Chapter 790 Postscript 1 (I realized that I can only write 20,000 words in one chapter)
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.
, you have to eat again in the evening.
Perhaps the ancestor happened to listen to Juan's words and punish him. In short, on that day, everyone who was in the royal family cemetery witnessed five thunderbolts falling from the sky, which immediately burned the young emperor to charcoal.
Many people think that this holographic image and records are all fabricated, and believe that Juan actually died at the hands of a Dark Templar master, but those of us who have actually studied these materials know that this did indeed happen.
things.
The rumors may also be true. Emperor Augustus did not die, but only one of his swords was buried in his tomb.
Besides Augustus the Great, my favorite emperor is Augustus VIII.
It's like the reincarnation of Emperor Augustus, with the same fate as the gods, Augustus Constance Mengsk, the undefeated, the unforgiving, the caller of insects, the master of insects, the co-lord of heaven and earth, the king of the universe, the king of darkness.
Lord, Conqueror of the Sun, Father of the Galactic Empire, Emperor of Emperors.
The ancestors of Augustus VIII can be traced back to Patrick Mengsk, the youngest and only son of Augustus the Great and Queen Sarah Kerrigan. Legend has it that Patrick was half a perfect human and a half-god with incredible powers.
The power. But Augustus VIII looked nothing like his ancestors. He had red hair and blue eyes. He looked like no one but himself.
No emperor's experience has ever been as legendary as that of Augustus VIII, and there will never be another emperor in the future.
When mentioning Augustus VIII and his achievements, one must mention his lifelong enemy, the Earth Federation.
Ever since four colonial motherships from Earth landed in the Koprulu sector more than two thousand years ago, the United Earth Council has been watching us, and it remains so until now.
During the time of Emperor Augustus, the people of Earth launched the first invasion of the Koprulu Sector. Of course, we all know that they were completely defeated in the end. It was just an isolated expeditionary force.
Afterwards, the rulers of the Earth were busy with their internal affairs and had no time to pay attention to the disputes in the Koprulu sector, so no further news was heard.
We also all know that the Doomsday War did not have much impact on the Earth Federation. If Amon, the God of Darkness, had sent an army of hybrids to the solar system, they would undoubtedly have been completely defeated.
Approximately shortly after Emperor Augustus the Great passed the throne to Queen Louise, the people of Earth launched a second invasion. Prince Valerian, who was over eighty years old, joined forces with the Durham Stars to personally lead the army in defeating them, and achieved a great success.
Legendary epic.
Since then, the energy of the people on Earth has been severely damaged, and they have never invaded again.
The third large-scale war between the Tyranids and the Earth Federation probably took place during the reign of the Patricide Aelin of the Second Dynasty. At that time, the Tyranid Empire, which was still in the stage of rapid expansion, began to truly enter the Orion Cantilever, and under the control of the Earth Federation.
Establish a pioneering point right under your nose.
Fire and water are incompatible, eagles and wolves will not share the same sky, and two equally ambitious interstellar empires will never coexist peacefully.
The people on earth are more arrogant than the protoss, and more radical than any other human beings. They have a military tradition from ancient times, and every generation of young people is proud to join the army.
As for us Tyranids, we are aggressive and martial, we like bloodshed and conquest, and we do not bow to anyone, whether they are earthlings, protoss, zerg or void gods.
The Earth Federation has obvious militaristic tendencies, and the Terran Empire is not a good person either.
Since the Age of Arryn, the border between the Tyranid Empire and the Earth Federation has never been clearly demarcated, and it is inherently confusing.
All in all, the United Earth Council considers itself to be human orthodoxy and refuses to recognize the Empire as an independent political power, and the same goes for us. Since the Council first claimed that they should own Tarsonis, Umoyan and the colonies established by the colonists of Moria
All colonies, all our emperors must add an earth to their territorial claims that can last for more than ten days when they take the throne.
For more than a hundred years since then, Earth and Kohal have regarded each other as the main rival in the universe. They are evenly matched with each other, and each has victory or defeat.
Based on the research on Xel'Naga shipbuilding technology, we are now able to build warships that are much larger and more powerful than those in the time of Augustus the Great. Gorgon is just an antique among antiques.
There were naval battles between Grand Fleets and Grand Fleets everywhere, world after world was destroyed from high altitude orbit, entire stars were rumored to be extinguished, and planet-sized warships were built and destroyed.
We have lost five emperors in a row, hundreds or more generals, marshals, and countless soldiers in consecutive generations, and they have not received any benefits. An entire council member has been bloodbathed by ghost agents.
, on average, a new expeditionary force commander must be replaced every two years, because their predecessors either died or suffered consecutive defeats.
It was another era of heroes and bright stars. These two huge interstellar empires fought to the death, but in the end no one could do anything to the other. Whenever one side was about to lose, someone always stood up to turn the tide and fight back.
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Finally, the two interstellar empires exhausted all their resources and lost their patience. Social unrest and public sentiment changed. When Korhal and the rulers of Earth found that their rule was shaken, they hurriedly looked for old ways. They discovered that August
The Metropolitan Emperor signed a brief peace treaty with the Earth Expeditionary Force, and finally shook hands and made peace.
The treaty was signed by Queen Dorothy I. Before she came to the throne, she had lost three brothers due to the war and had just lost her husband and son.
If you carefully study the Mengsk royal family and its branch families, you will find that most of them believe that if they want to protect the people and lead the army, there is no reason not to go into battle personally. This is the legacy of the first imperial emperor.
According to the tradition, the people of this family use the anvil as their throne, and they must be tempered thousands of times.
Throughout the reign of Dorothy I, the Terran Empire and the Earth Federation remained at peace, until another of the Queen's sons sparked war for revenge.
Now we all know that in the past nearly twenty centuries, the Empire and the Federation have always been in peace most of the time. This is not because they are peace-loving, but because the various forces within them are too intertwined.
