Xel'naga worldship spotted?-wildly speculative

[Roland]

I know this is highly, highly unlikely, but does anyone else hope that the Xel'Naga's 'world ship' will be something like this? You've got to admit, when it comes to epically awesome sci-fi, no one does it quite like Gene Roddenberry.

That looks like a stylized Dyson Sphere, or web, or grid, or net. I always hoped Xel'naga world ships would be like miniature Dyson Sphere, which I won't rule out until I've seen the inside of one.

FYI: A dyson sphere is a conceptual artificial utopia conceived by a guy named Dyson, it would be like if you built a giant metal sphere around the orbit of the Earth, so we could harness 100% of the sun's energy, and live on the inside of the sphere, which would be so huge overpopulation would be a non-issue, infinite power and space, sounds like something the Xel'naga would build.

It would have to be way smaller though, as they could land on Aiur.

[Norfindel]

In fact, you can see that the sun is on the lower left of the picture. It's setting on the planet.

[Roland]

@Norfindel

in the bottom left of the image you can see the sun setting behind the sphere's meaning that they're dark side would be facing us, so unless they're in the atmosphere they'd be invisible.

Correct, I'm assuming it's close enough that the nuke is illuminating it enough to see.

[Visions of Khas]

That whole Magog system looks like it was lifted from Larry Niven's sci-fi, where they have several worlds and their sun linked together traveling through the galaxy. Cool nonetheless, though.

I'm of the opinion that the X'N worldships are biomechanical in nature. I have some sketches for speculative worldships. I should post those sometime...


Anyways, I'm pretty sure those are just moons.

[Roland]

Please explain, why biomechanical, and why moons?

[Visions of Khas]

Everything else about the Xel'Naga was biomechanical or engineered, if the Protoss and Zerg are any indication. Zerg fit the definition of biomech to a T. Crystals thrum with a life of their own. Protoss are designed to interface with all of the above. The only nonliving component of Xel'Naga technology I can remember is the Shakuras temple, and it was mentioned that was crystal in the DT Saga, so it was probably grown rather than constructed.

(It's also my theory that the Protoss got the idea for Dragoons and Immortals from the X'N.)

[The_Blade]

The Xel'naga actually taught many things to the Protoss. But this was before the protoss started to fight over the idea of being abandonded by their creators (gods).

[SpikeVorador]

nah, they're just moons, you're right about the lights and the explosions and all that... but in the end i think the artist probably just put them there because they look cool, he wasnt trying to be realistic, he was trying that the picture look badass and cool and fucking awesome.

[screw_ball69]

. The only nonliving component of Xel'Naga technology I can remember is the Shakuras temple, and it was mentioned that was crystal in the DT Saga, so it was probably grown rather than constructed.

(It's also my theory that the Protoss got the idea for Dragoons and Immortals from the X'N.)

Uhh, was there not still a living creature trapped inside said crystals/temple if my memory serves me correctly...so said temple is still technically a living component.

[Norfindel]

nah, they're just moons, you're right about the lights and the explosions and all that... but in the end i think the artist probably just put them there because they look cool, he wasnt trying to be realistic, he was trying that the picture look badass and cool and fucking awesome.

Well, if he wanted to be realistic, he won't draw a nuke so close to anything that has to survive the explosion There are even ships flying there, that can feel a little turbulence