Howdy Folks! Thanks for taking the time checking out the video. What is your favorite part of StarCraft lore? Whose your favorite character? Hope this finds you well!
i think in a future video you describe the zerg as... the genetics bankers. apt description. the overmind and cerebrates are like the chess piece on the board that plays the game. then the fact that terrans are the rough and tumble pioneers that straddle the line of makeshift solutions and science gone mad... guess it's only chess if all players agree to the rules, eh? would the sapient zerg be better at predicting a protoss or a terran's next move? is zerg itself more or less predictable than its counterparts?
Protoss has always been my favorite and Xel'Naga was so interesting and cool to me. Until StarCraft 2 happened. I wish we could have gotten a better SC2 campaign. There was so much more they could have done.
My favorite character has always been Carrigan specifically during Brood Wars, she was just psychopathic and did not give a fudge lol, I loved all the zergs sound effects when you highlighted them. Regarding the Lore I honestly had no Idea the Terrans were prisoners before they settled the colony's but again still was a well made video. and even as a Vet I did learn a few things
If I recall, in one of the starcraft books it explains why Mengsk accepted Kerrigan. He knew she killed his family, but also knew he could use that against her to secure her loyalty. She expressed visible guilt over the act, which he exploited. Not only that, but he deeply enjoyed taking away one of the confederacy's best toys. That didn't mean he wasn't aiming for revenge. He was using her as a tool until she was no longer needed. Then he left her to be zerg food. His only miscalculation was the overmind's interest in her.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios He also used her to kill the other members of the hitsquad. I cant remember for sure which book but googling says "starcraft : uprising". A little bit before the zerg appear on mar sara and chau sara his flegling sons of korhal raid a confederate research lab. during the raid they discover some zerg and a mind wiped kerrigan who they were experimenting with to see if ghosts could control the zerg. Mengsk was able to hide his intentions and kerrigan did not remember killing his family. By the end of the book she's the last of the hitsquad, presumably his abandoning her to the zerg was another attempt to get he killed. The book Libertys Crusade being a novel version of rebel yell shows her being sent on at least one suicide mission.
Apparently there was some post SC1 release date retconning that happened. The history was in the original instruction book that came with the game way back when, and I read all of it several times through because it was soo cool. Some of the history you've told here, especially with the Protoss, strikes me as incorrect barring retcons that I never paid attention to or saw. My memory could be faulty here, but the following differences is what I recall from 26 years ago and entirely from either the instruction book or SC1 campaign : -Kerrigan and all the ghosts were more or less mind controlled by the confederacy. She switched sides when she was freed of this control. -The Xel'naga were basically bored space travelers playing god with their advanced technology. They weren't malicious or bad, just naive. -The Protoss started with psionic power. This is what drew the Xel'naga to them in the first place as they had the potential to be equals or even better than the Xel'naga themselves. The Protoss eventually got themselves into civil war and cut themselves off from their psionic link. At this point the Xel'naga thought they failed the Protoss and they ALL left. Protoss Jesus eventually led them out of it but the Xel'naga were long gone and playing with the Zerg by time that happened. From here on the Protoss tried to be better and act like the Xel'naga in hopes that the Xel'naga might return and bless them with their presence again. The Protoss saw the Zerg as abominations to be wiped out from the moment they met them which is why they went to the extreme of annihilating any infested planets. -With the Zerg the Xel'naga took a hands off approach rather than being directly involved. Zerg started as small mind control parasites, but the Xel'naga enabled them to have vastly more potential. The Zerg slowly assimilated their entire home planet, and eventually got some creatures with the ability for space travel. The Zerg eventually noticed the Xel'naga in orbit, ambushed, and consumed all of them. At the time this was thought to be the end of the Xel'naga as an active race as only old temples were around, and the bonus level having Xel'naga hybrids wasn't until the brood war expansion. While they wiped out the Xel'naga the Zerg learned all sorts of things including the Protoss having psionic powers which is why the Zerg made the journey in the first place. When they arrived they found Kerrigan first and didn't really need the Protoss anymore since she gave them access to it which is why it never came up again.
Ahaha I appreciate that acknowledgement; gotta keep the head down and keep going. Thank you for taking the time to comment this, it brought a smile to my face. Absolutely, I’m very excited to explore the StarCraft universe more. Hope all is well!
Thank you so much for commenting! Yes they get the specific world through that, but per the wiki: Of importance to the coming interstellar journey was the xel'naga's knowledge of other species they had influenced. From this knowledge the Overmind learned of the protoss and the general location of their homeworld, Aiur, in the galactic fringe. So the Overmind does get the information on the Protoss as well as a general location, but you’re right, the specific location of Aiur was through Zeratul
This video fuckin rocks dude. I love this game, so dope to see all the cool details and worldbuilding that went into making it feel like such an immersive and fleshed out world.
J'@i rarement vu autant d'enthousiasme autour de Starcraft sur RUclips. Merci pour tes vidéos, ça me rappelle pourquoi Starcraft est mon univers de science-fiction favori.
If I recall correctly from one of the early game manuals, the Zerg were a small worm like parasite (that the larvae and cerebrets are the closest in shape to, if larger). The Xel’Naga (retconned to be Amon) decided to take these little guys and enhance them. Eventually the parasite started being able to take control of and alter the larger organisms they were in, rapidly changing them to be unrecognizable in relatively few generations. This being how assimilating new species into the swarm works.
Hey bud. I love StarCraft. I am a big fan. You seem to be trying to inform people about a great series. A lot of your information is wrong, though. I am not talking about the extended universe either. All of it is from the two games. Mentioned multiple times about Zeratul and Aiur. Literally a main campaign point of the game. Amon had control over the Overmind and tried to rebell but couldn't that is why he created Kerrigan. The Xel Naga didn't belive in uplifting races it was all Amon that's why he knows about the Kala and how to control the Protoss. A lot of other stuff too. Probably should redo this video and verify some of your info. Not trying to be a jerk just some basic info. Goodluck with the channel.
I read somewhere that Arcturus took Kerrigan knowing that she was the one that killed his family. That's why he left her to die later for "no reason". But I'm not sure where i did read that or if it's real at all. Could just be a headcanon of mine.
Thanks for writing! I thought so too; which is crazy considering Arcturus also breaks her out of prison, which Raynor references during that same mission, and she scolds him for “being a good guy.” Welp.. he was right. My guess is what you say and she served her purpose, but he never mentions it at all, which I find interesting in its own right. Hope all is well!
Why I think Arcturus took Kerrigan under his wing was because he realized that she kill his father not on her own will. He took pity on her really. I'm pretty sure that Confederacy was controlling her and when Arcturus broke her out he thought she could be useful.
SC1 absolutely blew me away as an 11 year old! I played the game to death on my aunty’s laptop. The lore, the gameplay, visuals/sound and drama. After many years in between I downloaded StarCraft remastered pre covid…man, what a feeling getting to play back through that campaign again. Thanks heaps for the video, this is fantastic, makes me want to jump back in and play the series again.
Starcraft was my first ever pc game back in 2000 on a pentium 3 700mhz processor 256kb of ram lol intergraded intel graphics at the time but it was awesome!!! like you i love to replay the campaign for the story telling. Awesome Video Brother!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios It was indeed, I learned all about pc specs and started experimenting on that old machine to upgrade her as much as I could to play the latest games at the time. I recall someone throwing out a pc to the curve and I brought it home and it had another 256mb to make it 512mb lol and added the hardrive for more space. I also remember buying a geforce 64mb graphics card lol and that good old machine got me to 2004 when i finally upgraded to an amd athlon xp 2400 with a 512mb gaming card to be honest i do not recall the actual model just knew it was an nvidia and 2gb of memory to play Star Wars Galaxies and other MMO's :) but Starcraft was my go to when i was bored and just wanted a Fantastic Storyline. I did Enjoy Star Craft 2 I do have all 3 expansions, but I also wish that blizzard, Now Microsoft would revive the franchise with more good ole fashion story telling and lore.
