YNF Communication Stations Investigation
Several encrypted communications begin being broadcasted by a series of isolated communication stations in Jupiter's moons, Kewetinohk, Avanarthka, Redstone, New Umoja, Harvest, and Zarra, which the CSIS decrypted to mean "Initiate Contingency Measure (~100 character long pass-code)", with each pass-code being different from the others. Mechanical whirring was heard underneath these stations which was used to track down a grated door leading to 2-kilometre deep shafts on each station, revealing factories manufacturing various test-tubes full of fluids retrieved from green-house like environments, which were promptly analysed as CSIS forces took over the factories whom promptly deactivated the factories just before they had managed to inject the fluids into the ground (aside from the pink one in Kewetinohk, while the red/purple/teal/orange ones remained secure). According to the Protoss' records, the five substances were all World Infections (lifeforms which assimilate the terrain of planets into themselves) which the YNF appeared to have gathered in order to activate them in case of defeat to destroy their facilities, with one being Biomass Crimson, three being from Unknown Space, and one being from the planet Ocularis near the Zerg Collective, though luckily the spread of the infections was prevented with Cryotine. The CSIS decided to interrogate the YNF remnants regarding why they had done this via torture as most remaining YNF insurgents were simply former soldiers still loyal to their ideals, as their leadership and more vital forces had managed to flee (with 70% heading southwards into unexplored space, while 30% fled into the Backrooms System), which the CSIS was still searching for in the southwest area of the Milky Way.
Miraak (ruler of the Zerg Collective) decided to investigate the origin of the fluid from Ocularis, finding the planet to be covered in a orange-coloured wasteland full of unusually shaped mountains, thermal vents, and large caverns, leading to it being deemed uninhabitable in all metrics (with the only other oddity being its sheer number of large moons that are misshaped). The World Infection which had consumed the planet was found to be conscious, prompting the Zerg to try assimilating it at the cost of them becoming assimilated instead, prompting them to abandon conquering the planet. The Protoss arrived in the Zerg's place, taking samples which proved the planet consisted of the same substance as the one the YNF had been manufacturing before starting to glass the planet. The Protoss ships slowly began to be met by strange gravitational forces which could nto be explained as the planet slowly dragged their smaller ships onto itself while the others fought to remain in the air until 'tendrils' from the planet's surface dragged them down to its surface. A Protoss Mothership arrived at a distance to consider furthr actions, but decided not to.
