Pisura27 Sickness Crisis

Year: 320 CE - 322 CE

With the YNF finally defeated, the 'Pisura27 Biological Research Group' was formed out of surviving collaborators with inside knowledge about the Pisura27 Sickness in order to work towards a anti-virus to bring it down. Their first focus was figuring out how infecting Blargs caused it to mutate, though they didn't have any samples of uninfected Blargs to use as a reference, thus a CSIS 'runner-ship' was sent around the Blarg Horde to the Blarg Republic to convince them to send a group with them to help create a antidote to the sickness after explaining that the YNF had created it as a bioweapon. The Blarg Republic was hesitant as it believed that the sickness would consume all of life, which angered the CSIS as they believed this to be the only way to solve it, to which the Blarg Republic explained that all it was doing was ensuring that it would survive by barricading its people in places the sickness couldn't reach. Elsewhere, the OMM captured a Blarg Horde ship and analysed how the Sickness and infected functioned, discovering that they communicated telepathically and gradually became less intelligent the further away from a group of infected they were, that it accumulated near lungs and wounds in most species while it mixed with the main body of the Blargs, that the sickness 'assimilated' organic material into itself, and that the Blarg Horde generally lacked any cohesive social structure and was largely inert.

Later on, a 1.6 kilometre long YNF ship (named 'Manuzone-2 Defence Fleet Vessel #97') slowly made its way out of the Blarg Horde towards Agria, with inconclusive scans and its flickering power suggesting that it was damaged or malfunctioning. Lifeform scans suggested that only one lifeform was onboard, which the CSIS didn't decide to risk especially as it had begun rapidly accelerating in order to enter FTL Speeds, though the CSIS firing onto its engines disrupted this by causing a massive explosion which tore the aft of the ship apart, allowing the CSIS to drag it back into the Blarg Horde. The OMM decided to investigate (while making it clear to the CSS Jupiter that they were doing so) as well, sending in a salvage drone, combat drone, and survey drone lead by a coordinator ship known as the 'Valravn' onto the ship, finding it strangely empty with a odd liquid splattered onto the walls which was identified as the substance found in those infected by the Pisura27 Sickness. The OMM's crafts headed thru the hallways and looked for anything even if all electronics were offline due to the engines being destroyed, though even when they were powered on by the OMM crafts most systems appeared to be broken. Weird skittering sounds began being heard within the ship's halls, prompting the combat drone to deploy two gatling guns as it began searching for any threats while travelling to the command centre, finding in a quite damaged state. The blackbox of the ship contained a very choppy message which didn't make much sense; "The ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Compounding. ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Learning ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Prepare▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Blackbox Message Over ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒hghhhh. grrrgrgh. grrrowl. hghhgdhr rhhrhgh snarl snarl. growl. ghhhrhhg."

The CSIS kept trying to get in contact with the Blargs to develop a cure via their genome, which the Blarg Republic saw as unfeasible as it wasn't really a 'sickness' to be fought but rather something which caused people to die, and then reanimated their corpses under its own control, thus targeting specifically Blarg genomes would probably end up killing them, though despite this the Blarg Kingdom agreed to provide some genetic samples. After receiving these samples and setting up a permanent research facility on Proxima Centauri C (which was otherwise uninhabited), the PBRG officially began its research into the Pisuraa27 Sickness, with SDS Biological-Site-7, the CSIS Department of Health, the DCAE Biological Research Unit, the International Parahealth Institute, the Polsk Secret Research Group, the SDS Department of Science, AOF Department of Parapathology, and the Moebius Foundation all sending researchers to assist in the efforts, which first revealed that there were multiple different 'variants' which could occur based on infection method. The CSIS had to keep assuring the populace not to fear the ongoing crisis in order to main stability, though this wasn't universally effective as many still remained panicked, and a couple thousand people even seemed to 'worship' the sickness. The OMM continued its own research into how the pathogen operated in living bodies, seeing what changes it made to cells and how it interacted with microroganisms.