I am a huge fan of Starcraft lore despite it being an amalgamation from other source material. Blizzard knew how to make a good game and then apply cool storytelling in their earlier games. Is it award-winning writing? No. It's still enjoyable, and Jim Raynor and Fenix are still one of the coolest band of brothers ever.
I am relatively new to Warhammer 40k lore a d i was vaguely familiar with StarCraft. This video definitely helps explain a lot of cool stuff i didn't know before. Thanks 👍
Thanks for taking the time to comment and watch! I should have been more clear in the video. The overmind learns of the Protoss through assimilating the xel naga it gets a hold of. Aiur specifically was found with exactly that, Zeratul killing Zaaz and unintentionally revealing Aiur’s location
If anybody wants to replay StarCraft 1, but dislikes the somewhat clunky mechanics (compared to SC2): There is a fan-made mod. "Starcraft: Mass Recall" It adopted SC1 into the more modern SC2 engine, all the campaigns, all intros, all cut scenes... They polished the videos, so they will look better. I am replaying SC1 atm, always wanted to do it, but after playing SC2 I just couldn't go back to the SC1 mechanics. Edit: 07:40 - I love how you (like probably everybody else) was totally overrun the first time in this mission makes sure that the defenses are so strong that the trigger when the Zerg starts to attack and overrun you does absolutly nothing, because the Zerg get annihilated by the strong defenses :D
I know I'm super late to this but it would be awesome if you could cover some of the more obscure branches of the Protoss! I know there certainly are some novellised sources for at least a couple of them but my brief contact with the wiki didn't satisfy my urge to know more haha Examples of such factions would be the Zhakul [who you see mind-controlled in the Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty Zeratul missions] or that other green-silver Protoss fleet that seems very advanced but is never brought up outside of written sources and I believe as a skin for multiplayer. Apologies I do not know the latter's actual name due to their lack of presence in the campaigns Either way great video though! Starcraft's lore is actually super interesting despite the lacking quality in direct storywriting in SC2. I had no idea about anything regarding the Terrans' backstory so this was very informative!
I’ll check out the lore : )! I’ll never say no to some StarCraft history! Thank you for the kind words and taking the time to write them! Wishing you well!
This is my favorite RTS. I compare every rts to SC. The story is what gets me the most, just like MassEl Effext story. I don’t have a pc anymore. Would love to play this on Xbox series X would even get a keyboard and mouse. So funny how people are now connecting the dots to Star Craft and Warhammer 40K
@@K3nny24 oh darn : ( the original games can still work on older computers, maybe even a raspberry pi? I hear you though, anything “gaming” costs an arm and a leg nowadays
Installing the game let you read up on the game itself. Its one of the generational things that some won't understand. We had to learn the games, not the games pandering to us. Hope all is well!
At around 18:00 you talk about the overmind knowing where Aiur is after absorbing the Xel'naga, which is false. They learn of Aiur's location only after Zeratul kills Zasz in Episode 2 with void energy
@@Dog.Dad.Studios oh yeah that make sense. By the way I absolutely love sc and kind of wanted to make a video about it for ages. Now you done it and shared the love, I don't need to, thanks!!
@@PabloYaos Thank you so much for your kind words, and make a video if you feel like it : ) the more eyes on the game, the better. Hope you're doing well!
So, Mar Sara was one of the first planets they invaded. But I recall seeing somewhere that Chau Sara was the first planet the zerg invaded. I think I pulled that from an old booklet that came with the game in the 90's. It might have been retconned or I could be misremembering thought
I believe you're right! Because Tassadar has already destroyed a planet, and wouldn't do it if there wasn't Zerg? (I'll look it up later). Thank you for taking the time to comment Philip, its good to see a familiar name : )
I honestly think Blizzard offering starcraft for free was a brilliant idea. A good primer for people who have never played the series and now can cut their teeth on the original with no buyers remorse if they didnt like it.
All the stuff at the start for the Terrans, Doran Routh, must surely be Narud/Duran. how far back, did he start his manipulation of earth? did humans just randomly start getting psionics or was that a narud plot? same with the purge, was that all part of his plan, to weaken earth? The "crash" in the koprulu had to be 100% intentional, as the zerg would need to integrate psionics if they were to get the protoss, but even the zerg would lose if trying to take on 23 billion humans. As it only took the confederacy, about a year likely a little less, to figure out how the zerg communicate and build the psi-disrupter and psi emitters. so Narud needed to make sure a weak group of assimilate able humans were out of contact, but capable of surviving.
It’ll take some time now that I’m doing my STALKER lore series, but I will get to it. All my videos are made with love and care, and I appreciate your patience. I can’t wait to talk about it : ) Hope all is well!
So the zerg didnt actually know where Aiur was. They couldnt assimilate the protoss and coildnt find a large enough colony of thiers to attack, but they did find terrans. After awhile tassadar wanted to figgt the zerg directly and spare the humans extermination since the concolaves entire strategy revolved around containment. When Tassadar allied with the dark templar and killed xasx? I think his name was, the overmind went comatose and just like yoir clip said, zeratul and the overmind touched minds. Each one getting info from tbe other, inclusing the secret location of Aiur.
I'm pretty sure Kerrigan being Angus' killer was a SC2 era retcon (or a retcon done in the "silent period" between BW and SC2) and not originally intended. I also really don't like it. I feel like Mengsk seeing Kerrigan's sacrifice as "nothing personal" is super important to both characters' arcs in SC1 and BW.
I think that Mengsk accepted Kerrigan, planning on getting rid of her when she will stop being usefull. In that case he'd avenged his family and get payback on the killer.
The xelnaga don't appear as squids in the material universe. They use a host body. That is why they also use world ships to travel. The overmind absorbed host bodies. Amon's first host body was killed by other xelnaga. In the void, Amon and his followers killed other xelnaga and imprisoned ouros.
Kerrigan was a very effective weapon. Her actions put him in power. Might forgive her due to that IF she agrees to work for him as penance. He did leave her for dead in the end. So maybe he didn’t forgive.
The reason I can think of Mengsk having Kerrigan on his team after all that is how Mengsk in many ways is a metaphor for someone like Fidel Castro. The US sent literally hundreds of agents to try to assassinate Castro, but all failed, and there even was one, a woman, who couldn't go through with it because she fell in love with Castro, they slept together etc. Even the whole from revolutionary to despot is how the US - mistakenly - sees Castro so I think Kerrigan being on his team, turning the one who was sent against his people to his side, relates to this.
I'd say the reason Mensk took Kerrigan is simple, she was useful. For the same reason he blackmailed Duke to join him, they were better alive serving him than dead opposing him, and considering that he had an entire operation done just to capture her, I think it's clear he believed her to be very, very powerful, even for a ghost. At the same time, Mensk more than likely knew that Kerrigan killed his family, it would be hard for him not to know. It's probably part of the reason he had her killed on Tarsonis, along with her probably knowing he planned on taking complete control of the Terran worlds under his iron grip.