, often unable to unify opinions and communicate unanimously to the outside world.
During this process, countless colonies under the two central governments also continued to have conflicts and disunity. In areas too far away from Korhal and the earth, open rebellion is common. Most of the energy of those in power often requires
In the midst of struggles for power and internal strife, let alone major turmoils such as dynasty changes and regime changes.
In addition, they also have to be wary of the Protoss forces, although the latter have remained neutral since the time of Huan and no longer participate in disputes between humans.
Purifier Protoss, this mysterious protoss faction terminated the war agreement after the final battle and returned to sleep near the revitalized Aedion star field for hundreds of years. They are all noble warriors, both
He has no nostalgia for the world of the living, and has never thought about conquering the universe.
However, the Purifiers did not take kindly to the human colonists who dug them out of the stasis web.
During the era of Emperor Augustus, the Tal'darin Protoss gave some respect to the Tyranid Empire, but later they fell out with us and often clashed with us over territory and resources.
The Ihanri Protoss established their own Protoss Empire in the Terrador system within the empire, and have always followed their past oaths, never expanded, and have always been on the same page with us.
The most powerful protoss force, the Durham protoss, has been busy with its own affairs, as if they have endless work. However, due to the increasing lack of communication between them, humans know this.
There are very few of them, and it’s hard to figure out what these protoss are doing.
What is known so far is that there have been two large-scale civil wars among the Durham protoss. During the civil wars, multiple factions with different opinions fought, almost causing their vitality to be severely damaged again.
We know very little about these two civil wars, but what is certain is that they are both related to Kara - a link that can connect all protoss together, but they were forced to abandon Kara during the Doomsday War.
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Everyone in the Tyran Empire now knows about the Doomsday War, right? Although many people believe that it does not exist at all.
This is the story your neighbor's grandma always tells: Amon, the Dark God, the Fallen, the Avenger, the Lord of the Void, who corrupted Kara, enslaved the swarm, and his hybrid legions destroyed an entire world.
Another world.
This story will definitely end with Emperor Augustus personally killing the God of Darkness: when the final battle comes, the Emperor's army crosses the void, holding the sword of royal power in his hand, and goes straight to the evil Aemon, only to see a trace of
The light of the sword flashed, and he slashed his head with the sword.
——As if the Great Emperor is a more terrifying existence.
However, among the many records of the actual military power of Augustus the Great, the best is that he defeated Admiral Horace Warfield in a duel - the one the Korhals hung on the door to ward off evil.
And at its worst, he's no more threatening than a hen guarding her eggs or a cat blowing its breath at you.
That's too far.
The first civil war among the Duram protoss occurred shortly after the final battle. It was said that someone had discovered dark technology that could repair Kara, but that technology clearly came from the dark god Amon.
The protoss likes to lure wolves into the house and play with fire to burn themselves.
To use an inappropriate analogy, the pain the protoss felt due to losing Kara was like the withdrawal reaction of a drug addict.
There are many human beings who are willing to degenerate, but not all of the protoss are nobler than us.
Some protoss would rather die than return to Kara, while others would rather die than stop them. Bloody conflict is the inevitable result. At that time, Archbishop Tassadar of Durham stood on the side of the latter, and in the end he
Relying on prestige, control of the army and excellent political skills to resolve disputes.
There are different opinions on the cause of the second civil war. The only thing that can be determined is that it is related to the large-scale birth of a new generation of protoss after the war. Just like the ancient protoss before Kara appeared, the new generation of protoss still retains their nerves when they are born.
They can feel each other's existence in a relatively primitive spiritual connection, while the older generation can only isolate themselves from Kara forever.
When the conflict broke out this time, Archbishop Tassadar was seriously injured due to an assassination, and his young student Artanis took over the task at the critical moment. With the bravery and wisdom that was not inferior to their legendary hero Aden, he calmed down the conflict that almost destroyed the El.
The rebellion of destruction. It is said that Artanis's process of quelling the rebellion was full of ups and downs, full of dangers and twists and turns, so exciting that it could be used in several blockbusters.
Therefore, when Tassadar officially handed over the position of Archbishop to Artanis, no one in Durham doubted it.
Talking back to Augustus VIII, during the time he lived, Juan the Tyrant, Arcturus the Conqueror, Arryn the Patricide, and Dorothy I had all been dead for a long time, and the Stars rarely stepped out.
Apart from Al, he became unconcerned and indifferent.
It was the 1,400th year since the establishment of the Tyranid Empire. After six consecutive imperial emperors had endless toss--mean and ruthless, indifferent to government affairs, extortionate and excessive, and extravagant. In addition, at that time we had already fought with the Tal'darin Protoss.
The war with the primitive zerg has resumed, and the war has continued for years. The empire's national power has declined to its lowest point in nearly a century.
At this time, the throne passed to the person who presented the picture, Angus, who was known in history as Angus VIII, the king in the doghouse and the overlord in the bathtub.
I still have to be fair to Angus VIII. Although he did not have any merits after he ascended the throne, he also had no faults.
Angus VIII was very self-aware and knew that he lacked the ability to govern the country, and at the same time he was not greedy for power. He was willing to follow the example of the eleventh imperial emperor Atlas the Great and delegate power to his ministers and the Imperial Parliament.
Therefore, in the first ten years of the reign of Angus VIII, the turbulent situation within the Tyran Empire gradually stabilized, order was restored, and the economy began to recover, showing signs of revival.
However, it was all because his opponent was too powerful.
This man's name was Alexander Dugal, and he was the supreme commander of the Earth Federation at that time.
Alexander's ancestor is the famous Human Hand Gerard Dugar, who was the commander of the Earth Expeditionary Force that invaded the Koprulu sector during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
There are different opinions about the final fate of Gerald Dugar. Some people say that he committed suicide after the defeat. Another theory is that Dugar was once controlled by the zerg infection. As the commander of the infected army, he attacked Koprulu.
