In late October 2489, the four seasons changes and the alternation of cold and warm in the main star of Mar Sara were not obvious. The weather was still very hot. Fortunately, it had just rained in Echo Town half an hour ago, and there was an arched rainbow in the sky.
The Sheriff's Office of the Echo Town Police Department has an extra set of log tables, chairs and bookshelves compared to the past. Augustus leaned on his bench, holding a cup of military-style instant espresso in his hand. For more than a month,
Augustus spent most of his time in the police office, which had actually become the command center of the Revolutionary Army in Mar Sara, and Echo Town was their actual back garden.
It has been more than three months since the battle called the Siege of Tarsonis by the Unn Universe News Network and multiple colonial TV stations. The revolutionary army fleet and the terrorist organization "Sons of Korhal" that only appeared once have disappeared. Tarsonis politicians
They all breathed a sigh of relief and stated many times in public that the rebels had been annihilated.
Fearing that the core world would be raided again by the remnants of the Revolutionary Army fleet, many fleets have returned to their bases. Only Alpha Squadron is still persistently searching for traces of the Revolutionary Army fleet.
Colonel Edmund Duke, who had been fooled, was full of anger and had nowhere to vent it.
There was a large stack of documents in front of Augustus. Although he did not put his hands on the table, the stack of documents still moved automatically without any wind, as if an invisible hand was reading through it.
"Judge Ada from the Echo Town Court has written a letter asking you to investigate in detail the revolutionary pamphlets that have been circulating in the town recently. Arrest the reactionary and frightening people who are circulating in the town of Echo Town.
The Keha rebels and their despicable accomplices, he hopes you can immediately eliminate those discordant voices and arrest one or two of the masterminds."
After the words fell, a pair of tight long legs wearing black combat boots appeared in front of Augustus, followed by a curvy waist and hips and iconic long fiery red hair. Ghost agent Sarah Kerrigan was standing
Read the document next to Augustus, and as you flip through it, ask Augustus: "How are you going to reply to him?"
"I will deal with it as soon as possible." Augustus took a sip of coffee: "If he presses me again, then answer and say that he will deal with it immediately."
"Judge Rod Falls Slater of the Hilo Autonomous State wrote a letter praising you as the most outstanding sheriff in all of Hilo because you not only eradicated the drug trafficking problem in Echo Town, but also cracked down on the drug trafficking problem in Echo Town, Red Rock
The gangs in the four areas of Town, Thornwood and Anthem Station have reduced the crime rate in these areas to the lowest in ten years." Kerrigan turned over the next document.
"He has approved your proposal to form the Ridge Plains Civil Defense Corps equivalent to two full militia companies and 320 men." Kerrigan said: "He will provide you with this within two months.
Prepare matching kinetic energy armor, Gauss rifles, grenades and other military supplies."
With the end of the four-year Kailian War, the Terran Federation's military industry is still continuing to produce kinetic energy armor, firearms, weapons and multi-functional vehicles, and is working hard to expand sales. Arms dealers have become accustomed to passing through
They had made a lot of money from the war and could not bear the sharp drop in profits due to declining sales. They had already earned enough fame and money, but they still felt it was not enough.
A group of founding family companies, led by the Brubaker family, the arms dealers, and the Bennett family, leaders in the shipbuilding industry, began to advocate the threat of the Korhal rebels. In addition to selling to the military, they also sold to wealthy businessmen and edge planets.
The powerful and anyone else who could afford it sold the obsolete arms.
In this year, weapons and vehicles such as CMC-200 powered armor, E-series Gauss rifles, and vulture vehicles, which were originally prohibited from being sold to external parties, began to flow into the arms market on a large scale - of course, due to the "initial opening of purchase restrictions", the external sales price
Of course it's quite expensive.
It has become possible for private armed forces and mercenaries to hold power armor and Gauss rifles on a large scale. With the widespread popularity of CMC-300 in the military, the planetary defense forces and regional militias on colonial planets such as Mar Sara have also received
A large number of obsolete CMC-200 power armors.
However, these armors will not be replenished in large quantities after they are damaged, and the militia organizations must make repairs to survive the next equipment upgrade, which may be more than ten years later.
"Judge Slater is a good man. I hope I can buy him a drink." Augustus put down his coffee cup and smiled. He knew very well that Judge Slater had nothing to do with good people, but he always did his best.
