Chapter 646 Mineral reserves are insufficient, let’s open mines
The emperor's special plane took off from the palace apron on time and headed for the Aurora central starport, accompanied by an air force wing of Air Fury Viking fighters.
At this time, many huge imperial fleets located above the main city of Aurora were waiting, waiting only for the order of Emperor Augustus to set sail. These majestic behemoths filled the sky one by one,
Like floating cities, the bright lights are faintly visible even in geostationary orbit. Thousands of imperial spaceships with sharp steel lines surround these giant ships, with thousands of sails racing and hundreds of boats competing.
More than two hundred years ago, when the first colonial mothership arrived on Tarsonis, the ancestors of the Terran humans may never have imagined that they would one day achieve such great achievements when they returned to the stars.
To this day, even the most ordinary citizens of Korhal feel truly proud when they see these magnificent ships.
"For me, Korhal is where it all began." Augustus sat on the seat of the emperor's plane, with Kerrigan next to him and Louis in the middle: "And Augustgrad is a piece of history.
The end is also a new beginning.”
"Augustegrad is your name," said Louis.
"No, that was the name of your great great-grandfather." said Augustus. "Angus said that my grandfather was happy that I used his name, but he could not see what happened further ahead.
."
"Mr. Hansen said that Augustgrad and the people who built him will be immortal, and the history of Korhal will be remembered by everyone in the empire." Louise could feel the complex emotions surging in her father's heart, but she couldn't figure it out.
Very understandable.
"Well," Augustus said, "Khar is the forge that hammered our dynasty into shape. She was raw and rough and bloodstained on the anvil of history."
"Every inch of Korhal is engraved with our time, and her story is our story."
The porthole on the side of Augustus is facing the morning light of Augustgrad. The warm red sun rises from below the jagged skyline of the city. Under the bright sunshine, the entire glorious and majestic city is in full view.
Augustgrad is also an outstanding symbol of the perfect combination of science, creativity and industry in the Tyranid Empire, demonstrating the glory of the empire to all mankind.
The imperial capital of Augustgrad is a city of miracles, standing alone in this barren land full of radiation wastes and oceans of dust. This great city breathes every minute and every second.
It expanded outward until it occupied the entire eastern wasteland of this continent.
In order to build this imperial capital that would definitely leave a mark in the history of the empire, Augustus summoned the elites from the human world of Koprulu, including even Earthlings from the distant Orion Arm.
The population of Korhal IV now exceeds 7 billion, and 2/3 are concentrated in Augustgrad. With the imperial capital as the center, the economy, technology and culture of the empire all exploded during the reign of Augustus the Great.
The population of Terran humans has grown steadily with the expansion of territory and the advancement of synthetic food technology and nano-medical technology.
Today's Augustgrad can be said to be the largest complex industrial city in the Tyran Empire. Countless busy suspended trains and underground railway systems connect industrial parks, complex commercial groups and residential areas, and forests of steel and glass are passing through them.
The sun shines brightly through the clouds...
Augustgrad is not a strip-shaped industrial city with large farmlands on the outskirts of Stillling City. Its dense roads and steel buildings are as inseparable as fine blood vessels and blood. But it is not a city entirely made of metal.
It is a monotonous city, because as long as you walk in the city, you cannot ignore the large green belts, parks and boulevards that cast a lush green shade.
Viewed from the sky, Augustgrad looks like a silver beetle lying in the sun, exuding a beautiful metallic luster. This is the outstanding contribution made by Emperor Augustus to the place of his birth, and all imperial historiography
When writing this great history, it is inevitable that Korhal would be destined to be extraordinary from the moment Augustus Mengsk was born.
The emperor's special plane gradually flew out of Augustgrad, and a vast desert stretched between the two cities. By the fifth year of the reconstruction of Korhal, this dark blue desert had already been under the control of the imperial government.
Under the governance, new vitality has emerged, grasslands and forests are taking root in the revived land, and hundreds of light blue lakes dot the vast grass-green land.
