StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Within the United States of Umoyan.

A year and a half has passed since the Fall of Korhal, which brought heavy trauma to the people of Korhal IV. During this period, the more than 23 million Keha people living in Umoyan used their tears and sweat to water the barren and mountainous land under their feet, reclaimed wasteland, and built cities.

This generation of Korhal people are gradually taking root in a foreign land far away from their homeland. When a new generation of children is born, they can only recall the mercury city and lush greenery of Korhal IV from their parents’ memories of the past and beautiful songs. of primeval forest.

Surrounded by mountains, the main city of New Stillling still has some shadow of the glory of the old capital of Korhal. The city center is densely covered with buildings. The height of the white and silver buildings gradually decreases from the city government tower in the center, the circular chamber of the Korhal Parliament, and the Supreme Court of the Dominion to the residential and industrial buildings on the periphery of the city, just like the concentric circles formed by a drop of water dripping into the river. ripples.

Unlike those cities in Korhal IV that arose from colonial-era settlements, New Stirling does not have the inner city walls and complex urban transportation network that bear traces of the old era.

The urban layout of New Stillling follows a rigorously detailed plan, with landmarks, roads, residential buildings and every brick planned before they are laid. The entire transportation network of New Stillling City is like grids and diagonal lines with sharp edges and overlapping borders. It is a city that is regular and symmetrical but slightly lacking in agility.

Due to Umoyan's variable climate, extreme weather such as hurricanes and storms makes areas with stable environments and suitable climates valuable. Even though Umoyan is a planet with many plains, land resources are quite scarce. Human beings must rack their brains to make use of precious land, so residential areas with high-rise residential buildings have replaced the residential communities and livestock cooperatives that the Keha people are accustomed to, becoming the basis of their residence and daily life.

It was early morning local time, and the rising sun created a magnificent scene. The long-wavelength light refracted in the atmosphere left lines like citrus veins in the bright orange sky of Umoyan. Thin red-orange lines, like the cut surface of a blood orange. From time to time, the meteor shower flashes past, like fireworks that flicker and extinguish.

In the beautiful background, the silver-white high-rise buildings of the world reflect the bright orange-red light, like a transparent crystal city, with the spires of the high-rise buildings forming a jagged horizon.

At the end of the city are crystal ore processing plants, gas refineries, and heavy factories composed of square glass and steel buildings. They use Umoyan anti-gravity technology to float above the city and connect to the interstellar space that constantly travels back and forth from the planet's surface to space orbit. The shipping lanes and hauling barges thousands of feet long also looked like black dots on the distant horizon.

It seems that the colorful city and the orange sky are still, as beautiful as a painting by an impressionist painter.

Augustus stood in the center of a huge circular square paved with square stone bricks, surrounded by revolutionary soldiers with flying ribbons. This square is located in the center of New Stillling City, between the city's three landmark buildings, with tall red walls surrounding the entire square.

The central square, which covers one-fifth of the city center, takes the name of Stillling City Square and is named after Augustus' grandfather. At the same time, the square is not empty. It has restored Korhal's Senate House and the cemetery that was originally used to bury many Mengsk and noble nobles. Now, tens of millions of sacrificed Revolutionary Army soldiers are buried here.

In the center of the square stood a brass statue of Augustus's grandfather. This short-haired man with a stern face wore a robe, and at his feet lay two Steele wolves with wide eyes. Looking past this statue, you can see tens of thousands of black tombstones with crosses engraved on the top. Each tombstone has a bouquet of flowers in front of it.

A tall monument is engraved with a sentence from the earth hundreds of years ago: No one knows your names, but your achievements will last forever.

This cemetery contains the burial places of warriors who died at the Battle of Korhal, the Battle of Dalarian, the Battle of Tarsonis, and Mar Sara. The remains of some of the soldiers were not recaptured. Buried here are their suicide notes, relics or a sealed gun.

The youngest among the victims was only sixteen years old, and the oldest was fifty-five. Many of them never imagined that they would pick up a gun before joining the revolutionary army. Some of them had never even seen a gun or a beaten body.