Humans in this area have committed many crimes.
In the final battle, Emperor Augustus defeated and captured Dugar.
After that, through some means, Emperor Augustus ordered people to cure Dugar's infection and asked him to plead guilty and commit suicide as the leader of the Earth Expeditionary Force.
The cured Dugar also realized his crime after getting rid of the infection of the swarm. He was grateful for the kindness of the emperor, and tearfully asked the emperor to grant him a peaceful death, hoping to die as a human instead of an infected person.
Later, the people on Earth only found images of the Tyranid Empire's public execution of Dugal, without knowing the cause and effect.
Alexander Dugar may not hate the Empire that much. Gerald Dugar is too ancient a figure for him. This declining family does not pursue the so-called family glory and hatred for generations, but the Tyranids and the Earth
Everyone believed that he came for revenge.
In short, in the tenth year of the reign of Angus VIII, Alexander Dugar once again opened the door of the empire with a huge expeditionary fleet and a declaration of war. He was only thirty-nine years old at that time.
, is the youngest expeditionary force marshal in the history of the Earth Federation.
Marshal Dugar is a military wizard who is rare to see in a thousand years, and his men are all star-studded. The Earth Federation has been preparing to restart the war before he was born.
And who are we here? The top brass of the empire's army are all imperial military nobles who are living off their ancestors' merits. There were a group of them during the time of Emperor Augustus, and then Arcturus II.
In that group, there are also the favorites and relatives of the old and new emperors, as well as the losers, hooligans and braggadocios who the above-mentioned people have tried their best to fill into the army to accumulate qualifications.
It is always like this at the end of the dynasty. Class conflicts are sharp and conflicts are constant. The government is inefficient and corrupt. It cannot control the local government from top to bottom. It is like a paraplegic giant. Most bureaucrats are either useless or stupid and bad.
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People of that era also generally lacked a long-term perspective. When other people took out the real thing, they thought it was a joke.
There are still many smart people in the imperial army. The higher military academies of Korhal and Tarsonis still adhere to the tradition when they were first established. Admissions do not ask about origin or place of origin. Although this does not prevent the powerful
People put their children in to get qualifications, but these colleges can still provide a large number of outstanding military talents to the empire every year, and almost every generation has famous figures.
But their supreme leader, Imperial Admiral Thomas Raynor, was undoubtedly a complete idiot, and people called him the Talking Pig.
As mentioned before, there is a group of meritorious people who live solely on the glory of their ancestors. If your surname is Reynolds, Horner, Warfield, or Hank, you must be a great general.
For the people, this was understandable, after all they had grown up listening to the legends of Jim Raynor and Matt Horner, but many emperors actually thought the same way.
No matter how incompetent the heirs of these meritorious families are, they can always have a place in the court. As long as these people take on human form and don't urinate in their crotches, they will definitely be able to become marquises and prime ministers.
Take the reconqueror Arcturus as an example. When he re-established the Terran Empire, the big families at the beginning of the country had basically declined. Not any family can survive from the old Federation era like the Terra family.
Now.
However, Arcturus II insisted on bringing back these declining families to support them.
This was entirely due to Arcturus's own idea. He was a staunch bloodline believer. Most of this guy's courage came from his mysterious confidence in his descendants from Emperor Augustus.
Emperor Augustus said that a king should not be honored by blood, but blood should be honored by the king.
Let’s talk about Thomas Renault.
After Marshal Thomas heard the news of the invasion of the Earthlings, he immediately mobilized his troops and led the army in person.
Isn’t that heroic?
In the entire battle, he only did this one thing right.
Only the marshal is responsible for allocating supplies, and his most suitable position should be transportation captain.
However, the marshal had no idea how many warships the Earthlings had sent and how many troops they had mobilized.
It was such a coincidence that no one from the empire rushed back to report. Some said there were only a few hundred warships, some swore that there were many enemies, and some actually said there were so many that they couldn't even count them.
Our great marshal adopted one of them in a compromise, and said magnanimously, well, it seems that the number of enemies is indeed quite large.
Alas! This will definitely be a hard battle, and the soldiers must fight bloody battles, worthy of the divine grace! That’s pretty much what it means. I’m a casual person, and if I love yin and yang, it’s up to me.
The marshal didn't even send another reconnaissance fleet before the war began. He didn't know the enemy's number, location, or intentions. He didn't ask, and he really didn't mention the food and wine bags of his men.
Marshal Thomas's tactical staff who had just learned how to play in the mud were all talking in front of the tactical picture. One said I think they should attack like this, and the other said okay, then I will defend like this.
It's like boxing, you punch me and I punch you, you parry and I block.
That's never how wars are fought, at least for Alexander Dugal.
This is not a brilliant strategy. Dugar divided the main force of his huge fleet into three parts. His largest and most terrifying Star Destroyer warships were all shielded and hidden in Saturn (it was Umoyan who founded this colony.
In the heliosphere of the huge star of the Descendants of Man galaxy, the main fleet merged with the swarm of comets that were constantly moving in the Oort cloud.
Only a small number of Earth's warships arrived in high-altitude orbit with great fanfare to scare the terrified colonists into calling for help from Korhal.
But our marshal was fooled immediately. You can't expect his intelligence to be able to distinguish such an "undetectable" trap.
Although Edmund Duke and Jim Raynor were almost incompatible, the Raynor family and the Duke family were married several times later. Thomas Raynor can even count the blood of the Mengsk family, which is difficult to explain clearly. Whose gene is dominant in his body?
But even if Edmund Duke were in charge, he would not make such a mistake.
The Battle of Saturn probably started like this. Alexander Dugar whistled, and Thomas Raynor rushed over without thinking.
When Marshal Thomas was preparing to enter the Saturn system with the first batch of fleets, an Earth fleet of no more than a few hundred battleships suddenly appeared and attacked their flanks. Then the Earthlings retreated with one blow and quickly escaped from the Imperial fleet. Attack range.
