StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Augustus was unable to spend some time in Antiga and enjoy a life away from the war. He had just finished inspecting the industrial area and was preparing to go to the Stickle Forest, where Antiga's most important mineral veins were located, when an urgent report from Warfield pulled him back to the governor's office.

Immediately afterwards, Tassadar and Zeratul's fleet also made direct contact with Augustus' marshal headquarters. On February 3, 2492 standard time, the Jormungandr swarm fully invaded Altara, about 140 light-years away from the main star of Antiga.

Five Jörmungandr Behemoths jumped into the synchronous orbit of Altera, which means that the brainworm Yak of this swarm is very likely to have appeared in the Altera galaxy.

In any case, Augustus's army is the only military force that can rescue Altera recently, and Tassadar and Zeratul also hope to take this opportunity to deal a devastating blow to the huge Jörmungandr swarm. The strike forced them to retreat to the star field near Char.

When Augustus took a shuttle at the Ansadar Airport and arrived at the Hyperion, which was undergoing maintenance and repairs at the Antiga Shipyard, the Revolutionary Army fleet was already ready to set off under his order.

"Jim, how many people do we have in Altera?" As soon as Augustus walked into the bridge door of the Hyperion, he asked Renault loudly, who was standing in front of the central main screen. He was followed closely by Kerrigan and Faraday, and Tychus Finley and others who were bragging and spanking with Hanak Hunk and Rick Kidd in the bar also came after hearing the news.

"Warfield sent some people over half a month ago to investigate the situation there, but now we have almost no way to contact them." Renault turned his head and looked at Augustus with a stern expression.

"Troubles continue one after another." He said: "After our successful raid on Char, the large-scale invasion trend of zerg against Koprulu has been effectively curbed, but that does not mean that they will give up the meat in their mouths."

"Assemble the first fleet and prepare to set off." Augustus walked to Renault and put his hands behind his waist. Antiga Prime has enough power left for defense, and Warfield and Holt's fleets plus the Antiga system's defense system are enough to withstand the attacks of three Federation naval squadrons.

With the huge fleets of Tassadar and Zeratul "protecting" him, Augustus did not have to worry about losing the war against the swarm because he did not bring enough fleets.

The composition of the Revolutionary Fleet has been re-adjusted many times to incorporate the newly added battlecruisers and battleships purchased from the Kaimorian Consortium. Today, the First Fleet has a total of ten capital ships, including Hyperion. , Norad III, the other three Alpha Squadron battleships, and the newly completed battlecruisers from the Dalarian Shipyard.

Warfield's fleet consisted of eleven battleships, with the flagship being the Iron Justice, after incorporating two Caymorian Hercules-class battleships. Jackson Holler commanded the Third Fleet, which consisted of nine Nova Squadrons. However, the captains of his battlecruisers were all re-appointed by Augustus himself, and each captain was followed by A ghost agent of the Revolutionary Army.

It is worth mentioning that after the full-scale invasion of the Zerg, the Kaimorian Federation, like the United States of Umoyan, began to strengthen its local defenses and focused on rebuilding the military power that was almost completely destroyed by the Tyranid Federation.

Although the directors of the Conglomerate Mining Company still plan to make profits from large-scale arms sales to the Revolutionary Army, they still have to reduce exports, otherwise the Morians will take over the place before the zerg attack. This regime that was once powerful enough to compete with the Tyranid Federation has now declined to a third-rate force that relies on the Federation. A large number of Kaimorian adventurers have become pirates.

"Oh - God, I like to work for a group of farmers without getting paid. My favorite thing is to be a nanny for others." Tychus curled his lips.

"We have just pulled out of the quagmire of Haiji. If I were not working for you, the 'rebellion leader', but for mercenaries or someone else, then I would have to ask for more money."

"Stop complaining, Tychus. If you don't want to go, you can apply for leave." Augustus silenced Tychus with just one sentence.

"Everyone returns to their posts. Antiga's Dead Sea vacation is cancelled. This must be blamed on the Zerg." Renault gave the order to his crew.

