StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

"what?"

The conversation ended with our Emperor Connie’s “Huh?”, and the other party just left a sentence “I’m going to do some creative work” and never appeared again.

It almost sounded like a comedian's dialogue.

Oh, this is the most popular trend in Augustgrad now. Probably every few hundred years, humans will dig up the popular elements of the past, refurbish, repackage, and resell them.

Emperor Augustus called this crosstalk. It is said that there has never been a touching opera epic in the Royal Opera House, only the emperor's endless bad jokes and the laughter of his old friends.

As mentioned before, others thought that this conversation came from Augustus VIII's delusions, which were obvious: he had just lost his father, was overly sad, and was mentally ill. Also, apart from himself, no one could prove that this conversation really existed, and in the end we didn't know who the brain worm was.

Legend has it that the brain worm is immortal. If it really exists, who left this vicious and terrifying monster in Korhal?

(Remember, this brainworm was rudely interrupted before it could even finish announcing its name? Based on the way it spoke, I guess it will be given other more sensational titles, such as Dog Brainworm, Lanling Laughing Bug, and the Beauty Bug King.)

In short, the clerk who recorded these conversations with Augustus VIII was serious at first and chose a page of good paper inlaid with gold leaf for written records so that they could be sealed and preserved.

Actually, our dear Emperor Connie didn't have to be so lifelike when retelling, and he had to imitate the high-pitched eunuch voice of the brain worm. The clerk put down his pen from time to time, touched his head, and pulled his hair, as if a zombie had just visited his brain.

The poor imperial official had an extremely wonderful expression on his face, as if he heard the emperor reciting love poems to him.

Having written this far, I realized that I actually wrote a large section about the story of Augustus VIII in my homework. Well, who knows why I like him? My dog ​​is named Connie.

Professor An wouldn't mind, as she never even looks at the homework.

Many people actually don't know much about Augustus VIII, even though he is very well-known, even though he is the founder of our Third Mengsk Dynasty, and even though he conquered the largest territory in the history of the Terran Empire.

Not only are our enemies afraid of him, but even our own people are afraid of him. The people of the empire would rather talk about the tyrant Juan than the great-grandfather of our current emperor.

If anyone has really seen this, I would like to ask a question for you: Augustus VIII, how did Connie Mengsk escape from the palace and establish a dynasty?

Here’s a hint: the answer lies in one of Augustus VIII’s many titles: Insect Caller, Insect Tamer, Lord of Darkness.

Although we still don't know the name of the brain worm that day, the brain worm Sass does exist. It is an extremely ancient and powerful brain worm and one of the smartest known brain worms.

The swarm guards the country's borders, and the brain worms kill the country.

On that day, in Korhal, the Zerg, which had disappeared from the galaxy for over a thousand years, returned once again, and humanity once again remembered its fear of them.

They came from a place that had never been noticed, the ocean of Korhal.

To add, my classmate Lila always said that if you shoot into the air, the falling bullet will accurately hit a Khari.

But just over 400 years ago, Korhal's cities and population were far less than they are now. It once had six continents and two oceans. It is said that even longer ago, standing at the highest point of the old town of Stilling, one could see the azure coastline, where the Mengsk family's summer home was located. This beautiful white marble building was where Emperor Augustus was born, and now all Mengsks call it the ancestral home or the old house.

Of course, the real ancestral home has long been destroyed, and the current one is just an imperial palace that has been expanded four times.

The swarm emerged from the largest ocean on Korhal. Compared to it, Fairy Lake, the largest artificial lake in Augustgrad, is just a small puddle inhabited by frogs.

This vast ocean was once mostly evaporated by the Old Federation's Apocalypse-class nuclear bomb, and then filled up again with wastewater filled with radioactive dust.

It was not until many years later that the land and the ocean regained life. In order to commemorate the ocean in his childhood memories, the emperor established the largest ocean as a protected area and prohibited any commercial development.

According to some urban legends of the time, children who often picked up shells on the beach would sometimes come across huge alloy blades covered with blue patterns like Damascus knives, and some were large enough to be used to cut through armored vehicles.

Sometimes, anglers who ventured deep into the ocean would catch some strange creatures that were as ugly as monkfish and as big as calves. After research, it was found that these creatures were some highly aquatic subspecies of alien insects. However, the Imperial Security Department and Ogbo agents who learned of the news would basically come to take away the illegally captured "protected animals" the next day.

Of course, these insignificant little things did not cause any big stir at the time. Normally, if UNN saw a rooster laying eggs, he would be so excited that he would cluck, as if that was its offspring. However, the pictures of alien monsters, which would have been big news at any time, would be forgotten as soon as they entered the submission mailbox.

Some people may think that hiding Zerg at home is like inviting death, but they are precisely the last army of Korhal willing to fight for the Empire.

On this day, ten million king insects that had evolved giant eyes, porous skin, luminous organs, poisonous spines and multiple pairs of fins rose from the parted sea water, like a fleet of Zeppelin airships built by an ocean civilization.

Then came the hundreds of millions of flying insects, which came from the hatching pools in the deep sea. Their skins were moist but extremely hard, and most of them looked like the sea monsters described by navigators, deep, terrifying, and as big as mountains. Some of them looked like giant sea snakes, some looked like big fish covered with spikes or flying dragons with wings on their backs, and the largest ones looked like giant whales that could easily swallow cargo ships.

The last to appear was the Leviathan - its size was more than two or three times larger than that in the final battle. It was hard to imagine how rich the ocean of Korhal must be to support so many huge creatures.

Many years later, Imperial scientists found the answer from a specimen of an aquatic alien insect: part of its genome was highly consistent with the remains of the Xel'Naga in Urna, and the master of this aquatic insect swarm, the brain worm Sass, personally admitted that "they" had received the gift of God and "they" possessed psychic powers.

That day, the Earth occupation forces' observatories on Korhal and in orbit were thrown into a frenzy of hysteria. On every control panel of bio-radar, motion detector, and sensor, red dots of Zerg life signals popped up like bubbles in a beer bottle.

All the AI ​​computer databases that knew about the Swarm were awakened in unison, and their warning cries were like machines screaming in fear.

The soldiers on duty were shouting and jumping, yelling, "It's the Zerg! It's the Zerg! Call the fleet! Call the fleet!"

But the fleet was as panicked as they were.

We still don't understand why, if the Empire already had such a trump card, they had to wait until many years after the fall of Korhal to use it. It can't be that they forgot about it.

Terrans build the biggest and best warships in the galaxy today. They maintain a massive fleet stationed on Korhal: six thousand Star Destroyers designed to decimate colonies single-handedly, forty to fifty thousand motherships and battleships, and countless auxiliary vessels, even the smallest of which could wipe out the largest Imperial warships of the age of Augustus the Great as easily as wiping the dust off a shoe. A Gorgon is a bathtub toy in comparison.

With the exception of the Durram Protoss, no known non-Earth Federation fleet at the time could contend with it.

Korhal was once known as the last and strongest bastion of the Terran Empire, but after Alexander du Garr captured it without a single blow, all Imperial fleets attempting to retake their capital world were unable to cross Sky Shield again.

