Duran's Speech in 'Dark Origin'

This is the conversation between Duran and Zeratul on the bonus mission for Brood War, Dark Origin. Everything, word for word, is exact. I added this for those of you who want to review Duran's speech, so you don't have to continuously listen to in it the game, you can just read it and review it here .

• Zeratul: â€I-I've never seen a creature like this before. â€

• Computer: Test subject 29 classified, protoss/zerg hybrid in perfect cryo-hibernation, psyionic emanations minimal.

• Zeratul: â€No . . . â€

• Duran: â€Magnificent, isn’t it? â€

• Zeratul: â€What!? Who are you? â€

• Duran: â€I’ve had many names throughout the millennia young prodigal, you know me best as Samir Duran. â€

• Zeratul: â€Kerrigan’s consult, is this part of her twisted schemes? â€

• Duran: â€No . . . young Kerrigan could not have engineered this grand experiment, although her rebirth into the Zerg Swarm has sped up my progress. I can assure you that this endeavor is quite beyond her narrow understanding. â€

• Zeratul: “If you are not her pawn, then what are you?â€

• Duran: “I am a servant of a far greater power; a power that has slept for countless ages, and is reflected in the creature within that cell.â€

• Zeratul: “Have you any conception of what you’ve created here, do you have any idea what this-this hybrid is capable of!?â€

• Duran: “Of course I do. This creature is the completion of a cycle. Its role in the cosmic order was preordained when the stars were young. Behold the culmination of your history.â€

• Zeratul: “All I behold is an abomination!â€

• Duran: “Your violence young prodigal is typical, as is your inability to comprehend the greater scheme of things. You can destroy all of the specimens here; it will do you no good, for I have seeded the hybrid on many, many worlds. You will never find them all before they awaken, and when they do, your universe will be changed . . . forever."


And that’s it, whatever speculations you have about this crucial dialogue, and how it may affect StarCraft 2, feel free to post here.

 

Gosh i wonder what the hybrids will do. Maybe they will infest everyone and advance in technology + physical form.
What were the 2 things for protoss and zerg. I think one was purity of form. What was the other?

 

Purity of Essence. . . or unity.

 

cool. I love duran. Hope we see alot of him in sc2.

 

Purity of form and purity of essence; the Xel'Nagas themselves. Obviously something is trying to create Xel'Nagas, the question is what.

 

I seriously doubt that he is a Xel'Naga agent. Why would the Xel'Naga create a mirror image of themselves? If they wished to create hybrids, they themselves would have been the best choice for test subjects. Duran is serving another race, a race that probably contested the doings of the Xel'Naga.

 

the XelNaga didnt have purity of essence or form becuase they got repeatably owned by their creations rofl

 

The Protoss are one side (purity of form) who have been defeated by the Zerg (purity of essence) and vice versa. The Xel'Naga easily had all the materials and the understanding of their creations to create a hybrid of their own before the events would occur. Surely the Xel'Naga have realized this because that is how they selected the species of which to augment.

 

yeh, if the Xel wanted to they could have created a hybrid ages ago, i think its more likely that they lost interest in manipulating species because they couldn't get it right.

 

Oh yes the Xel did indeed get "owned" by both zerg and protoss but does anyone remeber the Xel Temple on shakurus and the damage it did to the zerg? Well that makes we question how they got defeated in the first place as the protoss would have only been at the a tech level slightly higher than the terrans and the zerg didn't have most of their main species yet. So with weopens as powerful as the temple it makes me question HOW they got defeated 2 times in a row by slightly "less evolved" species.

 

i believe its because the XelNaga don't have a large army(if any), they are not interested in killing.
also its like killing their children lol

 

indeed, But why would they build a large temple of great power on a dark looking planet? I don't see how it has any other uses.

 

The Xel'Naga have do not have purity of form, or purity of essence. They are extra dimensional entities that can live for millions and millions years, possessing infinite knowledge of the universe . . . they are like gods. They do not share the same traits of the Protoss or Zerg however.

To me, its obvious Duran was ordered by the Xel'Naga to seed the hybrids, or is a Xel'Naga himself acting on his own account, serving his Xel'Naga brethren indirectly or to "the greater scheme of things". “I am a servant of a far greater power; a power that has slept for countless ages, and is reflected in the creature within that cell."

And it was not the original intention of the Xel'Naga to create a being with both traits of pure form, and essence. After seeing the flaws of creating the Protoss with pure form first hand, they wanted to create a more unified race, and thus they created the Zerg, which in their eyes was far more successful, then the Protoss. After creating the Zerg's collective will, the Overmind, the Xel'Naga were convinced they had created the perfect being. But before they can move on, or do anything else, they were destroyed by their creation.

I believe a few survived however, and have been observing the events of the Protoss and Zerg wars, which inspired them to begin their most grand experiment yet, a being powerful enough to independently change the fate of the universe. It's even possible that they had started the experiment long before the Protoss and Zerg ever met. Or perhaps not, it would explain why Duran and his pawns were doing so much research of Zerg and Protoss still. But I believe Duran is indeed affiliated with the Xel'Naga, the fact that he has already seeded Hybrids on "many, many worlds" would lead me to believe that he definitely knows what he’s doing.

 

I love this last part,"Your universe will be changed...FOREVER!"

 

i see 2 things here: either Duran is one of the Xel'Naga or another experiment of the Xel'Naga.

but here's my say. there could be a possibility that a new race might awaken at the end of starcraft2.

 

Well we don't even know what the hybrids will be like (assuming they will be in the game in the first place). Although they share the Zerg and Protoss traits, game wise their play style could be completely different from either Zerg or Protoss. Realistically, I believe every hybrid will have a mind of it's own, exceeding the intelligence of even the most brilliant Protoss minds with a heightened psychic power. There will be a force stronger then anyone could comprehend that is controlling them all fortunately, to give them unity and allow them to organize and act as one individual.

The Hybrids will probably be different then anyone has thought up of if they will even appear in the game at all (most likely as a small neutral race consisting of just a few units and 1 or two more buildings).

 

I believe, the Xel'Naga created the protoss and all was well. When they created the zerg however they got killed to near extinction and lost control of the overmind. And maybe now, they created the hybrid to finish the zerg since it became such a problem.

 

The Protoss attacked the Xel'Naga too. That's why they wanted to create a specie that would be controlled by one intelligent being instead of making the whole specie intelligent.

 

Didnt know that. Interesting, why did the protoss attack them though?

 

''The tribes began to fear treachery from their masters, and in seeking to sever themselves from the rest of their race, attempted to lose the psychic link that they shared. This dissolved whatever remnants of brotherhood or unity that the Protoss had shared. Feeling that the greatest attribute of the Protoss was lost, the Xel'Naga began withdrawing from Aiur. However, the suspicious Protoss responded with an attack that destroyed a number of Xel'Naga Worldships. The Xel'Naga Worldships fended off the hasty attack and left the system. The Protoss Tribes then turned against each other, beginning the Aeon of Strife, the most devastating civil war in recorded galactic history. ''

I guess that's the reason