161 Son of Korhal
2489.7.12, Umoyang, New Stillling.
"This is a long-planned subversion of the government. The evil and hopeless Angus Mengsk is the leader of the largest cult in the Koprulu sector. He uses a double poison of mind and body to control four people. Fifteen million Korkhas, enslaving the devastated Korkha people and forcing them to join his rebel army armed with pamphlets and drugs."
"In this great battle to defend Tarsonis, our brave soldiers fought bloody battles, shedding the last drop of their blood to defend Tarsonis, and fought bravely to exterminate the rebel forces that threatened the Federation - "Becoming the Federation" will be played below "The Glory", "Our Great Federation", and "The Starship Song" to commemorate these heroic sacrifice soldiers!"
"Long live the Federation!"
"Change the channel." Arcturus Mengsk was sitting on an old sofa in a cubicle in New Stillling City Hall with mining rigs, hard hats and windproof coats hanging from rivets on the walls. Sipping the port wine from the glass, in front of him was an LED advertising screen that was dismantled from the main urban area of Stillling, the capital of Korhal. What was still playing was a 2D image rather than a three-dimensional holographic projection.
The intelligent voice recognition device automatically identified and switched to the next channel according to Arcturus' words. These channels included the Unn Universe TV station and local TV stations on multiple Tyranid Federation colonial planets.
"Augustus, the son of Angus, is another leader of their cult and the leader of the rebels. He has planned all the terrorist actions against the federal government and federal citizens so far. Augustus should be crazy for being used. He is responsible for the killings, and the deaths of more than 600,000 federal citizens who died in this disaster should be attributed to him."
"Change the channel." Arcturus had a good drink, but he was obviously a little drunk. This man who shaved and had regular haircuts even in the mining area rarely looked unshaven, but these days Arcturus was always unshaven, his greasy brown hair tangled together, and his cold gray eyes also appeared. Lots of bloodshot eyes.
"This is Unn Universe TV reporter Mike Liberty. At the crash point of the battlecruiser Century Gothic, the shock wave generated by the explosion destroyed 40% of the main buildings in Queen Mary City, New Reims Cathedral, Ming Dynasty Both the World Trade Center and the Roof of the World were destroyed in this unprecedented disaster, which is a huge loss to human culture."
"——Who wrote this fucking article? How many people have died and you still care about historical monuments that are less than a hundred years old? - Enough, finish reading the article. I clearly tell you that this is a live broadcast and there is no room for mistakes!"
“The fire that spread to the East Wales Starport on Tarsonis continued until dawn the next day, killing more than 420,000 Federation citizens in the attack, and 1.3 million people suffered physical disabilities from varying degrees of burns. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Defense claimed that the fire was caused by arson in a gas fuel storage well by Korhal rebels."
"After the rebels retreated, fire-fighting work in some areas was still in progress - how could the private fire brigade rescue them? Where are our troops?"
"Change the channel." Arcturus had no sympathy for the Tarsonis people's plight. He even found it pleasing. About a week ago, Arcturus, who had returned to the mines on the planet Peak, received news of the fall of Korhal. Although he had been mentally prepared, he was still furious after learning that Korhal had been hit by a nuclear attack. .
Korhal meant a lot to Arcturus, and he loved his hometown. Like all members of the Mengsk family, Arcturus loves this beautiful world with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. Even if this planet is really bombed to pieces by nuclear bombs, he will rebuild it at all costs. .
"The initiator of this terrorist act was Angus Mengsk, and his second son Augustus Mengsk planned this terrorist attack. This criminal family should be responsible for a series of rebellions. Currently, Augustus Mengsk Du Mengsk's position on the FBI's most wanted list has jumped to second place, surpassing his father." Next, the host of Vilitia's Global TV station powerfully complained about the numerous atrocities committed by the rebels. added:
"As of today, Angus Mengsk and Augustus Mengsk have been included on the wanted list in seven main star worlds. If you happen to meet these criminals, please call the Vilitia Main Star Police Headquarters, We will transfer you to the Federation Navy——"
"Augustus, the more they hate you and slander you, the more they prove that you are on the right path." There was no one else around Arcturus, he just said to himself With.
"Umo Yang is no longer safe. The federal ghost agents will find this place sooner or later."
Arcturus realized that he was getting deeper and deeper into Korhal's rebellion. His father and brother were both on the wanted list of the Terran Confederacy, because the Mengsk family were responsible for this great rebellion. leader. After Korhal was destroyed, Arcturus didn't want or think he could stay out of it.
He had anticipated this day, but had always wanted to escape. Angus deserves it no matter what, but his mother and sister will definitely be implicated, so Arcturus cannot ignore it.
Augustus figured it out earlier than Arcturus himself. Even if they assassinated his father with a sword, Korhal, who was calling for revolution, would not stop his rebellion.
"Change the channel." Arcturus put down his empty wine glass, took the bottle and was about to refill himself, when he found a shiny hand on his.
"Speaker Angus's fleet has arrived at the Umoyan Orbital Star Port." Julianne Pasteur, wearing home clothes, an apron and a headscarf, walked in without Arcturus noticing— — Even after giving birth to a child, the lithe Juliana can still walk like a cat.
