The figure behind the holographic projection screen gradually blurred and eventually disappeared, leaving only a pair of scarlet eyes.
"He was Lord of the stars, and He returns as King."
"You're a despicable guy who hides his head and shows his tail. You think this scares the free-spirited freedom fighter!" The passionate young man Jim Raynor tried his best to figure out the meaning of these words, but he was still confused.
"Can you find out where the signal for this communication was sent?" Augustus turned on the built-in computer in the commander's power armor and ordered the fleet to prepare to leave the asteroid belt.
"Nothing," Kerrigan replied immediately.
Augustus looked at Tassadar and Zeratul again, noticing that both of them were feeling heavy. Narud's words had a much greater impact on the protoss than on humans, especially since Kai had been pursuing Thrall.
The Naga prophecy of Zeratul brought a heavy blow.
"The Xel'Naga have already prophesied a dark age, and the voice in the darkness brought a ghastly omen." Zeratul said: "If these evil creatures created by the protoss and zerg genes are the ones who execute the plan.
The executioner of the dark plan, then the catastrophe we have to face is not just this."
The wise elder of Sagulas Star Spirit felt a heavy sense of mission: "I must pursue the ancient prophecies of Xel'Naga scattered in the universe and figure out the conspiracy of Amon, the God of Darkness... May
The gods direct my path..."
"Are you going to leave us?" After hearing Zeratul's words, Augustus thought that he was now going to drive the Void Seeker to search for the Xel'Naga prophecy.
"Of course not now, friend Augustus." Zeratul said in a low voice: "I must return to the sacred home of Aiur first, and then I can leave with peace of mind to pursue those prophecies."
"Let us leave this place of right and wrong." Tassadar also said: "Everything that happened today must be recorded and conveyed to the Supreme Council. As the leaders of the Protoss Empire, they must understand the warning brought by this discovery.
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"The three arks built in the era of Adun were born to cope with the doomsday that might destroy this protoss civilization."
When Augustus led Tassadar and others out of the shuttle, researchers in the Revolutionary Army's Alien Laboratory were collecting samples of hybrid corpses and aberrant creatures in containers, and the rest were burned.
The Protoss are in the process of jumping some of the Tal'darin weapons and vehicles back into the fleet, which they stole from the Protoss Empire. As for the few weapons imitated by Tal'darin craftsmen, the wealthy Stars
The Spirit Empire destroyed it without hesitation.
When Augustus returned to the fleet, Tassadar's flagship Starship used its main cannon to tear the entire asteroid apart, shattering it into thousands of more similar asteroids and stardust.
The fleet returned to Luria 4 in the territory of the Camorian Federation with a gloomy dark prophecy, and also destroyed a plundering fortress of the Camorian pirates along the way.
In the next week, Augustus's revolutionary army was still operating step by step.
Augustus knew that the upcoming Battle of Ayr would be an extremely difficult battle. Under his order, a large number of soldiers received precious holidays.
The soldiers who poured into the local cities of Luria were eager to spend all their money. In a few days, the economy of the main cities prospered many times, and the faces of the local dark-skinned girls also became rosy.
After the zerg took away one after another fringe colony that provided raw materials, manpower and other products to the main world, the economic depression caused by the war was making the once giant of the Tyranid Federation increasingly weaker.
The Federal Congress had to cut various subsidies, and even the salaries of civil servants working for the government were significantly reduced. At the same time, the corrupt and bloated federal government and capitalists were still stepping up their exploitation of the federal people. Federal soldiers
He was under tremendous mental pressure while fighting against the terrifying Zerg, but his salary increase was pitifully small.
Even in the most difficult times, Augustus's revolutionary army insisted on distributing Umoyan currency as salary to soldiers, which was not susceptible to the inflation and deflation of the Terran Federation.
Supporting a huge army with nearly 650,000 combat personnel alone requires huge funds, and the construction and maintenance of new weapons and warships is an astronomical sum. This is indispensable for the Mengsk family behind Augustus and the people of Korhal.
