The protoss now also has a lot of colonies and resource stars. Although their population is not very large, fortunately they have good intelligent equipment manufacturing technology.
The phase technicians of the Protoss have not been idle in the past forty years. They have improved and reused some technologies from the "Purifier" project on the colony ship "Far Star" to create for the Protoss.
Many new intelligent machines have been developed.
Among them, the "Flagbearer-class" and "Holyfire-class" warships of the last two generations of the "Glory Project" are new semi-intelligent warships. The biggest advantage of this kind of warship is that the number of crew members required is greatly reduced. Some
Routine operations and precision calculation operations are now completely completed by the intelligent crystal brain.
In addition, the aircraft carriers in the Protoss fleet are now semi-intelligent, as are the Void Glow ships and various types of Protoss fighters.
The only protoss warship that is difficult to achieve semi-intelligent status is the storm warship. Because the powerful and unstable energy accumulated in the storm warship will destroy the connection function between the intelligent crystal brain and the ship body, this type of warship can still only
It is piloted by protoss crew members wearing heavy protective suits.
In any case, the protoss group led by Harens is now working hard to move their civilization closer to the era of semi-intelligent drones. Although this development trend is partly due to the helplessness forced by the situation, the most critical factor is
Or is it the reawakened altered consciousness of the protoss.
They wanted to see if they could create a new home in this strange universe that was different from the original one through their own efforts.
In fact, Protoss is very advanced in its awareness of the research and development of intelligent machinery. They already have a complete set of drone manufacturing sequences.
However, the class consciousness in the Protoss society and the so-called "Glory of the Templars" have always constrained their thoughts of seeking change. The protoss fanatics and templars who fought on the front lines certainly laid the foundation for the development of the protoss civilization.
Although they have achieved great military exploits, the existence of this class also limits the development of protoss unmanned weapons and remotely controlled weapons.
In Xue Hua's view, the traditional training of the Templars cannot be abandoned. It is the best channel to deliver strong high-end combat power to the protoss group, but the advantages of the entire group's intelligent mechanical weapons should also continue to be promoted.
Especially now that the protoss group led by Harlans happens to be short of manpower, it is a very wise choice to vigorously develop intelligent equipment to replace manpower.
Harens obviously understands this just like Xue Hua. His phase technicians have designed a large number of automatic mechanical weapons for the Protoss Fleet and Protoss Legion that are completely controlled by intelligent crystal brains in the past few decades.
This includes the mechanical protoss warrior legions of the former "Purifier" project.
Although Harens did not have that many protoss warrior consciousnesses that could be input into the crystal array cores of these mechanical protoss warriors, the protoss phase technicians still came up with a way to use the collective tactical command of the intelligent crystal brain.
To replace the consciousness of the original fallen protoss warrior.
Although this approach will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the mechanical protoss warriors, correspondingly, their manufacturing difficulty and cost will also be reduced a lot, and such mechanical warriors do not have to worry about losses and consumption on the battlefield, and even at critical moments
Like the insect swarm units, they can be used to block the enemy's gun holes or cover the retreat of other elite protoss units.
In addition to the mechanical protoss fanatics, the protoss phase technicians have also improved and developed many units that did not originally exist in the "Purifier" project, such as the "mechanical apostles" and "mechanical apostles" that are purely controlled by intelligent crystal brains.
Hunter".
Both of these units have different characteristics. Although their individual combat effectiveness is generally not as good as that of normal Apostles and Stalkers, like Mechanical Zealots, they are much better than the former two in terms of cost and quantity.
However, what makes the Protoss Phase Technicians most proud is that after deconstructing the design drawings of the "Disruptor" intelligent machinery in the "Purifier" project, they successfully obtained inspiration from the design ideas of its solar debris reactor.
, thus creating a psychic storm reaction matrix with the Keldarin Crystal Array as the core.
This reaction matrix can bind extremely large psychic powers around the crystal array, and use the crystal brain in the crystal array to control these psychic powers.
Such a huge cluster of psychic power can make this huge psychic sphere run rampant on the battlefield as if it were an uninhabited land, and its destructive power has almost reached the level of an "Archon".
However, each protoss archon is a short-lived spark obtained by two high-ranking templars sacrificing themselves. For the protoss group led by Harens, such a sacrifice is simply unacceptable.
However, the birth of this "Crystal Archon" gave the protoss the hope of mass-producing powerful Archon-level combat effectiveness on the battlefield. Although the "Crystal Archon" lasts longer than ordinary Archons after it starts to stimulate energy.
It is much shorter, and the core crystal array of the "Crystal Archon" is not cheap at all.
But at least this powerful power does not need to be accompanied by the self-sacrifice of high-level templars. For the protoss who are still short of manpower, this alternative is completely acceptable.
Currently, the protoss are working hard to build a huge fleet composed of battleships completely controlled by intelligent crystal brains. This fleet will have the primary task of protecting the protoss' real main fleet and become the new vanguard of the protoss fleet.
With the help of Xue Hua, the protoss has now obtained a lot of resource stars and new colonies. With the support of these backings, their smart fleet plan is progressing rapidly. So far, they have five huge new fleets.
fleet.
These new fleets use a small number of protoss ships as the command core, patrolling their important colonial hubs and providing strong military support for the development of the protoss group.
Protoss Executive Harens was very grateful for the various aids provided by the Zerg Swarm to the development of their tribe. He promised that the Protoss would always be an ally of the Zerg Swarm and help the Zerg Swarm fight against the invasion of the Xel'Naga and other enemies.
With such a powerful ally covering their flanks, the swarm freed up all its hands and feet while exploring the universe.
Currently, the 1st, 4th and 5th fleets led by Stukov personally are searching for traces of the Xel'Naga fleet in deep space.
Xue Hua hoped that they could find and defeat more Xel'Naga fleets before the final battle began to weaken the opponent's strength.
However, the Xel'Naga fleet seems to have figured out the scope of activities of the protoss and insect swarm fleets. They completely avoided all reconnaissance activities of the two races, retracted all their power into the shadows, and did not give anything to the insect swarm.
It's possible to catch them.
In this regard, Xue Hua had no other good solution. He could only ask Stukov to increase his search efforts and try his best to find clues about the activities of the Xel'Naga fleet.