StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Char's Landing, Bone Trench.

This is truly an existential purgatory, a real nightmare.

In Char, the white sun that humans can see is larger than that on planets in the migration zone. There is no doubt that it is a blazing giant sun. It emits light powerful enough to sting a man's eyes, burn his fragile skin, and dry it out.

If that's scary enough, remember that's just one star in a binary system called Char.

The radiation released by the white dwarf star in its old age is also fatal to humans. It can easily destroy the human genetic chain and crush it to pieces.

Also affected by the irregular variable star labeled M8 and its elliptical orbit, the strong radiation that Char experiences during its revolution is not always uniform.

When Char reaches perihelion, the sunny side will be melted into a sea of ​​magma, and the maximum surface temperature can reach 2700 degrees Celsius. The evaporated lava will fall from the hot atmosphere, causing extremely terrifying fire rain.

Unfortunately, the Trench of Bones, marked as the landing site, was exposed to this horrific sight.

The solidified black rocks are melting into rolling magma, and the vast and vast Mirror Plain has turned into a boiling ocean. For any life that accidentally falls into it, death is only a matter of seconds.

When Jim Raynor pulled out his alloy-steel power boots that had sunk deep into the ash, he suspected they were piping hot enough to fry a steak. This place is located between the Bone Trench and Death Valley, near the dusk line. To the south is a large plain of condensed black rock in the eternal night, and in the other direction is the lava ocean on the sunny side. On one side is the dark cold night, and on the other side is the surface of a star.

The blazing sun in the sky will not set for another 16 hours. Before that, it will continue to scorch the land under Renault's feet.

The power armor worn by the Revolutionary Army soldiers can effectively isolate the temperature and lock the moisture in the human body. In just a few minutes, this terrifying sun can evaporate 4 liters of water from an unprotected human body.

In this environment, survival is unsustainable, let alone a life-and-death battle with the vicious Zerg.

The Wraith fighter planes and Grizzly heavy bombers of the Revolutionary Army's Char Expeditionary Force had cleared a relatively safe landing area in the Bone Trench, and then the first Revolutionary Army airborne battalion set foot on the land full of insect corpses.

Reno's brave engineering regiments and engineers quickly built bunker clusters and fortification walls on the land that was exposed to sparks and soot, and poured a temporary airfield. Most of these loyal and brave Revolutionary Army soldiers were not entering Char for the first time, and some were even for the third or fourth time.

On the battlefield against the zerg, it is these people who hold up the backbone of the human world. If there is a human flag deep in the Zerg territory, it must belong to the Revolutionary Army.

These people are just a group of ordinary people. They also know that fear will make them shrink, but they know that there must be a light left for them in the safe territory of the revolutionary army.

"Build fortifications and set up arc-light tanks. With siege tanks in front and bunkers in the back, our defense line can sit back and relax." When Renault was talking in the command channel, the APOD transport ship behind it had already taken off again. .

"Assembling generators, laying cables, those damn orbiting satellite base stations and signal towers must start working immediately." He then shouted:

"The ministries entered the predetermined positions as planned. The 3rd and 4th Armored Divisions moved eastward across Lava Lake No. 76 towards Dauntless Heights. The 16th Motorized Brigade was responsible for carrying out armed reconnaissance missions. The railgun units and the Protoss fleet will be for you. Provide all available fire support.”

Standing next to Renault were several Revolutionary Army soldiers wearing blue power armor. Farther away, there were many transport ships and shuttles parked. The Vultures, Arc Light Tanks and Sidewinders in the cargo bay rumbled off the spacecraft. There was no end in sight for the soldiers filing down.

"Earl, when will our jammer come in handy?" Renault walked under several T-280 space engineering vehicles and found a Revolutionary Army engineer wearing old CMC-200 power armor.

The revolutionary army was much wealthier than when they first started the uprising. The armor obtained from the federal armory in the occupied areas was enough to equip engineers. Although the T-280 space engineering vehicle can also provide necessary protection, there can never be too many protective measures.

"Um, sir, the psychic disruptor will be able to operate normally in 3 minutes. Its range is enough to cover the entire Bone Trench, Death Valley and Fearless Heights." Earl is a Revolutionary Army engineer with short hair. He is still very young. , but he was not restrained in front of Renault.

"Approximately what percentage of zerg can the current psychic disruptor be effective against?" Raynor asked: "If it can interfere with the psychic link between the brain worm and other zerg, then it can get twice the result with half the effort when dealing with its uncontrolled minions. .”

