Xel'naga worldship spotted?-wildly speculative

[Norfindel]

But why would the Xel'Naga involve in a TvZ battle, anyways?

[Gradius]

At BlizzCon 2009 they said that there is no art for Xel'Naga (now they were probably talking about the actual beings, because we already have art for temples and such).

Q: How much different are the Protoss from the Xel'Naga?

A: They're different because they don't have any art.

http://sclegacy.com/feature/102-bc-09/488-blizzcon-2009-starcraft-ii-art-panel

[Roland]

@Norfindel Because they're a bunch of little INTPs and INTJs who plan and manipulate everything to achieve a predetermined outcome. As a species that's what they've done for aeons, manipulate tiny subtle details to achieve an inevitable and required conclusion, maybe they happen know that this battle will affect blank and through a chain of events affect the Cycle, or maybe the Terran and Zerg are fighting over a xel'naga temple or artifact (which we've seen a lot of) which the Xel'naga want to reclaim.

@Gradius I think they were just referring to actual art, like painting and architecture, which could have significance in that all they pyramids and whatnot are shaped that way for a purpose. The fll quote makes that seem pretty clear.

A: They're different because they don't have any art. We haven't really gone too far into defining Xel'Naga other than defining a few temples and things. We on purpose don't really want to showcase what exactly a Xel'Naga is, because who knows what the future brings and we may decide we want to do something more with them. The Xel'Naga, artwise, they don't have lots of art. Now, Dark Templar and Protoss, their schemes are sort of the same i.e. curving and arcing armor, but dark templar are a little more archaic. Their metals are platinum, silver and blue hue where the Protoss are more warmful, bronze even some ivories and things like that.

[mr. peasant]

1) There is a protoss mini-campaign in Wings of Liberty, most people think it will deal with Zeratul's discoveries, in large part because of the amount of art/cinematic footage released which deals with it, there is also a screenshot in-game of Zeratul at what looks like a xel'naga alter in the caverns.

It's only speculation that it's a Xel'Naga altar. It could just as likely be a Protoss one. More importantly, even if it is Xel'Naga in origin, it's just an ancient relic (like the temple on Shakuras, etc), which is quite different from revealing active Xel'Naga. The return of the Xel'Naga would potentially be a major crowning moment of awesome. Blizzard would certainly not discard such an opportunity by spoiling it with a throwaway appearance in a random piece of art all those months ago.

[Roland]

Hypothetically assuming those spheres are worldships then they're still not throwing the opportunity away, they're dropping an extremely subtle hint in an innocent enough image that 98% of the SC community will dismiss as moons. That's hypothetical, point being that even if those sphere's are worldships they're really not throwing away anything.

[mr. peasant]

Hypothetically assuming those spheres are worldships then they're still not throwing the opportunity away, they're dropping an extremely subtle hint in an innocent enough image that 98% of the SC community will dismiss as moons. That's hypothetical, point being that even if those sphere's are worldships they're really not throwing away anything.

The problem is that such a blatant depiction of a world ship will cheapen any unveiling of said world ship (the concept of which is our sole idea of what the Xel'Naga are like). It would be like, "Hey, that looks cool. Wait, haven't I already seen this before in Random Artwork #47?"

[Roland]

That's like saying cliffhangers make the culmination boring because they already gave you something of an inkling of what it would be like. It's really much more impressive, when you've been working at it, like when you see a big statue's general shape just pricking out from under the cloth it's under, it's much more impressive when you finally see it, as all the little hints you got from the shape of the cloth suddenly make sense. It makes it a revelation where you realize how intertwined it all was instead of just a surprise.