Ever since the last Imperial Navy Admiral who attempted to retake Korhal was defeated here and the last Imperial fleet was destroyed, there has not been a decent large-scale naval battle in this galaxy for more than thirty years, and there has not even been a wave.

Therefore, although Korhal's Earth army will not neglect its duties, it is bound to be careless.

At that time, three-quarters of the Earth's fleet were stationed in port anchorages in the outer space orbit of Korhal, and one-quarter were cruising around the Korhal system, the farthest of which was half a light-year away.

This is understandable. Since there are a large number of fleets on guard in the periphery and the largest orbital defense facilities in history as a barrier, the earthlings do not need to and will not keep all the warships in the port fully staffed and well-equipped at all times.

At the same time, the numbers on paper are just paper after all. A considerable number of warships in this garrison fleet are undergoing maintenance, repairs and weapon upgrades, while some are used to train new recruits and rotate guards. The number of soldiers left behind in many warships docked in the dock is even less than the number of dock workers.

This was the same for both the Terrans and the Earthlings. As long as there was a chance, even if their warships had city-sized entertainment facilities, these people would rather go to land to drink cheap wine and breathe polluted air than stay on the deck for even a quarter of an hour.

As mentioned before, Korhal had not fought a major war for thirty years, which was thirty years of peace for the soldiers stationed here for a long time. This was long enough for a twenty-year-old fleet soldier to become an experienced one, and the veterans who participated in the last Korhal campaign had already retired.

That day, like every other day, many of the occupying soldiers on leave were getting drunk and passing out in the bars of Augustgrad, while those who were awake were busy robbing and hiring prostitutes. The officers were enjoying feasts in luxury hotels and top clubs, flirting and making eye contact with local upper-class girls.

According to historical records, when the commanders of the occupation forces, who were also naked, pulled their subordinates out of the bed of a widow of an imperial soldier, these people screamed louder than women. I won't go into other more embarrassing things, as some imperial people may not like to hear them.

According to the later recollections of a senior Earth Navy staff officer: More than 10,000 warships were neatly parked in the harbor, with too few people on duty and a lack of combat personnel. This was just enough for our enemies to concentrate their firepower and kill them like meat on a skewer. At that time, it was a blessing from God that only one out of every three warships could be put into battle immediately. The Zerg's attack was so fast that we didn't have time to retrieve the people on the second and third warships and send them to the sky before we were defeated.

They never dreamed that the enemy would attack from the interior of the planet, right below them.

If the enemy attacks from the front of Sky Shield, they will only see a super interstellar fortress armed to the teeth with countless point defense arrays, space-time shattering devices, high-energy cannons and missile nests. Every corner you can see is densely interwoven with impregnable defense lines. Sky Shield's void shield is enough to withstand the force that can destroy a planet. If a warship is to be armed with such a configuration, it must be at least as large as Korhal.

But if you attack from the bottom of the Sky Shield, it's much easier. How do you deal with a hedgehog or a turtle? The best way is to turn it over and attack the relatively vulnerable belly.

In most cases, this is impossible to happen. No matter how fast the ship is, it is impossible to avoid the terrible firepower of Sky Shield and go around behind it.

The entire galaxy is filled with super-time and space interference devices set up by the earthlings, thus blocking the possibility of launching a surprise attack through short-distance jumps.

But whether it was a coincidence or premeditated, the Zerg avoided the dense defensive firepower of the Sky Shield's front and ruthlessly crushed all human troops who tried to resist them.

At that time, the fleet was commanded not by Dugar Alexander, but by another marshal under him, Melvin Porter. However, no other commander could have done better than Porter in this situation.

Potter was getting up and putting on his socks when the battle first started, and three and a half minutes later he was issuing orders on the fleet-wide channel, but by then they had already lost.

Porter ordered every ship in the harbor to be removed and all fleets outside to be recalled in order to regroup and launch a counterattack.

But at this time, the super-time and space interference device was more unhelpful than helpful. The warships scattered in various anchorages could only rely on their thrusters to slowly "crawl" towards the assembly point, while the cruise fleet that hurried back to Korhal was successively encircled by the Zerg and was eaten up.

The hastily assembled Earth fleet was divided up, defeated, and slaughtered without any suspense like pigs to be slaughtered, and the Earth warships parked in the port exploded one after another, turning into burning scrap metal.

As Walter G. Green wrote in his book: The Earthlings screamed all night until they bled dry. After the swarm left, the sun was able to rise again from the Sky Shield, and it was a purgatory under the sun.

While the Zerg swarm was rolling over Skyshield and an entire Earth fleet like a truck rolling over bugs, another equally large ground hive was storming Augustgrad - but this could not be called a war at all. In fact, it was also a one-sided massacre, a true carpet massacre.

There were quite a few regular troops in Augustgrad, but more than half of them were sleeping. When the remaining ones tried to resist, they found that most of the weapons of mass destruction that could really threaten the Zerg were still locked in the armory.

On the contrary, the security forces composed of local people and the Earth's puppet army organized some effective resistance, but they only made a small splash in the tide of the Zerg and were not noticeable at all.

Back to our Emperor Connie Mengsk, it was hilarious that when the Zerg arrived, he was just as frightened as everyone else, not knowing that it was actually his own Zerg that came. The guard at the gate said "Zerg are coming" and ran away, leaving the poor prisoners screaming in fear.

Most people would have taken advantage of the chaos to flee at this time, but Connie was still lying on the bed waiting to die. Don't forget, this guy is the most powerful psyker in the past two thousand years except Queen Sarah Kerrigan. If he wants, he can tear a twenty-foot thick wall like tearing paper.

But Connie doesn't know how powerful he is. All the education he has received is to restrain his power and not let it hurt others around him.

The power of this family is so great that its founder, Patrick, is even more worried that his descendants will abuse it too much. If Patrick wants a person's head to explode, want to break his limbs, want to make him fall apart like a rotten tomato crushed by a car, he can make his wish come true as long as he thinks about it.

Connie's father, Ulysses, can actually fly.

Ulysses could rise into the air like a light feather on the heat of a hearth, but the greatest thing he ever did with that power was to carry home a baby bird that had fallen from its nest.

No one had yet taught Connie how to shape his terrible psychic power into something powerful enough to cut a skyscraper in half or boil an entire lake, or even to reach a limit high enough to split a battleship in half and boil the blood of tens of thousands of people like milk.

In short, Connie had the power of space and time but didn't know how to use it, so he just wanted to see Emperor Augustus as soon as possible. He swore in his heart that if his ancestors had pity on him, they would take him away quickly, otherwise they would give him the power to subvert the world.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Augustus did not accept unfilial descendants, and slapped this ancestor who was trying to scam him back.

However, unexpectedly, the first people who came to rescue him were not the brain worm Sass's troops, but an imperial princess holding a key.

The princess was the only daughter of Angus VIII and his first queen. She had been neglected since her mother's death. Not only was she deliberately ignored by her family, but even the prison guards who guarded the royal family allowed her to walk around the palace.

I have to say, why is there no lovely princess to rescue me from this cage-like college life?

