It was unstoppable and no Imperial fleet could stop this terrible force.

In fact, even at this time, the emperor of the empire does not need to panic, because no fortress world or planetary fortress can compare with Korhal in terms of defense. Every emperor of the empire will more or less strengthen the orbital defense facilities that few people can match until now. With the layers of reinforcement, the Sky Shield orbital platform left by Emperor Augustus is actually an artificial moon.

With the millions of Imperial troops stationed on the planet at the time, Korhal could hold out for several months, long enough for other Imperial fleets to come to support. A similar incident occurred during the reign of Titus Mengsk, and no matter how hard the Earthling fleet bombarded, it could not break through Korhal's defenses.

But Angus VIII was already frightened, and when he heard the news of Marshal Thomas's defeat, he was so frightened that he just locked himself in the palace. The emperor refused to see anyone, refused to listen to anyone, and was unwilling to issue any orders or sign any administrative documents.

Angus did have a leadership team around him, but they were all clowns. The empire was in chaos, and no one dared to take charge, let alone organize a defense. But at that time, people were not too panicked.

We no longer say the same thing as them at that time: We have the Sky Shield.

When you say something will never happen, it happens. Do you believe in God? The gods love to play tricks like this.

It took Alexander DuGal less than two weeks to break the Sky Shield myth.

At that time, communication between Khara and the orbital platform still relied on electromagnetic waves. Tens of thousands of messages were sent between the ground and outer space every day, most of which were insignificant things - observation reports, material application forms, receipts, and approvals. These communications were not encrypted and could be easily intercepted and forged. In fact, it was not difficult to crack the military's encrypted information.

By that time, Korhal had already been infiltrated like a sieve, with their people everywhere, even on the Sky Shield.

We Tyranids are too confident in the mind-reading abilities of psychics, and as long as we pass this test, no one will doubt it. To put it inappropriately, the stamp of the inspection department is like a quarantine label on pork.

Even when the economy was at its worst, hundreds of millions of people entered and left Khara every day. There were all kinds of people, even people from Earth could enter and leave freely with just customs documents.

After all, we are a civilized and confident country. Why should we bother with the barbarians on Earth?

Yes, the Tyranids, Kel-Morians, and Umojans are all descendants of criminals exiled from Earth, but that's over.

Dugar's strategy to capture Sky Shield was not complicated, and it was easier to implement because he had an insider.

The people on Earth spent almost a week just gathering in front of Sky Shield and staring blankly. They did nothing, not even cutting off the communications between the orbital platform and Korhal. Even the cargo ships carrying supplies to Sky Shield could travel unimpeded in outer space.

Everything was as if nothing had happened. The Earth's terrifyingly large fleet blocked out the sky and looked like it had traveled thousands of miles to have a meal in Korhal.

A week later, Dugar calmly issued an ultimatum to the top leaders of the Terran Empire: surrender or watch him destroy the entire Korhal from orbit.

He didn't mention Sky Shield at all, and there were no signs of any attacks on other orbital platforms.

It is impossible to bypass these defense facilities and destroy Korhal.

Thomas Renault must be a person who does things without thinking much, but the powerful people in Khar have more thoughts. They don't believe that the earthlings really did nothing. And when they really can't see what the enemy wants to do, they can only suspect their own people.

But the people on the ground would rather believe that Alexander had solved all the defense facilities than suspect that he was lying. Oh, the person in charge at the time was Lipan Gustav, the top seat in the Imperial Parliament, and he was also an unconscious fool.

At that time, the Earthlings' spies were busy. They jumped up and down in and out of Augustgrad, spreading rumors that Sky Shield had surrendered to Alexander. They also set off big explosions from time to time, making the people think that the Earthlings had reached their doorstep.

Logically speaking, the Imperial Government was still able to contact Sky Shield at this time, but Gustav was unwilling to believe the military's reports and assurances. There were many people like this on my side, who always thought they were well-informed and all-powerful, and that others were fools.

By the way, Gustav's wife is also an Earth spy, and none of the people who provide him with intelligence are ours. Gustav was played around by these people, and every bad move he made was deliberately guided. Even if he didn't make those mistakes, someone else would make them for him.

I'm not excusing him.

Gustav was elected as the chief senator before the Earthlings came to the city, not because of his talent or prestige, but because the various factions in the parliament were not as united as those who had secretly defected to the Earth. At this critical moment, the senators were only thinking about quickly choosing a scapegoat instead of taking responsibility. Anyway, the enemy could not break in, and the other imperial fleets that arrived later would sooner or later break the siege of Korhal.