The Hyperion sailed out of the giant shipyard of the Antiga Shipyard under the control of the navigator. The bright white lights shining outside the bridge windows immediately turned into bright starlight in the universe, beside the vortexes of space-time channels hundreds of feet in diameter. They are glorious and magnificent protoss warships.

After the Hyperion sailed into the dark hyperspace channel, Augustus called up the satellite map of Altera and discussed with Renault and others when and where they should enter the galaxy where the planet is located.

Two days later, the captain's room of the Hyperion. It's four o'clock in the morning on the ship.

When Augustus woke up with a jolt, Sarah Kerrigan was already dressed and waiting for him by the bedside. Kerrigan's long red hair shone like flames under the bright light. One of her hands was holding Augustus's dark gray cloak, and the other hand was a hot towel soaked in water.

"We're here." Augustus stood up as quickly as possible, put on his shirt, and took his black square-collar coat and cloak from Kerrigan's hands.

"To be honest, I'm used to life on the Hyperion. In the past year, I spent most of my time on it, running around."

"But you enjoyed it," Kerrigan said, smiling.

"I enjoy it. Yes, especially when I know that many people have been saved because of my efforts." Augustus responded with the same smile: "What else can we expect, if we If you don’t do anything, things will only get worse.”

After briefly washing up, he took the hat from Kerry Gandhi, opened the door to the captain's room, and headed to the bridge through the twisting and narrow corridors of the Hyperion. A small team of engineers was entering the lower deck from a nearby corridor. They smelled of espresso, canned fruit, and sweet pies, and their words contained anticipation and a little nervousness for the upcoming battle.

Since many of the wars launched by Augustus against the Zerg or the Federation army were victorious or forced back, the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army were still confident that they would win the final victory despite being well aware of the strength of the enemy. Victory has a firm belief, which is not only the firmness of their own beliefs, but also the absolute trust in their leader.

"Gentlemen, I wish you a pleasant day," Augustus said as he walked past the engineers.

"Salute to you, Marshal." The engineers immediately put away their smiles and saluted Augustus. This was necessary respect, no matter how kind and easy-going the Marshal seemed on weekdays.

"Thank you." When Augustus said to them, the deck beneath their feet shook again.

"Looks like we're under attack?" He nodded once more to the engineers and continued walking to the Hyperion bridge.

"Reinforce the lower deck frame, we are under attack." At this time, Renault's voice came out through the broadcast equipment throughout the entire battleship: "Siwang, deck 7, the ship there needs to be repaired. Guys, come with us Compared to the strong winds and waves we experienced in the past, this is just a gentle drizzle.”

"Cheer up, we have been helping each other, and we will get through this difficult time today."

"I sensed the location where the Hyperion left the space-time channel and found a large number of mutalisks, gnats and devourers (mutant devourers of mutalisks, expanded arms of Brood War, but the official novel of the second chapter timeline of the original campaign " It has appeared in "Queen of Blades". The author has confirmed the original English text. James Raynor also mentioned it this time.)" Kerrigan said lightly pressing her temple on one side.

"There are not many flying zerg creatures in the Jörmungandr swarm, but this time it is unusual."

Augustus said as he walked: "We are here prepared, and the zerg are not completely unprepared. The enemy is not just a ferocious and stupid beast. They will reflect, learn lessons, and make changes. This is another dangerous thing." civilization."

As Augustus stepped into the open bridge door, flashing lights immediately came into view.

Directly below the bridge of the Hyperion is a mottled red planet, its synchronous orbit covered with a thick layer of interstellar dust. Directly in front of the bridge is an extremely large insect swarm Behemoth, and tens of millions of alien dragons are pouring out of the folds and vesicles on its body surface.

The attack came from below the Hyperion. A large number of mutalisks and devourers were trying to launch terrifying blade insects and highly corrosive acid spore clusters at the human warship.

At this time, the Hyperion's indicator light suddenly turned flashing red, and thousands of explosive mosquitoes were attacking it.

The Hyperion's cannon fired in unison, and streaks of bright orange barrages swept toward the oncoming swarms of blasting mosquitoes, blasting these bat-like eyeless monsters into pieces. One blasted mosquito can blow up an APOD transport ship, and hundreds of thousands of blasted mosquitoes are enough to pose a threat to a battlecruiser.