There are few people here, and huge railways running through the desert connect Augustgrad and Aurora, like an umbilical cord. Every moment, these suspended trains speeding on the rails are transporting massive resources and manpower.
, and during the war, it became soldiers, armor, artillery, ammunition and various supplies.
"Dad, you and your mother also met for the first time on Korhal. What happened then?" Louise asked this question abruptly. It seemed that she was very curious about her parents' past.
"This is a tortuous experience." Augustus knew that Louis would know all this sooner or later, but he still did not explain it clearly: "We were in hostile camps at the time. Later, we went through many hardships before we came together."
Back then, your mother was carrying two knives to cut off your grandfather's head, and then she killed your father and your aunt. Unexpectedly, your father had figured out everything, so he used the trick to catch your mother, and she was cured.
Submissive.
Kerrigan looked at Louis and then at Augustus, hesitating to speak. She had never revealed the side of herself as a Federation assassin in front of her daughter. After all, that was Kerrigan's darkest side.
In the past, many good people died in vain at her hands.
Kerrigan had every reason to excuse herself. After all, after implanting the psychic suppressor, the Ghost Agent became a butcher knife that could not control her own life. She had killed many people, but none of them followed her own rules.
Will. However, Kerrigan will still regard this as a sin he committed.
These memories are still tormenting Kerrigan. If she hadn't met Augustus, the guilt and kindness in her heart would have been exploited by someone with intentions, and she would have embarked on an irreversible dark path.
"This is a very, very long story." Kerrigan blinked: "I can't finish it in a while."
"Oh" Louise didn't ask any further, because at this moment she had already seen the main city of Aurora standing in the sky from the porthole behind Augustus.
Aurora is a star port city. It is a giant port city in itself, mainly to share the pressure of Augustgrad's route. In the sky above the towering launch port bracket of Aurora Star Port, ships look like
Colonial carriers as huge as a city are climbing into the sky with majestic momentum, and the fuel pipes connecting these carriers to the launch pads have long been disconnected, and each one is astonishingly thick.
These supercarriers are very similar to the ones that brought the Terran human ancestors to this world. This is mostly to pay tribute to the pioneers of mankind. Each mothership is full of ambitious settlers and the necessary resources to establish settlements.
To prepare supplies, that is to say, each ship represents a colonial world of the future Tyran Empire.
Most of the immigrants have undergone genetic modification, or it can be said that such seeds have long been buried in the genes of Tyranids to ensure that they can adapt to the changing and diverse environment of the new world.
The destination of the colonial fleet had been decided before the spacecraft was built. It was a habitable planet that had already been discovered and marked by exploration ships, carefully inspected, and then evaluated by the Imperial Immigration Department.
Usually, the initially selected colonial planets are real geomantic treasures, but such planets are extremely precious. In this case, the only option is to look for worlds with some minor problems. Of course, if the detection team
If I had made a mistake back then, this little problem might have turned into a sinkhole.
It is not that something like this never happened in the early years. Due to negligence, a colony ship landed on a planet that was not suitable for human habitation, and the atmosphere of that planet was toxic to humans.
However, the current Imperial exploration fleet is still quite reliable. In order to find a new homeland suitable for human survival, they are the loneliest and bravest group of people in the universe. Some people are much older when they return to their hometowns;
Never came back.
They will record everything on the planet, including the composition of the atmosphere, topography, and water systems, as well as the available resources, flora and fauna. And one day, these data collected into Korhal will eventually come in handy.
"These colonial spacecraft are going to the Sigma Sector." Kerrigan said: "And until now, our understanding of that strange sector is only the tip of the iceberg of the dark world."
The Tyranid humans have dominated all the worlds they have known, but their ever-expanding ambitions will not stop there. This is an era of progress and positivity. In order to survive between the protoss and the zerg, humans must continue to move forward.
forward.
In fact, the development of internal resources in the Koprulu sector is still at the preliminary stage, far from the point of resource shortage. But for a huge interstellar empire, sufficient colonial support is very necessary. If faced
For a race as aggressive as the Zerg, it needs a lot of depth.
