2009, Grysk Hegemony's Counterattack
At this moment on Crustai, large numbers of B-1 battle droids had begun constructing 200-meter-tall metal structures across the planet—the Temples of Communion.
There would be four Temples of Communion built on Crustai. A Grysk would be installed at the core of each one, their psionic power extracted to drive the structures and spread the gospel across the entire planet.
Before the Temples of Communion were completed, Crustai's condition could only be described as barely holding together. Everyone on the planet had been controlled, and now that the Grysks controlling them were gone, gaps had appeared in their souls and consciousness.
They lived like walking corpses, able only to eat and sleep by instinct. But once the food stored in their homes ran out, starvation would be the only thing awaiting them.
Several million B-1 battle droids were keeping these people alive, but no one could say how long that could last. Therefore, construction of the Temples of Communion had to be accelerated.
Anita had brought over two million more B-1 battle droids to take part in rebuilding the planet. They not only kept those people alive, but also rebuilt the cities and cleared away the corpses of tens of millions killed in the earlier battles—many bodies that had not been dealt with in time had already begun to rot. Before long, an epidemic would likely break out across the planet.
So although Tang Xiao had employed many inhuman and horrifying methods against the Grysks, the Protoss had always turned a blind eye to it for precisely this reason—the Grysks' mind control was an utterly devastating tragedy for these planets.
But now, even though the Temples of Communion had not yet been completed, Anita could use the four Grysks already installed in the psionic devices to