Just imagine, this princess is really beautiful, with gray hair and gray eyes of the Mengsk family. She holds the key thrown away by the guard, looking at you helplessly, wiping tears in fear, and trembling like a drowned puppy.

This is Rachel Mengsk. The Mengsk family is a family of wolves and a group of lions, but Rachel is a woman as pure and flawless as a lamb. She is the future queen of the Third Mengsk Dynasty.

(I have to say that more than a thousand years have passed, and the two families have rarely intermarried. Their relationship is actually very distant. Those who make a fuss about this are just looking for trouble.)

However, the princess did not come here specifically to save Connie. Emperor Connie did not have the nerve to do that, and the other party did not even know him.

In addition to Connie, the princess's restless relatives were also imprisoned here (but these people were in a hurry to escape and didn't even say a word of gratitude. Ironically, none of them survived later). Connie was the last person to be rescued, and he was the only one who said a polite word.

"Thank you, but do you know how we can escape?" Connie thought she had some way, like a shuttle that could take them away from Korhal or something.

There were shuttles, but they had all been taken away, and if Princess Rachel hadn't come to rescue the gang, she might have been able to grab a spot.

Just as Emperor Augustus VIII wrote on her tombstone: The dumbest woman in the galaxy, the luckiest woman in the galaxy.

"Wait to die." Connie rushed over and spread his hands.

"Ah?" A stupid woman can only say "Ah?".

Emperor Connie the Great did not wait to die. He was just used to saying discouraging words, but it did not mean that he would really accept his fate. He was the kind of person who would shout that our army was going to be defeated while hacking the enemy to pieces.

However, some naturally lazy people think that they can solve everything as long as they start working hard, but in reality, they often fail to achieve their goals. Unfortunately, Connie is such a person. He led Princess Rachel around the palace for a long time, but he couldn't find anything that could fly except flies. In the end, he could only admit that he was a brainless idiot.

Fortunately, the Zerg was originally sent by Sass to rescue him.

These horned, webbed-footed Zerg could easily tear the throats of a group of guards, but they were as docile as loyal dogs to Connie. He took a step, and all the Zerg crawled to the ground, making way for their dark master, the future monarch of the Terran Empire.

The Emperor later recalled: That damn Sass could have informed me in advance, but it deliberately wanted to give me a warning and try to scare the shit out of me.

It almost worked, thanks to my ancestors, I almost peed in my crotch.

If you look through the declassified files and find the part about the brain worm Sass, you will see this sentence: Sass, the second most distinctive brain worm in the Terran Empire.

Sass is a bad-tempered brainworm, he is like a mentor who is looking for trouble with you, bald, vicious, narrow-minded, and hermaphroditic. He will point fingers and nag like an old mother all the time, as if he can do better than you with his butt.

Coincidentally, Connie is not someone who will swallow his anger, so these two are a perfect match when they meet.

In the memoirs of Lieutenant General Paul (who served as an aide to Augustus VIII), The Undertaker, similar dialogues are common:

"Augustus, another great victory. If you don't mind, I have to point out the one hundred and twenty mistakes you made in this battle so that you won't make them again in the future."

"I'm sorry, but you're not worthy enough to point out my mistakes."

"Your Majesty, no offense, maybe I should let Abathur transform you properly, increase muscle density, and expand brain tissue structure. In other words, a brain as big as a walnut is enough for humans."

"I think you are a maggot that has turned into a spirit and is about to ascend to heaven."

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. If I hadn't stopped the antimatter bomb in time, you would have died worthlessly like a plague pig in a cesspool."

"You saved my life, Seth, thank you, your mother is alive (from the 14th section of "Augustus Caesar's Quotations")."

"Connie, if she was a zerg, then Abathur could have used her essence to revive her. But unfortunately, she is not. This matter has been delayed too long, and what you humans call a soul is no longer there."

"No, that's fine. That's fine."

"Sath, my father told me that Emperor Augustus took away the souls of all his relatives and friends - they live in a world like heaven. After that, all the upright and kind Mengsk will arrive in the void after death. My mother is also there, and our family will be reunited there. I have killed so many people, and I know clearly that most of them don't deserve to die. It seems that I can't go to this place."

"I haven't heard of such a thing. The Void Gate has been closed for more than a thousand years. Such a thing may exist, just like the legends of dwarves, goblins, and dragons."

It's all very irrelevant, but many people believe that this conversation was what prompted Augustus VIII to leave the galactic empire he built in search of a childhood fantasy that did not exist.

The book returns to its true story.

Connie ended up on one of Sass's Leviathans, oh, and Princess Rachel was taken along as well.

This story is quite cliché, about the last descendant of a dynasty who bears the hatred for his father's murder and the princess who carries the hatred for the loss of her country who rescues each other.

However, the person who rescued the princess was not riding a white horse, but an alien insect.

After taking down the Sky Shield without any suspense, Sass's swarm of insects sailed away, leaving the frightened Earthlings to gather their remnants and slip out of Korhal in disgrace.

A few days later, another Earth fleet that came to reinforce recaptured the completely undefended Khara, because the original defenders were so frightened that they refused to set foot in Khara again.

Many people have heard the story after that. After escaping, Augustus VIII seemed to have become a different person, becoming strong and reliable. He finally raised the banner of the Mengsk royal family, recruited soldiers, and raised an army of rebels.

Of course, at the beginning, Connie's men were not even a mob, and were even worse than the group in his father's living room. He had all kinds of people under his command, including pirates who wanted to whitewash themselves, unemployed miners, students who gave up their studies and joined the army, and former imperial veterans who were over fifty years old.

At first, Connie had no money to pay these people's wages, until a ghost gold merchant named Frank Santo saw that he was a big shot and provided a small sum of money.

This was the most cost-effective investment since the establishment of the Second Dynasty by Arcturus the Reconqueror.

As Connie gradually gained some reputation (the news of the Zerg's comeback could not fail to cause a sensation), more and more talented and righteous people came to join him, including General Charles Wells and Prime Minister Duval Williams mentioned earlier, who also came at this time.

However, these people also brought some bad news.

Azula Terra is dead. You may not have much impression of this girl. Let me tell you, she is probably Connie's childhood sweetheart. In Connie's eyes, Azula is definitely different from others, but he may never understand what this feeling is.

The Terra family is a large family with influence throughout the empire. All the patriarchs of this family have been staunch supporters of the emperor of the empire, but in the generation of Angus VIII, the Terra family joined the Earth Federation to protect themselves.

This was not considered a betrayal in the eyes of people at that time. After all, even the emperor had surrendered. Did they have to die for the Mengsk family's empire?

However, no matter what the purpose, there are some people in the Terra family who are still loyal to the Empire. Azura's parents are one of them. This family has been rooted in Korhal for hundreds of years and was the most powerful branch family at the time except for the main family of Tarsonis.

Later, when the new dynasty liquidated the Terra family, it almost uprooted them all, but spared this branch of Korhal.

I've never met Azula, but I know she's a very smart girl, with black hair and dark eyes, very different from Connie, and she's what you would call a natural leader.

Azula is only two or three years older than Connie, but she has already started managing the family business for her father and is doing a better job than him.

