The Eye of the Storm
Augustus stood on the empty bridge of the Giant- class corvette, with the gray-golden landscape of the Victor V visible through the porthole, a massive, relentless yellow-gray tornado almost completely filling his field of vision.
The leader of the Korhal Revolutionary Army surveyed the entire battlefield through several non-overlapping Holographic Projection screens, maintaining brief but continuous communication with the ground tank units and the troops about to land via command channels.
In this battle, the role of a commander in coordinating the overall situation and stabilizing morale far surpassed that of Augustus donned Power Armor and led his troops in a charge.
"This is Niccolo Mei, commander of the 1st Battalion, Sterling Armored Division. My tank is in Stormy Bay—four miles from the Confederacy military base—the gravity accelerator has significantly slowed our advance."
Of the seventeen Arclite Siege Tank that were transported to the ground by transport ships and were moving through the storm, four came from the armory of the Hyperion, nine were captured from the Terran Confederacy garrison stationed at Korhal IV, and the rest came from military supplies donated by Umojan.
The fast-moving storm weakened the transmission of radio signals, causing the signals transmitted back by the tank units to be interrupted at times.
However, this storm, which stretched for over ten miles, not only made the base at its center difficult to detect from the outside world, but also made the connection between the base and satellites and monitoring equipment outside the storm unstable. Augustus believed that this natural barrier, while acting as a protective umbrella, also blinded the garrison inside.
"This is Raynor. I'm in the aircraft dock of the frigate. The Little Devil transport ship is currently full of a platoon of the Revolutionary Army —it's so crowded here that even two larger transport ships couldn't fit them all," Raynor said on a channel.
"In a few days we will be able to sail the big ship," Augustus.
Where is Tychus?
"Oh... Tychus is on the transport ship. That bastard finally put on his Power Armor. If the rest of us were here, a squad of Heaven's Devils could raze this base to the ground," Raynor replied.
"And I will lead them again," Augustus.
Next, in the midst of several tens of minutes of intermittent overlapping and silence on the communication channel, Raynor piloted the Little Devil transport ship, loaded with warriors, to the eye of the storm.
Fifteen other modified reconnaissance boats, carrying over four hundred people, followed the leader, Little Devil. One of these reconnaissance boats carried Sarah Kerrigan and a full-strength anti -Psionics force, the Sterling Strikers, temporarily under her command, equipped with EMP electromagnetic missiles and Psionics- shielding interceptor nets.
These cutting-edge anti -Psionics technologies all originated from the Umojan people, and without a doubt, this is only the tip of the iceberg of Umojan technology.
The ships in this Revolutionary Army Fleets were painted in the same black and gray as the Heaven's Devils, and the hooded skull emblem on the bow had no connection to the Korhal Revolutionary Army. When the Confederacy first saw this cobbled-together Fleets, they would probably have just thought they were space pirates.
As Augustus stared intently at the eye of the storm on the screen and the images that were being transmitted back from above, the first Revolutionary Army tank drove out of the eye of the storm, and a complex of buildings consisting of low-rise gray alloy structures appeared before the tank crew.
Between the buildings and the storm was a dense network of barbed wire and shallow trenches. Near the buildings were several Bunker and anti-aircraft gun emplacements. Through the tank's internal 3D terrain imaging and thermal imaging system, the tank driver could see the Marines inside the buildings running as fast as they could towards their Bunker and shelters.
"We've arrived at Victor V Fujita Peak Military Base —Good heavens—this looks more like a research center than a military base." The signal improved noticeably by then, and Niccolo Mei's voice was clearer.
Just a few months ago, this native of Sterling was a maglev train driver. Influenced by his wife, who was deeply influenced by revolutionary ideas, this thirty-year-old Sterling man decided to fight for the new leader of Korhal and the bright future he promised.
Niccolo Mei immediately issued the order to attack. With a hissing sound from the hydraulic system, the AVV-5 Arclite Siege Tank's supports deployed from both sides, entering siege mode and launching long-range artillery fire from a mile away. The first salvo of 120mm impact cannon shells leveled two Bunker, and anti-aircraft guns and missile turrets standing in the distance collapsed with a deafening roar.
With the support of the support structure and the gravity accelerators added by Swann, these Arclite Siege Tank are transformed into fixed turrets with longer firing ranges. A fully manned Arclite Siege Tank division can destroy any enemy position and fortress in an instant.
After the second round of firing, the Revolutionary Army's Arclite Siege Tank retracted their supports and drove back into the Storm, following Augustus's orders.
Then the communication channel became noisy again. "Woksen's tanks can't move."
Keep driving forward and don't look back.
During the retreat, the tanks broke down one after another, their equipment completely paralyzed. Augustus knew what had happened—invisible Confederacy Ghost operative had caught up with them and used specially designed electromagnetic locking munitions to turn the tanks into immobile scrap metal.
Fortunately, the Ghost operative couldn't yet penetrate the Arclite Siege Tank's armor, but Augustus couldn't imagine how terrified the drivers must be. The tank was parked on the battlefield, and they were trapped in an immovable steel coffin, not knowing if they would die at any moment.
"Jim, prepare to land." Augustus, after receiving the tank unit's report, immediately issued another order, "Quickly finish the battle."
The waiting landing craft then began to dive down through the raging storm, a sharp whistling sound coming through the communication channels.
These reconnaissance boats, converted from civilian vessels, resembled falling leaves in the storm. Within minutes, three reconnaissance boats and transport ships lost contact with the Fleets's flagship. Augustus didn't know if they had been shot down or torn apart by the storm, but it at least meant the loss of dozens of brave Revolutionary Army soldiers.
The landing force's communication channels were in complete chaos, Augustus had no way of knowing what was happening below.
A group of complete strangers are fighting.
After waiting silently for more than ten minutes, Tychus brought good news. "We've taken over this godforsaken place, but it's full of valuable technological equipment, and some rare crystal mines that look worth a fortune—I'm telling you, we've struck it rich, but old Tychus will definitely get a share of it."
"Oh—guess what poor Jim discovered? Those scientists were studying a puddle of sticky, purple snot. Layers of protection, hundreds of sophisticated instruments, all for studying snot. I thought they were researching alchemy."
"Say it again! What have you found?" Augustus's voice was noticeably louder.
"Poor Jim and disgusting purple snot, oh my god, that snot can even move," Tychus replied.
"This is absolutely disgusting."
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