What Happened to Duran

Isn't it supremely possible for Duran to make an appearance as an agent for the Xel'naga, as corny as it sounds, an observer for the Xel'naga, checking in their creations even though they were atked. I mean scientist are always known for being extremely stubborn.

 

Have you played or seen the "Dark Origins" secret mission?

I'd say something incredibly similar is the only option. Samir Duran is a major character. He wouldn't just disappear without something grand; especially, with the experiments and stuff he's got going on. This will probably be the focal point of StarCraft 2.

 

To add to that: you will likely encounter him for the first time during the Protoss missions, in Wings of Liberty, of course. Zeratul was searching for more labs and stuff, so why not?

 

Yeah, the focus of the Protoss mini-campaign was said to be Zeratul wandering the galaxy, right? My guess would be that this campaign is set before that scene in the demo that had Zeratul talking to Jim Raynor about the "Xel'Naga return". I'm guessing he encounters Duran, the Xel'Naga, and Duran's (or the Xel'Naga's as well) experiments and is scared by what he finds because he doesn't know "if they [The Xel'Naga] have come to save or to destroy".

 

What i find most interesting about the character of Duran is his, and work with me on this, his uncanny ability to fool even the Almighty queen of Blades. Kerrigan after her metamorphism that she was able to discern just by their presence wether they were Zerg or not. So to fool her would either take some extremely potent psionic powers ( which is the base source of the Xel'Naga technology) to infiltrate her ranks and as y'all said he was experimenting with hybrids which they would have continued to do having maybe failed in both . They intend to combine their best features and finally succeed.

 

Duran was cunning indeed And, I assume that same cunning will make him a powerful force in StarCraft 2. I'm not even just talking about his experiments; I'm talking about himself.

 

Duran had been experimenting with a hybrid race for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years.
That guy -or thing, whatever- knew what he was doing, and he did not fail at all. The facility Zeratul destroyed was one of many, he could just resume his work elsewhere.

Also, the Xel Naga never failed in creating a hybrid race. They just never even had the chance to try it. It took centuries of observation and manipulation before they even revealed themselves to the Protoss. The Overmind took ages to evolve. Creating a hybrid race would take even longer, even with full dediction. You have to remember that the Protoss and Zerg were already existing races. Creating a completely new race would take time. And since both the Protoss and the Zerg were attacking the Xel Naga in the end, there was no way the could make another attempt.

 

So I know the Protoss and the Zerg were created by the Xel'Naga, but where the Terran created by the Xel'Naga?

 

Haha! No. Not as far as we know at least But, really, the Terrans are supposed to represent mankind in the future. Doing something so completely asinine like that would cause a huge but worthless break in immersion. It would cause more problems than good. It's even been done to death so I don't think it'd blow anyone away.

 

i agree with you fully on this subject concerning the Xel'Naga never failing to create a hybrid, because they directed races they felt that had potential to fulfill their previous objectives. Tell me if im wrong but the protoss were already a thriving tribal species, with an survival trait enabling them to communicate mentally ( communatively ), when they were noticed by the Xel'Naga. The Zerg were lowly parasitic organisms that inhabited their host and then slowly mutated the host to fit the surroundings that were exclusive to their environment. They were both ( species' ) directed in a path to achieve both the desired survivability and complete the Xel'Naga's objectives. However they never tried combining their two previously failed attempts before that's the point i was trying to make.

Don't wanna catch any feelings.

 

Terrans are the descendants of all of Earths previous victims of ethnic cleansing. the governments back then got rid of all the homo's, cybernetically-enhanced, mutated, retarded, mutilated, dissidents. Basically all of the people who were not all accounted for mentally or physically. The governments packed em' all on three ships and told the computers where too go. Far along the space journey the computers malfunctioned and traveled way farther than they should've (longer too) and eventually broke down and and all 3 kinda crash-landed in the korprulu sector. Then the story continues....

 

Why don't you just edit those two posts together?

Also, is that last post just you being creative or is that actually covered somewhere in the lore?

 

Yes actually the Starcraft lore (original) if you remember came out with a manual that portrayed all three original sides background stories. This is a line ( not where my info comes from ) from wiki backing me up.

The exiled prisoners from Earth form the Confederacy of Man in the Koprulu Sector.

 

Yes, yes, I know all about that part, but not this:

 

Lucratus, there were four ships: The Reagan, the Argo, the Sarengo, and the Nagglfar.

And the SC wiki says that a majority, if not all of them, were criminals and/or political prisoner lab rats.
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Koprulu_Sector

 

He was being creative. There is nothing that proves that the people of earth hated specific minorities. As for the psionic people -if that is what you meant with mutated-: the government started those projects. How would they fall into the same category as criminals? Not really a good explanation. Even if it came from Blizzard, I would find it a poor lore explanation.

 

Aurora, ever heard of Project Purification? (Yeah, SC beat Fallout to that )

400 million people were killed, among them "hackers, synthetics, the cybernetically enhanced, tech-pirates, and criminals of every kind".

 

Again, I know of Project Purification.

What I'm asking for evidence for is the rest of that claim. All that Wikipedia article says is that the purpose of the project was to "remove mutations and unnecessary cybernetic prosthetics from the human population."

I don't see how that includes, gays, retards, and the rest of all that.

 

you're right i did get a tad carried away but you did catch my main point right?
My bad ( sincerely ) if i didn't get it right I'm just trying to go off memory....I have lost that manual probably as soon as i got when i was 11-12?

 

If you're interested, there's digital versions of that manual around the internet. I can even upload one for you.