That's roughly what happened. Azura was in Augustgrad when the Zerg attacked the city. In the name of her father, she contacted a group of ghost agents who were still loyal to the Empire (strictly speaking, this can't be considered cheating), and spent a huge amount of money and risk to transport these people into the city so that they could go to the palace to break into the prison.

Of course, the condition is to rescue Connie Mengsk at the same time, which is a piece of cake.

In Connie's impression, Azula was extremely smart, but this was the only time she made a foolish mistake. When Augustgrad was in chaos, Azula immediately sent out the ghosts. There was no doubt that this was a perfect opportunity to rush into the palace. Normally, even if there were more people, they would still be sending themselves to death.

When Korhal first fell, people who tried to rush into the palace to rescue the emperor died in large numbers, but no one succeeded. Later, there were fewer and fewer such people, so much so that there is still a proverb circulating in Augustgrad: If you want to die, go to the palace.

No one will ever know what Azula was thinking, but what is certain is that she spent ten times more effort than defeating a rival family to find out that Connie was still alive, and she must be the only person in the world who was desperate to save him.

In short, the people she kept around her were definitely not enough to protect herself.

Connie had never mentioned Azula, nor would he allow anyone to, and nothing had ever hurt him so deeply.

It wasn't Connie's fault, and it certainly had nothing to do with Sass.

Sass swore that he had never attacked civilians, and if such a thing happened, he would let it be sucked dry by the Xel'Naga artifact (although I don't quite understand it, but I guess this must be a huge oath for the brain worm).

But it was too chaotic, and Azula chose not to leave in a private shuttle, which was a wise decision, as most of the private aircraft that crashed that day were shot down by their own anti-aircraft fire.

The problem was with the family guards protecting Azula, but it was not their fault. Even the most well-trained soldiers would have a hard time resisting shooting when a large swarm of insects approached. What would a girl do when she saw a cockroach? Either she would scream or kill it. This was the human instinct to deal with fear.

Of course it would be better if you had a younger brother, but the swarm is not a cockroach, so it is useless to ask for help off the field.

There is actually still room for recovery at this point. The Zerg is known for its efficient killing, and Sass is the best at this. It usually does not waste time slaughtering civilians unless they recklessly stand in the way of the Zerg.

However, it just so happened that there happened to be an Earth army that was being killed by the Zerg nearby. When they saw someone in the Terra Sky Tower "extending a helping hand", they immediately rushed over like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

Confusedly, Azula and her men suddenly began to join the Earthlings in resisting the Zerg's attack, just like jumping onto a sinking ship.

(This is not surprising. The Zerg attacked Augustgrad, not Rome and Venice. You would naturally regard the Zerg invading your homeland as enemies and the Earthlings as allies.)

Tragedy happened. Azula was not killed by the Zerg, but by a stray bullet. Of course, the Zerg don't use bullets. This was a friendly fire - a family guard missed the target when he fired, or simply said he missed his head. This man was loyal and brave, willing to take the bullet for Azula, but he was scared by the Zerg and peed his pants, and his hands were shaking badly.

Zerg don't use bullets.

This is a battlefield. Even a hidden gun cannot be so accurate. People die in all kinds of strange ways.

The bullet that hit Azula hit her right in the head, slicing off her nose and blowing half her face off. Imagine cutting a picture of her diagonally in two.

Have you heard of this? It is said that many of the Marines' casualties were not caused by the enemy, but by accidental injuries from siege tanks. Of course, the Empire has not used siege tanks for many, many years. We have much better things, but as long as the shells are fired, they may still hit our own people.

Anyway, in the end, those ghosts didn't save anyone and they all died in the palace. Azula also died, but Angus VIII and Connie were still alive.

Azula's death was undoubtedly a huge blow to Connie personally, but there was something that dealt a bigger blow to his career.

On the first night, five or six million people died in Augustgrad. By the time people dug out countless corpses from under the collapsed buildings and pieced them together, and by the time the seriously injured who had survived the first night died in the following days, the number had increased dozens of times.

As mentioned before, there are too many people in Khar.

The Zerg are indeed to blame for this, but I still have to say that if anyone is willing to look through some of the information from that time, they will find that the vast majority of the dead had no signs of Zerg bites or acid corrosion on their bodies. Their direct causes of death were a large number of accidental attacks, fires that burned for several days and nights in the urban area, and fusion warheads that accidentally fell in densely populated areas.

Needless to say, the people on Earth blamed all the casualties on the Zerg. After all, it was the Zerg that started the war first. After all, no one would have thought that the Zerg started the war just for a kid locked up in the palace. After all, the Zerg would not argue.

Later, everyone knew that the Zerg reappeared in response to Connie's call, and he was the only one in the world who could control the Zerg swarm.

There is no doubt that he is a scourge, a disaster, and a damn avenger.

Thirty years ago, the Earthlings killed more Imperial soldiers, but in comparison, the Imperials were still more afraid of the Zerg.

Well, that's where the bad reputation started, which might not be a bad thing for a conqueror.

Every monarch would certainly like to be praised for his kindness rather than condemned for his cruelty, and although Cesare Borgia was considered cruel, it was precisely by his cruelty that he unified Romagna.

It is best for a great monarch to be both loved and feared, and that is what Augustus was.

Some people say that one has to reach the level of Augustus the Great to be honored as the Great Emperor, but it is too difficult to achieve both at the same time. Being able to achieve one of them is enough to go down in history.

It’s easy to lower your standards. Either be a good person all your life, or do bad things to the extreme. Either make people love you, or make people fear you to death.

If you are loved, people who are grateful to you will be willing to shed blood for you. But think about it, we humans are like this, there are many people, and our life span is short, so most of them are short-sighted, indecisive, and ungrateful. In the eyes of these people, those who are loved are mostly kind, and another meaning of kindness is weakness, which means that you can betray at will.

Everyone wants to be liked, but it's hard to do. It's much easier to make people fear you, and you can take control of the situation instead of hoping that people will be grateful.

There are many ways to win people's hearts. You don't have to talk about ideals. Promising them benefits is the most direct and effective way. At the same time, you have to make them respect you and carefully consider the cost of betrayal. Secondly, it is best to make your enemies tremble when they hear your name, and unconsciously fear the outcome of defeat.

The swarm is the embodiment of fear. For Connie, there is no way he can help but be feared. He can only go down this path until the end.

When it comes to conquering the world, loyalty gained through fear is very fragile, but all he has to do is keep winning and win to the end.

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. In short, ever since Connie really assembled a decent army and had the support of the Zerg, he used the fleet as a base to attack the scattered Earth Federation fleets everywhere. They captured cities, plundered supplies, and ran away after the fight, never staying for long.

The Earth fleet that rushed to put out the fire basically came up empty-handed every time. Those who could catch up could not be defeated, and those who could defeat them could not catch up.

Connie didn't know how to control the strength at first, but later he became more skilled. He even took off his pants and ran for his life.

Later, the rebels lived better and better, just like advertising, as long as the name is loud enough, there will always be people willing to buy it.

