StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

The following is excerpted from the classwork and notes of a history student at the Imperial University. To her, Augustus the Great, the founder of the Tyran Empire, was an ancient man who lived more than 1,800 years ago and was a mythical figure. In his time, gods still walked the earth.

In view that all her basis and judgments come from voluminous imperial official historical records, and contain a large number of personal opinions, likes and dislikes, the rights and wrongs, and self-contradictions must be distinguished by the readers themselves:

Speaking of Emperor Augustus I, he is undoubtedly an unavoidable figure in the modern history of the Tyranids. Just like you cannot discuss the empire without Korhal, you cannot discuss humans without the earth.

If you ask a few people on any street in Augustgrad who Emperor Augustus is, they will first ask you who he is. When you tell them that Augustus is the founder of the country, everyone from a little kid who has just read a book to an eighty-year-old grandma will have to explain to you why you say Augustus I. is the greatest emperor.

In the Tyran Empire, no one grew up hearing the story of Emperor Augustus. Even his famous ministers and ministers were written into biographies and poems, and their fame lasted through the ages.

Among the hundreds of billions of citizens of the empire, every six out of ten have the same name as these ancient heroes, and even the emperors named their children this way.

Of course, there are many people named Jim and Tom in this world.

Let me tell you, my favorite among them is Augusta Mengsk. According to legend, she is the biological sister of Augustus the Great and has the same name as me.

Cross it out.

(This is a character in unofficial history and the famous series of novels "Flowers of the Empire". There is no evidence that she really existed. I will definitely not tell you that my brother Alan once made a mistake with Augusta)

(Although "Flowers of the Empire" is very well-known in today's Tyran Empire, the royalties alone are quite amazing. However, the author did not leave any information, and for some reason failed to complete this great work, becoming regret for eternity)

It's not important.

In short, today, you can definitely sum up many emperors in a few words, such as Louis the Glory Queen, Todd the Absentee, Angus the Presenter, Aelin the Patricide, Juan the Tyrant, and Ark the Conqueror. Tours. But to describe the founder of this vast interstellar empire, one must use the ten thousand books in the Golden Library.

But in our course, one sentence can sum it up.

The standard answer is that Augustus the Great was the Empire.

There were many emperors named Augustus in this empire, but only one could be named the Great Emperor, no matter how brilliant his successors were.

To this day, countless people are still studying the founder of this great empire, peeling off the cocoons and analyzing the details. Just reading the works of predecessors requires countless hours.

How long does it take to read a book? What about thousands of copies? And even if you read them all, you will only piece together a picture of Augustus Mengsk as described by others.

How lucky were those who were born in that era, those who were able to see Emperor Augustus in person? ——When I asked this question, my teacher laughed and pointed out: I was so "lucky" to be killed by the protoss and eaten by the zerg.

I will never know what that feels like.

In our time, the Swarm Master and most of his cerebrates and queens have disappeared for many years. The last officially recorded cerebrate was Sarth, who appeared in the era of Augustus VIII. , more than four hundred years ago.

I believe there is no one who has not heard of the familiar stories of Augustus the Great, including the Demons of Heaven, Korhal's Revolt, the Brood War, the First Total War, the Fall of the Old Federation, the Founding of the Empire, the Second Total War, and Doomsday. The battle, the final battle. One epic after another.

But in comparison, people don't know much about the emperor's experiences when he was young. This is partly because there is so little information, and partly because people tend to be more interested in war heroes than in ignorant troublemakers.

Nowadays, the birth date of Emperor Augustus is the most important holiday in the empire, so there is no need to mention it again.

Before the emperor became famous all over the world, he was no different from the young nobleman of Korhal who came from a well-known family at that time. He was a young man who was romantic and acted arbitrarily. However, other noble qualities that later became widely known, such as strong will and compassion, are really loved and hated.

Some unofficial historians say that although Emperor Augustus was a son of an aristocrat, he was usually just a street kid that you can often see today, beating up children younger than himself, eating their candy, causing trouble and running away in the streets.

The official history is blunt. As a child, the emperor had shown a great personality that was not afraid of power or oppression. He was bohemian and loved freedom. He was a famous speed racing party, the kind of person who chases his soul from below to the sky.

Then, you will understand that the great Emperor Augustus turned out to be just an "ordinary" person, but he saw far enough and was lucky enough.

This is what he said himself.

Okay, the question asks us to briefly talk about the history of the Tyranid Empire.

How simple could it be?

Is there anyone other than me who can do this kind of homework?

Just right, I'm bored enough and free enough.

Just say whatever you want.

The history of the Terran Empire is the history of one emperor and one empress after another. The vast family tree of the Mengsk Dynasty is itself a history book of the Empire. A wise monarch can expand the territory of the Empire to the edge of the known world, while the next incompetent monarch may immediately abandon everything and retreat to a corner of the Koprulu Sector. If this monarch happens to be Angus, the donor of the map, even Kharta will happily hand it over.

A once-prosperous interstellar empire may have been infinitely close to ruling the galaxy, or it may fall apart in the next decade, splitting into countless independent pocket empires, republics, dominions, religious states, barbarian kingdoms, large and small planetary unions, and warlord regimes that are more numerous than flies in the universe.

And no matter how much of the former imperial territory they once claimed to own, it is just a storm in a teacup compared to the real galactic empire.

For the first six hundred years of the Terran Empire, the bloodline of Queen Louise always sat on the throne, known as the First Dynasty. Eight hundred years later, Arcturus II entered the palace, which was the second dynasty.

The era we live in happens to be the most prosperous and peaceful period in the Terran Empire in the past two centuries. Emperor James X is also the most capable and ambitious of the three generations of imperial monarchs. He has been in office for seventeen years, and people say that he is expected to restore the former glory.

The old people always say that the Mengsk dynasty is of blood, and every imperial monarch has the blood of Augustus the Great. James X not only looks like the founding monarch, but also has a seven-point similar style of behavior, which is really reassuring.

It seems that they judge whether an emperor is qualified or not based on whether he looks like the first emperor. So my family may have the blood of the first Prince Valerian, because I look like his mother.

In the era of Arcturus the Conqueror, the royal bloodline of Queen Louise was almost cut off, and the empire existed in name only. The remnants of the divided empire each claimed that they were the orthodox, and fought each other for decades.

At that time, Augustus the Great was still in power, and the people of the Empire, who had suffered from the war for a long time, began to miss the peaceful times under the rule of the royal family. The 29th grandson of James Mengsk (the eldest son of Augustus Mengsk and Lisa Cassidy), Arcturus Phoenix Mengsk (it is said that the word Phoenix comes from a Protoss Archon, and this word is now interpreted as a phoenix reborn from the ashes or a person with infinite courage), suddenly jumped out from a corner at this time and called himself Arcturus II, the second emperor named Arcturus in the Mengsk royal family.

He claimed that his ancestor had appeared in his dream and asked him to ascend the throne and end the chaotic world where people suffered.

