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Hello TL,
The point of this topic is to sum up everything about the Starcraft lore, because I'm seeing a lot of topics which contradict it, and to help people understand the Starcraft universe better.
Now, I've been writing this topic for a long time, when I got some happy 'insufficient posting rights' message, and probably an hour's work was gone.
So, I'll sum up everything I have to say, with no humor, since I'm quite angry, and with no details.
Everything said here is based on official lore and can be found in the starcraft wikia or manual.
Xel'naga.
They reproduce by the 'Cycle'. The Cycle is a merging of 2 races - one with purity of essence, the other with purity of form. That means that every single Xel'naga is born of the merge. There are no births during the existence of one generation.
Source:
+ Show Spoiler +The xel'naga were incredibly long-lived by protoss standards, but not immortal; eventually their species would come to an end. In the interest of survival they planned to create new xel'naga by uplifting two species. A pair of qualities was required and these were defined by the xel'naga as the purity of essence and the purity of form, and each uplifted species would be targeted for one of them. Over an extraordinary long period of time, the two species would naturally come together and merge. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Xel'naga
Dark Voice.
Evil bad guy, imprisoned by Xel'naga. Doesn't like the Xel'naga. Understands that the only way to defeat the Xel'naga is to stop their cycle since the death of one generation means little when races with purity of essence and form have already been 'uplifted'.
The Dark Voice, even though imprisoned manages to influence the Overmind. The change in the Overmind is sudden, unlike that in the Protoss, that means there is an outside source influencing it.
Xel'naga, which possess little weaponry, since they are benevolent, die to the underdeveloped swarm.
Their death means nothing, since the races with purity of essence and form have already been uplifted.
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+ Show Spoiler +When the xel'naga began uplifting the zerg, they created the Overmind to control and direct the hive mind. But the Overmind was not given free will. It was given an overriding directive to destroy the protoss. The Dark Voice had a hand in this. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Voice
Humanity.
Tools in the game, easily influenced by the Dark Voice, one of the influenced is called Samir Duran.
Samir Duran.
He isn't special, he is nobody, just a 'garment' for the Dark Voice. He helps the Dark Voice create an army, an army of Hybrids.
Source:
+ Show Spoiler +
Hybrids.
They possess no free will, thus no purity of form or essence, thus they cannot be real Xel'naga.
Source:
+ Show Spoiler +Previous incarnations of the xel'naga had been created through "natural mergings" of other species which possessed purity of form and essence as part of their natural life cycle. According to the protoss preserver Zamara, however, Duran's experiments are a "perversion" of what was to be (as they have nothing of the natural cycle of the xel'naga in them), and if his attempts to "unify" the species become successful, "a monstrous and powerful perversion of both protoss and zerg will be set loose upon the universe, and all that [the protoss and terran] know and cherish will fall in their wake". http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Hybrid
Emil Narud.
Head of the Möebius Foundation, another garment of the Dark Voice, who apparently likes puns with the name 'Duran'. Möebius Foundation released the physical emanation of the Dark Voice. Narud basically released the Dark Voice. Cool, right?
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+ Show Spoiler +Millenia later,[2] a Möebius Foundation research team investigate the xel'naga ruins on the planet. Dr. Morrigan, a researcher with minor psychic abilities, learned from it how to make a psionic amplifier for her own abilities. Calling herself the "key" for the crystalline "lock", she unleashed it. The Voice began to unseal itself. It possessed half the research team, and the rest were brutally slaughtered. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Voice_in_the_Darkness_(entity)
Vision of the future.
The only way to defeat the Dark Voice and its army of hybrids is to bring back the Xel'naga. The Xel'naga, if you have been reading is a merge of 2 races. These 2 races currently are zerg and protoss.
You can't do that if you don't have zerg.
Thus you need control of the zerg.
Thus you need Kerrigan alive.
Source: Personal speculation.
That is generally a TL;DR version of what I planned to post earlier... heh...
Edit: (thanks to NeonGenesis, who reminded me).
I didn't mention anything about the Phoenix creatures (or Energy creatures) that are part of the books, since we haven't seen them in the game.
However, they may serve a purpose being that of helping the merging process (remember that they absorb species' essence).
Think of it as the way for merging the races, which does not require the previous Xel'naga generation to be alive.