For an interstellar empire, colonies mean dominance, resources and population, but this is not something that will see results in a short time. But during the reign of Augustus, within one or two generations,
But it can be seen in time.
During the era of great escape to avoid the nuclear attack of the old Federation, the scattered Korhal people have established more than ten different colonial worlds. Now, with the further colonization of the empire, these colonies that have inherited the Korhal culture have become quite large. There are
The colonies became trade transit points, some exported grain to Korhal, and others also provided meager soldiers.
"The Fourth Fleet will escort us along the way, so it won't be a problem." Augustus looked at the city of Aurora out the porthole.
The city of Aurora is located at the intersection of Wolfrec Province and Keresh Province. This majestic city is much smaller than Augustgrad and its appearance is much more delicate.
, itself is a super-megacity formed around the central star port. It is a giant structure composed of countless engineering stations, ports, platforms and maintenance facilities. From a distance, it looks like a dazzling city, dubbed with countless names.
The tall Gothic church with its spire surrounds the city of Aurora. Two rivers that reappeared due to geological changes meander around the city and flow into the distance.
Facing such a magnificent city, people will inevitably have doubts in their minds. Is this really a city that humans can build?
"After the colonial fleet arrives in the New World, the various problems that the immigrants will have to face can only be solved by themselves." Augustus continued: "The Sigma Sector is a long way away, and of course there will be no disadvantages.
An eye-opening pirate."
As we all know, interstellar pirates are a group of opportunists, wandering around the star sea in search of lone prey like hungry hyenas and sharks.
For the hordes of interstellar pirates, the colonial fleet can be said to be a fat sheep, which means that colonists who have not received official government authorization and lack fleet protection are extremely vulnerable to attacks by pirates.
Fortunately, during this period, with the imperial government's unremitting efforts to crack down, the pirates' activities have basically disappeared.
Moreover, most pirates now have no courage to attack the official ships of the Terran Empire anymore. Even if they are just harassing civilians, they have to be careful, for fear that one day the Empire's warships will suddenly arrive at their doorstep and collect taxes with Yamato cannons.
"Why do they go so far away?" Louis asked Augustus.
"For the continuation of mankind, and to open up a new home in this vast sea of stars." Augustus said to Louis: "In the past, we were our ancestors, and now it is our turn."
Whether now or in the past, Tyranid humans have never stopped expanding outward. The new world means new risks, new opportunities and new hopes. But some people will never dare to step out of this world.
Land and space also mean the unknown, mystery and desolation of the deep sea for life on the planet.
Many people in this era grew up in a neo-colonial environment. They knew nothing about their parents' hometown. From the first time they opened their eyes, they thought the world was only so big.
"Those ships are so big." As the spaceship got closer and closer to Aurora City, Louise was gradually attracted by the giant mothership that occupied the entire sky. She had lived in the palace since she was a child, and this was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes.
These behemoths.
"But what is that?" She pointed in another direction.
Along that direction, you can suddenly see the corner of a huge ship with turrets. It is a Gorgon-class battlecruiser, larger than all colonial carriers, and its loaded main gun is enough to flatten a ship.
City.
"Gorgon battlecruiser." Kerrigan replied, "The pride of the Terran Empire."
"It's so big!" Louise raised her hands in the air, as if she were holding up the sun in the sky, and almost poked her emperor father's nostrils.
Augustus suddenly had a sense of absurdity that this child might also want to sail a battleship.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from General Matt Horner - directed to you." At this time, a holographic screen suddenly flashed in front of Augustus.
"The Protoss Empire world of Lorcadia was attacked by an unknown force." Augustus continued to look, but he was truly surprised: "Research has shown that this unknown force is related to the Gracius facility.
The Purifier protoss is highly similar."
Why did these mechanical protoss suddenly jump out of the coffin? Are they here to fight for the inheritance left by their ancestors?
Who the hell knocked on the coffin boards of these living ancestors? They seem to be very angry now.