I figured out the truth about the Xel'Naga!

It's so obvious and noone figured it out yet! The Xel'Naga are actually a hyper technological version of the Naga from WC... think about it


The Naga have interplanetary transportation, they also build pyramids. They have long life-spans and presumably the magical abilities to alter life. This must be true, no other alternatives.


Discuss: This as a really lame possibility and what your reaction would be

(This is mostly just a joke but it is also a theory as well, I really hope it's not true but I do see a lot in common between the Xel'Naga and the Naga... including the names)

 

Heheheh, good one

 

I've always been dusturbed by the very similar names.
Not in a "omg what if they are the samezors?!1" way but rather in a "Blizzard. ...what happened?" way.

 

Well maybe it has a strange pronunciation. Like Zelnajha. Not Naga.

 

I personally think it would make me quit SC and I've been playing SC since 2000

 

Xel'Naga - Since 1998 ive been playing brood war and for the person who gave that structure / race its name, you did well on making sure that your legacy will be talked about one day lol

 

The name was used in StarCraft Episode II and III (a few times). It's pronounced "Zel Naga". Also used at least once in Brood War (Xel'Naga Temple).

 

Ok.. there goes my theory out the window...

*waves goodbye to theory*

 

mmh.. poor theory!

now we just have to wait till murlocs appear on the coasts of Aiur.

 

...or not?

 

awesometastic

 

I.. think... not. Hehe. The Xel'Naga are likely more similar to the hybrid race, ie a combination of the zerg and the protoss.

Murlocs on the Coast of Aiur... sounds like a zerg candidate to me. A zerged out murloc would be awesome. I want.

 

Yeah...uhh...no. The similar names are just a coincidence.

And I'm not sure what they would look like but I seriously doubt its like the hybrids.

 

I think the closest thing to how Xel'Naga look like is the Archon.. i DON'T say they are archons ) just that i think archons are the closest things as apearance... we must w8 and see

 

Hahah, nice subject.

First to the question of how Blizzard didn't catch this? Pretty easy. Before Nagas were even an idea in Warcraft III > WoW, there were Xel'Naga in Starcraft. The development personel certainly changed in that time frame. Why would people working on Warcraft 3 necessarily reference lore information regarding Starcraft? It's either an oversight, or they knew about it and didn't care. Either way I'm reasonably confident that they have nothing in common.



ON TO MY AMAZING AND SERIOUS THEORY ABOUT THE XEL'NAGA AND THE "HYBRIDS" OF STARCRAFT 2

First, I would like to point something out. Humans and Protoss have very similiar physiologies. Because I am a nerd and cannot attribute this simply to lazy, unoriginal developers (most aliens in most science fiction settings turn out being humanoid in some way), I have to draw a link between these two species. But none of the lore in Starcraft ever alludes to the possibility that Terrans, too, might be the byproduct of intelligent design on the part fo the Xel'Naga.

BUT what if the Xel'naga seeded colony worlds with their genetic DNA and created a habitat cycle that would eventually support life? This would be a reasonable contingency, in the face of the Zerg beginning to devour their otherwise illustrious civilization. With such advanced technology you have to figure they were smart enough to come up with SOME sort of plan.

I draw this almost directly from the Halo storyline, by the way. The Forerunners created humanity as a "reincarnation" of their own civilization, because they could not defeat the Flood. Thus I postulate the Xel'naga proceeded along a similar path, and created Terrans as the "rebirth" of their civilization, hiding them in remote sectors far from Koprulu to be given time to gestate and advance without interferrence.



SO.. Xel'naga = Humans!??!!?!? Unpossible!! But wait. What about these dark and mysterious plans surrounding Samir Duran and the Zerg-Protoss hybrids? What about the 'Great Cycle' he spoke of?

Hear this, and burn it into your forebrains! The Xel'Naga intentionally manufactured two seperate and artificial species that embodied two very different evolutionary paths: the zerg are virulently expansive organisms that infest, mutate and evolve to suit the necessities of survival. The Protoss are technologically advanced sentients who wield mastery over time and space.

But these two species have something in common - and in fact, even the Terrans show traces of this link. Psionics. The crown and glory of the Protoss empire is the ability to integrate their personal mastery of psionics into their technology; thus things like the Phase Prism, described as an artificial intelligence construct embedded in a psi-crystal matrix.

The Zerg are a hive collective, with each creature supposedly possessing some basic level of psychic energy that when gathered into the same area begins to grow exponentially more powerful until a singular consciousness (the Overmind) manifests to the level of sentience.

And then you have the Terrans. Overall, they must be considered the weakest of these three psionically active species - only a fraction of a percent of their populus possesses any psychic power at all, and those who do can easily be said to be inferior to a Protoss High Templar or even a creature such as an Overlord.

So going with my theory that Xel'Naga in fact = Terran, what if the "Great Cycle" is a sort of artificial mechanism for self inflicted evolution? That is to say, the Xel'naga wanted to improve upon their own species, and so they manufactured the Protoss and the Zerg with the intention of using them as substrates to improve themselves. But obviously the process spiralled out of their control, and they had to come up with a way to get things back in hand.

So they created the Terran, a carbon copy of their current selves perhaps (lacking the higher technology). These three species are then destined to be manipulated by whatever force Duran represents to completely fuse into a singular species, possessing the greatest strengths of all three, and thus giving rebirth to the Xel'naga civilization, more powerful than ever before.


THOUGHTS, COMMENTS AND RUDE GESTURES ARE WELCOME

 

Too similar to Stargate!

The xel'naga made many species, and the humans could be one of them, but they would have been:

1) A failure.
2) Seen right through. The Overmind and some protoss know what xel'naga look like, and terrans wouldn't match.

 

*shrugs* Just because Terrans are the genetic descendants of the Xel'Naga does not make them physically identical. But you have a point, one that I was not aware of - that Zerg and certain Protoss might actually have personal memories of the Xel'Naga.

Still... I think the Protoss-Zerg hybrid is some sort of attempt to reincarnate the Xel'Naga, or perhaps an artificial process of self evolution.

 

I think it's an attempt to create an army out for revenge against the zerg. After all, the xel'naga built a giant bug-zapping temple on Shakuras, which wouldn't have made sense before the zerg attack. And the xel'naga had to be alive after that, not surprising since only the "greater whole" were destroyed.

Also, the xel'naga seem to be really into this whole "purity of form/essence" thing. If the xel'naga occupied hybrid bodies, they wouldn't be pure of essence. (Why would the xel'naga be so excited by purity of essence if they had it themselves?)

 

Naga aren't exactly a Blizzard original =)
http://www.khandro.net/mysterious_naga.htm

 

Yeah, thats exactly what they're not.

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