Before the Zerg invasion, there was a majestic city that stood at the mouth of the longest and longest river in the main continent of Sami. The founders from Tarsonis called it Midgard, and this name was adopted by later residents.
It is still used among us. When the sun rises from the sea level, travelers living in the best and most luxurious high-rise buildings in Midgard can enjoy the magnificent scene of the river rushing westward into the sea and watch the surging waves.
Cutting out brilliant fronts in the blue ocean.
Now, Midgard has fallen.
This city was originally located among dense semi-aquatic jungles in the estuary and swamps. Now it is a gray desert as far as the eye can see, with only ruins full of gravel and rubble stretching into the sky like ghosts. This is the place of death.
Even the carrion-eating jackdaws will not stop here.
Like many destroyed cities in Total War, the people who built Midgard spent twenty years building its foundations, erecting its walls, and erecting its domes, while the zerg destroyed it in just a few days.
The Sami Governor's Palace is the best-preserved building in Midgard, but even so, it has long been riddled with holes, leaving only countless blackened walls and hollow windows.
Here, the battle continues.
A company of Marines from the Tyranid Empire's Delta Squadron is trying to retake the crumbling Governor's Mansion, and traces of fierce battles can be seen in every corridor and room.
These soldiers in brown power armor faced the ferocious zerg. It was these terrifying and cunning creatures that destroyed the entire city. Since they first appeared in public, the zerg have replaced humans' control of the zerg.
All fear of the unknown has become synonymous with disaster and death.
Every imperial soldier who is advancing on the stairs covered with insect intestines and rotten tissue is advancing amidst the sound of alloy boots and the roar of guns and beasts. It is faith, courage and the strengthening drugs flowing in the body that allow them to overcome
To face the fear of zerg.
Leading this company is a Delta Squadron Captain who has served the Federation and is now an Imperial soldier of Emperor Augustus Mengsk. This captain has been seen in every war against the zerg invasion.
, and his arms that have been replaced with prosthetic implants are proof of his dedication and sacrifice.
"Fritz Company calls the command center. We have arrived at the office of the Sami Governor's Mansion and are making a breakthrough!"
When calling the fleet command, Captain Fritz felt a clanging sound of metal coming from the carbon compound shoulder shield on his shoulder. The dense dense spines almost completely covered the bright white imperial emblem on the shield. No.
By the time he gave the order, a Punisher grenade from the marauder had already shattered the chest cavity of the Hydra Hydralisk, causing it to fall wailing into a pool of blood formed by its own blood.
At this moment, after killing hundreds of zerg and sacrificing many Imperial soldiers, they finally stood in front of the bullet-riddled door outside the Governor's Office.
This was originally a door panel made of stamped wooden boards, but now it has become as hard as steel due to the pulsating meridians and exoskeleton wrapped around it. It is breathing like a living thing, flowing from flesh-colored tissue.
You can also see growing spikes in the body.
"Fire the explosives." Fritz waved his hand.
An Imperial soldier at the back immediately placed a D-8 explosive on the gate. As the gate exploded with a bang, the scene behind it was gradually revealed to the Imperial soldiers after the dust dispersed.
The governor's office has not been cleaned for a long time. A collapsed bookshelf lies in front of the black desk. Numerous papers and documents are scattered on the wooden floor. The deep red blood stains like splashes of ink on them are shocking.
On the wall opposite the door hangs a portrait of Emperor Augustus Mengsk I. In the portrait, this heroic emperor is wearing military uniform, with a straight back and a tasseled sword.
Suddenly the place became quiet, only the tireless mechanical clock was still ticking. A shadow of a person could be vaguely seen behind the collapsed bookshelf, and the rustling of the pen seemed to indicate that this person was still alive and still ten years old.
Handle official affairs in the imperial territory as usual.
A Firebat wearing CMC-660 powered armor pushed aside other soldiers and came to the front. This heavy armor that has been continuously reinforced since the Guild War turned the soldiers wearing this armor into bipedal sprays.
Fire tank.