They have many identities, including fathers, sons, husbands, wives, patriots, zealots who join the army with fearless dedication, or simply social dregs infected by the atmosphere and opportunists who want to turn around. But now, these people all have the same identity.

Augustus was wearing the dark gray cloak that had always been with him in Korhal, Port of the Dead, and Mar Sara, looking up at the sky and city outside the square walls.

New Stirling is known as the Silver City of the Mountains, the Pure Crystal City, the Korhal Sanctuary, and the Last Place of Purity.

After Augustus led the revolutionary fleet into deep space without hesitation, Angus and his staff worked diligently to rebuild a shelter that was enough to protect their people from wind and rain.

Korhal's skilled craftsmen, the most cutting-edge scholars in various industries, and the foundation of a nation - the most ordinary people were saved from being destroyed along with their home planet. They quickly used their own hands and wisdom to rebuild the dignity of the Korhal people. . The industry and real economy recovered in just over a year. The shame and hatred made the people of Korhal start to work hard even if they had no hope of revenge.

The Korhal of Umoyan pursue their almost paranoid creed, which is to take back everything that originally belongs to them from the Terran Federation.

The gentle breeze blew through the square with blue bricks and red walls, and there was a strange fragrance unique to Umoyan in the air. This refreshing fragrance has the effect of relieving tension, which is why the Umoyans are far less grumpy than the Camoreans. The people here are neither arrogant nor indifferent, they always treat others with a smile.

Far away there was a train track suspended in mid-air, and a train with a speed of more than three hundred miles per hour passed by.

Augustus knew that the train was full of soldiers from the Revolutionary fleet rushing back to their families. For these soldiers who followed Augustus to fight and sail in the universe for so long, they must have returned to their families with the joy of surviving the disaster.

The unchanging training on the battleship and the depressing atmosphere without seeing the light of day have caused psychological problems and various diseases caused by the alien environment in the fleet to always accompany these brave warriors, and the dark super war that lasts for several months or even a year. Time and space navigation is a test for anyone's will.

Now, under the arrangements of Augustus and Warfield, the Korhal soldiers in the revolutionary army can land in Umoyan in batches to reunite with their families. Even the Port of the Dead, Mar Sara and even the resocialized soldiers Everyone got their own vacation.

Compared with the soldiers buried in Auguste Square, the Revolutionary Army soldiers on the train could return to their families with the glory they wanted to achieve. When they got off the train, they were enthusiastic Umoyan Protector Army officers. Greeted by beautiful girls holding flowers, everyone can get a kiss from a young girl.

Augustus withdrew his gaze from the passing levitation train, and his eyes finally landed on Rick Kidd, who was standing in front of the tombstone. He had just buried his adjutant who died in Beisher and what he had done for him not long ago. Protect your own soldiers.

Lundstein stood silently in front of the graves of his two uncles, four nephews and his father. Harnak was holding the tombstone of Kurt Josephine and crying loudly, probably recalling the past when he and the other party competed for food in Turasis II recruit training camp.

In addition to them, there is also a Heavenly Demon named Henry Lane buried here. Like all members of the Paradiso Platoon, Henry soon became a senior officer in the Revolutionary Army, leading an elite paratrooper unit.

Of course Augustus still remembered this devil from heaven who had saved him.

Henry's death had nothing to do with courage or cowardice, just because the battlecruiser he was on was unfortunately destroyed by the Federation Navy during the Battle of Tarsonis.

Thousands of soldiers died over time like sand in an hourglass. Most of them melted in an instant in plasma hot enough to melt the steel plates of a battlecruiser, and because the destroyed battleship was in a fierce battle between the two parties and therefore did not receive rescue. The surviving soldiers continued to fight until the last man died a long and painful death due to lack of oxygen and hypothermia a few hours later.

In the long silence, Augustus always stood upright, like a statue. Kerrigan and the other guards beside Augustus remained silent until a man with the same dark gray hair and eyes as Augustus walked slowly from the other end of the square.