There are many incompetent people in every era, but there were especially many in the Imperial Parliament at that time.

But no matter what, even the idiots in Parliament were dumbfounded by Gustav's subsequent unification operation.

Gustav first spent some time kicking out those who were still doing practical work in the Imperial Navy Headquarters and the Marine Corps Headquarters, and then replaced them with his own direct subordinates who were only ordinary clerks, personal secretaries, or even gardeners some time ago (it is easy to understand, there were only so many people in his mansion, and relatives were not enough), and thought that the army was under his control.

Then, Lord Gustav will enjoy the feeling of being in power.

Of course, although Gustav had already believed the rumors and determined that Sky Shield had fallen into the hands of the Earthlings, he still refused to surrender to Dugar.

This was not because Gustav was so brave, but because the emperor's military advisor told him that even if Dugar really wanted to destroy Korhal from orbit, the void shield above Augustgrad was enough to withstand the orbital firepower of the Earth fleet. If the enemy wanted to capture the city, they would have to send a landing force to attack the city, and with the impregnable defense facilities in Augustgrad, they would be able to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

This void shield was built by the Reconqueror Arcturus. It used a large amount of Xel'Naga technology and was extremely strong. The military advisor did not lie.

As for the rest of the people outside of Augustgrad – the common people can only suffer.

Afterwards, Gustav devoted all his attention to dealing with the traitor.

Predictably, when Gustav personally contacted the Sky Shield commander and asked him why he betrayed the Empire, he was of course at a loss.

Brothers, you are all still wearing the imperial military uniforms. A batch of weapons and ammunition was just delivered from Korhal yesterday. How did this come about?

This is the genius of Lord Gustav. Normally, once someone of his status determines that Ister has rebelled, he will not say any more nonsense to the other party. Treason is treason.

Gustav was not stupid. He immediately realized that there was still hope for the situation, so he compromised and ordered the commander of Sky Shield to hand over the traitor.

It was as if the other party told Gustav that he did not betray him, and he believed it a little, but not completely: My information must be correct. You, the official, are not a traitor, but there must be a traitor among your subordinates, otherwise my trip would have been in vain.

Later, no less than a thousand imperial military scientists, historians and other experts and scholars studied Gustav's magical logic, and finally concluded that the fact that such a person could get to this position showed that the country was too tolerant of the mentally retarded.

Obviously, Gustav's request was rejected because the commander named Rouen Ister (a small military family from the era of Emperor Augustus, whose family motto was simple and direct: stay within the law and never get involved in politics) was an upright man. There was no rebellion among his men, so how could he hand over his men?

We know that at this time, Korhal's military ships and cargo ships can still enter Sky Shield freely. Even if the merchants refuse to transport supplies, there are always loyal soldiers with patriotic hearts who are still carrying out orders.

But no matter how Eastel and these people wrote reports, or how they tried their best to request an audience with the emperor and ministers, it was of no use.

It is said that Gustavus flew into a rage upon hearing the reply, ignoring Istelle's oath of loyalty to the empire and the emperor.

Our lord actually quarreled with Ister in the communication channel with his valuable body (it's hard to imagine, right? The earthlings didn't even intercept the communication. The weirder the matter is, the more suspicious it is). Gustav raised a fatal doubt, that is, if Ister didn't surrender to Dugar, then why didn't the earthlings attack Sky Shield.

God knows why the Earthlings don't attack Sky Shield, as if they could defeat it if they attacked.

Gustav had a hundred ways to prove Sky Shield's loyalty instead of doubting it, but he had to ask this damn question.

Lieutenant General Ruan Istel was undoubtedly an upright and good man, but he had fallen into the trap of self-proof. In addition, rumors were spreading in Sky Shield at that time, and the soldiers thought that the enemy had bypassed them and attacked Korhal. They were panicked and worried about their families on Korhal.

Ister protested: My lord, if we had surrendered, why didn't we use Sky Shield's space-based weapons to destroy Korhal?

Gustav asked me how I would know since I wasn't a soldier.

This man has lived a life of luxury all his life and has never touched a gun. His concept of war may still be that of primitive people fighting each other with sticks.

However, Speaker Gustav is still willing to give the Sky Shield soldiers a chance: send Sky Shield troops to attack the Earth fleet to prove their loyalty.

This is a "brilliant chess move".

As scholars who have studied this period of history have concluded, the empire lost not because the people on Earth were so smart, but because our people were so stupid.

