StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

The western border of the empire, Sammy.

Before the Zerg invasion, there was a majestic city standing at the mouth of the longest and longest river in the main continent of Sami. The city's founders from Tarsonis called it Midgard, and the name stuck to its later inhabitants. When the sun rises from the sea level, travelers living in the best and most luxurious high-rise buildings in Midgard can enjoy the magnificent scene of the river rushing westward into the sea, and watch the surging waves in the blue ocean. Cutting out brilliant fronts.

Now, Midgard has fallen.

The city was originally located among dense semi-aquatic jungles in the estuary and river swamps. Now it is a gray desert as far as the eye can see, leaving only ruins full of gravel and rubble stretching into the sky like ghosts. This is a place of death, where even the carrion-eating jackdaws will not stop.

Like so many destroyed cities in Total War, the people who built Midgard spent twenty years building foundations, erecting high walls, and erecting domes, but the zerg destroyed it in just a few days.

The Sami Governor's Palace is the best-preserved building in Midgard, but even so, it has long been riddled with holes, leaving only countless blackened walls and hollow windows.

Here, the battle continues.

A company of Marines from the Tyranid Empire's Delta Squadron is trying to retake the crumbling Governor's Palace, and the traces of fierce battles can be seen in every corridor and room.

These soldiers in brown power armor faced the vicious zerg, it was these terrifying and cunning creatures that destroyed entire cities. Since their first public appearance, the zerg have replaced all human fears of the unknown and become synonymous with disaster and death.

Every imperial soldier who is advancing on the stairs covered with insect intestines and rotten tissue is advancing amidst the sound of alloy boots and the roar of guns and beasts. It is faith, courage and the strengthening drugs flowing in the body that allow them to overcome The fear of facing the zerg.

Leading this company was a Delta Squadron Captain who had served with the Federation and was now an Imperial warrior for Emperor Augustus Mengsk. This captain can be seen in every war against the invasion of the swarm, and his arms that have been replaced by prosthetic implants are proof of his dedication and sacrifice.

"Fritz Company calls the command center. We have arrived at the office of the Sami Governor's Mansion and are making a breakthrough!"

When calling the fleet command, Captain Fritz felt a clanging sound of metal coming from the carbon compound shoulder shield on his shoulder. The dense dense spines almost completely covered the bright white imperial emblem on the shield. Before he could give the order, a Punisher grenade from the marauder had shattered the chest cavity of the Hydra Hydralisk, causing it to fall wailing in a pool of its own blood.

At this moment, after killing hundreds of zerg and sacrificing many Imperial soldiers, they finally stood in front of the bullet-riddled door outside the Governor's Office.

This was originally a door panel made of stamped wooden boards, but now it has become as hard as steel due to the pulsating meridians and exoskeleton wrapped around it. It is breathing like a living thing, flowing from the flesh-colored tissue. Growing spikes can also be seen in the body.

"Fire up the explosives." Fritz waved his hand.

An Imperial soldier at the back immediately placed a D-8 explosive on the gate. As the gate exploded with a bang, the scene behind it was gradually revealed to the Imperial soldiers after the dust dispersed.

The governor's office has not been cleaned for a long time. A collapsed bookshelf lies in front of the black desk. Numerous papers and documents are scattered on the wooden floor. The crimson blood stains like splashes of ink on them are shocking.

On the wall opposite the door hangs a portrait of Emperor Augustus Mengsk I. In the portrait, this heroic emperor is wearing military uniform, with a straight waist and a tasseled sword.

Suddenly the place became quiet, only the tireless mechanical clock was still ticking. A shadow of a person could be vaguely seen behind the collapsed bookshelf. The rustle of the pen seemed to indicate that this person was still alive and was still handling official affairs in the empire's territory for ten years.

A Firebat wearing CMC-660 powered armor pushed aside other soldiers and came to the front. This heavy armor that has been continuously reinforced since the Guild War turned the soldiers wearing this armor into bipedal sprays. Fire tank.

