Shoot the Messenger

Izsha: The protoss still seek to warn Shakuras of our presence. They are preparing to send shuttles through their warp network to Shakuras!

Main Objectives:

  • Destroy All Protoss Shuttles (8 Waves Remaining)
  • No Shuttles Can Escape

Bonus Objectives:

  • Destroy the Stasis Chambers (0/3) – (+1 Kerrigan Level each)

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Cutscene

Izsha: The protoss are preparing shuttles for launch.

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Kerrigan: A warp conduit. I sense millions of protoss minds on the other side… Shakuras! If a single shuttle passes through they can alert Shakuras to our presence.

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Izsha: Should we destroy it then?

Kerrigan: No, they would detect that. Our only choice is to stop their shuttles from reaching the conduit.

Gameplay

Kerrigan: Nafash’s hydralisks! Abathur, assimilate their essence into the Swarm.

Abathur: Hydralisk reconstituted. Can morph from larva.

Kerrigan: I need more hydralisks to destroy these shuttles.

Izsha: We should morph more hydralisks to destroy the enemy’s flying units.

Izsha: My queen, the protoss have launched a shuttle. It is enroute to a warp conduit.

Kerrigan: Not if I have anything to say about it. We will bring down that shuttle!

Expedition Leader: Engage the hive directly! Our shuttles must break through!

Kerrigan: You will never leave this ball of ice!

Izsha: My queen, the protoss were gathering biological samples and storing them in these stasis chambers.

Kerrigan: We’ll destroy the chambers, and take the biomass if we can.

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Izsha: The protoss launched another shuttle. This one is accompanied by a fighter escort.

Expedition Leader: You cannot stop us all, Kerrigan!

Izsha: The protoss launched another shuttle. It’s bearing towards an unknown location.

Kerrigan: They’re bringing more warp conduits online. I sense two more activating.

Izsha: A protoss shuttle has reached the warp conduit! It must be destroyed before it jumps out of the system.

Izsha: The protoss are launching shuttles from a new base.

Kerrigan: Well, that makes things a little more complicated.

Abathur: Large quantities of biomass. Good to have. Can use to improve Swarm.

    Note: Nafash’s hive cluster is found east of your hive base, by the corner of the map.

Kerrigan: This hive cluster now belongs to the Swarm.

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Kerrigan: Another chamber destroyed. What were the protoss doing with all this biomass?

The protoss are launching two sets of shuttles. Tenacious bastards.

Izsha: I am sensing a protoss psionic matrix. Your forces are nearing the enemy’s base.

Izsha: The protoss have launched more shuttles.

Expedition Leader: One shuttle through the conduit, and you will feel the might of the Golden Armada!

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Izsha: The protoss have launched more shuttles.

Kerrigan: The protoss launched three shuttles at once! They’re bearing towards the same conduit!

Izsha: The protoss have launched a mothership.

Kerrigan: They must be using it to cloak shuttles.

Kerrigan: All forces, defend the central conduit! Tear their ships from the sky!

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Cutscene

Kerrigan: That’s the last. The warp conduits are useless to them now.

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Izsha: You’ve done it, my queen. The protoss threat is removed.

Kerrigan: Nothing is done until they are all dead.

 

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