StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

This battle has been going on for a full eighty hours, but the intensity has not shown any signs of weakening. Billions of beings are angrily marching towards self-destruction, while their Creator is sneering darkly.

Against the background of a planet plated with a blue arc, this is neither romantic nor beautiful. Two destined enemies, the largest protoss fleet in history and the largest insect swarm in history met.

On this side of the Protoss, there are countless magnificent battleships the size of cities. The large fleet is connected to the large fleet. The molten wakes like torches are like rows of comets sweeping over Aiur. They are orderly and beautiful.

These majestic, elegant, and breathtaking battleships swept across deep space with beam weapons, photon weapons, and kinetic energy weapons, creating countless huge and mottled bright spots. No battleship or creature could break through the dense beam fire network of the protoss fleet.

The zerg were on the other side, living dust clouds of metallic carapace and pulsating sinew. Its size is appallingly huge, and the 550 astronomical units above and below the ecliptic plane are crowded with zerg. It can be observed even if it is several light years away. It can be described as some mysterious natural phenomenon in the universe.

Swarms of insects, fanatical, violent and angry, symbolize the most extreme law of destruction in nature. They are invincible and irresistible.

This epic battle is unprecedented and worthy of historians' praise, but it is far from over.

As the Protoss and the Zerg grappled together like two mad giants, humanity emerged once again.

After facing the Golden Fleet and the Insect Swarm at the same time and suffering such a tragic blow, humans could have withdrawn from the battlefield without being criticized by their allies, because they had also paid a respectable sacrifice and showed what Human courage.

But these humans didn't do that.

The human joint fleet just sailed out of the sun-facing side of Aiur. Without dodging or avoiding, they were rushing towards the area where the battle was most intense, facing the rays of the sun. The sunlight outlines the outlines of these giant battleships, plating them with a layer of gold.

Led by Imperial Admiral Matt Horner's flagship Wing Commanders, the Gorgon-class battlecruisers Last Stand, Destruction Engine, Deathmark, Space Voyager, Mass Effect and The Harvest Cry was at the forefront, announcing with an unmistakable volley of Yamato cannons that the Imperial fleet had once again joined the battlefield.

On a vast battlefield that can be measured in light years and parsecs, even weapons like lasers are as slow as crawling towards their targets. The Tyranid's largest and best steel ship charged forward while firing. The shining red-orange laser beams hurtled through the dark space, bombarding everything in its path into escaping plasma.

More than half of the warships in this fleet are in poor condition, and some can even be called quite bad, and can only be escorted in the middle of the navigation formation.

Take the Valor of Vardona as an example. This giant battleship with laser turrets, Gatling cannons and stainless steel armor looks like a shaved hedgehog. There are countless weapons on the sides and decks. Clear holes and charred black traces left by the flames, every turret that was lifted like a fingernail was left with only a dark hollow.

Most of the hull between the lower deck of the Valdonna Courage and the outer bulwarks was obliterated by some terrible force, leaving many shocking and huge wounds. The originally straight curve of the ship's side became The teeth are intertwined, and the internal pipes and cables are clearly visible. The trauma came directly from a salvo fired by multiple Storm warships. In a few seconds, most of the cabins on the lower deck and more than a thousand people were evaporated in the high-energy particles. Those who did not suffer the fate He was also knocked unconscious. When he woke up, he saw a world of purgatory.

The situation of the other battlecruiser Cyrus was even more miserable. The entire battleship was burned black, and every armor plate was re-melted by the terrible heat like the center of the sun, like a sad and ugly black fish. . Its personnel losses were as high as 3/4. Her captain Georg Darabont and his navigator, communications officer and other staff on the bridge were all killed in the battle. Such casualties were This era is also unimaginable.

According to Aethon's captain Hogarth, the Cyrus was under fire from seven void glow ships, and the focused prism rays turned the battleship into a giant grill. furnace. Although the materials of the star battleship can isolate radiation and high temperature, the temperature inside the battleship still rises to a level that is unbearable for humans in a short period of time.

Hogarth described it as "no better than popcorn in a tumbler."

When the prism ray penetrated Cyrus' armor, the battleship burst into flames and plunged into a sea of ​​fire. Everyone thought she was doomed.

