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I recently reached the mission where you have to choose whether to cleanse a colony and side with the protoss, or try to save that colony and fight the protoss.
I chose to save the colony, that gave me +3 zerg research, and a nice cut-scene of the doctor leaving the ship and asking me to settle down with her.
What is the difference on that mission if one chooses to side with the protoss? Does this choice affect the story somehow? How does the doctor react?
Don't give up -- Just keep practicing! You should get an auto-save just prior to or just after activating the third part of the prophecy. If you've managed to get all your stalkers up until that point, you can continually reload from there until you succeed.
Other Tips: Just keep running. Don't stop to fight, kill nydus worms, etc, anything. Your first blink should be into the lowground "pit" with the zerg defenses. Stun one with Zeratul and then just charge up the ramp -- you'd take more damage going the long way around.
Blink over rocks when you can, but when you get to the set of two rocks, blink in between and destroy the second pair (the zerg will have to stop to destroy the first set)
When in doubt, blink!
Edit: I just completed the mission again today, and can emphatically restate that you do not want to take the suggested route (delimited by the arrows on the minimap) but cut straight through the little zerg base in the pit. Just keep running, and you should be able to escape handily (Just be careful about where your units are before you blink -- I wound up only saving 5 of the 6 stalkers because one poor fellow misjudged the blink distance and wound up having to go the long way around. :( )
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The doctor wasn't only trying to save the colony but was also trying to save herself. She turned out to be half-infested already and the cutscene after the mission shows you dealing an infested version of her.
I didn't find any noticeable impacts on the decision I made aside from the bonus research though.
EDIT: Didn't notice this one. Apparently the reward is visual. WIKI
For Safe Haven (siding with the terrans) you get a banner from the refugees.
For Haven's Fall (siding with the protoss) you get a commemorative plaque from Selendis.