"The Kolykov outpost fell, the Blinol settlement was attacked by the zerg, and the sighting reports of Gromel, Valias, and Sango are still increasing."
There are hundreds of control screens flashing at the same time in the control center of the Augustgrad Palace. Information from various departments across the Tyran Empire will be gathered here in front of Emperor Augustus Mengsk.
At this moment, the central main screen is displaying the picture transmitted from Blinouel. The immigrants are retreating in an orderly manner under the protection of the nearby imperial fleet. Frightened and bewildered people lined up to board the transport ships and battleships.
The spaceships taking off one after another left the unfinished city behind.
The other display screen is a star map composed of countless straight lines, curves and numbers. On it, the area belonging to the Tyranid Empire is planted with a golden and red flag, and hundreds of red dots are moving in extremely slow and timely manner from the lower right corner of the star map.
Calculation speed penetrates into the empire's territory.
These red dots have covered the four imperial settlements. Several or dozens of red dots are divided into different clusters by circles of different colors: the green Zulwen primitive insect swarm and the Yagdra primitive insect swarm.
"How is the evacuation going? Regal is in charge of this." When the news of Kolykov's fall came back to Korhal, Augustus was still sleeping. As soon as he woke up, bad news came one after another.
Fortunately, Augustus had anticipated this and did not show any panic in front of people. As the ruler of the Tyran Empire, any negative emotions he had would be amplified among the people below.
When disaster strikes, people never want to see their leader unprepared for it, panicking like an unreliable wimp, and that's all.
"General Regal used all available ships to evacuate more than 60,000 immigrants from Blinol in a timely manner. Except for two people who were injured due to accidents, there were no other casualties." Opposite was an Imperial man.
Officials of the Ministry of Security. This department is divided into two departments: the Department of Internal Security and the Department of External Security. The former has functions equivalent to the Department of Homeland Security, and the latter is the Department of Defense.
"The General begs you to punish him because he thinks he has lost His Majesty's Blinol."
"I will not punish anyone unless they abandon their own people and run for their lives alone." Augustus's serious expression did not change at all. He would never punish his generals for such a thing:
"On the contrary, I want to commend Rehgar. He made the most correct decision and helped the empire avoid countless losses."
Blinol is a potential settlement that has been discovered in the old Federation era. It is very similar to the human home planet Earth, and has a single natural satellite similar to the moon that can provide stable tidal force.
It is a lush planet with numerous low-level plant communities and native creatures in the insectoid stage. On Blinol, its plants have difficulty competing with the best of human crops, and farmers only need to sow seeds.
Just wait for the harvest.
Such a planet is really rare on the edge of the barren galaxy, which means that the empire can acquire a very valuable colony with only a small investment of resources.
Therefore, when Augustus compiled the database left by the old federation, he immediately made Blinoel his first colonial target.
In the past four years, the Tyran Empire has established more than 200 new colonies. From a purely rational perspective, the resources of these colonies can be used not only to build fleets to support the army, but also to expand the strategic depth of the empire.
Of course, Augustus formulated clear policies to protect the interests of these emerging colonies and established local governments with the Revolutionary Party as the core to improve control. The empire learned the lessons of the old federation and did not treat the new colonies as plunderable
Where raw materials are produced, capitalists are explicitly prohibited from controlling the local economic lifeline.
"Now the immigrants from Blinoel are evacuating to the core world, and the immigrants from Gromel, Valias and Sange have also boarded the ship." The official continued:
"The primordial zerg had a chance to intercept, but they seemed to have little interest in attacking us."
The term "primordial zerg" comes from a Dark Templar named Azma, the Dark Master, who also appeared in the report of Kolykov Base Commander Paul.
Dark Archbishop Azma believes that this new type of zerg is the ancestor of the Broken Swarm, although the two different races have already diverged on the path of evolution. The dominant swarm is a distinct hive mind, and the original
Zerg emphasize the individual.
Both groups are able to evolve themselves by hunting for high-quality genes, but the original zerg emphasize independence and individuality, while the other group is loyal to the concept of the group rather than any one of them.