11:16 Arcturus didn't approve too much how his father handled/hated the confederacy (though he himself did also hate the confederate system) and was just prospecting with some of the now ex-marines he worked with during the guild wars under the name he gave, dominion squad (familiar name?) he fought for the confederates, sometimes under and with Edmund duke and was mostly just trying to hit a big payday of minerals to retire on on unexplored worlds. He finally found one when things were desperate when he got the call that his family had been assassinated. Though he was rivals with his father loved his entire family and especially his younger sister, and hearing this sparked his massive campaign of vengeance against the confederates. He was especially bitter about the decapitation of his father and the death of his sister and this is what got Kerrigan killed in sc1. About Kerrigan, ghost assassins are heavily brainwashed and often don't have memories of previous missions, Kerrigan was and still is the most psionically gifted ghost on record so freeing Kerrigan from the nightmare of being a ghost is probably what gained him her undying loyalty and allowed him to use her as his most effective weapon (until psi emitters) until he could complete his vengeance. I haven't read all the books but I have read I, Mengsk and Ghost: Nova
I love when people take the time to write such candid and fantastic responses. It makes me sad we can’t sit together and talk about this. I will try to get back to this in depth, which might be hard. But just know that I saw this, read it, and smiled that you shared it. Thank you
Zeratul I believe was the actual location, but the Xel Naga gave the overmind the korpulu sector. So once the overmind knows where to send its people, it does, and starts the invasion of Mara Sara and the events of StarCraft 1, including Zeratul giving up Aiur’s location. Let me know if that makes sense
Arcturus is pragmatic. Kerrigen was doing her job as an assassin. Much like he was doing his job as a leader weighing the lives of thousands against her life when he left her stranded. Thats why he was fine with her on his team.
Maybe he knew the defenses were difficult to get through, but Kerrigan succeeded, so he knew that he could use her skill to first get what he wanted taken care of. Then when the opportunity presented itself for him to take his vengeance, he knbew that she would be within his grasp.
I really love the old lore of StarCraft but when Sarah appeared as the assassin of the Mensk family.... yeah, that is too much "everything is connected: Star Warsy" feeling for me. NGL, Kerrigan just being abused by the Confederacy and being "saved" by Mensk to be betrayed by him for no reason than just power... makes Mensk and Kerrigan that much better as villains. A reason as vain as that, a sacrifice as big as his second in command makes Mensk the absolute MFer of the universe. Now... who can blame him? He took revenge... Blizz always manages to fuck up.
It's been a while, so I'm a bit fuzzy, but to the best I can recall, it was a prologue campaign of 3 or 4 mission where you play as a Confederate commander under Duke. Initially you're sent out to deal with a group of the Sons of Korhal, but you encounter the Zerg and get tasked with trying to wipe them out. I don't they called them Zerg though, I think they call them xenomorphs. There's a mission where you go into a lab to rescue scientists and the last mission is a defense one where you get control of Duke in a siege tank. There was Terran v Terran multiplayer with a single 1v1 map that I played a lot of. I recall being very excited when I installed the full game to find out you could play as the aliens. Also, it meant I already knew who Duke was when he showed up in the main campaign.
It would be cool to add "certified StarCraft nerd" requirement before running for public office. There be more harmony while allowing individual groups flourish. And a focus on engineering 😆
Overmind did not know the location of Aiur from the Xel’Naga, Zerg were drawn to the Koprulu sector sensing the growing psionic potential of Ghosts, since that is similar to Protoss psionic presence…it was only when Zeratul murdered Zasz that he telepathically connected with the Overmind and thats when the Overmind learned the location of Aiur and invaded it.
So the Terran strongest in the universe since Zerg and Protoss struggled against this break away Terran faction. If Earth came would they wipe everyone out?
Back in I'd say, 2006? Someone on the GameFAQs forums wrote down an 'Abridged' version of the stories of Starcraft 1. It's silly and self aware, and I like it, although some of it is definitely dated, and some of the info has been let's say, retconned a little.
Oh yeah, I could see Blizzard not looking at the good lore they took years to create, and you’re so right; there was a silliness and humor to the game that didn’t upstage the horrendous situations our characters found themselves in. So well done and replaying StarCraft for the retrospective blew me away by how many details there were, that I never picked up as a kid.. like Kerrigan reading Jimmies mind and hearing he wants to… have relations…
@@Dog.Dad.Studios That's also true, but I was mostly referring to the abridged version I have saved that was written almost like a comedy. It's a silly read altogether.
U got it wrong about zerg knowing where protoss homeworldis. Thr protoss have blanketed it with their psionic powers frm the zerg. It is one of the advantages the protoss have over the zerg. Later when zeratul permanently kills a cerebrate, thr overming managed to get the location of aiur becase of a special connection between the cerebrate n the overmind. This is why later zeratul became an outcast of the protoss. The blamed the fall of aiur on him
The Overmind after consuming some Xel Naga know to go to Korpulu, Zeratul is the final nail in the coffin for the specific location, is what I’ve learned through research. If you can send the resource you have for the psionic powers I would be happy to read it.
I really wanted to watch your video, but your floating body popping up left and right zooming in, really killed it for me. Should of juat kept the visuals going and would of been a hit. A lil constructive criticism
Howdy, I appreciate you taking the time to write this. Check out some of my newer videos and see if the editing has changed to more of your liking. All the best
So xel naga (Narud or what is his name) is rebellious and do not want to put purity of essence to protos to make a zerg where is overmind and his only goal is to merge with protos to make basically what was initially intended? Perfect species with purity of form and essence. This is story of sc? What? 😂
I’m still trying why Narud is trying to assemble the artifact to defeat Kerrigan who is currently under Amon’s control? The games and lore is cool but the story is all over the place imo
I have only played the Starcraft and Brood War in my lifetime but I was wondering why Terrans in that game developed into a Southern Confederacy, with an exception being wherever the Russian Captain came from.
I’m assuming because the earth directorate might stem from the soviets and the terrans who make the confederacy are all criminals, but that’s my assumption, nothing concrete.
🤔 . . . Question: much like _World of Warcraft_ , would you like to play a _StarCraft_ MMORPG? Because I can’t think of any title that’ll properly include _StarCtaft_ 🤷♂️…
🤔 . . . Because I want to incorporate all _StarCraft_ factions, @@Dog.Dad.Studios, you can choose to start as a Protoss, Terran, or Zerg. It’s a bit like _Star Wars: the Old Republic_ because, to borrow from _Spaceballs_ , you’ll get your own ‘starship’. Otherwise, your own character progresses based on which of the three main factions you defeat (borrowing from _StarCraft 2_ ‘s campaign tech tree), as well as the unfolding story. Thus, the more Protoss, Terran, and/or Zerg your player character defeats, the more your player character would have their own version of the three factions . . . stuff 🤷♂️. And honestly, I think the Zerg character would be the odd one out, since they’ll start out as a larva, killing feral Zerg, wayward Protoss, and/or Terran pirates; after that tutorial, your larva would become a cocoon that’ll be its first time you’ll be allowed to make more cosmetic changes, regardless of what you’ll end up with as your ‘upgrades’ & such… Again, as you progress from one of these three choices of enemies, the plot thickens & such…
Alderus is like: Tassadar, i want us to prevent the Zerg from controlling Terran planets because if they assimilate human DNA, they will evolve into forms which will seriously threaten all life in the universe. YOU want to prevent the Zerg from killing Terran because of sympathy. We are not the same.
I wonder if Atlas deletes all nav cords on purpose. Once more; forcing evolution and creating very different conditions for stress and creating a drive to progress faster for survival. I also always thought that The Kahla (?) was a partly physical thing, a sort of hivemind just among the race connected. Interesting if it is solely a religious order
Oh yeah, I don’t think blizzard would go as far as 40k or other hard sci fi books, but there is the possibility of the narrative of forcing evolution. Especially with the UED being able to get to the Korpulu sector.
This video is incredible. I have a question and I dont know if you can answer it. Why is the lore and backstory in scifi (games specifically) usually more interesting and engaging than the stories of the actual games? My examples being Halo novels going further in depth on characters and inner workings of the universe and factions than the games ever did. As well as Destiny/ Destiny 2s lore and ancient history being engrossing and almost addicting compared to the sleep inducing actual in game story content. I would rather be playing the lore of a lot of these games nowadays instead of the actual story provided in game.
