too late, organism

Before the Sedaric Progressive Party came to power, the Holy Roman Empire and the Sedaric Federation were good-neighborly and friendly. The location of these factories was a compulsory subject in Sedaric's compulsory education. Industrial astronomy was worth at least [-] points. Big question.

Appears in every teaching material of the Sedarik Federation, as well as civilian star maps.

So when the fleet of the Holy Roman Empire crossed the border, it went straight to the former industrial center of the Sedaric Federation, contributing 30.00% of the naval tonnage of the Sedarik Federation to the North Gate Theta galaxy.

Did not expect the Holy Roman Empire to launch an attack so soon, or the XT-489 Extermination Array that the Holy Roman Empire would launch an attack, until the Holy Roman Empire's fleet advanced to only two jumps away from the North Gate Theta galaxy and encountered XT -The interception fleet sent by the 489 Extinction Array.

Chapter 155 145 Sailing Master Mengsk

"Jim, have you ever seen such a thing?"

Sitting on the command seat of the Tech Priest-class heavy cruiser [Seeker], Mengsk looked at the XT-489 Extinction Array Titan captured in the optical viewfinder, and the fleet assigned to that Titan.

Although that Titan looks mighty and majestic, its tonnage alone can hold up to several pocket battleships.

It’s just that these war machines, which are supposed to display the highest engineering technology of their civilization, now look like the product of a simple assembly of a crappy new rubber guy. Even the bow of the ship is only painted with a gray one standing on the gear. Single-headed eagles without their hull numbers.

Judging from the engineering robots on the shell of the behemoth and its fleet, which arrived at the shell of the ship immediately after the hyperspace voyage, and began to continue their unfinished shipbuilding work.

The fleet appears to have been forcibly driven out of the dock before construction was complete, ready for combat duty.

"I've never seen anything like this...they look so..."

"Rough?"

Mengsk twisted his body, trying to find a more comfortable position on the command seat.

Since the most cutting-edge Thunder Warrior-class pocket battleship of the Holy Roman Empire can only carry those refined toasters as crew members, in order to accommodate those Romans who have only received prosthetic transformation into the command system, as a technology priest-class heavy cruiser Based on the War Nun class, the communication and reconnaissance system has been specially strengthened.

And it is a little bigger than the war nun class to accommodate these specially enhanced systems, but all these improvements do not involve what Mengsk, the governor of the empire, needs most.

Comfortable cushions, a wine cabinet stocked with good wine, an ashtray on the armrest of the conductor's seat and a good cigar lit.

Mengsk, who was urgently recruited to the Seeker, as the second commander of the Imperial Navy, did not have time to bring his collection to the mainland of the Empire.

He only had time to bring half a box of cigars, and during the time he was working out the battle plan with those imperial staff officers, most of the half box of cigars had been turned into ashes and sprinkled in the war room of the Imperial General Staff.

He put the last remaining cigar in his breast pocket and took it out to smell it from time to time.

"Rough? I meant to say huge, but it's true...they're rough..."

Looking at Jim Raynor, who was wearing the uniform of the Holy Roman Empire colonel in the communication projection, with a serious expression, Mengsk habitually took out a cigar from his pocket and wanted to light it, but in the end he only put it under his nose and sniffed it.

"Show time, Colonel Jim, give that rebel a taste of Copleur."

"As you order, Your Excellency the Governor."

Jim Raynor cuts off the communication after saluting Mengsk.

After the communication was cut off, the fleet that assembled all the warships of the Holy Roman Empire was divided into two teams.

Jim Raynor led the [Alaska] task force consisting of Assassin-class cruisers and those strategic cruisers that were not dismantled into the shipbreaking yard because they were in good condition, activated the curvature engine and began to jump to the North Gate Theta galaxy.

The main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire, still led by Mengsk, let those warships equipped with kinetic energy artillery conduct two rounds of blind fire in the direction of the XT-489 Extinction Array Fleet. Before the fleet entered the range, it led the fleet and began to retreat slowly.

As long as the hit rate is not considered, the range of kinetic energy weapons in space is almost unlimited. As long as you are lucky, there will always be a shell that hits a guy who doesn't have long eyes.

