The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 381: March to Bysher! Ground Battle! Tal'darim!

At this time, Tychus on the side said rather dissatisfiedly: "We don't need to go through so much trouble. The fragment was originally on a planet called Monles."

"It's just that now that the Zerg has captured that place, in order to move the holy relic, the Tal'darim Protoss placed the fragment in their base camp."

"If we hadn't received your message, we would have obtained the holy relic long ago."

Tychus didn't want to come here to meet with the Universal Corporation. His original plan was to get all the fragments of the holy relics as soon as possible so that he could sell them for money and complete the foundation's mission.

As a result of this delay, he was unable to take the relic before the Zerg arrived.

If they want to get the key fragment now, they can only fight the Tal'darim head-on, which is much more difficult than them taking advantage of the situation and secretly getting the key fragment.

Seeing Tychus' dissatisfaction, Raynor spoke up to comfort him:

"At least we have gained new allies this time, and they have promised us to send troops to capture the colonies of the Terran Federation."

“It’s worth coming here.”

After saying that, Raynor turned his head and looked at Paul: "If we really have an inevitable confrontation with the Tal'darim, we can only fight head-on."

Raynor certainly didn't think that his Rangers had the capital to fight against the Protoss. If a battle really broke out, the people with the most casualties would definitely be those from the Universal Corporation.

Therefore, regardless of whether this mission is successful or not, the major risk bearers are the giant corporations.

"That's right. So in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, it's best to do this operation in secret and try not to alert the enemy."

Paul responded.

After both sides determined their next target, the Hyperion and Hyperion set sail from the frontline base at the same time, preparing to head to the planet Baysher to seize the second keystone fragment from the Tal'darim.

After a while, the Hyperion was the first to activate the space jump engine and teleported to the star system where the planet Baysher was located.

The Hyperion followed closely behind, using a hyperdrive to jump to its destination.

As they were approaching the planet of Bysher, Tychus suddenly asked Paul tentatively, "I don't understand what you want those things for. Are those artifacts valuable?"

Apparently, Tychus had learned from Renault that they were about to change buyers.

But let's change it. As long as the money is paid, anyone can take over the deal. Since the giant company is willing to pay a higher price, he doesn't mind.

But what Tychus couldn't understand was why the key stone fragment was so valuable, with the Moebius Foundation offering a reward and the Universal Corporation suddenly getting involved.

They had never encountered such a good thing when they were reselling other alien artifacts before.

"This is what our boss wants. Now that he has spoken, we, his subordinates, must do our best to do it."

"As for how much things are worth, who cares? As long as everyone can make money, that's all that matters."

Paul replied without a single mistake: "Don't worry, Tychus, we can pay you ten times the money that belongs to you."

"As long as I can get this job done, no matter how much money it costs, it doesn't matter."

Paul's words and deeds revealed a sense of wealth. Seeing this, Tychus didn't say anything more. He certainly didn't believe that the giant enterprise would be the dominant civilization in the multiverse.

Most of these people are super tycoons from the Ground Union. They saw that there was profit to be made here, so they sent a fleet over to reap the benefits.

"By the way, didn't you say you were going to send more troops? Why are there so few of them? If we fight the Tal'darim, they will be shattered in one blow."

Tychus asked jokingly. They only had two battleships here. How could they possibly go head-on with the Tal'darim with such a small force?

"Don't worry, they will be here soon."

As soon as the words fell, the Megacorp Expeditionary Force, which came through the hyperspace tunnel, suddenly appeared above the Hyperion.

Since there are not many light sources in the pitch-black space environment, the huge fleet of giant corporate warships cannot announce their arrival by casting shadows.

The people on the Hyperion could only look through the portholes and holographic screens at the huge array of warships above their heads, which were slowly passing by them.

This strong contrast effect feels like a small wooden boat traveling with an entire naval aircraft carrier formation, and the Ranger's Hyperion seems like it will be smashed to pieces by the wind and waves at any time.

In the "StarCraft" universe, the only ship that can challenge the giant corporate warships is the Ark Ship built by the Protoss - the Spear of Adun.

The Spear of Adun is 74.5 kilometers long and 17.2 kilometers wide. Its huge size is almost the same as the Mantle of the Universe Corporation.

Slightly inferior is the Zerg mothership Leviathan, which is a huge space biological warship that is nearly six kilometers long.

This is larger than the Infinity-class battleship of the Universe Corporation, but compared to the strong strength of the Corporation, the Zerg's Leviathan is not worth mentioning in front of the Corporation.

When the giant corporate fleet led by the Sojourner Dreadnought appeared above the Hyperion, the rangers on the ship seemed to see the scene of countless steel behemoths flying through the air.