A gunnery sergeant on the Victory also recalled that it was a miracle that his ship and another ship that inherited the glorious name of the Brood War era, the Theodore G. Bilbo (Theodore G. Bilbo desperately tried to rescue the Cyrus. Fortunately, the Gorgon Annihilation Messenger was also nearby and immediately used powerful firepower to destroy or severely damage three of the seven void glow ships. Other warships also rushed to the rescue. Come.

More warships were severely damaged by zerg, so the wounds looked more like they had been bitten and torn by some kind of terrifying giant creature, like pieces of hard biscuits that had been gnawed by dogs.

The actual situation is that before rejoining the Imperial United Fleet, many battleships were either still on fire, or they were still spraying parts upwards, and the damage extended to the inside. In order to plug the gaps that were often dozens of feet wide, the damage control personnel on the ship wanted to cover them with underwear and soda water.

When the Zerg swarmed into the battleship, it was almost impossible to use the Marines to drive them out again. It was equivalent to trying to block a big river rushing to the ocean, and a small group of Saints rushed into the bridge. It's possible for a don samurai to kill all the high-ranking imperial commanders.

Sometimes, the situation will become more serious. Continuous explosions will cut people into pieces and grind them into meat, turning a deck into a slaughterhouse ground into "meat paste". If you want to block the gap on the battleship, People can only work in such terrible conditions.

On the battleship, steel is connected to steel, and the hatch is facing the hatch. Even the largest Gorgon battleships still have internal ramps for the crew to climb up and down. But when the explosion occurs, The space is also fatal.

As for the sunk warships, most of them were not directly destroyed by the enemy, but were forced to continue fighting because they were not repaired and rested. The engineers and crew members had to repair the warships while facing the enemy.

And a battleship that has been severely damaged will naturally become the enemy's priority target of fire during the battle.

"Jim, give me your whiskey." Augustus stood on the bridge of the Backwater Marshal and suddenly said to Renault.

Leno always carries a bottle of whiskey, just like Matt Horner occasionally carries something to replenish sugar in his pocket.

As a rule, Renault was not allowed to drink on the bridge. Matt only tried cocktails with tonic water when he was not working, and rarely ate desserts. As for Renault, he had no such concerns.

"No, you can't drink." Renault refused immediately.

"Don't be so mean," said Augustus.

"One emperor and one courtier," Renault said.

"Haha." Augustus smiled, he really had no temper now.

Now, basically all the warships that can return to the fleet have returned.

However, they lost not only battleships, but also morale and sometimes even people's hearts. This is to be expected. It's just that during the battle, no one from the officers to the soldiers had time to think about anything else except fighting.

The human will to fight can be very strong or very fragile.

During the most chaotic moments of this battle, there were incidents in the human fleet where battleship captains suddenly collapsed and abandoned the battleship or led the entire battleship to flee the battlefield. It's just that things happened suddenly and were not planned for a long time. Most of them were restrained and stopped by their subordinates, and the entire fleet did not suddenly leave the battlefield.

Ironically, this also saved the empire several battleships and tens of thousands of lives. Now the captains of two battleships in the fleet reassembled by Augustus admitted that they had left the battle line without permission. After all, sailing The logs can be tampered with, and thousands of crew members know exactly what happened.

But realizing their "foolish madness" and "unforgivable sin," they once again responded to Augustus' order to assemble. Another captain claimed that he was defeated by the devil in his soul at the moment of giving the order, so that he could not remember what order he gave.

However, Augustus thanked them for their contribution and imprisoned them on the spot. The final method of death can only be decided after it is found out what the impact of their escape was.

This is what has come back, and what is gone will never come back.

It’s just that the imperial battleships that have been reported, not including other auxiliary fleet ships, there are seventeen battlecruisers alone, half of which are from one fleet. This may not be a planned mutiny, but panic will spread.

In addition, none of these captains are "still young" or "too junior".

This may be understandable. After all, if even Augustus felt that the end was lost, it would be reasonable for someone to flee the battlefield on the grounds of "saving the fire for the empire."

While in the temple, Augustus had been anxiously waiting for the artifact to be activated, and he was not sure whether they could persist until then. Several times he felt that he had made a big mistake.

