• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 11:59
CET 17:59
KST 01:59
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Finals Preview: Sweet Victory!12[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror6[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5
Community News
Weekly Cups (Oct 26 - Nov 1): MaxPax, herO, Solar win0Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.175Evil Geniuses - shutting down23ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier7Weekly Cups (October 12-18): 5.0.17 era begins1
StarCraft 2
General
No more SC2 streamers on team liquid? [D] Hacker peak in sc2 ? Liquibets sc2 season 30 Evil Geniuses - shutting down Weekly Cups (Oct 26 - Nov 1): MaxPax, herO, Solar win
Tourneys
SC4ALL: II Venue Change Announcement! Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament WardiTV Mondays ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20)
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
Starcraft 2 Advance [D] the control group Simple Questions/Answers [G] How to playtest arcade maps
External Content
Mutation # 550 Graveyard Shift The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 549 Endless Sparkles Mutation # 548 Shining Bright
Brood War
General
SC4ALL: II Venue Change Announcement! Ziemie's Starcraft 1 Prequel Campaign 🇺🇦 Ukrainian StarCraft:BroodWar community reborn Rollback Netcode in Brood War BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues Small VOD Thread 2.0 [$1250] International ShieldBattery League KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
Strategy
50,000-Word Terran Builds Memo 2026-10-22 Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Deus Ex 3!? Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Armies of Exigo - YesYes?
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25!
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread Dating: How's your luck? Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
Fan Club Resource Thread Reynor Fan Club The Flash Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Why I built Repalyzer (1.1.…
BlueStar
Innovate or Game Over?
TrAiDoS
ShieldBattery on Mac
Kraekkling
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 10173 users

Heart of the Swarm plot?

Blogs > Bananas
Post a Reply
1 2 Next All
Bananas
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Sweden98 Posts
August 01 2010 20:20 GMT
#1
If you havent played through campaign yet, then don't read this

+ Show Spoiler +


So in the final mission Kerrigan is deinfested by the Artifact, Tychus shot by Raynor and most(if not all) of the zerg on Char being incinerated by the Artifact pulse.

So what will happen in Heart of the Swarm?

It seems that the Zerg has apparently lost their main leader( and likely player character)aswell as their main power base in the Koprulu sector devastated.

So first of all Blizzard is going to have to conjure up a new protagonist for the zerg( we obviously need a new main character for the zerg, pref a cool one)

Who will this be? Duran,a new cerebrate/overmind , another infested human or hybrids ?

The interesting thing is that Blizzard stated that you will control Infested Kerrigan in the HoTS expansion(quoting this from http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Swarm)

This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that.

Either way i think we can really expect some interesting story in the next expansion.





"terrible terrible damage"
kodancer
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States89 Posts
August 01 2010 20:28 GMT
#2
I'm guessing blizzard is going to write stories in the same time frame. I remember in the campaign where kerrigan depicted somewhat of a jesus model. (It's really vague in my memory as I didn't focus on the story much.) Maybe in her shoes in the last mission, she had another one or even many goals after preventing terran from stopping the zerg. Maybe. haha
blastedt
Profile Joined April 2010
United States29 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 20:30:57
August 01 2010 20:29 GMT
#3
+ Show Spoiler +
Looking at her hair, I'd say she isn't totally uninfected. I think she'll still be able to control zerg in small numbers while retaining her humanity, which also allows Blizzard to implement the progression of Kerrigan as they wanted - the better you've upgraded Kerrigan the more zerg she can control. Maybe she'll side with Raynor and help bring down Mengsk. Possibly Raynor will be out of the picture somehow, putting her in this position - it'd be very easy for Valerian and Mengsk to grab Raynor directly after that last cutscene.
thopol
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Japan4560 Posts
August 01 2010 20:34 GMT
#4
On August 02 2010 05:20 Bananas wrote:
If you havent played through campaign yet, then don't read this

+ Show Spoiler +


So in the final mission Kerrigan is deinfested by the Artifact, Tychus shot by Raynor and most(if not all) of the zerg on Char being incinerated by the Artifact pulse.

So what will happen in Heart of the Swarm?

It seems that the Zerg has apparently lost their main leader( and likely player character)aswell as their main power base in the Koprulu sector devastated.

