Chapter 790 Postscript 1 (I realized that I can only write 20,000 words in one chapter)(1/6)
The following is excerpted from the class assignments and notes of a history student at Imperial University. To her, Augustus the Great, the founder of the Tyran Empire, was an ancient man from more than 1,800 years ago and a mythical figure.
In his time, gods still walked the earth.
In view that all her basis and judgments come from voluminous imperial official historical records, and contain a large number of personal opinions, likes and dislikes, the rights and wrongs, and any contradictions must be distinguished by the readers themselves:
Speaking of Emperor Augustus I, he is undoubtedly an unavoidable figure in the modern history of the Terran Empire. Just like you cannot discuss the Empire without Korhal, you cannot discuss humanity without the Earth.
Just ask a few people on any street in Augustgrad who is the Emperor Augustus. They will first ask you who you are. When you tell them it is Augustus, the founder of the country, then
From a little kid who has just read a book to an eighty-year-old grandma, everyone will tell you why Augustus I is the greatest emperor.
In the Tyran Empire, no one grew up hearing the story of Augustus the Great. Even his famous ministers and ministers were written into biographies and poems, and their fame lasted through the ages.
Among the hundreds of billions of citizens of the empire, every six out of ten have the same name as these ancient heroes, and even the emperors named their children this way.
Of course, there are many people named Jim and Tom in this world.
Let me tell you, my favorite among them is Augusta Mengsk. According to legend, she is the biological sister of Augustus the Great and has the same name as me.
Cross it out.
(This is a character in unofficial history and the famous series of novels "Flowers of the Empire". There is no evidence that she really existed. I will definitely not tell you that my brother Alan once made a mistake with Augusta)
(Although "Flowers of the Empire" is very well-known in today's Tyran Empire, and the royalties alone are quite astonishing. However, the author did not leave any information, and for some reason failed to complete this great work, becoming
regret for eternity)
It's not important.
In short, today, you can definitely sum up many emperors in a few words, such as Louis the Glory Queen, Todd the Absentee, Angus the Presenter, Aelin the Patricide, Juan the Tyrant, and Acre the Conqueror
Turs. But to describe the founder of this huge interstellar empire, one must use the ten thousand books in the golden library.
But in our course, it can be summarized in one sentence.
The standard answer is that Augustus the Great was the empire.
There were many emperors named Augustus in this empire, but only one could be named the Great Emperor, no matter how brilliant his successors were.
To this day, countless people are still studying the founder of this great empire, peeling off the cocoons and analyzing the details. Just reading the works of predecessors requires countless hours.
How long does it take to read one book? Thousands of books? And even if you read them all, you can only piece together a picture of Augustus Mengsk as described by others.
How lucky were those who were born in that era, those who could see Emperor Augustus with their own eyes? - When I asked this question, my teacher laughed and pointed out: It was so "lucky"
"He was killed by the protoss and eaten by the zerg.
I will never understand that feeling.
In our time, the Swarm Master and most of his cerebrates and queens have disappeared for many years. The last officially recorded cerebrate was Sarth, which appeared in the era of Augustus VIII.
, it is more than four hundred years ago.
I believe there is no one who has not heard the familiar stories of Augustus the Great, the Demons of Heaven, Korhal's Rebellion, the Brood War, the First Total War, the Fall of the Old Federation, the Founding of the Empire, the Second Total War, and the Doomsday
The battle, the final battle. One epic after another.
But in comparison, not much is known about the Emperor's youth. Partly because there is little information, and partly because people are often more interested in war heroes than in young and ignorant troublemakers.
Nowadays, the birth date of Emperor Augustus the Great is the most important holiday in the empire, so there is no need to mention it again.
Before the emperor became famous all over the world, he was no different from the noble young men of Korhal who were born into noble families at that time. They were young and romantic and acted arbitrarily. However, other noble qualities that became widely known later, such as firm will and compassion, really made people love and hate them.
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Some unofficial historians say that although Emperor Augustus the Great was a son of an aristocrat, he was usually just a street kid that you can often see today, beating up children younger than himself, eating their candy, causing trouble and running away in the streets.
The official history is blunt. As a child, the emperor had shown a great personality that was neither afraid of power nor oppression. He was bohemian and loved freedom. He was a famous speed racing party, the kind of person who chases his soul from below to the sky.
Then, you will understand that the great Emperor Augustus turned out to be just an "ordinary" person, but he saw far enough and was lucky enough.
This is what he said himself.
Okay, the question asks us to briefly talk about the history of the Tyranids.
How simple can it be?
Is there anyone other than me who can do this kind of homework?
It just so happens that I am bored enough and free enough.
Just say whatever you want.
The history of the Tyran Empire is the history of emperors and queens one after another. The huge family pedigree of the Mengsk Dynasty itself is a history book of the empire. A wise monarch can expand the territory of the empire to the known world.
At the very edge of the world, the next fatuous and mediocre monarch may immediately abandon everything and retreat to a quiet corner of the Koprulu sector. If this monarch happens to be Angus, the one who presented the map, even Korhal will happily hand it over.
Give it away.
A prosperous interstellar empire may have been infinitely close to ruling the galaxy, or it may fall apart in the next decade and split into countless independent pocket empires, republics, autonomous dominions, religious states, barbarian kingdoms, and alliances of planets of all sizes.
bodies and more warlord regimes than there are flies in the universe.
And no matter what fraction of the former empire they claimed to own, it was nothing more than a storm in a teapot compared to the true galactic empire.
In the first six hundred years of the Tyran Empire, the bloodline of Queen Louise always sat on the throne, known as the First Dynasty in history. In the next eight hundred years, Arcturus II entered the palace.
