The Norad II's thrusters spurted hot orange plasma flames, and the long wake reflected the armored surface of the fleet behind it orange. Behind the majestic and wide hull of the Norad II were six iron-gray ships.
Behemoth-class battlecruisers, these seven battlecruisers, headed by Norad, formed a perfect cutting-edge sharp knife formation.
The lower left and lower right are respectively the Hyperion and Iron Justice fleets running side by side, as well as 26 giant steel ships including Warfield's seven Leviathan-class battlecruisers, in the silence of the electronic communication channel.
Heading towards Tarsonis Prime.
Small and medium-sized battleships and starfighters escorting the fleet's main ship formations accompanied the fleet. From time to time, several fighters left the fleet to expel federal reconnaissance aircraft that were rapidly approaching one's own fleet.
The slowly rotating turrets of these battlecruisers, the armor printed with white letters and numbers, and the smooth portholes are all brand new. Each battlecruiser is a majestic ship, capable of attacking any rebel force.
The colonial world rains death, and the orbital bombardment of nuclear weapons can flatten mountains and rivers, dry up rivers and seas, and turn a garden world suitable for human habitation into a charred wasteland.
There are no communication signals between battleships, and all channels remain silent, as if what is sailing towards Tarsonis is not a large fleet but cold and speechless steel coffins. The Tyranid Federal Government
They tried their best to pass on the economic recession caused by the war to every citizen of the Federation, and accumulated the funds to build these battlecruisers through heavy taxes and plunder.
And now, these battleships are being used by the Mengsk family's revolutionary army against themselves.
"...We are still 32 million miles away from the main star of Tarsonis in a straight line, and the Tarsonis system fleet is directly in front of us."
"The dock of the Norad II has been opened and the Avenger and Wraith fighter formations are being ejected. Umo Yang's unmanned interceptor fleet has passed the final safety test and can be put into battle immediately."
"The 321st Marine Corps of the Revolutionary Army and the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Airborne Division are on standby on the first, fourth and fifth decks. Call the bridge from the lower deck, and we can deliver landing troops to Tarsonis at any time."
"The energy is full and the shield can be turned on."
There were about thirty or forty officers and technicians talking loudly on the bridge of the Norad II, but the scene did not seem so chaotic because of this. Everyone had a clear division of labor and knew what they should do when and where.
say.
The center of these soldiers and crew is Augustus Mengsk, who is wearing a dark gray military coat. He is the backbone of the entire bridge and the Norad II. Just standing there can make people feel at ease, and those who admire Austrian
The revolutionary soldiers in Gustus will become more motivated to fight just by looking at him.
At this time, Tarsonis Prime was getting closer and closer to Norad II. The green planet was shrouded in bright starlight. Some of the light spots magnified by the sensors on the main screen of the bridge represented the arrival of the jump.
Federation fleet.
"They must have been caught off guard," said Sarah Kerrigan, standing behind Augustus. "Even someone who was startled would have been panicked."
"Let's wait and see." Augustus said to another lieutenant beside him: "Access the federal communication channel that has been intercepted and deciphered."
The reason why Augustus's revolutionary fleet is able to intercept and decipher the encrypted communications of the federal army depends entirely on Umoyan's powerful deciphering technology and the federal secret information obtained by the agents of the Protectorate Army. And this is without exception.
The land was used to help the Revolutionary Army establish their own intelligence network, and a large number of sophisticated and sophisticated monitoring equipment and technical personnel were sent to Korhal IV.
As early as seventy years or more ago, when the Terran Federation first proposed the establishment of a joint government to unify the human regimes of the three Koprulu sectors, the governments of Umoyan and Moria were aware of the hidden human power.
The ambition behind the ridiculous reason of unification.
The former spent a lot of time building a spy intelligence network that infiltrated Tarsonis' power network, while the latter did not believe that Tarsonis' sissies could possibly defeat the fierce miners.
To this day, because there have only been a few border conflicts with little or no casualties, the Terran Federation still does not know that Umo Yang has deciphered the encryption mode of their communication channels, and is very likely to openly monitor it.
A federal major occupied the command center communication network and had a romantic conversation with his newlywed wife.
The ending of the Moria people can be imagined. Not only did they lose the war, but they were completely defeated.
"This is the Heisenland outpost. They have nineteen Behemoth-class battlecruisers, seven Leviathan-class battleships, and more than a thousand Avengers fighters." Several voices sounded simultaneously on the bridge of the Norad II.
The audio signal of a monitored federal communication channel.
