In early October 2491, the last zerg main nest on Antiga Prime was cleared by the Protoss Expeditionary Force, and the renovated Governor's Mansion in the main city of Ansadar also welcomed its new owner.
On the vast red mesa of Antiga, the deep purple zerg carpet is slowly fading away, and the ravaged land is once again exposed to the sun. When the vegetation is extinct, even the carpet can no longer bind the sand on the ground.
At that time, the red desert spread quickly like flames in the wind.
The land that has been covered by fungi will still be barren of any vegetation for a long time. Antiga's fragile ecological environment has long since ceased to exist, and the planet has been completely reduced to a reddish-brown stone planet.
The threat of the swarm is gradually becoming distant from the people of Antiga, and even if their homes are destroyed and their families are slaughtered, pain and sorrow still torture those who are still alive, and life must go on.
Reconstruction work began around the four existing cities. With the help of the human revolutionary army, the surviving people picked up the broken rubble and began to build new homes on the land that had been occupied several times.
Fearing that Antiga Prime would become the main battlefield in the coming years, residents of all small and medium-sized settlements, including small towns and villages, were uniformly resettled near cities with strong fortifications.
At the beginning, there was a serious shortage of both water and food, and the nearby colonial planets had been affected by the insect swarm invasion and were no longer able to provide support to Antiga. The only people the Antiga could rely on were themselves.
, they can only rely on synthetic food, groundwater and food from hydroponic farms to survive.
More people joined the Revolutionary Army's garrison in Antiga to defend their homeland. Everyone in Antiga recognized the Revolutionary Army's dominant position on the planet, and it was in fact independent from the federal government.
As the people of Antiga celebrated their victory, Augustus Mengsk became the new Governor of Antiga - although he himself did not recognize this title. The revolutionaries took over the Antiga Federation with ease.
The administrative and judicial powers of the government were carried out better than their predecessors, and the magistrates and sergeants who came from the Revolutionary Army were the most popular people in Antigua.
The red and blue star flag that symbolized the authority of the Terran Federation was thrown into the fire, and the new flag replaced people's imagination of the authority and functions of a government. As early as twenty years ago, the people of Antiga would not show respect to others.
Talking about being a Federation citizen, I wouldn’t do that now.
Antiga is part of the Tyran Republic. If you want to say where the capital of the Republic is, it is of course Korhal IV.
The Terran Federation, which once ruled Antiga, no longer has much energy and interest in dealing with this lost planet, and the Federation Council also believes that the main planet of Antiga, which is sandwiched between the zerg and the protoss, will definitely usher in a challenge.
·Sarah and Ma Sara have the same ending. The rebels in Antiga will definitely lose too many men for rescue as they did in the past.
The Federal Council has realized that the threat of zerg is by no means as simple as the accident of one or two planetary alien experimental projects. More than 4/13 federal territories have reported the discovery of zerg.
The outer interstellar trade routes are almost paralyzed, and some of the outer planets that are the main food producing areas have been severely damaged, causing the core world of the Tyranid Federation to have a precursor to a food crisis.
Six standard months after the Zerg invaded the human world, many Terran Federation planets were lost one after another. This terrible disaster even extended to the territory of the Kaimorian Federation. Countless people died, and the lives of billions of people were affected.
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In less than half a year, the damage caused by the zerg to the Tyranid Federation has exceeded the total damage caused by the Kailian War. Even the members and nobles in the Federation Council are not convinced that aliens will invade a few planets.
Regardless of their illusions about the matter, they also have to face the fact that alien invasion is a greater threat that can subvert their rule.
This massive catastrophe forced the Terran Federation to summon their fleets to strengthen the defenses of the Core Sector and attempt to rescue those worlds that were still valuable.
However, on the Revolutionary Army's detection radar, Omega Squadron and Delta Squadron are still lingering in the star system near Antiga. They are still monitoring every move of the Revolutionary Army, even if several surrounding colonies are invaded by zerg.
situation.
