Matthew formed another paramilitary group called Freedom Fighters and began researching upgrades for his army in the armory compartment of the ship. He came up with the Neosteel Frame upgrade allowing the bunker to hold up to six marines and the commander center to hold 10 SCVs. He installed the Medic Facilities into the barracks to train medics and the Projectile Accelerator into the bunker enabled occupants to reach further enemies. He gave SCVs Dual Fusion Welders for them to repair faster and enabled them to construct a building as a team. He also managed to make the schematics for the Raven and the Science vessel support ship with detector installed that could do nano-tech repairs, and irradiate biological enemies. The cantina was where the crew had drinks and meals there. As a leader, he realized that he needed more resources to sustain his army. The starmap in the bridge was always up-to-date in location in the galaxy. His fleet approached a planet which was extremely high temperature due to periodically volcanic activity that the lava flooded the low ground for a certain period of time until it subsided.
He received an incoming transmission from Gabriel Tosh who appeared to be African. "I see you made it here. They call me Tosh. You help me mine the minerals I need and I'll make it worth your while."
"What's the catch?" the engineer asked.
"Well, this place is a little...unstable. The low ground gets flooded with lava every few minutes. Of course that's where the richest mineral nodes are found. But that'll be no problem for a big tough guy like you," Tosh informed.
"Scans are picking up Zerg biosignatures, they are now moving against you," the adjutant warned.
"Zerg, let's kick their asses like always," he thought.
Despite the mining operation started, "Alert! Lava surge imminent, evacuate low ground immediately," the adjutant announced. Matthew ordered all the SCVs to move to the high ground and wait for the lava to subside.
After the lava subsided, the mining SCVs returned to work.
"I got friends coming to help you out, Reapers," Tosh introduced the hovering medium-armored infantry equipped with jetpacks giving them the role of scouts and enabled them to do cliff jumps. Those raiders were equipped with combat drugs used outside of combat when wounded. Their weapons were a pair of piercing pistols used on ground forces and siege-capable explosive charges used for demolishing buildings. "Fear the Reaper man," muttered a Reaper.
"Some of my boys disappeared in this area. Want to see if they're still alive," Tosh muttered. Matthew sent scouts to a nearby area where Tosh's miners and command center was located. "Tosh sent ya to help? About time! Let's finish up this contract and get the hell off this planet," the SCV spoke as they did not want to stay in the planet longer. Tosh's crew not only limited to miners, he also brought Reapers along. Matthew sent a force of marines, medics, Reapers, Hellions, a Raven, and siege tanks to destroy the Zerg hive clusters while rescuing Tosh's other Reapers.
The addition of Tosh's miners sped up the mining progress; however the SCVs had to be loaded into the command center that lift off during lava surge. The construction of another command center could take the miners to another location with mineral nodes.
With the Zerg hive clusters destroyed and the mining operation finished reaching the quota of 8,000 minerals, everyone departed the planet. Tosh boarded the Zeus to talk with Matthew about doing more business ventures, "Ah here's the man! We make a good team, me and you."
"Why are you here, Tosh? What other business do we have?" Matthew asked.
"I got another job for us on a world called Bel'Shir," Tosh answered.
"What's in it for me? Piracy is not my thing," said Matthew.
"A very old man from another world told me about a prophecy that warriors would come and save his world as well as this sector from the burning shadow threatened to destroy anything during conquest. He said that you, your brother, and I are in the prophecy and we shouldn't waste time on Mengsk," Tosh remembered his encounter with the elderly man who could also take form of a white owl magically.
"How does he know about my brother and us?" Matthew asked.
"I do not know," Tosh could not answer.
"I'll think about it. Welcome on board. We'll talk later," Matthew welcomed Tosh and headed to the armory.
For the marines, he came up with Combat Shields that they could hold with their left hands and fire their guns with their right hands. He upgraded the Marauders with Kinetic Foam to enhance durability and concussive shells to slow enemy's movements. He researched smart shells for siege tanks to reduce friendly fire damages and the armor-piercing tip increasing the damage on their primary targets in siege mode.