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// Legacy: Awakening the Purifiers 
// Story: Starcraft: Warriors of Purity 
// by Xarmar13 
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Lyra noticed Tassadar appeared conflicted. When she asked, he stated his concerns about how the Purifiers would react to them after being sealed away for millennia and whether or not releasing them would be a good idea. 

Artanis still had faith that the Purifiers would help them, a sentiment that was not shared by those who remember the hundreds of thousands of Protoss who were slaughtered when the machines rebelled against their masters.

Alarak continued antagonizing some of the Protoss and stirring up drama where he could. Lyra could only sigh at Alarak’s antics and hoped that he didn’t end up killing few Protoss who were overly sensitive to their own personal matters.

Lyra began to think that her third master needed to be taken down a peg.

Talandar agreed to act as the Executor of the Purifiers should everything go according to plan. Alarak agreed to the idea...for the wrong reasons.

Lyra had a feeling that Hybrid would be accompanying the Zerg attacking Cybros, after learning of the capabilities of the Tal’darim Havoc, she decided that some damage support would be useful against the Hybrid. She also decided on bringing the Reavers that she remembered from six years ago. Thankfully, they don’t require minerals to keep stocked with scarabs anymore. She traded Stalkers for Dragoons and Vanguard for Annihilators.







By the time the Daelaam arrived on the surface of the space station, Cybros, the Zerg infestation had already taken much of the hull.

Lyra’s intuition was correct as a number of Hybrid appeared among Amon’s hive clusters.

Karax’s analysis of the space station found that Cybros was divided into four distinct quadrants that were kept inactive by three null circuits each. This likely meant that they would need to destroy twelve null circuits to awaken Cybros.

There was also the issue of protecting the exposed core matrix from the Zerg and Hybrid attacks.

While Artanis was setting up the Nexus Point, Lyra teleported in front of the core matrix in order to defend it. Karax placed a Pylon next to the core to activate the preplaced Photon Cannons.

Soon, the Zerg began making a move against the core. Lyra’s fast movement allowed her to slash apart a small group of Zerg headed for the core.

While Lyra was playing defender, Artanis warped in a group of Zealots and Dragoons and began making his push for the null circuits. The small force was able to destroy two that were west of the Nexus Point before Ultralisks came in and forced the Protoss to retreat.

By the time the Protoss force returned to the Nexus Point, Artanis was ready to provide decent fortification for the core by using a Probe to warp in a number of Photon Cannons, Khaydarin Monoliths and Shield Batteries to protect it.

Meanwhile, the Hybrid sensed the strategy that the Daelaam were trying and had their Zerg move to provide increased protection for the null circuits.

Suddenly, part of Lyra had to wonder why the Zerg and Hybrid, as powerful as they were, haven’t broken into the ship and destroyed the Purifiers while they were in stasis.

Regardless, Lyra decided to accompany the group this time, with Havocs and Corsairs added to the group.

A moderate number of Zerglings, Hydralisks, and Ultralisks greeted the Templar as they pushed toward the third circuit. There were also a number of Spine Crawlers defending the circuit.

The Corsairs disabled the Spine Crawlers while Lyra sliced off the blades of an Ultralisk and held them above her in a telekinetic grip. She then Mind Controlled another Ultralisk and jumped on it with intent on using it like a mount. She charged forward on her new mount and used the blades in her telekinesis to cut a swathe through the Zerg defenses, eventually smashing the Ultralisk’s head upon a null circuit, shattering the protections and activating it.

With the destruction of the last null circuit in the quadrant, the first of the four warehouses that contained the Purifier army came online.

Shortly after the activation, a communication was received from one of the Purifiers, <”I am Executor Clolarion. I address the leader of the Firstborn.”>

Tassadar answered the call, <”Executor Clolarion, your deeds are taught to all Templar even to this day...”>

<”Cease your adulation. Why do you seek the Purifiers?”>

<”Brothers, you were created to protect the empire, yet we did not treat you as you deserved, as true Templar. I implore you to forgive our ancestors’ mistakes, to take up your ancient charge once more, and join us as equals.”>

<”We will see if you speak truth. You will aid us in purifying this alien threat. Only then shall we discuss this further.”> With that, Clolarion ordered his Sentinels to engage one of the more secure hive clusters on Cybros and clear out one of the quadrants.