It was noon in Ansadar, with clear skies and bright sunshine. This was a rare peaceful time since the Gamu swarm and Sutur swarm invaded Antiga. The revolutionary army also got enough time to rest and recuperate.
The wounded were transported back to Yumoyang.
Augustus was entertaining his new friend Tassadar, the executive officer of the Koprulu Expeditionary Force of the Protoss Empire, in the banquet hall of the Governor's Mansion on Antiga Prime.
The hall still has the splendid furnishings of the past, with expensive Tarsonian flat wool carpets and famous oil paintings and sculptures on the walls. For more than twenty years, this place has been the home of the hedonistic governor of Antiga.
This is a place where guests are entertained. Every day, celebrities in velvet and silk clothes and officials in suits and leather shoes enjoy themselves here.
And Augustus had nothing to entertain Tassadar, because the protoss relied entirely on their skin to replenish moisture and draw energy from the light of the star. There were no mouths on their narrow faces, which also meant that the protoss would not
to ingest human food.
Then, Augustus, who did not have much humor, could only open the curtains in the hall and entertain Tassadar with the pure sunlight of Antiga.
There were only a few people in the huge hall, with only a long mahogany table and chairs depending on the number of people. On the human side were Augustus, Kerrigan and Raynor, while Tassadar only brought some of them to accompany the expeditionary force.
Zamara, the protoss protector.
Tassadar sat opposite Augustus, still wearing his elegant high-templar robes, and his golden armor was inlaid with beautiful blue gems.
The protoss protector Zamara beside the executive is wearing a gorgeous dress. The dark blue robe is like a hanging night curtain, covered with crystals and gems. The female protoss has teardrops on both sides of her head.
The pendant sparkles in the sunlight, and this costume must be related to the etiquette and traditions of the protoss.
"The warriors I sent to Char felt a terrifying psychic signal there. Even if it was glimpsed from afar, its power far exceeded any creature the Protoss Empire had encountered in the universe." Tassadar brought
Disturbing news, which was why he came to see Augustus.
"The master of the swarm, this terrifying creature's psychic screams echoed in the universe when it descended on Char... It is far more powerful than I expected... In the long journey of the Protoss Empire,
In history, we have never encountered such an enemy."
"This is unfortunate news. If I were to say that I had already said that the Federation should not be left to Char, the Federation's congressmen and political commentators should say that I was thinking after the fact..." Ogu
Stuart shook his head. He had not received a detailed report on Charles' current situation, but he did not feel any surprise.
Although Augustus also sent more than one exploration fleet to Char, the accurate and fast jump technology of the protoss was still much more powerful than that of humans. When the protoss had arrived at Char, Augustus'
The exploration fleet is still halfway there.
"I must tell you, even though it makes me sad." Tassadar continued to say to Augustus: "Your human colonies on Char have become a zerg paradise, and the rest of us have become
A monster with a hideous face.”
"...This is why we fight." Augustus said dullly: "If we give up resistance, humans will sooner or later be assimilated by the zerg and become part of them."
"Rise up and fight, or perish. This is the fate of all races, including the protoss." Tassadar agreed with Augustus: "The arbiters of the Protoss Empire Council always ignore it and bring the empire to its knees.
What has reached this level is not arrogance, but a concerted effort to see the followers of Kara. If the threat of the zerg is underestimated, even the empire will perish."
"The cerebrates will regenerate, which means that we will never be able to completely eliminate the zerg. Despising the zerg is like despising the storm on the vast ocean of Aiur. Even the Ark will appear extremely small in the raging ocean."
"Sarth was resurrected in Char, and its tribe regrouped under its command." His sky-blue eyes burning with psychic flames were like candles swaying in the wind.
"In that world of lava and ash, the intense radiation from the Char binary star system is fatal to most life in the universe, but the zerg are thriving on that planet. This makes me doubt the birth of
Was the original Zerg world also such a purgatory planet?"
"There is no creature that cannot be killed... I believe that even gods will die one day." Augustus didn't think so: "I just haven't found a way to completely kill the brainworm Sasi."
method, Executor, did you notice the light rising from Sass's body after it died?"