You can definitely imagine how shocked and unbelievable those people in Sky Shield were, and at the same time they were loyal to the point of being stupid, and they actually sent a death squad to rush towards Dugar's fleet.

However, given that Gustav and Istel's communications were being monitored by Earthlings throughout the process, this was a meaningless sacrifice.

Without even taking any action themselves or making any effort, Dugar's agents successfully incited the ignorant people of Korhal to persecute the families of Sky Shield soldiers, because the frightened people believed that these soldiers would assist the Earthlings in burning them all to ashes.

The police and military were supposed to protect these people, but they were damned insensitive and they didn't.

There is no shortage of sensible and intelligent people in Korhal's imperial government and army, but either their words are not powerful enough or they discover the problem too late.

Augustgrad is a huge city with a population of 22 billion. When the enemy is threatening to burn them to death over their heads, the infinitely suppressed and unreleased fear and tension will soon turn into something even more terrifying.

One group of people persecutes another group of people.

So, how desperate the loyal soldiers of Sky Shield must have felt when they found that their families were tragically drowned, strangled, burned, and scalded with laser pliers.

Cruelly speaking, an excellent military commander should not have let his subordinates know this to avoid disrupting the morale of the army. However, when General Eastel learned that his parents, wife, and two children had all died tragically, he suffered a stroke and fainted.

Even so, Sky Shield still did not betray.

Istel's successor was his lieutenant, another Renaud, Tres Renaud, a large and prosperous family.

Tres was a very capable man. He stabilized the morale of the army and prevented Sky Shield from being paralyzed due to severe lack of manpower. There were probably more than one million soldiers on Sky Shield. After hearing the news, more than half of them were devastated, while others tried to forcibly seize ships and return to Korhal to save their families.

As far as I know, none of these people had a good ending.

But at this moment, the clever Speaker Gustav added fuel to the fire.

Gustav did not take the riot seriously at all. It is recorded that when the Speaker heard about it, he seemed confused. He said he was shocked but could do nothing about it.

None of these prevented Gustav from being in a good mood and asking the court chef to prepare a table of delicious food and wine that day, because since General Eastel fell ill that day, he could just send his own people to take over Sky Shield.

However, no one under Gustav was willing to do this job, and he finally found someone who was even dumber than himself (it was hard for him). That person wanted to be a hero to bring honor to his family, and spent a lot of money for this position.

We already know what happened next. An officer working for the Earthlings in Sky Shield directly blew up the spaceship that Korhal brought.

Well, it happened to be this ship. This was the only ship that was bombed in the entire battle.

Naturally, there was no turning back for the people of Sky Shield, because the furious Speaker Gustav immediately announced publicly that all the soldiers of Sky Shield had committed treason.

In his opinion, I have been thinking so much about you, but my kindness has been taken for granted.

I racked my brains to figure out what benefit would come from confirming Sky Shield's betrayal other than causing greater panic.

In this way, it only took Dugar such a short time to completely take over Sky Shield. There was no fighting spirit in Sky Shield and they surrendered without any resistance. The other orbital defense platforms were also in panic - you can't expect the angry and crazy civilians to tell the difference between Sky Shield and other orbital platforms.

DuGal did not waste Sky Shield's weapon systems and immediately began bombing Augustgrad.

To be honest, Augustgrad's void shield did work, and most of the casualties were caused by chaos and riots.

Imagine that the entire sky is covered by scorching high-energy plasma, and you have no idea whether the shield will break in the next second.

So, when the end of the world comes, many people will probably give up and do things that they would never have dared to think of before.

By the way, this space-based weapon of Sky Shield comes from Emperor Matthew I, and its only use is to attack the surface of the planet. It is said that the emperor's original idea was that if Korhal fell, he would use this weapon to destroy the enemy together with him.

However, the Emperor may not have realized a key point, that is, if Korhal had fallen, it was unlikely that the Sky Shield would still be in his hands.

Dugard bombarded Augustgrad for about two days before Gustav surrendered, terrified.

Angus VIII was even worse than Gustav. It was said that the emperor was still taking a bath in the astonishingly large bathtub before Dugar's soldiers entered the palace. When he heard that the earthlings were coming, he hid in the kennel where he raised hunting dogs, and competed naked with the beasts for food - until he was pulled out of the kennel by the earthlings and obediently presented the star map symbolizing the territory of the empire.

There was no further trouble after that.

Sometimes, the destruction of an empire takes just a moment, so fast that you are caught off guard.

Thirty years of rule began.