It’s a great question! This is my opinion on the matter: I think lore in the actual game is not as over the top because it might detract viewers/gamers etc from getting into the media itself. I think they also have a lot more time to write all the stories after the game releases, since most IPs get the expanded lore after they’ve become popular ( I don’t know if halo had books before the first game). I find the happy medium is where there is a lot of lore scattered around, but the game makes it very clear to the player, it’s up for them to decide how much they want to delve into it. I think of Skyrim, there are a ton of books you can read that make the world a lot more meaningful; but you’d never know if you didn’t go out of your way. I don’t know if it would be as special if someone lore dumped something instead of me actively seeking the knowledge. It’s a great question and I hope I’ve adequately answered. What’s your take?
@Dog.Dad.Studios Thank you for the response. I believe Halos' first novel predates ce by about 1 month. In terms of my take on lore. That's also a tough one, as I think my narrow-minded view on it is, "Right now, all this lost history sounds way cooler than what I'm playing right now. I wish I was playing that instead." After reading the first 5 or so halo novels, I said to myself,"They need to make a game out of these." As someone who was already invested in halos games before lore diving, I think my opinion may be too skewed to be taken seriously. I stand by what I said on destiny and destiny 2, though. Golden age humanity and The book of sorrows detailing Oryxs rise to power is more interesting to me than any destiny/d2 content I've played (which is up to witch queen). Was able to confirm. The first Halo novel: Fall of Reach was released October 30th 2001, and Halo combat evolved released November 15th, 2001.
Of course! Wow that's so cool, I would not of guessed back then that they would have done that. But maybe I'm discounting Microsoft/Bungie budget and scope. Ah, see that's where I would say its more a, "glass half full or empty" mentality. Its really hard not having those experiences in game, and I'll say that making my own interpretations of things I've read for lore, kind of makes it sweetly personal? I don't know, that's my thoughts at least. I wouldn't be hard on yourself, you enjoyed the books, don't second guess yourself on that. I'm so glad you got into the universe! I played a lot of Destiny 1 and 2, but I couldn't tell you anything really about the story except for Ghost things follow you around and Nathan Fillion was a voice of one of the characters in D2. I'm sure the back story is insanely cool, and that I can see being detrimental, since you know there is better lore they could cover.
@Dog.Dad.Studios It was really cool what studios used to do. I think the hardest I am on myself is wanting to make my own sci-fi fantasy world as expansive or imaginative as Destiny, Halo, Mass Effect, 40k, Starcraft, but I have no writing skills, only random ideas I never put on a page. Plus there's the "it's already been done before better, so I shouldn't even try." That's what eats at me most. A desire to be a creative, but not having the belief to actually go through with it. It would be under scrutiny of any person who's ever touched scifi ever. "This is just an insert either Halo, mass effect, or 40k, rip off." I couldn't come up with an original idea to save my life.
As someone that is making his own sci fi universe/game. Just go for it. Stephen King once said, if you write at least 50 words a day, you’ll have a novel in a year. I think in life we can fear what’s to come rather than hope what could be. I hope you get your story out there! Everyone’s voice deserves to be heard, regardless of the “reviews”
why megsk had kerrigan? yesterday enemies are todays allies against the zerg and protos... also, he left her behind... a fate worse than assassination by humans
Madame Web (OG Spiderman anime) always said keep your friends close and your enemies closer.. I guess this would be a moment that proves that! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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Howdy Folks! Thanks for taking the time checking out the video. What is your favorite part of StarCraft lore? Whose your favorite character? Hope this finds you well!
i think in a future video you describe the zerg as... the genetics bankers. apt description. the overmind and cerebrates are like the chess piece on the board that plays the game.
then the fact that terrans are the rough and tumble pioneers that straddle the line of makeshift solutions and science gone mad... guess it's only chess if all players agree to the rules, eh?
would the sapient zerg be better at predicting a protoss or a terran's next move? is zerg itself more or less predictable than its counterparts?
Protoss has always been my favorite and Xel'Naga was so interesting and cool to me. Until StarCraft 2 happened. I wish we could have gotten a better SC2 campaign. There was so much more they could have done.
@@AwesomeTheAsim yeah I’m ready to be amazed and disappointed by the story of SC2, thanks for taking the time to comment!
My favorite character has always been Carrigan specifically during Brood Wars, she was just psychopathic and did not give a fudge lol, I loved all the zergs sound effects when you highlighted them. Regarding the Lore I honestly had no Idea the Terrans were prisoners before they settled the colony's but again still was a well made video. and even as a Vet I did learn a few things
Is Starcraft still available? And the upgrade Brood war??? The same ones I hD in 1998,??
If I recall, in one of the starcraft books it explains why Mengsk accepted Kerrigan. He knew she killed his family, but also knew he could use that against her to secure her loyalty. She expressed visible guilt over the act, which he exploited. Not only that, but he deeply enjoyed taking away one of the confederacy's best toys.
That didn't mean he wasn't aiming for revenge. He was using her as a tool until she was no longer needed. Then he left her to be zerg food. His only miscalculation was the overmind's interest in her.
Thank you for taking the time to write this and explain it so well!
They later started wiping memory to avoid a repeat of this. That's what happens to Nova and her crew on the regular.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios He also used her to kill the other members of the hitsquad. I cant remember for sure which book but googling says "starcraft : uprising".
A little bit before the zerg appear on mar sara and chau sara his flegling sons of korhal raid a confederate research lab. during the raid they discover some zerg and a mind wiped kerrigan who they were experimenting with to see if ghosts could control the zerg. Mengsk was able to hide his intentions and kerrigan did not remember killing his family. By the end of the book she's the last of the hitsquad, presumably his abandoning her to the zerg was another attempt to get he killed. The book Libertys Crusade being a novel version of rebel yell shows her being sent on at least one suicide mission.
Apparently there was some post SC1 release date retconning that happened. The history was in the original instruction book that came with the game way back when, and I read all of it several times through because it was soo cool. Some of the history you've told here, especially with the Protoss, strikes me as incorrect barring retcons that I never paid attention to or saw. My memory could be faulty here, but the following differences is what I recall from 26 years ago and entirely from either the instruction book or SC1 campaign :
-Kerrigan and all the ghosts were more or less mind controlled by the confederacy. She switched sides when she was freed of this control.
-The Xel'naga were basically bored space travelers playing god with their advanced technology. They weren't malicious or bad, just naive.
-The Protoss started with psionic power. This is what drew the Xel'naga to them in the first place as they had the potential to be equals or even better than the Xel'naga themselves. The Protoss eventually got themselves into civil war and cut themselves off from their psionic link. At this point the Xel'naga thought they failed the Protoss and they ALL left. Protoss Jesus eventually led them out of it but the Xel'naga were long gone and playing with the Zerg by time that happened. From here on the Protoss tried to be better and act like the Xel'naga in hopes that the Xel'naga might return and bless them with their presence again. The Protoss saw the Zerg as abominations to be wiped out from the moment they met them which is why they went to the extreme of annihilating any infested planets.
-With the Zerg the Xel'naga took a hands off approach rather than being directly involved. Zerg started as small mind control parasites, but the Xel'naga enabled them to have vastly more potential. The Zerg slowly assimilated their entire home planet, and eventually got some creatures with the ability for space travel. The Zerg eventually noticed the Xel'naga in orbit, ambushed, and consumed all of them. At the time this was thought to be the end of the Xel'naga as an active race as only old temples were around, and the bonus level having Xel'naga hybrids wasn't until the brood war expansion. While they wiped out the Xel'naga the Zerg learned all sorts of things including the Protoss having psionic powers which is why the Zerg made the journey in the first place. When they arrived they found Kerrigan first and didn't really need the Protoss anymore since she gave them access to it which is why it never came up again.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to write this! I’m at a baseball game at the moment, but hope to respond soon.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios bump
Blizzard loves to retcon their stuff, no point in following the lore/story in any game they have done because of it if you ask me
“I love you sarge” ahahah
“It’s a zergling Lester!”