However, this person, who was just a fraudulent collateral lineage and even looked only 70% similar to the portrait of his ancestor, still gathered a large army at an incredible speed in a very short time. Supporters of the royal family flocked to Korhal, and some even came from tens of thousands of light years away, just to respond to the call of the Golden Wolf Banner.

Although I look down on Arcturus II, I also admit that he is indeed capable, ruthless and decisive. In less than four years, Arcturus II's army conquered the old territory of the empire again, unified the four seas, and established the Second Dynasty.

Considering only his achievements, Arcturus II can undoubtedly be ranked in the top five or even the top three.

However, this man has poor personal ethics and is greedy for pleasure. Describing Arcturus II as amorous is already giving him face. His illegitimate children throughout the galaxy still claim to have a claim to the throne of the empire.

Arcturus II once publicly said that he wanted to follow the example of his ancestors and marry ninety-nine wives, plus a queen to make it a perfect number.

Fortunately, after that, Emperor Arcturus changed his words and restrained himself a lot. It is said that hundreds of palace guards saw Emperor Augustus suddenly appear and gave his unworthy descendant a big duel, asking him not to talk nonsense in the future, and scolding you, a useless dog, for believing in unofficial history.

How is this possible? At this time, the emperor had been dead for more than 600 years, and his coffin was still placed in the family cemetery in Augustgrad.

Compared with Juan, Arcturus II can be regarded as a saint with some minor problems.

Juan Mengsk is the most notorious emperor of the first dynasty of the Terran Empire. He looks almost exactly like the holographic image left by Emperor Augustus, but he is cruel and tyrannical, and his reputation is so bad that no imperial monarch is willing to name his children after him. Many backward and barbaric worlds may have even degenerated their languages ​​now, and Juan is still the dirtiest word when scolding people.

Let's put it this way. Juan did everything that a tyrant in human history could do, and even went beyond it.

Including but not limited to: heavy punishments, disregard for human ethics, taking pleasure in killing, and taking pleasure in absurdity. To satisfy his morbid hobbies, Juan also violated taboos and ordered the creation of hybrid creatures of humans and other species, and hunted down the Protoss residents in the empire, treating them as slaves and beasts. If anyone did anything stupid, it must be that she tried to write down Juan's crimes on a page or two.

In my hometown of Omo, people compiled Juan's evil deeds into nursery rhymes, which were sung for many generations and were specifically used to scare disobedient children. Today, the Mengsk royal family uses Ian crystals to record and recreate the scenes of Juan's era. Every newly enthroned monarch must swear in the name of his ancestors before ascending the throne, vowing never to repeat the same mistakes.

It was also during Juan's generation that the Mengsk royal family completely lost the support of the people, and the long-standing friendly relationship between the Terran humans and the Darram Protoss began to deteriorate rapidly, even to the point of drawing swords against each other.

Even in the era of lax discipline and foreign invasion, there have never been so many planets that have risen up, and there have never been so many planets that have suffered catastrophic disasters.

Juan had countless ways to quell public grievances and suppress uprisings, but he chose to order the extinction of a planet to kill one and warn the rest.

Considering that there were more than 100,000 inhabited planets in the empire at that time, it was undoubtedly an extremely terrifying number that more than half of the worlds rose up in the first year after Juan ascended the throne.

There are letters handed down to prove that Juan was not only not panicking at that time, but was happy and full of joy. He was sure that as long as he followed the example of his ancestors and led the army in person, he could wipe out all the disobedients.

Before this, Juan had killed all the members of the Imperial Parliament and Senate who opposed him, and executed all the Imperial generals who refused to massacre civilians and declare war on the Protoss. Even the army no longer supported him.

Before taking command of the expedition, Juan went to the mausoleum of Emperor Augustus to worship his ancestors, counted his "achievements" in detail in the past year, and suddenly had an idea to dig out the coffin of his ancestors with his own hands, replace it with pure gold and bury it back.

This was a day that was later called "the anger of both humans and gods, the punishment of heaven and earth". The only advantage of "Emperor Juan" was his strong ability to act, that is, he would kill and do it as he said. If he wanted to dig up the ancestral grave today, he would have to have another feast in the evening.

Maybe the ancestor happened to listen to Juan's words and punished him. In short, that day, everyone in the royal family cemetery witnessed five thunders falling from the sky, which immediately burned the young emperor into charcoal.

Many people think that the holographic images and records about this are fabricated, and believe that Juan actually died at the hands of a Dark Templar master, but those who have really studied these materials know that this is indeed what happened.

The rumor may be true, Emperor Augustus the Great is not dead, and only one of his swords is buried in his tomb.

In addition to Emperor Augustus the Great, my favorite emperor is Augustus VIII.

Like Augustus the Great reincarnated, with the same fate as the gods, Augustus Constance Mengsk, the undefeated, the unforgiving, the caller of insects, the master of insects, the master of heaven and earth, the king of the universe, the lord of darkness, the conqueror of the sun, the father of the Galactic Empire, the emperor among emperors.

Augustus VIII's ancestors can be traced back to Patrick Mengsk, the youngest and only son of Emperor Augustus the Great and Queen Sarah Kerrigan. Legend has it that Patrick is half a perfect human and half a god, with incredible power. But Augustus VIII looked nothing like his ancestors. He had red hair and blue eyes, and looked like no one but himself.

No emperor had ever had such a legendary experience as Augustus VIII, and there will never be one in the future.

When talking about Augustus VIII and his achievements, we must mention his lifelong enemy, the Earth Federation.

Since four colony motherships from Earth landed in the Koprulu Sector more than two thousand years ago, the Earth United Council has been keeping an eye on us, and it is still the same now.

In the era of Emperor Augustus, the Earthlings launched the first invasion of the Koprulu Sector. Of course, we all know that they were completely defeated in the end. It was just an isolated expeditionary force.

Afterwards, the rulers of the Earth were busy with internal affairs and had no time to pay attention to the disputes in the Koprulu Sector, and no more rumors were heard.

We also know that the Doomsday War did not have much impact on the Earth Federation. If the Dark God Amon had sent a hybrid army to the solar system, they would undoubtedly have been completely defeated.

It was not long after Emperor Augustus passed the throne to Queen Louise that the Earthlings launched the second invasion. It was Prince Valerian, who was over 80 years old, who led the army together with the Protoss Darram to defeat the invasion, creating a legendary epic.

After that, the Earthlings were severely injured and never invaded again.

The third large-scale war between the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation probably occurred during the reign of the patricide Aylin of the Second Dynasty. At that time, the Terran Empire, which was still in a rapid expansion stage, began to truly enter the Orion Arm and established a pioneering point under the nose of the Earth Federation.

Fire and water cannot be compatible, eagles and wolves will not share the same sky, and two equally ambitious interstellar empires will never coexist peacefully.

The arrogance of the Earthlings is even greater than that of the Protoss, and more radical than any other human beings. They have a military tradition since ancient times, and every generation of young people is proud to join the army.

As for us Terrans, we are aggressive and martial. We like bloodshed and conquest. We do not bow to anyone, whether they are Earthlings, Protoss, Zerg or Void Gods.