The claim to be a descendant of Emperor Augustus and Queen Sarah Kerrigan wasn't as powerful as it once was, but it was still more powerful than any other claim. Connie also had Princess Rachel to play - the only free former royal.

The shipping giant Angel Family was the second to bet on the new emperor. They sent Connie a large number of cargo ships filled with a full set of materials that could transform these ships into raiders. Then Grayson and Hobart Group moved in several obsolete civilian production lines that could quickly transform the looted resources into armor and mechas. The Yumoyan people hoped to establish an independent country, so they also invested a large sum of money.

You may ask, at this point, what about the famous Alexander Dugar, the one who single-handedly destroyed the Terran Empire thirty years ago.

This brings us to the relationship between Earthlings and us, the Terrans. Humans, a great and stupid race.

At that time, Dugar had actually retired for many years, and many of his capable subordinates had also retired, either retreating to the second line or disappearing from the face of the world. Instead, the most mediocre people under his command at that time were in control of the army.

As for the power struggle, there are no strong enemies outside, so people just fight among themselves, and it is a life-and-death struggle. Anyway, it is impossible for them to work together.

If Dugar didn't have a high reputation in the army and among the people, he would have been finished like the people behind him.

When the various factions within the Earth United Council can unite around a common enemy, they can put aside identity prejudices and class status, and bring true heroes to the fore. When the dust settles, they will kick him away like a drowned dog without hesitation.

In fact, Dugar is only 69 years old. People in high positions have many ways to prolong their lives, and his brain is far from being old and dull.

Oh, Emperor Augustus said that things change over time, and don't despise the young and poor. Now thirty years have passed, and it is our enemies' turn to make stupid mistakes.

The courage and glory of humans would make the Protoss feel ashamed, but when it comes to being stupid, they have no bottom line.

At this time, the Earth Federation's generals had been replaced several times, and the board of directors was full of new faces.

In fact, if we have to say something, people on Earth always feel that we Terrans are taking history backwards and want to establish feudal monarchy in the interstellar age. It would be fine if all the monarchs were wise, but if there were incompetent or tyrannical monarchs, everything would be over. I don't deny that.

However, the fact that an elephant drowned does not necessarily mean that a donkey can swim; the people as a group are not necessarily infallible; and the leaders they elect are not necessarily all better than tyrants.

Most of the people around me are good people, or not too bad. At least they have all received compulsory education in the empire. This group of people should be enough to form a team to manage an immigrant community. However, most of them don’t really care about politics. Some of them don’t even recognize all the candidates for parliament in their constituencies. The people they elect may not be able to run a public toilet.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion. My family is considered royal, and my butt is naturally crooked.

Having said that, the United Earth Council has nominally replaced a group of people, but the real people in power are still the same people from thirty years ago. They once defeated the empire (of course, they have to credit it, without them, Dugar would still be a farmer, and the one who wields the sword is still a human being), and they will not make a fuss about this little movement now.

Well, the Zerg might be a problem, but their numbers aren't that large. Compared to the Zerg in their heyday, Sass's swarm is just a small offshoot.

The disastrous defeat of Khar should be attributed to lax military discipline and negligence of the generals, which was also the final conclusion of the Council. The enemy succeeded by a surprise attack, allowing the Earth fleet to be fully prepared and to fight head-on. The outcome is still unknown.

And they have at least fifty such fleets, one-third of which are stationed in the homeland, one-third in the empire, and the rest are almost the maximum number of mobile forces that can be mobilized, enough to deal with a few buzzing bugs.

War means military merit. No matter what, Augustus Constance Mengsk did give the Earth Federation a wake-up call. A young lady riding in a bridal sedan was the first one (said by Emperor Augustus, don’t ask me what a bridal sedan is).

Without Dugar, would all their generals and marshals be unable to accomplish anything?

The generals who commanded the fleet all felt that they were no worse than Dugar, and each of them was eager to make achievements and vowed to avenge Korhal. If these people still couldn't solve the problem, then Dugar would be invited back.

If the situation is really urgent, the most powerful person on the board of directors will visit in person and apologize, or even kneel down if necessary.

But it definitely can't be now.

Unfortunately, the generals of the Earth Federation are certainly not all useless, but inferring from their battle records, we can only conclude that few of them are normal people.

The second major defeat of the Earth Federation occurred one year after the Battle of Korhal, when Connie Mengsk was 15 years old.

In Eta Ursa Minor, the Earth Federation Navy assembled an invincible fleet, which was five times the size of the garrison of Korhal. The commander of this fleet was Maurice Cecil. When Alexander Dugar invaded Korhal, he was just a combat staff officer who was temporarily inserted until the last minute.

There has long been a consensus on Maurice Cecil's military level. It is generally recognized that he is barely a qualified fleet commander. In peacetime, such a person can complete all orders from his superiors, but when it comes to making decisions on his own, he will make many mistakes.

Another point of view is that Cecil's talents were seriously underestimated. In retrospect, his judgment of the situation was very accurate, and the orders he issued were completely correct and reasonable at the time, and there was no other better choice.

In fact, after Cecil realized that his troops were about to be surrounded and annihilated and there was no hope of breaking out, he immediately ordered to cut off the tail and survive. This wording is not quite accurate, it should be "fight to the death" and "divine destruction".

This method was Cecil's own idea and had never appeared in any military academy textbook. Simply put, Cecil ordered the fleet to make a desperate charge, ready to detonate the antimatter engine as soon as it reached the Zerg swarm and perish together with the enemy.

The Zerg's encirclement was almost impenetrable, and although the Zerg were made of flesh and blood, they were harder and more reliable than steel. As long as they could block and eat the human army, they would rather use their bodies to fill the blast holes than give in.

However, they gave in at that moment anyway, because the brain worm Sass made a shrewd calculation in one thousandth of the time. These people were going to die anyway, so there was no need to sacrifice the swarms that he had worked so hard to accumulate, and he could just wait for them to explode on their own.

As a result, the tightly packed swarm of insects dispersed, and the encirclement became weaker. The remaining Earth fleet rushed out with ease, and used all their strength to shake off the enemy and warp away from the battlefield.

Cecil almost succeeded. During the Battle of Korhal, an Earth warship had used this trick, the engine destruction switch. The person who designed this thing was either mentally ill or crazy. As a soldier, you definitely don't want to serve on a warship with a self-destruction program, so only the captain and a few of his men know about this, and the verification process for turning it on is more complicated than applying to destroy a colony.

But Sass certainly didn't know that this thing can be turned on and off, and it turns out that you can hold back your shit when you're halfway through.

However, just when Cecil's flagship was about to flee the battlefield, a man led a group of soldiers who were as crazy as he was and hated the earthlings as much as he did, and rushed in on a boarding boat. It was incredible, just like the close combat between the ancient Greeks and Persians in the Battle of Salamis thousands of years ago.

Sasse was going mad.

Imagine a fat worm jumping back and forth like a fish on the shore. This action is not easy for a brain worm with excessively degraded physiological functions.

It screamed madly: Legends are not true. Maybe Jim Raynor would do such a thing, but Augustus Mengsk never does that. The dog emperor does not charge into battle. He wears power armor when fighting with others. He moves his hands like a little gangster. He is proficient in spreading lime, stepping on toes and poking eyes.