It's straightforward. As long as Augustus can achieve results, he will need people and money.
The agents of the Koha August Security Committee under Augustus have conducted detailed investigations into the backgrounds and preferences of almost all officials in the Hiero Autonomous Prefecture. Some officials live a simple life and have no hobbies to exploit, and some are smart and capable but have some problems.
Small problems.
For example, Rod Falls Slater, the judicial officer of Heroic State, was a very greedy man, and his taste for women was also beyond ordinary people.
Greedy and lustful, but very capable.
The Slater family is a branch of the Flanders family, the founding family. Most colonial governors or justices are related to a founding family, because these positions are not elected, but are held by Tarsonis.
Directly appointed by the federal government.
Few of these people can tolerate corruption. They are used to the prosperous life of Tarsonis, and coming to the remote wasteland of Mar Sara is a kind of exile in a sense.
"Who else is looking for me?" Augustus sat up straight, picked up the document and read it.
With the crime rate dropping significantly, the sheriff of a small town is still quite free. General cases are handled by the following sheriffs. When the police need to be dispatched, Tychus is asked to take action. He can't do anything else.
The fight is quite neat.
"The residents of this town jointly wrote you a letter of thanks." Kerrigan handed Augustus a paper letter sealed in an envelope.
"Receive it in the box where I keep the letters. I will read it at night." Augustus looked at the light yellow paper letter and suddenly felt sad. When he was in the Turasis boot camp, his sister and
His mother often wrote to him, and he gradually developed the habit of reading letters in the evening after training.
"Is there any progress in the Purgatory Corridor mining area?" Augustus asked again.
"Chief Engineer Swann led his people to dig out tons and tons of crystal mines. The rich ore layer is almost all Adian crystals, but they still haven't dug out the signal source that emits a large amount of interfering electromagnetic waves." Kerrigan pulled over.
A chair was drawn up beside Augustus and he sat down.
"It's almost November, and we have been digging in the corridors of Purgatory for a month." Augustus organized the documents and put them in the filing cabinet.
"What did Swann say? How long does it take for him to dig up that thing?"
"Ah~ almost, just a few picks away - hand me my toolbox, man." Kerrigan said, imitating Swann's distinctive gruff voice.
"I already have his voice in my mind. But even if the source of the signal is not discovered, the crystals we collect are equivalent to a week's output of the Aktors Peak Mine." Augustus said: "Add it.
With the money that Arcturus transferred to my Umoyan account, I now have about 55 billion Umoyan citizen points, which can be used to purchase one or two Camerian Heracles Battleships.
A line of cruisers."
Augustus also received news that last month, his elder brother Arcturus Mengsk, the eldest son of Mengsk, resolutely led a huge mining fleet of tens of thousands to Kopulu for his people.
Sectors outside the sector. At the same time, an organization called the Sons of Korhal also took root on various colonial planets of the Tyranid Federation.
In order to revive Korhal, Arcturus Mengsk resolutely went further and further on the road of becoming a mine boss. With his brother's financial support, Augustus could not be too short of money.
"The only thing I'm worried about is whether the Kemerian Federation will still have sovereignty over its home planet Moria after its defeat." After saying that, Augustus stood up, opened the office door and walked out of the police station.
Sarah Kerrigan followed her invisibly.
"The news is that many residents of the Camorian mining planets have been expelled back to Moria, and only a few planets are still under the control of the Camorian fleet. Due to the return of the colonial population, the population of Moria has now exceeded
Four billion - a terrible number, the barren land of Moria is already overwhelmed." Kerrigan said when Augustus walked out of the office.
"But the Moria government sternly rejected the Federation's agreement to establish outposts and military bases in Moria. They would rather block all interstellar ports and seclude themselves in the country than allow Federation troops to enter Moria."
There were more than a dozen second-class police officers in the outer office of the police station. After seeing Augustus, these police officers immediately stood up and saluted Augustus with a straight posture.
These police officers are all key officers in the revolutionary army and political commissars of the Pan-Taylon Party who are responsible for the ideological work of the army - the purpose of these political commissars is to prevent the revolutionary army from betraying the ideals they swore to fight for, making this army
It was firmly in the hands of Augustus and the Angus government.
The Echo Town Police Department nominally draws its salary from the federal central government, but in fact it is filled with rebel members who are hated by the federal government.
