The Revolutionary Tide in the Border Town

In late October 2489, the four seasons changes and the alternation of cold and warm on the main star Ma·Sara were not obvious. The weather was still very hot. Fortunately, it had just rained half an hour ago on Echo Town, and there was an arched rainbow in the sky.

Echo Town Police Department Compared with the past, Magistrate's office has an extra set of log tables, chairs and bookshelves. Augustus is leaning on his bench, holding a cup of military-style instant espresso in his hand. For more than a month, Augustus basically spends his time in the police office, which has actually become Revolutionary Army's command center in Ma·Sara, and Echo Town is their actual back garden.

It has been more than three months since the battle called the Siege of Tarsonis by the UNN Universe News Network and many colonial TV stations. Revolutionary Army Fleets and the terrorist organization "Sons of Korhal" that only appeared once have disappeared. The politicians of Tarsonis breathed a sigh of relief and stated many times in public that the rebels had been annihilated.

Fearing that the core world would be raided again by the Fleets remnants of the Revolutionary Army army, many Fleets units have returned to their bases. Only Alpha Squadron is still searching for the Revolutionary Army There are no traces of Fleets. Colonel Edmond·Duke, who thinks he has been severely tricked by Augustus, is full of anger and has nowhere to vent.

There was a large pile of documents in front of Augustus. Although he did not put his hands on the table, the pile of documents still moved automatically without any wind, as if there was an invisible hand flipping through it.

"Judge Eda of the Echo Town court has written a letter asking you to investigate in detail the revolutionary pamphlets that have been widely circulated in the town during this period. Arrest the reactionary, terrifying Korhal rebels and their despicable accomplices who are circulating in the Echo Town town. He hopes that you can immediately erase those discordant voices and arrest one or two masterminds."

As soon as the words fell, a pair of tight long legs wearing black combat boots appeared in front of Augustus, followed by a curvy waist and hips and the iconic long fiery red hair. Ghost operative Sarah Kerrigan was standing next to Augustus reading the document. While flipping through it, he asked Augustus: "How are you going to reply to him?"

"I will deal with it as soon as possible." Augustus took a sip of coffee. "If he presses me again, then answer and say that he will deal with it immediately."

"Hilo Autonomous State's judicial officer Rhodes Falls Slater wrote to praise you as the most outstanding Magistrate in the entire Hilo, because you not only eradicated Echo Town's drug trafficking problem, but also cracked down on gangs in four areas including Echo Town, Redstone Town, Thornwood and Hymn Town, reducing the crime rate in these areas to the lowest in ten years." Kerrigan turned over the next document.

"He has approved your establishment of Ridge Plains Civil Defense Force, which is equivalent to two full militia companies with 320 people." Kerrigan said, "He will provide you with kinetic energy armor, Gauss Rifle, grenades and other military supplies that match this organization within two months."

With the end of four years Guild Wars, Terran Confederacy's military industry is still continuing to produce kinetic energy armor, firearms, weapons, and multi-functional vehicles, and is working hard to expand sales. Arms dealers have become accustomed to making a fortune through war, and cannot bear the sudden drop in profits due to declining sales. They have already earned enough reputation and money, but they still feel that it is not enough.

A group of Old Families companies, headed by arms dealer Blueback Family and shipbuilding industry leader Bennett Family, began to advocate the Korhal rebel threat theory. In addition to selling to the military, they also sold obsolete arms to wealthy businessmen, marginalized planet dignitaries, and anyone else who could afford it.

In this year, weapons and vehicles such as CMC-200 Power Armor, E-Series Gauss Rifle, Vulture, which were originally prohibited from being sold to the outside world, began to flow into the arms market on a large scale - of course, due to the "initial opening of purchase restrictions", the external sales prices were of course quite expensive.

It has become possible for private armed forces and mercenaries to hold Power Armor and Gauss Rifle on a large scale. With the widespread popularity of CMC-300 in the military, the planetary defense forces and regional militias on colonial planets such as Ma·Sara have also received a large number of eliminated CMC-200 Power Armor.

However, these armors will not be replenished in large quantities after they are damaged. The militia organizations must make repairs to survive the next equipment upgrade, which may be more than ten years later.

"Judge Slater is a good man. I hope I can have a chance to treat him to a drink." Augustus put down the coffee cup and smiled. He knew very well that Judge Slater had no relationship with good people, but he always did things neatly and neatly. As long as Augustus can get results, he will need people and money.

