677 Aurus: Are the inheritors of this generation moving so fast?
"Recovering the remaining airdrop pods..."
"All ground personnel have been evacuated."
"The doomsday device has been deployed."
The voice of the communications sergeant on the bridge deck of the White Star rang out one after another. At the same time, there were almost hundreds of people talking in the communication channel of the entire fleet, but they were still in an orderly manner.
"Where is Zeratul?" Augustus asked after waiting for a while.
At this moment, below the porthole in front of you is the huge Imperial fleet anchored in the high-altitude orbit of Atrias. Hundreds of thousands of warships of different sizes and models are arranged end to end, endlessly, vast and spectacular.
Under the fleet, the planet that was being pulled into the void little by little was trembling in Amon's rage. Huge red spots were spread around the cracks in the void, and the scene was extremely horrifying.
"No news yet," Renault replied.
As if lost in the sea, Zeratul has been heard from nothing since entering the Temple of Iris. At that time, the Temple of Iris had completely become a medium for Amon to pull the planet Atrias into the void, and it was filled with violent violence.
The void energy and terrifying void creatures make it difficult for even imperial soldiers wearing heavy raider armor to get close.
"Then wait a little longer." Augustus warned himself to be patient.
After a while, the situation of the planet Atrias became visibly worse. The psychic storm sweeping across the entire planet brought about drastic changes in the weather, and the cyclone that frequently covered half of the continent heralded a terrible event.
The cataclysm is taking shape.
Augustus stared at this terrible scene, his heart sinking. He would not allow Atrias to fall into the void like this, otherwise the surrounding imperial colonies would be placed in extremely dangerous situations.
Atriaus must be destroyed.
"Sir, the Void Seeker has responded to our call." Finally, a communications soldier shouted at this time.
"Come in." Renault said.
"Brothers, with the blessing of the gods, I succeeded." In the picture on the other side, Zeratul is personally driving his Xel'Naga spaceship Void Seeker through the storm-condensed, lightning-thundering atmosphere of the planet Atrias.
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"Your safe return is more important than anything else, my friend." Augustus breathed a sigh of relief: "Zeratul, what did you find in the Temple of Iris?"
"Augustus Mengsk, I'm afraid even you can't imagine what I went through in the Temple of Iris." Zeratul had just experienced a bloody battle, and his simple and low-key armor and shirt were stained with blood.
The blood of his enemies. He must have escaped with a narrow escape, but seeing the hope of saving the world really made him overjoyed.
I can imagine... I also know that Xel'Naga Aurus will definitely communicate with you through the Temple of Iris, and even know what he said to you. Augustus complained in his heart
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"Have you found the prophecy? Zeratul." Raynor asked.
Augustus also showed a curious expression. He really wanted to know if Aurus would say anything more this time.
"Yes." Zeratul rarely gave a very positive reply: "In the void catalyst deep in the Temple of Iris, I heard a friendly omen, as if an ancient voice from the other side was calling me.
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"In that voice, I seemed to see the birth and death of the universe, during which countless civilizations rose and died, like the sun rising and the moon setting, eternal and unchanged."
"That voice." Augustus looked at Zeratul and thought to himself that you are still showing off at this time.
This is Zeratul's usual way of speaking. He always speaks in a eloquent way, one after another, pausing from time to time, as if he is waiting for you to ask. Occasionally, Zeratul does have a way of teasing people.
Thoughts, but that is definitely not the case right now.
"The voice told me that the Keystone will guide you to hope." Zeratul continued.
"Keystone?" Augustus was very cooperative.
"In a bright light, I saw that the keystone was the Xel'Naga artifact stored in the Skygor Research Station of the Tyranid Empire." Zeratul said happily.
Zeratul should indeed be happy, because as early as after the Xel'Naga artifact was unearthed and assembled, humans had already begun to study this magical creation.
Recently, Zeratul witnessed a breakthrough in the research on Xel'Naga artifacts, and even found the coordinates of Urna.