(That's about it. The original text is much more serious, but I don't have any ready-made information. You know, Sars never makes jokes, but it must have said damn Augustus, son of a bitch Augustus, fuck Augustus, what the hell are you doing, I'm going to feed you to Abathur)

What's the most maddening thing: The bastard who knows your embarrassing stories can live as long as a thousand-year-old bastard.

But Augustus Constance Mengsk was as brave and fearless as the Emperor Augustus in novels, biographies and mythological operas, kicking tanks with his feet and tearing Vikings apart with his bare hands.

On Cecil's flagship, Connie killed hundreds of Earth soldiers by himself. Some say it was thousands or tens of thousands. That's not right. It's too scary. Are they still human? Or is it a movie? These people are wearing armor. One person can deal with the entire history department of the Imperial University.

In some versions that circulated later, Maurice Cecil's death was portrayed as extremely romantic. The playwright said that at the last moment, Augustus VIII and Cecil stood on a mountain of corpses of each other's soldiers, facing each other, exchanged swords, saluted, and recited eight long poems before the winner was decided.

In fact, it is not that complicated. First of all, Cecil has no psychic powers, let alone being powerful. Secondly, he died in a very sloppy way.

This move even has an official name, Crushing Grip. Connie used his psychic power to crush several Earth soldiers who rushed towards him, along with the iron jaws of their heavy armor, like using pliers to crush walnuts - Cecil was among them, he was wearing a helmet and did not give his name as in the drama.

Afterwards, Sass shut up. He reluctantly admitted that Connie had done a good job and asked him not to do such a stupid thing next time.

We all knew it, and Connie didn't listen.

Judging from the results, Cecil dealt a heavy blow to the Zerg, so much so that they did not reappear in the eight months after the battle. In addition, he saved a considerable number of warships, which is no exaggeration to say that it was millions of lives and millions of families after that. But the Council only wanted victory, not to stop losses in time.

They don't accept failure.

It's hard for an outsider like me to explain this kind of thing clearly. Some people insisted that he should have walked into that damn trap from the beginning (they thought that fighting was like hopscotch, the enemy drew a circle on the ground and our people jumped into it), and this alone was enough to negate everything.

That's right, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. The loser is the loser, and the losers are only worthy of being criticized by us, the later generations who know nothing.

If the Council had needed a hero, a martyr to boost morale, they would have declared Cecil the reincarnation of a saint.

But unfortunately, almost no one knew about this battle at that time. The Federation Navy pretended that this event did not exist. The families of the soldiers who died in the battle always thought that their husbands, sons, brothers and sisters were still alive and well. Some of them did not realize what had happened until the enemy was at their doorstep (this is easy to guess, the Federation fleet won victory after victory, but the battle line was running all the way to the solar system).

This assignment is way too long, and I'm definitely not good at storytelling, so I forgot to mention how Cecil got surrounded by the swarm in Eta Ursa Minor.

During the Brood War - the era of Emperor Augustus, it sounds like a long time ago. At that time, the humans on Earth fought against the Zerg, but their expeditionary force did not send back any useful news after their defeat, and the Earth had no dealings with the Zerg for more than a thousand years after that.

I have no experience.

Let's put it this way, the Earthlings were too trusting of their own detection methods, and hastily concluded that the Zerg would not go to such great lengths to interfere with them as the Imperials did. The person who discovered this was a soldier, a communications soldier, named Arthur J. Madrid. There are only so many records about this man, and no one knows what happened to him later.

A little detail, people say, details determine success or failure.

Later, things were easy to handle. Connie told Sass about this idea, and Sass handed it over to Abathur, who did a good job. Soon, the Zerg had a new variant that could create a cloud of microorganisms that adhered to other Zerg. This cloud could make a large group of Zerg appear smaller and fewer in number on human detectors.

Simple, but effective.

I forgot to mention who Abathur is. Abathur is the evolutionary master of the Zerg, a unique existence among the Zerg, and a self-contained entity in the classification subject. He is obsessed with the study of the genetic structure of the Zerg, and is dedicated to creating excellent genes. His lifelong pursuit runs through it all - to make the Zerg perfect.

It may be difficult to understand, for example, that God created the world, created all kinds of animals, including fish and birds, as well as livestock, insects and beasts, and then created humans to give the world some difficulty.

Abathur is the god of the zerg.

No one knows how Abathur came about. Legend has it that it was created by the Overmind, but no one knows what happened later. Anyway, Abathur's master now is Sass.

In other words, Sass is God's master, and God's master's master is Connie Mengsk.

Going too far again.

With the new weapons, the war was easier to fight. The one who gave Connie advice was the future Imperial Prince Valerian Jupiter Mengsk, a distant relative of Prince Valerian. By Jupiter's generation, his family had lost their titles, and the previous generations were all engaged in business, and no one mentioned the glorious days of their ancestors.

At Eta Ursa Minor, Maurice Cecil's fleet captured a swarm of millions of Zerg (of course, this swarm did not use microbial swarms, so they still looked the same on the probe). Since the Battle of Korhal, all Earth soldiers have been holding back their energy to avenge their previous defeat, and as the saying goes, the generals and commanders are of one mind, and the three armies are dedicated, and they did a beautiful job of encircling and annihilating the Zerg swarm.

Cecil's soldiers were really happy for a while, and no one of them did not want to pursue the victory.

The people on Earth soon got what they wanted. Not long after, the second group of insects came to take revenge. There were a large number of them, and they seemed evenly matched. However, as long as one has courage and determination, there is no enemy that cannot be defeated.

This will be the head-on confrontation the Board wants, and it's fair.

But in fact, the enemies coming this time were much more numerous than they thought, and they were as numerous as the vast sea of ​​clouds. The terrible thing was that when they found out about this, it was already too late.

The third great defeat of the Earth Federation was in Pisces Rho. At that time, Connie was 19 years old and already a great leader. He had fought hundreds of battles and never lost. His enemies either feared or despised him and called him Red-haired Augustus, the Bug Emperor, and the Uncivilized Beast. It was rumored that he liked to tear people apart alive and eat their hearts and livers raw.

It was also during this period that the Council watched Connie's troops grow stronger over the course of more than four years. They had never expected that the bandit army would become stronger and stronger, from a group of rabble to well-trained armed thugs, and from a large group of thugs to a regular imperial army using standard armor and orthodox warships.

To be honest, although the empire had been destroyed for many years, many of the good things it left behind were still there:

I may have said that the administrative efficiency of the empire at that time was already quite low, and smart and capable people were ordered by useless people to do stupid things. Every position in the government was crowded with people, but there were fewer people who could actually do things than lice on a fish. The empire was bloated and corrupt, and the most serious problem was extravagance and waste, and uncontrolled squandering of productivity and tax revenue.

Take the Imperial Army for example, their favorite thing to do is to spend a lot of military funds to buy useless garbage, and sell the best military products at garbage prices. Stupid, right? But it's actually okay, no matter how much military funds are, they are public funds, and what's in your pocket is yours.

