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Why are Nerazim immune to hyperevolutionary virus

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Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
June 13 2011 22:26 GMT
#1
Why are the Nerazim immune to the Hyper Evolutionary VIrus. The Dark Templar unlike the khalai do not follow the khala yet their infestation has never been documented despite many of them falling to the zerg in battle.

Does the power of the void protect them? I know that the void is what let them slay the cerebrates and when combined with the khala let tassadar kill the overmind so that would make sense. However this is never stated. Did blizzard forget or is just implied? They don't wear protective suits like terrans do so that doesn't explain it either.
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Rilo
Profile Joined September 2010
10 Posts
June 13 2011 22:41 GMT
#2
I guess it is just implied that the energies that allow them to kill cerebrates and such is able to keep the infestation from affecting them. Maybe LotV will have a definitive answer, but for now I guess you can just assume this to be truth.
Kong John
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark1020 Posts
June 13 2011 22:47 GMT
#3
Maybe they are still in thouch with the khala even though they don't follow it? All Nerazim used to come from aiur and most likely followed the khala back then. They could easily still be using some of that knowledge.
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Tonybarbosa
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia38 Posts
June 13 2011 23:12 GMT
#4
The following is only a spoiler if you didn't play sc/bw+ Show Spoiler +
Wait, I thought that (I forgot her name) the matriach of the Dark Templar, and the Templar who is in charge of you in sc/bw both get infested?

I'm no lore-hero though, so forgive me if you are all talking about some different kind of infestation
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Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
June 13 2011 23:17 GMT
#5
On June 14 2011 08:12 Tonybarbosa wrote:
The following is only a spoiler if you didn't play sc/bw+ Show Spoiler +
Wait, I thought that (I forgot her name) the matriach of the Dark Templar, and the Templar who is in charge of you in sc/bw both get infested?

I'm no lore-hero though, so forgive me if you are all talking about some different kind of infestation

+ Show Spoiler +
I'm fairly sure Raszagal was not infested, only manipulated. Kerrigan used her psionic powers to bind the Matriarch to her will, brainwashing the Dark Templar leader. Kerrigan's control over her was of the mind, not infestation.
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Tonybarbosa
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia38 Posts
June 13 2011 23:20 GMT
#6
On June 14 2011 08:17 Aeres wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
I'm fairly sure Raszagal was not infested, only manipulated. Kerrigan used her psionic powers to bind the Matriarch to her will, brainwashing the Dark Templar leader. Kerrigan's control over her was of the mind, not infestation.


Oh, okay, well if that's the case then that's the case ^_^
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Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
June 13 2011 23:25 GMT
#7
On June 14 2011 07:47 Kong John wrote:
Maybe they are still in thouch with the khala even though they don't follow it? All Nerazim used to come from aiur and most likely followed the khala back then. They could easily still be using some of that knowledge.


I don't think so, the reason why they were ostracized is because they (and their descendents) never chose to follow to khala after the Aion of Strife. The feared losing their independence and many of them sever their psionic tendrils to exclude themselves from the khala.
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Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
June 13 2011 23:48 GMT
#8
If by "the templar who was in charge of you" you mean Aldaris, then no, he was never infested nor anything like that. He was right, though.
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Madkipz
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Norway1643 Posts
June 13 2011 23:48 GMT
#9
On June 14 2011 08:25 Nothingtosay wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 14 2011 07:47 Kong John wrote:
Maybe they are still in thouch with the khala even though they don't follow it? All Nerazim used to come from aiur and most likely followed the khala back then. They could easily still be using some of that knowledge.


I don't think so, the reason why they were ostracized is because they (and their descendents) never chose to follow to khala after the Aion of Strife. The feared losing their independence and many of them sever their psionic tendrils to exclude themselves from the khala.


regular protoss have dreads at the back of their heads that contain some stuff that connects them to the Khala. the Dark templar severed those dreads and became outcasts. if im not totally mistaken.
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Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
June 14 2011 00:06 GMT
#10
On June 14 2011 08:48 Madkipz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 14 2011 08:25 Nothingtosay wrote:
On June 14 2011 07:47 Kong John wrote:
Maybe they are still in thouch with the khala even though they don't follow it? All Nerazim used to come from aiur and most likely followed the khala back then. They could easily still be using some of that knowledge.