Compared to their own flagships, they are not even qualified to serve as frigates for giant corporate fleets!
In fact, according to the standards of the expeditionary corps of the Universal Corporation, the bloated Hyperion is not suitable for combat operations at all and can only be used to transport cargo.

After seeing a whole huge fleet of warships appear in his sight, Taike immediately shut his mouth honestly. He usually liked to behave in a bohemian manner.

But this does not mean that he is ignorant of the current situation, otherwise Tychus would not have agreed to Monks' request.

After counting the number of warships in this giant enterprise fleet, Tychus clicked his tongue and reluctantly said, "Well, this number of people is enough to go to war with the Tal'darim."

"But after the matter is done, our share must be given in place. Otherwise, we are only responsible for stealing. As for the fighting, you will be the ones to do it."

Tychus's haggling look made Jim Raynor unable to help but complain: "Okay, Universal Corporation has already given us the deposit."

"It's three times more than what the boss you mentioned offered. Once you get the goods, the balance will be paid immediately. The remuneration you can get will be ten times more than before!"

As Renault spoke, he looked at Tychus. He didn't think that Tychus would do anything to let him down.

"Guys, it seems that the host here does not welcome uninvited guests like us."

As Paul finished speaking, a red prism beam suddenly shot out from a distance.

The outer hull of the Hyperion was scratched, leaving a clear burn mark.

Immediately afterwards, a group of Void Ray ships rose from the planet Baysher. That was the Tal'darim's Death Fleet.

It was obvious that this Protoss tribe did not welcome these uninvited "guests".

"We just arrived, and the Protoss tribe here has already prepared a welcome ceremony."

Paul stared at the Tal'darim fleet in front of him. After observing that the scale of the opponent's warships was not as large as he had imagined, he felt relieved.

"In that case, let's kill them all in one go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Raynor ordered the Hyperion to activate its heavy laser cannon array in preparation for a counterattack. The main guns at the bow also began to charge to deal with the attacking Tal'darim warships.

Although what they are doing now is no different from that of a standard villain, the law of the StarCraft universe is that the one with the strongest army is the king.

As long as the peace of the universe can be protected and order can be maintained, the current sacrifice can be quickly persuaded by oneself.

Immediately, a nuclear explosion flashed from the Hyperion's gun barrel, and then the magnetic field restraint force transformed it into a scarlet plasma energy cannon.

After a dazzling energy wave gathered at the black muzzle, it instantly shot out towards the Void Glow Ship not far away. This was the Hyperion's main gun - the Yamato gun.

The principle of this bombardment is to use the strong magnetic field constraint force to gather the energy generated by the nuclear explosion in the gun barrel, and then convert it into plasma and blast it out.

The advantage of doing this is that it can concentrate the destructive power of the nuclear explosion, and the Yamato gun cannot be intercepted normally. This is also the conventional main gun device of the human fleet.

Although the fleet of the Universal Corporation no longer uses this weapon as the main gun, some destroyers will continue to use the improved version of the Yamato gun on the secondary gun installation for auxiliary shooting.

“Aim, boom!”

Following Jim Raynor's order, a fireball that gathered into a small sun suddenly flew out from the main gun of the Hyperion and rushed straight towards the Tal'darim battleship array.

The dazzling scarlet plasma, with a long tail of flame, hit one of the Tal'darim's Void Ray ships like a meteor falling to the ground.

When the Yamato cannon burst out with high energy, this devastating nuclear fusion explosion instantly tore apart the Void Ray's external energy shield.

The shield field of the Tal'darim's warship was like a paper toy shell and could not withstand the offensive power of the Yamato cannon.

The Giant Enterprise Expeditionary Force, which was originally worried that the Hyperion could not hold on, immediately chose to stop and prepared to watch the show calmly.

With the limited space fleet strength of the Tal'darim, they can just send out a few cruisers to complete the dimensionality reduction attack, and there is no need to send out the flagship dreadnought-class.

At this moment, the high temperature of the Yamato cannon's nuclear explosion began to gradually melt the glow ship, and this scene was like a burning candle, melting into mud with the flame. In the end, the Tal'darim's void glow ship was shattered and quietly sank in this dark space battlefield.

This one shot alone was enough to destroy the Protoss' warship!

This boosted the morale of the rangers on the Hyperion, and even Paul was a little surprised. How could the Protoss' space force be so weak? Don't they have shield force fields?

Before everyone could be happy for too long, several Void Ray ships surrounded them. The Protoss warriors calibrated the prism device, locked onto the Hyperion and poured out energy beams.

