Which SC2 Faction do you think will be the strongest storywise?

I decided this post would be necessary as with what I am about to post in relation to each of these factions I have put into the voting pool, so, which do you believe is the strongest? As I believe myself that the strongest faction will be Duran and his Hybrids.

Raynor's Raiders will be an interesting link to everything as they are just out their with an intent, but, no physical goal in mind at the moment. Jim knows everyone and everyone knows Jim. Powerful, to an extent. Deadly, when is he not? Lone Rider, Always.

Mengsk and Valerian will be in an epic battle for Power as I think Valerian may join with Raynor and his boys down the line. As they seem to have that protective father and rebelliously son relationship.
I smell a sub-plot combined with the main plot. Powerful, maybe. Deadly, highly doubtful. Crazy, most likely.

I believe Kerrigan has been gathering Xel'Naga artifacts in the past 4 Years since Brood War. I also believe she is scared ****less of Duran and what his departure will bring. She will be key and very interesting to the story. Powerful maybe. Deadly yes. Mysterious always.

Duran.... what can I say about my boy other than he is most powerful imo as the guy who is gonna be the main antagonist throughout the plot of SC2. I think he will deal blows to all the other factions and bring a interesting conclusion to this part of the SC universe. Powerful, yes. Deadly, yes. Subverting, always.

Artanis and his brethren on Shakuras I think will have another civil war similar to the Aeon of Strife ,yet, on a much smaller scale as the Protoss already have had both sides flare up. Ulrejaz will play a role I think in the coming plot for the Protoss. Powerful maybe. Deadly, highly doubtful. Unified, we can only hope.

As for Zeratul well... Zeratul I think will be on the hunt for the Xel'Naga artifacts and be gathering what he can for the conflicts to come. I have a feeling he will play a crucial role in the story. Powerful, Yes. Deadly, Unknown. Influential, Pretty much.

So in short. I believe Duran and his Hybrids will be the most powerful faction and have a firm ground to stand on as the others are still in a bit of a quagmire. Past that well. Its up to grabs for anyone. Enjoy

 

What do you mean by strongest? The faction that 'wins out' at the end of Starcraft 2?

If that is what you are going for, I'm going to go out on a limb. In Starcraft 1, the Protoss 'won' at the end, destroying the Zerg overmind (good guys). In Brood War, Kerrigan and the Zerg emerged victorious (bad guys). So, I think it is time for good guys to come out on top again. So I'll say that Raynor's Raiders and Zeratul's Forces both will be the main dudes by the end, probably joining forces completely.

 

Kerrigan and the Zerg Swarm

 

the hybrids are supposed to be real badassed so ill vote for them

 

Well ninerman,in most of Blizzard's game the bad guys always win...erm like in war3 the Lich King's death knight(forgotten his name must be Arthus or something)gain victory and toke the ice crown.In sc like you said,in the end Kerrigan wins.As for Diablo I'm never sure whats going on in that game first you killed Baal and second he toke the World Crystal in the last cinematic.I feel like Blizzard always let those badass attitude characters with countless number of broods wins(ud and Zerg of exp).
Oh and I voted for Zeratul and his gang, I like Raynor much more but you did say the strongest.

 

well protoss "won" the first one, really they lost but they was able to disable the overmind for quite some time etc etc

in brood-war the queen of blades aka kerrigan dealt a fatal blow to the other factions and ended up victorious

so in sc2 maybe its time for the terran dominion or raynor and hes men to win?

 

At least until the expansion. Metzen has to work on his creativity imho.

After SC Kerrigan is the most powerfull, that was the point of the ending. She just didn´t kill everyone else because there wouldn´t be a SC2 otherwise.

 

Completely what I was going to say. Damnit Unt. Power up for reading my mind?

It's obvi Kerri and her broods, she IS the queen bitch of the universe right now. If you had UED on your list, i might have said them, but then again they're so far away they couldn;t mount a huge offensive that fast.

Keep in mind, we know nothing about the hybrids just that they're capable of changing the universe. Whether that means they are battle-strong or able to twist and turn people has yet to be determined. I suppose given Duran's insight they could be considered the strongest but thusfar from what we've been shown Kerri is def the most dominant at this point.