"I am the First Orbital Defense Platform Command Center, who are they?"
"The rebels are the rebel fleet. If it weren't for the rebels, I would boil Aunt Meili's leather boots and swallow them...A whole fleet is equivalent to one and a half squadrons. God,
Either I drank too many cocktails or I'm blind. Goodbye, sir, we must retreat."
"I understand...Stick to your posts, or I will send you to a military court."
Amid a harsh electrical noise, a distorted shout could be heard on another channel: "Rebels, they are Korhal, I recognize the markings on those battleships."
"Damn it, this must be a stupid April Fool's joke. Now I'm going to get some sleep. I spent the night with that bitch in the gravity chamber yesterday. You should try that too. Daniel, I will
Let her come to you so that you won't be surprised."
Then there was a clang and a confused scream, and Augustus believed that the drunk orbit monitoring station radar monitor had received a good beating from his superiors.
Then there was another communication channel, and the access source showed that they were two Leviathan-class battlecruisers that were cruising in the Tarsonis system between the outer system and the main star on a fixed route. The two Leviathan-class battlecruisers
The cruiser was far behind the current Behemoth-class battlecruisers due to its age, and Augustus' technicians quickly deciphered the encrypted communications between them.
"Ah... there are rebels everywhere, it's really a ghost." A captain of the Federation Leviathan-class battlecruiser said: "But where is our fleet?"
"Stop them. We can't let those Korhals do evil in the Tarsonis system. They should go back to their hometown in the remote countryside."
The communication between the two Leviathan-class battlecruisers disappeared again. Apparently the artificial intelligence on the ship changed the identification code of the encrypted communication channel according to a fixed operating procedure, and the technical soldiers under Augustus wanted to
It will take some time to decipher it again.
"The rally signal sent by Tarsonis to the other fleets hasn't been intercepted yet?"
"No, sir." A technical soldier replied: "We have not intercepted such encrypted signals. The constantly changing communication passwords are hidden among millions of codes, but it is possible that we missed those encrypted signals.
Communication signal.”
"It's impossible to miss it." Augustus said: "If the Federation Council is already anxious, then they will definitely send distress signals non-stop. Always monitor Tarsonis's communication channel and don't miss any one that may affect the war situation.
Communication of significant impact.”
Augustus listened to several more communications from outposts in the Tarsonis system and habitation stations on several orbiting planets. He soon realized that the Federation Council did not expect that the Revolutionary Army fleet would raid the Dalarian shipbuilding.
After the factory, we immediately rushed to Tarsonis.
But as long as there is any general in the Federation army with a clear head and even a modicum of strategic foresight, he should realize that the Tarsonis system has neither barriers nor defenses, and the terrifying emptiness is evident on the star map.
above.
The monitored channels of the Tarsonis Planetary Orbital Defense Force, space station and orbital defense platform showed that the Federation army that was supposed to defend Tarsonis was in chaos. Thousands of signal transmission sources outside the army and fleet system called the Federation Navy
The headquarters asked what had happened, and the confused admirals were scolded by the powerful men of various systems and families.
"Andrea Tagore and her Federation Council are really calm. She should know that Tarsonis even lacks a marshal who can command the entire army - unless those retired old people are pushed to the front.
Augustus shook his head and closed all monitoring channels, but asked the monitors to pay attention and report key information at any time.
At this time, as the Revolutionary Fleet headed by the Norad II got closer and closer to the main star of Tarsonis, the Federation fleet consisting of nine Federation battlecruisers could be detected on the bridge radar scan. Both sides
The fleet warships were about ten miles apart. At such a long distance, missiles and space torpedoes rushed out of the cabin first, followed by laser beam barrages all over the sky.
This is obviously the majority of the warships that Tarsonis can use in a short period of time, because most of those Leviathan-class battleships should have been sent to scrap iron recycling foundries or displayed in museums and naval officers' schools.
The cruiser was also pulled out.
The flagship of the Federation fleet is the famous Leviathan-class battlecruiser Hutt, which is widely praised for destroying two Kaimorian Alliance battlecruisers and an interceptor carrier.
However, after suffering two heavy losses, the Hutt had to return to the Bennett Orbital Shipyard in Tarsonis for repairs. With the end of the Battle of Kailian, the large-scale delivery fleet of Behemoth-class battlecruisers and several
After several generations of upgrades, this warship that once made the Camorians fearful could not escape the fate of being eliminated.
The Korhal Revolutionary Army Fleet and the Federation Fleet opened fire while accelerating their approach. Between the barrages of the two sides were numerous interstellar fighters that quickly shuttled between them. At the same time, there were more Federation fighters and self-travelers leaving the space dock.