When the Imperial Firebat squeezed into the door frame that was too narrow for him, several pairs of shaking scarlet eyes appeared from both sides of the door like beating red lights. These screaming springtails used their sharp, like The hook-like forelimbs and the sickle-like appendages on the back grabbed the Flame of Destruction flamethrowers on both sides of the fire bat armor.

The springtails, which were not much bigger than large dogs, contained unimaginable power. If only a human wearing light armor had walked in, he would have been torn into pieces by five horses.

If these screaming little monsters are lucky enough, they can destroy the armor's plasma feedback device before the fire bats activate the jets. This will block the fiery jets and allow the fire bats to be sprayed with flames. Burned alive.

But the combat instincts engraved in their genes have obviously not been updated. The fire bat they faced was wearing an improved power armor equipped with thickened arm armor, which originated from the responses of imperial engineers and armor technicians to various feedbacks on the battlefield. improvements made.

In an instant, two long, terrifying plasma flames spurted out from the end of the Flame of Destruction injector. The fire pillar burned everything in its path, just like platycodon burning, screaming and jumping. The insect jumped and roared and was burned to death.

Captain Fritz then followed the firebat into the governor's office, and his men rushed in, shooting at positions and curtains where enemies might be hiding.

"There is one survivor." Sergeant Walder pushed away the bookshelf in front of his desk and was about to fire, but his fingers holding the plane did not stop.

Sitting behind the desk was a thin man with unnaturally sunken eye sockets, and his face had no color at all. He was motionless now, still breathing, but his uniform had become tattered, and his exposed skin was covered with scratches he had made himself.

"Governor Sammy." Fritz gasped.

According to the information obtained by Fritz, Governor Sami is a tall, thin, black-haired man, a native of the country, and the former Governor of the Tyranid Federation. When the fleet of Emperor Augustus arrived in Sami and brought news of the establishment of the new empire, he immediately led his people to surrender to the emperor of the new empire.

What convinced the Sami Governor and his people was that the emperor who had conquered Tarsonis with an iron fist and war did not liquidate anyone and brutally bloodbathed the original government to conquer and impose his rule on the planet. Instead, he continued to rule the planet. Let the Sami rule their homeland.

To the people of this planet, the Governor is a respected leader.

"Medic! There are wounded here," Sergeant Walder shouted.

"No!" Captain Fritz stopped him immediately: "We don't have to use the medical kit anymore, let's use spike bombs to end his suffering."

Opposite him, Governor Sami was writing something at his desk and mumbling to himself, but the pen in his hand had long run out of ink, and his words were intermittent, making it extremely difficult to understand.

Strictly speaking, the emperor himself is the governor of all imperial territories, and all imperial governors only manage the territories on his behalf.

Fritz could see that a thin black line could be seen from the back of Governor Sami's neck. It looked like a stingray's tail spine, and this tail spine had cut through the flesh on his neck. Tightly connected to the spine.

There is an infection bug here, hiding somewhere, controlling Governor Sami with a sting.

"What is he talking about?" asked another Imperial soldier.

"Assimilation. Emperor Augustus's swarm attacked Sami and fell. I sent away the last survivors. And I will be destroyed along with Sami." He was chanting the oath of the imperial governor: "My Emperor .Lord of Koprulu. I swear allegiance to you."

".Assimilation completed."

Midgard had fallen for many days, and the governor seemed to be frozen in time at the moment when he sent his last message to Korhal.

"Salute to you, Governor." Fritz walked up to the Governor and looked directly into his white eyes. After a moment of silence, Fritz took out his gun.

With the sound of a gunshot, the Governor fell down, and the sting behind him retreated from the ventilation duct in full view of everyone.

"Damn beast!" Several Imperial soldiers fired several shots at the ventilation ducts, but to no avail.

The Infected is one of the most intelligent creatures among the Zerg. It is extremely cunning and will flee immediately when encountering danger, making it extremely difficult to capture.

"That cunning monster has run away. There is no need to waste your efforts." Fritz closed his eyes for the governor, feeling regretful that he could only leave the other party's body here.

If a person has been infected by infectious insects, his body may already be full of disease-causing viruses and parasites, and the best solution is to be cremated.

