"Did you hear that, Eamon? The Empire is not easily defeated."
With the roar of Faraday, commander of the Korhal Defense Force, in the command center, the unclean red clouds shrouding Augustgrad finally faded away, suddenly revealing a blue sky with white clouds shining in the golden sunshine.
The sky is shining brightly.
After the clouds dissipated, what was reflected in people's eyes was a desolate scene. The once neat streets were in a mess, with potholes and huge shell casings embedded in them. The majestic high-rise buildings in Augustgrad
Guangsha, statues and monuments were tilted and collapsed in the rising black smoke columns. The magnificent railway tracks, switches and bridges surrounding the city collapsed in sections, like broken spines lying across the back of this black dragon.
Many areas look like they have been burned by fires, with clouds of smoke and dust blocking the light reaching the ground. Damaged houses, facilities and roads are in urgent need of repairs, traffic is poor, and the bus system has been forced to suspend operations, but with Ogu
The serious challenges that Stegler faced in the aftermath of the disaster were just a drop in the bucket.
But no matter what, everything will not be worse than Korhal ten years ago. At that time, what they took over was just a wasteland scattered with radioactive dust. Not even a single intact stone could be found on the shattered earth.
arrive.
When the first batch of residents returned to their homes one after another, imperial soldiers from various combat units were still guarding the traffic arteries, and they could constantly see huge mechas striding through the windows, shocking everyone.
The ground and window glass rattled.
Through the matte masks and cockpits, people could not clearly see the soldiers' faces or hear their voices, so they all appeared silent and calm.
Compared with the loss of the city, the casualties of civilians are more heartbreaking. Under the layers of white cloth next to the excavator, there are horrific corpses lying, some dripping with blood, barely humanoid, and some can only be seen.
Recognize the black char of the human form.
When this terrible disaster came, the people in Augustgrad had no idea what they were about to face, and the fear of the unknown and the invisible was sometimes more terrifying than the real enemy.
Many people still don't know who the enemies who invaded Augustgrad are. Sometimes they are protoss and zerg, sometimes they are humans, but it is obvious at a glance that they are not real flesh-and-blood creatures. Faced with
Those Marines who are covered in armor from top to bottom, you can clearly feel that they are living, flesh-and-blood people, but those void creations do not have such emotions, they really come from another different dimension.
A bloody and inescapable fact has been placed in front of the people of the empire. Staying in the heavily guarded capital star of the empire is not safe. So is there really a safe place in the Koprulu sector?
The war has arrived.
Since alien civilization first appeared in front of the world, the flames of war have never been far away from this ill-fated star region. Every war is magnificent and protracted, and every war is a preview of the next more terrifying war.
Each time is more vast and each time more cruel.
This disaster came so suddenly and ended so quickly that no other Imperial world outside Korhal knew anything about it. Augustgrad suffered a heavy blow, and other cities on Korhal were destroyed.
The number of casualties continues to increase.
Later this afternoon, the Augustgrad UNN radio channel, which had been interrupted for a while, finally brought the news that everyone was looking forward to.
Because host Doni Vermillion accidentally sprained his foot while evading danger, Kate Rockwell took over control of the UNN studio and told the audience who were watching the TV and car radio that a
The attack on Augustgrad has been defused, the disaster has passed, and victory has come again. But what happened in Augustgrad cannot be resolved with understatement, and the subsequent losses and casualty statistics
That's even more worrying.
What really makes UNN feel troublesome is how to explain the existence of void fragments and void creations to the public. This cannot be solved by opening a few more popular science columns. It is better to admit to the public that such things as hell and demons exist, but God
It's hard to say whether it has anything to do with angels.
One thing is certain, although the Tyranid Empire army has encountered the Void Army in Atrias and Saguras, this is the first time that they have appeared so close to the public.
