StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

In the evening, the 3rd Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Revolutionary Army crossed the intersection of Bone Trench and Death Valley to the west and advanced to the edge of the main nest area of ​​the Charr Swarm.

At this time, the blazing white sun in the sky is about to set. But at this high latitude near the North Pole, the sun sets particularly slowly.

General Jim Reno, commander of the Char Expeditionary Force, personally drove his powerful gray-green Vulture motorcycle to follow the brigade headquarters. He pulled the joystick like a horse's reins.

This beautiful, streamlined hoverbike is Jim Raynor's favorite. It is said that it was Raynor's beloved "mountain" at the end of the Guild War.

Although the strict regulations of the Motorized Forces of the Revolutionary Army strictly prohibit the Vulture riders from making all kinds of fanciful modifications to their aircraft, and strictly prohibit the installation of various engines and propellers that would make Major General Frick of the Revolutionary Army Logistics Department curse. and weapons.

But General Reno believed that the people in the logistics department could not be on the battlefield of the war and sympathize with the cowboys and bad boys who drove the Vulture. How could they understand that the small modifications that came into being to adapt to the needs of the battlefield were absolutely necessary.

In Renault's motorized forces, it is within the scope of permission to make appropriate modifications to the Vulture, such as adding a reinforced windshield, a spare fuel tank and an ion thruster engine. The addition of a reinforced frame and alloy armor plates also makes Renault The vulture vehicles among the Rangers began to transform into more stable and reliable heavy motorcycles.

According to the standard equipment list of the Revolutionary Army's motorized infantry, every Vulture motorcyclist should be equipped with three smart 52-QDMM spider booby traps designed by Victor Kaczynski - the actual number carried is much more. So much so that some Vulture riders even wear an entire polyester woven bag.

According to unconfirmed rumors, these powerful spider booby traps even cost more than the Vulture Vehicle.

The sources of the modified original parts are also varied, including trophies obtained by the vulture riders on the battlefield, and rags obtained by the soldiers themselves from the Port of the Dead. More sources are still unknown. Each Vulture rider is also a skilled mechanic, as familiar with every component of their vehicle as they are with their own siblings.

And this also gives the Ranger motorcyclists a tenacious ability to survive. As long as the exploding Vulture car's fuel tank is not sent to the sky, no matter how unbelievable the failure is, these magical Char cowboys can repair it. This ability comes from the harsh living environment that has honed the Tyranids and is a must-have for everyone who lives in a dangerous world on the edge.

Finally, the Renault Vulture came to a stop behind a high bulging black-brown sand dune and a large pile of smoking hot granite with the sweet roar of the engine.

In a lowland there stood the towering command tower and orbiting satellite base station of the command center, and a golden-red revolutionary army flag swayed against the rising hot wind. On both sides of this command center were large numbers of vulture vehicles speeding by, raising dust that covered the sky and closed the sun.

The always reliable engineers of the Char Expeditionary Force were operating the T-280 space engineering vehicle to work on the land made of black rocks. Soon, an electrified barbed wire fence surrounding the forward base and a fortification wall with a heavy Gatling gun were installed. Already rising from the ground.

Bunkers set up commanding firepower points one after another, which are the skeleton of the human defense line. Inside the bunker are high-spirited revolutionary soldiers, not federal veterans who can only stand in the bunker and play mahjong.

Renault parked his Vulture in a carport built with steel frames and rain-proof tiles, and bumped into his chief of staff, Charles Horner, who was wearing the same commander's power armor and was one of the few with such superb driving skills. A good player who can compete with our Mr. Lei.

People named Horner are always reliable.

The Vulture is a high-speed, nimble one-man motorcycle that is as trustworthy as an old-fashioned AGR-14 rifle if the rider is lucky enough. Just like in places like Mar Sara and Antiga, a young man who can't ride a vulture is simply unthinkable.

Apart from offering almost no protection for the driver, the Vulture is almost perfect. On the dangerous Ash Plains of Char, a vulture car with enough fuel can completely leave a dozen fast and agile springtails far behind, but if a few Hydra Hydralisks spit acid at them, All is lost.

Renault heard that recently, Marshal Augustus Mengsk actually ordered the Revolutionary Army's Weapons Directorate and the First Engineering Group to complete the design of a new generation of tanks that can replace the Vulture as soon as possible. It is hoped that complete prototype testing and mass testing can be completed as soon as possible. The production test will be supplied to frontline troops in the coming year.

The new design will feature four-wheel drive, solid fuel gas injectors and a plated steel body shell, and will be driven by a powerful variable-fuel engine.

