The Iron Justice is a Behemoth-class battlecruiser of the Tyranid Federation. This 1,500-foot-long steel giant has more than twenty sets of cannons, laser pulse cannons, and laser points accelerated by magnetic coils.
The array defense turret is powered by a huge Colossus reactor that powers the entire battleship's life support and weapons systems.
These warships armed with thick steel armor and heavy cannons are like mobile fortresses made of steel. During wartime, the Tyranid Federation fleet is the commander's general command center, and during peacetime, the federal government demonstrates the extension of its military force.
Augustus, wearing a black and gray power armor, walked along the corridor of the Iron Justice from the crew cabin to the launch bay, followed by the first class of Heavenly Demons. The clicking sound of the power boots was cold and hard on the lines,
The simple and practical shape echoes on the corridor walls.
"Once we capture Meinhof, Kemerian will be close to surrender. It's October now, and there are still two months... we can go back home by Christmas."
Jim Raynor spoke on the first shift communication channel about a period completely unrelated to the landing mission: "I really want to see my parents... I hope our heifers are not pregnant yet.
That old bull from the Lee family is always up to no good."
"Jim, don't you know that reality often doesn't go your way?" Tychus said cursingly.
"We all know that Lady Luck is a bitch, she only opens her crotch to her enemies."
"I have read the mission briefing carefully. Meinhof is not undefended." Lundstein said on the communication channel: "And our commander is obviously only deploying troops based on outdated information provided by spies. The battle situation
Things are changing so fast, who knows if we might just fall into the middle of tens of thousands of heavily armed Kaimorian Rippers."
"The generals are used to launching wars strictly according to their plans. I only hope that their battle plans are formulated after careful consideration and repeated revisions. If I..."
"You are just a soldier, Alan. Let's wait until you become a general." Josephine said: "Even I can see that the superiors are not very interested in this 'broken stone in the universe'. What they want is
It's resources. We are robbers, we just run away after grabbing things."
"Who has seen my peanut butter, little Amy..." Hanak asked quietly on the channel.
"You always throw things everywhere. The last time I saw it, it was in your smelly socks." Amy Brandon complained: "I'm not your mother. Sometimes I really doubt you."
Will you be unable to live without me?"
"I really can't live without peanut butter." Harnack's voice sounded like he was about to die.
Amidst the complaints and chatter of his subordinates, Augustus turned into another more open corridor and entered the launch cabin full of ozone and engine oil smell. Ground crew members in orange uniforms parked on the parking platform
Transport planes and landing craft were running around. Technicians surrounded the injured Avenger fighter jet, and the light of the welding torch kept flashing.
A battalion of Marines was lining up to board four landing craft with round bellies. Ground crew members wearing bright orange nylon hats were busy removing the cables that fixed the ships.
The Demon of Heaven has its own transport ship, which is a newly completed Apod-46 transport ship built by the Bennett Shipyard in Tarsonis. Augustus and his men spent more than a week
It took time to repaint the transport ship, painting the hooded skull and crimson cross of the Demon of Heaven on its black and gray hull.
More than 40 Heavenly Demons wanted to give the spacecraft a unique name, but they debated for a weekend and could not reach an agreement, so Augustus decided to call it the Little Demon. Harnack's Red Demon plan was ruthlessly
Rejected, he doubted that if the Demon of Heaven had a larger battleship, Augustus would call it the Great Demon.
Augustus' troops did not wait long before boarding their own transport ship. The man driving the ship was a pilot named Jack. In the past, he used to drive supply barges between the space station and the ground for a private airline. Paradise.
The Demon's armor technician Fick did not follow them, but stayed on the battleship's spine deck to repair the damaged cables with other workers.
The little devil was quickly sent into deep space by the electromagnetic launcher of the launch module. This spacecraft built at the end of the Union War has more functions than the old one. There is a power armor plug on each seat.
Data cables and HUD displays on the Marines' masks can be directly connected to the spacecraft's detectors.
There are six different image intervals on Augustus's HUD display. He can not only get the pilot's perspective, but also see the orange tail flames at the tail of the spacecraft. Hundreds of transport ships and landing craft are playing in Avengers and Resentments.
Under the cover of the Spirit Fighter, it descended into Meinhof's atmosphere, which is much thinner than that of other colonial planets.
As it passed through the atmosphere, the little devil's outer shell was covered with a layer of flames, and the plasma flames of the thrusters became even more brilliant. From Augustus's perspective, the spacecraft seemed to have turned into an immortal falling to the earth, bathed in flames.
bird.
More and more phoenixes were falling from the dark blue dome of Meinhof behind Augustus.
As the Imp descended to an altitude of eight thousand feet, Augustus could see the swarm of Kemerian Cerberus flying toward them like angry wasps. There were only a few dozen at first, but the number grew over time.
doubled.
Fighters from both sides opened fire at the same time.
In the corner of Augustus's eye, a laser beam rubbed the Imp's tail and hit an Apod-33 transport ship behind it, which immediately turned into a ball of flame. A large transport ship carrying a company of soldiers
The transport ship collided head-on with another Cerberus, and there was no chance of anyone on board surviving.
During the long period of time when the spaceship was getting closer and closer to the ground, Augustus alone saw more than twenty landing ships destroyed by cannons, missiles and even suicide attacks by Camorion fighter planes. But the little devil
Fortunately, the enemy hasn't targeted it yet.
When he was on the battlefield, Augustus had the feeling more than once that his life or death was never under his own control, and depended entirely on whether the enemy's bullets and cannonballs would suddenly fall on his head.
Augustus couldn't do anything at this time. He missed the feeling of his feet standing firmly on the ground.
Just when Augustus could already see the dark brown mountains of Meinhof and the Caymorian town with black spiers in the distance, a Caymorian Cerberus followed them. Its missiles had long been exhausted.
He was using two sets of air-to-air laser cannons on the nose of the machine to shoot at the little devil.
In order to escape pursuit, the pilot Jack deviated from the planned route and flew towards the mountains instead of the city of Kemorion. On the Augustus HUD display, the constantly beating numbers showed that they were approaching the planned landing point.
The Apollonian mines are getting further and further away.