"The Federal Assembly passed Bill No. 4 submitted by the Senate, declaring you the number one public enemy of mankind. The bounty on Augustus Mengsk has been increased to 2.5 billion credit coins, of which 500 million are additional credits provided by the Darbanville family.
, they claim that it is all so that justice can be better executed."
In the office of the Governor of the Immigration Territory in Grand City, Sarah Kerrigan was standing in front of Augustus' desk.
This office has elegant interior furnishings, including desks, chairs, counters, wine cabinets, and even the golden-red silk carpets on the floor, all made by protoss craftsmen based on human culture. Cabinet windows, vases, and drinking glasses, etc.
They are all hand-cut from pure crystal and have a gem-like beauty.
The wine cabinet has a built-in defense matrix that can isolate it from the prying eyes of any villains who covet Augustus's treasured wine. It also avoids the possibility of any unscrupulous person trying to poison the food and water consumed by the leader of the revolutionary army.
A prismatic green Ihem crystal hangs at the end of a canvas hanging on the wall. According to Zeratul, the Dark Priest who presented the crystal, this crystal can recreate the user's past memories.
The value of these various precious collections is astonishing. Not to mention that they are all made by the most famous Kalai master craftsman in the Protoss Empire. Even the artistic value itself is enough to make any human who sees them fall in love at first sight.
"The wealth of the d'Arbanville family is amazing." Augustus leaned back on the armchair lined with Albanville cheetah leather, with his fingers crossed and flat on his chest.
"This is a mysterious founding family that has always kept a low profile. The public knows very little about their industry. What have I done to make them hate me so much?"
"Perhaps some of the political opinions of you and your father have touched the interests of the Darbanville family, or perhaps they are firm supporters of federal sovereignty and aristocratic politics." Kerrigan referred to the founding family of the Tyrann Federation.
One of the d'Arbanville family records was placed on the table in front of Augustus.
"Christine D'Arbanville, a rising star in the business world." Augustus picked up a long bag with an image of an intellectual woman with long reddish-brown braids.
"Does it look good?" Kerrigan asked.
"It's... not very good-looking." Augustus pondered.
"Are you talking about the redhead?" Kerrigan pulled out another stack of papers from her portfolio.
"I think red hair is the most beautiful hair color." Augustus sat up.
"Nonsense, you obviously like blond hair." Kerrigan crossed her arms on her chest.
"As a Mengsk, there is nothing wrong with liking blond hair." Augustus argued: "Angus Mengsk's genes are responsible for this."
"Well, it's all your father's fault, so your ancestors should be somewhat responsible." Kerrigan said with her hands on her hips.
"Mengsk has always had gray hair and brown hair, but when it comes to my nephew Valerian, it's all gone." Augustus liked Valerian very much, but that didn't stop him from teasing his incompetent nephew.
"This shows that the bloodline of the Umoyan Pasteur family is as good as the Mengsk family." Kerrigan said to Augustus.
"Bloodline should be distinguished by nobles. Apart from that, he is nothing." Augustus shrugged and changed the subject: "Is there any other news from the Terran Federation? After the end of the first total war, this
The world is finally a lot more peaceful.”
"I already know the main recent policies of the Federation, including the cliche ones that emphasize that we are traitors, dissidents, subversives and terrorists. The Federation High Command announced that their fleet will no longer be used and will sail to Tyran again.
In the edge world of the Federation, any traitors, pirates, and young people who want to take advantage of the fire will be punished immediately——"
"Why were they never so tough when the zerg invaded in large numbers? Now both the protoss and the zerg are losing. After retreating to their own world, the Federation can't wait to jump out again, for fear that people will forget about them." Austrian
Gustus said.
"Telling about recent events, I am happy to hear about the scandals of the federal nobles."
"Assassinations against high-ranking federal officials, political leaders, and especially military leaders have increased exponentially. Even a member of the Duke family, Major General Frederick Duke, was found dead in the bathtub of his home. His charming fiancée announced that she would join the family.
Confederate Marines." Kerrigan handed over a photo of Frederick Duke.
He was a young, handsome, and suave Chief of Staff of the Federation Navy. He did not have any impressive achievements, but he had a share of military exploits in every battle.
"It wasn't our people, nor the Sons of Korhal who did it." Augustus said after looking at it for a few seconds.