Let me tell you a specialty of the high-ranking officials of the Imperial Army. They buy things based on kickbacks. It doesn’t matter whether the goods are good or not, as long as they are good enough to fool the civil service system of Korhal (it’s easy to be a bad guy like this, stealing the blind man’s crutches and cheating the deaf man’s money. It just so happens that these bureaucrats are both deaf and blind).

Naturally, what they bought back were usually defective or scrapped, or the equipment was declared outdated by a generation right after they were bought. But the other party did not support returns, so they said, "Okay, let's keep the things. They will be useful sooner or later." Then all these things were forgotten until the warehouse keeper found Connie and said, "Guess what? No one has paid me for 30 years. I heard that you have some relationship with Emperor Augustus? Take responsibility. Your last name is Mengsk."

Of course, there is nothing good in it, at least the people on Earth would definitely not look down on it, but it is enough to cause murder and arson.

For example, obsolete previous generation power armors (antiques like CMC2000 or older, perhaps with three-digit numbers) - so many that they filled up countless warehouses. Oh, these warehouses originally had other names, such as unused planetary fortresses, interstellar fortresses, and military orbital space stations.

They were built so that they could only be blasted open with fleet-level firepower, and most of them were located in very remote areas, so remote that even scavengers were unwilling to visit them. So they were like treasures sunk to the bottom of the sea, waiting to be discovered by lucky people like Connie who happened to have the authority to open the safe.

Sometimes, you will feel that people in the military are quite cute. They are like little squirrels that bury pine cones everywhere. They work diligently and keep burying until one day even they forget how many pine cones they have buried. But it doesn’t matter, because in the future these forgotten fruits will always take root and sprout and become green trees.

One day the little squirrel died. Based on its confession, the enemy dug out the pine cones it remembered and found the most conspicuous ones, but there was still a part that was forgotten by everyone.

For example, entire abandoned orbital shipyards forgotten in countless imperial documents and archives may contain thousands of retired warships that have been scrapped but have not yet been sold and dismantled, as well as sealed giant war equipment.

If you have heard the story of Tychus Findlay (it is said that this person is covered with wounds and has bad habits, but he is the longest-lived one among the demons in heaven. He lived to be a hundred years old. The last thing he said was that God has no eyes, why good people have short lives, and bad guys live a hundred years), you must know his giant super mecha Odin, but compared with these, Odin is just a baby. But these gold-eating monsters are just mascots that burn money in peacetime, and no enemy is worth using such war weapons.

There was a time, ten years before the Earth Federation restarted the war, around the time when Angus VIII ascended the throne, when Earth was fighting fiercely with Korhal. Everyone was shouting for peace instead of war, and long-lasting friendship. Many people also thought that humans would never go to war again. Then some stingy and clever people among the imperial bureaucrats took advantage of the situation and locked these expensive big toys in the warehouse.

Of course, this is not enough. The research and development of the next generation of main battleships can also be stopped to avoid people on Earth saying that they are deliberately provoking war. And since the navy has no new toys, you army should just make do with what you have. Don't even think about new equipment. Marching and fighting depends on walking, which doesn't consume much fuel.

Sometimes you think, this group of people is doomed.

When the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation were at loggerheads, they were at loggerheads over everything. Earthlings liked sweet food, so Terran people's food had to be seasoned with salt. But when their relationship was good, they were as good as brothers.

Peaceful times can sometimes last for several generations, long enough for people to forget about war, but war always comes, and then groups of young people will travel across tens of thousands of light years just to stab a knife into the heart of another stranger.

Continuing with the Battle of Rho Piscis, there are not many records about this battle. We only know that both sides invested a considerable amount of manpower and detonated one of the binary star systems.

If there were once planets there, there are certainly none left now.

(We do this now. We have ships designed to destroy rocky planets, and some models can destroy smaller stars. As ships, they are all incredibly large. But if you ask why we have to spend so much energy destroying things, what is the benefit of doing so? Isn't it better to use such abundant energy to benefit the world? Believe me, humans will blow up the universe sooner or later.)

(Also, the Protoss have weapons of destruction that are much better than ours. They keep up with the times, you see. At the end of the First Dynasty, there was a separatist regime that inherited half of the vast territory of the former empire, called the Kel-Morian Combine. Of course, they had nothing to do with the former Kel-Morians. It was just that a Terran named Royce Ramsey united a large number of Kel-Morians and went public through a backdoor listing. The Combine prospered and became powerful for decades until they tried to bring their invincible fleet into Aiur. To me, the Creators are all a bunch of bastards, look at what they created)

According to records, the war was extremely brutal, and a vast star region covering hundreds of star systems was turned into a ruin.

The Council had completely lost its patience and was eager to save face, so it forced the then Supreme Commander, Admiral Farion Sprague, to look for an opportunity to engage in a decisive battle with the rebels and wipe out these bugs in one fell swoop.

Some people even compare Admiral Farion Sprague to Thomas Raynor, who is at most an unlucky guy with less than satisfactory skills.

At that time, the initiative of the war was still in the hands of the rebels, and the Earth Federation had to find the real main force of the enemy before it could fight a decent battle. Therefore, Connie was the one who decided whether to fight, when and where to fight.

Well, knowing that the enemy is eager for a fight (it is impossible not to know this, firstly, the departure of the fleet and the deployment of troops are all visible to the Zerg, and secondly, all the media controlled by the Earth government are spreading the message that Augustus, if you are a man, come and fight), the best option is to leave them alone, make them run around in circles, and wait until these people lose their minds. Then you can choose the battle location that is most advantageous to you, and decide the outcome in one battle.

According to the art of war: favorable time, favorable terrain and favorable people.

Larry used this trick to hook up with men. Of course, she would get into trouble sooner or later. I tried to persuade her many times, but it was useless.

At that time, Connie had two armies in his hands. The main force was still the Zerg, but no one knew that his rarely seen human army was actually very powerful. You know, Emperor Augustus would call this a trump card.

At the same time, Connie may also be the first person to drive the Zerg to fight with a human way of thinking. He/or some of his subordinates have certain qualities that the Zerg lacks, such as the foresight and clear purpose of the Overmind.

In short, the place of the decisive battle finally chosen by Connie, Sass, Jupiter and others was Rho Pisces. Their advantages were as follows: the violent stellar winds and large amounts of high-energy radiation in the galaxy would damage the shields of the Earth's warships, but the Zerg adapted well and would hardly be affected. Secondly, they had advantages in numbers and strength. Finally, they took the initiative and had a retreat, while the enemy did not (in retrospect, this was not an advantage. A hungry wolf at the end of its rope is better than a well-fed lion, and a truly combat-ready army that is determined to fight to the death is better than millions of lions).

This battle was still much more difficult than expected, and the casualties on both sides were staggering.

More people died than Connie had expected. Like before, his main force was still the Zerg, but Admiral Sprague's fleet was indeed a tough nut to crack. It could even be said that the strength of that fleet was among the top three in the entire human history. They wiped out all the Zerg, forcing Connie to go into battle himself.

This was an overtime match, and we were outnumbered ten to one. For every damaged enemy ship we had, we had ten new ships. Sprague had been killed, and he was replaced by a little-known figure named Cole Gregory, who almost changed history and made his name in history.

