"What? Are they really going to do that? The government in Antigua is corrupt enough. The Federation is crazy, for God's sake." You don't have to listen to Kerrigan to read that from Augustus
Fluctuating on the surface of her thoughts, her jade-green eyes were turning into a golden color with surges of psychic energy due to anger.
"Dear, after the Korhal IV incident, the Federation completely lost its original bottom line." Augustus looked at Kerrigan: "For a long time, violence has dominated all human worlds."
"General Warfield, they are more like forcing our fleet to fight them... We cannot let the Federation bombard Antiga unchecked."
"...The Protoss fleet was discovered at 50 degrees and 4 astronomical units on the port side. Are they going to intervene in our 'dispute' with the Federation fleet?" Warfield said.
"I'm sending the footage to you. You can see the footage we shot in the power armor's head-mounted display. I originally thought that the protoss couldn't tell the difference between us and the Federation itself, just like we didn't rely on the tags on our feet.
You can't tell the two chickens apart."
"When the chickens were pecking each other in the cage, they started to interfere? In this case, the protoss should not ignore the Kailian war." Augustus said: "It seems that the protoss will not interfere with us.
The internal contradictions of these 'lower races'."
A video with snowflake-like garbled code was transmitted to Augustus' head display. In the screen, dozens of federal battlecruisers with flashing lights were parked on the edge of the light yellow Antiga star, and a large number of Wraith fighter jets.
They were swarming out of the armored port.
For a moment, there was a ripple in the synchronous orbit of Antiga Prime. A golden-blue fleet composed of at least a hundred Protoss aircraft carriers and thousands of fighter planes suddenly appeared and approached the Federation Delta Squadron and Nova Squadron.
The combined fleet formed.
This must have caused great chaos in the Federation fleet, as the radio communication frequencies in various communication channels increased more than ten times in a very short period of time.
The Federation has already seen how the main guns of the Protoss fleet destroyed the Sara Sisters from orbit. No matter how confident the Federation's naval generals are in their new armor, they will not think that steel can withstand enough to evaporate the ocean.
The Protoss main cannon that blasts the surface of the planet into crystals.
The reason why the Federation fleet dared to approach Antiga was mainly because they believed that since the protoss would bomb the planet sooner or later, there would be no problem if they dropped some missiles in advance.
Another reason is that they clearly saw that the Revolutionary Fleet in space was not attacked at such a close distance from the Protoss Fleet. But now the commander of the Federation Fleet has figured out that the relationship between people is
The time is different.
The Protoss fleet had already made a gesture of imminent attack, but they did not launch an attack immediately. The Federation's brown and purple-painted steel fleet faced off with the Protoss' gold-blue fleet for several full minutes, until Delta Squadron's attack
The flagship jumped away first, and the federal fleet retreated.
The Protoss fleet understood the Federation fleet's intentions and forced them away.
And this Federation fleet has wasted too much time in Antiga. The Federation Council in Tarsonis must be angry at their incompetence at this time.
"If the commander of this fleet was not the general of Nova Squadron but Duke of Alpha Squadron, he might have rushed forward." Augustus no longer paid attention to the war in outer space orbit.
"These federal bastards will have to pay for what they did and reap the consequences."
Augustus immediately ordered the dispatch of Renault Rangers and Mar Sara Governor Pryor's troops to search for possible surviving insect nests, and ordered air force transport planes to land immediately to transport wounded soldiers and corpses.
Then, the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps on the Ansadar Plains established a communication base station at the location of the destroyed Gamu Swarm Hive. Several Revolutionary Army Marine Divisions began to withdraw to Ansadar one after another, and
The 1st Guards Division commanded by Augustus was responsible for breaking up the rear.
When ordering the troops to retreat, Augustus still stayed in place and paid attention to the movements of the protoss ground troops. He found that the protoss troops were staying on top of the bloody corpses of tens of thousands of zerg, and some protoss were cleaning up.
Work such as the battlefield - cutting off valuable fangs and claws of the zerg as a souvenir, this should be related to the customs of certain tribes of the protoss.
The protoss forces have always maintained a certain distance from Augustus's revolutionary army, and have no intention of communicating with humans.
"The main zerg nest in this area has been cleared - this means that the zerg in the Ansadar area has been cleared. Next, we only need to deal with the remaining zerg nests in Antiga..." Kai
While Regan was talking to Augustus, he suddenly noticed that he, Corporal Faraday and others were looking up into space.