@@Dog.Dad.Studios we're hosed. Blow it, blow it
Algorithm must've hated you, It's a really nice video, can't wait for a sequel to come out :)
Ahaha I appreciate that acknowledgement; gotta keep the head down and keep going. Thank you for taking the time to comment this, it brought a smile to my face.
Absolutely, I’m very excited to explore the StarCraft universe more. Hope all is well!
The Overmind found Aiur after Zeratul touched a cerebrate. Not by absorbing the xel naga.
Thank you so much for commenting! Yes they get the specific world through that, but per the wiki:
Of importance to the coming interstellar journey was the xel'naga's knowledge of other species they had influenced. From this knowledge the Overmind learned of the protoss and the general location of their homeworld, Aiur, in the galactic fringe.
So the Overmind does get the information on the Protoss as well as a general location, but you’re right, the specific location of Aiur was through Zeratul
they know the whereabouts but not the exact spot, he saved them quite a bit of time by just giving away the exact coordinates
So basically, zeratul fcked the protoss
Nice catch.
Yes! Not a whole lot of starcraft lore on youtube! This is content!
Thank you for taking the time to write this : )
5:20 The 16,000 prisoners that were not deemed viable became the rations for those who were deemed viable.
Loved the video. Great storytelling and editing!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this!
That first SC1 opening cutscene was so good.. forgot all about it
This video fuckin rocks dude. I love this game, so dope to see all the cool details and worldbuilding that went into making it feel like such an immersive and fleshed out world.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
J'@i rarement vu autant d'enthousiasme autour de Starcraft sur RUclips. Merci pour tes vidéos, ça me rappelle pourquoi Starcraft est mon univers de science-fiction favori.
C’est très important pour moi que “produce” les vidéo. Merci pour écrit : ) thank you for your words!
If I recall correctly from one of the early game manuals, the Zerg were a small worm like parasite (that the larvae and cerebrets are the closest in shape to, if larger). The Xel’Naga (retconned to be Amon) decided to take these little guys and enhance them. Eventually the parasite started being able to take control of and alter the larger organisms they were in, rapidly changing them to be unrecognizable in relatively few generations. This being how assimilating new species into the swarm works.
Loved this! I've been a StarCraft fan for a long time!
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment : )
Hey bud. I love StarCraft. I am a big fan. You seem to be trying to inform people about a great series. A lot of your information is wrong, though. I am not talking about the extended universe either. All of it is from the two games. Mentioned multiple times about Zeratul and Aiur. Literally a main campaign point of the game. Amon had control over the Overmind and tried to rebell but couldn't that is why he created Kerrigan. The Xel Naga didn't belive in uplifting races it was all Amon that's why he knows about the Kala and how to control the Protoss. A lot of other stuff too. Probably should redo this video and verify some of your info. Not trying to be a jerk just some basic info. Goodluck with the channel.
I do this for Aior
Now I know why Arthurus left Kerrigan to be over run by the Zerg
I read somewhere that Arcturus took Kerrigan knowing that she was the one that killed his family. That's why he left her to die later for "no reason". But I'm not sure where i did read that or if it's real at all. Could just be a headcanon of mine.
Thanks for writing! I thought so too; which is crazy considering Arcturus also breaks her out of prison, which Raynor references during that same mission, and she scolds him for “being a good guy.” Welp.. he was right. My guess is what you say and she served her purpose, but he never mentions it at all, which I find interesting in its own right. Hope all is well!
The info is from the short story Uprising.
Why I think Arcturus took Kerrigan under his wing was because he realized that she kill his father not on her own will. He took pity on her really. I'm pretty sure that Confederacy was controlling her and when Arcturus broke her out he thought she could be useful.
@@brendenmccoy4129 thank you for taking the time to comment! Love this take!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios no problem bro. Thanks for taking the time that I don't have into this video.
Starcraft, Star Wars, and Gundam were my introduction into the sci-fi genre when I was young. Always love going back to it time and again.
SC1 absolutely blew me away as an 11 year old! I played the game to death on my aunty’s laptop. The lore, the gameplay, visuals/sound and drama. After many years in between I downloaded StarCraft remastered pre covid…man, what a feeling getting to play back through that campaign again. Thanks heaps for the video, this is fantastic, makes me want to jump back in and play the series again.
Thank you for sharing this and taking the time to do so! Let me know if you do jump back in, I’d love to hear how it goes!
All the best!
Starcraft was my first ever pc game back in 2000 on a pentium 3 700mhz processor 256kb of ram lol intergraded intel graphics at the time but it was awesome!!! like you i love to replay the campaign for the story telling. Awesome Video Brother!
Thank you so much for sharing this! Isn’t it wild what we used to play on! I appreciate your kind words
@@Dog.Dad.Studios It was indeed, I learned all about pc specs and started experimenting on that old machine to upgrade her as much as I could to play the latest games at the time. I recall someone throwing out a pc to the curve and I brought it home and it had another 256mb to make it 512mb lol and added the hardrive for more space. I also remember buying a geforce 64mb graphics card lol and that good old machine got me to 2004 when i finally upgraded to an amd athlon xp 2400 with a 512mb gaming card to be honest i do not recall the actual model just knew it was an nvidia and 2gb of memory to play Star Wars Galaxies and other MMO's :) but Starcraft was my go to when i was bored and just wanted a Fantastic Storyline. I did Enjoy Star Craft 2 I do have all 3 expansions, but I also wish that blizzard, Now Microsoft would revive the franchise with more good ole fashion story telling and lore.
I am a huge fan of Starcraft lore despite it being an amalgamation from other source material. Blizzard knew how to make a good game and then apply cool storytelling in their earlier games. Is it award-winning writing? No. It's still enjoyable, and Jim Raynor and Fenix are still one of the coolest band of brothers ever.
I am relatively new to Warhammer 40k lore a d i was vaguely familiar with StarCraft. This video definitely helps explain a lot of cool stuff i didn't know before. Thanks 👍
Glad I could help! Hope all is well!
Thanks for this i just miss starcraft so much
I appreciate you taking the time to write this, thank you!
The only issue I have, great video, by the way. The overmind didn't know the location Aiur until Zeratul killed one of the cerebrates. Zaaz I believe.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and watch!
I should have been more clear in the video. The overmind learns of the Protoss through assimilating the xel naga it gets a hold of.
Aiur specifically was found with exactly that, Zeratul killing Zaaz and unintentionally revealing Aiur’s location
What a great video ❤ Thanks man 👍🏻
Thank you for taking the time to watch it and comment! I truly appreciate it!
If anybody wants to replay StarCraft 1, but dislikes the somewhat clunky mechanics (compared to SC2): There is a fan-made mod.
"Starcraft: Mass Recall"
It adopted SC1 into the more modern SC2 engine, all the campaigns, all intros, all cut scenes...
They polished the videos, so they will look better.
I am replaying SC1 atm, always wanted to do it, but after playing SC2 I just couldn't go back to the SC1 mechanics.
Edit: 07:40 - I love how you (like probably everybody else) was totally overrun the first time in this mission makes sure that the defenses are so strong that the trigger when the Zerg starts to attack and overrun you does absolutly nothing, because the Zerg get annihilated by the strong defenses :D
I know I'm super late to this but it would be awesome if you could cover some of the more obscure branches of the Protoss!
