They pierce the surface and mantle the too.
-Liberty's Crusade
"One of the pulsing beams punched through the crust itself, and the ground erupted in a volcanic
upwelling. Magma pushed to the surface, consuming everything that had been uprooted by the energy
beams. Most of the world’s atmosphere was burning now, torn away from the orb in a veil that trailed it
in orbit, and what was left spiraled in hurricanes and tornadoes, until destroyed by more beams."
"The technician continued, “The orange spikes appear to be magma breaches through the planetary
mantle. They are located at the locations of the known settlements.” A pause. “Plus at least a dozen other
locations.”
Mike looked at the swirling, deadly rainbow on the screen. The sun was cresting the horizon ahead of
them, and the world looked no better in the sunlight. Only a few dark clouds, thin as crow feathers,
dragged across the sunlight side.
“In addition, eighty percent of the atmosphere has been blown off in the attack,” continued the
technician.
“Any orbital presence?” asked Duke, an armorplated monolith in their midst.
“Working,” said the tech. Finally came the response, “Negative. Nothing of ours. Nothing of unknown
origin either. There may be some fragments on a larger scan.”
“Widen the scan,” said Duke. “I want to know if there’s anything out here. Ours or theirs.”
“Working . . . Definite fragments. Likely ours. Would need a salvage team to confirm.”
“Why did they do this?” Mike asked, but no one answered him. Techs in lighter-weight combat suits
tapped displays with gauntleted hands, and the numerous heads on the screens all talked at once to
Colonel Duke.
Finally Mike came up with a question he thought they could answer. “What did this? Nukes?”
The word seemed to reak Duke from his steady stream of information. He looked at the reporter.
“Atomic delivery systems leave blackened glass and burning forests. Even Korhal had some surviving
pockets of clear terrain, for a while at least. Chau Sara has been burned down to the liquid core in
places. This is much more deadly than even Apocalypse bombs.”
"“This”—Duke pointed at the screen—“is the work of an alien race, the Protoss. From what I’m being
told, they warped in from nowhere, closer to the planet than we would ever attempt. Huge ships, and a
lot of them. Caught a few transports and scavenger ships and blew them out of the sky. Then they
unleashed whatever-it-was on the planet and sterilized it like a three-minute egg. Then they left again.
Mar Sara’s on the other side of the sun right now, and they’re in a panic that they might be next.”
“Protoss.” Mike shook his head slightly, digesting the data. Something was wrong there. He looked at
the tech’s display, showing the deep radar holes punching down to the planet’s magma.
“You have enough for your report, Mr. Liberty,” Duke said. “We will remain on station in the event of
other hostiles for the foreseeable future. You may mention in any report you file that we will be joined by
theJackson V and theHuey Long within days.”
Amon being strong is rooted in his
vast psionic and void energies though. His energy levels are the very reason he's considered like a god in the series who can rip apart worlds with his bare hands. We had to force him to be depowered for our weapons to
harm him. And even then he was far more powerful than anyone else and one shotted everything at such a weakened state. Kerrigan just has a much smaller pool of power compared to Amon. She reaches and surpass his level too when she turns into a Xel'Naga herself. Kerrigan's psionic energy that the keystoned siphoned from her was also key in reviving Amon from more than just a consciousness. Narud used the keystone that housed Kerrigan's Queen of Blades power to give him back a full body back in the void.
Also here's an
Ultralisk resisting a Void Ray's beam and forcing it to power up to 2 flux field projectors because it wasn't strong enough. A
hive forced it to do the
same thing too. Void Ray going at the power of
3 flux field projectors destroyed an entire fleet of Zerg which included brood lords
They can be used again despite them being technically being banned now.
People don't care when they're used against the Zerg. This comic takes place after SC1 and is closer to SC2 in time period.