Starcraft Lore Timeline and Mysteries - Page 2

On July 01 2010 20:54 Latham wrote:
Nyaaa such a long wall of text, but sooo worth the read. Good food for thought. It just got me more pumped to play SC2's campaign >.<

On July 01 2010 23:55 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
love this kind of thing. Since you put so much work into it, let's get those last details hammered out. "rouge" is a type of makeup (or a color). Han Solo was a "rogue". "rogue tribes" please

On July 02 2010 03:53 Drowsy wrote:
That was an amazing read. The part about Duran's true origins was awesome, I totally just assumed he was an infested terran.


Kind of off topic, but I see an opportunity for single player DLC or a custom campaign that explores ancient protoss history, severance from the Khala, and the Aeon of Strife. Seems like there's a lot of rich story to be expanded there.

On July 02 2010 08:12 Roland07 wrote:
FYI everyone, that article will be a year old on the 20th, and as LoA has made clear, my staff position is being switched to SC-L. The transfer is largely because on SC2A, I only used my staff powers a couple times a year there, making them near pointless.

On the subject of Duran being an enemy to the Xel'naga: I'm quoting from memory, so this may be a bit off, but Duran says something like "My masters are far more powerful than Kerrigan, and reflected by the creature within that cell." Point being he believes the hybrids are the next generation of his masters. This gives us two options. Duran is either delusional, and unaware he is actually countering the Cycle with his hybrids, or the Xel'naga have an evil (or good) twin-race, which have appeared in every Cycle, and who Duran is actively, and consciously serving.

The Twin-race can't technically be ruled out, but are extremely unlikely. The Voice in The Darkness comic makes the point that the Xel'naga hold life as absolutely sacred, and will not destroy it if at all possible. The Xel'naga would be the only ones capable of combating their theoretical twin-race, but unwilling to do so. Clearly, this raises the question of where the twin species is, and why there is no evidence of them in our galaxy. One thing which should be established first though is that the theoretical twin species are the bad guys. The hybrids and the vat creatures drew reaction of mass revulsion from everyone who came in contact with them, and the Cycle is supposed to be a good thing, unless there's a big twist at some point, which I can't possibly predict.

You can find a way to justify the absence of evidence by saying they simply never left their galaxy of origin or some other species killed them, but Duran's origins become inexplicable when you start doing that. He would have had to follow the Xel'naga to the Milky Way, as it's extremely unlikely there would be any information in our galaxy relating to the twin-species, at least which paints them in a positive light. So why follow the Xel'naga, and start a new generation of their enemies, when you clearly have the capacity to simply chase them down? The only explanation is that they were wiped out, and needed a new generation, which is very improbable. The Xel'naga wouldn't do it, and no one else would really be able to, unless they're weaker than they should be by the lore. Not to mention is leaves no apparent source for Duran to learn about them.

Two more things, Zamara obviously didn't know anything about any twin species, which isn't much of an issue, but is worth noting. Duran also mentioned that his master's were waking up in Dark Origin. As previously established, because there is no evidence of them in our galaxy, the twin-species would need to be dead or far, far away. They probably wouldn't be in stasis in another galaxy, waiting on events in this galaxy. If that were true they would probably come here, then go into stasis. Even with hyper-advanced technology, hopping from galaxy to galaxy can't be so easy it's negligible to your timing push on your enemy.

That may have been extremely unclear, but the point is that the only enemy the Xel'naga could have, that would be reflected by the hybrids, is a twin species. They don't have a twin species, as evidenced by the total absence of evidence for them. The absence of evidence can only be explained by the idea that they're dead, which is improbable, because nothing is capable and willing to fight them, or that they are far away, which is totally illogical and silly, if they're trying to destroy the Xel'naga.

Duran is confused, not evil. He probably found partial information on the Xel'naga from some Khaydarin crystals and went fanatic.