So the marshal immediately sent a fleet three times that number to pursue the victory.
When the second, larger Earth fleet repeated its tactics, the marshal repeated his genius strategy, and so on, until more and more enemy fleets took away more and more of his own fleet, one-fifth of which The fleet left him.
Of course, this is not the main reason for Thomas' failure.
His luck is so bad.
When Thomas's flagship was hit by the Earth Fleet ambushing the Saturn system, the ten-mile-plus super battleship was immediately and completely destroyed, along with all the top commanders of the Imperial Navy.
However, no one moved the entire fleet headquarters to their flagship like Thomas, just to save time for meetings.
How efficient.
Judging from past experience, even so, the imperial fleet will not be defeated immediately.
This kind of thing has happened in the past. When the top commander of the fleet dies, the lower-level deputy commander, the headquarters staff, a captain who suddenly discovers that he has command talents, and even a lower-level officer will also Take over the command and lead the Imperial Navy to break out of the encirclement or turn defeat into victory.
But not this time.
The first batch of imperial fleets that entered the Saturn system were completely annihilated within eight hours. The second and third batches of fleets were defeated in confusion, either in the hyperspace disruption field that covered several light-years on Earth, etc. Die or surrender.
All Imperial fleets entering it are nothing more than chickens waiting to be slaughtered.
In one day, the Terran Empire lost half of its fleet.
Even after such a disastrous defeat, Emperor Angus VIII still had considerable military power in his hands, but he lacked time to assemble a fleet and appoint a new commander.
Dugar didn't give him this time.
If the commander-in-chief of the Earth had invaded the Empire before, then the Dalarian Shipyard and Blackxis would definitely be the military locations they would try their best to seize. The former produced the largest number of warships in the Empire, while the latter was the Empire's most popular science base. The gateway to Luxing District.
But Dugar didn't do that.
The Earth Fleet broke through as much as it could, circled around as much as it could, and drove all the way straight into Korhal. It was unstoppable. No Imperial fleet could stop this terrifying force.
In fact, even at this time, the emperor does not need to panic. There is no fortress world or planet fortress that can compare with Korhal in terms of defense. Every emperor will more or less strengthen the orbit that few people can reach so far.
With layers of defense facilities added, the Sky Shield orbital platform left behind by Emperor Augustus has become an actual artificial moon.
Coupled with the millions of Imperial troops stationed on the planet at the time, Korhal was able to hold out for several months, long enough for other Imperial fleets to arrive to support. A similar incident occurred during Titus Mengsk's time, leaving Earth no matter how hard it was.
No matter how indiscriminate the human fleet bombarded them, they could not break through Korhal's defenses.
But Angus VIII was frightened out of his wits. When he heard the news of Marshal Thomas's defeat, he was so frightened that he just locked himself in the palace. The emperor saw no one, refused to listen to anyone, and was unwilling to give any orders.
Or sign on administrative documents.
There is a leadership team around Angus, but they are all clowns. The empire is in chaos, and no one dares to stand up and take charge, let alone organize defense.
But at that time, people were not too panicked.
People at this time no longer say like them: We have a sky shield.
When you swear that something will never happen, it happens to come true. Do you believe in God? The gods just like to make this kind of joke.
It took Alexander Dugar less than two weeks to bust the Sky Shield myth.
At that time, communication between Kehal and the orbiting platform still relied on electromagnetic waves. Tens of thousands of messages were sent between the ground and outer space every day, most of which were insignificant things - observation reports, material application forms, etc.
Receipts, approvals. These communications are not encrypted and can be easily intercepted and forged. It is actually not difficult to crack the military's encrypted information.
At that time, Korhal had long been infiltrated into a sieve, and their people were everywhere, even on the Sky Shield.
We Tyranids are too confident in the mind-reading abilities of psychics. As long as we pass this level, no one will be suspicious anymore. Inappropriately speaking, the seal of the censorship department is like stamping quarantine on pork.
label.
Even when the economy was at its worst, hundreds of millions of people entered and exited Korhal every day. There were all kinds of people, and even people on Earth could come and go at will with customs clearance documents and the like.
After all, we are a civilized and confident country, why should we be as ignorant as the barbarians on Earth?
Yes, the Tyranids, the Camorians, and the Umoyans are all descendants of a group of criminals who were exiled from the Earth, but this story has been over.
Dugar's strategy to capture the Sky Shield is not complicated, and it will be easier to implement because of the internal support.
The people on Earth spent almost a week just gathering in front of the Sky Shield in a daze. They did nothing. They did not even cut off the communication between the orbital platform and Korhal. Even the cargo ship delivering supplies to the Sky Shield could
Unimpeded travel to and from outer space.
Everything was as if nothing had happened. The earth's terrifyingly huge fleet covered the sky with darkness, making it look like they had just come all the way to Kohal for a dinner party.
A week later, Dugar just calmly issued an ultimatum to the top brass of the Terran Empire: surrender or watch him destroy the entire Korhal from orbit.
He didn't mention the Sky Shield at all, and other orbital platforms showed no signs of being attacked.
It is impossible to bypass these defenses and destroy Korhal.
Thomas Raynor must be a person who doesn't use much thought when doing things, but the powerful people in Kohal have a lot of thoughts. They don't believe that the people on earth really did nothing, and when they really can't see what the enemy wants to do, then
You can only doubt your own people.
However, people on the ground would rather believe that Alexander had solved all the defense facilities than suspect that he was lying. Oh, the person in charge at that time was Lipan Gustav, the top leader in the Imperial Parliament, and he was also an unconfident person.
Foolish fool.
At that time, the spies of the Earth people were very busy. They were jumping up and down in and around Augustgrad, spreading rumors that the Sky Shield had surrendered to Alexander. At the same time, they also caused big explosions from time to time, making the people think that the Earth
People have already arrived at the doorstep.