The Earth Federation has a clear militaristic tendency, and the Terran Empire is not a good person.

Since the time of Aylin, the border between the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation has never been clearly demarcated, and it is a mess.

In short, the Earth United Council considers itself the orthodoxy of mankind and refuses to recognize the Empire as an independent regime, and we are the same. Since the Council first claimed that they should own all the colonies established by the colonists of Tarsonis, Umojan and Moria, all our emperors have to add an Earth to his territorial claims that are enough to be read for more than ten days at the beginning of their reign.

For more than a hundred years, Earth and Korhal regarded each other as the main rival in the universe, and they were evenly matched and had their share of victories and defeats.

Based on our research into Xel'Naga shipbuilding technology, we are now able to build warships that are much larger and stronger than those in the days of Emperor Augustus. The Gorgons are just antiques among antiques.

There are naval battles between large fleets everywhere, one world after another is destroyed from high orbit, and it is rumored that entire stars are extinguished. Planet-sized warships are built and destroyed.

We have lost five emperors in a row, hundreds of admirals and marshals, and countless soldiers for several generations, and they have not gained anything. An entire council of members was massacred by ghost agents, and a new expeditionary commander is replaced every two years on average because their predecessors are either dead or defeated.

It was another era of heroes and stars. The two huge interstellar empires fought to the death, but in the end, no one could do anything to the other. Whenever one side was about to lose, someone would always stand up to turn the tide and fight back.

Finally, the two interstellar empires exhausted all their resources and lost their patience. The society was in turmoil and the people's hearts changed. When Korhal and the rulers of the Earth found that their rule was shaken, they hurried to find old precedents. They found that Emperor Augustus had signed a short peace treaty with the Earth Expeditionary Force, and finally shook hands and made peace.

The treaty was signed by Queen Dorothy I. Before she ascended the throne, she had lost three brothers in the war, and her husband and son had just died.

If you carefully study the Mengsk royal family and its side families, you will find that most of them believe that if you want to protect the people and lead the army, there is no reason not to go into battle in person. This is the tradition left by the first emperor of the empire. The people of this family take the anvil as their throne and must be tempered a thousand times.

Throughout Dorothy I's reign, the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation remained at peace, until another of the Queen's sons went to war for revenge.

As we all know now, for nearly twenty centuries, the Empire and the Federation have been at peace for most of the time. This is not because they love peace, but because the various forces within them are too intertwined to agree on a common view.

In the process, the countless colonies under the two central governments have also been in constant conflict and alienated. In areas too far away from Korhal and Earth, open rebellion is common. Most of the energy of those in power is often devoted to power struggles and internal friction, not to mention the great upheavals such as dynasty changes and regime changes.

In addition, they must be wary of the Protoss, although the latter has remained neutral and no longer participates in human disputes since the time of Juan.

The Purifiers, a mysterious Protoss faction, terminated the war agreement after the Last Battle and returned to the revitalized Aedion Sector, where they have been dormant for hundreds of years. They are all noble warriors, neither lingering in the world of the living nor thinking about dominating the universe.

However, the Purifiers are not very nice to the human colonists who dug them out of the stasis network.

In the era of Emperor Augustus, the Tal'darim Protoss gave the Terran Empire some respect, but later they fell out and often clashed with us over territory and resources.

The Ihanli Protoss established their own Protoss Empire in the Telador system within the Empire, and always abided by the oaths of the past, never expanding, and never interfering with us.

The most powerful Protoss force, the Dalam Protoss, has been busy with its own affairs, as if they have endless work to do. But due to the increasing lack of communication between them, humans know very little about this and can no longer figure out what these Protoss are doing.

What is known so far is that the Dalam Protoss had two large-scale civil wars, in which multiple factions with different opinions fought each other, almost causing them to be seriously injured again.

We know very little about these two civil wars, but it is certain that they are both related to the Khala - a link that connects all the Protoss, but they were forced to abandon the Khala during the Last War.

Who in the Terran Empire today does not know about the Last War? Although many people believe that it did not exist.

This is the story that your neighbor's grandmother often tells: the dark god Amon, the fallen, the avenger, the lord of the void, he corrupted the Khala, enslaved the zerg, and his hybrid army destroyed one world after another.

This story must end with Emperor Augustus killing the dark god himself: when the final battle came, the emperor's army crossed the void, and he held the sword of kingship in his hand and went straight to the evil Amon. Only a flash of sword light passed by, and he beheaded him with a sword.

- As if the emperor was something more terrifying.

However, among the many records of the Emperor Augustus's real military power, the best was to defeat Admiral Horace Warfield in a duel, the one hung by the Korhal people at the door to ward off evil spirits, and at worst, he was no more threatening than a hen protecting eggs or a cat breathing on you.

I digress.

The first civil war of the Dalam Protoss took place shortly after the end of the final battle. It is said that someone discovered dark technology that could repair the Khala, but that technology clearly came from the dark god Amon.

The Protoss likes to invite wolves into the house and play with fire.

To make an inappropriate analogy, the pain felt by the Protoss for losing Kala is like the withdrawal reaction of drug addicts.

There are many people who are self-depraved among humans, and not all Protoss are nobler than us.

Some Protoss would rather die than return to Kala, while others would rather die than stop them, and bloody conflict is the inevitable result. At that time, Archbishop Tassadar of Daram stood on the side of the latter, and finally he resolved the dispute with his prestige, control of the army and excellent political skills.

There are many different opinions about the cause of the Second Civil War, and the only thing that can be confirmed is that it is related to the large-scale birth of a new generation of Protoss after the war. Just like the ancient Protoss before Kala appeared, the new generation of Protoss still retains nerve bundles when they are born, and can feel each other's existence in a more primitive mental connection, while the old generation can only cut themselves off from Kala forever.

When the conflict broke out, Archbishop Tassadar was seriously injured by assassination, and his young student Artanis was ordered to quell the rebellion that almost destroyed Aiur with courage and wisdom that was no less than their legendary hero Adun. It is said that Artanis' process of quelling the rebellion was full of ups and downs, and it was so exciting that it could be used to make several blockbusters.

Therefore, when Tassadar officially handed over the position of Archbishop to Artanis, no one in Daram had any doubts.

Back to Augustus VIII, in his time, the Tyrant Huan, the Reconqueror Arcturus, the Parricide Arryn and Dorothy I had all died for a long time, and the Protoss rarely stepped out of Aiur, becoming indifferent to the world and apathetic.

That was the 1,400th year since the founding of the Terran Empire. After six consecutive emperors of the Empire's endless struggles - cruel and ruthless, not caring about state affairs, levying heavy taxes, and being licentious. In addition, at that time we had restarted the war with the Tal'darim Protoss and the original Zerg, and the war continued for years. The national strength of the Empire had declined to the lowest point in nearly a century.

At this time, the throne was passed to the hands of Angus, the presenter of the map, who was known as Angus VIII, the king in the doghouse and the overlord in the bathtub.

I still have to say a fair word for Angus VIII. Although he did not have any achievements after he ascended the throne, he did not have any faults.

