StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

By the end of December of this year, Queen Sarah Kerrigan and her daughter Louise took off from the August Grae Bennett Starport on a special plane and flew to the Sky Shield Orbital Defense Platform in Korhal's high-altitude orbit. .

The brightly lit Augustgrad gradually became blurred and turned into a gorgeous sea of ​​light. This great city has been expanding over the past eight years, with the metropolitan area taking up an entire continent and being incredibly large from orbit.

Now this exaggerated momentum has finally come to a halt, the aggressiveness is restrained, environmental improvement projects are gradually put on the agenda of the imperial government, and little greenery can be seen throughout the city.

When the special plane broke away from Korhal's gravity and entered orbit, what greeted Kerrigan's eyes was the extremely spectacular bottom structure of the Sky Shield. A large number of space transport ships were entering or leaving the anchorage below it. Each one They all carry tons and tons of military supplies.

There are far more fighter planes patrolling here than anywhere else in Korhal. Occasionally, larger light cruisers and destroyers can be seen. The Hercules transport ship is mainly used to transport Imperial soldiers. The number of soldiers on it More than thousands.

When viewed from above the Sky Shield, the scene is even more spectacular.

The Sky Shield is a metal wasteland hanging high above the Empire's first star, shrouded in an astonishing artificial atmosphere. The light blue shield force field isolates the deadly radiation in the universe, creating a blue sky-like The sky.

A giant pentagonal shield-shaped symbol covers the central area of ​​the Sky Shield. In this symbol, the sharp sun is rising from an orbital platform above Korhal, shaped like a crown.

To date, the Skyshield is the largest single facility ever built by the Tyranids. The other orbital defense platforms on Korhal combined are less than one-tenth of the size, and the Umoyan mobile base platform is comparable. It's just a slightly larger outpost.

The Tyran Empire's military engineering has always pursued practicality and simplicity, maximizing the manufacturing of standardized military equipment, modular forging, and assembly line production, without excessively pursuing the ultimate in quality.

On the Sky Shield, there are imperial flags flying everywhere, towering control towers and fusion reactors stand among the metal buildings, and countless straight domes cut the sky into pieces. The giant star port is embedded in the orbital defense platform like a giant's eye socket. Deep space containers full of munitions are piled up on it. The huge vertical door of the automated hangar is filled with rows of medical transport aircraft. The technicians walking back and forth seem to be It's a group of black ants walking around.

Kerrigan remembered how excited Augustus was when he decided to build this orbital defense platform, which he named the Skyshield, smugly proud of his talent for naming.

But Kerrigan didn't think that the Sky Shield could protect Korhal forever as the people generally believed, just like the fortress that was said to never fall could not escape the day of fall.

The Korhal Rift incident has also proven that enemies do not necessarily launch attacks from the outer solar system like conventional warfare. They can cross the void, "grow out of the ground", appear out of thin air, and disappear out of thin air.

The Empire can completely build several orbital defense platforms of the same size, but even the extremely insecure Imperial Prince Arcturus believes that it is better to invest all these resources in the construction of the fleet. These fleets can not only intimidate Xiao Xiao, but also be used to guard more imperial planets.

Another significance of the existence of the Sky Shield is to make the Korhal people believe that they are under protection, so that cross-system complex enterprises from other planets can confidently and boldly invest and place assets in the heart of the Empire.

Korhal is one of the worlds with the most stable order in the empire. This is not a fringe world. No one would hang rows of black-hearted entrepreneurs on street lamps. People who want to take advantage of the coming war to make a fortune are people of all eras. No less.

Even if a world falls, they have somewhere else to go. Even if humanity perishes, money cannot be wasted.

After arriving over Sky Shield, a squadron of Viking fighter jets took off to escort the Queen's special plane through controlled airspace and arrived at Gemini Port.

The Twin Starport is one of the many starports on the Sky Shield. It is actually a complex building connected to a technology laboratory. Its area is five times that of an ordinary starport, and it has the capacity to accommodate Minotaur-class battlecruisers. The ship's large dry dock.

The current star port is very busy. Three-quarters of the parking area above is full of fighter jets. Two imperial warships undergoing repair work are docked in the brightly lit dock. Thousands of engineers, mechanics, Warp engine technicians wore oil-stained work clothes up and down, while military supply personnel methodically delivered food, ammunition and equipment to the battleship to replace lost fighters and personnel.

