This was a long time ago, and I have long since recovered from my illness. I have lost nothing but a few pounds.
Everything is fine with me now.
The funny thing is that after the battle at Innisfree, I was promoted again and officially took over the 101st Marine Battalion, even though the promotion committee that approved the appointment process even knew the details of this battle earlier than I did. My new appointment
The adjutant is a Kemorian named Ulrik, who was once a diplomat of the Commonwealth. Since we de facto ruled Moria, he has been "unemployed" and can only try his luck in Tarsonis.
The promotion came too quickly, much faster than I expected. As far as I know, among the graduates of the Stillling Military Academy in my time, only Easter Foss had a higher rank than me.
Easter is my best friend in college. I am very happy for him, but also a little jealous of him.
Because Ister joined the battle earlier than me and caught up with the Second Battle of Aiel, and I could only run between several sectors far away from the front line to deal with the small branch nests of the Broken Swarm.
Streaming interstellar pirates and drunken mercenaries.
Sometimes we have to act as police officers to mediate armed conflicts, crowd fights and even family conflicts among residents. If we happen to be in a certain agricultural settlement and the situation is tense, we have to help farmers harvest grain and protect planting areas.
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This is different from the war I imagined. War is hell and the battlefield is a meat grinder.
I'm definitely not as brave as I thought, and I'm not afraid of death, but I'm more afraid of doing nothing as a Mengsk.
But I soon learned that even the most trivial tasks have value.
After leaving Innisfree, my troops went to Catallena, a planet with vast land and vast oceans. The most famous species there is a huge sea monster.
When the golden fleet corrupted by Amon attacked, the residents of Catalina were forced to evacuate. The critical situation did not even allow them to take away their most precious possessions. The golden fleet appeared suddenly, due to space technology.
The gap - but more importantly, it was a serious dereliction of duty. Our lack of responsible observers were surprisingly slow and did not notice any abnormal movement at all.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Golden Fleet withdrew as suddenly as it came when it was about to burn Catalina completely, without causing any damage, the observer would never have been able to get out of prison in this life.
We all guessed that it was because our fleet attacked Aiur at that time, because the protoss had never done anything like this before - the protoss must have identified something and would not stop.
This corroborates what General Stukov said: I never knew that the Protoss had a saying that only half of what they burned was burned.
In any case, when we arrived at Catalina, we couldn't even see the shadow of the protoss. The biggest threat there was just some wild beasts that were no bigger than a domestic cat.
As expected, this is another simple mission, fire reconnaissance and clearing out non-existent enemies.
Credit comes easily.
However, considering that my people had nothing to do, and they would break something when they had nothing to do, I ordered that the remaining time be used to repair houses and rebuild roads and canals for the residents who were about to return home.
, ensuring that power stations and signal relay stations can be restarted if needed.
There are many skilled craftsmen in my Marine Corps who were workers, farmers, and mechanics before joining the army, and you can hardly expect the Protoss Templar to do the work of the Khalai class.
Of course, just like other armies, there are also some people in my army who were gangsters, speedsters and even hopeless drug addicts. A few of them have also served jail time. Since the war with Eamon
, we were taking casualties every day and had to lower our standards.
I don't know much about these people, so I doubt whether I should be wary of them stealing property left behind by the residents of Catalina in a hurry. Even heroes like Tychus Finley had the experience of stealing arms in their early years.
Below is a note from Augustus: "Because Tychus needed to steal some 'insignificant trinkets to exchange for a few coins' to repay his gambling debts and the money he spent on those pink beauties.
Even if Tychus was given a mountain of gold, he would become pauper overnight.
In fact, it is entirely because of me that people like Tychus were not shot dead. His parents gave him his first life, and I gave him the second, which proves that I am his father.
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Arcturus also agreed when he saw this. It is impossible for a person like him to trust a vicious dog like Tychus. If Tychus had to be released to bite people, Arcturus would definitely give it to him.
I put a bomb on my power armor and told him that Mr. Finley has the detonation switch in my hand now. If you don't want to die, just be obedient.
Valerian continued: But obviously, I must not openly distrust them, otherwise I will lose military morale.
If it was my father who led this army at that time, then this matter would be very simple. First of all, if my father thought he needed Catalina's support, then he would whip the stealing soldiers in public, and if he thought he did not need it,
Then he won't care.