Blarra Prime, once a mountainous and rainy planet home to expansive wetlands and cities which served as the capital of the Blarg Empire, now laid in ruins as the billions of infected had begun accumulating on the planet, covering the planet in a ocean of black goo as the infected had begun forming a 'compound consciousness' out of their merged fluid-like reanimated bodies. The PBRG continued to try to understand how exactly the sickness did what it did by containing and studying the infected in a facility on the otherwise unihabited Proxima Centauri C, promoting Abathur of the Zerg Collective (whom had encountered the sickness during the Second Zerg Invasion of the United Rim) to note how he had discovered that the sickness spread by entering the body, building up fluid in the lungs in a lethal way, and then reanimated the corpse once it spread into the circulatory system by taking control of the subject's cellular structure to spread itself by attacking others, providing the PBRG with his personal research (that it was vulnerable to heat, his clone of the virus he was researching, and a primitive cure against infected Zerg). The PBRG also shared its own more recent research, such as that there were four distinct forms of the infection (the 'Chronic Infectious Variant', the 'Dissolvant Infectious Variant', the 'Compound Variant', and the 'Blargoid Variant') and that it either spread through the Pisura27 Variant of Ganymedian Bioweapons-Project#27 as aerial droplets or bodily fluids which would take a few days or a week to infect the victim or the 'Pisura27 Blargfluid' method exclusive to infected Blargs which took under 15 minutes to infect someone. The CSIS began gathering nukes to combat the infected, to which the PBRG stated that the infected should be rendered non-threats if simply incapacitated even if they couldn't be killed again, though they were unaware of how ffective this would be against Blargs due to their atypical biology, thus the CSIS decided to provide the PBRG with infected Blargs to assist in the studies.

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Drone Expedition

A CSIS ship was sent into Blarg territory in 'stealth mode' (cutting communications and lights) and released thousands of drones into the area, noting how desolate and destroyed the planets had become despite the infected continuing to move on their surfaces in an unnaturally coordinated manner as if they were forming some kind of Hivemind. A drone approached one of the many barely active spacecrafts drifting throughout Blarg territory, noting it to be externally already quite eerie due to the flickering lights and power supply as sparks occasionally rang out in the hallways, sometimes illuminating movement. The drone, with its many arms and cannon, broke through a particularly stained view-port into the ship, turning on its lights after briefly seeing a figure down a hall with black-stained walls covered in scratches. The drone took samples of the fluid staining the walls and scratches as it followed the figure it had seen and the gurgling sounds it appeared to be making, attempting to view it with a thermal camera while humming.

The drone reached the end of the hall it was going down, finding an elevator whose control panels and screens appeared to be non-functional, so the drone simply busted its way into the elevator which surprisingly appeared to be functional from the inside, riding it one floor upwards to a hallway with circular holes on the sides labeled 'BLARG DROPSHIP', within which it saw a large window overlooking a claw-structure intended to grab onto other ships. One side of the hallway appeared to lead to a dead-end towards the aft of the ship with a functional screen stating 'BLARG HEAVY CRUISER: SERIALCODE XB2398C', while the other direction lead to a more open space as the hallway turned into a bridge above a hangar bay containing many starfighters, with forwards leading to the front end of the ship where a two-floored room was seen alongside many other side-bridges connecting to other areas of the ship containing electronics and crates. As another drone had entered the ship, the (first) drone headed toward the front as another inspected the side rooms. The second drone noted that the area it had entered was a weaponry room containing ammunition and cannons, while the first drone noted that the room it entered contained a large chair overlooking many control panels of which very few (such as the starboard weapon systems) remained functional. On one of the screens near a large window overlooking the planet Kanalla, the probe read a very long incoherent message stating; "mother speaks you. mother directs you. mother gives you. nourishment nourishment nourishment. you will spread you will spread. for mother. for pisura. pisura speaks to you. pisura directs you. pisura gives you. you will serve The Pisungall. you are my pestilence, i am the horseman of the apocalypse, you are my steed. listen to mother listen to pisura we are one, and you will be one with us soon. Decree of The Pisungall."