The wormhole opened by the new Overlord when escaping from Char led to the birthplace of the Zerg, the planet called Zerus by the original Zerg.
Obviously, this was also recognized by Emperor Augustus. The zerg were outsiders and did not grow from the magma of Char.
The new overlord's swarm is chasing the primitive zerg, and they are too busy running for their lives to pay attention to humans. Humans are not very attractive to the primitive zerg, and this may be one of the reasons.
However, this respected Dark Master has been missing since then, and Augustus believes that he will definitely return to Sagulath to bring reinforcements. Once the zerg appears again, the Dallam Protoss will never
Will ignore it.
In fact, even over the past four years, the Protoss have been working tirelessly to burn bugs across the galaxy.
"I need an exact number. This number must prove that no one has been left behind." Augustus said to the official of the Imperial Security Department:
"Give it to me as quickly as possible."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Augustus, have you figured out the reason for this invasion?" At this time, Marshal Jim Reynolds, wearing a black military uniform, walked in. Because it was raining outside, there were signs of getting wet on his clothes.
"Look." Augustus drew a line on the star map with his hand: "Priest Azma gave us a lot of very important information."
"Four years ago, the opposite side of the wormhole opened by the second Overlord was the place where the Zerg was born. The first Zerg came from there." He said: "Zerus, the hometown of the Zerg."
"When the wormhole opened, Azma and his Dark Templar warriors were also involved. Since then, they have been observing and studying these two different zerg groups on Zerus."
"He believes that at some point a long time ago, the first generation of Overlords left Zerus with a part of the Zerg. This part of the Zerg was the predecessor of the Overlord Swarm. The part of the Zerg that stayed in its hometown evolved
For today's primitive zerg, in contrast, they retain some of their ancestor's genes."
"After the second-generation Overlord returned to Zerus, a protracted war immediately broke out between the two groups. The entire planet became a cruel battlefield. Countless zerg died, countless zerg were born, and the cycle started again. These two
Once races have the same origin, they can quickly complete evolution by plundering each other's high-quality genes, so the differences between them are constantly shrinking."
"In the end, the primitive zerg were defeated, left Zerus for the first time, and began their escape."
"Does that mean we are right on the escape route of these monsters?" Renault's face was clouded.
"Yes, but I guess it's not 'just in time'. The Overlord Swarm deliberately drove the primitive zerg in our direction." Augustus shook his head on the main screen, and a Bi Minotaur-class battleship appeared.
A super monster that was much larger than the cruiser jumped out.
The Minotaur-class battlecruiser was over half a mile long, but less than half as long as the pair of tiny wings on its back.
"It's really insidious," Renault said.
"The Zongzu, Zulwin, and the Dark Priest Azma saw it with his own eyes as it devoured a huge swarm Leviathan alive, and even grabbed a handful of Thunder Beasts to serve as a side dish for wine." Augustus looked to the side.
Renault said. Of course, the sense of humor of the protoss would not be described in this way. This paragraph was described by Augustus.
What was on the display was a video taken and transmitted back by a distant galaxy detector. Even so, it only captured part of Zulwin's body.
Zulwin has huge curved front legs and rough skin like the earth's sauropod dinosaurs. The skin is covered with layers of joined shield-like scales. Each scale is as big as a Goliath robot. But note that it is not the same as a lizard or a lizard.
The similarity to other reptiles, such as snakes, ends there.
This unparalleled primitive zerg is very different from the flying dragon with vibrating leather wings. Zulwen has a huge mouth, a huge body and a pair of giant claws, but its lower body resembles a multi-legged crab.
It has numerous sharp appendages and tentacles, each one larger than the Valkyrie frigate.
When flying in space, Zulwin is more like a green jellyfish with a hard carapace, but its many eyes that are like molten brass seem to be burning.
"No one is an ally, it is a faction of its own." The spiritual language sent by Zulwin was captured by human equipment and transcribed into human language, and it obviously knew that it was communicating with humans.
