StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 96 The Phoenix Project

"There are 210 four servants and one hundred and fifty-six security personnel in White Castle, shadow guards, I need you to find out which of them are loyal to the Mengsk family."

It was seven o'clock in the evening on Christmas Eve, and Augustus put on his ordinary clothes and took the shadow guard Marcus and Umoyan ambassador Ayrin Pasteur to the banquet hall of the family villa.

They walked in the vaulted corridor with carved guardrails on the outside.In the center of the hall below the guardrail is a giant Christmas tree decorated with gifts. This giant fir originates from the edge planet Blasis.

"That's hard to say. Some people may just want to beg for food, not necessarily loyal." Ayrin said.

"Besides the loyal ones, that's the disloyal ones that need to be weeded out immediately," Augustus said. Down."

"How are you going to deal with the traitor?" Ayrin asked.

"Interrogate, and throw into the sea," said Augustus.

"You are so merciful." Shadow Guard Marcus is a taciturn person most of the time, and he only occasionally gives his sharp evaluation on certain things.

"Start cleaning the internal personnel now?" Ayrin asked.

"The sooner the better." Augustus walked down a section of peach-wood stairs and asked the shadow guard, "How long will this take? Do you want me to gather everyone together?"

"Don't be so troublesome." The shadow guard, who was only wearing combat uniform, blended into the surrounding environment after a burst of light and shadow distortion: "I will give you a list later. By the way, I will test the Defense level."

"I don't bother with the people who are laughing, it's a beautiful night. I can see the souls that are laughing."

"Marcus is always gentle and poetic." Ayrin said to Augustus: "In the words of the old people, he is a Umoyan troubadour."

"I'm going to prepare a Christmas present for him." Augustus shrugged. "I'm a little surprised. Marcus doesn't seem to have a helmet, so how is his head invisible?"

"Umoyan's refracting stealth combat suit can create an invisible force field that can cover the head. Our spiritual warriors are more able to fight with the help of technology, rather than relying on spiritual power and body." Ayrin explained : "At the same time, we must also use some devices to suppress their spiritual energy to reduce the possibility of losing control."

"Many people think that psykers are born super fighters. Psykers above the eighth level can already easily mash the brain tissue of an ordinary person or crush the enemy's body from a distance of tens of yards by virtue of their telekinesis. The grenades hanging from the waists of soldiers on the other side,” he said.

"But the more powerful the psyker, the heavier the psychological pressure that we can't experience. It is said that every time a psyker kills a person, part of the memory and thoughts of the other person will be imprinted in his mind Here, unless these memories are washed out every once in a while, they will quickly collapse."

"They should not be murderers," said Augustus.

"Psykers are born extraordinary. They either become the subjects of scientists' experiments, or become worshiped gods or saints on an ignorant and backward planet." Ayrin shook his head: "They were born with You can’t be the person you want to be if you’re different.”

"Spiritual power is innate. Whether this is a gift or a curse of fate, I can still say clearly."

"Psykers should be protected by the government. They will be guardians of order rather than killers used by rulers to eliminate dissidents." Augustus said.

"Be careful, young Mengsk." Ayrin said: "If the psykers are left alone, they will inevitably become a new ruling class in the distant future. The power possessed by the psykers comes from innate talent, but it is different from his The mind has absolutely nothing to do with good or evil."

"A powerful psychic can even control the minds of others, and those with ulterior motives will use this to establish cults and shape evil gods. Rulers need to be wary of such characters and desire to obtain this terrible power." He said.

"This is one of the reasons why the federal government trains psykers to become ghost agents. Controlling psykers and training them as weapons is better than letting them become unstable factors."

"Our outstanding agents who worked in Tarsonis in the early years investigated their ghost academy. The first batch of psykers who entered the ghost academy became experimental products. They were locked in electrified cages like beasts, reduced to lunatics or It's psycho, and those who survived became the original Ghost agents."

"But the fate of Umoyan psykers is completely different. Psykers are neither superhumans nor gods. They also have their own emotions and pursuits. In other words, even the most ruthless federal psykers may still I think about saving others."