Lyra, meanwhile, was done having fun on an Ultralisk mount and impaled it from the sides with the Ultralisk blades that she was still holding in her telekinetic grip.

Karax warned everyone of a Hybrid advancing on the core. Since they still had some use, Lyra pulled the blades out of the Ultralisk corpse and teleported behind the Hybrid Behemoth heading for the core. She quickly stabbed the creature in the back with the blades before dismembering it and stabbing it in the face with her warp and bane blades.

Artanis began warping in Reavers and Havocs to speed up the decimation of Amon’s Zerg on Cybros.

Lyra took the group with her to attack the hive cluster northeast of the Nexus Point. Despite their slow speed, the Scarabs from the Reavers tore through a number of Ultralisk in the area. Lyra made sure her own rampage went unhindered by placing Overseers and Spore Crawlers into Void Stasis while the Reavers and Dragoons destroyed them once they were freed from stasis.

Once the hive cluster was cleared, Lyra and the group proceeded to shatter the null circuits and activate the second of four warehouses and bringing half of Cybros online.

The awakened Purifiers advanced upon the hive cluster northwest of the Nexus Point. The near limitless number of Purifiers emerging from the warehouse made holding them off an exercise in futility for the Zerg.

More Hybrid and Zerg continued to attack the core, forcing Lyra to personally defend it again. She set the Ultralisks she controlled to attack the Hybrid long enough to distract it before she blasted the Hybrid with her magical and psionic powers then electrocuted the rest of the Zerg attack party with a few Psionic Storms.

Once the attack was repelled, Lyra and her forces pushed against the hive cluster east of the Nexus Point. 

Since the Daelaam assault was doing fine without her, Lyra retreated back to the core to protect it from increasingly frequent attacks from Zerg and Hybrid Behemoths. She had returned just in time to repel another attempt to destroy the core.

It wasn’t long before the Daelaam destroyed the null circuits in the eastern quadrant and activated the third warehouse.

The awakening Purifiers were rallied by Clolarion and marched against the hive cluster in the northeast sector.

With only one sector remaining, Lyra believed that the Hybrid were getting desperate and used whatever forces they had to defend the remaining three null circuits.

Lyra accompanied the Protoss forces this time since the Hybrid could only attack from one venue now...at least she hoped so.

While the Protoss engaged the Zerg near the remaining null circuits, Lyra personally made sure the Zerg and Hybrid did not leave the southeastern hive cluster while she engaged them. Karax supported her as best as he could from the Spear of Adun by deploying Fenix and Talandar to support her. He also used the ship’s weaponry to devastate the Zerg and deployed a Pylon near her so Artanis could send some reinforcements to help her.

She didn’t need the support.

Using the Life Drain technique she learned from Alarak, she pulled in a large amount of Zerg life force and converted it into a massive surge of energy before firing it in a large cone ahead of her. The Zerg lost most of their last hive cluster to one Pony.

After the blast, Lyra was completely exhausted from that and collapsed to her knees while she caught her breath. After her stunt she learned not to test the limits of her powers like that again...at least for a while.

Shortly after Lyra’s attack, the Purifiers marched into the hive cluster to finish it off, Clolarion was impressed by the damage that she had done in such a short amount of time.

Meanwhile, since Cybros was a full power, the core matrix began charging its primary weapon. Karax was unable to stop what happened next as Cybros pointed its weapon at the surface of Endion.

<”Commencing Purification,”> Clolarion said.

The weapon fired a massive energy blast that spread a wave of fire and destruction all around the planet, incinerating every Zerg lifeform and all other life on the forest planet’s surface.

Lyra observed the devastation through a nearby display and learned that the Purifiers were not to be pissed off. She could only hope that Aldaris, Rohana or Alarak didn’t screw up the Daelaam’s alliance with their powerful ally.