And Mengsk, who held almost all the trump cards of the Holy Roman Empire, did not have the slightest plan to conduct an encounter in this galaxy that would determine the future of the Holy Roman Empire.

When the fleet retreated to the edge of the galaxy, where hyperspace travel could be performed, Mengsk activated the communicator again.

"The next target, Long Causeway Ω."

After speaking, Mengsk jumped into the hyperspace channel with the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire.

As the former commander-in-chief of the "guerrilla", Mengsk would never engage in a decisive battle at the place chosen by the enemy. This fleet of XT-489 Extinction Array turns first.

And while he is walking with the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array, the task force led by Jim Lei Luo, equipped with the curvature engine code-named [Alaska], will easily and happily start their great cause of demolition .

If the fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array turns back to deal with the Alaska contingent, then the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire led by Mengsk will conduct a round of actual combat tests to see if the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire can survive a few rounds of bombardment. Inside, a large shipyard was completely destroyed.

After destroying the naval shipbuilding capabilities of the XT-489 Extinction Array, Mengsk will lead the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire to a decisive battle with the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array.

At that time, the victory or defeat of naval battles or the exchange ratio of naval tonnage were not so important.

Even if the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire played their long-standing tradition in the fleet decisive battle, they lost more than half of their tonnage in naval battles.

The remaining half of the fleet can also cover the mobilizing Zenor Expeditionary Force, land on those colonial planets that once belonged to the Sedarik Federation, and plant the golden double-headed eagle flag on those colonial planets.

Sitting on the command seat, Mengsk sniffed the cigar in his hand, looking forward to the next reaction of the XT-489 Extermination Array.

At the same time that the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire led by Mengsk began to perform hyperspace navigation.

In a former Sedaric orbital facility disguised as an asteroid, next to the corpses of Sedaric engineers and Secret Service commandos, the [Supreme Commander] flashing green is calculating the Holy Roman Empire. next action plan.

As an "orthodox Roman" Nero or the XT-489 extermination array, when lurking and infiltrating into the Sedaric Federation, when confronting the Sedaric military firewall and the underlying security protocol of the Titans, during that period There was a slight deviation in the propagation of the assimilation code.

Especially after this code was disseminated to the [Supreme Commander] server through the fleet command chain, and with enough computing power, this infiltrator who originally belonged to the Holy Roman Empire completed the conversion from a loyal The transformation of the Infiltrator into Nero.

As an infiltrator who was just a newborn and lost some data, Nero did not have combat data about the Holy Roman Empire Navy, so in the calculation it could only bring in the combat data of the Human Federation for calculation. There was a burst of green light flashing.

[The war agreement is activated, and the war assets are activated. 】

Chapter 156 146 Stealing a house is a Roman tradition

"Destroy this place! I will plant thorns on their land and sprinkle salt!"

Looking at the shipyard and industrial space station in front of him, Mengsk gave his order in an aria-like tone.

[Commander, we did not carry thorn seeds and enough sodium chloride reserves...]

"It's a metaphor! A metaphor! You bloody metal head! Just destroy these space facilities."

Mengsk slapped his armrest angrily.

After being forced to quit smoking and drinking, Mengsk's mental state has been in a relatively excited state.

In order to prevent this state of excitement from having an irreversible impact on the battle situation, the Mengsk-specific "munitions" collected by the Cat Car in Koprulu are being transported from the Koprulu sector to the Seeker cruiser by a high-speed shuttle.

Before the arrival of the high-speed shuttle loaded with [-] tons of various hobbies, Mengsk could only use his courage and perseverance to endure this difficult time.

But at least when watching the main naval fleet of the Holy Roman Empire start shelling, and the space production facilities of the XT-489 Extinction Array turned into fireworks in the shelling, Mengsk's mood began to improve, and he even wanted to stand up a little Sing.

Although it can't keep up with the Beimen θ Galaxy, which is an important shipbuilding center, the Long Beach Ω Galaxy, which is an important alloy smelting center in the layout of the Sedarik Federation's industrial system, does not produce warships.

