What is the Koprulu's Number One Big Brother!
The residents on Victor V were still enduring the harsh and extreme weather. They hid in solid concrete buildings deep underground when the sandstorm came, completely unaware that a fleet of three frigates and small airships were taking off amid the brilliant flames ejected by plasma thrusters.
When Fleets entered the hyperspace channel under the tug of the flagship, Victor V was just hiding in their safe home, looking forward to the early arrival of the spacecraft carrying scarce daily necessities to the colony.
The hard and poor life had worn away the colonial people's yearning for a better life. Their crude observation instruments and gray eyes were simply unable to see the hundreds of billions of stars in the sky through the gray storm.
This pieced together Fleets only had forty-nine ships left when it jumped into the hyperspace channel, and all the ships were filled with loot and people.
Korhal Revolutionary Army The first Fleets jumped to a star system marked only with a series of numbers on the star map four days later. The sun of this star system is dying, and the light and heat it releases are gradually weakening. But in the next hundreds of millions of years, its light can still illuminate the entire galaxy.
Fleets is parked in the orbit of an Earth-like planet with a highly toxic atmosphere in this galaxy. Several transport ships left Fleets and landed on its only satellite, which is rich in high-energy gas deposits.
Then the workers of the Revolutionary Army drove the space engineering construction vehicle out of the cargo hold of the spacecraft, and built a high-energy gas refinery on the lunar planet where giant craters and mountains were left behind by the meteorite impact to provide necessary fuel for Fleets.
Augustus chose to stay briefly in this galaxy to wait for reinforcements Fleets from Korhal. In Umojan, a team of Behemoth-class Battlecruiser Hyperion, six Sarenge-class-cruisers and Fleets composed of more than 10,000 Umojan Volunteer Army who had just left their hometown have set off.
Unlike Korhal, which is a temporarily modified civilian ship, Umojan and Fleets are genuine warships.
According to the guarantee given by Umojan Protectorate before departure, this force will join Fleets of Augustus in the second sector in May.
On the first day when Augustus was waiting to support the arrival of Fleets, a spacecraft carrying several specimens of Zerg and a live larva flew to the other end of Koprulu Sector.
At this moment, on a galaxy in the territory of Terran Confederacy that is a transportation hub for interstellar routes, a technology company named Cerberus Engineering is worrying about the large-scale withdrawal of capital by its main investors.
Cerberus Engineering's shareholders are hesitating whether to continue researching cows and other biotechnologies or turn to the increasingly popular fields of prosthetics and body modification.
Maybe the rich people of Terran Confederacy will need a modified human army. These modified soldiers have received varying degrees of mechanical prosthetic modifications. In terms of physical fitness, strength and offensive methods, the modified soldiers will far exceed ordinary people.
However, this technology company that is eager to get out of trouble has repeatedly hit the wall with the Confederacy government. The reason is not that the corrupt and short-sighted officials are neither willing to invest nor optimistic about the prospects of this field, but that they believe that it will cost too much on a soldier. In comparison, Resocialized Soldier is perfect enough.
Augustus doesn't know that Cerberus Engineering is impatiently waiting for a new sponsor to take over, and whoever is willing to pay will be their father.
On the third day, a "messenger" beacon that could travel between galaxies with the ability to travel beyond time and space was captured by Augustus's men while flying over the galaxy.
This beacon is only a little larger than the smallest Galaxy Jumper. From the outside, it looks like a football made of titanium alloy. This beacon, which runs on an intelligent program, drifts in the infinite universe like a drifting bottle, carrying the letters that countless people miss forever.
Usually it will only stop briefly on a colonial planet. After being repaired by the operating company, it will take off with more letters and images.
A beacon may store millions of ordinary letters inside, or it may just store an image. The only difference lies in whether the person using it is willing to buy it permanently at a very high price.
When the beacon unfolded its bracket on the lower deck of the frigate and immediately started playing the video, Augustus finally smiled.
It started out as a text message: My dear Augustus, my brother. It has been five months since we last met. It seems to be forever in my memory.
Next is the video of Arcturus·Mengsk. This video was recorded two months ago, and Augustus also believes that this beacon has been wandering for the same length of time before it was found here based on the positioning device on its body.
Arcturus·Mengsk in front of the camera is wearing a dark brown thick cotton textile jacket and a yellow, eye-catching safety helmet on his head. Although there are some oil stains and wet mud on his clothes that are difficult to wash, Arcturus's calm expression still makes it difficult for people to associate him with a miner rather than a nobleman.
Arcturus will remain calm at all times. If he is facing other people, he will definitely find a clean formal suit and ensure that he is in the best condition, showing the appearance and attitude he wants to show to others.
But when talking to Augustus, Arcturus seemed much more casual and relaxed. Arcturus's love for his family exceeds his hatred for everything else.
"I just received news from my mother." Arcturus's gray eyes looked in other directions at this time, and he didn't know whether he didn't want to face the news or his brother.
"My mother said I had a son. I thought she was joking, but it turned out that I laughed too early and too inappropriately." He showed an indescribable expression. "I haven't seen her angry for a long time, like a lion roaring in my ears."
"Even Angus used his mother to show off his power in front of me. I swear I have never been so embarrassed in my life."
It seems that Augustus's brother did not feel the slightest joy about this incident, because he acted like he had eaten a plate of dead flies.
"We all thought there would be no problem. Juliana should take birth control pills, unless she wants to get pregnant out of wedlock. I think my responsibility in this matter should not be greater than Juliana's!" Arcturus showed his true nature as a scumbag that surprised Augustus.