This is understandable, but not excusable.

There have been defections in the empire in the past, and this is the most serious one.

Augustus had given orders that every defecting warship be returned to her original position.

At this moment, on the main screen of the Deadwater Marshal, sullen flames were raging in the protoss fleet, some coming from their destructive weapons, and some coming from blazing battleships or zerg. The Tal'darin mothership is firing, and the scarlet beam of destruction occupies the entire field of view on the bridge, like a trickle of blood from a cosmic wound.

Augustus saw millions of zerg frozen in time and space at the same time, like lifelike sculptures, possibly the work of the Spear of Adon or another Ark. All in all, these terrifying weapons have all been used, and the Dawu teachings of the Protoss Empire have been thrown aside, and no one will want to pick them back up.

Like bats knocked out of a tree with a stick, a swarm of zerg descended from the Deadwater Marshal, fleeing from the laser weapons that pursued them and attacking anything that moved.

This is the zerg, its fangs and teeth as sharp as obsidian blades and harder than diamond. When dealing with battleships, the acid or corrosion spores stored in their stomachs are more effective than cannonballs.

Huge, thrilling rays of light spurted out from the Deadwater Marshal's laser cannons. The warm flames illuminated the bridge and the giant snake-like body of the Allosaurus, killing everyone who tried to get close to the bridge. Burnt to ashes.

Although there is a lack of supplies like every warship in the fleet, and many weapon systems have become misfired, the Deadwater Marshal's nuclear-powered laser weapons can still fire, otherwise they would not be able to make even the slightest movement.

Returning to the fleet again, Augustus found that he felt much more at ease on the battleship than usual. Although there was still a burst of artillery fire outside, it was different from the ground. Here he could fall asleep as soon as he fell.

At this time, Augustus could also calm down and think about the current situation.

In the original plot line, as long as the artifact is activated and the golden fleet is separated from Kara, the battle will be basically over, and it will look like this. It's entirely because the little master is not dead and Eamon can still control the insect swarm.

Moreover, because Amon's consciousness still resides in the Overlord, the Xel'Naga artifact was not destroyed by being expelled back to the void, and therefore can still be used. Augustus did not anticipate this at first, but just acted accordingly and acted as the situation arose.

However, what they have to do now is still very simple, that is, guard the temple again and persist until the artifact activates Nova Impact to eliminate the incoming zerg. And Augustus gave Tassadar the task of guarding the temple, so there could be no mistakes.

After this, although humans and protoss have suffered heavy losses, the zerg have also had a hard time.

In this way, the Koprulu sector still has several years of development. During this period, Augustus can amass another wave of military power and enter the void to completely eliminate Eamon.

"With the golden fleet, Eamon won't be able to take down Al again for a while."

On the bridge of the Deadwater Marshal, Renault stared at the main screen of the tactical panel while complaining about the God of Darkness: "Hasn't he learned to give up yet?"

"Eamon will not stop." Augustus felt that he must be sneering now, but no one except him felt so: "Only when life is involved and you know that your life may be at risk, He only knows how to advance and retreat.”

The Xel'Naga inject their consciousness into the incarnation, and then enter the real universe. To them, death is just the loss of a body.

"But I don't think Eamonn is that stupid." Tychus had finished smoking a cigar: "He knows that Nova Impact can kill all the zerg in Ayr, and the zerg will suffer the most at that time."

While talking, the alien dragon group outside the Deadwater Marshal was driven away by several Liberators that jumped in at high speed, but further ahead of the battleship was a large group of corrupted flying insects. Swarms of Corruptors can easily deal with human and protoss warships, which already have super space behemoths like Leviathan and Behemoth, and don't seem to need biological equivalents.

"That's wrong." Augustus began to think about what he would do now if he were Eamon.

Excluding hybrids, Zerg is the only card in Eamon's hand that can be played. He came to destroy the world, so how could he be willing to just inflict heavy damage and weaken the power of the three races.

Then he must have something else he wants.

"Contact Tassadar immediately." Augustus suddenly ordered: "Amon's ultimate goal may be the artifact, and the enemy on the front is just a cover." (End of this chapter)