When the Imperial Firebat squeezed into the door frame that was too narrow for him, several pairs of shaking scarlet eyes appeared from both sides of the door like beating red lights. These screaming springtails used their sharp, as if
The hook-like forelimbs and the sickle-like appendage on the back grabbed the Flame of Destruction flamethrowers on both sides of the fire bat armor.
The springtails, which are not much bigger than large dogs, contain unimaginable power within their bodies. If only a human wearing light armor had walked in, he would have been torn into pieces by five horses.
If these screaming little monsters are lucky enough, they can destroy the armor's plasma feedback device before the fire bats activate the injectors. This will block the fiery injectors and allow the fire bats to be sprayed with flames.
Burned alive.
But the combat instincts engraved in their genes have obviously not been updated. The fire bat they faced was wearing an improved power armor equipped with thickened arm armor, which originated from the responses of imperial engineers and armor technicians to various feedbacks on the battlefield.
improvements made.
In an instant, two long, terrifying plasma flames spurted out from the end of the Flame of Destruction injector. The fire pillar burned everything in its path, just like platycodon burning, screaming and jumping.
The insect jumped and roared and was burned to death.
Captain Fritz then followed the fire bat into the governor's office, and his men rushed in, shooting at positions and curtains where the enemy might be hiding.
"There is one survivor." Sergeant Walder pushed away the bookshelf in front of his desk and was about to fire, but his fingers holding the plane did not release.
Sitting behind the desk is a thin man with unnaturally sunken eye sockets, and his face has no color at all. He is still and still breathing, but the uniform on his body has long become tattered, and his exposed skin is
It's full of scratches left by himself.
"Governor Sammy." Fritz took a breath.
In the information obtained by Fritz, the Governor of Sami was a tall, thin, black-haired man, a native of the country, and the former Governor of the Tyran Federation. When the fleet of Emperor Augustus arrived in Sami and brought the new empire
When news of the establishment came, he immediately led his people to surrender to the emperor of the new empire.
What convinced the Sami Governor and his people was that the emperor who had conquered Tarsonis with an iron fist and war did not liquidate anyone, brutally bloodbathed the original government and conquered to impose his rule on the planet. Instead, he continued to rule the planet.
Let the Sami rule their homeland.
To the people of this planet, the Governor is a respected leader.
"Medic! There are wounded here." Sergeant Walder shouted.
"No!" Captain Fritz stopped him immediately: "We don't need to use the medical kit anymore, let's use spike bombs to end his suffering."
Opposite him, Governor Sami was writing something at his desk and mumbling to himself, but the pen in his hand had long run out of ink, and his words were intermittent, making it extremely difficult to understand.
Strictly speaking, the emperor himself is the governor of all imperial territories, and all imperial governors only manage the territories on his behalf.
Fritz could see that a thin black line could be seen from the back of Governor Sami's neck. It looked like the tail spine of a ray, and this tail spine had cut through the flesh on his neck.
Tightly connected to the spine.
There is an infected insect here, hiding somewhere, controlling Governor Sami with a sting.
"What is he talking about?" another Imperial soldier asked.
"Assimilation. Emperor Augustus's swarm attacked Sami and fell. I sent away the last group of survivors. And I will also be destroyed with Sami." He was chanting the oath of the imperial governor: "My Emperor
.Lord of Koprulu. I swear allegiance to you."
".Assimilation completed."
Midgard had fallen for many days, and the governor seemed to be frozen in time at the moment when he sent his last message to Korhal.
"Salute to you, Governor." Fritz walked up to the Governor and looked directly into his white eyes. After a moment of silence, Fritz took out his gun.
With the sound of a gunshot, the Governor fell down, and the sting behind him retreated from the ventilation duct in full view of everyone.
"Damn beast!" Several Imperial soldiers fired several shots at the ventilation ducts, but to no avail.
The Infected Worm is one of the most intelligent creatures among the Zerg. It is extremely cunning and will immediately flee once it encounters danger, making it extremely difficult to capture.
"That cunning monster has run away, so there is no need to waste your efforts." Fritz closed his eyes for the governor, feeling regretful that he could only leave his body here.
If a person has been infected by infectious insects, his body may already be full of disease-causing viruses and parasites, and the best solution is to be cremated.