Some people also call it the Dark Ages. Although uprisings against Earth's rule have never ceased within the Empire's territory, they have never amounted to much. Their crude weapons and mosquito-sized spaceships have no way of competing with the Council's powerful fleets. Some powerful Imperial worlds have persisted for more than a decade or even longer - much longer than Korhal, but no one can unite them.

The few remaining Imperial fleets call themselves the Sons of Korhal, and they have never given up the fight, just as they did in the days of Emperor Augustus.

But at the same time, even the extremely large imperial fleet of the past has been defeated. How can these losers defeat those who once defeated them?

Augustus VIII was born in this era, and he never even saw the last emperor of the empire.

It is certain that Augustus VIII is a descendant of Emperor Augustus the Great. As mentioned earlier, he does not look like Emperor Augustus the Great or Patrick Mengsk at all, but he undoubtedly has the strong bloodline of Queen Sarah Kerrigan.

The Emperor's other child, Charlotte Mengsk, left no offspring, and Patrick's lineage was not very prosperous, with few people, but they were all extremely powerful psykers from generation to generation.

In our time, people with powerful psychic potential are not uncommon, so everyone's psychic level must be recorded. One tenth of the population has reached or exceeded level five, which means that they at least have telepathic abilities and are "fucking" mind readers.

Arcturus Mengsk, the Emperor's brother, said it best: They steal ideas.

And in Augustus VIII's family, no one was below level ten.

Among all the psykers who have appeared in human history over the past ten centuries, Queen Sarah Kerrigan ranks first, then Augustus VIII ranks second, and the rest will be left to others to fight for.

Gabriel Tosh, the founder of Ghost Agent, might be ranked third, but he is not a pure-blooded human. He was transformed by Zerg and was only cured after the final battle.

Let me introduce him again, Augustus VIII, Augustus Constance Mengsk, son of Ulysses Mengsk and Constance Mengsk. To distinguish him from their great ancestors, people call him by his nickname Connie.

Connie showed his uniqueness since he was a child. When he was still drinking milk, he could already speak fluent Khacha accent to his wet nurse: No offense, dear Ms. Sophia, please hold your XX, or do you think it will appear in my mouth by itself?

Honest, hardworking, friendly, humble, knowledgeable and talented.

Take a moment to imagine the opposite of those words: Connie Mengsk.

By that time, Korhal had already fallen, but Connie's family was still living fairly comfortably. They had an ancestral home passed down from generation to generation in the Stilling district of Augustgrad, and the wealth accumulated over generations was more than enough to support dozens of loyal servants.

Although Patrick's bloodline was legally superior to that of the Reconqueror Arcturus, his family had never produced an emperor.

At the beginning, the people on Earth treated the descendants of Emperor Augustus quite well. They treated this line of the royal family like pigs and left the rest to their own devices.

At this time, apart from many distantly related branch families, Connie is the only branch of the Mengsk family that can be directly traced back to Emperor Augustus.

According to Connie's later recollections, compared to most people in Augustgrad at that time, his childhood and adolescence were carefree. He had no worries about food and clothing, he had more money than the lower class people could earn in their lifetime, and of course he had no shortage of playmates who wanted to curry favor with him.

However, the rights that come with identity come at a price.

Ever since Angus VIII and his aunts and uncles were locked up in the palace, a large group of self-important royalists (mainly fallen imperial nobles and their young and energetic nephews), idealists and swindlers have been coming in and out of his father Ulysses' living room every day - other Mengsks outside the palace have also gathered a similar group of people, but Ulysses Mengsk has especially gathered a large number of people around him.

At the beginning, these mobs did not cause much trouble - of course, there were some very capable people among them, such as Admiral Charles Wells, the founding general of the Third Dynasty, Prince Valerian Jupiter Mengsk, and the first Imperial Chancellor Duval Williams, but at that time they were either young boys as old as Augustus VIII, or they had high aspirations but low skills.

In addition, there is a girl from the Terra family named Azura Terra. In the memory of Augustus VIII, she is like an angel, lively, smart, and except for being a soldier and fighting, she is almost omnipotent and can do everything.

But she didn't survive to the end.

Until Connie was fourteen years old, his daily life had not changed much. At such a young age, he had no ideals and just lived a life of eating and waiting for death. In the morning he played mahjong (a first-class elegant activity passed down by Emperor Augustus), in the afternoon he listened to his father bragging to a bunch of lunatics who dreamed of restoring the throne all day long, and then went to the card game in the evening.