"Later, I thought about this issue carefully." Arcturus said painfully, "Although I never shouldered the responsibility of a father in the seven years when that child grew up, I should try to be a father. After all, he is my Heir."
"This is a difficult decision for me. I have never wanted to start a family, let alone be bound by a family."
"Fuck, especially since I almost forgot about that night. But is this my fault? Why didn't Juliana contact me? I. We had a child, and if he had been born, then I would not have let her abort the child," he continued.
"I will go to Umojan. If Valerian is like you when you were a child, then I might be able to find some good ways to get along with him."
Arcturus was obviously too troubled by this information, so he acted full of complaints, but he quickly put the matter behind him. "I won't mention this annoying matter, I want to talk to you about the bad news."
"At the beginning, I hired a few skilled workers and took my original subordinates to Edge World to explore the mineral deposits. Because I dared to go where others did not dare to go and do things that others did not dare to do, plus some professional analysis and good luck, I discovered a smaller high-purity crystal mine. The value of this mine was enough to repay the debt I had owed before."
"Later I discovered a larger crystal mine, which was enough to make me a rich man." Arcturus said, "But because of the harassment from Kel-Morian people, I had to sell this mine and go to a more distant galaxy. This is why you couldn't contact me at all in the beginning."
"According to an old detection report, I traveled to a distant world called Pike's Peak. After months of futile detection, my persistence was finally rewarded - there is so much wealth that even our descendants can't spend it all. The minerals discovered alone are enough to buy half of Sterling, and I suspect that the entire planet is filled with sparkling crystal mines."
"Kel-Morian and Terran Confederacy will devote themselves to legion-level troops for Pike's Peak. This will even become the trigger for the second Total War. This joy has diluted the shock and confusion I felt when I learned that I had a son."
Augustus was sincerely happy for his brother, because his next sentence made him overjoyed. "Augustus, I want to tell you some good news. I think that based on your initial sponsorship of me, you should get two-fifths of this mine."
"Lao Meng, my dear brother!" Augustus maintained his original expression and looked around on the lower deck to see that no one was around. Finally he couldn't stand it any longer, so he broke out in his hometown dialect that he had not used for a long time.
"I think you should be able to use these." At this time, Arcturus's expression became serious. Korhal had not rebelled more than two months ago, but he was wise enough to understand that it was only a matter of time.
"Augustus, my beloved brother. As long as my team is still exploring new mineral deposits, there will be two-fifths of yours in them. And if I die during the exploration, then leave my share to my mother and Dorothy." When Arcturus said these words with great affection, he forgot that he seemed to have a son.
But it doesn't matter, Valerian and his father are, after all, examples of a loving father and a filial son.
Augustus also didn't think about his poor nephew. He was already thinking about how to spend the money. First, Augustus wanted to build new battleships, recruit more manpower, and bring high-potential technology companies such as Cerberus Engineering under his control.
On May 7, a force composed of six Giant-class frigates and more than two hundred transport ships and airships from Korhal joined Fleets from Augustus.
On May 10th, the support Fleets from Umojan finally arrived. At 10:32 ship time, Augustus and the overjoyed Raynor and others took a shuttle and boarded the much wider flight deck of Hyperion.
The Fleets soldiers of the Umojan Volunteer Army in white military uniforms warmly welcomed Augustus, holding a few bouquets of precious flowers. All non-commissioned officers, lieutenants and captain-level volunteer officers of the battleship announced that they would absolutely obey Augustus's orders in the Korhal War of Independence.
What made Augustus relieved was that Umojan Council never sent another general to compete with him for the command of the troops, otherwise he would have had a headache.
What makes Augustus even more satisfied is that although Hyperion appears to be in tatters due to the hasty repair time, in general, she can at least still fly.
Hyperion Except for the engine, life and gravity support systems, about 70% of the other systems and cabins cannot be used normally. Even the laser cannon group can only fire on one side because other weapons Umojan The engineers have not repaired it yet.
Surrounded by Umojan officers, Raynor and others, Augustus enjoyed the treatment of a head of state and visited the interior of Hyperion. Although the corridor inside the battlecruiser is still not wide, it can still accommodate two marines walking side by side.
All passages are designed to save as much space as possible to create more storage compartments and make room for necessary components such as weapons, living and computer systems.
Directional arrows and safety and warning signs are outlined with white paint on the floor and walls of the passage inside the ship. The decks on all levels appear quite empty and tidy. The empty hangar also shows that this warship lacks necessary fighter cover.
"When you walk here, do you feel familiar?" Augustus asked Jim·Raynor next to him.
"Well, it seems that I was born to control this ship, but I don't think I can save enough money in my life to buy a taillight for Hyperion." Raynor spread his hands and said.
"It seems that I am the only one who is kept in the dark." Tychus said while smoking, "I usually call people who can afford to drive this kind of boat my brothers."
"With this ship, we are one step closer to defeating the corrupt Confederacy government and saving more people!" Kerrigan said with a fist.
"Oh - I have to tell you, this is not the same thing." Tychus said to Kerrigan, "Only by not caring about the life and death of others and being farther and farther away from trouble can you live a comfortable life!"
"Hey, boss, you must have made a fortune." At this time, Rory·Swann, the chief engineer of Augustus, came over.
"It will cost a lot of money to modify this battleship according to your requirements," he said.
"Are you rich this time?"
As long as Augustus's men have to continue fighting in the Hyperion, they must continue to repair the Behemoth (Behemoth-class) battlecruiser that seems to be falling apart at any time.
Although Behemoth-class Battlecruiser among these Guild Wars is a well-deserved capital ship, as the war progresses, new designs and weapon systems continue to appear and be added to the newly built battlecruisers, and the old Hyperion has gradually fallen behind the times.