The remaining Earth fleet must have been extremely desperate at the time. They had just defeated the Zerg at an extremely heavy cost, and before they had time to celebrate their victory, they saw the huge fleet of the rebels.

Cole Gregory was indeed a hero. He integrated all the remaining warships in a very short time and made the captains from different fleets support his decision unreservedly.

Gregory could tell at a glance that although the Rebels had a large number of warships, their models were of varying types. There were both the most advanced star destroyers and old-fashioned battlecruisers from centuries ago. Apart from armor, speed and firepower, the most obvious difference between them was the generation gap in jump engines.

These warships are capable of fleet coordinated jumps, but the time it takes to re-prepare their engines varies each time, while Earth's warships are all updated to completely uniform standards.

Very good, then we have a solution. After two short-distance jumps, in order to keep up with the Earth fleet, the most backward ships of the rebels were left behind. After the fourth jump, a local situation of outnumbering the enemy was formed.

By the time Connie realized this, Gregory had already rushed up with his men. The gap in strength between the two sides was almost completely eliminated, and his bulky ships would take at least several hours to arrive.

Caught off guard, the rebel fleet was brutally suppressed. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Connie began his tried-and-tested tactic again - boarding Gregory's flagship and using his psychic powers to solve the problem.

However, when Gregory learned that a godlike psyker was killing everyone in his warship (this had happened many times before), he remained calm. His first order was to abandon the ship, his second was to order nearby warships to focus their fire on his flagship, and his third was to hand over his command to another captain.

The moment Gregory's flagship was destroyed, the senior generals of the rebels were panicked and the command chain was in chaos. If the Earth captain who took over the command had not misjudged the situation and ordered a retreat, they would have been wiped out before the reinforcement fleet arrived.

Of course, thanks to his unparalleled psychic powers, Connie managed to survive, otherwise he would not have become the future emperor of the Terran Empire, but all the soldiers who followed him died.

Cole Gregory also survived like a legend. The escape pod he was riding in was not destroyed, but instead landed on a nearby planet. He was eventually found by a scavenger ship, and after many twists and turns, he actually returned to the Earth Federation world.

Gregory should have been Connie's greatest enemy, but he was court-martialed as soon as he returned to Earth, and was sentenced to death as soon as the trial was over, on charges of cowardice, mismanagement, and disregard for human life.

The Battle of Pisces Rho had severely damaged the Earth Federation - almost all of its mobile fleets, half of the fleet stationed in the Empire, and the elite fleets in the homeland. Thus, the Council had lost the powerful fleet that it had relied on to deter the four directions. Without a fleet, it meant that they could no longer maintain their rule over the occupied areas.

From this time on, the galaxy was in chaos, with people from the former Terran Empire either rising up in rebellion or choosing their own sides and destroying each other.

However, the Council was already in a difficult situation. Once they suffered too many defeats, even their own off-world colonies began to become restless, so they had to recall all fleets to defend their homeland and abandon large tracts of conquered land. Later, the Imperial Prime Minister Duval Williams (an Ingens, a branch of the Korhal people, born in a poor family, it is said that Williams was almost sold by his parents for money) suggested that Connie send people to take advantage of the situation to fan the flames. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Earth Federation's backyard to catch fire and the world to be in chaos.

The situation became urgent, and the board finally agreed to invite Alexander Dugar back.

But by the time they had the nerve to ask for help, Dugar had already been drowned in the toilet by two ghost agents (some said they were a few mimic insects with high intelligence).

This death was so unfair that the Council had to announce to the public that Marshal Dugar died of a heart attack.

In the second year after Dugar's death, Connie summoned various rebel forces to march towards the solar system.

Perhaps someone on the council had a sudden inspiration, or perhaps someone came up with a good idea, and the Federation's propaganda machine began to spread the evil of Connie and the Zerg, slaughtering every conquered world, hoping that they would resist desperately out of fear and buy time to assemble a fleet to protect the Earth.

But this matter was a bit too much, or it could be said that the people down there carried it out too damn well.

As a result, wherever Connie's army went, all the people surrendered.

The Earth is 60,000 light-years away from the Koprulu star region, which is approximately one-third to one-half of the diameter of the Milky Way, a fairly long distance.

In the past, blitz-ing the Earth was considered impossible, but Connie did it.

In fact, the method is very simple. It is to follow the path taken by Alexander DuGal when he conquered Korhal: bring the fastest and best ship, make maximum use of the Xel'Naga portals and star gates modeled after them to shorten the journey, ignore everything else, and use all the time to hurry on the road.

History always repeats itself in a surprising way. When Connie's fleet appeared in the sky above the Earth, the Council made the same judgment as the Imperial high-ranking officials did thirty years ago - to hold their ground and wait for reinforcements from the fleet from outside the Earth.

Earth, the mother planet, the cradle, the spiritual home of all mankind. We in the Koprulu sector also call it Old Earth. No matter what we call it, it is definitely the planet that has been operated by humans for the longest time, and of course it also has the most defense facilities and garrison fleets.

Connie took Earth slightly faster than Dugar took Korhal.

Do you know how people on Earth now curse Connie? As far as I know, the best word is "bastard who made peace with the Zerg."

The solution to the problem is to use plague, the most terrible plague in history.

It is said that this terrible Zerg virus can kill the Xel'Naga.

The plague was brought back by an Earth fleet that rushed back to Earth to assist in the defense. In the first week after that, the God of Death was more generous than ever before, and four billion people died on Earth in one week. The Council surrendered before the death toll reached 15 billion, and it was only four days into the second week.

Connie had his reasons, and he never regretted it. If more people on Earth died, fewer of my people would die.

On the day the Council surrendered, Augustus Constance Mengsk was crowned Emperor on Earth as Augustus VIII, Conqueror of the Sol System.

I originally had a long paragraph to write, but I found that the homework paper is too small to fit it, so I'll make it short.

Over the next twenty-five years, Augustus VIII conquered and built a galactic empire that spanned the galaxy, ruling it with fear.

Augustus VIII and Queen Rachel had only one child, Emperor Ulysses I. The queen's health had been poor since giving birth to her son. Her husband was willing to exchange an empire for her health, but the queen was unwilling to rely on life-extending technology to prolong her life.

When the queen died, the people on Earth celebrated for seven days and nights, believing it to be retribution.

Augustus VIII raised his only son alone until he reached adulthood, and when Ulysses Mengsk proved himself capable of taking over the throne, he formally announced his abdication.

Just as the swarm of insects suddenly returned, Augustus VIII also suddenly took them away, just like King Arthur heading to the utopia, to find the legendary world of the void.

After receiving the news, the Earth immediately declared independence and the war broke out again.

Ulysses I argued with his parliament for twelve full days. In the end, he overruled the opposition, gave up his claim to the Earth Federation World, and retreated back to the original territory of the empire.

This is now the Third Dynasty of the Terran Empire.

Thereafter, peace between Korhal and Earth lasted for four hundred years.

It is said that before Augustus VIII disappeared, he left the same words as his ancestor Augustus the Great: "I forgive my enemies." (End of this chapter)