His mother, Catherine, had always hoped that Arcturus could rekindle his love with Juliana. Even after so many years, Juliana still deeply loves the man to whom she has entrusted everything, but Arcturus is already tired of the game of love.
"Where did he get so many ships?" Arcturus frowned. His complicated emotions towards Angus and his inner dignity made him naturally resist when mentioning this man. mood.
The main reason why Arcturus is still unwilling to join the Korhal Revolutionary Army is that he has never been willing to recognize Angus's revolution. This is not just a question of who is right and who is wrong. Arcturus left home ten years ago to rebel against his father and hated the revolution, and he will not change his views even now.
"It is said that the Federation fleet moved too fast and left behind eight battlecruisers that were unable to jump. The life support systems of several battleships were destroyed. The Federation captains above asked the Revolutionary Army for help, so Colonel Lundstein personally We took people to board the battleship in a speedboat."
"Well... what to do with the soldiers on the battleship? Those captains can be retained." Arcturus asked: "If they don't dismantle the battlecruiser's signal tracking device, then Umo Yang protects the country. There is going to be a battle between the army and the Terran Federation. When the time comes, we have to find a way to get Umo Yang to fight with all his strength——"
"The elected parliament will not allow you to interfere." Juliana sat down next to Arcturus and shook her head.
"The members in the parliament are all the wisest elders in each administrative region. Some members are even executive officers and dominion lords a hundred years ago. They still use the life-saving capsule to watch every resolution passed by the democratically elected parliament."
"Then, Angus is at least an elder." Arcturus's bloodshot eyes stared at Julianna's slim body, but there was no lust at all, as if there were those white-haired people standing behind Julianna. Senator Umo Yang.
"Korhal has 25 million people in Umoyan, which is equivalent to one percent of Umoyan's population. According to the laws of the Umoyan system, the Korhal people should have a seat of their own."
"Are you willing to let the Korhal become a nation of Umoyan?" Zhulinanna blinked her charming eyes, but Arcturus was not moved at all.
"Why not?" Arcturus stood up and looked condescendingly at Juliana sitting on the sofa and said: "We should get as much rights as we pay, and Keha rushed into the Umoyan for the benefit of the people. Atop the Terran Federation fleet. If you saw Korhal's miserable state, you would know what we sacrificed for this."
“The Field of Martial Arts is a beautiful grassland, home to the most charming lake in Keha. The water there is sky blue. At night, swarms of silver lantern fish make it look like it’s upside down. The sea of stars. But now the grass there is withered and yellow, and the dust raised by the nuclear bomb has adhered to a thick layer on the river. Now only microorganisms are still alive." Arcturus said: "The maple leaf forest of Steeling buried me Many of our ancestors, now only tens of millions of empty tree trunks are left there.”
"Those who remain are dead, whether they are patriots or traitors. The symbol of the Mengsk family, the Stirling wolves that wander in the dying forest will soon turn into monsters due to nuclear radiation ." He said this, but his voice was still calm.
"The Confederacy has turned us all into monsters."
"Everything will be fine." Juliana could feel Arcturus' sadness.
"Of course, I don't expect the Umoyan people to be moral, but I have other ways." Arcturus has been drinking during this time, but never let himself get drunk. He always maintained a cold sobriety.
"Umo Yang is already doing his best to help the people of Korhal, the people of Korhal, they..." Zhulinanna defended Umo Yang who gave birth to her.
"At least they don't look like a group of ragged refugees, right?" Arcturus suddenly shook his head.
If Juliana's father, Federal Council Member Aline Pasteur, and the Umoyan Council he represents behind him are watching all this, then Arcturus obviously acted superbly: "I'm sorry, this is not your fault. It’s not Umoyan’s fault, and it’s not the fault of Angus and the Korhal people.”
"It is the Federation that is wrong. The Federation Council and the founding family behind them will not die well."
"You should go tell the members of Parliament." Julianna winked playfully. In front of Arcturus, he was still as cute as a girl in love.
"Is this the attitude of your council or your father?" Arcturus had no woman in his eyes.
"I secretly overheard a conversation between my father and another council member, and they agreed that you would be present at the next meeting." Juliana said quietly.
"Well done!" Arcturus was so excited that he didn't know what he was talking about: "You didn't disappoint me. I took a liking to you at first sight."
"Oh~ from among thousands of Stirling women - that's what you said in your letter." Julianna smacked her lips: "But when we first met, only your mother and sister were present."
"I don't remember that I wrote this letter." Arcturus only took a quarter of a second to search for the memory of this paragraph in his mind, and then he quickly gave up: "Okay. , let’s talk business.”
"Valerian is still crying for daddy?" Arcturus tried to change the subject.
"Our son has stopped crying long ago, and he has stopped thinking about you a month ago." Juliana crossed her arms on her chest: "Now what he talks about every day is his Uncle Augustus."
"That's a good thing, I talk about it every day." Arcturus smiled. Although Valerian was weak and still liked to read some literary poems, after Augustus educated him once, Valerian Lenrian has grown stronger.