"Less than 30%." Earl was carrying a tool bag in his hand and a huge laser cutter on his back: "You know, General, our technology is advancing by leaps and bounds with the war, and the zerg are also going crazy. Geoevolution - the rate at which new variants appear has even been reduced to one or two life cycles."

"We are using what we learned from the structure of the zerg's carapace to enhance the forging process of the steel plates, and they are also using accelerated mutation and evolution to discard the genes and traits that have proven to be backward in the war against us."

"Since we used psychic disruptors on battlefields and cities, this weapon that can effectively counter the mind of the Zerg hive has been updated many times. Compared with the prototype, the interference effect and coverage range are not the same. ."He said.

"But the zerg evolve faster than our technological progress. Their solution is simple and crude. By transplanting the ancient king worm genes and increasing the number of Igsir giant king worms (elite king worms), now the brain worms are different from The psychic links between group members are many times stronger than in the past."

"Even the fifth-generation psychic disruptor is already ineffective when placed in Char. No matter how many psychic disruptors there are, it will be a drop in the bucket."

"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still flesh," Reno said.

At this time, more Char Expeditionary Force troops landed in the Death Valley trenches.

The Bone Trench is a wide, long and huge canyon fissure. Between the thousands-foot-high rock walls on both sides is a large area of ​​flat, semi-cooled lava, surrounded by a giant lava lake higher than sea level. This is when the volcanoes erupt on a large scale, and the low-lying areas are easily submerged by the rising lava. No matter what, marching in such an area is extremely risky.

But further analysis by radar detection and sensors revealed that the zerg were actually able to incubate their twisted and abnormal organic structures in such a dangerous area. Just deep in the Bone Trench, hundreds of mutalisks spiers and mosquito nests are still extending into the sky.

These terrifying flying creatures are true living bombs, and swarms of gnats, mutalisks, and their new variants specifically designed to deal with warships are enough to destroy a huge protoss fleet.

Fully 25,000 revolutionary troops landed on the land that spread for several miles at the junction of the Bone Trench and Death Valley, located on the western cliff of the Bone Trench. Among the expeditionary forces that successfully landed, some of the troops were very lucky. All the zerg at the landing site had been cleared away, while the other part was immediately surrounded by dense zerg.

The reaction speed of the Char swarm is that hundreds of millions of swarms are traveling through the intricate network of underground wormholes. They are at home even in such a cruel environment.

A rustling sound sounded to the north of the landing site, and a roar full of destructive desire slowly came along with the hot wind sweeping the earth.

"Fire!" Reno ran away from Earl and boarded a newly erected anti-aircraft missile tower with his chief of staff, Charles Horner.

Following Renault's order, the heavy artillery troops of the Revolutionary Army opened fire first. The large-caliber artillery shells boosted by rockets and accelerated by magnetic rails first covered the vanguard of the charging insect swarm, followed closely by bombers streaking across the sky. Another round of saturation bombing brought by the swarm made the ground seem to be shaking.

Large swaths of zerg fell under the fierce firepower of the revolutionary army, and their screams were heard. Some soldiers were immediately inspired, but only veterans who had truly experienced the first full-scale war knew that it was just the prelude to the swarm attack.

"This firepower is not enough compared to that of the protoss. Look at those bugs - their stronger carapace and more agile movements, as well as the new variants that appear in the large main nest. If Augustus doesn't give How can we real big guys fight this war?" Reno glanced at General Charles Horner next to him and asked:

"When will the Star Spirits arrive?"

"Should." Charles looked at the report on the HUD panel of his helmet and said, "The protoss said they would be here soon. Although these aliens look very strange, they are still very punctual."

"The Protoss has always been straightforward. No matter what, they have never let their allies down." Renault looked for possible Protoss fighters in the sky.

As soon as he finished speaking, a beam of extremely thick Protoss aircraft carrier main gun fell from the sky and swept from the center of the Bone Trench. The rock walls melted and collapsed along the way, and the bursting lava lake swallowed up tens of thousands of Zerg in the trench in an instant.

Soon, the magnificent and magnificent Protoss buildings were jumped to the front of the revolutionary army. The large-scale jump signals caused the indicator numbers on Derenault's helmet display to start to jump crazily.

Renault could recognize those buildings that were works of art: a Protoss hub, a control core, an unknown number of mechanical platforms, forges, and hundreds of towering portals. This was how the Protoss fought. They were directly in front of them. Deploy their defenses and troops on the battlefield.