"It should be more than just the Jörmungandr swarm, there may also be a lot of Leviathan swarm Sky Hives mixed in." Augustus stood still on the bumpy bridge.

At this time, the Star Shuttle, the flagship of the Tassadar fleet, appeared outside the starboard window of the Hyperion's bridge. The magnificent golden-blue battleship was also being attacked by the zerg. A large number of small and fast protoss carrier-based interceptors are sailing out of the Star Shuttle's dock, like a swarm of enraged and manic wasps.

More protoss aircraft carriers appeared around the Star Shuttle, and swift unmanned carrier-based aircraft poured out from them, converging into a golden-blue torrent. These interceptors with two plasma tail flames sprayed from their tails were like ferocious swarms forming a dense attack formation and rampaging through the swarm of insects. The azure plasma beam swept across the gathering zerg.

Suddenly, a sudden but increasingly fierce space battle broke out in Altera's synchronous orbit.

The Hyperion was illuminated by the light from weapons from time to time, and Augustus watched as dozens of mosquitoes that had escaped the battleship's gunfire hit the bridge. Cracks immediately appeared in the strong ship armor and leaks appeared.

Since the shield requires a large amount of energy, unless necessary, the Hyperion will still rely on fire suppression and its own armor to withstand attacks from the enemy like an ordinary Behemoth-class battlecruiser during conventional combat.

The war in Altera's synchronous orbit was extremely dangerous, but as more Revolutionary Army warships and Protoss warships joined the battle, the Jormungandr Swarm was surprised to find that their enemies seemed to be coming to the rescue not just because the colony was under siege. Human beings are so simple.

The protoss is also here.

And their number of warships is four to five times that of humans.

"Our protoss allies have also joined the fight," Raynor said to Augustus.

As Raynor spoke, the Starshuttle opened fire, and the main gun beam directly hit the huge head of a Jormungandr Behemoth and penetrated it.

The space whale-like creature let out a psychic scream that traveled light-years away, but it still didn't die. Although more than one-third of the brain was completely cut off, it still opened a hyperspace channel to prepare for escape.

Another Protoss carrier's main cannon opened fire, hitting the Behemoth's spine and burning a shockingly large hole in its spiked and wrinkled body.

But even after suffering such a terrible fatal injury, this tenacious and huge creature was still moving at high speed. Only such an attack can truly hurt it, allowing its miles-long pain nerves to quickly transmit the severe pain to the brain.

Normally, human battlecruisers cannot approach a Behemoth under the protection of endless mutalisks, blasters, swarm guardians and swarm devourers. Even if it can be done, even if the Behemoth is in an isolated and helpless state, it may take at least a few human battleships to penetrate its chitin, which is thicker and harder than the battleship armor, and completely kill it. hours or even longer.

If only Augustus's revolutionary army came, they would undoubtedly suffer heavy losses in the space battle stage. In the end, they would most likely be hit if rescue failed.

Another shining Protoss main cannon beam hit the escaping insect swarm Behemoth. This time, its tail tentacles and fin-like gliding auxiliary wings were completely wiped out, and a large number of them were swept away. The alien dragon was instantly wiped out.

"How are the results of the scan on Altera?" With the Protoss fleet nearby, Augustus's revolutionary fleet was able to take a back seat.

"There are at least 300 million zerg on Altera." Raynor said, pointing to the ugly red planet spinning on the main screen of the bridge.

"This planet has a harsh environment and is vast and sparsely populated, but its rich resources are probably the reason why the zerg will attack here. Altera's reserves of Adien crystals and high-energy gas are quite amazing, but there is almost no complete mining in the area. and rough processing industry chain," he said.

"If we can capture this place and build our mineral collection station and high-energy gas refinery here, we will have more resources and funds to support our army."

"That means we can count money while lying in bed." Tychus walked over and happened to hear what Reno said.

Before the Zerg invaded, the Revolutionary Army could not control an entire planet, because the fleets of the Tyranid Federation would immediately swarm in. The uprising of Mar Sara was a lesson.

Now the Tyranid Federation itself is overwhelmed, and the Revolutionary Army has a magical weapon against the zerg, the psychic disruptor.