Kerrigan Pt. 2: Agenda

[TargetBlue]

It's funny because the last time she had a "premonition", that the Protoss were coming to destroy Tarsonis, she was wrong.

Well she wasn't far off...considering the Protoss DID arrive to stop the Zerg. Had the Protoss survived as a fighting force in the area they would of very well destroyed Tarsonis like they did with Chau and Mara Sara to contain the Zerg infestation.

[Gradius]

Well she wasn't far off...considering the Protoss DID arrive to stop the Zerg. Had the Protoss survived as a fighting force in the area they would of very well destroyed Tarsonis like they did with Chau and Mara Sara to contain the Zerg infestation.

Tassadar disobeyed the Conclave by sending ground forces in the first place. He was ordered to purify the planet. He didn't want to kill any humans.

Also, I'm not saying Kerrigan is wrong about the upcoming threat (obviously).

[Roland]

I read Last Call just recently.

Hidden Content:

The conclusion is a night-club singer, Starry, being infested very subtly by a Zerg queen, the infestation is invisible to Terran scanners, Starry maintains all her looks and intelligence, just now she has a voice in her head telling her what to do.

Kerrigan may be able to use this on a wider scale, say she's looking for artifacts, she can do this to someone in the Moebius foundation and, or general in the Dominion army. The potential is really extensive, it (A) just about confirms my previous theory about how Kerrigan controls the swarm, not by force, but by subtly suggesting things which will inevitably obeyed. (B) Confirms Kerrigan's capacity to fulfill her goals, she can infest as much as she wants, building a whole army in her image.

[Kimera757]

And if that wasn't enough...

Hidden Content:

Meteor Station was evacuated by Raynor's Raiders before StarCraft II. (This is from a poster or somesuch in a StarCraft II cinematic that we've already seen.) So... Kerrigan has a spy on Raynor's ship?

[Roland]

I wonder if Kerrigan didn't intend that as well, set it up so that only Raynor could save Meteor station, then attack it. Assuming Starry is on-board she can keep an eye on Raynor, use him to track artifacts, and may learn about Zeratul's presence there. She might use it to start/tilt a revolt between Raynor and Mengsk. Smash every terran she can find against each other till the last man standing is far too weak to resist her.

[Norfindel]

It's funny because the last time she had a "premonition", that the Protoss were coming to destroy Tarsonis, she was wrong.

What do you expected? She couldn't even sense that Mengsk was going to betray her, or what it was going to happend to her. She was overconfident on her abilities.

[Gradius]

Yeah but the reason she couldn't read Mengsk is because he was so mentally disciplined or some such, according to Uprising.

[TargetBlue]

Yeah but the reason she couldn't read Mengsk is because he was so mentally disciplined or some such, according to Uprising.

Heh...I can see Mengsk's polar opposite already. I'll give you a hint: "You pig!"

[Kimera757]

Yeah but the reason she couldn't read Mengsk is because he was so mentally disciplined or some such, according to Uprising.

That's part of it. Also because she didn't expend effort on reading his mind - it's called respect. She lost a lot of respect for him due to the psi emitter incident, but still trusted him for some odd reason.

In StarCraft lore, mind-reading is made weak, due to its plot-breaking abilities. Even Nova doesn't pick up nearly as much information as she should, and she complained it was often harder for her not to read minds. (For instance, when she first met Fagin, and he didn't have a psi-screen, she wasn't able to pick up his plans for her, except something about her starving.)

It's harder to say with protoss. I'm not quite aware of any cases where a terran managed to trick a protoss mind-reader, but they certainly don't seem to read each other well, despite the Khala.

[Norfindel]

Yeah, it's one million times more difficult to write something, when people can read minds, unless you can entirely avoid direct contact of the sensible characters.

For the Protoss (or any two psi users) it can be justified: if the one of the characters is better at hiding his thoughts than the other is to read them, there's no problem. You don't really buy that shit of them not hiding any thoughts, right?

Unfortunately, it would be too late to say that Mengsk had psionic powers, but maybe he weared some kind of psi-screen.