Purging of the Zerg Wildlands

The Chaos Agenda purge of the Zerg Wildlands forced all of the zerg and terran forces within the lands to quickly evacuate.

## History

### Background

The Chaos Agenda wanted new territory to expand their borders, and thought it would be a good time to test out their newly-created FEV-ZDV.2 gas. Small mortar emplacements were set up at the edges of the Zerg Wildlands, and the purging began.

### Course of the Battle

When the gas struck, its first victims were a squad of nine Zerg Swarm roaches which were burrowed at the time. When they inhaled the gas, they felt immeasurable pain and went to tell an Overseer about this. When they did find one, however, they blew up on the spot. The FEV-ZDV.2 reacts with Swarm zerg's psionic will, causing them to blow up instead of horrifically mutate and turn aggressive. The overseer scanned the gas and immediately alerted the Zerg Swarm, which heavily evacuated afterwards. Some spore crawlers stayed behind to shoot down oncoming FEV-ZDV.2 mortar shells.

However, the Cult of Destruction took notice of the gas, and utilized scorched earth tactics to hide a secret research facility within the lands. Suddenly, much of the Zerg Swarm was trapped, with no escape. Drones suddenly sprung into action and morphed into nydus networks, which summoned nydus worms to speed up escapes.

After escape, the Swarm did a head count. 75% of the main Swarm was lost, and around half of terran forces either died trying to escape or sacrificed themselves to save the zerg. Mount Erebus and the Poseidon Shipyards were blown up with nuclear explosions to prevent capture from Chaos.

The Chaos Agenda had won the battle... or had they?

### Pyrrhic Victory

The immediate victory did not come with its fair share of consequences. While smaller strains of zerg were caught and killed in the relentless barrage of FEV-ZDV.2, tougher strains of zerg benefitted from the gas and mutated into creatures of absolute perdition.

#### Spotters

An overseer stayed behind, having the odd hypothesis that the gas would mutate it. It inhaled some of the gas into its bloodstream, and lo and behold, the overseer morphed into a **Spotter**. Spotters were greatly enhanced versions of the overseer, essentially floating radar stations. They could track weather, wind, enemy movements, you name it. This first spotter, which called itself **Mriya**, flew away from the raging infernos of the Cult of Destruction's fire. Many more emerged from the wildlands later that day.

A spotter.A spotter's face up-close.
#### Tyrannozors

Meanwhile, while the Spotter escaped the wildlands, an ultralisk was unable to escape. As it reminisced of its old brood and friends, it suddenly inhaled a dose of FEV-ZDV.2, and underwent brutal mutations. Its two frontal legs were now more gigantic, and resembled arms more than legs. It grew massive back plates, a singular initimdating horn on the front of its face, and an extremely spiked back. It had mutated into what's known as a **Tyrannozor**, an extremely deadly assault beast meant for extreme tanking. Studies conducted by the terran head scientist Otto Delven showed that the Tyrannozor is the third tankiest zerg known to them. Second place was held to *Torrasque*, and the first place was held by the Zerg Swarm's *Brutalisk*.

A tyrannozor.A tyrannozor's face up-close.
#### Dehaka

The most terrifiying creature to mutate and escape the wildlands alive is known as **Dehaka**. Before the accident, he was about to be hunted down by a hydralisk, until a *certain pale swordsman* saved him. After that, the zergling lived in relative peace and was obsessed with change. Then, the wildlands purge happened. As it tried to escape, it inhaled some FEV-ZDV.2, but the mutations did not take place immediately. While it was running, its mutations suddenly took place. Now, the zergling stood like a human, grew four arms, and now had devastating strength. It quickly used its new abilities to create its own pathway out of the wildlands, unintentionally freeing many more zerg to escape.

Dehaka.Dehaka's face up-close.While the Chaos Agenda quickly obtained and settled into their new territory, they created terrifying and brutal monsters in the process.