The idea of ​​new equipment is certainly beautiful, but Renault simply can't imagine that the Vulture Car, a perfect Tyranid human classic, will one day be eliminated. ——In the revolutionary army, the call for upgrading and transforming all kinds of equipment has never stopped, and most of the tax revenue of the revolutionary military government and the income from the mining areas are spent on this.

Weapons such as vulture vehicles, arc light tanks, and Goliath armed robots and ghost fighters will all have better and stronger alternatives. Now it seems that even handed down classics such as the APOD-33 transport ship are developing new ones. model.

The war has changed everything. To survive in this dark universe, humans must step up their efforts to upgrade their armaments to cope with more dangerous wars in the future.

"I can confirm that the main nest area of ​​the zerg is nearby. How many years have passed, they still haven't moved their nest. Even with my eyes closed, I can't go wrong." Renault looked in the direction of the main nest area.

There is a low-lying area with crisscrossed ravines, shaped like small puddles dotted in the muddy land after rain, except that it is filled with orange-red, flowing hot lava instead of gentle and soft water. Rolling smoke rose from the horizon, and the sky was filled with dense black spots, like swarms of mosquitoes that covered the sky in summer.

"Jim, the zerg in the main nest area have all heard the news, and they are heading towards the position of the new master." Charles Horner casually threw his vulture car aside.

"Because the people on earth plunged into the death zone." Renault quoted Marshal Augustus' words as he stepped onto the ramp at the entrance of the command center: "It's so brave. I thought there was no such person in the world except us. The one who planted it.”

"Technician, tell me, is our communication equipment still in a mess?" After walking into the control tower, he bumped into a group of technicians embedded in electric coils. Renault could understand their distress, because all the control panels had turned into a mess of snowflakes, and even the coffee kettle was sparking.

"Mr. General, I'm afraid we won't be able to repair these devices in a short time, unless we wait for those unheard-of strong interferences to disappear." A technical soldier wearing an orange flat cap said.

"Trouble will not disappear by itself when the time comes. Fortunately, we have just received a batch of protoss equipment." Renault waved.

Several Revolutionary Army soldiers walked in dragging a finely crafted rectangular box. Inside was a box full of crystal clear boxes. Each one was an equilateral vertical cone, with a golden metal shell inlaid with pearl-like inlays. blue crystal.

"These are the communication crystals of the protoss. Each one is very precious. In view of the past friendship, Tassadar, the high-ranking executive of the protoss, gave them to us."

"Wow - can we keep them forever?" The engineers' eyes immediately lit up, and one of the female Revolutionary Army engineers, who was wrapped in a bloated protective suit, asked Renault.

"If you borrow it, you will return it, but you can pick up my collection and study it, my dear." Reno was born as a farmer in Shiloh and had no airs about anyone. Of course, he has always been a person who is not afraid of authority.

"Earl, take your people and take action. When the protoss handed these devices to me, they said that the human engineers were fully capable of understanding how to use this 'simple' communication device, so they did not give me the use I requested. Instructions. - They don't have any." He shouted before leaving the command center:

"For God's sake, I just hope you're as smart as the Protoss thinks you are."

"It's a piece of cake." Earl is the right-hand man of Rory Swann, the chief engineer of the Revolutionary Army. He once served on the flagship Hyperion and is now the leader of the engineering team who can take charge of his own role.

"After this is done, I have to treat you to a drink." Renault rushed out of the command center again.

Now that the communications in the command center have been completely paralyzed, there is little point in staying here. Not only that, the strong electromagnetic pulse signal even destroyed the radar equipment of the revolutionary army. Now the landing troops of the Char Expeditionary Force returned to the era of primitive people.

"Where are Tassadar's troops? Where are the others?" Raynor shouted to Chief of Staff Charles, who was playing with a protoss crystal communicator, making gestures in his hand:

"He should have been standing by my side not long ago."

"Cowboy, Tassadar is not a good driver." Charles shrugged and said, "He has to command the protoss fleet."

"A protoss force is south of us. As far as I know, they are commanded by Archon Phoenix."

"James Renault, the people on earth are marching towards the main nest area of ​​the swarm. The swarm is completely angered. They have lost their master once, and they will definitely not make the same mistake again now." Before Renault finished speaking, Phoenix appeared beside him. .

Phoenix was seriously injured in the early stages of the Battle of Aiur, and now he returns to the battlefield as a Dragon Knight. Even with his tenacious will bound within the golden spider-shaped mecha, the great Phoenix still makes his enemies tremble.

"Their goal is to dominate - if the Terran Federation back then had such courage, those fringe worlds would have been saved." Renault lamented that after all, he is a man from the earth, and the federation's weaklings would not even dare to fight back when they encounter bugs.

