StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

As of 0:00 on the 13th, the Imperial Army had deployed three armies and a formation with 2,000 arc-light tanks in the narrow corridor east-west of the main nest area of ​​the Griffin Swarm - Formiga River - Formica Levin Fortress. Armored clusters, thousands of HALO cluster rocket mounts and several tactical nuclear bomb silos.

Seven million soldiers and civilians believe that an unprecedented war is coming and are ready for it. The Imperial Army only focused on covering the main nest area in the south with saturation firepower for four hours, and then began to shrink the defense line and build fortifications, but did not launch an active attack as expected.

At 4 o'clock, Emperor Augustus Mengsk boarded the Levin Fortress on the north bank of the Formica River and had a panoramic view of the 7-mile imperial defense line.

The Formiga River spans most of the Helmut continent and has dense tributaries, nourishing the vibrant forests and prosperous ecosystems on both sides. This gentle river is beautiful, with 95% of the colonial cities, settlements, and factories located on both sides of it. It has naturally become a major battlefield.

Today, the cities on the north coast have been reduced to ruins, and the high-rise buildings on the east coast have been reinforced as bunkers to set up artillery positions. Bunkers, missile towers and high-rise buildings all have an imperial flag hung diagonally. Every few minutes, the empire has just arrived on the surface. Marines marched to the front lines. There were a large number of them, but the queue did not appear chaotic. They were solemn and orderly, like a torrent of red heavy armor.

Behind the fortifications on the east bank is a residential area with tents, which accommodates many people in a small area. The quality of life there has been reduced to unbearable levels, but only the stupidest idiots complain loudly.

Almost all Formica men have joined the Imperial Stormtroopers or joined the logistics department to assist the Imperial Army. If the Empire had not banned the recruitment of civilian women in war zones into the Stormtroopers and the regular army, this number would have doubled.

In addition to Imperial Marines wearing kinetic armor and armed with gauss rifles, Formiga also has more than 1.5 million Dominion Troopers. They were temporary conscripts of the Empire from Formiga, with only a relatively brief training.

The equipment of the Imperial Stormtroopers is the low-cost CMC Light Combat Armor, equipped with rolled-edge steel helmets with goggles and camouflage helmet cloth.

Light power armor is a kind of light armor with far lower protection capabilities than CMC armor. It uses batteries instead of micro-cold fusion reactors for power, and its limited servo system can only allow them to have faster speed and flexibility than ordinary soldiers. Production was mainly started day and night in the arsenals of Tarsonis, Bronte, and Veridia, and 25 million sets were produced in just two months.

Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious: it is difficult to adapt to the harsh combat environment, the battery life is impressive, easy to damage and extremely unreliable, but the victory is the amazing output.

The Imperial Stormtroopers are huge in number and are mainly made up of militia and emergency levy soldiers. They are only equipped with fairly limited armor and submachine guns. Only the more elite Imperial Stormtroopers and Stormtroopers are equipped with better weapons, such as UED missiles according to Technologically improved hail rockets.

Despite this, such weapons are sufficient to deal with some of the Zerg and Protoss forces, as well as combat the separatist forces within the Empire and the evil-doing pirates.

It must be emphasized that they are by no means standard cannon fodder used by the Empire to fill the battle lines, but rather serve as a reserve force to make up for the severe manpower shortage when the Tyranid Empire's limited forces are scattered throughout the Koprulu sector.

As long as weapons are issued to people like Formiga who have lost their homes, relatives and friends to the Zerg, they will become a powerful armed force with hatred in their hearts. Once the war was over, the Stormtrooper equipment was recycled and the soldiers returned to their old lives, with the remainder used to equip colonial state police, magistrates and militia units.

In the Empire, ordering stormtroopers to sacrifice themselves to gain space for the main force to attack or retreat is considered a felony.

The Formica, who had been urgently recruited and issued armor and weapons, were ready to fight to the death, but Augustus was not prepared to do so.

"Stick to the existing position and wait for the psychic crusher to start operating before advancing forward." Augustus walked from the Formica River position lined with trenches. The imperial soldiers along the way stood up straight and saluted the emperor.

