Resurrection IV

I was just curious to see how much people know about this particular secret mission in 64. I think there is a major clue in what the SC2 story line is going to look like in here.

Heres the basic.
Artanis contacts raynor and tells him that Stuckov has been infested by the zerg cerebrate Kaloth. Artanis tells Raynor he has a cure for the infection that revolves around Nanotech which reverses the infestation. They begin to plan an assault to rescue and cure Stuckov during which they reveal a new hero named Taldarin(who's a dragoon like Fenix.) They then go to Braxis and cure Stuckov after a long battle.

I am wondering if this is the revived character blizzard was talking about?

 

Here is what Chris Metzen had to say about Resurection IV.

Blizzard never said anybody was going to be revived. Get this out of your heads. :-X

 

I've been hoping Stuckov returns, and plays a somewhat decent role, my idea was that Stukov's UED Remnants + the kel-Morians or w/e scientists he was working with + Raynor and his men could form a new Terran faction to rival Mengsk and his Dominion and eventually become the dominant terran faction with Raynor playing a role similar to Duke's( aka as Stukov's right hand man--I say Stuckov leads this new faction because hes obviously more qualified and fit for it).

 

I have downloaded a computer version of the map.
Maybe Stukov is acting like Raynor's ally, but he secretly sends messages to earth and calls a big fleet that is near the Koprulu sector to take control of the sector, when there has been a big battle and Terrans, Protoss and Zerg don't have big armies left.

 

can anyone post a link to the computer version of this map?

 

There's a link. http://www.starcraft.org/maps/scums/singleplayer/singleplayercampaigns/(1)resurrection+iv
People recommend that you should play Deception and Mercenaries II before playing Resurrection IV. I didn't find any links to those maps, so I hope you have them or someone else has a link.

 

Well, you cound have looked for tha maps on Blizzards on site. That might have helped... http://www.battle.net/scc/maps.shtml

Just download the big 21Mb file and you'll get both maps an lots of other nice ones.

 

Stukov will most likely have his vendetta with Duran. He is most likely out for Durans head, while Raynor and Zeratul wants him alive, so Stukov might have 'his own' group, not really allied to anybody. Unless he can agree to try to capture him, that is.

And thanks Ximni! owerup:
I've always wanted to play those missions.

 

Are you guys kidding me? Dude hes not a renegade korpulu sector civilian. He wasn't born under a confederation his first thought is going to be to return home and bring back news of what hes seen and what hes discovered. If anything this means that the UED are making a comeback. Remember in all instances stuckov remained loyal to earth and to no one else. He's going to return home and come back with something fierce.

 

Thats if he has a way to get back.

 

Dude hes probably gonna find some way. If he has to float back he'll do it. Either that or find a way to send a transmission to earth telling them wat he knows as that hes alive.

 

Yes, and they are really going to believe that. Remember the whole casket scene? I mean, I'm pretty sure DeGaulle didn't tell Earth he was killed by some crazy zerg man because DeGaulle was being a stuck up old fool. The only ones who knew the truth probably all died in the last UEF attack on Kerrigan.

As such, are the people of Earth really going to risk another fleet for the sake of a man who supposed to be dead, one way or another?

Stukov is no fool. He knows he's dead to Earth. And he's no friend of Mengsk.

 

I'm no expert on transmissions, but if a planet is 60000 light-years away won't it take way over 60000 years for a transmission to be sent?

Also, there are most likely no craft in the koprulu sector that can travel back to Earth. I believe Stukov is stranded.

 

Correct. Unless they discovered a way to speed something up beyond the speed of light, the fastest thing they can use are electromagnetic waves, which travel at the speed of light if I'm not mistaken. However it's possible that he could get assistance from the Protoss using their warp technology. So a return to Earth isn't completely out of the picture. A warp over that distance still would take a long time. Perhaps if Stukov was placed in a stasis field it could be possible.

 

Or if he hijacks a protoss ship. Plus the UED got to korpulu sector some how. Plus in the game it said the fleet they sent was not even a quarter of their full force. Remember the UED has the milkyway. They would probably have more then enough fleets to send into the Korpulu sector. (If they arent already.) Plus there's probably a way to communicate with earth. All I'm saying is that Stukov will not put his head toward vengeance. Hes not a hot headed Korpulu trash I mean hes got standards and comes from a place where theres a real government. He's got his values and I am willing to bet he will spend the rest of his days finding a way to reach Earth. Either that or he will find a way to fight for it in Korpulu but the one thing he will not do is go on a vendetta for durans head.

 

He can't hijack a protoss ship and there is no proof that protoss ships have better FTL capabilities than those of the UED. Otherwise, Zeratul could have easily gotten a transmission to Fenix and Raynor warning them of Kerrigans treachery.

"These humans have come a long way to make war upon us" - Zeratul

their technology is centuries ahead of the koprulu terrans. All their ships have been destroyed.

It never said that. Its probably true however.

Good point. But we have no proof of this. I doubt the UED neeeded to expand anywhere from its sector. It doesn't want to have to control a wide area.

The koprulu terrans don't know how to communicate with Earth. Granted, Stukov has the coordinates but who the hell is going to believe him? As far as everyone back on Earth is concerned Stukov is dead, they saw the casket scene.

Fair enough. But IMO Stukov won't be included in the sc2 storyline. Theres alot of people who haven't played Resurreciton IV and just imagine the chaos when Stukov pops out and people say, "WTF!!? I thought he was dead!!". Plus Blizzard themselves admitted this was kind of a stupid concept.

 

just wondering, we know that aiur is not in the koprulu sector, could that mean that the protoss still have an entire milkyway

 

Aiur is on the outskirts of the koprulu sector. Its location was supposed to be a secret, along with Shakuras. But protoss do have many colonies in the milky way galaxy that are now being recalled to help reinforce their numbers. The motherships for example are at the deepest edge of known protoss space and have just now returned. This is all happening in the same galaxy. Nobody 'has' a milky way galaxy.

 

sorry i often confuse the therm galaxy and milkyway, our country doesnt have seperate terms for them. but i ment galaxy

 

Stukov isn't worried about contacting Earth because Earth knows what happened, Earth got no official message as to what happened, thats not to say that Dugalle's letter didn't make it to his wife, and if it did, the UED being what it is would have intercepted it surely, even so, they know what happened, they knew what was going on there prior to the fleet arriving why wouldn't they once it was destroyed.

that said Stukov's best bet is to do what he can to weaken the UED's enemies and survive til the next fleet arrives, this would be best done by bringing in several of the smaller factions into one major one. this new faction would consist of UED remnants, Confederate remnants, kel-morions or another one of the smaller terran factions which hasn't been in the story much, and ideally, raynor's raiders. these combined would form something to watch out for, and could easily IMO become the new dominant Terran faction.

That said, I haven't seen much evidence to suggest Stukov will be back in SC2, in fact theres prolly more evidence to say he won't be in it, which is a sad sad thing, he was my favorite character, so I suppose after resurection he either goes takes command of the UED remnants or retires, or attempts to return to Earth, probably with the help of the Protoss.