Kerrigan tilted her head, and her long fiery red hair was thrown to the side. When the sparks on the battlefield flew past the ends of her hair, even the wind in Antiga was red.
A magnificent protoss battleship is emerging from the dark clouds in the Antiga sky. Rather than a battleship, it is more like a glorious golden palace or a collection of obtuse and acute angles, beautiful geometric shapes and spiral shapes.
of handicrafts.
Its slender and streamlined golden hull forms gracefully and lightly in the sea of clouds, like golden leaves and a golden ship cutting through the waves. Storms and lightning surround the hull of this battleship, and countless wasp-shaped and butterfly-shaped battleships are surrounding it.
Hold it.
Above the heads of Augustus and others, several Wraith fighter planes with orange flames spraying from their tails were flying towards the incomparable golden ship, leaving several condensation trails in the sky.
"The flagship of the Tassadar Expeditionary Force, the Star Shuttle." Kerrigan said, looking at the battleship.
Judging from the information currently available to Korhal's Revolutionary Army, the fleet led by Executor Tassadar is just a temporary expeditionary force formed by the Protoss Empire to eliminate the Zerg, and the expeditionary force's warships themselves are
The history can even be traced back more than ten centuries.
In other words, at least in the era when humans were still looking at the stars by the fire, the protoss might have been able to build these super battleships that could burn the planet.
"It's so beautiful." Augustus lowered his head.
"War and aesthetics coexist. This looks more like something to be put in a museum. Based on our human chronological scale, these battleships can be considered antiques." Kerrigan suddenly realized that Augustus
When looking at those protoss battleships, the gray eyes seemed to be filled with pink peach blossom stars.
None of the noble and famous ladies in Tarsonis enjoyed this kind of treatment, including Kerrigan.
Of course, Augustus was not purely admiring the protoss warships. If possible, he hoped that human warships could also have main guns that could flatten planets, strong plasma shields, and massive and powerful carriers.
Interceptor.
"Even antiques can easily destroy the giant steel ships that humans are proud of. The Federation spaceships in the orbit of Mar Sara that were destroyed by the protoss fleet due to zerg infection were directly vaporized." Augustus
Speaking to Kerrigan.
"If Tassadar hadn't been commanding this fleet, we wouldn't even have a chance to get close to Antiga."
While Augustus was talking to Kerrigan, a golden, slender Protoss shuttle sailed out of the Star Shuttle's lowered hatch.
The shuttle stopped about a few hundred yards away from Augustus. Out of respect for the Protoss, Augustus ordered his guards to form a formation to welcome him.
He guessed that this person might be an envoy or diplomat. Of course, there might not be such a profession in the Protoss Empire.
Augustus could not find anything similar to a hatch on the outer shell of this Protoss shuttle. He could only see some beautiful polygonal windows and exquisite patterns. A high-level Protoss Templar jumped from the shuttle.
A sunken iris appeared on the side of the machine, and then a row of protoss templars wearing golden-blue armor walked out of it.
These protoss warriors are taller than the human warriors wearing power armor. Compared with the Ta'darin protoss warriors the Revolutionary Army had seen, Tassadar's protoss warriors have exquisite and shining armor, with lining under the armor.
Soft light white silk jersey.
Protoss warriors rarely wear helmets. Their chins, which are too long compared to humans, have metal decorations to cover up their rounded edges. The ends of their long nerve bundles are sandwiched with gorgeous golden ornaments and crystals.
A tall protoss wearing purple and white robes and armor finally appeared. Around his waist was a cross-shaped belt inlaid with blue gems. The armor was like shining platinum and liquid silver. The storm was supported by spiritual energy.
Lift him so that he is hovering a few feet in the air.
When he walked like Augustus, he seemed to be riding arcs and storms, really like a god. When Augustus realized that it was Tassadar, he was already close at hand.
"En Taro Adun, Executor Tassadar." Augustus held out his right hand wrapped in servo and armor.
Tassadar hesitated for a moment, reading the meaning of the handshake from Augustus's shallow consciousness. The Protoss Executor's shining sea-blue eyes narrowed in a slight arc, and then he stretched out his hand and shook Augustus's hand.
Holding them together.
The protoss' palm is very broad, almost the size of two or three human palms. He has wrinkled light blue skin, and the ends of his fingers are trimmed thick nails. However, the palm of the power armor is not too small, so it will not appear.
Augustus' palm is completely covered.
