Collateral Damage: New Short Story?

[scorpio19]

nice artwork..do you have high-ress model??

[Quirel]

It's great to read some more about the Umojan Protectorate - They are a great benevolent faction.
To take one quote (spoilers):

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"Pandora knew that she and her comrades were allowed a great deal of freedom, unlike the Dominion's brain-panned ghosts. In return, the Umojan Protectorate expected its shadowguards to act with integrity."

I'd work for these guys any time.

Keep in mind that it was coming from a character that very well may have been brainpanned herself...
Or wasn't she?

[screw_ball69]

I dont think she was. didnt get that impression anyways.

[Kimera757]

She couldn't remember some things; there was a void in her mind. Maybe she just forgot due to injury. Or maybe...

I bet her bosses know what she did, but gave her a medal anyway. (The cost was worth it.) Umojans don't have to be nice. Just nicer than Mengsk.

[phazonjunkie]

Umojan shadowguards... cool. I wonder if Colin Phash would have become one if he'd gone to Umoja.

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Terran illusions don't bother me. These are weaker, seemingly entirely mental, you can't use them to scout, they're hard to maintain, etc. A hologram-cloak would work too, but would probably be easier to detect if you're not psychic.

Can't wait to see what the Kel-Morian Combine does with its own psychics.

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Yeah, It appears that maintaining an illusion requires a substantial mental control and maintaining the fascade becomes increasingly more difficult the more people that are around.

But it seems that the Umojan's expertise in the field of nanotechnology is far beyond that of the other Terran factions. I wonder if we'll see any Umojan-specific units/upgrades in coming expansions?

[Alex06]

Or maybe is the "hero Thor" that you can find in the Valhalla mission in the single player campaign...mierda, only time will tell...

What if the "hero Thor" in the SC2 SP mission on Valhalla is the Super Thor? Hehe, now that would be interesting. And we get to use it as a skin in MP if we get the special edition...Makes sense in a way, it's in the game files but only used in SP and used in MP if you got the special edition in the place of the real Thor (Though it's probably resized and looks odd...Super Thor looks like something that would be larger than the normal Thor).

[newcomplex]

But it seems that the Umojan's expertise in the field of nanotechnology is far beyond that of the other Terran factions. I wonder if we'll see any Umojan-specific units/upgrades in coming expansions?

That isn't nanotech, it's pure psionic mental projection. I doubt their are many ghosts powerful enough to use this tech.

[phazonjunkie]

That isn't nanotech, it's pure psionic mental projection. I doubt their are many ghosts powerful enough to use this tech.

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Today Pandora is Rebecca Schafer. She's so used to taking on different identities that she hardly notices the malleable mask hugging her face. The crucial piece of Umojan tech that channels her psionic energy and makes her appear as someone she is not. The psiweave.

The mask has taken on the rough shape and image of Schafer's face, enough to fool holocams and people from afar. But Pandora also keeps up a relentless mental manipulation of anyone close by to seal the illusion.

However that wasn't what I was talking about. I was referring to the nanotech the Umojans utilized in surgery, surveillance (nano-spies) and assassination (poisoned nanobarbs).

[GRUNT]

I'm personally disappointed with the story. I remember reading the brief description of this event in the Thor's page on Starcraft2.com, and the impression I had was that it was a story about a brave individual who went on this daring mission and brought back the goods. Like Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn Robin Hood, not the Russel Crowe one)!

Instead, too much of SC2's stories seems to be: "hey - let's make SC2 as gritty as possible by making EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER morally compromised!" They're trying to go for pathos, but now it's just really banal.

[Kacaier]

I'm personally disappointed with the story. I remember reading the brief description of this event in the Thor's page on Starcraft2.com, and the impression I had was that it was a story about a brave individual who went on this daring mission and brought back the goods. Like Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn Robin Hood, not the Russel Crowe one)!

When I read it, I didn't even think there was much of a story behind the event. It sounded more like fodder spy work to me.