The Fleet Sets Off

With the target established, the Protoss' efficient war machine began to operate.

The resources could still satisfy three years of full-power operation, so Shen Jun was not in a hurry.

The war of forms spread throughout the universe, and traveling to other star systems to collect resources required a powerful fleet escort to prevent unforeseen events.

Currently, the number of Protoss' existing warships was not large, and the quality was still substandard. Shen Jun had already ordered the decommissioning of non-standard ships.

Including the exclusive flagships of the Protoss heroes, which were to be restored to proper Motherships. However, Tassadar still favored his Star Shuttle Carrier, Zeratul had his old machine, and Vorazun's Prophet did not need to be replaced.

Besides these three, Selandis' Purification Mothership was relatively advanced, which Kerasul claimed would take at least a year and a half to build. Alarak's Death Mothership continued the characteristics of Tal'darim technology as always, and the Khalai Mothership was painted with a layer of black paint, which could be built in half a year.

Shen Jun took one look and immediately felt extremely disgusted, kindly helping Gao JianGuo upgrade it to the specifications of a Mothership.

Talandar was still the most uncomfortable one, as the Ceberos star fortress could not be built even after three years.

Of course, Shen Jun's own flagship was indispensable, but it was not the Spear of Adun. Building that behemoth would take centuries to calculate. In the most prosperous golden age of the Protoss, countless resources were spent to build only three arks.

The current Protoss were under too much pressure to build an ark.

Therefore, Shen Jun favored Artanis' Aiur's Shield.

The strongest Mothership.

One ship could take down a small fleet!

It had been under construction since Shen Jun re-established the Daelaam, and it was only a few months away from completion.

While the Protoss were preparing to go to the Sien Star System, He Xi chose to stay permanently on Aiur. She spoke with Keisha three times, and it was unknown what Keisha said to her, but He Xi had even less desire to return to the Angel Nebula.

Shen Jun was very helpless, but he would not be disgusted to have a beauty to look at every day.

Thus, time came two years later.

The Protoss' military preparations had been restored to perfection.

The Phoenix Fighters had been expanded to 10,000, the Void Rays to 6,000, the Scouts to 3,000, the Arbiters to 1,000, and the Warp Prisms to 1,500.

A year ago, the data of the Tempest had also been sorted out, and 500 ships were built within a year.

Only 100 Carriers were built. Although Carriers and Tempests were warships of the same level, Carriers mainly served as the central hub of the fleet, usually piloted by the executor or their deputy. In the absence of a Mothership, they would also serve as the flagship. Moreover, they were very large and had complex transport systems, making them the largest warship after the Mothership.

In major wars, a fully loaded Carrier required 1,000 Protoss. If it was just normal navigation, it would also require at least 200 Protoss, including more than 20 Khalai engineers. Shen Jun did not have many Protoss under his command, and the reproduction of the Protoss was much slower than that of humans, so building too many Carriers was useless.

The Tempest was different. Although the Tempest was only slightly smaller than the Carrier in size, it was a single-soldier warship. Its shape was very strange. The cockpit was not much larger than a Scout, but the two symmetrical hulls extending from the cockpit like bull horns were surprisingly large.

The Tempest's weapon system relied on kinetic energy matrices that were powered by overloading in combat, thereby gathering extremely powerful unstable energy. This energy gathered in the hull and fused into a sphere containing highly charged particles, which was launched at distant targets.

The Tempest's range was quite long, twice that of the Void Ray (it could achieve cross-star system strikes in extreme conditions), and it could easily attack outside the enemy's line of sight. Moreover, the Tempest's energy cannon had a decay (non-chemical reaction) effect, which could accelerate the aging and decay of matter. Therefore, enemy ships attacked by the Tempest might not show any major damage at first, but soon their entire hull would become decayed and even disintegrate. This process was very short.

It could be seen from this that the Tempest was powerful, but the highly compressed unstable energy sphere was also a considerable danger to the Tempest itself. The Protoss driving the Tempest had to wear heavy protective armor, and Tempest pilots were not allowed to serve for a long time, because when the kinetic energy matrix was overloaded, its overflowing destructive energy not only gathered outside, but the pressure inside the hull was also enormous.

A large part of the ring-shaped hull design was to help re-export the internal energy of the cockpit to the outside. Even so, prolonged exposure to the energy field was still a great burden on the Protoss' body. Therefore, Tempest pilots needed to be replaced frequently to avoid personnel damage.

The Golden Armada gradually showed its prototype.

As the Daelaam's first exploration and resource collection of the known universe, the significance could not be overstated. Shen Jun naturally decided to go to the Sien Star System himself. Well, he just wanted to experience the power of Aiur's Shield...

Of course, Shen Jun could not really be so reckless as to command the fleet by himself. The heroes who should be brought still had to be brought.

To maintain the normal operation of Aiur's Shield, Kerasul is indispensable. As for the scientific research on Aiur, there's absolutely no need to worry about leaving it to Brahim.

This time, the main purpose isn't to fight, so Alarak won't be coming. There's no need to bring Tassadar either; he needs to preside over the overall situation of Aiur's defense.

In the end, Shen Jun decided to bring Zeratul and Selandis.

Mobilizing ten thousand Protoss, one thousand engineers, four thousand Nerazim, and five thousand Khalai Protoss.

Two hundred Scouts, four thousand Phoenix Fighters, two thousand Void Rays, one hundred Tempests, and ten Carriers.

Among them, the ten Carriers mainly carry Probes, not Protoss, totaling fifty thousand.

As for the Mothership, Selandis' Purification was unfortunately shelved. After all, having one Aiur's Shield is enough; there's no need to use two Motherships for such a small matter.

This kind of force completely surpasses the fleet the Protoss dispatched in the war against the Trigonians. It's just going to mine, is it necessary to make such a big fuss?

No need.

Because Shen Jun never intended to just go mining from the start!

The Sien Star System is rich in resources, and Shen Jun has some impression of this star system, proving that it appeared in the plot. Although the specifics are no longer clear, it doesn't prevent Shen Jun from bringing it under the control of the Daelaam.

Even the entire nebula where Aiur is located must belong to the Protoss' sphere of influence.

This can't be called ambition. God-making civilizations are nebula-level super civilizations, and the Protoss naturally have the right to govern all the star systems within the nebula.

"Tassadar, the Sien Star System will become the Protoss' springboard into the known universe. I'm going to establish a base this time and won't be back for a short time. During this period, Aiur is entrusted to you."

"Archbishop, I will not fail in my responsibility. I guarantee that I will not allow any foreign creatures to enter Aiur's atmosphere!"

Shen Jun nodded and warped into Aiur's Shield.

The mighty fleet took off, and the moment it broke through the atmosphere and entered space, continuous warps were initiated.