I know there certainly are some novellised sources for at least a couple of them but my brief contact with the wiki didn't satisfy my urge to know more haha
Examples of such factions would be the Zhakul [who you see mind-controlled in the Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty Zeratul missions] or that other green-silver Protoss fleet that seems very advanced but is never brought up outside of written sources and I believe as a skin for multiplayer. Apologies I do not know the latter's actual name due to their lack of presence in the campaigns
Either way great video though! Starcraft's lore is actually super interesting despite the lacking quality in direct storywriting in SC2. I had no idea about anything regarding the Terrans' backstory so this was very informative!
I have googled it again and that second Protoss faction I mentioned was called the Ihan-rii lol
I’ll check out the lore : )! I’ll never say no to some StarCraft history! Thank you for the kind words and taking the time to write them!
Wishing you well!
i loved how you could get different responses from the units if you were to click on them reputedly
Great small detail!!
STOP POKING ME!
Cool video my man !
I appreciate it : )
Starcraft 1 - mature, moody, complex, smart, amazing memorable characters
Starcraft 2 - stupid childish, cheesy poopoo
I knew it, they definitely just took inspiration from the Tau to just having a Caste System for the Protoss hahaha.
The back story and source material are why StarCraft should be made into a graphic TV/streaming series.
Give me 30 minutes with the HBO execs and we’re doing it ahahah 😂
This was great! En taro adun!!!!
Check out the Protoss video if you’re truly friends with Tassadar! /s at your own volition.
Hope all is well
Favorite faction to play is the Zerg, but my favorite faction lore-wise is the Protoss. I'm a sucker for mythology and light/dark motifs.
Thanks for taking the time to comment this! Same here about the mythology!
This is my favorite RTS. I compare every rts to SC. The story is what gets me the most, just like MassEl Effext story. I don’t have a pc anymore. Would love to play this on Xbox series X would even get a keyboard and mouse. So funny how people are now connecting the dots to Star Craft and Warhammer 40K
Thanks for sharing this : ) I hear StarCraft might be coming to game pass??
@@Dog.Dad.Studios just for PC but that good for more ppl to try it out. I’ll just have to save up and buy a gaming pc even though I don’t want one lol
@@K3nny24 oh darn : ( the original games can still work on older computers, maybe even a raspberry pi?
I hear you though, anything “gaming” costs an arm and a leg nowadays
I've loved the PDF manual back in the day
Installing the game let you read up on the game itself. Its one of the generational things that some won't understand. We had to learn the games, not the games pandering to us.
Hope all is well!
I like all your SC stuff :)
Thank you so much! More to come after I get back from my honeymoon
@Dog.Dad.Studios
Very cool video mate!
I appreciate you taking the time to write this! Helps with the energy for the next video! Hope all is well!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios so far, so good thank you! Keep up the great work! :D
@@bonbondurjdr6553 good to hear : )
@@Dog.Dad.Studios hope you are well too! :D
At around 18:00 you talk about the overmind knowing where Aiur is after absorbing the Xel'naga, which is false. They learn of Aiur's location only after Zeratul kills Zasz in Episode 2 with void energy
Ehh sort of, the overmind gets the Korpulu sector from the xel naga, Zeratul gives the actual location
@@Dog.Dad.Studios oh yeah that make sense. By the way I absolutely love sc and kind of wanted to make a video about it for ages. Now you done it and shared the love, I don't need to, thanks!!
@@PabloYaos Thank you so much for your kind words, and make a video if you feel like it : ) the more eyes on the game, the better.
Hope you're doing well!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios i have a deep hatred of sc2 story so I'm better off I think haha. Maybe someday!
@@PabloYaos I cannot wait to start my retrospective on SC2 soon : ) talk soon!
So, Mar Sara was one of the first planets they invaded. But I recall seeing somewhere that Chau Sara was the first planet the zerg invaded. I think I pulled that from an old booklet that came with the game in the 90's. It might have been retconned or I could be misremembering thought
I believe you're right! Because Tassadar has already destroyed a planet, and wouldn't do it if there wasn't Zerg? (I'll look it up later). Thank you for taking the time to comment Philip, its good to see a familiar name : )
I honestly think Blizzard offering starcraft for free was a brilliant idea. A good primer for people who have never played the series and now can cut their teeth on the original with no buyers remorse if they didnt like it.
Such a well crafted story, i doubt they will ever do anything more with it which i think is for the most part a good thing.
Hey I appreciate the content. Star craft is a jewel.
Thank you so much 😊
Very cool video man
can you discuss when they started to make Gundams
XD
We're in the 21st century right now by the way
All the stuff at the start for the Terrans, Doran Routh, must surely be Narud/Duran. how far back, did he start his manipulation of earth? did humans just randomly start getting psionics or was that a narud plot? same with the purge, was that all part of his plan, to weaken earth? The "crash" in the koprulu had to be 100% intentional, as the zerg would need to integrate psionics if they were to get the protoss, but even the zerg would lose if trying to take on 23 billion humans. As it only took the confederacy, about a year likely a little less, to figure out how the zerg communicate and build the psi-disrupter and psi emitters. so Narud needed to make sure a weak group of assimilate able humans were out of contact, but capable of surviving.
Very interesting take!
When a cerebrate and the overmind love each other very much, they make larvae.
How did you get your hands on UED scientific research? Arrest this colonist!
Does this include any sc2 lore? Very important.
Nope, that’s for another video. Both deserve their own spotlight
Thank you for this lore summary. If you do Warcraft too, please do.
It’ll take some time now that I’m doing my STALKER lore series, but I will get to it. All my videos are made with love and care, and I appreciate your patience. I can’t wait to talk about it : )
Hope all is well!
These videos are awesome.
Thank you so much : )! Working on the Protoss one now
Thank you fellow nerd. Been playing SC since 99. Reading and rereading the manual and prima strategy guide in the bathroom as a kid. Thanks again
Ahahah absolutely! This stuff is fantastic and needs more recognition! Hope all is well! Prima strategy brings me back!!
So the zerg didnt actually know where Aiur was. They couldnt assimilate the protoss and coildnt find a large enough colony of thiers to attack, but they did find terrans.
After awhile tassadar wanted to figgt the zerg directly and spare the humans extermination since the concolaves entire strategy revolved around containment.
When Tassadar allied with the dark templar and killed xasx? I think his name was, the overmind went comatose and just like yoir clip said, zeratul and the overmind touched minds. Each one getting info from tbe other, inclusing the secret location of Aiur.
I'm pretty sure Kerrigan being Angus' killer was a SC2 era retcon (or a retcon done in the "silent period" between BW and SC2) and not originally intended. I also really don't like it. I feel like Mengsk seeing Kerrigan's sacrifice as "nothing personal" is super important to both characters' arcs in SC1 and BW.
Thank you for writing this!
I think that Mengsk accepted Kerrigan, planning on getting rid of her when she will stop being usefull. In that case he'd avenged his family and get payback on the killer.
Very good take!
Super vidéo !
Merci : )
I love everything they straight ripped from aliens and starship troopers
The xelnaga don't appear as squids in the material universe. They use a host body. That is why they also use world ships to travel. The overmind absorbed host bodies. Amon's first host body was killed by other xelnaga. In the void, Amon and his followers killed other xelnaga and imprisoned ouros.
Thank you for writing this!
Kerrigan was a very effective weapon. Her actions put him in power. Might forgive her due to that IF she agrees to work for him as penance. He did leave her for dead in the end. So maybe he didn’t forgive.
The reason I can think of Mengsk having Kerrigan on his team after all that is how Mengsk in many ways is a metaphor for someone like Fidel Castro. The US sent literally hundreds of agents to try to assassinate Castro, but all failed, and there even was one, a woman, who couldn't go through with it because she fell in love with Castro, they slept together etc. Even the whole from revolutionary to despot is how the US - mistakenly - sees Castro so I think Kerrigan being on his team, turning the one who was sent against his people to his side, relates to this.