Apparently, that was the "guidance" the voice was talking about.
And Zeratul still remembered that he blurted out Urna's name at that time, which made the voice in the bright light let out a slight sigh.
I don't know why, but Zeratul probably heard it wrong, and he has no ears.
"What a coincidence." Augustus said. Fortunately, we happened to be studying the Xel'Naga artifact. We were so lucky.
"What else did that voice say?" Raynor urged Zeratul.
"In the final battle, Xel'Naga will help us fight against Amon." Zeratul continued: "I believe that is the last part of the prophecy, the most important piece of the puzzle."
"Xel'Naga... Where are we going to find Xel'Naga at this time? It's a ghost." Renault patted his head and suddenly realized: "Urna, the hometown of Xel'Naga."
"I don't believe it. It's impossible not to find even a Xel'Naga... But if they could have dealt with Eamon long ago, why did they have to wait for us to find it." He thought of many things in an instant and felt
Why does this script seem so familiar:
"Are these Xel'Naga imprisoned, waiting for us to rescue them?"
Renault felt he understood.
And if Tychus were here, he would probably be in such a useless state that there would be no use in rescuing him. It would be better to just die.
"This is good news." Augustus nodded: "But only by truly entering Urna can we reveal the answer to the puzzle."
At this time, the White Star's advanced sensor array had detected the position of the Void Seeker, indicating that it had ascended into the high-altitude orbit of the planet Atrias.
"Swan, it's time to start." Augustus ordered: "Activate the doomsday device to end all this."
A Moser-class doomsday device can turn a planet into ashes and destroy all life on it. It is a terrifying planet-level extermination weapon, more terrifying than a thousand apocalypse-level nuclear bombs.
After Rory Swann's transformation, the power of this old Federation doomsday device is even more terrifying. And the planet Atrias itself, which has a large amount of high-energy gas resources stored inside, is a huge explosive barrel. Once it detonates its terrifying
It is powerful enough to throw entire continents into the air.
Even during the Second Total War, the Terran Empire had activated this device only a handful of times. It would rather use nuclear bombs or virus bombs for large-scale orbital bombing than use this terrible weapon.
Soon, Augustus' orders were passed down layer by layer. In a moment of silence, huge and bright light spots suddenly flashed on the planet Atrias, and violent explosions followed with extremely terrifying
The speed ignited huge fissures filled with high-energy gas. The fissures formed by the flames spread at an incredible speed on the planet's surface like spider webs. All volcanoes were erupting violently, and countless lava rivers overflowed.
"Hopefully we won't have to use this weapon again." Augustus ordered: "Navigator, get us out of orbit."
Suddenly, Augustus discovered that a war could be so simple. No matter how terrifying the Tal'darin and the void creations on Atrias were, they had to follow this planet to the end.
Sometimes, he doesn't have to win the chess game at all, he just needs to flip the table.
This feels...a little weird.
I hope this doesn't open a Pandora's box in my own mind.
Following Augustus's order, the large-scale imperial fleet, led by the White Star flagship, jumped into the opening hyperspace channel one after another and disappeared without a trace.
In an instant, the brightness of Atrias suddenly increased a thousand times, until it became the second sun in the galaxy. This short-lived sun struggled for a while, and then turned into a torn apart sun in an extremely shocking gesture.
The ball of light suddenly shattered.
Just as the last batch of Imperial warships disappeared, it exploded.
Countless planetary fragments were thrown into the air, some comparable to starships, and some much larger than Augustgrad. The explosion detonated the second and third satellites of Atrias.
, and threw the largest satellite hard towards the edge of the galaxy until it completely broke away from the gravity of the star and turned into a dark and cold wandering star.
Most of the planet Atrias collapsed, and the remaining parts will slowly dim after the remaining oxygen and high-energy gases are burned out, but they will not cool down. Over the next few million years
, its crust and much of the mantle may cool again and come together to form a broken, dead planet.
