StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

"Sailors, we are about to get out of the hyperspace jump state. Cheer up, the triumphant song and the beautiful girls are waving to you."

When Augustus stepped out from the tiled floor of the bathroom in the Hyperion's captain's cabin, Raynor was speaking on the fleet-wide radio channel. Augustus could feel the Hyperion shaking slightly, which was a sign that the battleship was about to complete its jump.

Among human battlecruisers, the Behemoth-class Hyperion is already considered an older battleship. But it is one of the very few battleships with shield upgrade technology, Umoyan titanium alloy stainless steel armor, and Nemesis missile bay upgrade technology. Except for a few flagships, most of the behemoth-class battleships of the Tyranids are cruising Ships can only rely on armor for defense.

Leviathan-class battlecruisers have long become history, and they will be at a huge disadvantage when facing the new generation of battleships in terms of weapon level, speed, and power engines.

Augustus put on his shirt, coat and trousers with white trousers in the shortest possible time, and picked up his gun.

After going through the fingerprint and gene unlocking procedures, Augustus saw Corporal Faraday and another marshal's guard behind the open door of the captain's room.

"If the navigator is not mistaken, we will soon reach our destination." Augustus said to Corporal Faraday.

"Char. The coalition and the Federation almost destroyed it. The surface is completely uninhabitable, and the remaining people live on Char's space orbital platform." Corporal Faraday said.

"Before the zerg landed on Char, only mining companies and pirates owned by Federation nobles would visit it."

"This is a good place. A few years ago, the Federation and the Commonwealth broke their heads for Char not only because of the abundant heavy metal deposits." Augustus supported the cabin with a wool blanket hanging next to the Hyperion's captain's cabin. He stood on the wall, wondering where Swann had gotten these things. Their only purpose was to prevent the rickety midshipman from knocking his head on them.

"The most important thing is the location of Char. Neither the Union nor the Federation want to lose it." Augustus said as he followed the arrow marks on the wall of the cabin to the command deck: "Once Char is captured by one party, Multiple planets on the other side will be exposed to the strike firepower of the assault fleet."

"Char was one of the first planets to be invaded by the zerg, and its fall had a ripple effect. Of course, no one wants to hold on to a harsh mining world. Being an officer here is a fat job, but Char It’s a literal hell on earth,” he said.

"Char is nothing but lava and scalding air."

The Hyperion is known as the steel palace in the sky. Its interior is also quite spacious, enough to accommodate six thousand crew members, a large amount of supplies and weapons, and can park a small fleet composed of Wraith fighter planes.

However, this kind of design was originally designed to be used on warships that sail long distances in deep space. Therefore, there is too little space left for the cabin. In some extremely narrow aisles, passers-by even have to cling to pipes emitting hot air.

At the time of departure, all the refrigerated compartments of the battleship were filled with frozen meat, potatoes and other supplies. When a battlecruiser was tasked with transporting an entire squadron of marines, some were forced to sleep in narrow aisles.

Augustus has already adapted to the environment in the Hyperion. Just like the engineers under Swann, he will also go to the auxiliary engines covered with pipes under the lower deck of the Hyperion during his free time in the schedule. The cabin is like climbing a mountain through the layers of pipes there.

Similar activities, such as Koprulu Squash, Real Man Bumper Cars and Rugby, are the most popular sports among fleet soldiers, because these young and energetic young people are idle most of the time and have nowhere to vent their energy.

After passing through an internal cabin that leads directly to the main control room, Augustus climbed onto a steel cast ladder more than ten feet high. When he stepped into the ship's elevator, he saw Matt Horner, a new recruit of the Revolutionary Army, who was also preparing to board the bridge, and the Hyperion's first mate.

This 16-year-old boy who was a little shy at first was deeply loved by the commanders of the Hyperion. Horner has almost all the advantages of a commander. He is well-behaved, serious, meticulous, has a strong sense of responsibility and justice, and is able to complete every task assigned to him and strive for excellence.

Matt Horner was also a person who loved learning. During his break, he read all the books given to him by Augustus in his small cubicle, which was not spacious and could only accommodate a single bed. books, and was also reading manuals and numerous professional books on human ships.

Matt doesn't have any bad habits except for chocolate, which is the complete opposite of Tychus Finley.

"You look very excited, Matt." Augustus looked at this young man who was much younger than him and said: "According to the protoss, Char has at least several billion zerg and a dozen different species. Insect Hive. Aren’t you scared?”