Fritz reached out and turned over the holographic communicator on his desk and took out the storage disk inside. All the data stored in the security network of the Sami planet in this disk records what happened to the planet before its fall. It is the real goal of this Delta team.

"Mission accomplished, we need a transport ship." Fritz opened the communication channel and said.

"The transport ship will be here soon." The other person said, "God and Emperor Augustus bless you."

"Let's go." Fritz left an incendiary bomb in the governor's office, took the disk and led his troops to the parking platform outside the governor's palace.

The Governor's Palace Building is already the tallest building in Midgard, and you can have a panoramic view of the city from the top floor. Among the ruins of the black ruins, tall buildings have been replaced by organic structures of the zerg.

At this moment, the purple carpet covering the ruins was squirming with the large number of zerg that had gathered. From a distance, it seemed that dense worms had occupied the entire city.

A special operations transport plane was hovering above them, its propeller wake creating a strong gust of wind on the platform.

In the distance, multiple bomber forces consisting of hundreds of Banshee bombers were approaching Midgard.

Emperor Augustus was returning from the flight deck of the Hyperion, walking down the passage to the command bridge, flanked on either side by closed cabins and ladders for holding onto.

"The special operations team of Delta Squadron has retrieved the data disk from the Sami Governor's Palace, and Matt is about to order the fleet to execute the bombing order." Marshal Reno came from across the passage.

"Destroy those ruins, and we will build new ones." Augustus simply said: "When the time is right, the Sami people will return here to rebuild their homeland."

The fear of the zerg forced the Tyranids on the Empire's border worlds to flee to the core and safer worlds. Everything that happened in the first total war was repeating itself. For this, Augustus's imperial government was obviously very experienced.

Renault and Augustus walked to the bridge together: "I really didn't expect the zerg to suddenly attack here. You must know that this area is half of the Koprulu sector from Phaethon."

"The fall of Sammy was a surprise to all of us, because it was another swarm that was not under the control of the Overlord, and such a situation is really rare." Augustus said.

The news of the emergence of Zerg in Sami had a great impact on Augustus's reputation. If the Tyranid Empire's fleet really defeated the Zerg Overlord on the Umoyan world of Phaethon as they claimed, then these Zerg Where did the insects come from?

Either the Emperor or the Zerg always lied.

"Who knew that the evil Dark Archon Orega actually enslaved more than one brain worm to work for him." Renault said: "It's not a powerful brain worm, but it is enough to control a few small swarms of worms."

"I heard from Zeratul that it's really unfair that dark archons can use their powerful mental power to control the minds of others." He scratched his head because he couldn't find the adjective:

"Projecting spiritual power into physical organisms to completely control the other party's mind and body sounds like evil dark magic."

Even among the Dark Archons, mind control is considered the ultimate skill, and is considered a forbidden power by the Dark Templar, just like themselves.

Unlike many powerful insect swarms known to humans, the zerg that appeared in Midgard had a dark yellow carapace, a dirty color between lemon and golden red.

"This is an unreasonable disaster. Orega frequently launches revenge against the world of Daram's stars, and Sami is too close to the world of stars." Augustus said.

A traveling archaeologist from Tarsonis discovered the remains of the ancient Sami civilization in the geological strata of Midgard, and those lost cities all point to a once extremely glorious race, the ancient protoss. .

This means that the protoss once ruled this planet or stayed here many generations ago.

Sami is also very close to the protoss world of Gracius, and the Dark Archon Orega is attacking that planet.

"What good does killing humans do to Orega?" Renault asked.

"Because we are allies of Tassadar," Augustus said.

Dark Archon Orega, an extremely evil Nerazim protoss supremacist, a vengeful spirit with endless hatred for the El Protoss who incarnated into evil spirits and flames.

"As long as he can achieve his goal, Orega will do whatever it takes." Augustus said: "In the intercepted and deciphered communication of the Scavenger Pirate Fleet, Alan Scherzar also called Orega the boss, meaning that the other party He’s the one paying him.”

"No matter how much money Orega gave Scherzal, dealing with a lunatic like that is playing with fire," Reno said.

"We have nothing to talk about with Orega." Augustus said: "He wants to kill all the El Protoss."

"Maybe kill everyone in the universe."