Angus VIII was very self-aware and knew that he lacked the ability to govern the country, and at the same time he did not covet power. He was willing to follow the practice of the eleventh emperor of the Empire, Atlas the Great, and delegate power to his ministers and the Imperial Parliament.

Therefore, in the first ten years of Angus VIII's reign, the turbulent situation in the Terran Empire gradually stabilized, order was restored, and the economy began to recover, showing a great sign of revival.

However, everything was because his opponent was too powerful.

This man was named Alexander Dugar, the supreme commander of the Earth Federation at that time.

Alexander's ancestor was the famous Human Hand Gerard Dugar, who was the commander of the Earth Expeditionary Force that invaded the Koprulu Sector during the reign of Emperor Augustus.

There are many different opinions about the final fate of Gerard Dugar. Some say that he committed suicide after his defeat. Another theory is that Dugar was infected and controlled by the Zerg, and as the commander of the infected army, he committed many crimes against humans in the Koprulu Sector.

In the final battle, Emperor Augustus defeated and captured Dugar.

After that, through some means, Emperor Augustus ordered people to cure Dugar's infection and asked him to plead guilty as the leader of the Earth Expeditionary Force.

After getting rid of the infection of the Zerg, the cured Dugar also realized his crimes. He was grateful for the emperor's kindness and tearfully asked the emperor to grant him a peaceful death, hoping to die as a human being instead of an infected person.

Later, the Earthlings only found the video of the Terran Empire publicly executing Dugar, but did not know the cause and effect.

Alexander Dugar did not necessarily hate the Empire that much. Gerard Dugar was too old for him. This declining small family did not pursue the so-called family glory and generations of hatred, but the Terrans and the Earthlings believed that he came for revenge.

In short, in the tenth year of Angus VIII's reign, Alexander Dugar once again kicked open the door of the Empire with a large expeditionary fleet and a declaration of war. At that time, he was only 39 years old and was the youngest expeditionary marshal in the history of the Earth Federation.

This Marshal Dugar was a rare military genius in a thousand years, and his subordinates were full of generals. The Earth Federation had been preparing to restart the war before he was born.

And what kind of people are we here? The top military leaders of the empire were all military nobles who relied on their ancestors' merits to make a living. There was a group in the era of Augustus the Great, then the group of Actulus II, and the favorites and relatives of the old and new emperors, as well as the waste, hooligans and braggarts who tried their best to squeeze into the army to accumulate qualifications.

The end of the dynasty is always like this, with sharp class contradictions, constant conflicts, inefficient and corrupt government, and no top-down control of local governments, like a paralyzed giant. Most bureaucrats are either wastes or stupid and bad.

People of that era also generally lacked long-term vision. When others took out real weapons, they thought it was a joke.

There are still many smart people in the Imperial Army. The higher military academies of Korhal and Tarsonis still adhere to the tradition when they were first established. Admissions are regardless of origin or place of origin. Although this does not prevent powerful people from enrolling their children to gain qualifications, these colleges can still provide a large number of outstanding military talents to the empire every year, and almost every generation has famous figures.

But their supreme leader, Imperial Admiral Thomas Raynor, was undoubtedly a complete idiot, and people called him the Talking Pig.

As mentioned before, there is a group of meritorious people who live solely on the glory of their ancestors. It seems that if your surname is Reno, Horner, Warfield, or Hank, you must be a great general.

This was understandable to the public, who had grown up listening to the legends of Jim Raynor and Matt Horner, but many emperors thought the same thing.

No matter how incompetent the heirs of these meritorious families are, they can always have a place in the court. As long as these people take on human form and don't urinate in their crotches, they will definitely be able to become marquises and prime ministers.

Take the reconqueror Arcturus as an example. When he re-established the Terran Empire, the big families at the beginning of the founding of the country had basically declined. Not any family can survive from the old Federation era like the Terra family. Now.

However, Arcturus II insisted on bringing back these declining families to support them.

This was entirely due to Arcturus's own idea. He was a staunch bloodline theorist. More than half of this guy's courage came from his mysterious confidence in his descendants from Emperor Augustus.

Emperor Augustus said that the king is not respected by his bloodline, but the king should be honored by his bloodline.

Back to Thomas Raynor.

After Marshal Thomas heard the news of the invasion of the Earthlings, he immediately ordered his troops and led the troops in person.

Isn’t that heroic?

In the entire battle, he only did this one thing right.

Only the marshal is responsible for allocating supplies, and his most suitable position should be transportation captain.

However, the marshal had no idea how many warships the Earthlings had sent and how many troops they had mobilized.

It just so happened that no one from the empire rushed back to report. Some said there were only a few hundred warships, some swore that there were many enemies, and some actually said there were so many that they couldn't even count them.

Our great marshal adopted one of them in a compromise, and said magnanimously, well, it seems that the number of enemies is indeed quite large.

Alas! This will definitely be a hard battle, and the soldiers must fight bloody and worthy of the divine grace! That's pretty much what it means. I'm a casual person, and my love for yin and yang is as weird as my mother's.

The marshal did not even send another reconnaissance fleet before the war began, and the enemy's number, location, and intentions were completely unknown. He didn't ask, and he really didn't even mention the wine bags and rice bags of his men.

Marshal Thomas's tactical staff who had just learned how to play in the mud were all talking in front of the tactical picture. One said I think they should attack like this, and the other said okay, then I will defend like this.

It's like boxing, you punch me and I punch you, you parry and I block.

That's never how wars are fought, at least for Alexander Dugal.

This was not a brilliant strategy. Dugal divided the main force of his huge fleet into three parts. His largest and most terrifying Star Destroyer warships were all shielded and hidden in Saturn (it was Umoyan who founded this colony. In the heliosphere of the huge star in the Descendants of Man galaxy, the main fleet merged with the comets that were constantly moving in the Oort cloud.

Only a small number of Earth's warships arrived in high-altitude orbit with great fanfare to scare the terrified colonists into calling for help from Korhal.

But our marshal was fooled immediately. You can't expect his intelligence to distinguish such an "undetectable" trap.

Although Edmund Duke and Jim Raynor were almost incompatible, the Raynor and Duke families did marry several times. Thomas Raynor can even count the blood of the Mengsk family in his body, and it is difficult to tell whose genes dominate his body.

But even if Edmund Duke were in charge, he would not make such a mistake.

The Battle of Saturn probably started like this. Alexander Dugar whistled, and Thomas Raynor rushed over without thinking.

When Marshal Thomas was preparing to enter the Saturn system with the first fleet, an Earth fleet of no more than a few hundred battleships suddenly appeared and attacked their flanks. Then the Earthlings retreated with one blow and quickly escaped from the Imperial fleet. Attack range.

So the marshal immediately sent a fleet three times that number to pursue the victory.

When the second, larger Earth fleet repeated its tricks, the Marshal repeated his genius strategy, and so on, until more and more enemy fleets took away more and more of his own fleet, one fifth The fleet left him.

Of course, this is not the main reason for Thomas' failure.