I'd say the reason Mensk took Kerrigan is simple, she was useful. For the same reason he blackmailed Duke to join him, they were better alive serving him than dead opposing him, and considering that he had an entire operation done just to capture her, I think it's clear he believed her to be very, very powerful, even for a ghost. At the same time, Mensk more than likely knew that Kerrigan killed his family, it would be hard for him not to know. It's probably part of the reason he had her killed on Tarsonis, along with her probably knowing he planned on taking complete control of the Terran worlds under his iron grip.
Thank you for writing this! Well written and candid!
This makes me want to play OG starcraft...I think i will 😅
It’s so worth it!
11:16 Arcturus didn't approve too much how his father handled/hated the confederacy (though he himself did also hate the confederate system) and was just prospecting with some of the now ex-marines he worked with during the guild wars under the name he gave, dominion squad (familiar name?) he fought for the confederates, sometimes under and with Edmund duke and was mostly just trying to hit a big payday of minerals to retire on on unexplored worlds.
He finally found one when things were desperate when he got the call that his family had been assassinated. Though he was rivals with his father loved his entire family and especially his younger sister, and hearing this sparked his massive campaign of vengeance against the confederates. He was especially bitter about the decapitation of his father and the death of his sister and this is what got Kerrigan killed in sc1.
About Kerrigan, ghost assassins are heavily brainwashed and often don't have memories of previous missions, Kerrigan was and still is the most psionically gifted ghost on record so freeing Kerrigan from the nightmare of being a ghost is probably what gained him her undying loyalty and allowed him to use her as his most effective weapon (until psi emitters) until he could complete his vengeance.
I haven't read all the books but I have read I, Mengsk and Ghost: Nova
I love when people take the time to write such candid and fantastic responses. It makes me sad we can’t sit together and talk about this. I will try to get back to this in depth, which might be hard. But just know that I saw this, read it, and smiled that you shared it. Thank you
How come the overmind learned the location of Aiur but it didn't know the location until its mind linked with Zeratul's when Zeratul slew Zasz?
Why did mengsk work with Kerrigan? My response is, did he know she killed his family? I mean, assassins don't often advertise they killed someone.
I thought it was Zeratul who leaked the location of Aiur by accident? Or was the OG lore from back then different?
Zeratul I believe was the actual location, but the Xel Naga gave the overmind the korpulu sector. So once the overmind knows where to send its people, it does, and starts the invasion of Mara Sara and the events of StarCraft 1, including Zeratul giving up Aiur’s location. Let me know if that makes sense
Didn’t it happen in the moment he touched cerebrate or OM. Can’t remember exactly. They like mind melded or something
In Nova missions and other material ghosts were routinely brain wiped so maybe Mengsk didn’t take it personally?
Love this thought!
Arcturus is pragmatic. Kerrigen was doing her job as an assassin. Much like he was doing his job as a leader weighing the lives of thousands against her life when he left her stranded.
Thats why he was fine with her on his team.
Maybe he knew the defenses were difficult to get through, but Kerrigan succeeded, so he knew that he could use her skill to first get what he wanted taken care of. Then when the opportunity presented itself for him to take his vengeance, he knbew that she would be within his grasp.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write out your thoughts! I could see this!
Hope all is well : )
Before the Tarsonis betrayal, Mengsk already had a beef with her all along.
I really love the old lore of StarCraft but when Sarah appeared as the assassin of the Mensk family.... yeah, that is too much "everything is connected: Star Warsy" feeling for me.
NGL, Kerrigan just being abused by the Confederacy and being "saved" by Mensk to be betrayed by him for no reason than just power... makes Mensk and Kerrigan that much better as villains.
A reason as vain as that, a sacrifice as big as his second in command makes Mensk the absolute MFer of the universe.
Now... who can blame him? He took revenge... Blizz always manages to fuck up.
The Starcraft Battlechest was the first game I bought after playing the death out of the demo.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m so curious, what was the demo like?
It's been a while, so I'm a bit fuzzy, but to the best I can recall, it was a prologue campaign of 3 or 4 mission where you play as a Confederate commander under Duke. Initially you're sent out to deal with a group of the Sons of Korhal, but you encounter the Zerg and get tasked with trying to wipe them out. I don't they called them Zerg though, I think they call them xenomorphs. There's a mission where you go into a lab to rescue scientists and the last mission is a defense one where you get control of Duke in a siege tank. There was Terran v Terran multiplayer with a single 1v1 map that I played a lot of. I recall being very excited when I installed the full game to find out you could play as the aliens. Also, it meant I already knew who Duke was when he showed up in the main campaign.
@@Dinidan I appreciate this so much! Thank you for sharing all of this history!
It would be cool to add "certified StarCraft nerd" requirement before running for public office. There be more harmony while allowing individual groups flourish. And a focus on engineering 😆
I remember when StarCraft came out, I played the crap out of the first with it's expansion as well as 2 and it's episodes.
What’s one of your favorite things about the franchise?
Love this game it is the best I love to play to protos and terran
Overmind did not know the location of Aiur from the Xel’Naga, Zerg were drawn to the Koprulu sector sensing the growing psionic potential of Ghosts, since that is similar to Protoss psionic presence…it was only when Zeratul murdered Zasz that he telepathically connected with the Overmind and thats when the Overmind learned the location of Aiur and invaded it.
Thank you for writing this!
I believe. Mengsk didn't know Kerrigan killed and beheaded his father until later.
So the Terran strongest in the universe since Zerg and Protoss struggled against this break away Terran faction. If Earth came would they wipe everyone out?
Here was a question that was never answered by anyone. How does the Protoss reproduce?
they dont
@@lordskrothus are they immortal?
@@Diablo-pl7joyep, they are pretty much elves of Starcraft
I'm surprised Blizzard didn't give them wisps
Wisps spinning around minerals to harvest them to infinity would have been unbalanced.
That cutscene at the end of the video, I pretend that they survive and are present for several major canon events.
Love it! Hope all is well!
Back in I'd say, 2006? Someone on the GameFAQs forums wrote down an 'Abridged' version of the stories of Starcraft 1. It's silly and self aware, and I like it, although some of it is definitely dated, and some of the info has been let's say, retconned a little.
Oh yeah, I could see Blizzard not looking at the good lore they took years to create, and you’re so right; there was a silliness and humor to the game that didn’t upstage the horrendous situations our characters found themselves in. So well done and replaying StarCraft for the retrospective blew me away by how many details there were, that I never picked up as a kid.. like Kerrigan reading Jimmies mind and hearing he wants to… have relations…
@@Dog.Dad.Studios That's also true, but I was mostly referring to the abridged version I have saved that was written almost like a comedy. It's a silly read altogether.
It was not just cybernetics. You could be imprisoned for genetic modification, not agreeing with the UPL, having a religion, and many more crimes!
Damn dude, authoritarians are the freaking worst!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios Yup. More Battlechest stuff. Wish I still had the books.
I though zergs were created by terran. Wasnt it mentioned in some first SC missions ?
Xel’Naga created zergs and protoss
U got it wrong about zerg knowing where protoss homeworldis. Thr protoss have blanketed it with their psionic powers frm the zerg. It is one of the advantages the protoss have over the zerg.
Later when zeratul permanently kills a cerebrate, thr overming managed to get the location of aiur becase of a special connection between the cerebrate n the overmind. This is why later zeratul became an outcast of the protoss. The blamed the fall of aiur on him
The Overmind after consuming some Xel Naga know to go to Korpulu, Zeratul is the final nail in the coffin for the specific location, is what I’ve learned through research. If you can send the resource you have for the psionic powers I would be happy to read it.