Source:
+ Show Spoiler +It has the ability to emit "scanning beams" which disintegrate creatures and objects of interest. It can use the beams to absorb the genetics of protoss and zerg. While it is capable of absorbing terrans, it seems to have little interest in them The temple absorbed the energy from a nuclear attack, which the creature used to combine the genetics of the zerg and protoss within itself to complete its maturation. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Phoenix_creature
and personal speculation.
2nd Edit: Added sources, for those too lazy to browse the wiki, in spoiler tags, to keep it from getting too long.
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wow ... somehow I think you spoiled the entire rest of the game... and some of Wings.
Is all of this already known ? thought they would have held some of it back, you know so there's a story not just some dot connections.
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It's up to them to decide how to connect the dots, even if they are already there.
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So Duran isn't special, even though he claimed to be "many millennia old" and "having many names over these millennia" (Narud perhaps)? I think he is a bit more than just some Terran as you claim, but other than that it's a nice overview
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According to Rethq's interpretation, it wasn't actually Duran speaking, it was the Dark Voice, who inhabited his body some point before the start of the BW campaign. So while Duran's body is just some Terran, the Dark Voice - who is Duran's mind- is millennia old.
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I don't know how much you know of the books, but a lot of Xel'Naga temples "hatched" recently. I don't think the nature of these creatures has been revealed yet, and they are sure to play a huge role.
Also, the Xel'Naga merging of Protoss and Zerg was something that was supposed to happen naturally through evolution.
Anyway, the energy creatures from the Xel'Naga temple is an X factor that makes us unable to divine hwo the story is going to fold.
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Let people speculate about the story. Nothing wrong with that. Even you took some liberties to speculate your theory around the story.
Also providing the link to those facts would be helpful to many players.
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On August 08 2010 23:26 Oliwoli wrote:
According to Rethq's interpretation, it wasn't actually Duran speaking, it was the Dark Voice, who inhabited his body some point before the start of the BW campaign. So while Duran's body is just some Terran, the Dark Voice - who is Duran's mind- is millennia old.
Aahh I see, that is a very interesting thought. Never considered that one, I just assumed Duran was a different sort of being, yet still a servant to a higher power.
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On August 08 2010 23:30 NeonGenesis wrote:
I don't know how much you know of the books, but a lot of Xel'Naga temples "hatched" recently. I don't think the nature of these creatures has been revealed yet, and they are sure to play a huge role.
Also, the Xel'Naga merging of Protoss and Zerg was something that was supposed to happen naturally through evolution.
Anyway, the energy creatures from the Xel'Naga temple is an X factor that makes us unable to divine hwo the story is going to fold.
Oh, during the 2nd writing I forgot about that.
I think these Phoenix creatures, or Energy creatures are the way for carrying out the merging naturally.
Basically, think of it as a fail-safe, should the previous generation of Xel'naga die before the merging is complete. (It's possible that they need to die before it's complete, my point still stands.)
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What the hell did this Dark voice was in Wing of liberty? Where did all this came from?
I missed so much of the story that I feel like i played a different game!? O_o
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Great! Someone else posted something that I went on and on about right HERE!.
I don't get why everyone didn't notice that the Xel-Naga are always super nice and now they appear to be super evil and everyone's just kind of okay with that.
Makes no sense.
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On August 08 2010 23:32 Thegilaboy wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2010 23:26 Oliwoli wrote:
According to Rethq's interpretation, it wasn't actually Duran speaking, it was the Dark Voice, who inhabited his body some point before the start of the BW campaign. So while Duran's body is just some Terran, the Dark Voice - who is Duran's mind- is millennia old. Aahh I see, that is a very interesting thought. Never considered that one, I just assumed Duran was a different sort of being, yet still a servant to a higher power.
It could be true, but it sure as hell isn't official lore, so disregard OP's post.
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....where is this coming from?
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On August 09 2010 00:06 cascades wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2010 23:32 Thegilaboy wrote:On August 08 2010 23:26 Oliwoli wrote:
According to Rethq's interpretation, it wasn't actually Duran speaking, it was the Dark Voice, who inhabited his body some point before the start of the BW campaign. So while Duran's body is just some Terran, the Dark Voice - who is Duran's mind- is millennia old. Aahh I see, that is a very interesting thought. Never considered that one, I just assumed Duran was a different sort of being, yet still a servant to a higher power. It could be true, but it sure as hell isn't official lore, so disregard OP's post.