Agent Korhal August Security Council under Augustus has conducted a detailed investigation into the background and preferences of almost all Hilo Autonomous State officials. Some officials live a simple life and have no hobbies to take advantage of, while others are smart and capable but have some minor flaws.

For example, Hilo State's judicial officer Rhodes Falls Slater is a very greedy person, and his taste for women is also beyond ordinary people.

Greedy and lustful, but very capable.

The Slater family is a branch of Old Families Flanders Family. Most colonial governors or judicial officers are related to a certain Old Families, because these positions are not elected, but are directly appointed by the Tarsonis Confederacy government.

Few of these people can bear to avoid corruption. They are used to the prosperous life of Tarsonis, and coming to the remote wilderness of Ma·Sara is a kind of exile in a sense.

"Who else is looking for me?" Augustus sat up straight, picked up the file and read it.

Although the crime rate has dropped significantly, Magistrate in a small town is still quite relaxed. Generally, the cases are handled by the following police chiefs. When the police need to be dispatched, Tychus is asked to take action. He can't do anything else, but he can fight very neatly.

"The residents of the town jointly wrote a letter of thanks to you." Kerrigan handed Augustus a paper letter sealed in an envelope.

"Receive it in the box where I keep the letters. I will read them at night." Augustus looked at the light yellow paper letter and suddenly felt sad. When Turaxis was in the boot camp, his sister and mother often wrote to him, and he gradually developed the habit of reading letters in the evening after training.

"Is there any progress in the Purgatory Corridor mining area?" Augustus asked again.

"Chief Engineer Swann led his people to dig out tons and tons of crystal mines. The rich ore layer is almost all Ardien Crystal, but they still haven't found the signal source that emits a large amount of interfering electromagnetic waves." Kerrigan pulled a chair and sat down next to Augustus.

"It's almost November, and we have been digging at Purgatory Corridor for a month." Augustus organized the documents and put them in the filing cabinet.

"What did Swann say? How long does it take for him to dig up that thing?"

"Ah~ It's almost there, just a few hoes left - hand me my toolbox, man." Kerrigan said, imitating Swann's unique rough voice.

"I already have his voice in my mind. But even if the signal source is not discovered, the crystals we collect are equivalent to Arcturus Peak Mine's production in one week." Augustus said, "Add With the Arcturus transferred into my Umojan account, I now have about 55 billion Umojan citizen points, which can buy one or two Kel-Morian Hercules battlecruisers."

Augustus also received news that last month, his brother, Mengsk's eldest son Arcturus·Mengsk, resolutely led a large army of tens of thousands of people for his people. The large-scale mining company Fleets is heading to the star sector outside Koprulu Sector. At the same time, an organization named Sons of Korhal is also taking root on various colonial planets of Terran Confederacy.

In order to revive Korhal, Arcturus·Mengsk resolutely went further and further on the road of being a mine boss. With the financial support of his brother, Augustus cannot be too short of money.

"The only thing I'm worried about is whether Kel-Morian Combine will still have sovereignty over its home planet Moria after the defeat." After saying that, Augustus stood up, pushed open the office door and walked out of the police station, while Sarah·Kerrigan followed him invisibly.

"The news says that many of the inhabitants of the Kel-Morian mining planets have been expelled back to Moria, and only a few planets are still on Kel-Morian It is under the control of Fleets. Due to the return of the colonial population, Moria's population has now exceeded four billion - a really terrible number. Moria's barren land is already overwhelmed." Kerrigan said when Augustus walked out of the office.

"But the government of Moria sternly rejected the agreement that Confederacy wanted to establish an outpost and military base in Moria. They would rather block all interstellar ports and close the country than allow Confederacy's army to enter Moria."

There were more than a dozen second-level police officers in the outer office of the police station. After seeing Augustus, these police officers immediately stood up and saluted Augustus with a straight posture.

These police officers are the backbone officers of the Revolutionary Army and the Pan-Terran Party political commissars responsible for the ideological work of the army - the purpose of these political commissars is to prevent the Revolutionary Army from betraying the ideals they swore to fight for, keeping this army firmly in the hands of the Augustus and Angus governments.

The Echo Town police station nominally draws its salary from the Confederacy central government, but in fact it is filled with rebel members who are deeply hated by the Confederacy government.