"It is undoubtedly a kind of spiritual power, but it is completely different from that of humans and protoss." At this time, Sarah Kerrigan, a red-haired female ghost standing next to Augustus, joined the conversation.
"That energy gave me an extremely cold feeling, just like the scorching heat of the Templar's spiritual energy, which is completely different from the plasticity of human spiritual energy." She shook her long fiery red hair and said.
"Our leaders suspect that the Cerebrate's ability to resurrect is related to this psychic ability."
"The Void." Tassadar raised his head and stood up from the not-so-comfortable human seat: "Today we rarely mention the existence of the Void, but I can feel that the psychic energy of the brainworm comes from
In the void."
"However, since Kass established Kara, the way of ascension, my people no longer draw energy from the void... Maybe I should return to Aiur and search for the killer in the Templar Archives on the Floating Fire Islands.
A brain-dead method." He said.
"Now it may be that only the deviant Dark Templars have mastered the method of using void energy, but it is not known whether their legends and existence are just void."
"You want to seek help from the betrayer?" Protector Zamara's cold voice sounded like water about to freeze under the glacier.
"Everything I've been taught tells me that the Dark Templar are traitors, and I hate them just like the other followers of Kara." Tassadar said: "If the Dark Templar really exist, we have not encountered them.
opportunities, I think we have to look for other ways."
"..." Tassadar continued: "Marshal Augustus, your people have been saved, I think we must leave this planet now. Too much time has been spent in Antiga
The wise men of the Supreme Council of the Protoss Empire are dissatisfied, and more planets are being threatened by the zerg."
"If we purify Antiga as soon as possible and immediately rush to other planets to eliminate the Zerg there, the spread of the Zerg swarm will be effectively curbed." There was no trace of anything in the words of protector Zamara.
Emotional fluctuations, as recorders of history, the Valari clan of the Protoss Empire has always recorded everything that happened with absolute calmness and rationality.
"You don't need to explain to the humans why we did that. They don't understand what you have done for them at all. Because of protecting the humans here, the controversy you caused in Aiur is enough for the Council to select a new executive to replace you.
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"Sacrificing a small group of people to save more people has always been a question worth pondering," Augustus said.
"You don't understand, and I don't expect you to understand." Protector Zamara said: "In the Protoss Empire, there is a dispute between the Supreme Council Arbitrators and the Templars in the fleet in response to the Zerg invasion.
Great disagreement."
In the social system of the protoss, some tribes rule the protoss empire as an arbitration class, another part fights for the empire as templars, and the remaining tribes are craftsmen and other professions. The path that each protoss will take after adulthood
Both the career and the future career are fixed, which means that a child’s future is already determined from the moment he is born.
Generally speaking, the Templar class was unable to resist the authority of the highest-level Arbitrators, which shows that Tassadar was under a lot of pressure during his time in Antiga.
"The Supreme Council believes that there is no need to save the 'lower humans' infected by the zerg and must be burned with fire, while Tassadar believes that the expeditionary force should uphold the Dawu teachings to protect the weak races."
"Who won in this dispute?" Augustus was more concerned about this issue at the moment: "Thank you, the benevolent and great executive Tassadar."
"Let me count myself as the winner, thanks to the elders in the council who are still wise and kind." Tassadar learned some human humor from Augustus.
"I reported what I saw in Antiga to the Supreme Council...and I decided to lead an expeditionary force to attack Char. Once the zerg gain a foothold in Char, it will become a swarm to invade the human world.
A springboard with Al," he said.
"If we can make the Overlords feel threatened, they will definitely withdraw their troops in the Koprulu sector and return to defense."
"But El's coordinates have always been a secret, and the Zerg will never know it," Zamara said.
"Throughout history, we all know that often things that are thought to never happen, do happen," Tassadar said.
"Be prepared for a rainy day." Augustus noticed Tassadar's intention to surround Wei and rescue Zhao. This was also Augustus's usual tactic.
"I will send a fleet to fight alongside you... No, I will personally lead an elite division."