I have been thinking for a while, trying to place all the clues together. I found an interesting solution regarding the Xel'Naga's objectives. It fits with everything, This has to be true! The following information is quoted from Wikipedia This is their first mistake, the Protoss. Then, this was their second mistake, the Zerg. The Xel'Naga are a proud race. They seek to make the perfect beings, to achieve perfection. They make their first attempt in creating the Protoss, which, as quoted above, was supposed to be the "purity of form". However, after the conflicts that happened, they were immediately considered a "failure", and the Xel'naga set out to build a new race. This race would take the form of purity of essence, and were at first a success. When everything went wrong the Xel'Naga, crippled, fleed into deep space. Then they came up with a new plan. They realized both the advantages of the Protoss and the Zerg, and think that by conducting experiments that mix both races, they will finally achieve their perfection. In order to do this, they send in a prototype in a human form named Samir Duran in order to accomplish two things, key to the Xel'Naga. 1) Create a new race, which will take the perfection from Zerg and the Protoss and unite them into a pure being, achieving their ultimate goal. This can be seen when Duran conducts his experiments on an orbiting moon, known as the Hybrids. THis is the rough sketch of their new race. 2) Correct their mistakes, completely annihilating both the Zerg and the Protoss. These are viewed as the "flaws" of the Xel'Naga. In order for them to become the perfect race their pride wants so badly, they must remove both these "flaws". This can be confirmed in the SC2 Campaign Demo when Zeratul comes bleeding, saying that the Xel'Naga have returned, and hold the artifact that is the key to the end of all things. Why would they want to destroy everything? This fits perfectly with their ideals. A second, equally likely interpretation of "2)", is that they want to destroy the entirety of the universe, because after conducting such experiments they have realized that the construction of a perfect being is simply not possible. Therefore, their purpose in the universe is null and they want to end it. Both of these make sense and effectively glue all of the clues Blizzard has given us together. I seriously am almost convinced of this theory, I can't think of anything else. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or anything that I may have skipped or mentioned incorrectly? Bonus 600 minerals for a great post
Good point, but killing off Protoss and Zerg would be a suicide from Blizzard. They would not make that, because that would kill the story for any expansion packs and/or SC3.
It was mentioned they were proud, and in the Campaign Demo it was confirmed that they held a key to the end of all things. Why would they wanna destroy all things? Makes sense, pride + doomsday bomb = Kill off Protoss and Zerg, maybe the universe. This theory isn't really that new, but from the stuff we got at Blizzcon it just confirms it a bit.
Wow, interesting point, however this would be very scary as well, souls were wasted and their own population were wasted (almost), along with their own creation which is a mad mistake of them which God can only do a perfection for God is wiser....interesting
Makes sense. It's not suicide for Blizzard to give the Xel'Naga the motive of wanting to eradicate the experiments that turned on them. It's suicide for Blizzard to allow them to achieve that goal. I'm still hoping that the "big" Xel'Naga secrete is that Terrans are some sort of early experiment as well. Some Terrans have weak psionic abilities without any current explanation. Also those Xel'Naga temples look so f**king much like the pyramids and ziggurats built on primitive Earth. The ones some people still speculate were built with the aid of god-like aliens. Besides, doesn't it make sense that they had practice with some weak mud race of monkeys before accelerating Protoss development and birthing the Zerg? The Terrans have always seemed to have a weak spot in the grand story...they're just kinda there. I would love to see some development into the purpose of the human races' involvement in the SC universe other than having colony worlds infested by the Zerg then burned by the Protoss.