During those periods when the large orbital shipyards were operating at full capacity, a battlecruiser whose hull integrity was approaching scrapping would return to the front line on average every two weeks.

The Imperial Engineering Corps was composed of the Korhal Revolutionary Army and the Sons of Korhal. In addition to his own people brought out from Korhal, Augustus could only work in ports, docks, construction sites and even bars in remote worlds from the beginning. Recruiting people.

Many people do not even have qualified professional qualification certificates, but it is these people who have resisted everything in previous battles. Many of them have now retired and turned to cultivate the next generation of talents for the empire.

The current Imperial Engineering Corps can be said to have gathered the best people in the Empire. Swann later brought in all his old acquaintances. This group of people can repair bunkers, siege tanks, Thors, etc. under enemy fire. Even a battlecruiser. There's nothing these people can't fix, their motto is give me a stick and I'll give you a tank.

Thanks to the team efficiency of the engineering team and countless people working around the clock, the empire's warships can often be saved even if they are severely damaged. The extremely high production capacity and maintenance efficiency allow the empire to maintain more than three very large fleets at all times.

Even if Augustus lost all his fleet in Ayr this time, the Tyranids were still able to build a larger fleet within two years.

But in the final analysis, no matter how powerful the industrial capacity is, it cannot withstand the emperor's crazy gifts.

At this moment, Kerrigan was leading Louise down the ramp of the special plane. She was wearing a knee-length dark green woolen coat and was dressed very simply.

The special plane was surrounded by Imperial Marines and Royal Guards who were waiting solemnly, and there were also mechas and missile vehicles patrolling around. There were sunrises and sunsets here, too. Korhal's sun was rising from the horizon of the Sky Shield, its rays of light shining on rows of Viking fighters.

However, strictly speaking, the Queen of the Empire does not actually need these people to protect her. In terms of combat power, Kerrigan might be needed to protect these people.

Louise had never seen so many people before, so she found it strange. When she was very young, her parents tried to reduce her exposure to other people as much as possible. This is mainly because Louise's psychic talent is too high. Rather than being afraid of others hurting her, she is more afraid of her hurting others.

In addition to the workers employed by the imperial military on the Sky Shield, they are soldiers, and they are all her father's people, the people Augustus calls my people.

And Louis could clearly "hear" the thoughts of these people. Some were still thinking about the breakfast they had not finished eating, some were criticizing their clumsy colleagues, and some had a blank mind and just wanted to go home from get off work early.

Many people have been working on the Sky Shield for several years and remember the position of every screw here. They built battleships and made ammunition, but they have never killed a single zerg or seen a star. spirit.

Behind every Imperial Marine stands many unknown logisticians. Any army cannot fight without ammunition.

It was these marines who went on to fight against the insect tide and the protoss. The Tyranid Empire was built on mountains of corpses, seas of blood and countless heroic souls.

But Louis knew that they were just ordinary people.

Master Selmos said that every vigorously growing life is heading towards final death. The Dark Templar are not afraid of death because they believe that death is void. But the Dark Templar will never ignore life or ignore the power of the individual.

A person is weak and pitiful in front of a battleship, but no matter how majestic a battleship is, it is built by many people.

It can be seen from this that human beings are both small and great.

Augustus reminded Louis that he should never think that he was above the people. People could overthrow a decadent federation and they could also overthrow a brutal empire.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.

"God bless the Empire, we finally defended the Mengsk family's legacy from the insects and protoss."

Marshal Horace Warfield also arrived at Gemini Port not long ago. He learned that Kerrigan was coming and came to greet him.

"Hello, my little princess," he said to Louise.

"Hello, my general," Louis said.

The old general's hair is now completely white, and his face is full of weather-beaten marks. His face is tanned by the hot sun of Char, but he still looks like a majestic ram that can be killed with one punch. lion.

To be honest, with Warfield's status, even if Augustus came to visit him, he was not qualified to get up to greet him. Warfield had the idea of ​​retiring a few years ago, but in the end he was invited back by Augustus. Augustus said that we built this empire together, and now you can't leave this mess to me alone.

But the old general is a respectable man who hates privilege and has always been down-to-earth.