"No, sir, because I am convinced that I am standing on the great path of saving all mankind, and that is why I joined the Revolutionary Army." Matt saluted Augustus.

"I did the same thing when I first joined the Federal Marine Corps." Augustus smiled: "It is not easy to stick to your original intention, especially when fame, status and power come one after another."

"This is exactly what I should learn from you," Matt said.

"Have you written it down? What you just said must be word for word." Corporal Faraday said to his men in a serious voice: "This is worth learning from."

Augustus shook his head. Among the revolutionary army, the cult of personality among some people was almost unstoppable. He simply could not imagine what this would bring after the Tyran Federation's rule was overthrown and a new regime was established.

When the elevator came to a stop, Augustus unexpectedly saw Tychus Finley in another elevator that was opening next to him. He had a rosy complexion and had obviously drank a lot from the Hyperion ship's bar. cocktails.

Alcoholism is strictly prohibited in the fleet, but Tychus is an exception. He spends all his cleverness on how to drink secretly.

"Marshal, good morning, I heard that you are preparing to throw us all to Char." Tychus was trying to light the cigar in his hand as he spoke.

Tychus is a person who pursues the principle of carpe diem. As long as he has money on hand, he will spend it on wine, cigarettes and girls. The variety of cigarettes Tychus has on hand can tell how long his fleet has been sailing, because he always enjoys the best batch first, and only tries inferior cigarettes when he has to.

"Not bad, Tychus, you and I will be the first to jump if necessary," Augustus said.

"Hypocritical guy, I didn't expect you to do that." Tychus felt that he was asking for trouble.

When Augustus walked into the bridge of the Hyperion, there was a black vortex radiating light outside the observation window directly opposite him, which was the opening of the sub-jump time and space channel.

The equipment in the bridge is operating at full capacity. The seats in front of the command console and sensor monitoring table are full of people. More people are coming and going on the bridge deck. Precision instruments, valves, wires and measuring instruments It constitutes the overall view of the bridge.

There was another slight tremor, and the Hyperion jumped out of the hyperspace channel. A world that burst out with strong flashes from time to time suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes.

A call suddenly came from the originally relatively quiet fleet communication channel. Jim Raynor, who was standing in front of the main screen, looked back at Augustus.

"The Hyperion has arrived in Char, Marshal, welcome to the world of purgatory and death." Raynor said.

"Char, the crematorium of the world."

"Is there anyone alive here?" Augustus asked, "Where did I send the scouting fleet?"

When Augustus asked questions, Matt and others had already returned to their posts, waiting for the commander's orders.

"No one has contacted us yet." Renault pointed to space outside the observation window.

"But it looks like Tassadar's Protoss Expedition has been fighting Char's zerg for a long time."

Augustus walked closer to the observation window, and a fiery red dot suddenly caught his eye. That planet is still far away from the Hyperion, but the humans on the bridge can notice the difference in this planet.

The closest thing to the Hyperion is a red giant planet with a golden ring and several small satellites.

The war in space between Tassadar's protoss fleet and the Char swarm extends from Char to the fifth planet in the system, with the diameter of the battlefield reaching more than ten astronomical units.

Huge corpses of zerg and broken golden protoss warships could be seen everywhere as the Hyperion and its affiliated fleet sailed to Char. The aftermath of the war even tore apart several large satellites and countless asteroids. A group of asteroid belts composed of a large number of rocks are formed on the edge of the Er galaxy.

"God's ass." Tychus said in amazement, "Is this something a human can do?"

"This is really spectacular." As Augustus said, a piece of debris from the Protoss aircraft carrier passed by the side of the Hyperion's bridge at an extremely fast speed and flew towards the edge of the Char system.

Farther away, there is a huge insect swarm, Behemoth, floating in the icy deep sky, like a small, dead moon or an entire continent thrown into space. The huge wounds on its skin full of vesicles and abscesses are even wide enough to accommodate the entry of a battlecruiser. The seemingly dead monster itself is a giant battleship that can travel through deep space.

A huge hole with a diameter of more than several hundred feet runs from Behemoth's head to its tail. Even though it seems that it has lost its vitality as a creature, its internal meridians, tendons and organs are still working. . There are still a huge number of alien dragons and insect guardians crawling out from the ravines and deep valleys between its skin. A large number of maggot-like larvae are wriggling inside, preparing to transform into cocoons.