After the drone lead the message, a large bang rang out from the hangar. Both drones ventured back onto the bridge to find the source of the sound, seeing the figure they had sighted earlier briefly before it stumbled off the bridge. Rumbling began to emanate from below the bridge, which when observed revealed that thousands of infected had accumulated down there and had begun climbing up after noticing the drones, whom opened their containment-tubes to capture several infected (who were 'pacified' with heat once inside) before fleeing thru the Bridge's window by firing an explosive round. The drones managed to successfully flee and drift back to the safety of the stealth-ship while the infected re-sealed the hole in the ship.

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Area where Blarg communications were received.

Battle of Pisura

The PBRG began work on analysing the infected Blargs, but also needed non-infected samples which the CSIS retrieved from the abandoned YNF-run 'Callisto Installation B' with its drones, which captured several subjects from a basement similar to the one seen in Quar.Zone--5 during the Accord-YNF War. During the analysis, the facility on Proxima Centauri C began receiving communications from the Kanalla System within Blarg Space repeating the message that the drones had seen in the abandoned Blarg ship's bridge, with areas all over Accord space alongside parts of the Yelnik Hivemind, Astragenia, and The Altair also receiving the message seemingly at random. Concerned despite communications clearly being harmless, the CSIS and PBRG set-up a series of monitoring and military stations along the border with Blarg space, which later began observing several odd occurrences such as many ships gradually reactivating as various incoherent rambling communications began being broadcast such as one from the Bequenest System stating "Don't do it. You don't know what I'm feeling right now. Don't do it. Cursed race. They are not mine. Cursed. NO. NO. Don't do it. Their teeth cut through. I burn in it. I'm dying. Pain. NO. Pain. I die in it. Suffering. I get terrified when I feel. NO. NO. Don't do it. Their breath chokes. Their bodies. NO. NO.", though even when the CSIS tried to respond to these communications it was ignored, freaking them out enough to re-mobilize the CSIS Spacefleet on the Blarg border alongside its allies.

Battle of Pisura
Date	321 CE
Location	Pisura
Outcome	Pisura rendered uninhabitable.
Combatants
Blarg Horde CSIS Protoss Empire
Commanders
The Pisungall

Thousands of Blarg ships had begun accumulating around the orbit of Pisura now that they had begun reactivating, concerning the Protoss Empire enough to offer its assistance against the Blarg Horde as they believed that they could be 'slaves of the Dark God'. The PBRG inquired on who this 'dark god' was, prompting the Protoss to explain that the Dark God was the one who created the Zerg-Protoss Hybrids, and was the one prophesised to end the 'infinite cycle' maintaining all mortal lives which was started by god-like beings known as the Xel-Naga which seeded life on all inhabitable planets (starting with the Protoss, then the Zerg, then others), which the Dark God had turned against and now wished to end the universe with their plan thus far involving The Overmind, the Zerg, and the Hybrids. The PBRG thanked the help, but disagreed that the Dark God was involved with the Pisura27 Sickness as it was known it was a mutated YNF bioweapon which had begun forming a single unifying intelligence due to said mutation whose perpratator remained unknown, though said mutation was clearly too natural to have been caused by corruption from the Dark God.

The PBRG observed that the 'collective intelligence' seen in the Infected had begun radially spreading outwards from Pisura one-by-one, prompting the CSIS to propose a pre-emptive nuclear bombardment of Pisura and the ships accumulating around it, but the PBRG was unsure of how large their fleet had become. The CSIS sent scouts to Blarra Prime as well to see how it had been developing, not seeing a 'ship swarm' like Pisura (who was surrounded by tens of thousands of ships which only left to "trade" fluid-filled glass jars to other infected worlds) despite the planet being arguably even more covered in infected, prompting the CSIS to propose a raid of Pisura to prevent the formation of the collective intelligence, though the PBRG noted it was too late for this as it had already extended quite far. The CSIS was only emboldened by this, suggesting that the 'trade' going on was how the intelligence was spreading itself as Pisura was far too isolated from the rest of Blarg territory to be the heart of a trade network, suggesting that Pisura and the other planets affected by the intelligence must be destroyed to prevent Humanity from coming under threat, which the PBRG began to agree as it realised that as the place where the sickness began and where the infected's collective intelligence had emerged suggested that something on the planet was causing it to spread. Many ships began to assemble on the Blarg border such as those aligned with the CSIS, The Accord, the Protoss, and even the SDS. Around this time, the first infection of a PBRG employee had occurred as one of the scientists working on the project had been an infected disguised as a completely normal Human with only their 'interior' being full of the infective fluid. Around this time, the Intergalactic Science and Research Institute began assisting with cure research, offering a prize to those who achieved it.