"Salute to Aden, Marshal Augustus." Tassadar's voice appeared directly in Augustus's mind: "You may not know the meaning of Aden, but I want to tell you, friend, he is
The hero of our race saved us from destruction by the Dark Templar."
Although humans are a race with low-level psychic abilities compared to the protoss and cannot control the flow of their own thoughts, it was easy for Tassadar to read Augustus' thoughts, but he did not do so.
Tassadar noticed Sarah Kerrigan next to Augustus, and his eyes stayed on her for several seconds. Obviously, Tassadar was surprised that there were such powerful psykers among humans.
This refreshed Tassadar's understanding of the upper limit of human psykers' psychic levels, and he may think that there may be more than one such psyker among humans.
Next to Tassadar stood a female protoss wearing a white robe. Her light blue eyes only showed indifference towards humans and seemed to be indifferent to everything.
Augustus guessed that this should be a guardian of the stars, a role similar to those who write history among humans. The difference is that they are living libraries of mobile databases and knowledge.
For example, the scene where Augustus and Tassadar met today will be directly saved in the form of memory by this protoss protector, and the viewer can re-experience everything that happened today from her perspective. Usually, only those
The elders who are considered the greatest executives and the Supreme Council will have protectors around them to witness and record important moments in history at any time.
Protoss protectors are few in number, and Rohana, the highest protector on the Spear of Adun, is supposed to have a more noble status.
"You wonder why I'm here," Tassadar said.
"..." Augustus was indeed confused, but he didn't like the feeling of having his thoughts read through.
"After a long period of detection and reconnaissance by the Sargas Templar, we discovered the giant main nest of the Zerg on the other side of the planet Antiga. The war advisor believes that the Zerg's brainworm is there." Thasa
Dahl still knows a lot more about zerg than humans do.
"The swarm is like the nerve endings extended by a brain, and the cerebrate is their main brain. As long as we can kill one cerebrate, the swarm will collapse."
"Have you really done that?" Augustus knew that even if the brainworm is killed, it can be resurrected by the master. A brainworm whose body is killed can also be reborn in another body.
Reborn, if you want to completely kill a Cerebrate, you must use the void energy possessed by the Dark Templar, another faction of the Protoss.
However, Augustus has not encountered the Dark Templar of the Protoss so far, and he knows nothing about the coordinates of their home planet of Sagulath.
"No...we have encountered the zerg for no longer than you." Tassadar said: "But there is no doubt that the zerg must also be the creation of our god Xel'Naga, because they
Also reacts to Kedarin crystals."
"We will try to kill a cerebrate and see what effect that will have - this way, we don't have to sacrifice the precious lives of our soldiers to fight against the vast swarm of zerg."
"...Maybe that will be useful." Augustus looked like he was thinking about Tassadar's words. However, he knew that the resurrection of the Cerebrate actually takes time, and it would be very difficult to lose a Cerebrate for a short time.
May have irreversible effects on the insect colony.
To be honest, these words of Tassadar have already come to light, and now no one except Augustus may understand the meaning of the terms "Xel'Naga" and "Kedalin Crystal".
After all, at this point in time, a human should not know so much about the protoss or zerg.
"What is Xel'Naga?" Augustus asked knowingly.
"They are our creators, the gods who have guided the protoss clan in history. Because of Xel'Naga's teachings, we were able to quickly move from the tribal era to the interstellar age...but Xel'Naga is no longer in Ai.
And everywhere we've been." Tassadar was patient.
"I know you don't believe in the existence of gods, but to my ancestors at that time, those technologies that are not fully understood today were supposed to be miracles."
"God?" Augustus smiled: "I am my own god."
"Are they no longer there?"
"The Xel'Naga left very early. After that, our tribe fell into long-term division and catastrophe." Tassadar said: "Without the great Kass, we will continue to be divided."
"...Then, when can we kill that brain worm?" It is not so much that Augustus is not interested in the history of the protoss and their gods, but rather that he knows too much.
So much so that I don't want to dig into it.
Augustus was more concerned about when the zerg on Antiga Prime could be eliminated, so that he would have time to stabilize his rule on this planet and help other fringe planets.
"Before the next solar cycle comes, and after the moon sets," Tassadar said.
"Do you really think we can help you?" Augustus said, "It looks like you don't need our help to kill that brainworm."
"We enjoy fighting alongside real warriors... and we really don't understand the terrain of this planet compared to the indigenous inhabitants," Tassadar said.
"What I learned at the Fortress of Arden and the Academy of the Templars taught me that pride serves no purpose in a war," he said.