The revolutionary warship jumped out of the channel and joined the battlefield.
What was before Augustus was a magnificent scene. This was a collision between fleets. Artillery shells and laser weapons burst out thousands of hot and bright fires on the armor of the battleships. Every fighter exploded.
The light spot on the main screen of Norad II seemed like a short-lived supernova.
After a moment of dazzling brilliance, the flagship of the Federation fleet, the Hutt, was hit by a round of fire from the Revolutionary Fleet. This battlecruiser, which had once destroyed a colony on the edge of the Camorian Commonwealth, gave the Camorian
The famous ship that left people with nightmare memories burned in the sky-high flames, and turned into tens of thousands of torn steel fragments in the incandescence that illuminated the entire Norad II bridge in a few seconds.
About 1,000 to 2,500 federal fleet soldiers became smoke in the past in an instant, dying in pain that was not short-lived.
The two fleets collided fourteen minutes after they fired at each other. The outer battleships and fighter planes overlapped, and each battlecruiser's earth-shattering explosion was accompanied by bright light and blue electrical pulses.
After kicking the fourth Federation battlecruiser out of the battlefield, the monitor on the Norad II received an encrypted communication signal that Augustus had long awaited.
"Soldiers of the Tyranid Federation, I am Benson Tagore, Chief Speaker of the Federation Council. Tarsonis is under attack by the rebels, and the defense fleet has been hit. According to Federation Council Agreement No. 99, I represent the Federation Council and what he represents.
The people of the Federation demand it of you."
"All fleets, return to Tarsonis immediately!"
"Do your best, Speaker Benson." Augustus laughed, and many people on the bridge could hear his hearty laughter.
"Korhal IV has been saved." Kerrigan, who was looking at Augustus, also smiled. Although she didn't have much hope that Korhal IV could last for so many days before the siege of Korhal was lifted.
It's too late.
"It's not over yet..." Augustus pulled down the brim of his wide-brimmed military hat, and the expression on his face looked like he was a villain rather than a leader of the revolutionary army: "It's not over yet, Andrea...
Tagore.”
"The superiors of those soldiers did not tell them that the Dalarian Shipyard was attacked by us and a large number of warships were stolen." He stopped smiling: "Someone must have blocked the news, but the Federation Council must have been informed that what happened in the Dalarian System
what."
"But they don't know where we will go next." He faced the bright stars outside the porthole: "No one dares to say which galaxy the rebel fleet will go to next. Some people may believe that we will attack Tarsonis, but he did not let
The people of Tarsonis prepare for a war."
"Whether or not anyone has suggested that Tarsonis's defenses should be strengthened, if the Federation is recalling its fleets throughout the Koprulu sector to strengthen the homeland's defenses, that is exactly what we want. If they have not done so until now
If you don't react, I'll burn Tarsonis to the ground."
"Mengsk, I can't wait." At this time, the figure of Tychus Finley appeared on a main screen next to Augustus. Tychus was wearing power armor, and behind him were fully armed revolutionary troops.
sergeant.
"Tychus is coming...and those Tarsonian bastards are about to run."
"Don't lose your mind." Augustus scolded him: "Do you remember what the order is?"
"Landing." Tychus said: "Doing so while the three orbital platforms of Tarsonis and the ground orbital anti-aircraft gun fire network are still operating is undoubtedly asking for a dead end. Only about 20% to 30% of the troops can reach the surface.
."
"But this is our mission. We want to let the Tarsonis know that the revolutionary army has arrived at their doorstep." Tychus didn't seem to be frightened at all by what he just said: "In this way, the nobles and
The bureaucrats will be more urgent in requesting the fleet to return to Tarsonis."
"The target is the military facilities and scientific research station in Tarsonis, and to seize the Federation's armed manufacturing map. In addition, we must destroy the starport and suspended train tracks on the surface of Tarsonis as much as possible, so that the Federation
Unable to project troops quickly," Tychus said.
"If possible, we will rush into the city and snatch some noble ladies."
"The last words are not what I said." Augustus turned around and his eyes fell on Tychus: "As long as you don't accidentally hurt civilians, then I don't mind what you do. But no one can jump over me.
I give you this order, do you understand?"
"You didn't say that..." Tychus lit a cigar: "But I'm thinking, if I were you, I would do this."
"Those nobles, I'm afraid they haven't been beaten by Tychus' father since they were children." He chewed the cigar in his mouth and closed the mask and said.