what if...

i just thought up a funny what if scenario


what if mengsk had evacuated Kerrigan before she was overrun by zerg?

 

Very interesting... I am gonna be cynical and say that it was only a matter of time though. If Overmind didn't catch her then? Then he would have later.

But if Kerrigan never got infested ... woah.

 

now lets see,

if kerrigan wasnt caught
-raynor wouldnt have left mengsk faction
which means
-that the protoss couldnt destroy the overmind
which means that the zerg would probably directly attack earth
- i dun know

or the protoss would still have defeated the overmind
which would make the zerg destroy themselves
and then the UED arrive and conquer everything


i am sure i missed something

 

...I'm stumped.

God ****ing damnit.

This is the best topic in SC2Forum history.

 

Starcraft wouldnt be as interesting as it is today

 

It would be, in an entirely different way that we wouldn't know about because Blizzard didn't go down the Terran Kerrigan path.

 

I think Raynor and Kerrigan would eventually have left the Dominion, although it might hav ebeen harder with Mengsk watching them ever more closely. In fact, once Mengsk got his hands on Duke's ghosts (the guys who set up those psi emitters on Tarsonis) he didn't need Kerrigan anymore, and with the Confederacy dead, he didn't need Raynor anymore either.

So, Raynor's Raiders might have a different name. I think Kerrigan was more practical than Raynor is, so the new Raiders would be more successful ... or find something to do more reasonable than trying to overthrow such a massive empire.

The zerg would have attacked more terran worlds, looking for a compatible psychic. If they didn't find one, the zerg either wouldn't have attacked the protoss, or would have attacked anyway and not done nearly as much damage before Zeratul or Tassadar killed the Overmind.

Assuming the zerg lost but weren't completely destroyed, the UED would have come in, defeated the Dominion, and without Kerrigan to save the zerg, the zerg would be permanently enslaved and the UED would still be in charge of the Sector right now.

 

If Kerrigan had been evacuated by Mengsk...she wouldn't have been captured, and might still be a servant of Mengsk for some time, or agree to leave with Raynor, since she was just as apalled by Mengsk's use of the psi emitters as Jim was. Then... I think the Zerg might have lost. Since there's no Chrysallis to protect, the cerebrate might not have been created, and therefore not have won all of the battles it had in the alternate timeline...

Man, things would be wierd.

 

Somebody ask this at the WWI.

 

Starcraft 2 gets cut like starcraft ghost?

 

My guess, since we all know blizzard likes to mess with power struggles.



Raynor and Kerrigan confront Mengsk right after the formation of the Dominion, Mengsk shoots Kerrigan who dies (in Raynors arms before he can confess his love, knowing blizzard xD) Raynor swears revenge. Yadada, first overmind dies on Aiur, new overmind is created, UED decimates resistance and tries to control the overmind, zerg as the overmind matures they find it increasingly hard to control until the expeditionary force is mostly wiped out by zerg rebelling. END OF BROOD WAR

 

Raynor
<3
Kerrigan

What if, Arcturus never existed? Maybe if he died during the bombardment of Korhal?
And, overmind, Blizzard would probably just re-spawn Kerrigan as Zerg.

The UED may or may not come, their purpose was initially to control the Zerg. The Zerg might have lost so many battles. Mengsk would probably be stronger, but would probably alienate Kerrigan and Raynor EVENTUALLY. Fenix, Raynor, Duke, and Zeratul and Tassadar would never be buddies, as the Protoss would lose Tassadar without Raynor's support and maybe the Overmind is not dead?

 

The point was if kerrigan wasn't zerg...

 

there would be no plot... zerg campaign would be 2 missions, cuz they would die. o well.

 

Raynor not being friendly with the protoss ... good point. He only met the protoss because he had gone to Char to rescue Kerrigan.

By the way, there's no way Mengsk could have shot Kerrigan. She's a serious badass, even without cloaking.

 

Thats really true, kerrigan would know if he tried to shoot her and she'd like do a spining roundhouse kick to the nuts.

then the dominion would be ruled by kerrigan and raynor.
happily ever after.
THE END
(of coarse if thats how it went ^^)

 

This would be my take on it, tho someone already said something similar, but this is a if question so this is a might have answer.

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Raynor and Kerrigan would probably have left Mengsk, do to seeing that he just seems to hunger for power.

The Zerg would continue to go onto the next(and then the next one.. ect.) Terran world trying to capture Ghosts, either many Ghosts that arent as powerful as Kerrigan, or another one as powerful as she(tho that would have taken them longer to find and capture). They also might have tried to invade Aiur before acquiring any of the Ghosts(funny tho that the overmind wanted some ghosts to help him fight against the protoss, but once he had one, they didnt even brought her to Aiur to help take it over.) As for weather they would have invaded Aiur successfully or not,... i think they would have, tho it might have taken a little longer without the cerebrate that would have been created(you).

The Protoss would still have their internal war, and since you in game lorewise is justified as being Artanis(for some strange reason), "you" would still taken side with Tassadar, then he would have been capture, then be released(with the help of Raynor and Kerrigan since they also would probably have seen that Tassadar as a big help against the Zerg that they would have relized as a big threat). and then Tassadar, "you", Raynor and Kerrigan(because they are "a long way from home, surrounded by hostile(sp?) aliens"(i always loved that line for some reason just that part)) would have attack and kill the Overmind with Tassadar sacrificing himself to make sure the Overmind dies.

SC:BW

The Protoss would still left Aiur and go to Shakuras(sp?), it would have taken a while before knowing that there were some cerebrate there. after that it would have been the same with one exception, they would have never learned that a New Overmind was growning on Char.

The UED would have still arrived at that sector to take control of the (New)Overmind. and i think this part would have been the same(since Duran would have probably still pretend to join them). so that is the end of that here.

Now for the Zerg... its a debate on weather drugs and Ghosts could keep the New Overmind pacified even when its fully mature. either way, we dont know how long it would have taken for it to reach the fully mature stage. So the UED would have control of that sector(at least, until the new overmind is fully control that then thats a maybe) and then they probably would have try to talk/pursway(sp?) the Protoss to join in a pact with the UED, and if that failed(which it might) they would probably would have attack them.

as to who would have win that war, we wont know. lol maybe Blizzard would make a game of this alternate reality.

 

actually, as was said earlier, Raynor met tassadar while looking for kerrigan, so they probably wouldnt have met

 

he would most likely meet Tassadar anyway looking for a place to be away from Mengsk, and what better place than Char? also i forgot to say that Mengsk would have never gotten his empire back and would have been executed do to not having the Infested Kerrigan pursaying Raynor to get him to her alive.

 

Raynor could have gone to Umoja (which was getting less friendly with the Dominion) or some backward world like Dead Man's Rock instead of some place that's crawling with zerg.