The Tarsonis Federation Council and the Creation Family have never imagined that the rebels are hiding under their noses. They have not become weak from wandering in the universe, but are hiding in Mar Sara to recuperate.
"Keep working. There is still a long way to go to overthrow the tyranny of the Federation." Augustus looked at these energetic soldiers and nodded with satisfaction.
"For freedom, for Korhal, and for the New Republic!" These revolutionary soldiers wearing colonial police uniforms shouted these incredible words loudly.
Then Augustus walked out of the police station door and saw in front of him a swept bluestone road. On both sides of the road were colonial huts with reddish-brown roofs. The dark orange sky was cloudless. Two men riding horses
The patrol officer pulling the pony was passing in front of the police station.
After living here for a period of time, Augustus actually felt that Mar Sara was a good place - during the rare weather when there was no sandstorm that blocked the sky.
Since Augustus came to Echo Town to eliminate the gangs and criminal groups in the town and use the powers of the Sheriff to formulate new laws and regulations, the changes in this border town are obvious.
The most intuitive feeling is that the streets of Echo Town have become cleaner and tidier, because litterers will be fined if caught by the police at the police station, and gangsters who randomly graffiti on the walls have never returned to their place after being arrested.
at home...
A small town in the desert suddenly changed drastically. Since almost all criminals were wiped out, even if there were police patrols at night, the residents of Echo Town now dared not go out at night without carrying guns.
Already.
And because all the people of all religions and professions were sent to the mining areas by Augustus, the local custom industry also suffered a big blow. Only the strong support of the two striptease clubs has been able to support it until now.
At the same time, the advanced ideas brought by the revolutionary army have completely penetrated into the streets and alleys of Echo Town. Because the people of Mar Sara have a spirit of resistance that is not inferior to that of the Korhal people, after the destruction of Korhal 4
, and there are more Korhal sympathizers here than on any other colony planet.
The reason why Augustus chose to temporarily settle in Mar Sara after evacuating Tarsonis was not only because Mar Sara was geographically remote, rich in minerals, and owned a Xel'Naga artifact fragment, but also because it was also a place that nourished revolution.
Fertile soil.
Spreading revolutionary ideas to the Mar Sara people did not cause any unexpected backlash, and the actual situation was not what Augustus expected: as the revolutionary soldiers began to disperse into various surrounding towns,
Revolutionary thought has gradually affected nearly a third of the population of the Hilo Autonomous Prefecture in more than a dozen small towns.
Opposite the door of the police station where Augustus was standing, the original LED billboards on the street openly printed caricatures and jokes about resisting federal tyranny. The residents of Echo Town began to loudly talk about politics and express their opinions in public.
Dissatisfied with the Terran Federation, the Pan-Teran Party began to try to develop party members locally in Mar Sara, and a huge underground party network consisting of thousands of people gradually took shape.
This is also the reason why Judge Ada asked Augustus to investigate this matter thoroughly. Not only in Echo Town, but also in all police stations where members of the Pan-Taylon underground party are stationed, they are in a state of distress.
It can be said that as long as Augustus wants, he can launch an uprising in the Hero Autonomous Prefecture. But this is not Augustus's goal. He is used to making plans before taking action. He can only wait until the underground party organizations of the Pan-Talon Party are spread throughout the country.
Only after the whole Ma Sara has been completed will he consider launching the next plan.
Spread revolutionary ideas step by step, planet by planet, and eventually these influences will add up to overthrow the rule of the Terran Federation.
And now Augustus has fourteen battlecruisers in his hands, six of which are anchored in Umoyan and eight in the Sara system.
The force is much weaker than the Federation fleet, but it is enough to compete with a naval squadron or the armed force of a colony.
The closest friendly force to Augustus is the two colonist fleets led by Kidd, the Demon of Heaven. There are about one million Koha civilians and revolutionary soldiers. They are more than a thousand light years away from Mar Sara. They are already
Left the Koprulu sector.
"Will this attract the attention of the Terran Federation?" Kerrigan asked Augustus worriedly as he looked at the billboard opposite.
"That's for sure." Augustus spread his hands: "It would be a joke if they didn't respond."
"But by the time they react, the Revolutionary Party has already taken root in Mar Sara, and our fleet can evacuate." He said: "According to common sense, they will first send the militia and the Planetary Defense Force to investigate, and then
Then there are the Federal Marine Corps.
"After a while, we will jump away before their fleet arrives."