He was so unlucky.

When Thomas's flagship was hit by the Earth fleet ambushing the Saturn system, the ten-mile-plus super battleship was immediately completely destroyed, along with all the top commanders of the Imperial Navy.

However, no one moved the entire fleet headquarters to their flagship like Thomas, just to save time for meetings.

How efficient.

Judging from past experience, even so, the imperial fleet will not be defeated immediately.

This kind of thing has happened before. When the highest commander of the fleet died, the lower-level deputy commander, the headquarters staff, a captain who suddenly discovered that he had command ability, or even a lower-level officer would take over the command and lead the Imperial Navy to break through the siege or turn defeat into victory.

But it didn't happen this time.

The first batch of Imperial fleets that entered the Sadun system were annihilated within eight hours, and the second and third batches of fleets were defeated in confusion, either waiting to die in the hyperspace disruption field covered by the Earthlings for several light years or surrendering.

All the Imperial fleets that entered were just chickens to be slaughtered.

Within a day, the Terran Empire lost half of its fleet.

Even with such a devastating defeat, the Imperial Emperor Angus VIII still had a considerable military force in his hands, but he lacked time to assemble the fleet and appoint a new commander.

Dugar didn't give him this time.

If a commander from Earth had invaded the Empire, the Dalarian Shipyard and Blacksis would have been the military strongholds they would have gone to great lengths to seize. The former produced the most warships in the Empire, and the latter was the Empire's gateway to the Koprulu Sector.

But Dugal didn't do that.

The Earth fleet would break through if it could, and would go around if it could, and would drive straight into Korhal, unstoppable. No Imperial fleet could stop this terrible force.

In fact, even at this time, the Imperial Emperor didn't have to panic, because no fortress world or planetary fortress could compare with Korhal in terms of defense. Every Imperial Emperor would more or less strengthen the orbital defense facilities that few people could match until now. With the layers of reinforcement, the Sky Shield orbital platform left by Emperor Augustus the Great was actually an artificial moon.

With the millions of Imperial troops stationed on the planet at that time, Korhal could hold out for several months, enough for other Imperial fleets to come to support. A similar incident had occurred during the reign of Titus Mengsk, when the Terran fleet could not break through Korhal's defenses despite their bombardment.

But Angus VIII was already terrified, and upon hearing the news of Marshal Thomas' defeat, he was so frightened that he simply locked himself up in the palace. The emperor refused to see anyone, refused to listen to anyone, refused to issue any orders or sign any administrative documents.

Angus did have a leadership team around him, but they were all clowns. The empire was in chaos, and no one dared to take charge, let alone organize defenses.

But at that time, people were not so panicked.

We at this time no longer say what they say: We have Sky Shield.

When you swear that something will never happen, it happens. Do you believe in God? The gods like to play such jokes.

It took Alexander Dugar less than two weeks to break the Sky Shield myth.

At that time, Khar still relied on electromagnetic waves to communicate with the orbital platform. Tens of thousands of messages were sent between the ground and outer space every day, most of which were insignificant things - observation reports, material application forms, receipts, and approvals. These communications were not encrypted and could be easily intercepted and forged, and it was not difficult to crack the military's encrypted information.

At that time, Khar had long been infiltrated like a sieve, with their people everywhere, even on the Sky Shield.

We Terrans are too confident in the mind-reading ability of psychics. As long as we pass this level, no one will doubt it. Inappropriately speaking, the stamp of the review department is like a quarantine label on pork.

Even when the economy was at its worst, hundreds of millions of people entered and exited Khar every day, and there were all kinds of people. Even Earthlings could enter and exit at will with things like customs clearance documents.

Please...collect 6...books...!

After all, we are a civilized and confident country, so why should we be as knowledgeable as the barbarians on Earth?

Yes, the Terrans, Kemorians, and Umoyans are all descendants of criminals exiled from Earth, but that matter has been turned over.

Dugal's plan to capture Sky Shield was not complicated, because there was an insider, so it was easier to implement.

The Earthlings spent almost a week just gathering in front of Sky Shield in a daze. They did nothing, not even cutting off the communication between the orbital platform and Korhal. Even the cargo ships that delivered supplies to Sky Shield could travel freely in outer space.

Everything was as if nothing had happened. The Earth's huge fleet that was so terrifying that it covered the sky and the sun was black, but it looked like it had traveled thousands of miles to Korhal for a dinner.

After this week, Dugal just calmly issued an ultimatum to the top leaders of the Terran Empire: surrender or watch him destroy the entire Korhal from orbit.

He did not mention Sky Shield at all, and there was no sign of any attack on other orbital platforms.

And it was impossible to bypass these defense facilities and destroy Korhal.

Thomas Renault must be a person who doesn't think much when doing things, but the powerful people in Khar have more thoughts. They don't believe that the earthlings really did nothing, and when they really can't see what the enemy wants to do, they can only suspect their own people.

However, the people on the ground would rather believe that Alexander has solved all the defense facilities than suspect that he is lying. Oh, the person in charge at that time was Lipan Gustav, the top seat in the Imperial Parliament, and he was also an unaware fool.

At that time, the Earthling spies were busy. They jumped up and down in and out of Augustgrad, spreading rumors that Sky Shield had surrendered to Alexander. At the same time, they made some big explosions from time to time, making the people think that the Earthlings had already reached their doorstep.

It stands to reason that the Imperial Government was still able to contact Sky Shield at this time, but Gustav was unwilling to believe the military's reports and assurances. There are many people like this on my side, always thinking that they are well-informed and have a lot of connections, and that others are stupid.

By the way, Gustav's wife is also an Earthling spy, and none of the people who provide him with intelligence are ours. And Gustav was played around by these people. Every bad move he made was deliberately guided. Even if he didn't make those mistakes, someone else would make them for him.

I'm not making excuses for him.

Gustav was elected as the chief senator before the Earthlings came to the city, not because of his talent and prestige, but because the various factions in the parliament were not as united as those who had secretly surrendered to the Earth. At this critical moment, the senators only wanted to quickly choose a scapegoat instead of taking responsibility. Anyway, the enemy could not break in, and the other imperial fleets that arrived later would sooner or later break the siege of Korhal.

There are many incompetent people in every era, but there were especially many in the Imperial Parliament at that time.

But no matter what, even the idiots in the parliament were dumbfounded by Gustav's subsequent unified operation.

Gustav first spent some time kicking out those who were still doing practical work in the Imperial Navy Headquarters and the Marine Corps Headquarters, and then placed his direct descendants who were just ordinary clerks, private secretaries, and even gardeners some time ago (it is easy to understand, there are only so many people in his mansion, and relatives are not enough), and thought that the army was under his control.

Then, Lord Gustav was going to enjoy the feeling of being in power.

Of course, although Gustav had already believed the rumors and determined that the Sky Shield had fallen into the hands of the Earthlings, he still refused to surrender to Dugar.