"Avoid that Behemoth, we are no match for it." Augustus ordered.

In the cold and dark space, the insect swarm has noticed the human fleet that suddenly jumped into the Char galaxy. Although this fleet was insignificant compared to the powerful Protoss Expeditionary Fleet, there were still large numbers of zerg approaching them.

"Find Tassadar's flagship star shuttle." As Augustus spoke, a Protoss aircraft carrier closer to the Hyperion was firing, and the bright flash of fire illuminated his face for an instant. It's like a fire in a fireplace.

"Detecting." Renault walked to the observation platform.

The radar scan of the Char galaxy appeared on a main screen projected by a holographic image. There were various triangular or square signs on it, which were the Zerg and Protoss warships in the high-altitude orbit of Char.

The main battlefield has moved from the edge of the galaxy to the high-altitude orbit of Char, where bright flashes of light burst out from time to time, like several supernovae exploding.

"Contact was made, they responded to us." After a while, Renault reported.

"I am Tassadar, Marshal Augustus." Tassadar's face with light blue skin appeared on the main screen, and his sky-blue eyes that seemed to be burning with flames were still as shocking as before.

"The fleet has been fighting on Char for four solar cycles," Tassadar said. "We still have not been able to break through the zerg's defenses in high orbit on Char."

"We have detected that hundreds of millions of worm eggs are hatching in numerous main hives on Char, and the zerg in these eggs must be mutants specially prepared for space wars. Once Char's zerg Hatch enough flying creatures and our fleet will be at a disadvantage in this battle."

"I am beginning to send ground forces to Char to destroy those hives. If you can spare your hands to help us destroy a few hives, my friends, the Sons of El would be grateful. The Great Archon Dragon Knight Tal'darin I will fight alongside you.”

As soon as Tassadar spoke, Augustus could see a golden flash of light erupting outside the Star Shuttle, and the sky-shrouding mosquitoes were attacking the protoss fleet.

"Goodbye, my friend, and may Aten bless you."

"What's the matter, are you ready to help?" Tychus looked at Augustus: "We are just pendants on the pointed heads of these stars and sword spikes on the hilts. Just leave these things to them."

"Is it possible that we traveled thousands of miles to Charles just to enjoy an unprecedented space fleet battle?" Renault thought for a while and asked.

"I can see that Tassadar, the executive officer of the Protoss Expeditionary Force, is much nobler than those in the Federation Council. If we help him once, he will definitely remember it." He said: "Don't forget Yes, we owed Tassadar a lot when we were in the Sara System and Antiga."

"But no one said that one should repay kindness, not to mention that this is risking one's life." Tychus curled his lips.

"What I hate the most is people like you. It makes me look like a mean person."

"The attack on Char will definitely force the zerg to return for reinforcements, which will undoubtedly reduce the pressure on multiple edge worlds. Apart from this, Tassadar's friendship is worth the risk we take." Augustus said.

"Jimmy, how many more nuclear bombs do we have?" Augustus said.

"Not much more." Renault said: "Two Apocalypse-class nuclear bombs and two 50-gigaton-yield tactical hydrogen bombs are enough to destroy several Zerg main nests, but after that, it all depends on our own."

"We used it quite a bit on Antiga Prime."

As he was talking, the Hyperion and other warships jumped to the vicinity of Char after a short jump, but kept a distance from the protoss and zerg that were fighting in high-altitude orbit.

At this time, on the right side of the Hyperion is Edmund Duke's flagship Norad III, and on the other side is Alpha Squadron's science ship Amerigo. These huge spacecrafts are painted in gray and white. The armor and blood eagle are used as emblems to distinguish them from other gold-red revolutionary warships.

On the main screen of the bridge that kept getting closer, the surface of Char's planet with its bright orange spots seemed to be getting closer and closer to Augustus.

It was a dead world whose surface was filled with boiling lava oceans and unstable volcanoes. Golden flashes and black spots occasionally appeared on the surface of its orange planet, which were the erupting volcanoes and the constantly moving Char continent. plate.

At first glance, Char looks like a sun that can be seen directly with the naked eye. The raging storm carries golden heat waves, like an exploding solar wind. Swarm after swarm of mutalisks, gnats, and swarm guardians are constantly flying into space from the surface of Char. How they can achieve the speed to escape the gravity of the planet Char is still a mystery.

"In this damn place, even if you drop a boot, you can probably hit an insect on the head." Tychus said.