At this time, it was just dawn, and it was the moment when dawn arrived. If Augustus looked at the rushing Formica River, he would see thousands of floating corpses floating down the river. The strong stench of corpses could not be washed away by the rushing river.

The corpses were disgusting, smelling of disease and death.

On the other side, infected buildings and huge zerg buildings have been razed to the ground by artillery fire, but infected people still pour out of them like zombies. In the dawn, ghost figures and countless red eyes swayed like red candles in the wind, and roars containing pain echoed along the banks of the Formica River.

These infected humans have higher intelligence than in the past and even have the ability to use Gauss rifles. In some areas of Formiga, infected tanks have even been seen.

Although infected individuals of the Gryphon Swarm have somewhat overcome their fear of strong ultraviolet rays, sunlight slows them down.

At the same time, the Imperial Army's psychic jammers were once again upgraded and found another way. UED scientists discovered that a concentrated dose of sigma rays could reduce the movement and reaction speed of the zerg by half. With the support of Augustus, this discovery was quickly applied.

This also makes today's imperial army more inclined to defensive warfare rather than offensive warfare in the past.

"As long as the psychic crusher takes effect as expected, the Griffin swarm's attack will collapse. At that time, it will not be us but Carlos who are eager to attack." Kerrigan rarely wears the ghost combat suit now. This equipment had become of little use to her.

Under the guidance of the Dark Templar Master, Kerrigan was able to become invisible through powerful psychic powers that distorted light and shadow, even without equipment. She has become more powerful than ever, capable of detonating the heads of enemies with just a glance. Even Shaco, another tenth-level psyker in the Empire, bluntly stated that the past PSI levels no longer apply to the Queen of the Empire.

It is rumored that the queen's psychic power can even cover the entire palace, making her a true psychic queen.

"By deploying psychic crushers to advance layer by layer and gradually expand the occupied area, Carlos will have to give up his main nest and hatchery. At the same time, it can also prevent the scorpions and infected people lurking underground from breaking into the queue when the troops advance. "Inflicting huge casualties." Lieutenant Commander Mortier Ulbricht was traveling with the Emperor's companions.

Because the troops he commanded miraculously completed the arduous task of holding on to Formiga and protecting the civilian population, Lieutenant Colonel Ulbricht had been promoted and given the opportunity to report on the war with Emperor Augustus.

His troops had withdrawn from the front lines and had a chance to rest in the rear. Each man was also given mutton stew, a small glass of red champagne from Tarsonis and a few pieces of dark chocolate.

When the reinforcements first arrived, Motier's 375th Marine Brigade had almost held on until they ran out of ammunition and food. They stood in the trenches with Formica's militiamen and volunteers, blocking the infected who were flooding into the position like corpses at night, and resting in the bunker wrapped in blankets during the day.

Countless bullets and explosives were poured in front of the position, and some soldiers even claimed that they had shot all the bullets they would need in their lifetime. In the end, the soldiers without bullets even had to use bayonets and homemade gas explosives to form a defense line with flames.

In Formiga Frontline, your only duty is to fight zombies until you are the last to survive or they tear you to pieces.

"Your Majesty, Carlos will definitely panic by then, and that is the best time to catch and kill it." As soon as he heard about the value of the psychic crusher, Mortier gave up the idea of ​​evacuating Formiga. .

"The new master has awakened. Even if Carlos is killed, it may still bring the message here to the master at the other end of the galaxy." Augustus turned to Motier, nodded and said:

"Besides, don't underestimate Carlos. It may still be hiding a hundred and eighty thousand light years away from here, leaving Dugar to lead the infected humans." He said:

"Although Carlos is not as cautious as Sars, the brainworm of the Gamu swarm, he is also a guy who is afraid of death."

"Our opponent is the former Lieutenant General Dugar?" Motier seemed to remember this opponent, but he had no impression of his appearance.

"Old rival." Augustus said:

"Duggar is a respectable opponent and we should give him a better ending."

"Gerald Dugar is an extremely rare individual. Previously, infection by the zerg would only create mindless monsters and deformed aliens. Only high-level psykers could retain a certain amount of wisdom." Naru Dr. De also followed Augustus to the front.