The funding support from the Umoyan Council also came from the income from Augustus trying his best to open more mines wherever he went.
In addition, Augustus' soldiers and engineers are also the best in the Koprulu sector.
The lofty revolutionary spirit makes them work twice as hard as federal soldiers. For example, the SCV space engineering vehicle drivers in the revolutionary army can always collect the same amount of money in half the working hours of federal projects.
Twice the resources. In addition, the extensive use of Kaimorian and Umoyan technology is also the reason why the Revolutionary Army's mines and factories always have doubled output.
During this time, Augustus did not give himself a holiday. He spent most of the time talking with Tassadar and Zeratul, discussing the detailed plan to march into Aiur.
They had to temporarily put behind what they saw and heard at Tal'darin Outpost. Because the commanders all knew that once they returned to Aiur, the combined fleet would face not only the zerg, but also the protoss empire's
There is also a good chance that the military will attack them.
Augustus gave his own opinion on this matter. He believed that the combined fleet must find support for them on Aiur. Only with more support can the fleet gain a firm foothold on the planet.
Both Tassadar and Zeratul agreed with Augustus' ideas and praised his wisdom.
As the legendary executive of the Templar class of the Protoss Empire, Tassadar's prestige among the Templars is unrivaled in the Empire. He has many old friends on Aiur, warriors of noble character who may be able to help.
he.
As time passed, Augustus, Tassadar, and Zeratul all decided that the return to Aiur was urgent.
By the second week of November 2492, the Revolutionary Army's logistics officers' work of collecting supplies on Luria had been basically completed, and hundreds of refugee ships converted from Camerian Combined Transport Guild mining transport ships also joined the Revolutionary Army.
fleet.
Not only that, the recruitment department also recruited thousands of new soldiers in Luria as usual. Most of them were miners who had insufficient food and young and energetic youths who were under the oppression of the Federation Guild. These soldiers were quickly incorporated into a new army.
Supplementary Brigade.
After Augustus confirmed that the high-energy gas fuel tanks in the fleet had been filled, and that the engineering stations and armories had been filled again with shipping containers, the Revolutionary Army soldiers who had finished their vacation were reconvened into the bright red Revolutionary Army.
Under the flag, board the transport ships returning to the fleet from various ports.
The fully equipped revolutionary fleet set off amidst the sighs of the people of Luria, and many soldiers also said goodbye to the reluctant young girls they had just met locally.
This is not only because the young boys with their pockets full of money have made the locals a lot of money, but the locals of Luria are actually hoping that the revolutionary army can overthrow the rule of the Federation.
After the Guild War ended, the major guild share holders in the Camorion Consortium shared the compensation and losses among all the people in the system. The guild companies in the consortium were always uneven, and some valued their employees.
Welfare and subsidies have gained a good reputation, and some do not care about the life and death of workers. Anyway, they have other people and machines that can replace them.
In the Kemorian Federation, civilians are no less oppressed than in the Tyranid Federation. The so-called union for workers has been a lie and a joke from the beginning.
In the end, the revolutionary army did not bring more changes to Luria 4. However, every time Augustus's army arrived at a new place, the revolutionaries took root like dandelion seeds falling on the ground.
In any case, the people of Luria are not opposed to any change.
After leaving the Luria system, the revolutionary fleet met up with the fleets of Tassadar and Zeratul in another system, and the huge combined fleet set sail again. In the fleet, busy work continued, and everyone was doing their best to save themselves.
Find something to do to pass the boring time.
Except for the tender time with Kerrigan, Augustus was always discussing with Zeratul and Tassadar, and he always believed that the journey to Aiur would be dangerous.
This period of time travel was extremely long, and Augustus could only record the time through the calendar. The most intuitive thing is the growing age of Augustus' nephew Valerian and Renault's son John.
In January of 2493, the combined fleet crossed the distance of time and space and arrived at the destination of the Aiur system.