It stands to reason that the imperial government can still contact Sky Shield at this time, but Gustav just doesn't want to believe the military's reports and guarantees. There are many people like me here, who always think that they are well-informed.
His hands and eyes are astute, and others are stupid.
By the way, Gustav's wife is also an Earth spy, and none of the people who provide him with information are from us. And Gustav was tricked by these people, and every move he made was deliberately guided.
Yes, even if he doesn't make those mistakes, someone else will make them for him.
I'm not excusing him.
Gustav was able to be elected as the chief councilor before the Earthlings came to the city, not because of how talented and prestigious he was, but because the various factions in the council were not even as united as those who had secretly defected to the earth. In this
At the critical moment, the congressmen just wanted to quickly choose a scapegoat instead of taking responsibility. Anyway, the enemy could not attack, and other imperial fleets arriving later would sooner or later break the siege of Korhal.
There are many incompetent people in every era, but there were especially many in the Imperial Parliament at that time.
But no matter what, even the idiots in the parliament were dumbfounded by Gustav's subsequent unification operation.
Gustav first spent some time kicking out those who were still doing practical work in the Imperial Navy Headquarters and Marine Corps Headquarters, and then installed his direct descendants who were just ordinary clerks, private secretaries and even gardeners some time ago (it’s easy to understand,
There were only so many people in his mansion (and not enough relatives), so he thought that the army was under his control.
Then, Lord Gustav will enjoy the feeling of having great power.
Of course, although Gustav was convinced of the rumors and believed that the Sky Shield had fallen into the hands of the people on Earth, he still refused to surrender to Dugar.
This is not because Gustav is so courageous, but because the emperor's military advisor told him that even if Dugar really wanted to destroy Korhal from orbit, the void shield above Augustgrad would be enough.
Withstand the orbital firepower of the Earth Fleet. If the enemy wanted to seize the city, they would have to send landing troops to attack the city, but with the impregnable defense facilities in Augustgrad, they could still hold on until reinforcements arrived.
This void shield was built by Arcturus the Reconqueror. It used a large amount of Xel'Naga technology and was extremely strong. The military advisor did not lie.
As for others outside Augustgrad - they can only suffer the common people.
Afterwards, Gustav devoted himself entirely to dealing with the betrayers.
Predictably, when Gustav personally contacted the commander of Sky Shield and asked him why he betrayed the Empire, the other party was of course at a loss.
Brothers, they are all still wearing Imperial uniforms. Yesterday, Kohal just delivered a batch of weapons and ammunition. Where do you start talking about this?
This is the genius of Lord Gustavus. Normally, once a person of his status decides that Ister has rebelled, he will not say anything nonsense. Treason is treason.
Gustav was not stupid, and he immediately realized that things could turn around, so he did the next best thing and ordered the commander of Sky Shield to hand over the traitor.
It seemed that the other party told Gustav that he had not betrayed. He believed it somewhat, but not completely: My information must be correct, right? You are not a traitor as an official. There must be traitors among the people below, otherwise I would
Isn't this all in vain?
Later, probably no less than a thousand experts such as imperial military scientists and historians studied Gustav's magical logic, and finally concluded that the fact that such a person can get to this position shows that this country has a strong attitude toward mentally retarded people.
Still too tolerant.
Obviously, Gustav's request was rejected, because the man named Rouen Ister (this is a small military family from the era of Augustus the Great, their family motto is simple and direct: keep to yourself, and never do anything)
The commander who was not involved in politics was an upright man. There was no rebellion among his men at all. How could he hand over his people?
We know that Korhal's military ships and cargo ships were still able to freely enter the Sky Shield at this time. Even if the merchants refused to deliver any more supplies, there were always loyal soldiers with patriotic hearts who were still executing orders.
But no matter how much Ister and these people wrote reports and tried their best to request an audience with the emperor and ministers, it was of no use at all.
It is said that Gustav immediately became furious after hearing the reply, completely ignoring Ister's oath to show his loyalty to the empire and the emperor.
Our Lord actually spent a lot of money to quarrel with Ister on the communication channel (it’s hard to imagine, right? People on Earth didn’t even intercept the communication. The weirder this thing is, the more suspicious it is). Ancient
Staff raised a fatal doubt, that is, if Ister did not surrender to Dugar, why did the Earthlings not attack the Sky Shield.
God knows why the people on Earth didn't attack the Sky Shield, as if they could defeat it if they did.
Gustav had a hundred ways to prove Sky Shield's loyalty instead of doubting it, but he decided to ask this damn question.
Lieutenant General Rouen Istel is undoubtedly an upright and good man, but he has fallen into a self-evident trap. In addition, rumors were spreading in Sky Shield at that time, and the soldiers thought that the enemy had bypassed them and invaded Korhal.
, were all panicked, and worried about Kehal’s family.
Istel complained: Sir, if we have surrendered, why not use the Sky Shield's space-based weapons to destroy Korhal?
Gustave said how do I know? I'm not a soldier.
This man has never touched a gun in his entire life, and his concept of war may still be that primitive people fight each other with sticks.
However, Chancellor Gustav was still willing to give the Sky Shield soldiers a chance: sending troops from the Sky Shield to attack the Earth Fleet to prove their loyalty.
This is a "wonderful move".
As scholars who have studied this period of history have concluded, the Empire will lose not because the people on Earth are smart, but because our people are so stupid.
You can definitely imagine how shocked and disbelieving those people in Sky Shield would be. At the same time, they are so loyal that they are almost stupid, and they actually sent a suicide squad to rush towards Dugar's fleet.
However, given that the entire communication between Gustav and Ister is being monitored by people on Earth, this is nothing but a meaningless sacrifice.
Dugal's agents didn't even take action themselves, and with little effort, they successfully incited the people of Kohal who didn't know the truth to persecute the families of Skyshield soldiers, because they were so scared that they believed that these soldiers would help the people of Earth burn them all.
