Beat Up the Little Overlord

The Imperial Char Fleet under Alexei Stukov and the fleet of Purifier Executor Korolariang had barely arrived when Admiral Matt Horner concluded that both the balance of power and their positioning favored them. He immediately ordered his fleets to fall back in sequence, luring the Tiamat Brood fleet before them deeper in.

Meanwhile, Stukov's Char Fleet was rapidly closing in from the Tiamat Brood's left flank, its warship cannons clearing the way amid thunderous bombardment. From the other direction, countless Purifier fighters screamed out from the freshly warped-in mothership Cybros.

The pincer was about to close.

There had been no advance tactical drills or campaign planning. The arrival of the Purifier fleet had not even been anticipated by the Empire, yet both sides' commanders accurately assessed the situation in an incredibly short time and decisively ordered their fleets to attack at once.

On the surface, the weary Terran Empire and Purifier fleets had rushed here exhausted and might not even have been ready for battle, while the Tiamat Brood waiting here had the advantage of being rested and prepared. But that did not give them much of an edge.

The situation on the battlefield reversed in an instant. Even Daggoth, the cunning and seasoned Cerebrate commanding the Tiamat Brood fleet from far behind the lines, was momentarily bewildered when he saw the Purifier fleet appear.

Thanks to the Zerg's innate sensitivity toward psionic lifeforms, Daggoth could not sense the slightest trace of essence or biomass from this Protoss fleet. It was as if the ones piloting those warships were nothing but the dead.

What forgotten lost world of the Protoss Empire had these Protoss crawled out of?

Then Korolariang's Purifier fleet gave the Tiamat Brood a small taste of mechanical Protoss shock.

New warp signatures continuously emerged around Cybros. One