EPTPS- who the hell thinks toss have pale skin? Aren't they blue? Or was there something wrong with every computer monitor I have comein contact with for the last 10 years.
Problems with Protoss Physiology - Page 4
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
PS- who the hell thinks toss have pale skin? Aren't they blue? Or was there something wrong with every computer monitor I have comein contact with for the last 10 years. | ||
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Loverman
Romania266 Posts
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Kimera757
Canada129 Posts
On November 05 2007 19:50 CharlieMurphy wrote: PS- who the hell thinks toss have pale skin? Aren't they blue? Or was there something wrong with every computer monitor I have comein contact with for the last 10 years. Every computer monitor I've seen shows Artanis with white skin. Loverman: I think the Xel`Naga made Plantoss out of: Nothing. The Protoss evolved by themselves. | ||
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On November 05 2007 09:26 Servolisk wrote: Also, what about Shakuras, home of the DTs? It wasn't a sunny place :O ![[image loading]](http://images.google.com/url?q=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/1/14/Shakuras.jpg/250px-Shakuras.jpg&usg=AFQjCNEQKgAaWXxsBP64Ybb_of7ZU4KFjg) http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Shakuras The Dark toss eats all the light, thats why you cant see them and why shakuras is a dark place! Btw, dark toss eats light in the visible spectrum, while light toss eats light of higher energy, that sounds possible. Also psionic storms must be toss poop. | ||
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
On November 05 2007 21:33 Klockan3 wrote: The Dark toss eats all the light, thats why you cant see them and why shakuras is a dark place! Btw, dark toss eats light in the visible spectrum, while light toss eats light of higher energy, that sounds possible. Also psionic storms must be toss poop. If the DTs ate light from the visible spectrum, you'd expect them to be black, not invisible. | ||
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lostman
194 Posts
This is not far fetched at all because even humans have the technology to insert genes into bacteria and mammals. In 50 years we could easily create a designer baby, and that possibly includes inserting useful genes from other animals (or more likely designed genes to make proteins that have a totally new function). The difficult part would be making the genes (the DNA sequences) for the UV absorbing proteins - but protoss have technologies like warp and stasis...im sure they have surpassed the meager challenges of genetic modification. | ||
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
On November 06 2007 01:28 lostman wrote: Looking at Protoss from an evolutionary point of view is fine but you are missing out a huge point - they are so technologically advanced that they can essentially control their own evolution (genetic modification). Its a huge possibility that they inserted the genes for UV absorbing proteins aeons ago because it was the most efficient method of energy production - no need to hunt or anything. This is not far fetched at all because even humans have the technology to insert genes into bacteria and mammals. In 50 years we could easily create a designer baby, and that possibly includes inserting useful genes from other animals (or more likely designed genes to make proteins that have a totally new function). The difficult part would be making the genes (the DNA sequences) for the UV absorbing proteins - but protoss have technologies like warp and stasis...im sure they have surpassed the meager challenges of genetic modification. That is a tempting theory, but it is already established that the Protoss became autotrophic before the Xel-Naga gave them super-advanced technology. When the Xel-Naga found the Protoss, the Protoss were still in a tribal society, by all accounts. Conjectural Timeline: - Life on Aiur originates (Possibly seeded by the Xel-Naga?) - Life differentiates into at least two different forms; green photosynthetic 'plants' and the heterotrophic ancestors of the Protoss - The ancestors of modern Protoss become autotrophic - Pre-modern Protoss develop - Xel-Naga begin guiding the development of the Protoss - Xel-Naga leave, Aeon of Strife - Development of 'modern' Protoss civilization | ||
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2585 Posts
Also there bacteria on earth that can survive inside nuclear reactors. Non visible ligth is dangerous for human cells but that doesn't mean it would be dangerous for protoss cells. For all we know they have insanely effective reconstructive proteins (just like certain bacteria) that can repair bond breaks instantly. They could also have things like triple helix DNA chains and better bonds between the important molecules. In fact doesn't the protoss in the campaing screen for vanilla SC have triple helix DNA? (I don't have the CD so I can't check). | ||
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On November 06 2007 01:57 Jyvblamo wrote: - Life on Aiur originates (Possibly seeded by the Xel-Naga?) Im pretty sure that the Xel-naga seeded all of the life in the K sector, then let them evolve to see if any of them became an Uber race. And then we got the toss, so really it cant be that hard to imagine that they got some very strange evolution path due to them being the best of all the xel-naga worlds untill they found zerg. Toss evolution: Tossape, it eats stuff, but can still absorb energy from the sun with its skin. Pretoss, it eats other animals, is a perfect hunter, but it ate most of the animals on the planet since they were to leet. Protoss, since there are not many animals left their mouths disapeared and they started to live 100% on their light absorption! | ||
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PePe QuiCoSE
Argentina1204 Posts
So screw the fan info, i'm sticking to my idea of what are protoss derived from the game i had played. edit: with this i am not discrediting the OP, nice read indeed, i'm just discrediting Blizzard for making the SC lore less appealing (to me at least). | ||
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
On November 06 2007 02:48 PePe QuiCoSE wrote: sorry, haven't read all the thread, but the more i know about the Protoss from Blizzard, the more it differs from the view i always had about them. Exactly!  They're ruining my protoss pride. | ||
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On November 06 2007 02:48 PePe QuiCoSE wrote: sorry, haven't read all the thread, but the more i know about the Protoss from Blizzard, the more it differs from the view i always had about them. So screw the fan info, i'm sticking to my idea of what are protoss derived from the game i had played. edit: with this i am not discrediting the OP, nice read indeed, i'm just discrediting Blizzard for making the SC lore less appealing (to me at least). QFT, why couldnt they have said that the protoss eats things with their psi abilities or something? Like directly disolving and absorbing the energy from the normal food items. | ||
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Chodorkovskiy
Israel459 Posts
On November 06 2007 03:20 Klockan3 wrote: QFT, why couldnt they have said that the protoss eats things with their psi abilities or something? Like directly disolving and absorbing the energy from the normal food items. Or, even better, Blizzard could have not asnwered at all. This way, they just demonstrated horrible incompetence on the part of whoever thought up the answer. The latter's insight went just deep enough to take night-time into account. | ||
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Phyre
United States1288 Posts
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wXs.Havok
Argentina529 Posts
On November 05 2007 02:09 Asta wrote: Actually I wasn't gonna post anything because I thought to myself 'let him have his fun'. But then you forced me to: lol iz just a game blimey!1 | ||
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wXs.Havok
Argentina529 Posts
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brambolius
Netherlands448 Posts
 ). After thats its straight on to God himself who turns out to be a drunken monkey just randomly bashing buttons on a panel for a banana or an electrical shock (it hasnt quite figured that one out yet). I CAN'T WAIT FOR SCII :D | ||
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Blacklizard
United States1194 Posts
I think with the alien nature of Protoss, the Xel'Naga intervention, and the psionic abilities of toss, there are plenty of unknowns that could allow for some odd chemistry or psionic happenings that could help explain the Blizzard answer of sun and air moisture. I didn't read all the replies, but some of this was already said I think. 1. The psionic energy is something partially drawn from crystals, etc. and it can be converted into energy for body processes. 2. They have a different mechanism for getting energy from light... works differently than plants and their green chlorophyll, etc. Again, psionics could be part of the puzzle. 3. Blizzard was "wrong" (they are just giving the Terran viewpoint) and they warp food into their bellies.  | ||
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pyrogenetix
China5094 Posts
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pooper-scooper
United States3108 Posts
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