This is a trace left by a war between civilizations, a trace left by a human civilization that emerged on the edge of the galaxy.
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A few standard Earth days later.
Sigma Sector, Imperial Colony Chiron III.
The first person to discover this planet was a Kaimorian explorer. He was lucky enough to discover this planet in a system that was considered impossible to have a settlement zone.
This explorer is also a "gold digger", the kind of interstellar escort who explores crystal veins in the interstellar all year round. In those core worlds that have long been controlled by the joint enterprises, even the unexploited resources have been harvested by them.
of private industry.
In the endless starry sky, all resources are ownerless. As long as you explore far enough, opportunities will always come to your door.
Of course, you have to keep these treasures, and the wisest thing to do is to sell them as soon as you make a big profit.
After receiving a considerable amount of credit coins, the explorer dedicated the planet to the great Emperor Augustus and returned to his hometown after thirteen years of absence to reunite with his wife and children.
The landing point of the colonists on the southern subcontinent of Chiron III was located near an estuary delta, where the climate was suitable, the water source was abundant, and it was far away from the dangerous native wildlife communities of the main continental plate.
It was an autumn day in the dense forest outside West City, the largest settlement in Chiron Colony. Golden fallen leaves covered the ground, but the forest trees shone with colorful luster.
A white road runs straight through this forest, and it is also covered with golden leaves, like a thick blanket. The sky here is very blue, with soft white clouds piled up in clusters, and a gust of wind blows, and the sky changes again.
A golden rain fell.
There are many gorgeous small birds living in the areas near the forest and close to the water. You can pick up a lot of eggs anytime and anywhere. If you want to fish, just sit by the river for an afternoon and you will be able to harvest more than one person can eat in a month.
Chiron trout.
The people of Chiron III were lucky. They caught up with the era when the Tyranid Empire was opening up a new colony in the Sigma sector. Moreover, this planet was indeed the paradise that everyone dreamed of, as advertised by the Imperial Immigration Bureau.
There are nearly 2,000 habitable planets that have been proven in the Sigma sector, but very few of them are highly exploitable. Some of them are either too far away from the mainland, or they have terrifying nature that is difficult to understand and solve.
disaster.
As for a land as beautiful as Chiron III, it is difficult to find another one even in the Sigma sector.
Today, the Chiron III colony has been able to basically achieve self-sufficiency and no longer needs to transport supplies from the mainland within the Koprulu sector.
Within two years, more than 20,000 colonists who arrived at Chiron III used the materials on hand to build a city with water pumping facilities. As the first batch of pioneers, people reclaimed new land.
Convenient automatic irrigation facilities were established to harvest grain from the land promised by Emperor Augustus.
Gradually, around the first settlement, the colonists continued to expand outwards, building small towns and villages around new farmland and new mining areas. As the colonies developed, small-scale shops, restaurants,
Hospitals are also rising from the ground. On the other side of the galaxy, a small human society that is as small as a sparrow and has all the internal organs is naturally formed without deliberate guidance.
When people no longer had to worry about survival, the population of the colony also began to grow on a large scale. In the first month of this year, about 800 newborns were born on Chiron III.
These newborns know nothing about their parents' homeland. To them, this is home. The only thing that remains unchanged is the flag of the Tyranids flying over every colony.
In the imperial colonies in the Sigma sector, each colonial governor is still an official sent from Korha Augustgrad, and their children will also grow up on this land during their term. This belongs to this era of great expansion.
unique memory.
It's almost perfect - except for its proximity to Tal'darim protoss territory.
Today, there is an uneasy atmosphere in the air of the colony, because there are many uniformed imperial soldiers among them. Although the huge imperial fleet is still parked in the orbit of the planet, the colonists who are chasing the shadows soon realized that,
War is approaching.
Fortunately, this was just a false alarm. These imperial soldiers who came to Chiron III were not wounded soldiers who had to be evacuated to the rear after the war. They were dressed in double-breasted uniforms, tricorn hats and tasseled brochures. They were just here.