But if it were you, Uncle Augustus, what would you do?
Anyway, in the end, I tell everyone that if they want the people of Catalina to welcome us in the future as they did in the past, they must love their mothers as their own mothers and treat their families as their own homes.
Home.
I may have made two mistakes. First, I cannot assume that everyone has a basic ability to empathize. Second, I cannot assume that everyone has a mother.
But I think my subsequent orders are effective. I gave specific orders. For example, I prohibited soldiers from entering any house, even if their doors were wide open. I ordered them to clear the roads and mow the lawns before evacuating the settlements.
If any water storage tower is empty, I hope it will be filled when I leave. All in all, everything will be better than when we came.
I don't think I'll ever forget how shocked and touched we were when several Catalina residents decided to risk their lives by returning to their hometown to salvage their property.
Most of Catalina's immigrants come from Trinidad, New Trinidad. New Trinidad in the Lucullus system is a cold, barren ash world where the entire population lives in domed cities.
. It existed as a prison colony until its prisoners overthrew their guards, and New Trinidad became one of the most chaotic and violent worlds in the Koprulu Sector.
Criminals and pirates rule New Trinidad, a land of lawlessness.
The Empire had only begun to truly rule New Trinidad in recent years, and there, it was almost unimaginable that there could be an army in the world that refused to plunder and massacre.
I want to say that if it were other worlds that had already joined the Empire, they would not be too shocked by this. Because we are not the only Imperial army that has done this, and the Korhal Revolutionary Army led by you was the first to do so.
of.
General Raynor told me that half of the blood of today's Imperial Army comes from the Revolutionary Army and the Sons of Korhal. Even the Imperial Army with the worst military discipline is a hundred times stronger than the best army of the old Federation.
Later I heard that my battalion's flag was still in the colonial office in Catalina, and that the people there had torn up the imperial flags, burned them, insulted them, and now they had them tattooed on their bodies, just because
The imperial army committed no crime.
I began to really understand why you always emphasize the difference between the Imperial Army and the old Federal Army, emphasizing discipline, faith and will. Our army comes from the people, so it cannot be too far away from the people.
General Matt Horner once said to me: People's hearts and minds come first. Don't worry about me. Everything is fine with me.
December 5th.
Uncle Augustus, I haven't written to you for a while, because there is really nothing new.
I am now in the Frost Land, and have been staying here for nearly a month, doing nothing all day long. And I desperately believe that I will rot on the boring planet until the war is over.
But one good thing is that this planet is not as cold as I thought before I came here, at least most areas are not that cold. This is a vast and magical land, densely covered with canyons, mountain streams, and frosty highlands.
It is a magma lake surging like molten gold. As the latitude decreases, the forests covered with snow turn green, and those huge mineral veins occupy large mountain canyons like curved blue ribbons, shining with dark
Blu-ray.
There are hundreds or even thousands of planets in the Empire. You may not even notice such a small place if you are busy with everything.
When we really set foot on this virgin territory, the Protoss and the Zerg had already fought a battle here. This was a battle worthy of being recorded in history, a textbook Jedi counterattack.
I think this battle is worth spending some words on. On this planet far away from their warm home world, the army of Protoss Commander Alicia was once cornered by a huge swarm army that far exceeded its own.
In contrast, Alicia only has a crumbling core of the mothership and the severely damaged but still loyal Stalker Legion. When the overwhelming army of mutalisks, cockroaches and springtails are ready to surround and annihilate the planet that decides to fight,
When she was fighting against the Spirit Army, the last mechanical sentry and the Immortal Army, which arrived belatedly, were the only support she could get.
I believe that at that time, the enemy's cold and ruthless swarm master must have believed that it had a chance of victory. Even if it replayed the game a thousand times afterwards, it would not think that there was a possibility of losing the war.
But the impossible happened, and every tactical officer I know who refused to include the possibility of a miracle in the discussion of victory or defeat in the war now believes that it was a miracle that was obvious and difficult to replicate.
At the last moment, the Protoss Commander used all the power at her disposal. In hindsight, it can be said that the ultimate use of technological advantages and terrain was the key to her victory.