However, it provided the Holy Roman Empire with more than [-]% of special alloys. Among them, an important resource needed to build Titans, a special alloy capable of self-healing is only available in this galaxy in the entire Sedarik Federation. Produced.

If the shipbuilding capability of the XT-489 Extinction Array cannot be directly destroyed, the goal of suppressing the shipbuilding capability of the XT-489 Extinction Array can also be achieved by destroying the supporting industrial sectors.

When the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire destroyed most of the space facilities in the Long Beach Ω galaxy and began to bombard the giant metallurgical factory, a hyperspace navigation signal appeared on the edge of the galaxy.

"Two rounds of shelling, then evacuation, we go to the next location."

Seeing that the structure of the large metallurgical factory seen in the optical viewfinder had begun to burn and distort, Mengsk decided to continue playing the hit-and-run game with the XT-489 Extinction Array.

[Sir, the jump signal does not match the number observed in the Beimen θ galaxy last time, and thirty targets are missing. 】

"Cut down a round of bombardment and go to the edge of the galaxy where hyperspace travel can be performed first. Let's see what these rebels are thinking."

After another round of shelling, although the huge space facility was not completely destroyed, but a large number of structures were burned and distorted, the time spent on repairing this space facility is no different from rebuilding a large space building like this .

Just after the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire retreated to the edge of the galaxy, the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array headed by Titans appeared in this galaxy.

Just like the cops who always come late after they are done in a gangster movie, when the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array arrived in this galaxy, most of the production facilities here had become urgent repairs. of scrap iron.

[Sir, based on preliminary judgment, the rebellious fleet lacks warships including fifteen cruisers and fifteen destroyers, and the statistics may be biased. 】

"Damn it! Inform the mainland that we may be in trouble, and ask Cadia Fortress to be alert. Tell Jim Raynor, he'd better move faster."

Mengsk took a strong sniff of the cigar under his nose, looked at the XT-489 Extinction Array star map projected in the command room, and reached out his hand to click on the star map.

"The next goal, this time we have to move faster."

Just when Mengsk led the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire and continued to implement the hit-and-run strategy.

A fleet painted with the emblem of a gray single-headed eagle holding a gear appeared in the territory of the Republic of Zinor.

After the invasion of the Great Khan, the naval outposts deployed by the Zenor Republic in every galaxy in the territory immediately sent the news of the invasion of the rebel robot fleet to the already assembled, ready to escort the assembled Zenor army to destroy the rebel robots The Zenor Naval Fleet.

So the naval forces of the Republic of Zenoer, which had already been ready for battle, dispatched the fleet of the Republic that had already been assembled, preparing to annihilate or expel the fleet to which the rebel robot belonged.

Although after the war with the Great Khan, the Republic of Zenor carried out a round of large-scale disarmament, but just like their good neighbor, the Holy Roman Empire, the army will always suffer from the knife, and the military expenditure of the navy will never be reduced. .

Especially after the defeat of the naval battle in the last war caused all the colonial planets to fall into a bitter battle, even if Ten changed the focus of the country from war to economic construction.

The Republic of Zenor not only expanded the size of its naval fleet to a medium-sized fleet consisting of twenty cruisers and forty destroyers.

At the same time, with the generous "technical support" of the Holy Roman Empire, the construction of two Zenor-class battleships was completed.

However, due to some "technical bottlenecks", these two Zenoer-class battleships are not equipped with large-caliber shaft guns that the Holy Roman Empire would have to install even if the system was overloaded, but equipped with a large number of kinetic energy and A laser mash-up of heavy artillery.

Although the combat performance of these two Zenore-class battleships is much worse than the standard battleships of the Sedarik Federation or the Human Federation, at least when facing the squadron of the XT-489 Extinction Array, the two The four battleships gave the Republic of Zenor's naval fleet some advantages.

However, in the battles in the Republic of Zinol, the XT-489 Extinction Array, which was driven out of the dock before completion, still showed combat performance that far exceeded that of the naval warships of the Zinol Republic.

Even if the Zinor Republic has two advantages in total fleet tonnage and warship tonnage, it cannot completely wipe out the technical advantages inherited from the Sedarik Federation by the XT-489 Extinction Array.

