Random Thoughts Thread

[ragnarok]

Tassadar dindu nuffin (literally, in that specific case).

That said, thinking on what you just said, that makes Tassadar's sacrifice a bit more noble. Whether he realized it or not, a lot of stuff went very wrong because him trying to not kill millions of innocent people. I wonder if that was on the writers' minds went they wrote the first three campaigns?

It shouldn't. It's not like Tassadar knew the Zerg would infest Kerrigan at Tarsonis and everything. All that really happened there was he tried to see there's more to terrans than what met the eye. That in itself shouldn't be considered a bad idea.

[Sheliek]

There's this new thing, Rag! It's called dramatic irony, and characters don't even need to know it exists for it to apply to them!

[Turalyon]

Imagine how differently the entire Starcraft story would have gone if Tassadar had just pushed the button when he was told to...

Yeah, the Terrans would've been totally extinguished since the Zerg would continue to look for their psionic potential amongst theTerrans and the Protoss would keep on following the Zerg trying to incinerate them.

[Drake Clawfang]

Yeah, the Terrans would've been totally extinguished since the Zerg would continue to look for their psionic potential amongst theTerrans and the Protoss would keep on following the Zerg trying to incinerate them.

Not necessarily. The Confederates were so overwhelmed by the Zerg first because they didn't actually try to stop them, and then didn't see them coming. Let's give Mengsk the benefit of the doubt to take the threat of Zerg seriously, especially when he was crowned on a promise to protect people from the Zerg.

[Nissa]

Not necessarily. The Confederates were so overwhelmed by the Zerg first because they didn't actually try to stop them, and then didn't see them coming. Let's give Mengsk the benefit of the doubt to take the threat of Zerg seriously, especially when he was crowned on a promise to protect people from the Zerg.

Yeah, and it's not just Mengsk. There's no evidence the Kel-Morians or Umojans knew anything of Zerg, and if they did, they might not have gotten the idea to try and use the Zerg for their own aims. Only the infested human worlds were going to be taken down. Though you have to wonder what the Conclave planned, exactly. Like, just zap those planets and disappear, leaving humanity to wonder? That's bound to have consequences.

[Turalyon]

Not necessarily. The Confederates were so overwhelmed by the Zerg first because they didn't actually try to stop them, and then didn't see them coming. Let's give Mengsk the benefit of the doubt to take the threat of Zerg seriously, especially when he was crowned on a promise to protect people from the Zerg.

Yeah, but the Dominion can only really form once the Zerg are off the Terrans collective backs. If the Zerg didn't find Kerrigan on Tarsonis, they would continue to keep searching amonst Terran worlds and Mengsk would be hard-pressed to do anything. Remember that the K-sector was much smaller back then. When the Zerg abandoned Terran space after capturing Kerrigan, 9 of 13 Terran coreworlds were smashed. If the Overmind did not find Kerrigan when it did, it would have continued to search for the 4 remaining worlds with the Protoss in pursuit as well....

Besides, Mengsk was taking the Zerg threat seriously in Sc1, since he sent Duke to Char. You know how that went.... One can only imagine what would happen if the Zerg were still active on the prowl for Terran Ghosts after Tarsonis, Mengsk wouldn't had enough breathing room to build anything.

[Drake Clawfang]

A second thought occurs to me... the Confederates had Ghosts. Lots of them. While the Overmind may not have found Kerrigan, it surely found some of the other psychics the Confederates were using. If one presumes that this sated it, well, there you go.

Also, the timeline overlaps enough, so here's a possibility - Nova could have been found by the Zerg. She was apparently on Tarsonis in the midst of the invasion...

And a SC2 thought - no achievements for the Epilogue missions on Brutal? Guess Blizzard agreed the Hard ones were bad enough already.

[Turalyon]

A second thought occurs to me... the Confederates had Ghosts. Lots of them. While the Overmind may not have found Kerrigan, it surely found some of the other psychics the Confederates were using. If one presumes that this sated it, well, there you go.

Also, the timeline overlaps enough, so here's a possibility - Nova could have been found by the Zerg. She was apparently on Tarsonis in the midst of the invasion...

Could work with enough contrivance but there's still a few snags. We're considering a what if scenario were Tassadar wouldn't have had pangs of conscience about burning Terran worlds. If so, as soon as the Zerg made their way to Tarsonis, the Protoss would've immediately lit it up. Bye bye opportunity!

[Visions of Khas]

Random Thought:

I don't know how I didn't catch this sooner, but the Purifier campaigns are ripped from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Endion is Endor; you're bringing down the shield emitters; and Cybros is the Death Star, capable of destroying the life on worlds.

[Robear]

That's why they had Ewoks there!



There's even an ewok beating a marine helmet like a drum, like the ewoks used stormtrooper helmets for percussion in the movie.