The protoss fought beautifully, and winning was not complicated. They used space-time force fields and energy fields to divide the entire battlefield, completely disconnecting the ground and sky forces of the swarm. Immediately, a large number of zerg were like lambs to be slaughtered.
Slaughtered by protoss ranged phasic weapons.
It's just that the waves have washed away, and the past is like smoke. Now the zerg and protoss have left the frosty land, but in the end it's us who have established a foothold here.
I came to Frostland because a Xel'Naga portal had just been discovered in the star field where I was located. This greatly shortened the distance between the star system and the core world, so this remote planet suddenly became important.
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The shortening of transportation routes has made the mining industry profitable. Riksville Mining Company (Riksville) invested in eighteen refineries, steel plants, and chemical plants in the frosty land, while Ares Corporation worked non-stop.
Arms factories were opened here, and even giants like Bennett Industries decided to build turbine manufacturing plants to provide high-quality accessories for their starships.
When the Imperial Navy realized the value of the Frostlands, a huge starport was immediately built to fill the gap in our military power in this star field.
Once the empire began to station troops on a certain planet, the number of ships on the new route increased several times. Three-quarters of the ships in more than twenty worlds began to flock to the frosty land and go to the core world through the portal here.
, to feed the industrial behemoth of the empire.
Crystal mines and high-energy gas are the iron and blood of the new industrial era. When the Terran Empire's war machine is really running, the amount of minerals it swallows every day is half the amount of the old Federation.
In the frosty land, factories were built almost overnight, looking so uncoordinated, stiff and cold.
The new machines in the factory use the latest technology, most of which are technological innovations we got from the camorians, protoss and xel'naga. Now we can level a mine faster than the camorians.
The destructive power is even worse.
This is the imperial speed promoted by UNN, this is plunder.
I only stayed on this planet for a month, and the industrial area near where I was stationed expanded three times. With the arrival of these workers, corresponding industries, including food, retail and other companies, also took root, but most of these were
Subsidiary industries to the empire's vast industrial complexes.
In this way, the Frost Land became an imperial territory.
But I have to say that the lives of the workers here are not good. Most of them have to drive construction trucks all day long to work in underground mines that run through the entire mountain range. Even here, some people can't even get one. They
Living in two places with his family, he earns 80 Empire Credit Coins every day, and has no vacations other than fixed rotational vacations.
This income is quite good in the empire, but it is obviously not proportional to the labor they put in.
The workers at the bottom are basically not nationals, because the mining companies neither want to pay a penny for the insurance of these illegal immigrants, nor do they want to pay compensation for the dismissal of imperial citizens for breach of contract. If possible, those stingy, "money is more important than life"
Goblins" will hire infected people to work for them.
December 27th.
The news of the victory in the Battle of Aiur came. We defeated Amon's evil god body and saved the corrupted protoss. The entire empire rejoiced.
I am happy and sad at the same time. I feel that I have had enough of all this. I lied to you before, but I still can't accept it. When my teachers and classmates are fighting for the empire, I can only hide behind them.
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But there is a good thing, I finally received the notice to set out to protect an archaeologist named Jack Rasim (the protagonist of the official novel Dark Templar trilogy). He and his team were hired by the imperial government,
We are preparing to travel through the Frostlands to a former Nerazim protoss world called Lerilak Crest to excavate Xel'Naga artifacts.
Jack and I had a great chat. You have always known that I have been interested in alien mysteries since I was a child. My mother said that I have the potential to become an archaeologist.
No one could have imagined that archeology, which had been ignored in the past, would suddenly become a promising and popular subject, linked to the research and development of cutting-edge technology.
In a later letter to my grandfather, I described my views on archeology. Finally, I hoped that he would "accidentally" mention this to my father and say that I was fed up with staying behind with nothing to do.
, if I can't go to the front-line army, I would rather retire, prepare to give up inheriting the family business, and become an archaeologist.
Aha, then compared to losing the only heir directly, my father may not mind letting me go to the front line to practice. He will arrange for me to work with some of the greatest victorious generals in the empire, but it is better than
Peel potatoes every day at the back.
As long as it's not General Duke.
At this moment, Arcturus's face turned green: "Young people always think that if they want to start their own business, the first thing is to fight against their father!" (End of Chapter)