Tarsonis Confederate Congress and Old Families have never imagined that the rebels are hiding under their noses. They did not become weak from wandering in the universe, but hid in Ma·Sara to recuperate.

"Keep working. There is still a long way to go to overthrow the tyranny of Confederacy." Augustus looked at these energetic soldiers and nodded with satisfaction.

"For freedom, for Korhal, for the New Republic!" These Revolutionary Army soldiers wearing colonial police uniforms shouted out the incredible words loudly.

Then Augustus walked out of the door of the police station, and in front of him was a swept bluestone road. On both sides of the road were colonial huts with reddish-brown roofs. The dark orange sky was cloudless. Two patrol officers riding Ma·Sara ponies were passing by the police station.

After living here for a period of time, Augustus actually felt that Ma Sara was a good place - during the rare sandstorm weather that did not block the sky and the sun.

Since Augustus came to Echo Town to eliminate the gangs and criminal groups in the town and used Magistrate's authority to formulate new laws and regulations, the changes in this border town are obvious.

The most intuitive feeling is that the streets of Echo Town have become cleaner and tidier, because people who litter are caught by the police at the police station and will be fined. The gangster who randomly graffitied on the wall was arrested and never returned to his home...

A small town in the desert suddenly changed drastically. Since almost all criminals were wiped out, even if there were police patrols at night, the residents of Echo Town now dared not go out at night without carrying guns.

And because all the people from all walks of life were sent to the mining area by Augustus, the local custom industry also suffered a big blow. Only two striptease clubs have been able to survive until now due to the strong support of Tychus.

At the same time, the advanced ideas brought by the Revolutionary Army have completely penetrated into the streets of Echo Town. Because the people of Ma·Sara originally had a spirit of resistance that was no less than that of the Korhal people, after the destruction of Korhal IV, there were more Korhal sympathizers here than on any other colonial planet.

The reason why Augustus chose to temporarily settle down in Ma·Sara after evacuating Tarsonis is not only because Ma·Sara is geographically remote, has many rich minerals, and owns a piece of Xel'Naga Artifact Fragment, but also because it is also fertile ground for revolution.

Spreading revolutionary ideas to the Ma Sara people will not cause any unexpected backlash, and the actual situation is not what Augustus expected: as Revolutionary Army fighters began to disperse into various surrounding small towns, revolutionary ideological trends have gradually affected nearly one-third of the population of Hilo Autonomous State in more than a dozen small towns.

Opposite the entrance of the police station where Augustus was standing, the original LED billboards on the street openly printed caricatures and jokes about resisting the tyranny of Confederacy. Residents of Echo Town began to publicly On the occasion, they loudly discussed politics and expressed their dissatisfaction with Terran Confederacy. Pan-Terran Party began to try to recruit local party members in Ma·Sara. A huge underground party network consisting of thousands of people gradually took shape.

This is also the reason why Judge Eda asked Augustus to investigate this matter thoroughly. Not only in Echo Town, but also in all police stations where Pan-Terran Underground Party members are stationed, they are in dire straits.

It can be said that as long as Augustus wants, he can launch an uprising in Hilo Autonomous State. But this is not Augustus's goal. He is used to making decisions before taking action. Only after Pan-Terran Party's underground party organizations spread throughout Ma Sara will he consider launching the next plan.

Spread revolutionary ideas step by step, planet by planet, and eventually these influences will add up to overthrow the rule of Terran Confederacy.

And now Augustus has fourteen battlecruisers in its hands, six of which are moored at Umojan and eight at Sara System.

The power is much weaker than Confederacy Fleets, but it is enough to compete with a naval squadron or the armed force of a colony.

The closest friendly force to Augustus is the two colonists Fleets led by Heaven's Devils Kydd, about one million Korhal civilians and Revolutionary Army soldiers. They are more than a thousand light years away from Ma Sara and have already left Koprulu Sector.

"Will this attract Terran Confederacy's attention?" Looking at the billboard opposite, Kerrigan asked Augustus worriedly.

"That's for sure." Augustus spread his hands. "It would be a joke if they didn't respond."

"But by the time they react, the Revolutionary Party has already taken root in Ma Sara, and our Fleets can also evacuate." He said, "According to common sense, they will first send the militia and the Planetary Defense Force to investigate, and then Federal Marine Corps.

"After a while, we will jump away before their Fleets arrives."

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