This was not because Gustav was so strong-willed, but because the emperor's military adviser told him: Even if Dugar really wanted to destroy Korhal from orbit, the void shield above Augustgrad was enough to withstand the orbital firepower of the Earth fleet. If the enemy wanted to capture the city, they would have to send a landing force to attack the city, and with the solid defense facilities in Augustgrad, they would be able to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

This void shield was built by the Reconqueror Arcturus, which used a lot of Xel'Naga technology and was extremely strong. The military adviser did not lie.

As for the others outside Augustgrad, the people could only suffer.

Then, Gustav focused on dealing with the traitors.

It is foreseeable that when Gustav personally contacted the commander of Sky Shield and asked him why he betrayed the Empire, the other party was of course at a loss.

Brothers, you are still wearing the Imperial uniforms. A batch of weapons and ammunition was just delivered to Korhal yesterday. How can you say this?

This is the genius of Lord Gustav. Usually, once people of his status determine that Ister has rebelled, they will not say any more nonsense to the other party. Treason is treason.

Gustav is not stupid. He immediately realized that there is still a chance for the situation to turn around, so he retreated to the next best thing and ordered the commander of Sky Shield to hand over the traitor.

It seems that the other party told Gustav that he did not betray, and he believed it a little, but not completely: My information is not wrong, you are not a traitor, and there must be traitors among the people below, otherwise I would have come here in vain.

Later, probably no less than a thousand imperial military scientists and historians studied Gustav's magical logic, and finally concluded that the fact that such a person could get to this position showed that the country was too tolerant of mentally retarded people.

Obviously, Gustav's request was rejected because the commander named Rouen Ister (a small military family from the era of Emperor Augustus, their family motto is simple and direct: keep to one's own place and never get involved in politics) was an upright man. There was no rebellion under his command, so how could he hand over the people?

We know that at this time, Korhal's military ships and cargo ships were still able to enter Sky Shield freely. Even if the merchants refused to transport supplies, there were always loyal soldiers with patriotic hearts who were still carrying out orders.

But no matter how Ister and these people wrote reports and tried their best to ask for an audience with the emperor and ministers, it was useless.

It is said that Gustav immediately flew into a rage after hearing the reply, and completely ignored Ister's oath to express his loyalty to the empire and the emperor.

Our Lord actually quarreled with Ister in the communication channel with his precious body (it's hard to imagine, right? The Earthlings didn't even intercept the communication. The weirder the matter is, the more suspicious it is). Gustav raised a fatal doubt, that is, if Ister didn't surrender to Dugar, then why didn't the Earthlings attack Sky Shield.

God knows why the Earthlings didn't attack Sky Shield, saying that it was as if they could defeat it if they attacked.

Gustav had a hundred ways to prove Sky Shield's loyalty instead of doubting it, but he chose to ask this damn question.

Lieutenant General Rouen Istel is undoubtedly an upright and good man, but he has fallen into the trap of self-proof. In addition, rumors were also spreading in Sky Shield at that time. The soldiers thought that the enemy had bypassed them and entered Korhal. They were panicked and worried about their families on Korhal.

Istel cried out: My lord, if we have surrendered, why don’t we use Sky Shield’s space-based weapons to destroy Korhal?

Gustav said how do I know, I am not a soldier.

This person has lived a life of luxury and has never touched a gun. His concept of war may still be stuck in the primitive people fighting each other with sticks.

However, Speaker Gustav is still willing to give Sky Shield’s soldiers a chance: send Sky Shield’s troops to attack the Earth fleet to prove their loyalty.

This is a "brilliant chess move".

As scholars who have studied this period of history have concluded, the Empire lost not because the Earthlings are so smart, but because our people are so stupid.

You can definitely imagine how shocked and incredulous the people in Sky Shield were, and how loyal they were to the point of being stupid, actually sending a death squad to rush towards Dugar's fleet.

However, given that Gustav and Istel's communications were being monitored by the Earthlings throughout the process, this was just a meaningless sacrifice.

Without even taking action themselves, and without much effort, Dugar's agents successfully incited the ignorant people of Korhal to persecute the families of Sky Shield soldiers, because the frightened people believed that these soldiers would help the Earthlings burn them all to ashes.

The police and military should have protected these people, but they were damn slow and didn't.

There is no shortage of sensible and intelligent people in the Korhal Imperial Government and Army, but they either don't speak with enough weight or they discover it too late.

Augustgrad is a super city with a population of 22 billion. When the enemy is threatening to burn them to death above their heads, the infinitely suppressed and unreleased fear and tension will soon turn into something more terrible.

One group persecuted another group.

So, when the loyal soldiers of Sky Shield found that their families were tragically drowned, strangled, burned, and burned with laser pliers, how desperate they must be.

Coldly speaking, an excellent military commander should not let his subordinates know this, so as not to disturb the morale of the army, but when General Istel learned that his parents, wife, and two children had all died tragically, he had a stroke and fainted.

Even so, Sky Shield still did not betray.

Istel's successor was his adjutant, another man with the surname Renault, named Tres Renault. This family was prosperous and numerous.

Tres was a very capable person. He stabilized the morale of the army and prevented Sky Shield from being paralyzed due to a serious lack of manpower. There were probably more than one million soldiers on Sky Shield. After hearing the news, more than half of them were distraught, and others tried to forcibly seize ships and return to Korhal to save their families.

As far as I know, none of these people ended up well.

But at this time, the clever Speaker Gustav wanted to add fuel to the fire.

Gustav did not take the riot seriously at all. There are records showing that when he heard about it, the Speaker was very confused. He said he was shocked, but he could do nothing.

None of this prevented Gustav from being in a good mood and asking the court chef for a table of good wine and food that day, because since General Eastel fell ill that day, he could send his own people to take over Sky Shield.

However, no one under Gustav was willing to do this job. He finally found someone who was stupider than himself (it was difficult for him). That person wanted to be a hero who brought glory to his family and spent a lot of money for this position.

We already know what happened later. An officer in Sky Shield who worked for the Earthlings directly blew up the spaceship from Khar.

Well, it was this ship. Only this ship was blown up in the entire battle.

Naturally, the people in Sky Shield had no way back, because the furious Speaker Gustav immediately announced publicly that all the soldiers of Sky Shield had betrayed the country.

In his opinion, I was thinking so much about you, but my kindness was not taken seriously.

I racked my brains to figure out what good it would do to confirm Sky Shield's betrayal except to cause greater panic.

In this way, it took Dugar only so long to completely take over Sky Shield. Sky Shield had no fighting spirit and surrendered without any resistance. Other orbital defense platforms were also in panic - you can't expect angry and crazy civilians to distinguish between Sky Shield and other orbital platforms.

Dugar didn't waste Sky Shield's weapon system and immediately began to bomb Augustgrad.

To be honest, Augustgrad's void shield did work, and most of the casualties were due to chaos and riots.

Imagine the whole sky is covered with hot high-energy plasma, and you don't know if the shield will break in the next second.

So, when the end of the world comes, many people will probably give up and do things that they would never have dared to think of before.