"Someone told me that you have been staying here these days, burying dead soldiers with your own hands, and you are not willing to stop until you are exhausted."

Augustus looked around and saw Arcturus's face with neat mustache and thick eyebrows. Arcturus Mengsk looked at his brother with such sincere eyes that no one could doubt that he loved his brother deeply.

Even though he is not a politician or a soldier now, Arcturus, as a mine owner, pays great attention to his image.

He was wearing a black jacket and matching trousers, with an electromagnetic pistol and a sharp sword on his waist. The finely crafted spindle buttons and the emblem of the Mengsk family on the coat complement this outfit perfectly. The bright red ring of whip emblem of the Son of Korhal adds to his cold temperament.

Regardless of any status that can show his nobility, Arcturus can show his upright majesty and power just by wearing a black coat instead of a solemn cloak.

Every member of the Mengsk family is a natural leader, and they always have a calm temperament and a demeanor that is unfazed by humiliation. If Augustus is the eagle and wolf of Korhar, then Arcturus is undoubtedly the lion of the plains.

Arcturus, which means the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, is also one of the brightest stars in the sky on earth, and he is the person named after this. He is the brightest. Star.

Augustus was named after Octavian Caesar, and Valerian was the name of an ancient Roman emperor.

"We are all very sad." Augustus looked at his brother and said: "We have experienced too many life and death, and we will experience more in the future."

"Anyway, it's great to see you again."

"There is no need for me to tell you that there is no point in wallowing in sorrow. Augustus, we have too much to do and there is no time to be sad." Arcturus walked towards Augustus with powerful steps. He was accompanied only by agents of the Sons of Korhal.

The emblem of the Sons of Korhal comes from the Revolutionary Army emblem designed by Augustus himself, with bloody serrations added to the whip. This organization that terrifies Tarsonis nobles and high-ranking Federation officials has never concealed the fact that it is a populist terrorist organization. Their clear and only goal is to avenge the founding family and politicians who signed the bill and decree to destroy Korhal IV.

It only took the organization's founders a year to shape it into what the Terran Confederacy described as a collection of the darkest and most deranged terrorists. Arcturus Mengsk is fully capable of leading an army or a larger organization, but for now he is only focusing on opening new mines and finding Korhal's new home.

After all, Arcturus is not alone. Strictly speaking, the development of New Stirling and the Revolutionary Army depends on his achievements in the mining industry.

In the past, Arcturus learned about the mining industry purely as a hobby, but now he has other responsibilities that he can never shirk - protecting his people.

Augustus was leading the battle, while Arcturus almost single-handedly reshaped Korhal's already-collapsed economy. Arcturus' goal was far greater than that, and he forged ahead simply to build an unparalleled fleet for Augustus and revive Korhal.

"I know." Augustus agreed with his brother's words.

Arcturus put his hand on Augustus's shoulder: "I have heard about the victories you have achieved. If it were not for the mines and New Stillling, maybe I would also lead the army to the front."

"You don't have to worry about our people becoming refugees. Everything is fine in New Stirling." Arcturus said to his brother: "Don't worry about completing what you should do. Finally one day we will overthrow the tyranny." The rule of the ruler and the dispensation of justice.”

"And the Tagore family of Tarsonis will pay the price soon. Andrea Tagore destroyed Korhal, and I will cut off her descendants. For a long time, more than three members of the Creation family have died at the hands of Korhal's sons. ten people."

"This is not enough," said Augustus.

"...Oh..." Arcturus smiled: "Of course not enough, far from enough."

"I have received reliable information. After repeated confirmations from the Sons of Korhal, the August National Security Council, and Umoyan agents, we can confirm that the founding families of Tarsonis are transferring the heirs of their families and the younger families. Members transferred to Terrador IX in response to the assassination of the Sons of Korhal—" he said.

"Since the establishment of the Terrador settlement, the undeveloped tourist planet has been the back garden of the founding families, and they own many industries and properties there."

"They're scared."