However, just like the beginning of all prince's revenge stories, God will definitely not let Connie live happily like this.

Finally one day, Connie's father Ulysses was so flattered that he was a little confused. He suddenly had a brilliant idea and was really ready to rise up in Augustgrad. The terrible thing was that Ulysses' idea immediately received support, almost all of them responded. These rabble thought they had planned well and were really ready to do something.

Ulysses's rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun.

Before Ulysses could recruit troops, agents from the United Council broke into his home in the middle of the night, seized all his ancestral property, and sent his entire family to prison.

Those who had gathered at the door of Ulysses' house immediately scattered, looking for the next unlucky Mengsk.

Augustus VIII never mentioned what happened at that time. When his father Ulysses was hanged as the main criminal, he was still imprisoned in the prison converted from the palace (as a Mengsk, he had never been to the palace before, but thanks to this surname, he could get the same treatment as the royal family - when he was a criminal).

Some Hedgie wizards who served the royal family claimed that it was at that time that Connie's terrible psychic gifts fully emerged, like an awakening beast. Although he was halfway across Augustgrad from the execution ground, he still saw his father's painful death through some kind of precognitive vision of the future.

Ulysses Mengsk is a complete wretch who takes the unwritten Mengsk family motto seriously: Mengsks are born to achieve great things. Ulysses' father told him so, and so did his father's father.

When it came to Connie's generation, Ulysses brainwashed him in the same way, but his son just wanted to lie down.

Unfortunately, Ulysses, who compared himself to Augustus the Great, never accomplished anything, but he also never hurt anyone. He only enriched the pockets of countless businessmen, dreamers and con men.

Ulysses had great strength, but he never used it to kill anyone, only to perform magic tricks for Connie or to help his neighbors pluck fruit from trees from the air. This man dreamed of becoming an emperor like Augustus the Great, but he was fucking afraid of blood.

He could have killed hundreds of people in a split second, but was captured by a group of Earth soldiers with no psychic powers, who thought they could subdue a level 12 psychic with their psychic blockers.

His mother died shortly after Connie was born, and Ulysses was his only relative except for an uncle whose whereabouts were unknown.

When Ulysses died, Connie began to become as hard as steel and began to transform into a so-called Mengsk.

The Earthlings were very generous and did not cause trouble for Connie, nor did they keep him under strict surveillance. It was not that they did not know how powerful Connie was. In fact, at that time, a group of scientists from Earth were thinking of dissecting him for research.

You are the one who knows that Earth considers psychics as the third class of people, and the fourth class of people are the Marines.

It was Alexander Dugar who stopped them after hearing about it.

People's moral values ​​are sometimes so contradictory. In order to win, Alexander could immediately order the killing of 10 million people, among whom there might certainly be children much younger than Connie, but he refused to sign for the inhumane human experiments happening right before his eyes.

Dugar certainly didn't know at the time how many Earthlings this fourteen-year-old child would kill in the future. Augustus VIII hanged more Earthlings than all the emperors of the empire combined. His most common phrase was "Hang them!", and he was called "Cruel" Augustus.

Although the Earthlings did not slice Connie up for research, they could not just let him go home.

For such a threatening high-level psychic, it is actually appropriate to lock him up in the palace.

The psykers of the Terrans once caused a lot of trouble to the people on Earth. A powerful psyker mixed in with the ordinary army could produce the same destructive power as a high-level Templar of the Protoss. Not to mention the more mysterious things, it is rumored that they can also break steel with their bare hands or distort minds.

Earth and its off-world colonies rarely produce psykers, unless they are hybrids with Koprulu humans.

The United Council has focused much of their technology on anti-psychic technology, and their soldiers can even compete with the Protoss.

However, the psychic shielding device in the palace was the work of the Terrans themselves. You see, the Re-Conqueror Arcturus is a collateral lineage. He perfectly inherited the weak psychic powers of Emperor Augustus and the mortal body of Lisa Cassidy, and his psychic power is pitifully weak.

Emperor Arcturus always felt that psychics could control his little brains, so he kicked all the ghost agents out of the palace, and then spent a lot of money to build anti-psychic equipment in the palace to ensure that every high-level psychic who entered would suffer from a terrible headache.

However, this did not have much impact on Augustus VIII. Our Connie just had an itchy scalp and did not sleep well.

In his little room (I heard it wasn't even a room, you know? The palace was huge, but the smallest room in it was bigger than my home), Connie had a nightmare about a hanged man, a dream that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Connie actually never thought about escaping from the palace. He thought about revenge, but he had no idea what to do.