By the way, this space-based weapon of Sky Shield came from Emperor Matthew I, and its only use was to attack the surface of the planet. It is said that the emperor's original idea was that if Korhal fell, he would use this weapon to destroy the enemy together with him.

However, the emperor may not have realized a key problem, that is, if Korhal had fallen, Sky Shield was unlikely to be in his hands.

Dugar bombed Augustgrad for about two days, and Gustav surrendered, and he was scared to death.

Angus VIII was even worse than Gustav. It is said that when Dugar's soldiers entered the palace, the emperor was still holding his favorite little yellow duck in his hand when he was a child, and taking a bath in the amazingly large bathtub. When he heard that the earthlings were coming, he immediately hid in the kennel where he raised hounds, and competed naked with the beasts for food.

There was no more trouble after that.

Sometimes, the destruction of an empire is just a moment, so fast that you feel caught off guard.

The thirty years of rule began.

Some people also call it the Dark Ages. Although the uprisings against Earth's rule have never subsided in the Empire's territory, they have never achieved anything. With their simple weapons and mosquito-sized spaceships, they can't compete with the powerful fleets of the Council. Some powerful Imperial worlds have persisted for more than ten years or even longer - much longer than Korhal, but no one can unite them.

The remaining Imperial fleets call themselves the Sons of Korhal. They have never given up the struggle, just like the era of Emperor Augustus.

But in the same way, even the extremely large Imperial fleet in the past has been defeated. How can these losers defeat those who once defeated them?

Augustus VIII was born in this era, and he didn't even meet the last emperor of the Empire.

And it is true that Augustus VIII is a descendant of Augustus the Great. As mentioned earlier, he doesn't look like Augustus the Great or Patrick Mengsk at all, but he undoubtedly has the powerful bloodline of Queen Sarah Kerrigan.

The Emperor's other child, Charlotte Mengsk, did not leave any offspring, and Patrick's lineage was not prosperous, with few people, but they were all extremely powerful psykers.

In our era, people with strong psyker potential are not uncommon, so everyone's psyker level must be recorded, and one-tenth of the population has reached or exceeded level five, which means that they all have at least telepathic ability and are "fucking" mind readers.

Arcturus Mengsk, the Emperor's brother, said it well: they can steal thoughts.

And in Augustus VIII's family, no one will be lower than level ten.

Among the psykers that have appeared in humans for more than ten centuries, Queen Sarah Kerrigan ranks first, then Augustus VIII ranks second, and the rest will be left to others.

Gabriel Tosh, the founder of Ghost Agent, may be ranked third, but he is not a pure-blooded human. He was transformed by the Zerg and was cured after the final battle.

Let me introduce him again, Augustus VIII, Augustus Constance Mengsk, son of Ulysses Mengsk and Constance Mengsk. To distinguish him from their great ancestors, people call him Connie.

Connie showed his uniqueness since he was a child. He was already able to speak fluent Korhal accent to his nanny when he was still drinking milk: No offense, dear Ms. Sofia, please hold your XX, or do you think it will appear in my mouth by itself?

Honest and hardworking, friendly and humble, knowledgeable and talented.

Take a moment to imagine the opposite of these words, that is Connie Mengsk.

At that time, Korhal had already fallen, but Connie's family lived a mediocre life. They had an ancestral home passed down from generation to generation in the Stilling District of Augustgrad, and the wealth accumulated over generations was more than enough to support dozens of loyal servants.

Although Patrick's bloodline is much higher than that of the Reconqueror Arcturus in terms of legality, his family has never produced an emperor.

The Earthlings were quite good to the descendants of Emperor Augustus at first. They treated this line of the royal family like pigs and let the rest go their own way.

At this time, in addition to many distant branch families, the Mengsk family only had Connie's line that could be directly traced back to Emperor Augustus.

According to Connie's later recollections, compared with most people in Augustgrad at that time, his childhood and adolescence were carefree. He had no worries about food and clothing, and he had more money than the lower-class civilians could earn in their lifetime, and of course there was no shortage of playmates who wanted to curry favor with him.

However, the rights brought by identity come at a price.

Ever since Angus VIII and his aunts and uncles were locked up in the palace, a large group of self-important royalists (mainly the fallen imperial nobles and their young and energetic nephews), idealists and fraudsters have been entering and leaving his father Ulysses' living room every day - other Mengsks outside the palace have also gathered a similar group of people, but the people around Ulysses Mengsk are particularly numerous.

At the beginning, these rabble could not cause much trouble - of course, there were some very capable people among them, such as Admiral Charles Wells, the founding general of the Third Dynasty, Prince Valerian Jupiter Mengsk, and Duval Williams, the first chancellor of the Empire, but at that time they were either young boys as old as Augustus VIII, or they were ambitious but incompetent.

In addition, there was a girl from the Terra family, named Azura Terra. In the memory of Augustus VIII, she was like an angel, lively, smart, and could do everything except serve in the army.

But she did not live to the end.

Until Connie was fourteen years old, his daily life did not change much. He had no ideals at such a young age. He just ate and waited for death. In the morning, he played mahjong (a first-class elegant thing passed down by Emperor Augustus), and in the afternoon, he listened to his father bragging with those lunatics who dreamed of restoring the throne all day long, and then went to the card game in the evening.

However, just like the beginning of all the prince's revenge stories, God would definitely not let Connie live like this.

Finally one day, Connie's old father Ulysses was flattered to the point that he could not tell the directions. He suddenly had a brilliant idea and was really ready to rise up in Augustgrad. The worst thing was that Ulysses' idea was immediately supported, almost unanimously, and these mobs thought they had planned well and were really ready to do something.

Ulysses' uprising ended as suddenly as it began.

Before Ulysses could recruit troops, agents of the United Council broke into his house in the middle of the night, seized all his ancestral property, and sent his family to prison.

Those who had gathered at the door of Ulysses' house immediately scattered like birds and beasts, looking for the next unlucky Mengsk.

Augustus VIII never mentioned the events of that time. When his father Ulysses was hanged as the main criminal, he was still imprisoned in the prison converted from the palace (as a Mengsk, he had never been to the palace before, and thanks to this surname, he could get the same treatment as the royal family-when he was a criminal).

Some Heji wizards who had served the royal family claimed that Connie's terrible psychic talent was fully revealed at that time, like a awakening flood beast. Although he was halfway across Augustgrad from the execution ground, he still saw his father's painful death through a kind of prophetic vision of the future.

Ulysses Mengsk was a complete unlucky guy. He took the unwritten family motto of the Mengsk family seriously: Mengsks are born to achieve great things. This was what Ulysses' father said to him, and his father's father said the same thing.

Ulysses also brainwashed Connie in this generation, but his son just wanted to lie down.

Unfortunately, Ulysses compared himself to Augustus the Great, but he never accomplished anything, nor did he hurt anyone. He just enriched the pockets of countless businessmen, dreamers and liars.

Ulysses' power was very strong, but he never used it to kill anyone. He just used it to perform magic tricks for Connie or help his neighbors pick fruits from fruit trees from a distance. This man dreamed of becoming an emperor like Augustus the Great, but he was fucking afraid of blood.

