StarCraft: Terran Dominion
Chapter 691

Uncle Ze, You're Several Versions Behind

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Skygeirr Platform, lower levels.

Beneath the layer upon layer of steel cladding in Skygeirr Platform's upper structures lay a world of its own. Five towering Xel'Naga temples supported a metal dome riddled with cables and protective conduits like colossal pillars. Tens of thousands of gates, chambers, and tunnels sprawled between them, linking the artificial constructions of a new age with Xel'Naga ruins from time immemorial into one magnificent whole.

"The moment I set foot on this land, I sensed the power hidden within it." Even the Dark Prelate Zeratul could not help but marvel at the grandeur of the Xel'Naga temples when he arrived.

At that moment, Zeratul stood within the majestic main hall of a Xel'Naga temple. All around him, shards of Kydarin Crystal jutted diagonally from the floor like swords and spears, while green arcs of electricity danced among densely packed arrays of obelisks. As far as the eye could see, every wall, pillar, step, and stele had been fashioned from a peculiar inorganic rock material that seemed to pulse with life beneath the glow of the Kydarin Crystals.

Over the centuries, Zeratul had seen many Xel'Naga temples. Some had been reduced to broken walls and ruins, while others still stood solemnly upon the land. Yet even counting the temples on Aiur and Shakuras, few could rival those beneath Skygeirr Platform in scale.

Just as no two leaves were exactly alike, no two Xel'Naga temples were completely identical; some differed as vastly as heaven and earth. This was the ultimate aesthetic born of the Xel'Naga's adherence to the laws of the universe and nature.

Zeratul quickly realized that the Xel'Naga temples here were not only enormous, but remarkably well preserved. Their energy arrays were still operational, and their efficiency in converting and utilizing energy far surpassed even the

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