"Kill or die."
(No allegiance but to self. Kill or be killed.)
".It's really ridiculously big." Renault stroked his recently grown beard: "It seems that the master has called his mother here."
"Zurwen may be the largest single organism we have observed so far, and it is the oldest known hunter among the primitive zerg." Augustus called up the intercepted picture of the primitive zerg swarm and enlarged it:
"The difference between this race and the Overlord Swarm is that there is no psychic link between the primitive zerg, and they often fight independently. Therefore, psionic launchers, psionic disruptors and psionic crushers have no effect on the primitive zerg.
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"Since we can't use psychic technology, we can only use real ones." Reno looked at the enlarged picture of Augustus: "These guys look more like dragons from mythology, but they are much weirder."
Some of the primitive zerg flying around Zulwen look like Tyrannosaurus, and some are more like Stegosaurus, with rows of bone plates on their backs, but somehow, these monsters have evolved something similar to
The wings and blowholes of pterosaurs are all different in appearance.
"Steitman told me that the zerg came from a direct copy of a gene, so these bugs are basically the same," he said, "but these, these original zerg are not."
"The good news is that the number of primitive zerg is nothing compared to the swarm of zerg following them." Augustus called up the shocking numbers on the display:
"Bad news: One primitive zerg is worth ten, and the powerful individuals among them, also known as the patriarchs, are even more terrifying."
The area turning red in the small right corner of the star map is still expanding, and it is obviously only a small part of the huge insect swarm.
"Zerus is in the center of the Milky Way, and we are at the edge of the Milky Way, separated by a quarter of the Milky Way. Who knows how many races they have swallowed up along the way, and how many high-quality genes they have absorbed." Augustus
explain.
"Old man, the zerg today are much more powerful than they were four years ago. And they have also learned a lot of new things from the original zerg. There are different strains of zerg guards inside a certain worm hive to protect the brain.
insect."
"But you anticipated this situation four years ago, and have been preparing for this day every day since then." Renault said: "But the idiots of the Federation only know how to cause us trouble."
"Well, I have trouble sleeping and eating every day in the past." Augustus nodded and turned around:
"I originally thought that the Overlord would directly locate Char's coordinates to open the wormhole, but now it seems that it either doesn't dare to do so, or has given up for other reasons."
The Nidaime was really scared of being beaten, and if you think about it carefully, anyone who received a good beating from the heroes of the protoss and humans when they were just born would still avoid him when they see him in the future.
"It is much better for them to come from a visible direction than to appear inexplicably in the hinterland of the empire."
"Fortunately, we have new weapons and an ace army that is different from what it used to be." Augustus said to Renault: "I have ordered Warfield and Duke's First Fleet and Second Fleet to report to
Noa, Doran, Aegean and other planets are heading to where they will snipe the primitive zerg."
"As long as we can hold back the original insect swarm, they will be bitten by the insects behind them."
"That old guy Duke was really happy when he heard the news that the zerg was coming back. I almost thought he was in the same group with the worms." Renault paused and looked at the twinkling star map:
"But what about me? What am I going to do now?"
"I think you know the answer." Augustus still answered Renault: "I need you to stay with me to deal with other unexpected situations that may arise."
One wall of the control center is a huge floor-to-ceiling window, which is deeply embedded between the brass-colored all-metal frames. It is dark outside, with heavy rain. A bunch of bright beams of light flicker in the clouds.
, that was left behind by the Imperial fleet heading towards low-Earth orbit.
There were no people on the street, and a boy in the distance was running in the rain.
School ended early today and he overslept.
"It's time for formal pre-war mobilization. Korhal doesn't know yet that war is coming," Raynor said:
"Is the speech ready?"
"Open your mouth and come." When Augustus walked out of the control center, the main screen behind him had completely dimmed.
Densely dense worms.
The layer upon layer of biological battleships of the insect swarm occupy the entire Blinol system, even blocking the starlight and the sun. It is nothing more than the passage of locusts.