Blarg Horde Invasion of Daunelvik and Yelnik Space
Video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=620WyrJEL2w
Date	322 CE
Location	Daunelvik & Yelnik Hivemind
Outcome	Pisungall Victory
Combatants
The Pisungall Daunelvik Yelnik Hivemind
Commanders
The Pisungall

The CSIS, Protoss, and others launched their raid against Pisura, bombarding its surface into slag while the Protoss mothership drilled down towards the planets core with its fracking beam, prompting the Blarg fleet surrounding the planet to scatter in random directions in significant enough numbers as to not be stopped. The infected climbed onto the outer hull of the mothership as it drilled deeper to destabilize the planet and began attempting to breach inside, prompting the Protoss to do their best to keep them at bay by firing their weapons and expelling energy from the ship into artificial vortexes created by the ship. As the ship drilled deeper and deeper into the planet's core and was assailed by more and more infected of many species, the mothership's core began to implode and destroy the ship as it descended. Once the ship breached Pisura's core, it ejected its own imploding core into Pisura's one before breaking apart and crashing into Pisura's core itself, causing a devastating explosion which cracked the planet in half, rendering it completely uninhabitable and wiping out most infected on the planet (of which the few survivors were unable to escape, and were being blown up by CSIS ships). The CSIS proposed another mission to do the same to Blarra Prime, but the PBRG argued that the intelligence was likely aware of what had occurred and the Protoss were regardless unable to sacrifice a similar ship for a second time.

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Rise of the Pisungall

The Blarg Horde slowly began to expand into unclaimed space despite the bombardment of Pisura clearly having disrupted the emerging intelligence among the infected, concerning the CSIS enough to notify the Blarg Kingdom and Blarg Republic that it may have to destroy Blarra Prime, angering the two as they saw it as a grave insult worthy of bringing 'eradication' to Humanity if they went through with it despite the CSIS 'reassuring' them that they were trying to avoid having to do so despite the presence of an ocean's worth of infected, forcing the CSIS to at least publicly relent and state an attack on Blarra Prime would require consent from the Blarg states.

Within the Blarg Horde a shipment of the fluid associated with the spreading infected intelligence finally arrived on Blarra Prime and was deposited into the sea of infected despite the CSIS' attempts to raid the Horde's supply chains, leading to the Horde's communications suddenly evolving from mere growling and gurgling sounds, to silence, before starting to speak in a incoherent mumbling-tone announcing that an entity it called 'Pisura' and 'Mother' was speaking to them and that it now served 'The Pisungall', who made them 'be one' and would later make others 'be one with them' as well, which was noted to be similar to the communications that had been emanating from Kanalla after the Drone Expedition. The CSIS briefly thought that the entity calling itself 'Pisura' implied the entire planet of Pisura was alive, though scans revealed that while there was an unknown lifeform deep within its crust, the planet itself was not alive. The Blarg Horde began to converse with the CSIS directly, stating that it had completed 'assimilation' and had refurbished 'the rot' into a 'good form', prompting the CSIS to ask what exactly it had assimilated, which it responded to by claiming it had assimilated itself and was now 'one with The Pisungall'. The CSIS tried to inquire into what this 'becoming one with The Pisungall' meant, but was ignored as the Blarg Horde claimed that it would soon assimilate Humanity whether it wanted to or not, though Humanity would be spared for now as they weren't its first target, instead repeating the word 'Rokath' on all frequencies for some time.