This is a plain and simple space naval battle. I fire my gun, you fire your gun at each other, and you can use neutrons to kill like the Universal Corporation, the Starkiller Cannon, and the MD-500 to perform molecular fission.

After all, it is one of the very few super civilizations.

boom--!
The violent vibration from the ship's hull immediately woke up all the rangers. The Tal'darim's fleet was far more than just that one Void Ray.

War is all about strength in numbers. They only destroyed one of the enemy's warships, so this amount of damage is nothing.

The Protoss's ray ship beam attack is actually more like a precise laser cutting knife, and this attack effect will not cause much range damage.

But when this destructive force is concentrated on the Hyperion's hull, even armor plates more than ten meters thick can be easily cut through.

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At this moment, the eight glow ships were like laser cutting instruments fixed in space, and the transmitted laser lines were constantly penetrating into the hull of the Hyperion.

As time goes by, the fate that awaits the Hyperion will be to be dismembered into pieces!

Seeing this, Tychus cursed and shouted to Captain Matt Horner: "Why are you still standing there? Open fire and fight back!"

Horner rolled his eyes at Tychus unmoved, "You think the Yamato cannon is some cheap shotgun that fires one round after another."

"Can the refilling be done without taking time?"

At this moment, the Hyperion's other heavy laser cannon arrays were also doing their best to pour firepower on the surrounding Tal'darim warships.

It's a pity that this insignificant lethality cannot cause much damage to the Void Ray Ship. Their damage cannot even break the opponent's shield force field.

"Don't worry, we are ready to take action."

As soon as Paul finished speaking, the giant enterprise's flagship Sojourner Dreadnought simultaneously locked onto eight Glow Ships not far away. As the order was given, the hard light cannons fired instantly.

The eight hard-light main guns cut through the Protoss's light ships like a hot knife cutting through butter, emitting sizzling steam and destroying them into pieces.

The Rangers present were shocked by this scene. Before they could see clearly where the Megacorp's guns were fired from, the surrounding Glorious warships were sunk one by one!
"The Earth Alliance's energy cannon has actually developed to this level?" Tychus looked as if he had seen a ghost.

The Rangers didn't know the principle on which the dreadnought's hard light cannon operated, but the only thing they were sure of was that the Megacorp's naval guns had extremely strong penetrating power.

The energy shield and armor strength of the Protoss warships are completely useless in front of the giant enterprise!
The Tal'darim's space force fell apart in the blink of an eye, and the Rangers, like the Protoss on the other side, stared blankly at the main gun of the dreadnought.

It was not until a long time later that the Tal'darim fleet responded, and hurriedly ordered the remaining warships to retreat to the interior of the planet, preparing for a ground battle with the invaders.

Since there is no way to deal with these invaders on the space battlefield, we can only pin our hopes on ground landing battles. As long as we can preserve the other warships, the Tal'darim will survive.

Paul looked at Horner and the others who were stunned, stepped forward and patted them on the shoulder, and reminded them calmly: "Arrange the landing operation as soon as possible. Now is not the time to be dumbfounded."

Horner woke up as if from a dream and immediately gave orders, telling the rangers to prepare for landing.

The real battle has just begun!
The scale of the troops for this landing operation is not large. After all, the purpose of the Universal Corporation is not to conquer the planet, but to seize the key stone fragments.

Therefore, the troops dispatched were basically AI clones wearing power armor or sentinel robots, and the only warships dispatched were the Hyperion and an Infinity-class aircraft carrier.

The Hyperion, Hyperion and Infinity-class aircraft carriers entered the atmosphere of Baysher one after another. Soon, the surface of a planet covered with lush green vegetation appeared before everyone's eyes.

I have to admit that Baysher is a beautiful planet comparable to Pandora. The dense jungle here makes people feel particularly happy.

In addition, the star spirit altars scattered across the planet also add a sense of mysterious religious feeling to this place, and on the largest altar, a piece of key stone fragment is enshrined.

That is exactly the purpose of this trip by the world's giant companies!

"I suggest that the other warships blockade the entire planet of Bysher to prevent the Tal'darim from escaping with the debris. The rest of you should build a forward base here first and cooperate with the ground forces to advance."

Jim Raynor's proposal showed a general perspective of a commander. This was the first time for him to fight such a rich battle.

"Well, I'll do as you say."

Paul relayed Renault's suggestion to the flagship headquarters, and then a large number of engineers landed and began to build a front-line base on the ground.

At the same time, the Hyperion and Hyperion dropped airdrop capsules and landing craft respectively, and the two coalition forces landed on a relatively open high ground.

They detected some energy crystals and high-energy gas veins here. Deploying a frontline base here can also replenish resources for the Hyperion.