"Maybe we can instigate some federal ghost agents?" Augustus said so, and had already walked down the stairs into the hall with a huge Christmas tree.

"Unless we raid the ghost academy in Tarsonis, we won't even see the federal ghost agents." Ayrin's cold joke is hard to make people laugh: "But you know it's death."

"You seem sure that there will be psychic agents to assassinate Angus, but why would they do it? Killing him will only make the people of Korhal even more angry."

"Because the Federal Parliament and the founding family behind them have become accustomed to ruling their people with cruelty, the high-ranking nobles believe that as long as they kill the leader of the rebels, all budding rebellions can be wiped out. If the mob loses their leader, then It's just a bunch of loose sand." Augustus walked past a laughing maid and walked towards his family.

"How arrogant." Ayrin chuckled.

Augustus' father, Angus, finally put down his work and stayed with his family to prepare for Christmas.

These days, Angus and Augustus have chatted many times, sometimes late into the night.Since then, Augustus has learned what his father really thinks.

As early as 20 years ago, the revolutionaries under Angus began to operate on various planets in the star sector.From this, he learned that on many main star worlds and marginal planets, there are hundreds of millions of people who are dissatisfied with the high-handed rule of the federal government.

During the trade union wars, this dissatisfaction grew into resentment and hatred, and rebellions continued.By this year, no matter how much the federal government uses UNN and other news media to whitewash the peace, it cannot conceal the fact that there are rebellions everywhere.

The colonies of the Tyrannian Federation are much larger than those of the Kelmorian Federation and Umoyan, and the increasingly corrupt government can only use high-handed policies to maintain its rule.The powerful Tyrannian Federation seems extremely powerful, but in fact there are many internal contradictions.

Angus believes that the Tyranid Federation has expanded too fast, like a high-pressure furnace that explodes at the touch of a button or a tall tower piled up with playing cards, as long as a few rows are drawn at the right place, then the A tower would soon collapse.

On the surface, the victory of the trade union war will undoubtedly further expand the territory of the Federation, but the Kemerians' planet will only make the Federation's unity more unstable.But in just a few more years, the federation will drive all the Kemerians above back to Moria and stabilize their rule.And at the point in time when the war had just ended, it was precisely when the federal government was at its weakest.

Therefore, Angus believed that this was the best time to launch a revolution. Once Keha declared independence first, those already dissatisfied planets would break out of rebellion under the instigation of the revolutionary party, and finally the revolutionary upsurge would sweep the entire Tyrannian Federation.

But after the Tyrann Federation stabilized their rule on Kelmorian and completely annexed the mining guild of the Federation, the Federation would become an even more terrifying behemoth.

Angus didn't want to wait any longer, he was aging.And its influence in Keha is at its greatest in the past ten years, so he believes that now is the best time to declare independence.When the federal government can free up its hands to suppress Keha's revolutionary party and station more troops, this planet will never turn around.

Mengsk Sr. felt his body was aging, and neither of his sons wanted to succeed him.Angus didn't know how long he could live. Just like Augustus worried, his enemies had hired professional killers and ex-soldiers to assassinate him more than a dozen times. He didn't know which day he would die in the future.

A family at odds with the class that gave it wealth and power was bound to be ostracized. The federal government only had to dismiss Senator Keha, and Angus would lose power.Maybe five or ten years later, the Mengsk family has already disappeared.

He also knows that revolutions have always required countless blood and sacrifices.But if there is no one who dares to stand up for the revolution, the people of the entire Koprulu sector will live in the shadow of the Tyranid Federation forever.

Angus believes that the revolution will not last long. As long as the entire star region knows that a planet has broken away from the Federation and become independent, other planets will follow suit, and the entire Tyrannian Federation will fall into chaos.At that time, Kel-Morian will inevitably tear up the peace treaty in order to regain the lost territory, and Umoyan has already stood on Korhal's side.