Augustus VIII was not a natural leader. He had a lot of bad habits, no opinions of his own, and lacked purpose in doing things. He always liked to go with the flow. His advisers usually made the decisions, and the emperor liked to do the work of chopping people with a knife himself.

He is definitely the type of person who is fine with everything and casual with friends.

Once, Azura Terra asked Connie alone which girl he wanted to go out with, and the latter asked where the girl was?

For several months or even longer, Connie had been sleeping in a self-destructive manner, so that the Earth agent who was secretly monitoring him could only report like this day after day: Augustus Constance Mengsk got up to eat breakfast, then was in a daze, had lunch, took a nap, peed or took a shit, had dinner, and went to sleep after eating.

Some scholars have pointed out that Augustus VIII wanted to paralyze the guards so that they would be careless.

He didn't think so at all.

Of course, the people on Earth were indeed complacent and careless, and the effect was the same.

Suddenly one day, Connie realized that someone was talking to him - in his mind.

This incident was recorded in the books, and was narrated by Augustus VIII himself, but others thought he was suffering from delusional disorder. - No one dared to say it.

Yes, this is indeed a true record of history, without any changes.

"You little dog, are you just going to sleep here?" the voice said, "Your name is Augustus? Don't lose face."

"Who are you?" Connie asked, "How do you know my name?"

"I'm your father." The voice was very uncultured.

"My dad is dead," Connie said. "He was hanged. His eyes were almost popping out of his head."

"Are you stupid?" The voice was speechless. "I won't waste my time talking to you. It's really annoying to talk to a Mengsk."

"Listen carefully, the first and last brainworm, the master of the swarm, the master of the swarm"

"I haven't heard of it." Augustus VIII always spoke his mind and asked questions when he had them.

"You're an idiot." The other party immediately broke the defense: "I just retired, not died. Have people nowadays even forgotten the reputation of the Zerg?"

"That was during the time of Emperor Augustus. Now there are only primitive Zerg left," Connie said.

"That's because I threw the Zerg out of the galaxy." It was a little unhappy:

"Forget it, it's all just empty reputation."

But after a while, it said proudly:

"Have you heard of "The Erotic History of Augustus Caesar"? By the way, I had to make major changes to this book later. Oh, can this be called a rumor? What about "What You Don't Know About Augustus Caesar"? What about "The Legend of the Star Heroes" and "The Nightmare of the Beauty of Khar"? You must have heard of "My Personal Record of Thirty Years in the Palace: The Women Deceived by Augustus Caesar"."

"I don't like reading," said Connie.

"."The voice fell silent.

"Aren't you an alien insect? Why are you writing books about humans?" Connie is very good at finding topics.

"Because I'm good at observation and summary." The voice was a little reserved: "Although I'm not a human, I can make up stories. I'm planning to do something big recently, looking into old cases and digging deep into the dog emperor's dark history."

"It's all in the past."

"Who is the Dog Emperor?" Connie asked.

"Who else could it be? Augustus Mengsk." The other party said, "The one hanging on your grave."

"Augustus Caesar?" Connie asked, "Do you know him?"

"We are quite familiar with each other," it said. "We are still in touch often."

"So you're dead?" Connie asked.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" It roared, "I'm not dead."

There was a long silence.

"Where are you? In the palace? What are you doing here?" Connie really felt like he had seen a ghost. This old guy was not easy to tease.

"I made a small mistake." The brainworm sighed, "The dog emperor punished me to sit here and reflect on my mistakes. It is said that Sun Wukong was punished in the same way when he caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace. Do you know who Sun Wukong is?"

"It's in the myths over there," said Connie.

"Is it great?" the brainworm asked, "I haven't been online much recently because I'm busy publishing a new work." (Some people speculate that it is the author of Flower of the Empire, but I reserve my opinion. You might as well say that the author of this book is Augustus VIII)

"That's great," Connie said.

"Well well well~" The brain worm was overjoyed: "Okay, I'm not here to chat with you. Seeing that you are the descendant of the Dog Emperor, I will reluctantly help you."

"What?" Connie didn't respond.

"I won't be leaving the mountain anymore, so I'll lend you my little brother. His name is Sass, and he will be your real brother from now on." said the brain worm.

"Remember this well, be alert, and don't lose face."

I was so excited that I had originally planned to write two to three thousand words.

I was originally planning to finish it in one chapter, but ended up limiting myself to only 20,000 words.

I’ll just post this much for now.

Thank you Archbishop for your leadership.