There's a comic about SC ghosts but you know what'll make a good story line?
Medivacs! I think a Medivac crew will make a super great story line for a Blizzard comic! any ideas?
Re: There's a comic about SC ghosts but you know what'll make a good story line?
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Blasterion
Medivacs! I think a Medivac crew will make a super great story line for a Blizzard comic! any ideas?
As long as it doesn't get turned into some kind of SC: CSI... meh I would have my doubts anyway.
But it would be a good way to use the in-game quotes from the medivac, I love the one that goes along the lines of:
"Oh my god we've been hit we're all gonna die!... hehe joking you should all see the look on your faces" :D
I would prefer if it was a comic about say, an entire squadron, like you have the viking pilots, the medivacs, all the infantry, like a general look on all the terran army, but not always on the battlefield as we've seen so far... more a la Starship Troopers style
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So they can have a multi chapter novel each chapter talks a bout a medivac squad and their story and ends with the Medivac shot down and everyone dying
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Personally I'm waiting for a novel that deals with a Wraith pilot or a Battlecruiser commander. There's very little lore in terms of spacebattles in Starcraft. They could really try and flesh out that a bit.
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I'd like a comic focusing on something other than Ghosts and marines.
The life of a pilot and their responsibilities -- providing air support and shuttling troops in and out of the battlefield -- would be interesting, as well as the different tactics they'd used in terran, protoss or zerg air spaces. Couple that with a medical team, character drama, psychology, love and tragedy... I could get behind that.
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As a fighter/pilot geek I can only approve of that.
Although I think a mixed group like what Nenol-phoenix mention would work just as well.
Oooh imagine the interaction - marine/ghost: "You dropped that bomb too close and nearly got US killed!" :D
They have more than enough to start with on the Hyperion alone.
Re: There's a comic about SC ghosts but you know what'll make a good story line?
I remember watching some Asian Medical Dramas
it's like omg so much blood what am I gonna do?
Gtfo ur crying won't heal him xD
Re: There's a comic about SC ghosts but you know what'll make a good story line?
The problem with focusing on space battles is you get less opportunity to focus on characters.
It's no secret that most battle scenes in Star Trek involve characters shouting stuff, with occasional cuts to space combat, and in Battlestar Galactica, the show tends to focus on fighter pilots (rather than their fighters or the Galactica itself).
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there is always a sweet spot where it's a good balance of both like say ummm Gundam series (SEED Destiny excepted) they do well in developing the characters and at the same time mech battles are good as well
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Kimera757
The problem with focusing on space battles is you get less opportunity to focus on characters.
It's no secret that most battle scenes in Star Trek involve characters shouting stuff, with occasional cuts to space combat, and in Battlestar Galactica, the show tends to focus on fighter pilots (rather than their fighters or the Galactica itself).
You're right that any good story needs to focus around characters and story, not simply detail various battles and what happens in them. But then that's true for any war story, be the people in the focus infantry or airforce. You get character and plot with occasional battles littered here and there. As an example I could point to I, Mengsk which was very good at balancing between the two.
There's another reason why television shows don't depict space battles that often, and keep them short when they do, though. That reason is budget. Having two people confess their love for each other on the screen is cheap. Having a massive space battle is not. I remember how this was once lauded as the longest consecutive CGI shot in the Stargate franchise, and how much it had cost. But when you see it on screen it's not really that long.
If I were to pitch a story to Blizzard for another novel, it'd be something like this: The main characters in the story would be the commander of a battlecruiser as well as a duo of wraith fighter pilots operating from it, with smaller characters appearing here and there as well. One of the wraith pilots would have to be a woman with an amply emphasized bosom, and naturally the love interest of our other pilot. This way we would get very good views of both the larger scope of space battles as well as the smaller and perhaps more personal efforts of the little people. The plot would revolve around how the crew of the Dominion battlecruiser serves its faction by fighting zerg (cue a TvZ space battle), how the crew then mutinies after they realize just how brutal the Dominion and the commander on the battlecruiser is (cue a giant battle on board the battlecruiser with loyalists versus mutineers), and how they ultimately join one of the smaller terran factions and fight against the Dominion (cue a TvT space battle).
The plot would be filled with lots of cliché moments, including the battlecruiser being ordered to bomb a terran colony because it's aiding one of the pirate factions. Wraith pilot #1 carrying the bomb refuses because the fight is supposed to be against aliens and bombing helpless civilians is bad. Wraith pilot #1 will be executed after she returns to the battlecruiser by the commander. Wraith pilot #2 will go ballistic and the crew mutinies because they see what happened as wrong. And in the final battle wraith pilot #2 managed to get in the killing strike on a battlecruiser that's commanded by their former commander.
I’d name the novel: “Shadow of Xel’Naga does not exist.” And the name of the evil commander would of course be Gabriel.