In this encounter, the Republic of Zenor got an ugly trade-off, especially since the squadrons of the XT-489 Extermination Array were behaving like the Holy Roman Empire fleet had gone mad.

Never retreat, keep fighting as long as the artillery is still working, if the artillery fails, turn on the propeller power to the maximum, and use yourself as a torpedo to hit the nearest enemy ship.

The consequence of this violent fighting method is that although the Republic of Zenor won the naval battle, the rebuilt naval fleet once again lost its combat effectiveness.

Chapter 158 147 All Tactic Switchers

Mengsk knew when the fleet of the Republic of Zenor lost its combat capability again and became an existing fleet.

He is leading the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire, like a bosozoku, driving the sub-light speed engine to the maximum, and rushing towards the other side of the galaxy.

During the period, when passing the space production facility of the XT-489 Extinction Array, no matter what the facility is, all the ships of the entire fleet will start firing at the unlucky facility until they are out of range or new targets appear in front of them in range.

The main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array has chased them across two galaxies. As time goes by, the XT-489 Extinction Array is gradually shortening the distance from the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire with better engine technology.

In order not to be overtaken by the fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array, the forced demolition method of the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire has been arranged from the beginning to destroy the space facilities of the XT-489 Extinction Array with a neat salvo.

In the process of running, it has become a state where it can be dismantled as much as it is convenient, and it is enough to be paralyzed anyway.

[The enemy fleet has entered the galaxy. 】

"The speed of these rebellions is faster than last time, and they leave this galaxy at a faster speed, and it is not yet time for a decisive battle."

On the command seat, Mengsk, whose face was full of unhappiness, put the cigar he was holding under his nose with his right hand and sucked it vigorously.

Three days ago, along with the news that Jim Raynor had successfully destroyed the huge shipyard in the North Gate Theta galaxy, it was the high-speed shuttle that was urgently sent by Catcar from Kopruu to transport Mengsk’s special “munitions” that unfortunately encountered Arrived at the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array, and failed to escape.

Now those expensive indulgences have become fragments floating in space with metal fragments.

Perhaps it had something to do with the XT-489 Extinction Array destroying the high-speed shuttle transporting the drug, and Mengsk ordered Jim Raynor and his Alaskan contingent to continue their previous mission.

Go beyond the interstellar fortresses with hyperspace disruptors, and attack the star systems with shipbuilding capabilities in the XT-489 Extermination Array.

And Mengsk continued to walk through space with the capital fleet of the XT-489 Extermination Array.

[Commander, no auxiliary ships below the battleship level have been found. 】

"what?"

Mengsk magnified the image detected by the optical detector, and the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array that followed him all the time. Among the fleets in this galaxy, only those large warships with an axis length of at least [-] kilometers were present.

And those light warships that undertake various tasks other than bombarding the opponent's fleet did not appear in this galaxy together with those large warships.

Mengsk thought for 0.1 second with his brain that was implanted with electronically enhanced organs, which was much stronger than the original one before.

Combined with the fact that the fleet of the Republic of Zenoer lost most of its tonnage after encountering the squadron of the XT-489 Extinction Array, Mengsk came to the conclusion that the disappeared light warships were probably heading straight for the mainland of the Empire at this moment.

But it's just some light warships, and it shouldn't be able to deal with the strengthened Cadia Fortress.

So after sending a message to the mainland of the empire warning that the Cadia fortress might be attacked in the near future, Mengsk took the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire to the next galaxy again.

Although the main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array currently lacks a large number of light warships, in Mengsk's view, it is not yet time for a decisive battle with the XT-489 Extinction Array fleet.

Therefore, Mengsk decided to continue to maintain his established strategy, and after destroying the shipbuilding capability of the XT-489 Extinction Array together with the Alaskan Task Force, he will conduct a decisive fleet battle.

It's just that there was a slight deviation in Mengsk's plan, after Mengsk commanded the Holy Roman Empire fleet to quickly destroy the production facilities of the XT-489 Extinction Array in two galaxies.

The main fleet of the XT-489 Extinction Array, which was originally like a mule running wildly after a carrot mounted on its forehead, no longer appeared behind the main fleet of the Holy Roman Empire.