Ash.
The police and military are supposed to protect these people, but they are damn slow and they don't.
There is no shortage of sensible and intelligent people in Korhal's imperial government and army, but they either don't speak with enough weight, or they discover it too late.
Augustgrad is a huge city with a population of 22 billion. When the enemy is threatening to burn them to death, the infinitely suppressed fear and tension that has nowhere to release will soon turn into something
Something more terrifying.
One group of people persecutes another group of people.
In this way, how desperate the loyal soldiers in Sky Shield must be when they find that their family members have been tragically drowned, strangled, burned, and burned with laser pliers.
To put it cruelly, a good military commander should not let his subordinates know this, so as not to disturb the morale of the army, but when General Easter learned that his parents, wife and two children had all died tragically, he
He immediately had a stroke and passed out.
Even so, Sky Shield still did not betray.
Ister's successor was his adjutant, another person with the surname Reno, Tres Reno, whose family was flourishing and numerous.
Tres is a very capable person. He stabilized the morale of the army and prevented the Sky Shield from being paralyzed due to a serious lack of manpower. There were probably more than one million soldiers on the Sky Shield. After hearing the news,
Most of them were distraught, while others tried to seize the ship and return to Korhal to save their families.
As far as I know, none of these people ended up well.
But at this time, the clever Speaker Gustav added fuel to the fire.
Gustav did not take the riot seriously at all. Records show that when he heard about the incident, the Speaker acted at a loss. He said that he was shocked, but there was nothing he could do.
None of this prevented Gustav from being in a good mood that day and serving a table of good wine and food to the palace chef, because since General Ister fell ill that day, he could just send his own people to take over the Sky Shield.
However, no one under Gustav was willing to do this job, and he finally found someone who was even stupider than himself (it was difficult for him). That person wanted to be a hero who would honor his ancestors, and spent a lot of money to get this position.
money.
We already know what happened next. An officer in Sky Shield who worked for the Earth people directly blew up the ship from Kohal.
Well, it happened to be this ship. In the entire battle, this ship was the only one that was bombed.
Naturally, the people in Sky Shield had no way of turning back, because the furious Speaker Gustav immediately announced publicly that all Sky Shield soldiers had committed treason.
In his opinion, I am thinking about you so much, and this is just taking advantage of your kindness.
I haven't even thought about it, but I haven't figured out what benefits the Sky Shield's betrayal would have except causing greater panic.
In this way, it only took Dugar so long to completely take over the Sky Shield. There was no fighting spirit in the Sky Shield and surrendered with almost no resistance. People in other orbital defense platforms were also panic-you can't count on it.
Enraged civilians knew the difference between Sky Shield and other orbital platforms.
Dugar did not waste Sky Shield's weapon system and immediately began bombing Augustgrad.
To be honest, Augustgrad's void shield did work, and most of the casualties were due to chaos and riots.
Imagine the entire sky being enveloped in scorching high-energy plasma, and you have no idea whether that shield will rupture in the next second.
So, when the end of the world comes, many people will probably break the rules and do something they never dared to think of before.
By the way, the Sky Shield's space-based weapon came from Emperor Matthew I. Its only purpose was to attack the surface of the planet. It is said that the emperor's original idea was that if Korhal fell, he would use this weapon to fight against the enemy.
Both jade and stone are burned.
However, the Emperor may not have realized a key issue, which is that if Korhal had fallen, it was unlikely that the Sky Shield would still be in his hands.
Dugar probably bombed Augustgrad for two days before Gustav surrendered. He was scared to death.
Angus VIII was even more miserable than Gustav. It is said that when Dugar's soldiers entered the palace, the emperor was still holding his favorite little yellow duck in his hands as a child, taking a bath in the astonishingly large bathtub, listening to
When he said that people from Earth were coming, he immediately hid in the kennel where he kept hounds, and competed naked with the wild beasts for food.
There were no further incidents after that.
Sometimes, an empire is destroyed in just a moment, so fast that you feel caught off guard.
The thirty years of rule began.
Some people also call it the Dark Age. Although the uprising against the rule of the earth has never subsided in the empire's territory, it has never become a climate. They have no way to defeat the Council with their crude weapons and mosquito-sized small spaceships.
Powerful fleets competed against each other, and some powerful imperial worlds persisted for more than ten years or even longer - much longer than Korhal, but no one could unite them.
The few remaining Imperial fleets called themselves the Sons of Korhal, and they never gave up the fight, just as they did in the days of Augustus the Great.
But similarly, even the extremely large Imperial fleet in the past has been defeated. How can these losers defeat those who once defeated them?
Augustus VIII was born in this era, and he did not even meet the last emperor of the empire.
The fact that Augustus VIII is a descendant of Augustus the Great is unmistakable. As mentioned before, he is nothing like Augustus the Great or Patrick Mengsk, but he undoubtedly has Sarah.
·Queen Kerrigan’s powerful bloodline.
The Emperor's other child, Charlotte Mengsk, left no heirs. Patrick's lineage was less prosperous and had fewer people, but they were extremely powerful psykers for generations.
In our era, people with strong psychic potential are not uncommon, so everyone's psychic level must be recorded. One-tenth of the population has reached or exceeded level five, which means that they are at least
They all have telepathic abilities and are "fucking" mind readers.
Arcturus Mengsk, the Emperor's brother, put it well: they steal ideas.
And in the family of Augustus VIII, no one would be lower than level ten.
Among the psykers that have appeared in the human race for more than ten centuries, Queen Sarah Kerrigan ranks first, then Augustus VIII ranks second, and let others compete for the rest.
Gabriel Tosh, the founder of the Ghost Agents, may be ranked third, but he is not a pure-blooded human. He was once transformed by the Zerg and was only cured after the final battle.
Let me introduce again, Augustus VIII, Augustus Constance Mengsk, son of Ulysses Mengsk and Constance Mengsk. To distinguish them from their great ancestors, people
They all call him by his nickname Connie.
