Artifacts

[Zeraszana]

(dunno if a thread exists already but well...)

I've been going through the sc2 campaign again, mostly the parts considering the protoss and ''found'' something i didn't notice before but, at one point, Ariel mentioned that the artifact would ''drain the very life out of a protoss'' and that ''they were created merely few thousand years ago, and in comparison to other xeno-archeological items they were just recently made'', did anyone else notice that before? what do you think about it, my thoughts were that the voice made it to do something to the protoss rather than use it on the zerg as the terrans have utilized it

Hanson
I've done some preliminary studies. Your artifact is a few thousand years old, but that makes it pretty 'young' in Xeno-archaelogical terms. Most alien artifacts are millions of years old. By comparison, this one was made recently.

Hanson
Well, if you think of them as dry sponges, they draw ambient energy like water. These things try to absorb as much energy as they can.

Raynor
Are they dangerous?

Hanson
Not if you're human. If my theories are correct - and you were a protoss, for instance - they could drain the life right out of you.

So, any ideas? i really dunno what else to make of it other than to connect them to the chambers beneath Aiur (trilogy, Jake and Zamara seeing the dead, DRY corpses of the protoss), so going by that it either
a) kills the protoss
b) serves as a way to experiment(?) on the toss
c) uses their essence/life energy to power something up
d) the same thing only to give the energy to someone or better said, to refine it to be useful for someone else for whatever they may need it (Ulrezaj using it to stay alive?)
e) given its nova charge, possibly to disturb/destroy the khala (or whatever connection the toss may make with their psyonics?)
f) destroy a threat (eg someones ability to control the zerg instead of the maker?)
g) to store energy or something else (think ihan crystal - note that [i think] Ariel or Stetmann say that it radiates 10x the amount of energy of ANY other encountered artifact)?
h) some other ideas?

[Gradius]

Moved to right forum.

[Zeraszana]

Moved to right forum.

thx..didn't know where to put it

[Norfindel]

I suppose the only chance of seeing this thing again, is if you can control Terrans in some missions, or someone suicides to use it, seeing how the remaining campaigns are Zerg and Protoss.

The artifact is said to be recently made, but why it was dissasembled, and put in different places?

Since the retcons, i don't have any idea what happened "a few thousands years ago", but if there's some event that happened at that time, it could give some clues.

[pure.Wasted]

I suppose the only chance of seeing this thing again, is if you can control Terrans in some missions, or someone suicides to use it, seeing how the remaining campaigns are Zerg and Protoss.

Surprisingly enough, Brian and Chris at BlizzCon were very explicit in establishing that we're far from done with the Artifact, and if anything, it's only going to get more interesting from here.

[mr. peasant]

I suppose the only chance of seeing this thing again, is if you can control Terrans in some missions, or someone suicides to use it, seeing how the remaining campaigns are Zerg and Protoss.

Unless... the Dark Voice gets a hold of it. Indeed, if Duran is indeed Narud, all of this might have been a Xanatos Gambit on his part for him (via the Moebius Foundation) to get his hands on the Artifact (trading Kerrigan and the Zerg for a potentially more powerful weapon).

[Zeraszana]

Unless... the Dark Voice gets a hold of it. Indeed, if Duran is indeed Narud, all of this might have been a Xanatos Gambit on his part for him (via the Moebius Foundation) to get his hands on the Artifact (trading Kerrigan and the Zerg for a potentially more powerful weapon).

hmm..i like the idea that would be a nice twist

[Rake]

It always bugged me that the artifacts were oddly specific in their design for things made so long ago. I hope that it is made clear in the future that they are just being 'tuned' for specific uses.

[Kimera757]

I wonder... if it could absorb protoss energy, if it could have been used to create hybrids?

That Dark Voice has a long-range plan.

[Quirel]

It always bugged me that the artifacts were oddly specific in their design for things made so long ago. I hope that it is made clear in the future that they are just being 'tuned' for specific uses.

What I like to think is that these Ancient Alien Artifacts aren't one-use machines. If you're Sufficiently Advanced, why not make Cosmic Swiss Army Knives?