The PBRG noted that a planet named 'Rokath' did exist, but had no intelligent life and was far away in the southern Outer Rim near the 'Cult of Yarren'. The Protoss Arkship 'Spear of Adun' ventured to Rokath to investigate, finding it to have a surface covered in mountains and jungles, no sapient civilization, and a large number of over 25-kilometre-tall Immanis-Colosseuses which were native to the planet, the same species as the Nislandian Range Superorganism in Osania, which had arrived there via spores released from another planet inhabited by the species. The CSIS believed that the Horde saying 'Rokath' repeatedly meant that it had assimilated one, and that Humanity should move or force the Nislandian Range Superorganism to reproduce, which Osania deemed impractical as the NRSO likely wasn't mature enough to even do that yet. The CSIS decided to do scans to compare genomes to figure out what entity was present in Pisura, first comparing Blarg Horde and Immanis Colosseus DNA with no match, checking if any Immanis Colosseus were on Pisura with none found, and then checking if the Blarg Horde had any presence near the known range of Immanis Colosseus which was inconclusive as the only infected planet in the area had not been assimilated by the Pisungall and had no means to exit their planet.

Invasion of the Blarg Horde
Video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMKa0q5N9Q
Date	322 CE
Location	Blarg Space
Outcome	Coalition Victory
Major Battles	Bombardment of Oborro Bombardment of Pisura Bombardment of Sannona
Combatants
Blarg Horde The Pisungall Blarg Horde Galactic Treaty Organization Galactic Federation Holy Order of the Seraphocosm Hyacinthan Realm of Terria-Nel Protoss Empire Terzan Coalition Rim Alliance Ankoku Kouran Star States Terria Other Anti-Pisungall States Beacon Kingdom Blarg Kingdom Blarg Republic Cult of Yarren Hyacinthan Realm of Neurith-Urhn Neuvum Combine Orion The Altair Thronus-Regni Wabbol Space Yatan-Theian Accord CSIS Galactic Observation Society Pisungall Research Initiative Yelnik Hivemind Zerg Collective
Commanders

The Blarg Horde broadcasted that it had found the next to be assimilated, congratulating Daunelvik that they would now 'become one' before swiftly invading and wiping out the entire Daunelvik civilization by assimilating all of them after which it babbled about how itself, the Pisungall, 'mother', and Daunelvik were now one. The CSIS theorised that the Blarg Horde was unable to reproduce on their own and thus needed to expand in order to gain more biomass to further their plans, while the PBRG ascertained that whatever 'The Pisungall' was had hijacked the Blarg Horde and assimilated it, and seemingly didn't require contact with Pisura to control the Horde which made a second attack on the planet pointless. The CSIS attempted to gather information by speaking to the Blarg Horde about how it had 'found Pisungall' and what it was, prompting the Horde to respond by incoherently explaining that it could only speak because of the Pisungall, and that Pisungall was no longer 'just Pisura' and had now wholly become one with the Blarg Horde. The CSIS asked how the Horde had become one with the Pisungall, which was responded to with an explanation that while the Horde was not always one with the Pisungall, the Pisungall (supposedly a species onto itself rather than another previously assimilated entity) had orchestrated its creation and assimilated it as while it was the Pisungall's creation, the Horde was 'weak and brainless' and thus susceptible to assimilation. The CSIS inquired why the Pisungall had chosen to the horde, prompting Pisungall to reveal that it had used the Ganymedian Pisura Expedition by being the one which had mutated the ganymede the OOG had tested rather than it being mutated by the Blargs, creating the horde and later spreading into it to assimilate it. Pisungall revealed that it had done this by waiting for an opportunity, replacing an OOG scientist, and using them to alter the bioweapon into becoming the Pisura27 Sickness, inferring that it had replaced many other scientists including those of the PBRG. The PBRG came to a realisation that the whole crisis wasn't about a 'zombie plague', but about a single entity assimilating a society for its own ends, soon being followed by the CSIS glassing their facility on Proxima Centauri C to prevent the spread of the Pisungall infiltrators within it onto the nearby Accord world of Proxima Centauri B. The Pisungall taunted the CSIS , saying that it had only eliminated five of its infiltrators, and many lurked within the Accord undetected (giving sewers as an example) without detection, offering to 'temporarily spare' Humanity if it were to cease its acts against the Pisungall, which the Accord and CSIS reluctantly accepted in order to gather more allies to deal with this clearly abnormal threat. A sweep of Pisungall infiltrators occurred throughout the Accord and CSIS , with scanners managing to uncover 1-6 cases on various planets surrounding crashed Blarg ships which had arrived when the Blarg fleet around Pisura had scattered containing the 'fluid' the Blarg Horde had been trading. The Pisungall stated that it already knew much about Humanity but believed that Humanity didn't understand what the Pisungall was, finding that good as it would not allow them to learn what it was despite their proclamations that 'Humanity would succeed', before returning to its own matters after cutting contact and calling the CSIS a "closed thinker opportunity giver".