Dr. Narud wore a reinforced CMC kinetic armor and walked on thin ice on the rugged terrain. He seemed very panicked, trembling and wincing whenever he heard the sound of shelling and the roar of the infected.

Come to think of it, Narud was really scared to death. He told Augustus many times that he was just a powerless scientist. As soon as he arrived at the front line, Narud had been worried and terrified all day long.

"Your Majesty, if we can capture Dugal alive, I can figure out how the Zerg virus works on Dugal, which will be beneficial to my further research." Narud said as he walked.

"The Protoss' nano-serum can even completely remove the virus from Dugar's body - before it mutates into another form that we can't understand." He emphasized:

"If you decide to do that, you better do it quickly."

A few times Narud almost tripped over some bricks, but he always managed to escape the danger.

"There will be a chance." Augustus glanced at Narud, thinking of Narud's past inhuman experiments and torture on the infected Lieutenant General Stukov.

Similar to this half-human, half-insect form may give Narud more inspiration for researching hybrids. After all, the current hybrid is still only a semi-finished product. Narud is just a mad scientist. He is not human, so don't expect him to have morality.

At this time, Formiga and the insect swarm on the other side launched a new round of attack, and their offensive far exceeded that of the previous night.

A large number of scorpions were mixed among the staggering infected people, spitting out yellow smoke like a sandstorm, and carried across the Formiga River with the wind. This greatly affected the Imperial Army's field of vision and interfered with other detection equipment, but the artillery troops did not need to see clearly whether there was an enemy where the shells landed. Because the infected people on the ground are so dense and dense, even if you fire with your eyes closed, you can still hit the enemy.

There were a huge number of King Insects and Queen Insects floating in the sky, and they soon became the targets of Imperial fighter planes and anti-aircraft firepower.

The Imperial Army quickly opened fire to meet them. Gauss guns, rockets and artillery were fired one after another, and large swaths of infected people were blasted into pieces and thrown into the air.

"Your Majesty, you should evacuate here immediately, the swarm is about to attack." Lieutenant Colonel Motier said to Augustus.

Before he finished speaking, the shells from the other side of the river roared and landed on the Imperial Army's position. They came from the infected arc tanks. One of them landed not far away.

"I think what Lieutenant Colonel Motier said makes sense." Dr. Narud nodded immediately: "You are the emperor of the Tyranids, but guns don't have eyes."

The accompanying imperial staff officers also felt as if they were facing a powerful enemy. They were all soldiers who had experienced real wars, so they were not panicked. But if the emperor made a mistake here, it would be the end.

"What's there to be afraid of? With old Tychus standing here, the cannonballs have to take a detour." Old God Tychus Finley, dressed in crimson power armor, smoked comfortably.

It's not that he's daring, but if anyone had seen Queen Kerrigan's ability to stuff a cannonball back into the barrel, create a psychic shield out of thin air, and bend the bullet using just her psychic powers, they probably wouldn't be so alarmed. At a loss.

"How long will it take for the psychic crusher to be activated?" Augustus didn't hesitate and followed Motier directly into the nearest trench.

"It will take half an hour at the fastest. The psychic crusher is not an easy-to-assemble device like the psychic disruptor. It is bulky and requires a corresponding reactor and a series of equipment. Moreover, debugging also takes time." Narud explain.

"Too slow," said Augustus.

"This is already the fastest speed." Narud didn't lie. If Xel'Naga technology was used, it would undoubtedly be much faster. But the problem is that neither he can expose this, nor can human engineers understand such technology.

Narud didn't dare to expose too much, otherwise humans would not regard him as a genius scientist, but would throw him on the stake - in fact, he thought he had exposed enough, and there had never been anyone like him. Such scientists possess so many talents.

"I will improve the existing design as much as possible," he replied quickly, fearing that the monarch, whom he regarded as elusive, would change his mind.

"Very good." Augustus originally asked.

He found that as long as Narud was questioned, the guy would always come up with something better.

"Your Majesty, the Alexander has appeared again. A huge Griffin swarm fleet has appeared on Kangaroor, the satellite of Formiga and is approaching our fleet."