It's the second dynasty.
The era we live in happens to be the most prosperous and peaceful period of the Tyran Empire in the past two centuries. Emperor James
It is expected to regain its former glory.
Old people always say that the Mengsk dynasty is of the same blood, and every monarch of the empire has the blood of Augustus the Great. Not only does James X look like the founding king, but his behavior is also very similar, which is really reassuring.
It seems that they judge whether an emperor is qualified or not based on whether he looks like the first emperor. In this way, my family may have the blood of the first Prince Valerian, because I look a lot like his mother
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During the era of Arcturus the Conqueror, the royal bloodline of Queen Louise was almost cut off, and the empire existed in name only. The remnants of the divided empire each claimed that they were the orthodox, and fought against each other for decades.
At that time, the power of Emperor Augustus was still there, and the people of the empire, who had suffered from war for a long time, also began to miss the peaceful times under royal rule. James Mengsk (the eldest son of Augustus Mengsk and Lisa Cassidy)
The twenty-ninth grandson of Arcturus Phoenix Mengsk (it is said that
The word "Phoenix" comes from a protoss archon. This word is now interpreted as a phoenix reborn from the ashes or a person with infinite courage. At this time, he suddenly jumped out of a corner and called himself Aktur.
King S II was the second emperor named Arcturus in the Mengsk royal family.
He claimed that his ancestors had a dream that asked him to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, ending the troubled times where all life was in ruins.
However, even such a person, who is just a deceitful collateral lineage, and even looks only 70% similar to the portrait of his ancestor, still gathered a huge army at an incredible speed in a very short period of time. Those who support the royal family
People came in droves, some even coming from tens of thousands of light-years away, just to respond to the call of the golden wolf's banner.
Although I despise Arcturus II, I admit that he is indeed capable, ruthless and decisive. However, in less than four years, Arcturus II's army once again defeated
Conquered the old territories of the empire, unified the whole world, and established the Second Dynasty.
Considering only merit, Arcturus II can undoubtedly be ranked in the top five or even the top three.
However, this man has bad personal ethics and is greedy for pleasure. To describe Arcturus II as passionate is enough to give him face. His illegitimate children all over the galaxy still claim to have a claim to the imperial throne.
Arcturus II once publicly said that he would follow the example of his ancestors and marry ninety-nine wives, plus a queen to make up the whole number.
Fortunately, Emperor Arcturus changed his tune after this and restrained himself a lot. It is said that hundreds of palace guards saw Emperor Augustus suddenly appear and gave his unworthy descendants a big fight to challenge him.
Don't talk nonsense in the future and scold you, a worthless bitch, for believing in unofficial history.
How is this possible? At this time, the emperor had been dead for more than 600 years, and the coffin was still placed in the family cemetery in Augustgrad.
Compared with Juan, Arcturus II can be regarded as a saint with a few flaws.
Juan Mengsk was the most notorious emperor of the First Dynasty of the Terran Empire. He looked almost exactly like the holographic image left by Emperor Augustus, but he was cruel and cruel and his reputation was so bad that no emperor in the empire was willing to use him after that.
He named his child after him. In many backward barbaric worlds, even the language may have degraded, and Juan is still the most foul word when swearing.
Let's put it this way, Juan has done everything that a tyrant in human history can do, and even exceeded his expectations.
Including but not limited to: heavy punishment, disregard of human ethics, taking pleasure in killing, and taking pleasure in absurdity. In order to satisfy his morbid hobby, Juan also violated taboos, ordered the creation of hybrid creatures of humans and other species, and hunted down people in the empire.
If anyone had ever done anything stupid, it was her attempt to write down Huan's crimes in a page or two.
In my hometown of Omo, people compiled Juan's evil deeds into nursery rhymes and sung them for many generations, specifically to scare disobedient children. Today's Mengsk royal family uses Ian crystal to record and reproduce Juan
In the scene of the times, every monarch who has just ascended the throne must swear an oath in the name of his ancestors before ascending the throne, vowing never to repeat the same mistakes.
It was also during Juan's generation that the Mengsk royal family completely lost the support of the people, and the long-standing friendly relationship between the Tyranid humans and the Daram protoss began to deteriorate rapidly, even to the point of drawing swords against each other.
Even in the era of lax discipline and invasion by foreign enemies, never before have so many planets risen in rebellion, and never before have so many planets suffered catastrophe.
Juan had countless options to choose from to quell public dissatisfaction and suppress the uprising, but he chose to order the extermination of a planet to serve as a warning to others.
Considering that there were more than 100,000 inhabited planets in the empire at that time, it was undoubtedly an extremely terrifying figure that more than half of the world had rebelled in the first year after Juan ascended the throne.
There are letters that have been handed down to prove that not only did Juan not have the slightest panic at that time, but he was enjoying it and was full of joy. He was convinced that as long as he followed the example of his ancestors and went on a personal expedition, he would be able to quell all disobedience.
Huan had previously killed all Imperial Council and Senate members who opposed him, and executed all Imperial generals who refused to massacre civilians and wage war against the protoss. Even the military no longer supported him.
Before taking command of the expedition, Juan went to the tomb of Emperor Augustus to pay homage to his ancestors, detailing his "achievements" over the past year. He also had a whim, planning to dig out his ancestor's coffins and replace them with pure gold.
Bury it back.
This was a day that later generations called "the day when both humans and gods were angry, and heaven and earth were annihilated." The only advantage that Emperor Huan had was his strong mobility. He could kill when he was told, and do what he was told. He wanted to dig his ancestor's grave today.
To be continued...