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Thronus-Regni Investigation

With the PBRG destroyed alongside their facility, the research of the Pisura27 Sickness and Pisungall was taken over by the Galactic Observation Society as their science-wing established the 'Pisungall Research Initiative' as the PBRG's direct successor. The CSIS published information to its own populace and the Blarg Republic/Kingdom's populations about the true nature of the sickness being revealed as a controlling entity rather than solely a disease, while the PRI published information about signs one has been infected (a vacant gaze, stiff movements, and monotone speech) and noted that it believed that the disease and Pisungall were separate things, but the disease had been engineered by the Pisungall to make its spread easier. As it didn't entirely know where to start from due to the partial loss of information after the PBRG's destruction, the PRI requested assistance from the Protoss to see if the Pisungall had been previously sighted in the region, gaining access to the Templar Archives, though first the PRI suspected that as an entity so dangerous the Pisungall would have in the past fought against Thronus-Regni (a small nation in the deep core home to Deities and The Galaxy) as they had intervened on Yata in the past during The Snap. The Protoss asked Thronus-Regni for aid against the Pisungall, which Thronus-Regni regarded as a pest that had previously been banished into the crust of Pisura by the 98th Galaxy and that if it had escaped then destroying Pisura (as the Protoss had done) would do nothing to contain it due to it sharing one intellect throughout all parts of itself. Thronus-Regni regarded direct intervention as unnecessary for now despite the Protoss' pleas about not wishing to be consumed, thus it directed them to venture to The Chords to uncover information on how to stop the Pisungall.

After some time travelling, the Spear of Adun arrived at The Chords, a small society in Unknown Space centred around the planet Venteres which appeared to be home to various ornate marble structures. The Protoss' hierarch Artanis announced their title, intensions, and reason of visit (gathering information about the Pisungall on the request of Thronus-Regni), which the Chords responded to with 'Platform 40, Venteres. Info Code 19', which the Protoss interpreted as a location to be headed to. Artanis, soon joined by Zeratul from aboard the Voidseeker, arrived on a lrge landing platform held together by a metal frame attached to a marble building with a sealed door, which they opened by imputing 'Info Code 19' into a nearby control panel with a text box, giving them access to a vast library containing billions of physical books. They felt extreme apprehension at picking up books unrelated to what they were looking for, though luckily an unexplained instict lead the two to the documents about The Pisungall, eventually encountering a text labled 'The Pisungall; Fluidum Unanimes'. The book described it as a 'sentient entity' native to Pisura's caverns which had spread across much of the Alpha Quadrant, followed by a table of contents describing its Resurgence, Biography, Infection, 'Fluidum Unanimes', and Personality:

• The Resurgence section described its recent activities in the past few years.
• The Biography section described how it had spread across the Galaxy before being banished by Thronus-Regni, how it was very unique biologically with no clear origins, how it was entirely composed of animate shapeshifting (not sufficient enough to disguise itself though) grayish-black fluid, and how it infected lifeforms by entering their bodies.
• The Infection section described how it spread by entering the body of a (typically sapient) host organism and dissolved their organs in order to puppeteer them akin to a zombie, maintaining the form until it decided to spread further by exploding out droplets that would enter other organisms to dissolve their interior until they could puppeteer their bodies as well with enough intricacy to at least pilot spacecrafts, with the most notable ways of noticing an infected being a vacant gaze, stuff muscles, distorted voices, and incoherent speech.
• The Fluidum Unanimes section described how regardless of form of instance, all parts of The Pisungall shared one mind permeating through all of its parts rather than a traditional hivemind consisting of an aggregate of minds.
• The Personality section described how it desired nothing more than control by spreading itself onto as many beings and worlds as possible, finding some degree of amusement in the feeble attempts to stop its spread and the suffering of its hosts, and how it spoke in choppy sentences which only included the words it deemed most important and only emphasised its own name all in a monotone riddle-like tone.