Connie has shown his uniqueness since he was a child. When he was still drinking milk, he could already speak in a skilled Keha accent and command his nurse: No offense, dear Ms. Sophia,
Please hold your XX, or do you think it will appear in my mouth on its own?
Honest and hard-working, friendly and courteous, knowledgeable and talented.
Take a moment to imagine the opposite of these words, and that would be Conny Mengsk.
At that time, Korhal had already fallen, but Connie's family was still living a so-so life. They had an ancestral home in the Stirling city of Augustgrad, which had been passed down from generation to generation, and the accumulated wealth from generation to generation raised dozens of loyal people.
Geng Geng’s domestic servants are more than enough.
Although Patrick's bloodline is much higher than the reconqueror Arcturus in terms of legal system, his family has never had an emperor.
The people on Earth were pretty good to the descendants of Emperor Augustus at first. They treated this lineage of the royal family like pigs and left the rest to their own devices.
At this time, in addition to many distantly related branch families, the Mengsk family only had the Connie lineage that could be directly traced back to Emperor Augustus.
According to Connie's later recollections, compared to most people in Augustgrad at that time, his childhood and adolescence were considered carefree. He had no worries about food and clothing, and what he had on hand was something that lower-class civilians would never earn in their lifetime.
With all the money he has earned, he certainly doesn’t lack playmates who want to curry favor with him.
However, the rights that come with identity come at a price.
Since Angus VIII and his seven aunts and uncles were locked into the palace, a large group of pretentious royalists (mainly the fallen imperial nobles and their young and energetic nephews), idealists and
The fraudster came in and out of the living room of his father Ulysses every day. Similar groups of people gathered in other Mengsk outside the palace, but there were especially many people around Ulysses Mengsk.
At the beginning, these rabble could not cause much trouble - of course, there were some very capable people among them, such as General Charles Wells and Valerian Jupiter, the famous founders of the Third Dynasty.
Prince Mengsk and the first Imperial Chancellor Duval Williams, but at that time they were either young boys as big as Augustus VIII, or they had high ambitions and low hands.
In addition, there was a girl from the Terra family named Azula Terra. In the memory of Augustus VIII, she was like an angel, lively and smart, and did almost nothing except serving as a soldier.
No, everything can be done.
But she didn't survive to the end.
Until Connie was fourteen years old, his daily life did not change much. He had no ideals at a young age. He ate and waited for death. He played mahjong in the morning (a first-class thing passed down by Emperor Augustus) and played mahjong in the afternoon.
He just listened to his father bragging to those crazy guys who fantasized about regaining the throne all day long, and then went to catch up on the card game in the evening.
However, just like the beginning of all prince's revenge stories, God will definitely not let Connie live happily like this.
Finally one day, Connie's old father Ulysses was so praised that he couldn't tell the difference between east and west. He suddenly had a brilliant idea and was really ready to rise up in Augustgrad. The terrible thing is,
Ulysses's idea received immediate support, almost unanimously, and these rabble thought they had planned it well and were really ready to do something great.
Ulysses's Rebellion ended as suddenly as it began.
Before Ulysses could recruit troops, agents of the United Council broke into his house in the middle of the night, seized all his family property, and sent the whole family to prison.
The people who had gathered at the door of Ulysses' house immediately dispersed, looking for the next unlucky Mengsk.
Augustus VIII never mentioned what happened at that time. When his father Ulysses was hanged as the main criminal, he was still imprisoned in the prison converted from the palace (as a Mengsk, he had never been to the palace before)
, and thanks to this surname, he can get the same treatment as the royal family - when he was a criminal).
Some Haji wizards who had served the royal family claimed that it was at that time that Connie's terrifying psychic talents were fully revealed, like a savage beast awakening. Although he was half a mile away from the execution site in Augustgrad, he still passed through
Some kind of prophetic vision of the future saw his father's painful death.
Ulysses Mengsk is a completely unlucky guy. He takes the unwritten family motto of the Mengsk family seriously: Mengsk family members are born to achieve great things. Ulysses's father said this
He was told so, and so was his father's father.
In Connie's generation, Ulysses also brainwashed him in this way, but his son just wanted to lie down.
It is a pity that Ulysses, even compared to Emperor Augustus, never accomplished anything, nor did he harm anyone. He only enriched the pockets of countless businessmen, dreamers and liars.
Ulysses' power was very powerful, but he never used it to kill anyone. He only used it to perform tricks for Connie or to help his neighbors pick fruits from the fruit trees. This man dreamed of becoming Augustus
An emperor like the Great Emperor is bloody dizzy.
He could have killed hundreds of people in an instant, but he was captured by a group of Earth soldiers with no psychic abilities, who thought they could subdue a level 12 psyker with a psychic shield.
Shortly after Connie was born, his mother died, and except for an uncle whose whereabouts were unknown, Ulysses was his only relative.
When Ulysses died, Conny began to become as strong as steel and began to transform into what was called Mengsk.
The people on Earth were very considerate and did not cause trouble for Connie, nor did they keep strict supervision on him. It’s not that they didn’t know how powerful Connie was. In fact, at that time, a bunch of scientists from Earth were thinking about dissecting him for study.
.
You're the one who knows, Earth considers psykers to be the third class, and the fourth class to be the Marines.
It was Alexander Dugar who stopped them after hearing about it.
People's moral values are sometimes so contradictory. Alexander could immediately order the killing of 10 million people in order to win. Of course, there may be children much younger than Connie among them, but he refused to accept the inhumane human body that happened right in front of him.
Experiment signature.
Dugar must have had no idea at the time how many people on earth this fourteen-year-old child would kill in the future. Augustus VIII hanged more people on earth than all the emperors of the empire combined. One of his most common words was
"Hang them!", known as "cruel" Augustus.