So first of all Blizzard is going to have to conjure up a new protagonist for the zerg( we obviously need a new main character for the zerg, pref a cool one)

Who will this be? Duran,a new cerebrate/overmind , another infested human or hybrids ?

The interesting thing is that Blizzard stated that you will control Infested Kerrigan in the HoTS expansion(quoting this from http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Swarm)

This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that.

Either way i think we can really expect some interesting story in the next expansion.


Bolded statements seem incompatible... The single player's format is cool but the story is absurd.
Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
August 01 2010 20:42 GMT
#5
On August 02 2010 05:29 blastedt wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
Looking at her hair, I'd say she isn't totally uninfected. I think she'll still be able to control zerg in small numbers while retaining her humanity, which also allows Blizzard to implement the progression of Kerrigan as they wanted - the better you've upgraded Kerrigan the more zerg she can control. Maybe she'll side with Raynor and help bring down Mengsk. Possibly Raynor will be out of the picture somehow, putting her in this position - it'd be very easy for Valerian and Mengsk to grab Raynor directly after that last cutscene.


u can't ungrow hair, if she shaved her head and let it grow back it'd be normal again i think
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9593 Posts
August 01 2010 20:43 GMT
#6
My take on this is:
+ Show Spoiler +

The game will have a much more RPG-like feel focusing on Kerrigan being half infested/healed and trying to regain her dominance over the Swarm. Raynor will probably be trying to take down Mengsk, Zeratul will be busy with more things in the void, leaving Kerri to try and regain her powers and bend other rebellious broods back to her will.
For the curse of life is the curse of want. PC = https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/LathamTK/builds/#view=CrqmP6
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
August 01 2010 20:46 GMT
#7
+ Show Spoiler +
You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
Follow me: www.twitter.com/zlasher
Eiserne
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States340 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 20:51:29
August 01 2010 20:51 GMT
#8
+ Show Spoiler +
I think they leave Tychus's body there and he becomes the new master of the Zerg.
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
August 01 2010 20:52 GMT
#9
+ Show Spoiler +
Kerrigan's humanity must be saved, she and the zerg are key to stopping the hybrids
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
jobiasRKD
Profile Joined June 2008
United States38 Posts
August 01 2010 21:09 GMT
#10
On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign


+ Show Spoiler +
I think he was hinted to have appeared. The name of the head of the Moebius Foundation, the guy who gave Tychus the locations of all the artifacts in the first place and wanted all of his data destroyed in the Moebius mission, is named Dr. "Narud". And if you spell it backwards...
Semantic Collision
Entertaining
Profile Joined September 2007
Canada793 Posts
August 01 2010 21:17 GMT
#11
On August 02 2010 06:09 jobiasRKD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign


+ Show Spoiler +
I think he was hinted to have appeared. The name of the head of the Moebius Foundation, the guy who gave Tychus the locations of all the artifacts in the first place and wanted all of his data destroyed in the Moebius mission, is named Dr. "Narud". And if you spell it backwards...


Never noticed that , nice find :D
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7032 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 21:25:21
August 01 2010 21:18 GMT
#12
+ Show Spoiler +
How could Kerrigan maintain control over any zerg when the power she had was taken away? Why would she want to control the zerg when the only way to do so would be for her to change her personality and become a murderous, evil sociopath?
Even if they find a way to infest a human in such a way that he would be able to control the zerg and keep the same personality as well, why would they pick Kerrigan for that, why not some other Ghost such as Tosh? After everything she has gone through why would Raynor ever consider making her go through that again? Maybe if Raynor wouldn't trust anyone else with it, but can he really find not a single capable person? I mean, you can train ghosts every single mission, surely he must have some he trusts?
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
{ToT}ColmA
Profile Joined November 2007
Japan3260 Posts
August 01 2010 21:19 GMT
#13
mensk imprison raynor and kerrigan is using whats left of her zerg abilities to get the power to rescue him \o/
The only virgins in kpop left are the fans
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4952 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 21:24:27
August 01 2010 21:20 GMT
#14
On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign


+ Show Spoiler +
He's busy screwing around w/ more hybrids obviously. I was more disappointed about the lack of the UED. I mean what, did they just run in fear that no survivors reported back from the sector? Come on, it's been 4 years!
Complete the cycle!
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
August 01 2010 21:37 GMT
#15
On August 02 2010 06:20 Naib wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign


+ Show Spoiler +
He's busy screwing around w/ more hybrids obviously. I was more disappointed about the lack of the UED. I mean what, did they just run in fear that no survivors reported back from the sector? Come on, it's been 4 years!