I don't think so, the reason why they were ostracized is because they (and their descendents) never chose to follow to khala after the Aion of Strife. The feared losing their independence and many of them sever their psionic tendrils to exclude themselves from the khala.


regular protoss have dreads at the back of their heads that contain some stuff that connects them to the Khala. the Dark templar severed those dreads and became outcasts. if im not totally mistaken.

That is exactly what I said.
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Praetorial
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States4241 Posts
June 14 2011 02:09 GMT
#11
I think that within the lore, it's stated that all protoss are immune to infestation. Dark templar, being genetically similar to the Aiur protoss, would therefore be immune to a virus that neither group had experienced before.
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Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
June 14 2011 02:13 GMT
#12
On June 14 2011 11:09 PraetorialGamer wrote:
I think that within the lore, it's stated that all protoss are immune to infestation. Dark templar, being genetically similar to the Aiur protoss, would therefore be immune to a virus that neither group had experienced before.

You just ignored all the lore explained in the thread and came up with your own explanation.... its not genetics its the khala that protects them.
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KyoRai
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States134 Posts
June 14 2011 03:50 GMT
#13
This gives two explanations, a nano tech serum and the "fortitude of the khala," whatever that is. So two viable answers could be the "fortitude of the force of the void," or that they got a hold of that serum.
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Carmine
Profile Joined September 2010
United States263 Posts
June 14 2011 06:29 GMT
#14
How could you infest somethign that is invisible?
*dark templar troll face*
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Dimagus
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1004 Posts
June 14 2011 08:17 GMT
#15
On June 14 2011 15:29 Carmine wrote:
How could you infest somethign that is invisible?
*dark templar troll face*


Ghost EMP makes them visible, Kerrigan was a ghost, hence Kerrigan could make them infestable?

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Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
June 14 2011 13:37 GMT
#16
what the fuck are u talkinga bout?

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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
June 14 2011 15:53 GMT
#17
I'd just like to note that Khalai are part of the caste system that all Protoss followed.
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Templar
Khalai

What you said was kinda like saying The Swedes, unlike the carpenters, do not follow the religion but they've never documented infestation. It made no sense.

Finally, its mentioned that Protoss having purity of form, are uninfestable.
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
June 14 2011 17:58 GMT
#18
If I recall correctly, Protoss and Zerg share a common background, in that they both have ancestry with the Xel'naga. It's possible, though never directly explained, that this relationship could render them immune to the infestation.
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KingVietKong
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States170 Posts
June 14 2011 19:14 GMT
#19
On June 15 2011 00:53 Probe1 wrote:
I'd just like to note that Khalai are part of the caste system that all Protoss followed.
Judicator
Templar
Khalai

What you said was kinda like saying The Swedes, unlike the carpenters, do not follow the religion but they've never documented infestation. It made no sense.

Finally, its mentioned that Protoss having purity of form, are uninfestable.


Khalai are followers of the Khala, so dark templars/nerazhim are not Khalai.

Also the fact that the Protoss have purity of form is why they are SUPPOSED to be infestable, as that was the whole point of creating two races with corresponding perfectiong, and what prevents that is supposed to be their psionic unification through the Khala.

The real explanation for this inconsistency, of course, is that all of this lore was not thought out before-hand, and even now it's questionable whether it's all planned out even in the games. Even in the basic lore of the Protoss and Terran there's oddities, and it's best to just glaze over it. If you want a game with deep lore, play Warhammer 40k.
Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
June 14 2011 21:54 GMT
#20
On June 15 2011 00:53 Probe1 wrote:
I'd just like to note that Khalai are part of the caste system that all Protoss followed.
Judicator
Templar
Khalai

What you said was kinda like saying The Swedes, unlike the carpenters, do not follow the religion but they've never documented infestation. It made no sense.

Finally, its mentioned that Protoss having purity of form, are uninfestable.

Khalai is the name of the worker class and also all protoss that follow the Khala it has two meanings. Purity of form like previously stated is what made the xel naga want to combine the protoss with a purity of essence race (like the zerg) so that would make them more infestable.
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