This kind of veteran general didn't like Kerrigan much at first, thinking that Augustus deserved a better queen, but later, almost everyone recognized her ability.

Kerrigan was originally such a leader. Since she could control the insect swarm, she was not an ordinary character.

"No one can defeat the Imperium, not the zerg, not the protoss, not anyone." Kerrigan quoted a famous saying of Prince Arcturus, which he recently liked to use in front of the Imperial Senate. Those dove MPs who thought Augustus was too aggressive in using troops roared that the emperor was still too moderate and that he should use nuclear bombs to turn Ayr into a piece of scorched earth.

If possible, both the dog and Eamonn passing by on the road would have to take a few nukes.

But Arcturus is not in Augustgrad at the moment. He is even busier than Kerrigan. He has to break it into pieces a day, either in meetings to torture imperial officials who are not doing things well, or in... Go to heavy factories and orbital shipyards to supervise production and accelerate processes.

"Thank God," Warfield said, "they couldn't kill us."

Warfield's fleet was the first to return from the Aiur battlefield, and also went to the star field that was suffering from the attack of the brainworm Carlos to have a fight with the opponent. The latter now also obeyed the orders of the second-generation master, which was considered a self-inflicted crime. into a faction.

"People in the empire world are rejoicing, and even the children who have just learned to speak are talking about victory." Kerrigan smiled: "Even if Augustus hasn't come back yet, he has already become the greatest emperor in people's minds."

No one now thinks Augustus is dead.

As we all know, dead men don’t win battles.

This time, news of the victory spread quickly.

Earlier, the Umoyan Protectorate Fleet had returned from Aiur to their military port on Icarus IV. The major United States media, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately aimed their long guns and short cannons at the triumphant ship. Returned soldiers of the National Guard.

Even though he had just experienced a bloody battle, the uniform of Umoyan Admiral Dodds was still as neat as new. The soldiers behind him polished the white chrome-plated alloy steel power armor like shining silver, and in the flash of light It's so bright it can blind people's eyes.

On the rear deck of the Umoyan warship, the huge hydraliskull skull, the giant thunder beast blade and the fangs of the beast were all publicly displayed as trophies. No matter how they got it, they even had a few pairs of Templar armor.

Therefore, in the TV screen, the excited Umoyan soldiers held a banquet around these trophies. Martin, the famous talk show host of the Terran Empire, immediately intercepted this scene and ridiculed it in his program as—— It looks like the scene of a cult sacrifice being held, implying that the Umoyan people are a group of country bumpkins who have never seen the market. Of course, the imperial military is no good for him. He even dares to hack the emperor. He has not been dragged away by the royal ghost agents to undergo social transformation in recent years. This makes people doubt the true strength of the people behind him. amazing.

As for the Camorians, they have even more things on display.

Compared with the Umoyan Protectorate Army, the troops of the Camorion Alliance were simply robbers. They took away all valuable things, even the life-saving capsules of the Immortals were ripped off, which was almost as good as other people's. Dragging the coffin back makes no difference.

Even a good-natured man like Tassadar was angry, and he reluctantly acquiesced to the Umoyan people's behavior. After all, the templars who died on the battlefield would indeed surrender their weapons before death out of respect for the friendly forces fighting alongside them. Leave it to them, it's tradition.

The Camorians have gone too far. Not to mention respecting the warriors, they will even shoot black guns at the Duram protoss for the protoss equipment, but lie that they did not see clearly. The Camorians, who are used to being poor, respect their ancestors, but this does not prevent them from digging up other people's graves.

After all, even if they are trained by Imperial soldiers, the quality of the Kaimorian army is far inferior to that of the Tyranids, let alone the Umoyans.

The Tyranid's little hands were never very clean, and in the end humans were all the same. Humans can be nobler than the protoss, and they can be meaner than the zerg.

In general, the news of the victory in the Battle of El spread faster in the human world outside the empire.

The Umoyan leader Jorgensen, who was on the verge of stepping down due to successive defeats in foreign wars, saw his approval ratings rise and became a hero for a while. According to his own words, it was he and Emperor Augustus who planned this unprecedented and great expedition to defeat the protoss and zerg.

This is a hearty victory!

Umoyan and Kemerian frightened the people of the empire who were lagging in news. Before they could get the exact news, the neighbors opened the champagne. (End of chapter)