+ Show Spoiler +
The UED did have a minor cameo in the campaign, they were just fat and bald.
Sworn
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada920 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 21:45:58
August 01 2010 21:43 GMT
#16
+ Show Spoiler +
Alright this is how its going to work. Zeratul said kerrigan is the key to the universe being saved from the hybrids right? He didn't say she had to be human in my opinion its going to be that they find out that kerrigan has to lead the zerg to for the universe to be save. Cheesy sayings between kerrigan and raynor as they say there good byes and she becomes the queen of blades again just less evil. blah blah blah kerrigan finds out her powers have been greatly diminished from being human and does a whole bunch of stuff to gain her powers back. Ending she fights some hybrid boss saving the protoss before legacy of the void where the final battle vs the hybrids will be fought. Anyways Duran will probably make some appearances to try and stop her from regaining her powers.


At least thats my take on it
"Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather." CJ Entus Fighting! <3 Effort
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7032 Posts
August 01 2010 23:06 GMT
#17
Yeah, but why would that be Kerrigan, what makes her so unique she would have to take on that responsibility?
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Inschato
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada1349 Posts
August 01 2010 23:21 GMT
#18
On August 02 2010 08:06 Mothxal wrote:
Yeah, but why would that be Kerrigan, what makes her so unique she would have to take on that responsibility?

Maybe being a class 12 psi? Nova is only class 10 you know.. (It's mentioned in the book "Starcraft Ghost: Nova")
3.
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7032 Posts
August 01 2010 23:32 GMT
#19
Well, that's just silly powerlevel talk that doesn't belong in a story.
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
August 01 2010 23:38 GMT
#20
On August 02 2010 08:32 Mothxal wrote:
Well, that's just silly powerlevel talk that doesn't belong in a story.


Power level you say?
+ Show Spoiler +
I hope you didn't open this spoiler looking for a meme, those aren't allowed :O
1 2 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 18h 1m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Serral 1345
BRAT_OK 34
MindelVK 11
EnDerr 3
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 16953
Calm 2395
Shuttle 1122
Mini 921
Stork 367
Rush 280
Soulkey 262
Snow 240
Barracks 129
Sharp 118
[ Show more ]
hero 111
Dewaltoss 95
ProTech67
Bale 36
Yoon 33
sorry 28
Hyun 28
Terrorterran 23
soO 18
Rock 16
Killer 14
Movie 14
Hm[arnc] 13
Shine 12
Noble 10
Dota 2
qojqva2829
Counter-Strike
gobbtv282
edward70
Heroes of the Storm
Trikslyr57
Other Games
B2W.Neo1259
syndereN264
Fuzer 195
KnowMe111
ArmadaUGS103
QueenE88
NeuroSwarm42
Railgan27
Chillindude14
Organizations
Other Games
ComeBackTV 238
Counter-Strike
PGL142
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 51
• 3DClanTV 47
• poizon28 44
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• Michael_bg 9
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV802
League of Legends
• Nemesis4469
• TFBlade982
Other Games
• Shiphtur536
Upcoming Events
IntoTheTV X SOOP
18h 1m
Reynor vs Solar
ByuN vs SHIN
Clem vs MaxPax
herO vs Rogue
IPSL
1d
WorsT vs nOmaD
Dewalt vs andersOn
AI Arena Tournament
1d 2h
IntoTheTV X SOOP
1d 18h
IPSL
2 days
Azhi_Dahaki vs ggnore13
Double vs WIZARD
Replay Cast
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
WardiTV Invitational
3 days
YoungYakov vs Lambo
SHIN vs TBD
Percival vs Shameless
Solar vs TBD
PiGosaur Cup
4 days
[ Show More ]
The PondCast
5 days
KCM Race Survival
5 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-11-05
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HCC Season 3

Ongoing

Acropolis #5
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
International ShieldBattery League
BSL Season 23
IPSL Winter 2026-27
Calamity Cup Div. A Season 8
IEM Beijing 2026
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026

Upcoming

Sector 951
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
Underdog Cup 2026 Div 2-3
PGL Bucharest 2027
BLAST Bounty Winter 2027
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.