Carpoolu sector. 😂
I really wanted to watch your video, but your floating body popping up left and right zooming in, really killed it for me. Should of juat kept the visuals going and would of been a hit. A lil constructive criticism
Howdy, I appreciate you taking the time to write this.
Check out some of my newer videos and see if the editing has changed to more of your liking.
All the best
More Starcraft history ples
I make a lot of videos, and will definitely be doing more StarCraft and general lore/history videos!
So xel naga (Narud or what is his name) is rebellious and do not want to put purity of essence to protos to make a zerg where is overmind and his only goal is to merge with protos to make basically what was initially intended? Perfect species with purity of form and essence. This is story of sc? What? 😂
I’m still trying why Narud is trying to assemble the artifact to defeat Kerrigan who is currently under Amon’s control? The games and lore is cool but the story is all over the place imo
I have only played the Starcraft and Brood War in my lifetime but I was wondering why Terrans in that game developed into a Southern Confederacy, with an exception being wherever the Russian Captain came from.
I’m assuming because the earth directorate might stem from the soviets and the terrans who make the confederacy are all criminals, but that’s my assumption, nothing concrete.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios thanks for the info anyway
🤔 . . . Question: much like _World of Warcraft_ , would you like to play a _StarCraft_ MMORPG? Because I can’t think of any title that’ll properly include _StarCtaft_ 🤷♂️…
Absolutely, give me Elwynn Forest but as a marine with a 1 attack with the machine gun and killing zerglings like kolbolds
🤔 . . . Because I want to incorporate all _StarCraft_ factions, @@Dog.Dad.Studios, you can choose to start as a Protoss, Terran, or Zerg. It’s a bit like _Star Wars: the Old Republic_ because, to borrow from _Spaceballs_ , you’ll get your own ‘starship’. Otherwise, your own character progresses based on which of the three main factions you defeat (borrowing from _StarCraft 2_ ‘s campaign tech tree), as well as the unfolding story. Thus, the more Protoss, Terran, and/or Zerg your player character defeats, the more your player character would have their own version of the three factions . . . stuff 🤷♂️. And honestly, I think the Zerg character would be the odd one out, since they’ll start out as a larva, killing feral Zerg, wayward Protoss, and/or Terran pirates; after that tutorial, your larva would become a cocoon that’ll be its first time you’ll be allowed to make more cosmetic changes, regardless of what you’ll end up with as your ‘upgrades’ & such…
Again, as you progress from one of these three choices of enemies, the plot thickens & such…
Alderus is like:
Tassadar, i want us to prevent the Zerg from controlling Terran planets because if they assimilate human DNA, they will evolve into forms which will seriously threaten all life in the universe. YOU want to prevent the Zerg from killing Terran because of sympathy. We are not the same.
Ahahahhaha I love the modern day memes when it comes to StarCraft. Thank you for typing this!
for how long did Duran live? Where did he come from?
That’s what I would love to know! People are commenting saying he is a xel naga, but haven’t confirmed that
Diablo I & II next please!
I'll definitely be going into the world of Diablo : ) hope all is well!
Lol, so Terran basically just accidentally involved between the Protoss Zerg war
I wonder if Atlas deletes all nav cords on purpose. Once more; forcing evolution and creating very different conditions for stress and creating a drive to progress faster for survival. I also always thought that The Kahla (?) was a partly physical thing, a sort of hivemind just among the race connected. Interesting if it is solely a religious order
Oh yeah, I don’t think blizzard would go as far as 40k or other hard sci fi books, but there is the possibility of the narrative of forcing evolution. Especially with the UED being able to get to the Korpulu sector.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios Hard agree on it not being like 40K; that was far more extreme than SC for sure
Protoss main knows that but always sting lol
😂 "Left a bad taste in his mouth"... I see what you did there!
This video is incredible. I have a question and I dont know if you can answer it.
Why is the lore and backstory in scifi (games specifically) usually more interesting and engaging than the stories of the actual games?
My examples being Halo novels going further in depth on characters and inner workings of the universe and factions than the games ever did. As well as Destiny/ Destiny 2s lore and ancient history being engrossing and almost addicting compared to the sleep inducing actual in game story content.
I would rather be playing the lore of a lot of these games nowadays instead of the actual story provided in game.
It’s a great question! This is my opinion on the matter: I think lore in the actual game is not as over the top because it might detract viewers/gamers etc from getting into the media itself. I think they also have a lot more time to write all the stories after the game releases, since most IPs get the expanded lore after they’ve become popular ( I don’t know if halo had books before the first game).
I find the happy medium is where there is a lot of lore scattered around, but the game makes it very clear to the player, it’s up for them to decide how much they want to delve into it. I think of Skyrim, there are a ton of books you can read that make the world a lot more meaningful; but you’d never know if you didn’t go out of your way. I don’t know if it would be as special if someone lore dumped something instead of me actively seeking the knowledge. It’s a great question and I hope I’ve adequately answered. What’s your take?
@Dog.Dad.Studios Thank you for the response. I believe Halos' first novel predates ce by about 1 month. In terms of my take on lore. That's also a tough one, as I think my narrow-minded view on it is, "Right now, all this lost history sounds way cooler than what I'm playing right now. I wish I was playing that instead." After reading the first 5 or so halo novels, I said to myself,"They need to make a game out of these."
As someone who was already invested in halos games before lore diving, I think my opinion may be too skewed to be taken seriously. I stand by what I said on destiny and destiny 2, though. Golden age humanity and The book of sorrows detailing Oryxs rise to power is more interesting to me than any destiny/d2 content I've played (which is up to witch queen).
Was able to confirm. The first Halo novel: Fall of Reach was released October 30th 2001, and Halo combat evolved released November 15th, 2001.
Of course! Wow that's so cool, I would not of guessed back then that they would have done that. But maybe I'm discounting Microsoft/Bungie budget and scope. Ah, see that's where I would say its more a, "glass half full or empty" mentality. Its really hard not having those experiences in game, and I'll say that making my own interpretations of things I've read for lore, kind of makes it sweetly personal? I don't know, that's my thoughts at least.
I wouldn't be hard on yourself, you enjoyed the books, don't second guess yourself on that. I'm so glad you got into the universe! I played a lot of Destiny 1 and 2, but I couldn't tell you anything really about the story except for Ghost things follow you around and Nathan Fillion was a voice of one of the characters in D2. I'm sure the back story is insanely cool, and that I can see being detrimental, since you know there is better lore they could cover.
@Dog.Dad.Studios It was really cool what studios used to do. I think the hardest I am on myself is wanting to make my own sci-fi fantasy world as expansive or imaginative as Destiny, Halo, Mass Effect, 40k, Starcraft, but I have no writing skills, only random ideas I never put on a page. Plus there's the "it's already been done before better, so I shouldn't even try."
That's what eats at me most. A desire to be a creative, but not having the belief to actually go through with it. It would be under scrutiny of any person who's ever touched scifi ever. "This is just an insert either Halo, mass effect, or 40k, rip off." I couldn't come up with an original idea to save my life.
As someone that is making his own sci fi universe/game. Just go for it. Stephen King once said, if you write at least 50 words a day, you’ll have a novel in a year. I think in life we can fear what’s to come rather than hope what could be. I hope you get your story out there! Everyone’s voice deserves to be heard, regardless of the “reviews”
why megsk had kerrigan?
yesterday enemies are todays allies against the zerg and protos...
also, he left her behind... a fate worse than assassination by humans
Madame Web (OG Spiderman anime) always said keep your friends close and your enemies closer.. I guess this would be a moment that proves that! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
He used sarah then left her behind as revenge. Isnt that easy to see
I'd say he took Kerrigan in because she was valuable asset
Thank you for taking the time to comment : )