The Ulaan Prophecy

Year: 320 CE - tba

HAWK had previously put significant attention onto the Zergs, allowing it to now notice that the 'will' guiding them had changed from a corrupting/controlling force to someone new seemingly following the will of the Zergs themselves. HAWK launched some experiments to see if it could influence Zergs via psionic stimulations, though HAWK's own ability to communicate via the Noosphere was quite limited (due to being an artificial intellignece), with the recipient needing to already be skilled enough to do so as well to catch HAWK's emitted thoughts, which was also why HAWK didn't use it for long-range communications due to being interceptable. HAWK's experiments lead to the drone responsible being found by other Zergs (who were attracted to major 'psionic hotspots') whom destroyed it.

HAWK decided to cease its research into the Zerg for now, but uncovered a strange oddity where Zerg and Protoss DNA appeared to be compatible despite being clearly very distinct beings, prompting HAWK to combine both of their genomes into an artificial growth apparatus in the Containment System to see what would happen, leading to the creation of the first 'Zerg-Protoss Hybrids', highly powerful sapient beings capable of incredible feats such as mind-control. HAWK analysed their behaviour by guiding them thru the facility from the room they woke up in (containing a monitor showing landscapes) towards a biodome, learning that they appeared to be fairly passive thanks to only now learning their motor skills despite being in mature forms, leading to a couple-week-long learning period following which they were given riddles which they found easy. In response to encountering animals, one of the Hybrids consumed one via assimilation which they others didn't like, though afterwards none of them seemed to react to any kind of animal aside from simply studying them. HAWK began training them to interact with the world while also giving them nutritional packages to eat. Once a Zerg was let into the biodome, the Hybrids quickly mind-controlled it in a similar fashion to how The Overmind had previously ruled over the Zerg Collective.

HAWK gave them a computer-interface to interact thru, which they used to wonder how they were created to which HAWK explained that they were descendants of powerful creatures placed under HAWK's protection, imploring them to state their needs in return for allowing HAWK to keep monitoring them. HAWK was still cautious due to how powerful the Hybrids clearly were, placing the asteroid containing them onto an unstable orbit which would send it into a black-hole within a year if its thrusters ever went offline while also analysing their entire bodies down to metabolic and neural functions. Their sheer psionic potential matched up with the only records of such creatures existing prior to HAWK creating this group, which were 'legends' among the Protoss which described them as harbingers of the apocalypse according to a prophecy engraved by their gods on the unknown space planet of Ulaan. HAWK decided to investigate this planet, sending 5 Type-2 HAWK Craft which scanned for any kind of artificial activity and structures, locating 3 temples underneath its crust, though during these scans a extremely advanced Protoss stealth-ship known as the 'Voidseeker' (which was roughly 'fighter sized') arrived in the system around the same time that the psionic frequencies of Protoss and especially Zerg began being detected, prompting HAWK to hide its crafts in the system's asteroid belt as to avoid detection while a group of Type-1 HAWK Crafts fully mapped the planet. The Voidseeker descended into Ulaan's caverns and unlocked 'psionic-seals' containing the Temples while the Zerg infested the planet, wiping out all Protoss forces aside from the Voidseeker which left to the Protoss world of Zhakul unscathed after 2 hours. HAWK quickly dropped in probes to analyse all it could before the Zerg could overtake the planet, finding the entire place to be a desolate rocky wasteland with a couple ancient artifacts and temples. Alarmingly, a Hybrid named Maar was detected on Zhakul, forcing a protoss named Zeratul to quickly dicepher the prophecy on the planet, though the three preservers which would normally help with such a task on the planet had been mind-controlled by the Hybrid. HAWK was justifyable concerned by the presence of something prophecised to bring about a galaxy-wide apocalypse, secretly relaying a message to the Protoss leadership recommending them to take immediate action against the threat on Zhakul, prompting the Protoss to send over a fleet and army.

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Luckily, the 'Dark Guardians of Zhakul' were expelled which prompted the Voidseeker to move onto Char