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meCa
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada58 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 17:08:45
July 23 2010 14:33 GMT
#1
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In the latest Ghosts of the Past SCII trailer, near the end, Raynor ejects a shell casing from his gun. Then, the shell casing is shown on the ground with the capitalized letters HEV. Does anyone know what HEV means? Is it an acronym or 3 letters of an incomplete word?

More screenshots of the HEV shell casing.
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Upon Ejection (click to enlarge)
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Close-up
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Also worth nothing that Raynor has a pretty big gun, with 2 lasers to pinpoint his target. Sweet.


This is driving me crazy. Alot of people on TL and youtube have asked this question but no one has posted an answer. I've google searched and TL searched, no luck.

I find it weird that they would dedicate around 4-5 seconds to this specific shot. I think the significance is alot more than a simple bullet casing hitting the ground.

Possible answers were:
"Heavy EnVironmental suit" like in Half-Life
"Hard Erection from Viewing" because the video was hot
"HEaVy" since it was a heavy (or HE-V) round casing

But none of these possibilities sound satisfactory to me.

Anyone have the answer?

Other possible answers discovered after the start of this thread:

Spoiler Alert
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Not kidding, might be story SPOILER, read at your own risk.
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This link is from a forum that says the HEV might be a serum that Valerian offered to Raynor that would revert Kerrigan back into a human.

HEV = Human Evolutionary Virus ?

This makes sense because in the Ghosts of the Past Trailer, Valerian says he can offer Raynor what he's always wanted, and we all know that is probably Kerrigan. Also, since the Dominion created the Zerg, its possible that HEV is the name of the substance the Dominion created in order to counter act the Zerg. Maybe..


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Edit: added possible lore explanation (spoiler is hidden unless manually shown)

v3chr0
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States856 Posts
July 23 2010 14:37 GMT
#2
I was curious of the same thing, whatever it is, they'll probably go more into later on or else I really couldn't see why theyd lead you on with that and no explanation.
"He catches him with his pants down, backs him off into a corner, and then it's over." - Khaldor
Bairemuth
Profile Joined June 2010
United States404 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 14:47:36
July 23 2010 14:38 GMT
#3
Other possible answers:
Hybrid Electric Vehicle
Hepatitis E Virus
High Endothelial Venules
Hemorrhagic Endovasculitis
High-End Visualization
Hazardous Environment
High Entertainment Value
Human Entry Vehicle
High Energy Visible
Hotel Everest View
Higher Education for Virginia
Higher Economic Value
Haute Ecole Vaudoise

and many more

so therefore...who knows =/

Oh but if I really had to guess it would be something like "Highly Explosive V"...but I don't know what the V would stand for.

edit: deleted what i edited
apm66
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada943 Posts
July 23 2010 14:38 GMT
#4
Wow. maybe you should have had a spoiler alert on this. thanks for that bro. great post!
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Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
July 23 2010 14:41 GMT
#5
HEV is "Hazardous Environment" in Half-life
Don't hate the player - Hate the game
MrBims
Profile Joined July 2010
2 Posts
July 23 2010 14:41 GMT
#6
Hyper Evolutionary Virus.
Nokarot
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1410 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 14:43:19
July 23 2010 14:41 GMT
#7
Huh, for whatever reason I was under the impression that he impaled his sniper rifle (which is another odd thing for raynor) in to the ground.

The very first time I saw it, I also thought it said 7/27 (because that would have made sense, not because my eyes saw it necessarily.)

EDIT: A weird way to abbreviate Heaven's Devils maybe? *shrug*
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Konsume
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada466 Posts
July 23 2010 14:45 GMT
#8
On July 23 2010 23:38 apm66 wrote:
Wow. maybe you should have had a spoiler alert on this. thanks for that bro. great post!


Wow. could you overreact more? He didn't even spoiled anything.... he just said that at somepoint you'll see something with the letter HEV and it's not really THAT important in the video. Sometime I feel that "spoilers" are an excuse in these forums. He didn't give you any match results or how the games end. Now if he had said raynor dies at the 12th mission... would have been a spoiler but saying that there is a piece of METAL flying with the letter HEV... that gives you barely no information.

As for the letter HEV I think... (not sure) it would be a kind of bomb or somehting? don't know... guess we'll know on the 27th
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
July 23 2010 14:46 GMT
#9
High Explosive Velocity maybe
Don't hate the player - Hate the game
Bairemuth
Profile Joined June 2010
United States404 Posts
July 23 2010 14:48 GMT
#10
Oh I think I got it now...if it's on a shell casing then I think it's Highly Explosive Vessel.
Mavkar
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany592 Posts
July 23 2010 14:51 GMT
#11
It could be the name of the weapon manufactory. Now lets think about a firm or planet or sth like that with a fitting name.
I'm shy and reserved, even on the internet.
WolfStar
Profile Joined February 2008
United Kingdom155 Posts
July 23 2010 14:55 GMT
#12
I think you are reading a bit too much into it. I imagine it stands for heavy nothing more than that.
The early bird catches the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Sanasante
Profile Joined March 2010
United States321 Posts
July 23 2010 14:55 GMT
#13
It most likely is in reference to something that will be in the campaign or yet to be released.
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General-Gouda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States45 Posts
July 23 2010 14:58 GMT
#14
It means he summoned Gordon Freeman to battle the Zerg.
The Duck goes, "Quack!" The Cow goes, "MOO!" The Ultralisk goes, "OMNOMNOMNOM!"
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
July 23 2010 15:01 GMT
#15
Keep in mind it may not be an acryonym, it might be part of a full word.
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shawabawa
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom417 Posts
July 23 2010 15:05 GMT
#16
Looks like it's on a missile casing
almost certainly stands for High Explosive

The V could from from ExplosiVe, or Vessel, Vehicle, Volatile... or something else.

Probably High ExplosiVe
Jimmy Raynor
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
902 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 15:07:08
July 23 2010 15:06 GMT
#17
'Ey man Jimmy boy here.

Think that means heavily enlarged variable.

Doesn't make sense? Hell yeah pal, Raynor out.
meCa
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada58 Posts
July 23 2010 15:07 GMT
#18
On July 23 2010 23:38 apm66 wrote:
Wow. maybe you should have had a spoiler alert on this. thanks for that bro. great post!


Sorry, but I don't see how this spoils anything. The HEV is from the video released by Blizzard after the Dominion propaganda website reached 100%. There is another thread on TL about this same video, I'm just making a thread to discuss a small part of it. This isn't a video from the actual game, because obviously, I don't have it... YET
Rhyme
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1069 Posts
July 23 2010 15:09 GMT
#19
it's obviously a high end vaporizer.
dont ever say that
junemermaid
Profile Joined September 2006
United States981 Posts
July 23 2010 15:10 GMT
#20
high explosive
HEaVy round

basically it makes the zergs turn into goo. i think thats all we need to know about it
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