Entire legions of Zealots emerged from the warping force field of the Crystal Tower, led by extremely powerful high-ranking Templars. A large number of dragon knights formed an impenetrable front in the rear, and the golden beetles were rushing to the most critical place.

The Dark Templar also joined the battle. They began their lonely journey of bravery in the dark and deep passage of the Zerg's main hive, wiping out as many elites and commanding members of the Zerg as possible.

There are far more protoss than humans, and they are the main force fighting the swarm.

After a white flash, Tassadar, wearing the high-level executive armor and robes of Duram Protoss, appeared in front of Renault. He then bowed to Renault and the Revolutionary Army soldiers behind him with human courtesy. They salute.

"I have always considered it an honor to fight alongside the warriors of Augustus Mengsk," Tassadar said.

"The Reynolds brothers."

"Okay, buddy." Renault waved his hand.

"We clashed swords and fought side by side, just like in the past."

Raynor's view of the Protoss was different from others, probably due to the influence of Augustus. Augustus saw the protoss as large, gray-skinned cats, whom he considered both graceful and dangerous.

"It seems that what we are facing is the Jormungandr swarm of the Cerebrate Ark." Raynor said to Tassadar: "This Cerebrate is not the most difficult one to deal with, but it must have the largest number of members. "

The brainworm Yak only believes in one truth, that is, numbers can overwhelm everything. There is no position that the insect swarm cannot attack, but there are not enough of them.

"In addition to the brainworm Yark, there are also the tribe of Sass. The number of zerg here far exceeds our warriors." While Tassadar was talking, Raynor suddenly shouted because of the noisy electric sound in the communication channel.

"Charles, what's going on?" Reno asked his chief of staff.

"Our communication system is interfered by strong electromagnetic pulse signals. Before this, only the Xel'Naga artifact fragment unearthed from Ma Sa could have such an impact." Charles said:

"This means our troops are blind, deaf and dumb."

"What? This is the work of the zerg. I thought that guy Aigon was just trying to trick the brain worms by saying that the zerg might evolve alternating current and television." Raynor said.

"Senior Executor, the detector detected a human fleet that suddenly jumped in on the other side of Char. They were heading towards the main hive of the Char swarm." A high-level templar appeared. Around Tassadar.

The protoss do not use such primitive technology to communicate; their communication equipment is a completely different technology.

"Not one of ours." When Tassadar looked at Renault, the latter immediately shook his head and said.

"Is it the Federation or those people from Earth?"

"That's the fleet of the Earth Expeditionary Force, and it's huge in number." the high-ranking Templar said.

The UED Expeditionary Force had invaded the Koprulu Sector more than a month ago. Augustus had already handed over the information of the UED Expeditionary Force to Tassadar, reminding him that he must be cautious when dealing with people on Earth.

If it were other protoss executives, they would probably just laugh off Augustus's warning. After all, Earthlings are still a branch of humanity, so it's no big deal. But Tassadar didn't want to, and he never underestimated his opponents.

Moreover, Augustus and his human army had already demonstrated the heroic and powerful side of this race in the Battle of Aiel.

"Deploy Grand Archon Phoenix's troops immediately. We need to advance to the main nest area to see what the humans on Earth want to do." Tassadar immediately ordered.

Phoenix was the most ferocious templar among the protoss, and all Tassadar had to say was to deploy Phoenix immediately to deal with the situation.

"My people will also follow you." Renault thought for a while and said: "Augustus told me that I must keep a close eye on the people on Earth. Their goal should be the new master."

"On what basis did Augustus make such a judgment?" Tassadar's eyes lit up in a real sense.

"I didn't ask more, and he didn't say much." Renault speculated: "In short, Augustus's judgment has always been the most correct. In any case, we people follow his orders."

"If you have played chess, you know that we are just pawns in the hands of Augustus. We will only appear where he needs us to be and do what we should do." He said to Charles:

"Immediately tell Augustus about the appearance of a large-scale Earthling fleet in Char, use the fastest line and the best equipment, and tell all the technical personnel who know about it. This matter is more important than all of our lives. Be important!”

"So, Augustus must have made such a judgment after careful consideration." Tassadar thought for a long time: "I am a dull apprentice, and I have never learned any wisdom and foresight to understand the puzzle from him."

"The stars know that he is right without exception."

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