"We don't have that many manpower to assassinate these people, and..." He took the document and looked at it carefully: "Moreover, some of them are supporters of the Revolutionary Party, and others, as far as I know, are
One of the few good men in the rotten federal system who enforces the law impartially."
"So who did this?"
"The timing of assassinations suddenly increased over a period of time, and the methods were very sophisticated. The assassins were even old people who had been in the victim's family for decades and were treated like family members." Kerrigan
explain.
"This must come from a tight and powerful organization. As far as we know, only the Umoyan intelligence and spy network can do this."
"Unless Umoyan is crazy, he would think of using the spy network they spent a lot of effort to build at this time." Augustus said and shook his head: "Look at the people they assassinated - the rich
Prestigious political and military leader."
"It looks like another federal resistance organization that we don't know about." Augustus thought in his mind: Is it Duran?
But there is no need for Duran to do that, or is it possible that weakening the Tyranid Federation is also part of his plan to resurrect Amon? But destroying the Federation will not do any good for Duran, and he will probably have to rely on the funds of the conglomerates in the Federation.
Support to build hybrid plants.
"Not only assassinations, but attacks on federal military facilities and factories have also continued one after another." Kerrigan continued: "Including those parts that were concealed by the federal military, the scope and intensity of this attack are far beyond our imagination.
.”
"Have you seen u
News?"
"I rarely watch clowns' performances and liars' talk shows now." Augustus shrugged.
"The Tarsonis Police Department captured some people who were accused of being assassins and terrorists. They claimed to be instructed and funded by the Mengsk family and the Sons of Korhal." Kerrigan spread her hands.
"They are really good at looking for ideas for me," said Augustus.
"Actually, our agents and Umoyan allies must have gotten the exact information, or in other words, the Terra family and the Holt family must know something."
"Eva Hot and Constantine Terra were also assassinated, and they received some news - the assassin claimed that human orthodoxy was about to return to Koprulu," Kerrigan said.
"...Earth?" Augustus said after a moment of silence.
"I don't know, huh, these people all belong to an ancient organization called the Earth Return Faction. They believe that people on earth will one day take back their colonies on the edge of the galaxy. But everyone regards them as crazy. The earth is six miles away from us.
Tens of thousands of light years away, people on Earth may not even know that four colony ships crashed in the corner of the corner," Kerrigan said.
"All in all, these organizations that may have existed a century or more ago are doing their best to cause destruction in the territory of the Terran Federation." she said.
"Who knows whether the Earth's government has survived to this day and maintained control over the colonies in their solar system. It is likely that it has been torn apart internally."
"Well...if the people of Earth are determined to take over the Koprulu sector, then the Tyranid Federation is indeed one of their biggest obstacles at the moment." Augustus said.
"Do you really believe that the people on earth are about to return?" Kerrigan obviously did not believe this rumor: "No one in the entire Tyranid Federation, except those lunatics, would believe such nonsense."
"There is a reason for everything," Augustus said. "You can't say that the people in this organization suddenly went crazy."
"However, if the Earthlings' army really marches into the Koprulu sector, the Terran Federation will be the first to be unlucky." He gave instructions.
"Pay close attention to the trends of this organization. If possible, I hope to get in touch with the leader of this organization."
"The Federation wants to know more than we do." Kerrigan nodded.
"Tell all my agents, tell Arcturus the son of Korhal. This is a top priority and cannot be done casually." Augustus was thinking a lot in an instant, and he gradually realized that this was very possible.
It was an opportunity to completely overthrow the Tyranid Federation. But what followed was another more powerful enemy.
Augustus thought that he was the only one who knew that the UED was coming. If these terrorist attacks were just a small, easily overlooked prelude to an Earth military expedition, then the United Earth Council fleet that set out and arrived in the Koprulu sector
Judging from the time, they will arrive in Koprulu in a few months or in a year and a half at most.
But Augustus had no idea whether the Earth Expeditionary Force was preparing to set off or had already set sail.
If the Earth Expeditionary Force is really planning to intervene in the war in the Koprulu sector in advance, it will be difficult for them to transport supplies from Earth, which is tens of millions of light years away.
This is Augustus's advantage, and he is thinking about how to take advantage of this, calculating to become the final winner when the UED expeditionary force beats the Tyranid Federation.
Augustus knew what was going on in the world and what might happen in the future. He just knew when, because something had already changed fundamentally.