Artanis remarked how the Preservers on Zhakul likely knew of it, but Zeratul noted that they had the information now regardless, with the knowledge making its way through the Khala to the Khalai Protoss, who told what they knew to the PRI.

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Invasion of the Blarg Horde

The CSIS freaked out after receiving the reports and prepared its ships to destroy entire planets if they had to in order to contain its spread and set up self-destruction protocols as to avoid its own crew from suffering. While the Protoss and Blarg Republic were busy cracking remaining Blarg Horde planets which had not been absorbed by the Pisungall (leading to Guallar being cracked by a fleet from the Tal'darim Protoss), the Pisungall launched an invasion of the Yelnik Hivemind, annexing the western half of its territory in a rapid conquest. The Order of the Metal Mind issued 'threat alert 7' (out of 10) and assisted in conducting electronic warfare against the Pisungall. The Accord, CSIS, Yelniks, and Protoss came together to oppose the threat, opting to follow advice from Thronus-Regni suggesting orbital bombardment, quarantine, and gradual clearing of affected areas. The alliance quickly recruited others, with the Protoss managing to gather the Galactic Federation, Terzan Coalition, Hyacinthan Realm of Terria-Nel, and the Holy Order of the Seraphocosm (whom were its allies via the Galactic Treaty Organization) to support the campaign, soon also being joined by the Zerg Collective under Miraak, the Blarg Republic, the Blarg Kingdom, the members of the Rim Alliance, the Neuvum Combine, the Realm of Orion, among many others (while other attempts failed such as when they tried to recruit Secunda Chimaera). Simultaneously, a series of gamma-ray-bursts occurred around Blarra Prime, considerably damaging lifeforms and technologies on Blarra Prime itself as well as Frainn, Jaizura, and Varne. With all of the members of the coalition prepared, the anti-Pisungall coalition forces rushed into Pisungall-controlled space.

The Pisungall claimed to expect the attack as various Blarg planets were bombarded, while the CSIS considered creating an inoculation preventing infection until the PRI noted that doing so was not possible due to the method of infection (the Pisungall entering a body and physically hijacking it), thus the CSIS resorted to thick armour which wouldn't allow the Pisungall entry if set to extra-atmospheric mode, while the Protoss remained protected via psionic shields. The invasion appeared to be occurring quite easily, though occasional Pisungall outbreaks did occur in Accord space via infiltrators, which the Accord and PRI dealt with. Pisungall ships in their core territory were easily mopped up as Sannona and Qelenne were bombarded, Blarra Prime was encircled, and the outbreaks within coalition territories were cleared as society-wide medical checkups were organized, though the CSIS did notice that a Pisungall force had exited their territory and headed southwards into unclaimed space. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the 'southern' expedition was pointed towards Rokath despite the Cult of Yarren unsuccessfully trying to stop the Pisungall's advances (which it saw as 'defiling the holy ones') in an attempt to assimilate the Immanis-Colosseuses (whom numbered in the hundreds on the planet, while most other planets they inhabited only had one or two) to gather immeasurable amounts of biomass, which the coalition quickly moved to stop. Meanwhile, most remaining resistance in Pisungall space itself slowly broke down as Blarg forces bombarded the Pisungall off of Blarra Prime. The Pisungall repopulated extremely quickly on Rokath to the point of becoming nearly unstoppable, prompting Thronus-Regni to find the situation dangerous enough to directly intervene as the Protoss & CSIS failed to bombard the planet effectively enough. Thronus-Regni proclaimed to the Pisungall that it would be banished far away, and as it would survive in Pisura despite everyone's best efforts, Pisura too would be banished far away, relocating the planet into Unknown Space via reality-manipulating powers. While some pieces of Pisungall remained in the areas they had subjugated, if managed properly they were expected to be cleared out over the coming decades, especially as the final remaining pockets of resistance fell to coalition forces.