Although the people on Earth did not slice up Connie for study, they could not just let him go home.
For such a threatening high-level psyker, it is actually appropriate to lock him up in the palace.
The psykers of the Tyranid people once caused a lot of trouble to the people of Earth. A powerful psyker mixed in the ordinary army can produce as much destructive power as the protoss high-level templar, not to mention the more mysterious ones.
Well, it is rumored that they can break steel with their bare hands or twist their minds.
Earth and off-world colonies rarely produce psykers unless they are hybrids with Koprulu humans.
The United Council has focused many of their technologies on anti-psionic technologies, and their soldiers can even compete with the protoss.
However, the psychic shielding device in the palace was the work of the Tyranids themselves. You see, Arcturus the Conqueror is a collateral bloodline. He perfectly inherited the weak psychic powers of Augustus the Great and Lisa...
Cassidy's physical body is mortal, and his spiritual power is pitifully weak.
Emperor Arcturus always felt that psykers could control his little brain, so he kicked all the ghost agents out of the palace, and then spent a lot of money to build anti-psionic equipment in the palace to ensure that every
High-level psykers who enter it will suffer from severe head pain.
But this didn't have much impact on Augustus VIII. Our Connie just had an itchy scalp and couldn't sleep well.
In the small room that belongs to him (I heard that it is not even a small room, you know? The palace is huge, it is just a miniature fire cabinet embedded in the wall, but it is bigger than my house)
, Connie has been having nightmares, this dream is about a hanged man, this dream will accompany him for the rest of his life.
Connie actually never thought about escaping from the palace. He thought about revenge, but he had no idea at all and didn't know what to do.
Augustus VIII was not a natural leader. He was full of bad habits. He had no independent opinions and lacked purpose in doing things. He always liked to go with the flow. Usually it was his advisers who made the decisions. The emperor liked to kill people with his own knife.
Work.
He is definitely the kind of person who is fine with everything when hanging out with friends, and I am casual.
Once Azula Terra asked Connie alone which girl do you want to hang out with, and the latter asked where the girl was?
For several months or more, Connie slept in a self-defeating manner, so that the Earth agent secretly monitoring him could only report like this day after day: Augustus Constance Mengsk wakes up.
Eat breakfast, then be in a daze, eat lunch, take a nap, pee or poop, eat dinner, and then go to bed after eating.
Some scholars point out that Augustus VIII wanted to paralyze the guards so that they would be careless.
He didn't think so at all.
Of course, the people on earth are indeed careless, but the effect is the same.
Suddenly one day, Connie realized that someone was talking to him - in his head.
This incident was recorded in books and was narrated by Augustus VIII himself, but others thought he was suffering from delusion. No one dared to say.
Yes, this is indeed history as recorded truthfully, and has not changed at all.
"You little thing, are you just going to sleep here?" the voice said: "Your name is Augustus too? Don't lose your place."
"Who are you?" Connie asked, "How do you know my name?"
"I am your father." The voice was very poor.
"My father is dead." Connie said, "The man who was hanged, his eyes almost popped out."
"Are you short-sighted?" The voice was speechless: "I'm not going to talk nonsense to you. Talking to someone named Mengsk is really annoying."
"Listen up, the first and last brainworm, the lord of the swarm, the master of the swarm"
"I've never heard of it." Augustus VIII always spoke directly and asked questions.
"You are so stupid." The opponent immediately broke his defense: "I just retired, not dead. Have people nowadays even forgotten the reputation of Zerg?"
"That was during the time of Emperor Augustus, and now there are only primitive zerg." Connie said.
"That's because I threw the swarm of insects outside the galaxy." It was a little unhappy:
"Forget it, it's all just a false name."
But after a while, it said proudly:
"Have you heard of "The Romance of Augustus the Great"? By the way, I had to make major changes to this book later. Alas, can this be called a rumor? What about "The Emperor Augustus You Don't Know"?
What about "The Legend of Star Heroes" and "The Nightmare of the Beauty of Korhal"? You must have heard of "My Personal Records of Thirty Years in the Palace: The Women Deceived by Emperor Augustus"."
"I don't like reading," Connie said.
"." The voice fell silent.
"Aren't you a Zerg? Why would you write a book about humans?" Connie is very good at finding topics.
"Because I'm good at observing and summarizing." The voice was a little reserved: "Although I'm not a human, I can make up. I'm going to do a big one recently, going over old cases and digging into the dark history of the Dog Emperor."
"It's a thing of the past."
"Who is the Dog Emperor?" Connie asked.
"Who else could it be? Augustus Mengsk." The other party said, "The one hanging on your grave."
"Emperor Augustus?" Connie asked, "Do you know him?"
"Very familiar." It said, "I still keep in touch with him often."
"So you are a dead person?" Connie asked.
"Don't you understand human language?" it roared, "I'm not dead."
A long silence.
"Where are you? In the palace? What are you doing here?" At that time, Connie really felt that he had encountered a ghost, and this old thing didn't even tease him.
"I made a small mistake." Brain Worm sighed: "The Dog Emperor punished me to face the wall here and think about my mistakes. He said that Monkey Sun also punished me the same way when he caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace. Do you know who Monkey Sun is?"
"It's in the mythology over there on Earth," Connie said.
"Is it great?" Brainworm asked: "I haven't been surfing the Internet recently, and I'm busy publishing new works." (Some people speculate that it is the author of Flowers of Empire, but I have reservations. You might as well say that the author of this book is Austrian.
Augustus VIII)
"It's awesome," Connie said.
"Well well well~" Brainworm was overjoyed: "Okay, I'm not here to chat with you. Seeing that you are a descendant of the Dog Emperor, I can barely help you."
"What?" Connie didn't respond.
"I won't go out of the mountain. I'll lend you a little brother. His name is Sass, and he will be your brother from now on." Brainworm said.
"Remember it well, be energetic, and don't lose your position." (End of Chapter)