"In my memory, Augustus was only a little older than Valerian."
Arcturus didn't realize that the emotional rift between him and Valerian was closing, but the strange way they got along as father and son
When he met Valerian this time, Arcturus was surprised to find that the son he was originally dissatisfied with had turned into a man who would never cry easily. This made Arcturus begin to recognize Valerian as his heir from the bottom of his heart. Of course, in order to prevent Valerian from slacking off, he still behaved quite majesticly.
"Speaking of which, why did you meet Speaker Angus? He has arrived in New Stillling City and is talking to my father." Julianna said.
"You don't have to respect him so much." Arcturus said impatiently: "I don't want to see him."
"Angus had better die in Korhal, or we will definitely start fighting when we meet."
"I respect him because he is the father of you and Augustus, and the grandfather of Valerian." Julianna said with a smile.
"But you still love him in your heart."
"I hate him." Arcturus opened the curtains in the room in anger.
What appeared in front of Arcturus was the orange-yellow sky of Umoyan and the endless building complex of prefabricated panels and modular houses. Each building was more than ten stories tall and was a column with sharp edges. Yumo Yang's dragonfly-winged drones surrounded the sky, and from time to time, supply ships sailed out from the clouds that seemed to be piled up. Next to the temporary city hall is the open-air market, where the Keha people are using Umoyan banknotes to trade, and it is bustling with people.
"Okay, I won't mention him." Julianna walked to Arcturus and said softly: "It was you who spent the money to purchase the factory from the Kemerian Consortium and transport it back to Korhal to rebuild the weak important With a basic industrial system, you provide all the Korhal people with far more food than Umo Yang can provide, and the children also have eggs and milk."
"Because they are my people," Arcturus said naturally. As a descendant of the nobles who ruled the world over Korhal, he naturally considered the Korhal people to be his own.
But this kindness and generosity belongs only to the Korhal.
Arcturus' share of the wealth gained from the giant mines was used to help the refugees from Korhal who poured into Umoyan, and he himself preferred to live frugally. Although the Umoyan government has undertaken the construction of all refugee camp buildings, water supply and power supply facilities and the costs within three years, it still requires Arcturus himself to build a city with complete functions that can support the living needs of 20 million people. Investing money.
Fortunately, the Umoyan government has also promised to use 3% of the fiscal revenue of the entire Umoyan and other planetary autonomous territories to build cities belonging to the Korhal people and maintain the basic transformation of the cities until the Korhal territory can achieve self-sufficiency. Self-sufficient.
For the time being, no one is suffering from hunger or cold.
It’s just that Planet Umoyan is not a garden world with a mild climate and suitable for life. The Korhal people still need to go through a lot of hardships if they want to adapt to this planet whose environment is far worse than that of their hometown.
"You also hired thousands of skilled Camorian workers, and took advantage of the turmoil in the internal market during the peace treaty signed between the Federation and the Federation to purchase mineral scanning equipment and the Camorian planet that filled two orbital star ports at extremely low prices. Excavator." Juliana asked again.
"How about it, do you want to lead them to dig?"
"You ask too many questions." Arcturus glanced at her and said, quoting a wise saying: "If you want to be rich, start mining first."
After that, neither of them spoke anymore, and the only sound in the room was the sound from the TV screen.
"Morality is corrupt, good people are forced into prostitution, and people are sold into slavery."
"This is a trampling on humanity. Angus and his lackeys have destroyed the balance of order for their own selfish interests. They intend to turn the entire world upside down and establish a feudal dynasty belonging to the Mengsk family on the free federal regime of fairness and rule of law! "
"We suspect that the Korhal rebels possess weapons of mass destruction. They illegally possess at least ten to thirty Apocalypse-class nuclear bombs. In order to protect the people of Korhal from the destruction of the rebels, we destroyed Korhal 4."
"..."
"Interview? That sucks. What I'm saying is, the Korhals are shitting on our heads! The Federation Navy is a bunch of trash!"
"..."
"Welcome to Franz Vermilion's special show: How did Augustus Mengsk, the leader of the Demons of Heaven, the hero of the people, fall so low?"
"Augustus Mengsk, a murderous butcher, man-eating demon, nymphomaniac, and transvestite. He made women and children carry high explosives to attack the rebels, and ordered underage children to drive without landing gear. fighter planes crashed into a naval warship, and his minions once hijacked a train and crashed it into the Federal Security Service building."
"..." Arcturus suddenly showed an expression as if he was being choked.
"They went too far to smear Augustus. He was once a hero of the Federation." Juliana sighed.
"But not anymore." Arcturus was not surprised. "Why didn't they report what became of Korhal?"
After a long silence, a Revolutionary Army soldier walked into the room. On his arm was the symbol of the Ringed Whip Arm. Unlike the different Ringed Whip Arms of the Revolutionary Army, there was no five-pointed star in the center of the ring. The whip was covered with Full of sharp saw teeth.
"You formed the Sons of Korhal," Juliana said, "a true terrorist organization."
"They are my people." Arcturus pointed to the city looking out the window, looking at the people with thousands of different faces.
"I will fight for Korhal."
"For everyone to have a home to return to."
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