The Big Dark Templar Citadel Thingies... Hypothesis

that's the sensor thing from the swedish scans.
also, i think the tower thing is a sheild that stops all units from moving through it unless they kill 1 of the towers. I heard it from someone and i think it's true.

also it's pretty overpowering so i donno.

 

why just one? it'd think it's like a connecting sheild kinda. like if you build 2 then those 2 connect and nothing can pass between that connection. so if you had 3 and someone killed one then it'd revert back to 2. so then if you build a few circling your base you'd be impenatrable. and if it's possible you can ( what even that building is called ) rush and just build 2 between your opponents and their minerals and then they cant mine XD pretty powerfully. it's probably a late game kinda building then. IF that's it's actual ability

 

I would really hate that building. a lot of cheese potential i see, like making a circle around an expansion or a maybe ur cannons.

 

hey dont you mean wabafet?
sry...dotn know how to spell it

 

So coincidently in every picture we see it it's always unpowered? Must be tough/high hp for someone to go for the pylons.

 

i just realised that there are faces on the spire. now it reminds me of the things from chronicles of riddick.

 

Notice that the three metal thing rotate around the crystal. I can tell coz they're in different places for each Spire.

Just a interseting little thing I noticed..

 

as of now, there is no shield battery, so this tower thing must be something else.

 

The Dark Obelisk, it allows Dark Templars to be built.

Me:

Karune:

Anonymous person:

Karune:

And, I also wonder why in your screenshot, that the top Dark Obelisk is gray instead of blue like the bottom two.

 

lol, blizzard is so funny, they tricked everyone into thinking it would be a frontline building with all their screenshots and then it turns out to be replacement for templar archives

 

That's very strange. Why would anyone need 3 of these if they just allow Dark Templar to be built... I suppose it may have some other feature, otherwise naughty, naughty Blizzard :-[

 

or maybe they just have a lot of stuff that can be researched there, so they built more than one?

 

its not. the 'dark obelisk' is just for dts, and the templar archives is still for hts.

 

I asked Kharune what this his, hopefully we'll get an answer in the next Q&A!

 

Ummm... I asked him yesterday and got the answers... Don't waste your time asking an already asked question.

 

Ya

 

Very wierd indeed, that they have more than one Dark Obelisk in the screenshots.

My predictions are, that the shiny Dark Obelisk are the ones upgrading stuff, and the dark ones are the ones not doing anything.

 

that dark one is outside of pylon power if you look at the ground.

 

That makes perfect sense now. I think all the Protoss buildings in SC2 that are out of Pylon range would receive that dark colour. Remember back in the Gameplay Video when the Reapers destroyed the Pylon and all the Cannons become dark?

I think that is what Blizzard is intending to do for the graphic change in SC2.

 

i really hope so, i hated the whole "im unpowered, but you cant tell till you click on me" thing in SC1.