Terrans weilding Protoss technology?

[mr. peasant]

And tick the protoss off? I think Raynor wouldn't do that.

Well, we've already seen Raynor fight against Protoss factions in the first sneak peak of the campaign. He could steal from them.

[Norfindel]

IIRC Zeratul mentioned that no Terran mind could understand how a Pylon works. And that's very likely, as our tech relies heavily on electronics, that have nothing to do with crystals that seemingly magically enhance psionic capabilities and allows for ceirtain abilities to be casted much easier.

In the case the Protoss wanted to reverse-engineer Terran tech, it wouldn't be much easier, either, as they don't use the same tech, and don't have the knowledge needed to understand the device. The easier way would be to get a lot of data from the Terrans, like electronic's theory, design, and what the hell the small black rectangles do, but for that you must first be able to hack into their networks, or something like that.

Maybe the Terrans hijacked the Zealot's arm crystals, and they happened to work with the Ghost's energy.
I don't see how they would be able to reverse-engineer Protoss tech. That seems nearly impossible to do, and still more unlikely after just a few years of research.

[Kimera757]

Well, we've already seen Raynor fight against Protoss factions in the first sneak peak of the campaign. He could steal from them.

Yes, we have, but giving protoss tech to terrans could give the terrans an advantage against the protoss.

Although I suppose you could make him play the "evil" route and just do that anyway.

I don't see how they would be able to reverse-engineer Protoss tech. That seems nearly impossible to do, and still more unlikely after just a few years of research.

Nonetheless it's been done before (Deception, Project Gestalt). I suppose geniuses are a plot device to figure these things out

[mr. peasant]

IIRC Zeratul mentioned that no Terran mind could understand how a Pylon works. And that's very likely, as our tech relies heavily on electronics, that have nothing to do with crystals that seemingly magically enhance psionic capabilities and allows for ceirtain abilities to be casted much easier.

In the case the Protoss wanted to reverse-engineer Terran tech, it wouldn't be much easier, either, as they don't use the same tech, and don't have the knowledge needed to understand the device. The easier way would be to get a lot of data from the Terrans, like electronic's theory, design, and what the hell the small black rectangles do, but for that you must first be able to hack into their networks, or something like that.

Maybe the Terrans hijacked the Zealot's arm crystals, and they happened to work with the Ghost's energy.
I don't see how they would be able to reverse-engineer Protoss tech. That seems nearly impossible to do, and still more unlikely after just a few years of research.

They wouldn't need to understand how the technology works as long as they can figure out how to use it and how to replicate the object in question. Doctors and pharmacologists have been doing it for years!!

[trace wm]

Isn't Defense Matrix a Terran attempt at Protoss shielding?

[Kimera757]

Isn't Defense Matrix a Terran attempt at Protoss shielding?

No.

Defensive Matrix was invented before the terrans first fought the protoss. While the terrans may have learned about the protoss from having ghosts "read" zerg as far back as 2486 (about 15 years prior), the zerg hadn't seen the protoss at this point and probably wouldn't have known about psionic shielding.

In the various novels, the terrans had access to pretty good energy shielding by 2478, before the first secret contacts with the zerg.

Of course, after the Brood War (Deception, Project Gestalt) terrans had time to study protoss tech in an effort to replicate shielding. Dr. Burgess planned on putting shields on Gestalt Zero, but we don't know how well that would have worked.

[Norfindel]

They wouldn't need to understand how the technology works as long as they can figure out how to use it and how to replicate the object in question. Doctors and pharmacologists have been doing it for years!!

I'm electronics technician, and let me assure that you absolutely need to understand exactly how it works to replicate human technology.
It's natural to expect that it's also true for Protoss tech.

[Pandonetho]

Hm, I think I agree with Norfindel, seeing as despite all the Protoss knowledge of science, half their tech runs of magic.

[Gradius]

Plus reverse engineering protoss tech is really hard when things humans can't grasp is built into it i.e. Khala/void/psionic matrix.

[mr. peasant]

I'm electronics technician, and let me assure that you absolutely need to understand exactly how it works to replicate human technology.
It's natural to expect that it's also true for Protoss tech.

I'm just saying that if you had a gadget that was composed of a bunch of parts that were wired in a certain arrangement, you could theoretically build another of said gadget if you had those same parts and wired them exactly in the same arrangement without needing to understand the whys and hows of it. It's part of how mass production works. I doubt those machines have any awareness/intelligence much less know how whatever they are building works.