"I am Duke, a group of alien dragons are coming towards us!" The voice of General Edmund Duke on the Norad III sounded in the communication channel.

"Don't be afraid, General, we've got you covered. You coward." Renault said in a low voice.

"Fight back immediately. Are you counting on them just passing by?" Augustus ordered.

"Duke, the transport ship is ready to land. I need Alpha Squadron to send an elite landing force to Char immediately." Augustus' fingers passed over the scanned map of Char's surface, and he found the area marked as Mirror Plains and Dead Bones. The Trench, Death Valley, Mining Outpost 17, and the Burning Lands are divided into huge sectors.

"Landing here and here." Augustus pointed to the Plain of Mirrors and the Burning Land: "The landing troops will be led by General Duke and myself respectively."

The Trench of Bones was omitted by Augustus. Warfield later buried many Gorgon-class battlecruisers here. It was not an auspicious place for him.

"Sir, we have discovered a federal fleet." Suddenly, a revolutionary soldier sitting in front of the observation platform reported.

"Damn it, why are these murderous ghosts still lingering!" Tykes suddenly roared like a vicious dog whose tail was stepped on.

"It's a battleship from Nova Squadron, but no spacecraft from Omega Squadron has been found," the soldier continued.

"What are they doing here?" Renault was confused: "What benefits can the Federation get from Char."

"The most important thing is how they found us."

"I think they may not be here for us," Augustus said, "but anyway, be careful and watch out for them."

"Wait, what are those?" Renault suddenly pointed to the radar detection map: "Several protoss spaceships. They don't look like they belong to the Tassadar fleet, and they are completely different from the Ta'darin we have seen."

When Augustus looked over, several wedge-shaped pitch-black spaceships emitting green light flashed past on the main screen, and then disappeared without a trace with a wave of force field ripples.

Although these spaceships only stayed for a moment, Augustus still saw their appearance clearly.

Except for the fluorescent green light lingering on their surfaces, the hulls of these spaceships are completely black, like a piece of obsidian or scattered ink in the dark. It is a black that is almost completely non-reflective. The surface of the spacecraft is smooth and matte, as if it can absorb light.

It was far less slender and elegant than the golden-blue ships of the Tassadar fleet, but it was just as light and fast. These spaceships look quite old, and many traces of weathering and wear can even be seen on their surfaces. Judging from the craftsmanship used by the Protoss to build battleships, it would take tens of millions of years to cause such a level of wear and tear.

And Augustus even suspected that these dark warships were as old as the celestial bodies in the universe.

Each black spaceship is engraved with simple patterns and strange textures, and the green light seems to be alive, just like the afterimage of the spaceship.

Dark Templar.

"Are you sure you weren't blinded? Jimmy, after all, you always see the wrong things." Tychus didn't see it at all, and thought that there must be someone between him and Renault who was completely blind.

"Nonsense." Raynor ignored Tychus.

"I'm afraid something bad is going to happen." Even Augustus did not expect that the Dark Templar would come to Char at this time. Originally, Tassadar and Zeratul were supposed to be captured by the swarm in Kerrigan. He came to this planet only after being brought to Char.

Because Kerrigan, who was being transformed into the Queen of Blades by Abathur, the master of swarm evolution, had been using her powerful psychic power to call for help. The terrifying creature's psychic scream had been echoing throughout the universe. Tassadar, Raynor Her cry for help was heard by Arcturus and others.

But the current time point is completely different from that time, because Augustus rescued Kerrigan in advance and the timeline has also changed.

Perhaps the Dark Templar who have been traveling across the universe observed their kin appearing on Char and engaging in fierce battles with the zerg there, and came to help them deal with the zerg.

"Can you locate the positions of those spaceships?" Augustus asked Renault.

"The Hyperion's detection equipment can't find the location of those spacecraft just now, but I think they should land at Char." Renault replied: "Those spacecraft don't look like battleships, they should just be some kind of warships." Shuttle."

"Tell Swann, Fick, and Kaczynski to make sure that my shuttle and power armor are ready." Augustus calmly ordered: "Keep the original battle plan unchanged and put all our Bring spider booby traps and fusion explosives with you in case you need them."

"Did you hear that? Prepare to land on the magma." Tychus walked towards the bridge door: "Well, I hope we can still have the opportunity to drink No. 8 whiskey at Joey Ray's Bar."

"It goes down further and it's hell."

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