He could have killed hundreds of people in a split second, but he was captured by a group of Earth soldiers who had no psychic powers. They thought that they could subdue a 12th-level psychic with a psychic blocker.

Shortly after Connie was born, his mother died. Ulysses was his only relative except for an uncle whose whereabouts were unknown.

When Ulysses died, Connie began to become as hard as steel and began to become a so-called Mengsk.

The Earthlings were very generous and did not bother Connie again or keep him under strict supervision. It was not that they did not know how powerful Connie was. In fact, a group of scientists from Earth were thinking of dissecting him for research.

You are the one who knows that Earth regards psychics as the third class, and the fourth class is the Marines.

It was Alexander Dugar who stopped them after hearing about it.

People's moral values ​​are sometimes so contradictory. Alexander could immediately order the killing of 10 million people for victory, and of course there might be children much younger than Connie, but he refused to sign for the inhumane human experiments that were happening right in front of him.

At that time, Dugar certainly didn't know how many Earthlings this 14-year-old boy would kill in the future. Augustus VIII hanged more Earthlings than all the emperors of the empire combined. His most common phrase was "Hang them!", and he was called "cruel" Augustus.

Although the Earthlings didn't slice Connie for research, they couldn't just let him go home.

For such a threatening high-level psychic, it was actually appropriate to lock him up in the palace.

The psykers of the Terrans once caused a lot of trouble to the Earthlings. A powerful psyker mixed in the ordinary army could produce the same destructive power as a high-level templar of the Protoss. Not to mention the more mysterious ones, it is rumored that they can break steel with their bare hands or distort thoughts.

The Earth and the extraterrestrial colonies basically do not produce psykers, unless they are hybrids with Koprulu humans.

The Joint Council has selected anti-psychic technology for many of their technologies, and their soldiers can even compete with the Protoss.

However, the psychic shielding device in the palace was the work of the Terrans themselves. You see, the Reconqueror Arcturus was a collateral lineage. He perfectly inherited the weak psychic power of Emperor Augustus and the mortal body of Lisa Cassidy, and his psychic power was pitifully weak.

Emperor Arcturus always felt that psychics could control his little brains, so he kicked all the ghost agents out of the palace, and then spent a lot of money to build anti-psychic equipment in the palace, ensuring that every high-level psychic who entered would have a terrible headache.

But this didn't have much impact on Augustus VIII. Our Connie just had an itchy scalp and didn't sleep well.

In the small room that belongs to him (I heard that it is not even a small room, you know? The palace is huge, it is just a miniature fire cabinet embedded in the wall, but it is bigger than my house) , Connie has been having a nightmare, this dream is about a hanged man, this dream will accompany him for the rest of his life.

Connie actually never thought about escaping from the palace. He thought about revenge, but he had no idea at all and didn't know what to do.

Augustus VIII was not a natural leader. He was full of bad habits. He had no independent opinions and lacked purpose in doing things. He always liked to go with the flow. Usually it was his advisers who made the decisions. The emperor liked to kill people with his own knife. Work.

He is definitely the kind of person who is fine with everything when hanging out with friends, and I am casual.

Once Azula Terra asked Connie alone which girl do you want to hang out with, and the latter asked where the girl was?

For several months or more, Connie slept in a self-defeating manner, so that the Earth agent secretly monitoring him could only report like this day after day: Augustus Constance Mengsk wakes up. Eat breakfast, then be in a daze, eat lunch, take a nap, pee or poop, eat dinner, and go to bed after eating.

Some scholars have pointed out that Augustus VIII wanted to paralyze the guards so that they would be careless.

He didn't think so at all.

Of course, the people on earth are indeed careless, but the effect is the same.

Suddenly one day, Connie realized that someone was talking to him-in his head.

This incident was recorded and was narrated by Augustus VIII himself, but others thought he was suffering from delusion. ——No one dares to say.

Yes, this is indeed history as it is recorded, and it has not changed at all.

"You little thing, are you just going to sleep here?" the voice said, "Are you also called Augustus? Don't lose your place."

"Who are you?" Connie asked, "How do you know my name?"

"I'm your father." The voice was very poor.

"My dad is dead," Connie said. "The one who was hanged, his eyes almost popped out."

"Are you short-sighted?" The voice was speechless: "I'm not going to talk nonsense to you. Talking to someone named Mengsk is really annoying."

"Listen up, the first and last brainworm, the lord of the swarm, the master of the swarm"

"I've never heard of it." Augustus VIII always spoke directly and asked questions.

"You have to be ridiculous." The opponent immediately broke his defense: "I just retired, not dead. Have people nowadays even forgotten the reputation of Zerg?"

"That was back in the days of Emperor Augustus. Now there are only primitive zerg." Connie said.

"That's because I threw the swarm of insects outside the galaxy." It was a little unhappy:

"Forget it, it's all just a false name."

But after a while, it said proudly:

"Have you heard of "The Romance of Augustus the Great"? By the way, I had to make major changes to this book later. Alas, can this be called a rumor? What about "The Emperor Augustus You Don't Know"? "The Legend of Star Heroes" and "The Nightmare of the Beauty of Korhal"? You must have heard of "My Personal Record of Thirty Years in the Palace: The Women That Emperor Augustus Deceived".

"I don't like reading," Connie said.

"." The voice fell silent.

"Aren't you a Zerg? Why would you write a book about humans?" Connie was very good at finding topics.

"Because I'm very good at observing and summarizing." The voice was a little reserved: "Although I'm not a human, I can make it up. I'm going to start a big one recently, going over old cases and digging into the dark history of the Dog Emperor."

"It's a thing of the past."

"Who is the Dog Emperor?" Connie asked.

"Who else could it be? Augustus Mengsk." The other party said, "The one hanging on your grave."

"Emperor Augustus?" Connie asked, "Do you know him?"

"Very familiar." It said, "I still keep in touch with him often."

"So you are a dead person?" Connie asked.

"Don't you understand human language?" it roared, "I'm not dead."

There was a long silence.

"Where are you? In the palace? What are you doing here?" Connie really felt like he had hit a ghost at that time, and this old guy didn't even tease him.

"I made a small mistake." Brain Worm sighed: "The Dog Emperor punished me to face the wall here and think about my mistakes. He said that Monkey Sun also punished me the same way when he caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace. Do you know who Monkey Sun is?"

"It's in the myths of the Earth," Connie said.

"Is it great?" Brainworm asked: "I haven't been online recently, I'm busy publishing new works." (Some people speculate that it is the author of Flowers of the Empire, but I have reservations. You might as well say that the author of this book is Austrian. Augustus VIII)

"It's awesome," Connie said.

"Well well well~" Brainworm was overjoyed: "Okay, I'm not here to chat with you. Seeing that you are a descendant of the Dog Emperor, I can barely help you."

"What?" Connie didn't respond.

"I won't go out of the mountain. I'll lend you a little brother. His name is Sass, and he will be your brother from now on." Brainworm said.

"Remember it well, be energetic, and don't lose your position." (End of Chapter)