Even after the void fragments were cleared, the imperial army that entered Augustgrad had to put in a lot of effort to eliminate the outflowing void creations. Fortunately, if the energy support from the void fragments and void rifts was lost,
, void creatures cannot exist in the real world for too long, and will eventually dissipate due to exhaustion of energy, otherwise the war in Augustgrad will continue to be prolonged and cause greater damage.
In the past, humans only knew that their enemies were protoss and bugs, but they knew very little about the enemies in the void. Obviously, these must be some more terrifying monsters. They are weird and evil, killing rampantly and without any scruples.
The imperial government is not prepared to hide it from the people. Both the soldiers and the people who fight for the empire should know who their enemies are. The tragedy of Augustgrad should make them hate Eamon rather than surrender.
of invisible fear.
Compared with the real zerg and hybrids, the emptiness and mysterious void can arouse more fear in human hearts. Some extreme religious organizations among humans in the Koprulu sector have begun to believe in the dark god Amon and hybrids. These
Concepts can quickly be demonized or sanctified due to the barriers of time and geography.
If you leave it alone, the situation will only get worse.
Queen Sarah Kerrigan appeared in public through the media for the first time after the disaster. She did not shy away from the loss of Augustgrad, but everyone who was frightened could calm down from the queen.
Feeling comforted on the majestic face.
The queen was being interviewed in a devastated park square, not in a heavily guarded palace. She was wearing a military uniform with a gun hanging on her waist. This outfit matched her blade-like temperament better than those gorgeous dresses. The Tyran Empire
The emperor never needed beautiful women to decorate his court in Augustgrad. On the contrary, the palace was only built to serve as a foil for the queen.
People would not know that if the palace did not need an indispensable figure to take charge of the overall situation, their queen would have led the imperial general to charge into the battle.
Queen Kerrigan's calm words made people believe that the Empire finally saved Augustgrad before it was about to fall into the abyss of destruction and fall into an even more tragic situation. Now that the disaster has passed, the families of the victims will
With compensation and relief, they will soon rebuild their homes as usual.
"Nearly a quarter of the urban area was affected in this attack and suffered varying degrees of damage, with the urban area of Bliviv being the most serious at present."
Ursadak Park Square once became part of Augustgrad's spectacular landmarks with its huge area and magnificent architectural complex. Beautiful fountains, monuments, and wide boulevards can be seen everywhere.
At the end is the Marine Memorial Statue built by the Empire for the Brood War.
Now, the entire square has almost been reduced to ruins, with debris left after the fragments of the void scattered everywhere. Sharp fragments are embedded in the square like javelins. The fragments of the void emerge directly from the void.
The product has a unique material composition and emits a faint purple-black light in the sun.
Next to the remains of a huge void fragment in Usada Park Square, Kerrigan was listening to a report from Augustgrad city officials. Behind her stood some UNN film crew members, and in addition, they were all members of the royal family.
Officer of the Guards and Imperial Marines.
The surroundings are filled with the rumble of excavators and cranes, and some smart sentry mines are moving up and down through the ruins on their mechanical feet, like a few spiders slipping through the gaps.
Medical transport aircraft carrying battlefield triage stations and intensive care units roar past in the sky almost all the time. The Minotaur-class battlecruiser Helios/Helios crashed during the Battle of Wings of Liberty.
A huge shadow of the Warfield Flagship was casting over the square, and shining lights were cast down from the gray clouds.
At this moment, the way these people looked at Kerrigan could almost be described as "shocked." They had witnessed the queen using her mental power to pull up an entire skyscraper's collapsed reinforced concrete and rescue the person buried beneath it.
A person with such great power makes it difficult not to doubt whether she still belongs to the category of human beings.
Kerrigan rarely shows her abilities to others, but this kind of power is no longer what she could match during her time as a ghost agent.
"Yes, yes." Kerrigan nodded repeatedly to the imperial official, issuing orders from time to time, which were immediately written down by the recording officer next to her. There was a lot of black dust on the face of the imperial queen, but it still could not cover up her solemn beauty.