True, would be nice if there were some citations as to where exactly each point is being drawn from
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Hmm... Why is Zerg the purity of form? They don't even have a consistent form of their own, they just take the blueprints from other forms. Unless the overmind is a "pure" Zerg form, but the overmind was just a fat tentacle blob thing, not very functional or impressive in its form.
Seems like Human race would be the purity of form, Protoss the purity of essence.
(No I'm not just talking about aesthetics, i'm talking about a functional, practical and flexible form. Human > Zerg)
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On August 09 2010 00:42 Opinion wrote:
Hmm... Why is Zerg the purity of form? They don't even have a consistent form of their own, they just take the blueprints from other forms. Unless the overmind is a "pure" Zerg form, but the overmind was just a fat tentacle blob thing, not very functional or impressive in its form.
Seems like Human race would be the purity of form, Protoss the purity of essence.
(No I'm not just talking about aesthetics, i'm talking about a functional, practical and flexible form. Human > Zerg)
Seems like someones proud of the human body ; )
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the "purity" refers to the will to make itself better, enhance itself
Zerg has "purity of essence" - they can assimilate species into their own, and even modify them to some extent. Single individuals can also mutate to become drastically different
Protoss has "purity of form" - with their powerful psionic powers and in the way (almost) their whole species communicates through the Khala. They are "good" beings and keep trying to make themselves better in that regard (even though often times they are overzealous).
Take them both together, and you get the Xel'Naga, the beings that cherish all that is life.
(by the way, add a good amount of pragmatism and individualism/self-centeredness to these two, plus some sort of will to manipulate other stuff than itself, and you get the Terrans)
EDIT> Derp, switched the two purities for some reason. Still, their descriptions are correct...
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On August 09 2010 01:00 brocoli wrote:
the "purity" refers to the will to make itself better, enhance itself
Zerg has "purity of form" - they can assimilate species into their own, and even modify them to some extent. Single individuals can also mutate to become drastically different
Protoss has "purity of essence" - with their powerful psionic powers and in the way (almost) their whole species communicates through the Khala. They are "good" beings and keep trying to make themselves better in that regard (even though often times they are overzealous).
Take them both together, and you get the Xel'Naga, the beings that cherish all that is life.
(by the way, add a good amount of pragmatism and individualism/self-centeredness to these two, plus some sort of will to manipulate other stuff than itself, and you get the Terrans)
Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but what IS the zerg? What was the first Zerg form?
I've read that lings, hydralisks, ultras etc etc were all assimilated into the zerg, but what was the first Zerg form? did they start with something? Maybe a drone?
Or maybe its a single cell organism?
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Protoss is purity of form. Zerg is purity of essence.
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On August 09 2010 01:09 Opinion wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2010 01:00 brocoli wrote:
the "purity" refers to the will to make itself better, enhance itself
Zerg has "purity of form" - they can assimilate species into their own, and even modify them to some extent. Single individuals can also mutate to become drastically different
Protoss has "purity of essence" - with their powerful psionic powers and in the way (almost) their whole species communicates through the Khala. They are "good" beings and keep trying to make themselves better in that regard (even though often times they are overzealous).
Take them both together, and you get the Xel'Naga, the beings that cherish all that is life.
(by the way, add a good amount of pragmatism and individualism/self-centeredness to these two, plus some sort of will to manipulate other stuff than itself, and you get the Terrans) Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but what IS the zerg? What was the first Zerg form? I've read that lings, hydralisks, ultras etc etc were all assimilated into the zerg, but what was the first Zerg form? did they start with something? Maybe a drone? Or maybe its a single cell organism?
From the research in SC2 campaign the zerg growing in the tank has "cells" from every zerg strain we've seen and many we haven't seen. So its quite possible that "Zerg" as a term really does mean the whole distinct group of beings. And each race they assimilate becomes part of the Zerg completely and "Zerg" as a term evolves to include this race.
There doesn't seem to be a basic creature or parasite at all, and depending on how the zerg were created there could have never been one. For example, if they were created from a combination of hatchery, larvae, and drone "cells" then the zerg would have always been a conglomerate.
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