The Story So Far
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty offers more than just head-to-head competitive play and the ability to play online with friends; it presents the continuing evolution of the StarCraft storyline through its epic single-player campaign. Understanding how it all began can mean the difference between simply running through the various missions and experiencing the story on a much deeper level.
To aid you on your journey (or perhaps prepare you for your next) we’re highlighting the StarCraft Lore section of the community site, where you can learn all about the Story So Far and read some of the great short stories that we've collected.
While we have your attention, let us know: what aspect of the lore do you find most intriguing?
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http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Infested_protoss
Thus, a war between them and the ancestors of the Terrans is highly unlikely.
In SC2, that seems to have gone out the window. Its suddenly this 'all to common from blizzard' enemies must put aside their differences to fight a bigger enemy. Is this trying to prepare us mentally for the New World Order? There is little to no twist to it.
Instead you could just have the larger evil unit coming down to bare on all 3 races, but the zerg still hate everyone. Bring Earth back into it. I'm sure they are not done right?
Have a different sector come into play, where you have intergalactic battles instead of interplanetary. Give the Earthlings different terran ships and such. You are telling me that the Earthlings and Terran from Koprulu invented the exact same technology and exact same designs at the exact same time?
Instead give them similar mindset, SIMILAR (not exact) tech, give them different design, and have them come in. You can't tell me Earth has just been sitting on earth, right? how many planets have they colonized in their sector?
Since the Xel Naga made the Protoss and Zerg, were the terrans made? or did we just come to be?
Maybe there was an ancient war between the Xel' Naga and Terran ancestors long ago, and its an ongoing battle between Xel Naga and our ancestors (go along the lines of the fabled ancinet civilizations that were destroyed, like Atlantis type of thing).
My point is there are so many other lines you could have taken, than the WC3 in space variety
The "Diablo" storyline is basically heroic figures fighting against the Devil and an unholy invasion of the mortal world. Okay.
The "Warcraft" storyline began as the classic Tolkienesque "Human vs Orc" war of swords and sorcery, but it turns out that these Orcs are in fact somewhat demon-possessed, and that there is a big, bad demonic guy from beyond the world are invading the Azeroth because this guy devours worlds for a living. Okay... that works, I guess.
Starcraft started out as a Sci-Fi struggle between futuristic humans and two classic alien archetypes: the highly-advanced, philosophical aliens and the savage, insectoid aliens. Wait, but it gets better. It turns out that the savage, insectoid aliens were tainted long ago, bent into an all-consuming mania by this powerful being known only as "The Fallen One." That couldn't be construed as an indirect reference to the devil or anything.
So, at the bottom of every story, did the struggle all begin with this powerful demonic or pseudo-demonic being who woke up and said, "I need to destroy everything within six millenia, let's get crackin'!" ?
The struggle between 'good' and 'evil' ecompasses the vast majority of games. Blizzard has used that concept in the Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft storylines but has also created a vast universe for each filled with unique characters, lore and conflicts.
In the end, perhaps they are similar but I still buy the games, read the books and love every second of it.
Grats Blizz, now HURRY up with my expansion I need closure or another set up to another expansion. Lol.
Coolest character gets killed for someone I dont care for to be turned back into human
The only aspect I found disappointing was that the Queen of Blades was changed from a horrible mass murderer back into Kerrigan. I sincerely hope that the Zerg stay evil.
As I played through the game I couldn't help but think to myself, "Uh oh the Zerg are going to become more passionate and human." It seems that with the coming of the Xel' Naga the three races will have to ally in order to save their collective asses.
I'm all for whatever Blizzard throws at us, but I would be bummed if the Zerg went from a serious threat into a humanized and placid species.
The only aspect I found disappointing was that the Queen of Blades was changed from a horrible mass murderer back into Kerrigan. I sincerely hope that the Zerg stay evil.
As I played through the game I couldn't help but think to myself, "Uh oh the Zerg are going to become more passionate and human." It seems that with the coming of the Xel' Naga the three races will have to ally in order to save their collective asses.
I'm all for whatever Blizzard throws at us, but I would be bummed if the Zerg went from a serious threat into a humanized and placid species.
I didn't think the Raynor/Kerrigan story was enough to sustain a whole campaign, which it seems WoL gravitated towards.
The overall story i felt to be inferior in tone and scope to SC and SCBW's story, it was just less epic, more... small and more juvenile. I saw the CE's bit on the making of story - and I have to disagree about sc2 being at its heart a love story about raynor and kerrigan. Major characters they are to be sure, but SC is about freakin intergalactic conflict between 3 of the most different races in the universe! All the side missions felt tacky - whereas ALL the missions in sc and scbw felt like it was progressing the story of a huge space opera. the only missions where I felt like i was making an impact on the SC universe was the rebellion missions and the char missions, everything else seemed ... ignorable. A footnote in the grand history of the SC universe whereas the missions in sc and scbw are devoted their own CHAPTERS.
As for most intriguing, of course the dark voice is an awesome character - a bit of a 360 from the pure, simple evil that was zerg and the overmind and kerrigan - but I like it because it makes the conflict even GRANDER. I would like to know what happened to the dominion after I exposed mengsk, and of course after the letdown of SC Ghost i would love to know more about nova and her place in sc2.
Good work on the story, I hope I wont have to wait till I graduate to learn the outcome of SC2!
Marine zergling rider? :O
-The Overmind wanted to merge with the protoss in the first place but wasn't able to because of the Khala... why then would it create Kerrigan to resist the Xel'Naga? Perhaps the Overmind hated itself for enslaving it's own race?
-Where is Duran? If the Duran/Narud theory is correct.... it seems likely that the Xel'Naga made Duran help Raynor to acquire the artifacts, so that Kerrigan would revert to human form, thus weakening the swarm... which leads to..
-Mengsk (and Tychus) knew all along that the artifact would turn Kerrigan human.. is the Dominion in league with the Xel'Naga? This would explain the secret hybrids.. and further support the Duran/Narud theory..
-Tassadar pulls an Obi Wan Kenobi?
-Kerrigan's role in the next campaign?
So many questions!
-The Overmind wanted to merge with the protoss in the first place but wasn't able to because of the Khala... why then would it create Kerrigan to resist the Xel'Naga? Perhaps the Overmind hated itself for enslaving it's own race?
-Where is Duran? If the Duran/Narud theory is correct.... it seems likely that the Xel'Naga made Duran help Raynor to acquire the artifacts, so that Kerrigan would revert to human form, thus weakening the swarm... which leads to..
-Mengsk (and Tychus) knew all along that the artifact would turn Kerrigan human.. is the Dominion in league with the Xel'Naga? This would explain the secret hybrids.. and further support the Duran/Narud theory..
-Tassadar pulls an Obi Wan Kenobi?
-Kerrigan's role in the next campaign?
So many questions!
I guess in my own mind Kerrigan is who I associate with Starcraft much more than any other character, and she's been built into one of the most intriguing video game characters of all time. Will be interesting to see how her story unfolds.