This is only the year 2493, and they arrived too early. Ever since the Overlord Swarm invaded the Koprulu sector ahead of schedule, the entire timeline has begun to speed up.
However, big events will not change.
"I see." Kerrigan realized that this was something worth highlighting.
"Is there anything else to mention?"
"This is the greatest challenge our intelligence community has faced since its inception," Augustus said.
"That's probably no harder than having some idiot try to get the protoss to talk." Kerrigan turned the page.
"There is one more thing. The Umoyan people hope that you can go to Umoyan Prime. This is related to strengthening more military and economic cooperation. You know, this kind of thing is not easy to shirk. All the time,
They are all helping us digest the output of the colonies - the federal territories dare not accept it, and the Kemorian Commonwealth is too poor."
"Okay, I think I understand." Augustus knew that some things could not be solved by asking his father and brother to sell their butts. As the leader of the revolutionary army, he still had to step forward in this situation.
Regardless of the true purpose of the United Umoyan Republic, it is only to weaken the dominance of the Terran Federation in order to preserve itself, so it is willing to spare no effort to help Korhal and the revolutionary army. - It is conceivable that the revolutionary army in Augustus is becoming more and more popular.
As he became stronger, Umoyan's goals were also achieved.
If the new regime established after Augustus overthrew the Federation also posed a huge threat to Umoyan, then Umoyan would definitely turn his back on him.
"There is also some news about the Umoyan Judgment Council. They have relaxed the policy of restricting the entry of refugees from the Terran Federation, provided that these people swear loyalty to the United States. At the same time, the Council has increased military funding for the Protectorate.
To build their 'unmatched' high-tech fleet to deal with the zerg threat." Kerrigan went on to talk about events within Umoyan.
"——On the 14th, Minister Jorgensen gave a speech at Umoyan University under the protection of the Umoyan Shadow Guard, denounced the Terran Federation as a false regime controlled by plutocrats and oligarchs."
"Minister Jorgensen is a capable man." Augustus said: "I have seen some new ship types in the Umoyan Protectorate Fleet, and I can actually see the shadow of the protoss warships on them."
"It seems that I have to arrange a trip to Umoyan. I haven't seen my mother and sister for a long time." He said.
"What's going on over there at the Kemerian Consortium?"
"There's nothing happening. There's still overt and covert fighting in the board of directors of the consortium. Today either the CEO had a car accident, or the president of a company accidentally slipped and fell into the warship's warp engine for some reason..." Kerry Gan replied.
"Compared to the Federation, the homeworld of the Zerg is much more lively. According to the news returned by the fleet monitoring the Char system, a terrible civil war broke out among the Zerg in Char. But now the civil war has subsided. It was probably because Dagoth, the most powerful cerebrate in the swarm, returned to Char," she said.
"The zerg's desire to expand in the universe has obviously declined, and they will only attack ships that rashly invade their territory."
"This is good news for the people who are suffering from the ravages of the zerg, but I believe that the zerg swarm will regain its strength sooner or later. As long as a new master appears, the cerebrates will be united again." Augustus commented. explain.
"Order our science ship to keep a close eye on Char and pay attention to every move of the swarm." He said: "Be alert for another swarm counterattack."
"We must not allow our enemies to destroy the home we have built with our own hands."
"As you said." Kerrigan's green eyes blinked.
"As for the protoss, Sagulath also needs you to go there. Tassadar, the executive of the El Protoss, and Rashagar, the matriarch of the protoss of Sagulas, decided to form a group called Dallam The new government of (Protoss: United), you are the only human invited to witness that moment."
"Maybe the Star Spirits will invite me to be an official." Augustus joked.
"But I am more concerned about who has the final say in this government, Tassadar or Rashagal? Their status among their respective tribes is unshakable." He asked Kerrigan:
"Where's Zeratul? I haven't seen him for a while. The last time I saw Zeratul, he vowed to hunt down the fallen Dark Templar Orega and bring him back to Sadurath for trial."
"No one has seen Zeratul again." Kerrigan brushed the red hair from her cheek, as if remembering something.
"The protoss of Aiur say that Zeratul has lost himself in the void, and the protoss of Thagurath say that their patriarch is chasing the phantom of Orega and the fragments of the Xel'Naga prophecy."
"Don't worry about Zeratul." Augustus smiled.
"Zeratul always appears when we need him most. He is a knowledgeable and wise elder, and he will never abandon his people and friends."
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