Thats a pretty good theory. It makes sense and it explains a lot. Did you come up with this all by yourself? Couse if you did then you deserve a power level for a great post The only thing that doesn't make too much sense is the part where the Xel'Naga would want to destroy the whole universe but I guess nobody actually said they wanted to destroy the whole universe, they are prolly after the Zerg and Protoss races. Theres one thing no one explained yet. And that is how do the Terrans fit into this whole story? They have to be some kind of key element here, not just some early Xel'Naga experiment. Maybe the fact that Duran is human (or in a human form) has some signifcance? Maybe the Terrans are somekind of descendants of the Xel'Naga race that got stranded on Earth after the Overmind attacked their worldship? That would make sense and would be a cool solution if it weren't for the fact that in that case the Xel'Naga would have to look like humans, which would be kinda disappointing. On topic of Xel'Naga I have a question. It is said that Protoss are ment to have the purity of form while the Zerg are ment to have the purity of essence. Why is that? If anything, I think it should be the other way around. The Protoss should have the purity of essence because of their powerful psionic abilities. Their form (their body) is pretty weak when compared to the Zerg, but their mind, their soul (essence) is filled with tremendous psionic power but also wisdom and experience. You could say that each Protoss has highly developed mind that enables him to reach the highest level of consciousness and therefore achive the purity of essence (essence - that which is on the inside, spirit, soul - something that the Zerg do not have) . Zerg should have the purity of form. Because, in order to adapt to their surroundings they do not need advanced technology, they can adapt to anything by changeing their physical properties, their flesh, their form. Their form is perfect because they can mutate it to meet any situation unlike Protoss whos weak bodies need the help of technology in order to survive. On the other hand the Zerg have no soul, no essence, they are mindless animals commanded by the Overmind. Even the Overmind himslef is more like a demon, he is urged to destroy and consume always looking for more power to fill this void inside of him, he has no soul or spirit. At least thats how I see it, sry for long post.
I agree to the point with the mistake of which one is purity of form, but I fear that's offtopic. And I also would want to see Terrans involved to it, like a kind of a mid-experiment, after Protoss and before Zerg- having not a very strong body and not very strong psionic abilities- average between the two others.
This is by far the most likely story idea i have heard yet! owerup: However there is still that talk about a "cycle" and how it is nearing its end. Referenced to this cycle can be found in both Duran's Dark Origins speach and the brief story mode demo at blizzcon. Time for more speculation.... :thumbup: Also i think a good idea is to... maybe pool all pieces of evidence we have and compile them into a grand theory that will be tested when we fianlly get our hands on sc2 next year....
Let's hope the Xel' Naga have better fleets this time, because when they were betrayed by the zerg, they were only attacked by drones. Drones were the only creature the zerg had at that time. So if the Xel' Naga fleet was defeated by a worker rush, they really need to do some improvements to their technology.
;D That's true... Maybe Xel'Naga is just a pacifist race with anti-war philosophy, travelling through the space and making experiments with lifeforms they met in planets.
i dont think this tory can be true because of the artifacts being the key and the xel'naga having no weapons at the time, artifact means ancient, i think near the time of the xelnaga left aiur (why didnt th exelnaga install weapons after they got kicked by the protoss)
Maybe the artifact was long lost and has finally been found, or they had the artifact somewhere and were caught unprepared, or that artifact would only be used in extremely circumstantial occasions. Who said the Xel'Naga had no weapons at the time?
They got their ass kicked by the Zerg, they just fleed from the Protoss. The attack was unexpected, they didn't think the Protoss would attack them. Besides, the Xel'Naga mightn't have regular warfare weapons, maybe their kind of weapon is different, such as the power they have in their temples, or artifacts, whatever. We don't know enough to say that for sure.
No offence but I thought that was fairly obvious, especially since it's been confirmed (by Zeratul) that the Xel'naga have returned. They had been planning to do like you mentioned but the events in StarCraft and Brood War accelerated those plans. Nah I don't see it. It doesn't seem like them to just up and leave for no reason. Besides I like humanity being the hapless race caught in the middle. The Xel'naga got "owned" because they were arrogant and foolish. They played with fire and got burned. When the Zerg attacked the Xel'naga they had more than just workers. The zerg had infested/consumed all other organisms on the planet and copied their traits. Later after aquiring space travel and more powerful species they discarded those forms or just kept the attributes that worked.
The Xel'Naga that were above Zerus are all dead. The only ones that survived are most likely on the original Xel'Naga homeworld. So why did they wait for thousands of years to do this(assuming they're even alive)? And why didn't they destroy the protoss after they fled from them? The manual describes the Xel'Naga as a "benevolent" race. Its even possible that Duran is the original overmind, who transplanted his body into Duran as a failsafe. I mean, the only beings that know of the grand experiment are the Overmind, the Xel'Naga, Zeratul and perhaps some other protoss.