Soon, the Rangers dropped a command center building from inside the Hyperion, as if a house had fallen from the air.

This is the most commonly used method of building bases in the StarCraft universe. Houses are built in advance, deployed when needed, and then retrieved when retreating.

After the command center successfully landed at the designated location, a batch of space T-280 engineering vehicles poured out of the command center and began construction of the front-line base.

Seeing that the Rangers had completed the construction of the command center, the engineering team of the Universal Corporation built a processing plant around it, mainly to mine minerals in the surrounding area and provide logistical support for the front-line troops.

At this time, machine gunners wearing heavy power armor and AI clone troops equipped with weapons and armor also walked out of the airdrop cabin.

Soldiers from two different forces, holding C-14 Gauss rifles and heavy hard-light rifles respectively, guarded the base to prevent the Tal'darim from interfering with the construction of the base.

The Tal'darim's attack was faster than Paul had expected. A group of Protoss berserkers armed with psychic light blades charged forward in droves.

They are the core combat members of the Tal'darim. Facing the human troops occupying the high ground, the Protoss warriors, holding psychic light blades, fearlessly rushed forward under the hail of bullets.

These warriors are all well-trained and outstanding vanguard units. The protective capabilities of their psychic shields alone are comparable to those of the most advanced power armor devices of giant companies.

Not to mention the gorgeous golden battle suits worn by the Protoss warriors, which can completely withstand the bombardment of conventional hard light bullets. In addition, the light blades in their hands can even deflect human bullets.

That martial arts skill is exactly the same as that of a Force Warrior!
Seeing the Tal'darim psychic warriors attacking, the Ranger Marines immediately raised their Gauss rifles and opened fire wildly, pouring ammunition at the enemies in front of them.

Since the Rangers are somewhat stretched in productivity at this stage, the conventional ammunition they use is eight-millimeter caliber metal spike bullets.

Compared with the depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets of the wealthy Terran Federation, its power is naturally much smaller.

When the dense rain of spike bullets fell on the psychic warrior, they were almost all bounced off by the opponent's energy shield.

By the time they finally broke the shield, the opposing warrior had already cut into their faces.

The psychic warrior slashed at one of the rangers' head as soon as they met, and the ranger raised his blast shield as if by reflex, trying to block the opponent's sword attack.

However, the final result was that the psychic warrior raised his sword and cut the ranger in half, including his shield, which left many rangers dumbfounded.

Immediately afterwards, another ranger was cut in half by the psychic warrior's light blade. In such a bloody and cruel battlefield, the rangers' firepower advantage was completely unused.

At this moment, Li Ang, who is at the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, is carefully observing the entire process of the battle on the front line from the perspective of the AI ​​drone.

Just as he had imagined, the psychic warriors of the Tal'darim were not to be trifled with.

The psychic light blades in their hands are no less powerful than the lightsabers of Force warriors.

For example, the Ascended ones of the Tal'darim who can use psionic blasts, or the Templars who can use psionic storms, all have similarities with the Jedi Knights.

Now that these rangers have encountered the psychic warriors, it is difficult for them to gain the upper hand in a head-on confrontation. After all, these warriors can even confront the Zerg head-on in hand-to-hand combat!

Seeing that the Ranger's front-line troops were about to be dispersed, Din Djarin hurriedly gave the order for the AI ​​clone soldiers to use gravity bombs.

Immediately, several AI clone soldiers fired several gravity bombs. When the bombs took effect, a strong gravity field was immediately formed around them.

The psychic warriors who charged forward were caught by the gravity field, and their feet moved uncontrollably towards the center of gravity. Many psychic warriors were forced to stay where they were.

Although these gravity bombs cannot distort space and directly cause effective damage to these warriors.

But it would take at least half a minute for the Tal'darim warriors to break free from the gravity field, during which time they would be completely unable to move and would be sitting ducks!
In order to strike him dead while he is weak, facing the psychic warriors trapped in the gravity field, Din Djarin ordered the AI ​​clone soldiers to concentrate their firepower and kill the targets in front of them one by one.

Since neither the Hard Light Rifle nor the Gauss Rifle can destroy the opponent's armor in a short period of time, just focus your fire on one of the targets!
With the auxiliary firepower provided by various AI drones in the sky, the combat units of the giant enterprise quickly shattered the energy shields of the psychic warriors one by one, and then the coalition forces of both sides concentrated their fire.

This time, even though the psychic warriors were equipped with high-tech armor, they could not withstand such a dense barrage of bullets. Without exception, they died one after another in front of the human army's defense line.

(End of this chapter)