Fritz reached out and turned over the holographic communicator on his desk and took out the storage disk. All the data stored in the security network of the Sami planet in this disk recorded what happened to the planet before its fall.
Delta Squad's true goal.
"Mission accomplished, we need a transport ship." Fritz opened the communication channel and said.
"The transport ship will be here soon." The other side said: "God and Emperor Augustus bless you."
"Let's go." Fritz left an incendiary bomb in the governor's office, took the disk and led his troops to the parking platform outside the governor's palace.
The Governor's Palace building is already the tallest building in Midgard, and you can have a panoramic view of the city from the top floor. Among the broken walls in the black ruins, the organic buildings of the zerg have replaced the high-rise buildings.
At this moment, the purple carpet covering the ruins is squirming with the large number of zerg that have gathered. From a distance, it seems that the dense worms have occupied the entire city.
A special operations transport aircraft was hovering above them, and the propeller wake created a strong wind on the platform.
In the distance, multiple bomber forces consisting of hundreds of Banshee bombers were approaching Midgard.
Emperor Augustus was returning from the flight deck of the Hyperion, walking on the passage leading to the command bridge, flanked on both sides by closed cabins and ladders for grabbing.
"The special operations team of Delta Squadron has retrieved the data disk from the Sami Governor's Palace, and Matt is about to order the fleet to execute the bombing order." Marshal Reno came from across the passage.
"Destroy those ruins, and we will build new ones." Augustus simply said: "When the time is right, the Sami people will return here to rebuild their homeland."
The fear of the Zerg forced the Tyranids on the border world of the Empire to flee to a more core and safer world. Everything that happened in the first total war was repeating itself. For this, the Imperial government of Augustus was obviously very good at
experience.
Renault and Augustus walked to the bridge together: "I didn't expect the zerg to suddenly attack here. You must know that this area is half of the Koprulu sector from Phaethon."
"The fall of Sami was beyond all of our expectations, because it was another swarm that was not under the control of the Overlord, and such a situation is really rare." Augustus said.
The news of the emergence of Zerg in Sami had a great impact on Augustus's reputation. If the Tyranid Empire's fleet really defeated the Zerg Overlord in the Umoyan world of Phaethon as they claimed, then these Zerg
Where do insects come from?
Between the Emperor and the Zerg, one of them always lied.
"Who knew that the evil Dark Archon Orega actually enslaved more than one brain worm to work for him." Renault said: "It's not a powerful brain worm, but it is enough to control a few small swarms of worms."
"I heard from Zeratul that it's really unfair that dark archons can use their powerful mental power to control other people's thoughts." He scratched his head because he couldn't find the adjective:
"Projecting spiritual power into physical organisms to completely control the other person's mind and body sounds like evil dark magic."
Even among the Dark Archons, mind control is regarded as the ultimate skill, and like themselves, it is regarded as a forbidden power by the Dark Templar.
Unlike many powerful insect swarms known to humans, the zerg that appeared in Midgard had a dark yellow carapace, a dirty color between lemon and golden red.
"This is an unreasonable disaster. Orega frequently launches revenge against the world of Daram, and Sami is too close to the world of stars." Augustus said.
A traveling archaeologist from Tarsonis discovered the remains of the ancient Sami civilization in the geological strata of Midgard, and those lost cities all point to a once extremely glorious race, the ancient protoss.
.
This means that countless generations ago, the protoss once ruled this planet or stayed here.
Sami is also very close to the protoss world of Graxius, and the Dark Archon Orega is attacking that planet.
"What good does killing humans do to Orega?" Renault asked.
"Because we are allies of Tassadar," Augustus said.
Dark Archon Orega, an extremely evil Nerazim protoss supremacist, a vengeful spirit with endless hatred for the El Protoss who incarnated into evil spirits and flames.
"As long as he can achieve his goal, Orega will do whatever it takes." Augustus said: "In the intercepted and deciphered communication of the Scavenger Pirate Fleet, Alan Scherzar also called Orega the boss, meaning that the other party
He's the one who paid him."
"No matter how much money Orega paid to Chezal, dealing with a lunatic like that is playing with fire," Renault said.
"We have nothing to talk about with Orega." Augustus said: "He wants to kill all the El Protoss."