EPTFor a long time in this community the uncanny resemblance between Evil Geniuses’ Idra and Machine has been noted, but did you ever wonder exactly what the cause of this is? Thanks to an exhaustive investigation as well as tips from several anonymous sources, I am finally able to bring you the truth about these two players.
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Take a good look at the two photos above. The first is a picture of Idra during his Brood War career, the second a picture during his Starcraft 2 career. See the difference? It’s almost like the two photos aren’t of the same person.
When switching over from Brood War to Starcraft 2, Idra struggled. He found it hard to adjust to a ‘fucking awful’ game after playing a game he truly loved and even after a few months of training his skill at the game had not reached a high enough level. The management at Evil Geniuses soon noticed these problems. They wanted the marketability of Idra, but needed him to dominate the foreign scene like in Brood War.
At the same time as this was going on, EG had another Zerg player named Machine, who was adapting to Starcraft 2 much faster than his teammate but far too good mannered to possess the killer instinct to truly live up to his potential or become infamous enough. What EG needed was a player with the best qualities of both Idra and Machine, and they soon found a way to achieve this.
Deep in the bowels of the EG lair, work began in earnest on creating a robotic Idra, but an Idra modified to have the physique and Zerg-playing skill of Machine, which had been proven to be excellent for playing Starcraft 2. However, the robot was not be given a personality completely resembling Machine’s, all traces of good manner and emotion being removed. Several other useful traits were added, such as an uncanny knack for identifying imbalances in gameplay, to allow EG and its players to take full advantage of these.
The end result: A robot a physical hybrid of the original Idra and Machine.
Of course, before the robot could assume Idra’s role, the real Idra had to be dealt with. How do you think DeMuslim really broke his hand? The robots replacement of Idra proved seamless, with no-one apparently noticing the difference, apart from the occasional comment about how Idra was looking an awful lot like Machine these days. That is of course, until now.
Note: The above account is entirely fictional
