Kimera757

The Xel'Naga created many failed races before they created the Protoss, and the Protoss are humanoid, so it could mean the Xel'Naga found humans, thought they could be pure of form, tinkered with them, called them failures, and moved on. Not that it would make any kind of difference. However, I doubt it. The Protoss watched over many races that the Xel'Naga had created, and when humanity arrived, they didn't think they were Xel'Naga creations. And on that note, the Xel'Naga never create races, they just steer their evolution. Not all races would be created by another race. I doubt the Xel'Naga were created by anyone. Until the Hybrids. It's been a long time, the Xel'Naga could start regrowing their population. No, they didn't want to assimilate humans, since they're an inferior species (which still manages to kick Protoss and Zerg butt). However, they had to assimilate Terran psionics to defeat the Protoss... or so the theory went. Kerrigan wasn't taken to Aiur when the Overmind went there, so one wonders if the Overmind suddenly forgot about his asset. They were Dark Templar, and not even close to pure of essence. Furthermore, we don't know if the Zerg need to do something special to infest the Protoss, since they haven't been able to do so. (The latter topic is very long on many StarCraft boards.) Only Protoss military units have shields. Of course, the best specimens to infest, High Templar, always have shields. She wouldn't make a good secret agent then, plus Kerrigan didn't seem interested in infesting the Protoss, and especially Dark Templar. It was supposed to be 10 years later, but things changed; now it happens at the same time as StarCraft. Yes, that does suck. Nihilistic, Blizzard's partner, quit the project. There's a new partner, but I can't recall it's name. PS it's extremely unlikely that Terrans are retrograde Xel'Naga; we're only 150,000 years old as a species and our genetic material is very similar to the stuff on Earth. We share 32% of our DNA with dandelions.

You are definitely wrong. He is CREATING Hybrids. How can he be a Hybrid? Sure he does. Read his quotes again. Who were nearly wiped out by the Zerg. Clearly not. The Xel'Naga are older than their creations. They can't BE their creations. The Terrans don't know about the Xel'Naga, nor would they be able to control such creatures. What would be the point of creating them? The primary purpose of the Xel'Naga was to make a "perfect" race - I think this is what Duran meant. The Hybrids would not look like Xel'Naga; the Xel'Naga are so imperfect that when the Overmind absorbed some of them, he didn't bother to create a strain of Xel'Naga breeds. They evacuated most of the workers (Khalai), but some warriors were left behind. It's not a clip of SC II. It's jun fun art, sort of like Arthas doing that dance. About the UED controversy, a few facts: Blizzard wanted a new "race" in BW, the UED. However, the playtesters didn't like this, so the UED just became... not different. Second, the Koprulu Terrans might have better technology than the Earth inhabitants. Yes, they lost a lot of technology (the UED made it to the Koprulu Sector in less than a year of warp travel) but, on the other hand, they've been at war for a long time. That tends to advance technology. But perhaps more importantly, the Koprulu soldiers would be better - fighters, officers, and so forth. Lots of people on www.blizzforums.com, trying to piece the storyline together, figured the UED just stole Koprulu Terran technology.