The "Kalath Intercession"

After viewing the Colossus's official description and dissecting parts from it:

I want to know what the "Kalath Intercession" was about and who exactly were the "Kalathi"? Were they a race that contended with the Protoss for power? Did they pose a serious threat to the Protoss civilization? I have a lot of questions and I am very interested in delving further back into the Protoss history. Anyone else interested in this little piece?

 

isn't it Kalah? i've ehard that one before. not Kalath

 

I think you are referring to the khalai.

Kalath is apparently the correct spelling as posted by Blizzard, so I am interested in their fate.

 

lol.... or khalai (tribe) or khala (religion... I think) ?

EDIT: oh really? where do they spell Kalath? Does it have dark origins?

 

haha you have a good point. intriguing.... but it might just be one of the planets that was sterilized

 

The Kalathi are part of SC2 "lore", so far i haven't hear sh1t about them in SC1. Judging by the fact that the Colossi are described as "unleashing mass slaughter" one would expect the Kalathi to not be a particularly strong competitor against the Protoss, tech-wise. If i could take a guess, i wager the Kalathi were a minor race on a planet the Protoss inhabited back in the ol' days, and they probably did a /spit on the Khala or something. There's two things i know of in real life that can incite such a slaughter:
1: Cross a woman and allow her to assemble other women AFTER having crossed her, then, walk in on them talking crap about you and interject that you disagree with them.
2: Badmouth religion in front of religious people.
In either way, death is certain, and i think the Kalathi spoke agains the 'Toss religion. I mean, Aldaris got all worked up over Tassadar working with Zerry, and if we are to draw parallels with real life, the laws of religions were a LOT stricter back in the ol' days (Crusades, Inquisition etc etc).

 

i think its something along the lines of what baron just said, but its called the kalath  intercession. isnt a cession a split, and then intercession would be a split inside. im thinking the kalathi was a protoss tribe that spit on the khala and started civil war. then got annihilated.

 

SirBaron looks to be somewhere along the lines of being correct. I went around the net and found that intercession meant to either be a prayer to God on behalf of another person or the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) Perhaps the Protoss intervened with the Kalathi agenda in regard to the Dae'uhl (the stewardship.)

SOURCE: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=intercession

 

aww man i analyzed it wrong.

 

No problem buddy! This is pure speculation after all.

 

They are probably one of the many races under the Protoss stewardship. Remember, the Protoss had about as much planets as the Xel'Naga used to.

100 posts... I do that in 2 days.

 

oo... commander...

 

Hmmm...I'd wager it was a civil war of types, mostly because it said that the immense slaughter caused them to decommission the Colossus, so I'm guessing that they didn't want another civil war to spring up and have the Colossus kill everyone again

 

Or they were so horrified with the atrocities they did to some aliens that they decommissioned them.

 

Yeah but the Protoss seem to be a very self-preserving race, so to me it seems to make more sense that it was a civil war

 

maybe someone was getting uppity?

 

The Protoss are a fictional race in Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy computer game, StarCraft universe. They are described as technologically advanced and rely on cybernetics in battle and have mastered their powerful psionic abilities. They are the primary opponents of the Zerg. The Protoss are also described as highly religious and follow a strict code known as the Khala. During the game, they are engaged in a devastating war with the Zerg; they have recently had to deal with a civil war within their ranks.

 

And? That civil war is the one from the campaign.

 

what does this have to do with the intercession?

 

it will probably be in the plot of the protoss campaign.