Terrans using protoss gear?

I noticed that some people on this board also have extended knowledge on the warhammer 40k world and I'm curious what you think about the following;

First some quick information about the Tau/humans (for the people who never heard about it.
The Tau are an extremely young race who evolved in a few hundred years from the bronze age to a extremely
advanced race with a big sense of honour. Some humans and other races (Kroot, Vespid, etc) were under the impression of their philosophy (the greater good) and have accepted to fall under the Tau empire, adopting their ways of thinking and weaponry (altough Kroot don't really use much Tau weapons).

Now, do you remember the Raynor/Fenix armies around aiur? Did you ever thought about the chance that some terrans were so impressed by the way of protoss honour, way of thinking and even the khala that they wanted to be part of the protoss empire? Wouldn't it cool if some terrans would use Protoss weaponry? I'm not talking about the psi blades because humans don't have the psi to create them or the physique to enter hand combat with the zerg, but I'm more thinking about protoss tech suits, minor shields and maybe a photon blast based rifle/handgun.

What do you think?

 

I think that Ghosts may have enough Psi to somehow create a Psi Blade or Warp Blade, and may switch to Protoss energy rifles for a boost in their damage. I like the idea of a very-late tier Marine upgrade that gives them 30 shield. But this all should be just for Campaign purposes, not available in multiplayer. I don't really see the necessary connection to W40K because it's not that far-fetched for some Terrans to adopt a Protoss' way of life. Raynor's the main candidate for this position because of his ties with Tassadar, Fenix and Zeratul.

 

It's not a necessary connection, but it was something I started thinking about when sayd to someone (who were doing a discussion about races from starcraft resembling races from warhammer 40k ) who sayd the Protoss resembled the Eldar, while I thought the Protoss looked more like the Tau (who were actually released later than starcraft).

 

What I'd really like to see is Raynor's ship, the Hyperion, all souped up with fancy Protoss lasers and a combination between the Yamato Gun, the Planet Cracker, and the C&C Ion Cannon (a stronger, blue Yamato gun ;D)

 

I really doubt it both story and gameplay wise. Most likely it would just be terran and protoss units working together.

 

I think what would be more interesting is protoss using terran tech, bc you don't need psi to fully utilize it. Imagine a high templar focusing his psi power behind a bullet, and ripping through zergl carapace with that much more brutal efficiency.

Something i always thought was missing in SC was a sniper, this would be my dream!

think a .50 cal sniper bullet followed immediately by psi storm...

 

in the bonus hybrid mission the terrans there were using (not very well) protoss pylons, but its unclear if those are actually terrans or xel naga, if they were xel naga they would have been able to use the pylons easier i assume.

 

My first post here, so hi everyone

Don't know if there are any Sg-1 fans here, but if so, I figured out cool possible ending of SC saga (involving an idea from the first post).

[Slight spoiler of the LAST episode of SG-1]

IN Sg-1, when Asgard realised they are dying as a race, they decided to arm terran.. err, I mean earth battleship (forgot the name ) in ALL of their technology and weapons, making it the last resort, powerful countermeasure for Ori ships).

[End of slight spoiler]

Now, imagine similar situation in SC2 - protoss on the verge of complete annihilation, decimated after war with Xel'Naga/hybrids, decided to pass their technology to terrans, creating a few overpowered Hypercruisers.. Of course it wouldn't be enough to defeat the enemy..

 

SG-1 might be a better link to this subject than 40k maybe. Hope theres some tricked out hero unit .
I used to watch it a lot but I didn't really watch it in order often :-/
Can't forget the movie that started it all as well ^_^

Welcome to the forum Mike ^_^

 

ya a hybrid terran/protoss unit (as in terran in protoss suit) would be kool they need to make it like a special forces type of unit as in he has the psi blade for up close encounters but also weilds a pistol 8)

 

I have thought about his alot lol, nice to see ideas from other points of view. Imagine a high templar focusing the power of a psi storm to add range and power to a siege tank shell? Or even adding psi energy to nukes? Talk about deadly.

 

the idea i have is the terran access to advanced mech technologies, this should help provide terran the chance to build mech walkers or something similar (like an oversized goliath) with powerful cannons and if possible with a land-based yamato gun. that would be quite a punch

 

A nice, realistic addition would be the integration of shields to every single terran unit.

 

Or the fact that Marines, Goliaths, Siege Tanks, etc could have a photon based weapon (like the dragoon and cannon) which probably works on some kind of cell and eliminates the need of taking loads of ammo with you. Offcourse this changes nothing about the gameplay because SC units have unlimited ammo.

 

I would hate to see the Marine armed with anything other than a trusty machine gun, but Ghosts on the other hand would work very well with Protoss tech, especially since they already have psychic powers. Imagine one-shot-one-kill Ghost snipers armed with Protoss energy weapons, cloaking, Psi Storm, Lockdown, 'toss energy shields and a Nuke!!! That would slay in the campaign! ;D

 

Some Terrans on Braxis under the command of Duran already started to attempt to use the Protoss Pylons and Photon Cannons. Although the Terrans still hasn't master the Protoss technology, it is possible that they can use it one day. But remember this is story-wise only. Gameplay-wise it won't be very possible because it'll just be too unbalanced. Although there could be a counter for Terrans and the Zerg as to the Protoss Dark Archon's mind control, where a Terran or Zerg player can have all 3 races in one game.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Starcraft: Ghost already have ghosts using toss technology? IIRC, Nova was using a "cy-blade" that was based on toss technology. Maybe ghosts will have such an upgrade in the game.

 

Well, the Terrans and the Protoss were temporary allies. I think the research time to fuse humans with Protoss armor/weapons would be reaaaally long, I don't think Kerrigan or the Confederate would wait along for them to develop those kinda weapons.

And I don't think the Protoss are stupid enough to give away their technological advances to Terrans, especially when Terrans can easily say, "Screw you", and run off with hybrid Protoss and Terran weaponry.

The point is: Protoss aren't retarded.

 

Welcome to the Forums!

Not sure if i'd like to see Terrans wielding Protoss technology, even though it is a good idea. I really like the way the three races are based already
Protoss - High Technology, few numbers
Terran - Perfect in-between race, some Technology, good numbers
Zerg - Swarm, Low technology
If terrans managed to start using Protoss weaponry, even a bit i would get kinda discouraged

Just picture a battlecruiser with shields, Yamato gun, the ability to launch carriers, Planet cracker ogmgogmggogmgg >8OOOO

 

very interesting.