Augustus knew that the actual situation was no different from what Angus said. The uprisings on the various planets of the Federation had not stopped after Korhal became independent, and the rebellion made the government army exhausted.

But Angus didn't have a chance to realize his plan. According to the original story line, after Angus declared Kehal's independence in 2489, his fanatical supporters and troops swept Kehal.But only two weeks later, the ghost agents of the Tyrannian Federation brutally beheaded Angus.

After that, the Federation thought that Keha's rebellion would disappear with the death of the leader, so it was not in a hurry to recover the planet.However, the revolutionaries in Korhal regrouped under the leadership of Arcturus, the son of Angus, and it was not until nearly a year later, in 2491, that the Commonwealth Council ordered the use of nuclear bombs to destroy Korha.

Although Augustus agreed with some of his father's views, he did not think that Keha IV could survive the federal army's offensive for three months.

Augustus used a star map indicating population, garrison numbers, and fleet numbers to prove to Angus that it was extremely difficult for Keha to win even in terms of military strength, and the quality of their army was also difficult to win. The elite troops of the Federation.

Building a loyal revolutionary army is just a transition, Keha must have a fleet of his own.

In Augustus' plan, the Keha War of Independence was roughly divided into three steps.The first step is to capture Korhal IV and immediately declare that the planet has entered a state of war and a wartime supply system, using the powerful manufacturing capabilities of this industrial planet to provide supplies and weapons for the war.

At this time, Augustus already had some small fleets transformed into assault ships, light cruisers and even self-destruct airships in his hands, and Umoyan would also assist some warships.

In the second step, after declaring independence, Augustus will personally lead this patchwork fleet to raid the Delarian and Bennett shipyards of the Tyrannian Federation and seize the battlecruisers inside.

In the meantime, Korhal IV would become a decoy, a sacrificial victim, to attract the attention of the Federation fleet.

Keha IV wants to build an orbital defense platform in the shortest possible time, and build city-like air defense missile tower positions and missile interception arrays on the backs of the two moons to delay the attack of the enemy fleet.The Keha Revolutionary Army must build solid fortresses and defensive positions on the ground, turning Keha into a fortress planet, a cruel meat grinder to consume the Federation's landing forces, in order to be able to defend Keha.

In the third step, Augustus' fleet will go straight to Tarsonis, forcing the enemy fleet to return to aid.Then, the Keha Revolutionary Army will abandon the devastated Keha, and the remaining Keha people will be gradually sent in batches to Umoyan or to establish colonies in areas far outside the federal government's control area.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the Federation does not have a nuclear pink ha.Augustus only vaguely mentioned this possibility to Angus, and tried to convince his father through rigorous logical analysis.

Augustus knew that the use of nuclear bombs to destroy a planet with a population of tens of millions must not be a decision made by the fleet commander alone, and must be the result of a vote by the Federation Parliament.

Therefore, while launching the war, he must use political and public opinion propaganda methods to force the parliament to fail to pass this resolution or revoke this order.

In doing so, he must control everyone who is eligible to vote.This is almost impossible to do, as every founding family of Tarsonis has one vote, except for members of the council, and the oldest families like Tagore have even more votes.

But Augustus swore he would stop at nothing.

After fully considering the cruelty of the federal government, Angus agreed to the plan named the Phoenix Project by Augustus two days later.This plan is still quite rough, and the latter is also spending a lot of time perfecting or making additions and deletions.

The implementation of this plan means that millions of people or even more people will probably die in Keha IV, and the beautiful homeland will also be destroyed by the flames of war.

At this time, old Mengsk standing beside his wife and daughter was looking at Augustus. His long dark hair was tied into a ponytail that fell to his shoulders, and the bushy eyebrows on his cold gray eyes were relaxed and stretched.Angus Mengsk, with his gritty countenance and good looks, is pretty much what Augustus would look like in the future.

Seeing that Lisa, the Demon of Heaven, and others were also in this wide hall, Augustus remembered that he would return to the barracks in a few days.

He couldn't help but think how many heavenly demons would continue to follow him after he retired...

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