.
All the void shards in Augustgrad have been destroyed, but the trauma caused by the war will take a long time to heal. Fortunately, the world around Korhal has not been hit, and the Empire's
The core world is still safe and sound, and with the power of the Empire's First Star, everything will be restored to its original state soon.
This is a warning and a turning point when the Tyranid Empire is about to enter a more thorough state of war. Resources from the mining world and distant colonies will continue to be delivered to the core world, and hundreds of foundries will be operating at full capacity.
Produced countless pieces of armor and cannon to arm the armies and fleets of Augustus the Great.
When the final battle comes, the Tyranid Empire will not only have to face the invasion of the second-generation Overlord Swarm again, but also an entire golden fleet of Duram Protoss and countless void creations. This is indeed a battle.
A world-destroying battle.
"Lieutenant Nova has arrived."
At this time, the commander of the Imperial Special Forces, Nova Terra, arrived with several soldiers, and the UNN camera crew immediately stopped filming.
Nova wears a classic blue-and-white tight-fitting combat uniform with a flamethrower shotgun on her back. She is the perfect ghost agent, tough, smart, capable, but dangerous.
As the commander of the empire's covert operations force, Nova's identity has never been revealed, and few people know that she is actually a well-dressed aristocratic boy. It was only the death of her father and her views on psychic talents that set her on a path of change.
The current path.
Few people know that the relationship between Kerrigan and Nova is more like a master-student relationship, and Nova is almost raised as a daughter.
"Compared with these shadows of the void, the void ripper is more like a void creature from the void, but there are not many of them." Nova talked about her experience on the battlefield as soon as she saw Kerrigan.
knowledge.
Void Rippers are powerful behemoths born in the void. They can be summoned by Amon and enter the real world by tearing the space-time rift between the void and reality.
"The Void Ripper brings us far more fear than the Hybrid." Kerrigan once witnessed a Void Ripper that appeared in Korhal sweeping across the center of a building with energy lightning filled with void energy.
Building, destroying an Imperial Marine Corps.
If the Void Rippers themselves were not locked in place by the void rift beneath them, they would have been able to cause even greater damage in Augustgrad.
"I think Eamon is threatening us," Nova said, "but if he has the power to drag all our planets and even our armies into the void, why not do that?"
"If Amon could do it, then he wouldn't need the hybrid and Daram protoss armies." Kerrigan said: "Amon would think humans are weak, but the Terran Empire is not."
"Eamon thought this would scare us, but he was wrong."
"Your Majesty the Queen, we have received reports that the Emperor's flagship has arrived in the outer space orbit of Korhal." While they were talking, an officer brought new news.
"He's back with the fleet?" Kerrigan asked the officer. "All of it?"
"Yes." the other party replied.
"It's a little late, but it doesn't matter." Nova looked at Kerrigan and said: "If Amon attacked Augustgrad just to make all our fleets return to defense, then he succeeded."
Kerrigan couldn't help but defend Augustus and said: "Augustus said that Amon is actually arrogant and self-centered. As long as he feels that he has no plan and thinks that our defeat is certain, everything will go in the right direction."
develop in a direction that is beneficial to us.”
In general, Augustus knew what Aemon wanted to do and did it deliberately.
"He really understands Eamonn," Nova said.
"He knows us better than he knows himself," Kerrigan continued.
"Hey, are you kidding him?" Nova asked.
"I didn't say that." Kerrigan spread her hands.
A few minutes later, Kerrigan received a communication from Augustus, who was apparently on the bridge of the flagship White Star. While Augustus was asking about the situation in Augustgrad, Jim Raynor led the fleet
The Xel'Naga world ship retrieved from the Sigma sector also arrived in tandem.
"Ask Jim, who is driving the ship now?" Augustus looked at General Wachowski beside him: "That world ship should not be parked in Korhal's orbit."