When Kerrigan told Augustus that Aiur, the home planet of the Protoss Empire, was close at hand, Augustus was still writing letters to his family in his personal room on the flagship Hyperion.
The habits he developed after arriving in this world are also his way of relaxing.
Whenever Augustus laments the passage of time, he always looks at the photos of his family and the devils in heaven on his desk. To this day, Augustus is still writing to many of the above people, but some of them have already
Can't receive any more.
"The fleet is jumping out of the hyperspace pirates, Augustus. Now under the bridge is Aiur." Kerrigan walked in with a spear on her back: "The Aiu galaxy is scattered with the remains of the fleet spanning most of the galaxy.
With the huge corpses of the zerg - Tassadar sadly tells us that the once glorious armada of the Protoss Empire has been severely damaged."
"But the zerg are definitely not comfortable either." Augustus stroked the photo of his nephew Valerian with John Raynor. Just now he was sighing at Little John and his brother who were babbling behind Valerian.
The relationship between Arcturus and Arcturus is actually very good.
Arcturus Mengsk, who has always disliked psykers, is very fond of this child who has shown extremely strong psychic talents since he was a child. This is not only because he thinks that this child is likely to become his son Valerian.
His right-hand man was also because of his own recognition of Jim Raynor.
Arcturus only hates those powerful psychics who are not under his control or those who pose a huge threat to them, and a child is obviously not among them. He still hates Sarah Carey, who once assassinated his father.
Gan was resentful, not because of his poor father, but simply because he was worried about the psychic controlling his brother's mind.
After hearing this, Augustus put down the hand holding the photo, put on an iron-black coat with golden wheat epaulets, and followed Kerrigan out of the room.
Augustus found Renault, Harnak and Tychus in the narrow passage leading to the bridge. The first two were talking about Ayr and the fleet, but only Tychus was still immersed in the vacation a month ago.
"I have never been so far away from home... You know, I am a sentimental and good person. Being away from home for too long always makes me miss my mother." Tychus saw August.
It's a huge downfall for everyone.
"Have mercy on your mother. If you can think of that gentle woman's teachings when you are preparing to do bad things, Tychus, at least you can behave more like a human being." Augustus waved Tychus away.
Si's complaint was like swatting a fly to death.
"Jim, what's the latest news?"
"Augustus, we have just arrived in the realm of the stars. We are not familiar with the place and don't know what happened in the past." Renault said immediately.
"But the only thing we can be sure of is that the main force of the Protoss and Zerg surrounding Aiur is almost beating their brains out in the entire galaxy. At least two planets have suffered a devastating blow from the Protoss fleet, one of which
The volume has directly shrunk by about one-third," he said.
"No matter how powerful the protoss empire was in the past, most of them no longer exist."
"So, the Star Spirit has lost?" Augustus asked.
"Actually, it is very likely that both sides will lose." Raynor replied: "Neither the Protoss nor the Zerg have the possibility of giving up and negotiating peace. If two powerful races start a war in a small galaxy, then one side will completely defeat the other.
One party will never stop before."
"We may have completely underestimated the intensity of this war - at first, the Overmind only sent a small number of zerg into Aiur, but now the entire swarm has been smashed in the face of the protoss.
Flowers exploded on their home planet.
Augustus walked into the bridge while chatting with Renault and others. At this time, the center of the bridge was brightly lit, and outside the portholes, there was dark space and a few scattered stars.
The sub-folding force field burst into a brilliant orange ball of light, dispersing the darkness of nothingness. As many as a thousand phantoms and the outlines of battleships appeared around Hyperion, causing a thrilling and fascinating sign of time and space distortion.
"The long voyage has brought us here." Augustus walked to the main screen on the bridge and looked at the protoss home planet El that was once lush and green but was now covered with dots of black spots.
——The birthplace of the Protoss and the center of their huge empire spanning the star realm.
"Al," said Augustus.
"Gather my generals and tell the soldiers that we are about to go to war with the Zerg Overlord and the Protoss Empire."