In fact, he has been very depressed ever since he led the fleet and traveled to this damn, cursed universe.
As a great Protoss Archon, he should have led the heroic Templars under his command to contribute his own strength in the final battle that determined life and death.
But just as he was preparing his troops and preparing to set off for the battlefield, Archbishop Artanis found him.
The Archbishop gave him an important task, a key mission related to the continuation of the Protoss race.
Although he regretted not being able to participate in the final battle, Harlans still accepted the task - to lead the colonial fleet into a newly discovered new universe and find a way for the Protoss clan to preserve the race's fire.
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His colonial fleet set off in batches, entering this new universe one by one.
However, just after his main colonial fleet entered this universe through warp speed, he immediately discovered that their connection with the original universe was actually cut off!
It feels like a group of people boldly walked into a dark haunted house full of unknown and mysterious atmosphere, and then the door suddenly disappeared behind them.
They were immediately helpless.
And that's not the worst.
Just when Harlans was trying every means to contact the other side of the universe, among the first few colonial fleets that arrived, a reconnaissance fleet composed of Dark Templar warriors suddenly passed through some very secret ways.
They sent a terrifying message - their fleet is being ambushed by an unknown force!
The first few fleets that crossed over had been completely destroyed in the ambush. Even the reconnaissance and exploration fleet of the Dark Templars barely managed to escape from the enemy's surprise attack with great effort.
After receiving the warning, Harlans immediately changed the fleet's crossing of the navigation beacon without saying a word, abandoning all the previously established beacon locations and switching to an unknown new location.
This action allowed his main fleet to successfully escape the dangerous situation of being ambushed by the Xel'Naga fleet, but it also caused them to get lost in the vast sea of stars.
If the Dark Templar fleet that had a chance to escape later found their location through the psychic beacons between the fleets, I am afraid they would have been wandering in this vast universe for many years.
However, even if the two fleets finally successfully reunited, their situation did not improve at all.
Several location landmarks that were previously detected through detectors that were conducive to the construction of colonies were no longer available - the Dark Templar warriors who met told him that the one who ambushed their fleet was a very powerful and unprecedented force.
The biological fleet, based on their strength at the time, was absolutely incapable of confronting them head-on.
With no other choice, Harlans could only take his fleet and randomly cross the universe to try his luck, hoping to find a suitable place to use as a temporary base.
Fortunately, they seem to have changed their fortunes.
After countless years of aimless and random crossings, they finally found a resource star in a star system that was hidden enough and had exploitable mineral deposits.
Harlans immediately decided to set up a temporary base on this planet, and then massively accumulated resources to expand the fleet, preparing to avenge the previous deaths of his compatriots.
At the same time, it is also to eliminate security risks in future colonization.
At that time, they did not know what kind of enemy they were facing, so they could only conduct analysis based on existing intelligence.
After a period of development and recuperation, Harlans finally had a powerful enough force in their hands, and the resources of the planet where their temporary base was located had been exhausted.
Therefore, Harens ordered to abandon the planet, took all his tribesmen and fleets with him, and once again crossed into the deep space of the universe, heading towards the previously abandoned beacon location, preparing to launch his own battle of revenge.
However, the embarrassing thing is that after they searched the star area where all the beacon locations are located, they did not find the attacking fleet at all.
Even if it weren't for the wreckage of the previously destroyed colonial fleet still floating miserably in the void, Harlans would have thought that he had been deceived.
After all, since Carla was cut off, it has been a long time since he had such in-depth spiritual communication with the Templars of his own race as before.
Faced with the current embarrassing situation, Harens has two choices.
One is to continue the previous colonization plan and send deep space transport ships to colonize the previously abandoned beacon sectors.
But this plan was very risky. Since he could not find traces of his opponent, Harens could not confirm the enemy's current location at all.
Once the colonization plan is launched, the distance between the colonies spanning hundreds of sectors will be beyond the reach of his fleet.
If an enemy suddenly began to attack a colony that was being established, his fleet would have to tail behind the opponent, which would put them in an extremely disadvantageous situation.
The second option is also not wise. This option is to temporarily abandon the colonial star areas that are too far away and gather all the colonies within the range that the fleet can reach at one time. In this way, no matter which colony the enemy attacks, they can attack it in time.
Provide support.
However, the problem with this plan is that the colonies gathered together cannot achieve the expected results of the original colonization plan, and the support and reinforcements provided to the fleet will be very limited.
And this is like putting all the eggs in one basket. Once something goes wrong in the fleet battle, all the protoss will be destroyed.
The most critical thing is that they have too little effective information about this unknown enemy. They don't even know if this enemy only has one fleet.
In this case, Harlans' options were actually very limited.
After deliberation for a long time, the Protoss Archon finally made a decision that was beyond everyone's expectations under tremendous pressure - to temporarily put aside the establishment of the colony, and fully search for the location of the hostile biological fleet, and find the location of the hostile biological fleet.
Have a fight with the opponent first at the right time.
Harlans made this decision based on their current situation.
After all, the protoss is different from the insect swarm. Each of their tribesmen is a very precious resource, especially now that they have been cut off from another universe. With their current manpower, they simply cannot withstand the destruction of the colony.
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So he needs more information about his opponents, and then he will have more room to make decisions.
Moreover, he believed that with the power they had now, even if they found themselves unable to defeat the other side during the battle, they would at least be able to ensure that the large forces retreated safely.
At the same time, in order to avoid risks, he sent a deep space transport ship loaded with dormant warehouses and a large amount of supplies to find other safer planets to hide temporarily as a final insurance for the plan.
After doing all this, Harlans defied all opinions and began to lead the fleet to roam among the vast stars, looking for the hostile biological fleet that had killed countless of their compatriots.
With this search, countless years have passed by in a hurry...(To be continued)
