What is wiping out the protoss

[Gradius]

I'd definitely be willing to bet that it's Duran's work. Why else would he already be in that corner of the universe? I doubt he followed the Zerg all the way there.

[Visions of Khas]

People just love the Voice... but it was inactivate at that time.

I don't see you making any suggestions.

Gradius: So you think Duran might have impersonated the Protoss as well and worked among them? (Reminds me of the old Doran Routhe = Duran = Adun theories of olde...)

[Sheliek]

I don't see you making any suggestions.

Gradius: So you think Duran might have impersonated the Protoss as well and worked among them? (Reminds me of the old Doran Routhe = Duran = Adun theories of olde...)

They do have similar names. Were these theories discussed at Blizzforums? If they were, any link to a thread, or at least a title, would make for an interesting read, I think.

[sandwich_bird]

This is interesting. I wonder if he might have been referring to the Dark Templar being exterminated by their Khalai brethren? Doesn't sound like it, though.

Concerning the Protoss, they've been in a continual state of war since their very inception at the hand of the Xel'Naga, from the Aeon of Strife to the internecine leading to the Dark Templar exodus. Plus I remember someone saying mysterious psionic storms ravaged Aiur, forcing the Protoss to return from their many colonies to Aiur, this being one reason the many Motherships are left scattered and abandoned through out the cosmos.

You know it's ironic that after all those wars they would hate the Terrans for basically what they kept doing for so long.

[Kimera757]

They do have similar names. Were these theories discussed at Blizzforums? If they were, any link to a thread, or at least a title, would make for an interesting read, I think.

There were theories. I used to support them. However, Blizzard told us more about Routhe a couple of years ago (in a Legacy-exclusive interview) which greatly weakened any Routhe-was-special theories.

[Alex06]

It was mentionned by people here that the voice killed everyone it took control of...Well, when it in fact affected Dr. Morrigan, it wasn't eating her away, yet she was somehow mind controlled by it.

Who's to say that the voice couldn't have done the same to Duran, and used him as an avatar of sorts, taking full control of his mind? The voice would need an agent. Who's to say it eats anyone it controls by default? Perhaps it only ate some because it found no more use for them, or that it was a stronger method of control. Whereas with Duran, the voice isn't controlling him that way because he needs him alive for a while. It isn't giving Duran the strength and superhuman capacities that it gave to the subjects it controlled on that moon.

And who's to say Duran is a mind-controlled person? Who's to say it's not something else, but appearing as Duran, that is still linked with the voice? That could also explain why Duran isn't being consumed...

And perhaps the voice ditched Duran after a while and we won't see him in SC2. Duran became visible and so it had to change its appearance not to attract attention to itself.

And I'm sure Ulrezaj is working with the voice. He could be strong enough, since he's a Protoss, to resist being eaten by the voice, and besides, he has that device which can re-energize him (the fact that he is an archon and has outlasted every other archon by re-energizing himself from the bodies of other Protoss), which could've easily made him last that long.

And now he's imprisoned within a crystal, while Duran may have gone...Thus the voice awakened. It seems that the voice is more than just whatever was on that planet, as it is still alive when the planet is shattered to pieces, so that didn't kill it.

The voice could also be like a computer virus...It can infect anyone, and perhaps has infected that Protoss' mind, instead of simply wearing him while in another form. (Like how Protoss minds can be transferred into crystals, the creature transferred itself into a Protss mind) That's what it may have done with Duran, too. Or perhaps there are more than 1 voice in the darkness across the universe...

Anyways, going a bit off-topic with all these theories...

[Visions of Khas]

The Voice is the smoke monster from Lost. Damn JJ Abrams.

[Alex06]

The smoke monster appears to hold some kind of ultimate moral, while the voice is sort of more biased and has its own opinions and what seems like feelings.

[Kimera757]

It was mentionned by people here that the voice killed everyone it took control of...Well, when it in fact affected Dr. Morrigan, it wasn't eating her away, yet she was somehow mind controlled by it.

It considers humans a weak source of food due to their low level of psionics. Morrigan was psychic, so she would have lasted longer. There's a reason it preferred protoss to her, though; she was only a weak psychic.

[Norfindel]

It was mentionned by people here that the voice killed everyone it took control of...Well, when it in fact affected Dr. Morrigan, it wasn't eating her away, yet she was somehow mind controlled by it.

Dr. Morrigan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrigan_Aensland