"So, what's their confidence?" Charles opened his power armor helmet and looked at Phoenix. The air here is hot and hot, but still breathable.

"Even Tassadar's fleet cannot penetrate deep into the heart of the Zerg main hive. The blasting mosquitoes in the Bone Trench can destroy everything."

"It's still unknown." A holographic image was projected in the cockpit of the Phoenix Dragon Knight armor, showing the image captured by the Protoss detector.

In the screen, a large number of UED expeditionary fleets are fighting against the endless guards of the Zerg main nest. There were so many UED warships that they covered half of the sky, while the swarms of insects seemed to fill up everything else.

The city-sized battlecruisers in the sky used dense laser barrages to harvest the zerg that came within the range of fire, but that was just a drop in the bucket in wiping out the layer of mosquitoes outside the screen.

One after another, UED battlecruisers fell from the sky bathed in raging flames, creating huge and ugly red clouds on the ash-filled and volcanic land of Char.

Transport ships and shuttles rained down, and thousands of UED expeditionary soldiers were deployed on the surface of Char. What awaited them were countless grinning brutal zerg and flowing magma.

"The humans on Earth are deploying a psychic device, and it is speculated that it seems to be the same as the psychic disruptor you are using." Phoenix said:

"But their psychic disruptors are far inferior to yours. They cannot interfere with the ever-strengthening main hive mind, nor can they affect the spiritual connection between the brainworms and their group members, causing them to be in chaos."

In UED Expeditionary Force Lieutenant General Stukov's plan, the psionic disruptor was originally the key to their march into Char to control the Overlord. It is expected that the psychic disruptor will destroy the psychic link of the zerg and plunge the swarm into chaos. This will allow the UED troops to take advantage of the opportunity and inject a large amount of high-energy neurotoxin into the Overlord's body to control this terrifying monster.

This is the United Earth Council's Project Flag.

However, although the Federation was the first to discover the hive mind and use this feature to restrict the zerg, they initially ignored these incredibly powerful weapons, thus wasting a lot of precious time.

On the contrary, Augustus attached great importance to this technology from the Federation, and the revolutionary army's psychic technology was far ahead of the Federation in terms of application and upgrade.

Due to the "abuse" of psychic disruptors by the Revolutionary Army, the Federation's backward psychic disruptors have no effect at all, just like outdated antibiotics that are helpless against super bacteria.

The people on Earth have been monitoring the Koprulu Star Sector, but the psychic disruptor has always been a secret of the Federation, and they are even less able to understand the generation gap between the Revolutionary Army's psychic disruptor and the Federation.

"What version of their psychic disruptor is it?" Raynor asked Charles.

"According to my guess, their psychic disruptor should still be in the testing stage and has just passed the prototype weapon experiment stage. Lieutenant General Stukov of UED should have made a lot of modifications to it, but it still doesn't help." Charles replied.

"You can't blame us." Renault had nothing to say.

According to the original timeline, the psionic disruptor played a vital role when the UED expeditionary force invaded Char, but now it is just useless and useless.

In this timeline, not only have the protoss retained more strength, but many powerful cerebrates have also escaped disaster because they were unable to invade Sagulath, so they are also more powerful than the UED expeditionary force thought.

The UED expeditionary force originally took advantage of the opportunity when both the Protoss and the Zerg were harmed, but due to Augustus' interference, the difficulty of their original plan suddenly increased many times.

"It seems that if there are no other trump cards, it is only a matter of time before these earthlings are devoured by the zerg." Renault said while looking at Phoenix's holographic projection. He could almost imagine the commander of the UED expeditionary force, Gerald Dugar. The dark face after learning about this.

"Now it seems that since the UED expeditionary force has sent such a large fleet to Char, what can they do to defend the land they have occupied. As long as this news reaches Augustus, he will immediately start a war with the UED !”

"By the way, Phoenix, have you met Tosh, the Prince of Blades?" Raynor suddenly asked Phoenix: "Tosh promised to work with us to eliminate the Overlord and the Cerebrates, but I haven't seen him since he came here. .”

"Tosh, where are you? You're not even in Char!"

Ever since the Prince of Blades, Tosh, suddenly appeared in Sagurath and informed the protoss of the birth of the new Overlord, Tosh and his Behemoth disappeared without a trace.

"I have a hunch." Renault said, looking at the UED fleet that was fighting hard with Char, his brows furrowed.

"The next all-out war affecting the entire Koprulu sector is coming, and the protoss, humans, and zerg will all be beaten to death again."

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