And if we're talking about whose gonna win at the end? The bad guys. In the expansion the good guys will win. SC2 will more than likely be the final SC, and Blizz no doubt has a fondness for this universe I'd expect them to give it a sort of mixed/good ending so that the good guys are just barely on top of things but it's still the same ol' SC universe as ever.

 

Actually it feels kinda good too that the bad guys win...then the story goes on provided that not all of good guys are dead yet.

 

where is U.E.D. faction ?

 

Heres my imaginary opinions for each factions...

For the past 4 years Raynors Faction has dedicated studying anatomy and genecology thus enabling him and his co-baldy friends to develop a new trend in hair rebirth product especially made from the slimy creeps of the zerg grounds which has the special ability to regenerate molecules at a very fast rate genetically remodified to target human hairscalp enabling it to regain its function to grow hair follicles.. with the high expense of research they spent they almost depleted their resources that caused them to only avail inferior weapons like the mp5 navy as seen in his new poster ;D

Mengsk and the others.. well none is much to say coz we already are seing theyre product little by little, trying to overcome the weaknesses that they had in the past wars.. mengsk really doesnt care about the general terran population id say coz he just loves doing stuff on his own.. i can see him plotting an evil twist in the story maybe teaming up with the zerg for an attempt to co-rule the universe???

Kerrigan has been in high need of human contact for the past 4 years.. the years of space loneliness awaken her human heart to search for male physical contact.. in frustration to boardom with the same species revolving around her she manipulated the overmind to extend the genetic straining for evolution leading forth to enable chosen species of the zerg to evolve further horrifically into something functional for the upcoming war against the stalking neighboor enemies.. a new king of zerg might emerge in the form of raynor possible lol and possibly giving birth to the most succumb unclean humanoid zerg prince ^_^

In my point of view, duran has been secretly serving as a double agent for the UED and Zerg but finally realizing of taking over himself by dealing with the superior breathen of Hybrids giving them all of his datas and plans for dominating the world and purging the total failure of evolution that resulted from the former mistakes of Xel'Naga... Duran will mostly be popping in and out through various occasions invading everything in their path... but im really hoping for the xelnagas to make an appearance on the expansion pack and probably a new race ^_^

For the reunited tribe of aiur and shakuras... a new age of reconcillation immediatly emerge once finally realizing that both of them only face the same foes,,, technological and martial skills were shared by both brethen that helped them modify and summon greater forces of khala and void... the proud race of aiur that crumbled before now understood what true justice meant and let them grasp unity psionically and physically.... Artanis personally lead the protoss guided them for the years that they spent fighting each other and finally merging as one.. the protoss doesnt intend to participate in the coming war nor to have revenge against the zerg for ravaging aiur but they oath to defend themselves if the balance of life is altered....(cant think of sumthin sorry)

Zeratul managed to vanish from the brood wars trying to find deeper depths of the void to hopefully ask for aid and spiritual guidance of what is needed to be done... in his ample age of meditation into nothingness he tries to find answers within himself on whats his purpose for living thousand long years only to be the witness of the destruction of creation itself.. His darkness grew larger leaving him to engulf hatred against the khala having find out that his former loyal dark templars were fooled by the templars of aiur to merge with them to finally bare witness to the birth of the perfect protoss form (twilight archons).. disgusted by what he saw,, zeratul sworn to himself to bring justice to those traitors of the void... (i think the best antagonist are the ones we dont expect right??)

whew....

To sum it up my vote goes to Kerrigan faction lol coz i think somewhere deep inside her carapace skin she still has the human heart longing for need of sensual action lol.... power doesnt matter if it is limitted and uncontrollable while the zerg acts as one and can evolve further more.. who knows when they turn into the next phase of being humanoid type intels like the cerebrates enabling them to decide for themselves reducing stress for our lovely queen of blades mwahahahaha!!!

 

For the record, thats nothing near an mp5 navy and it would make no sense for a gun that old to be in sc.

 

Kerrigan killed the UED fleet at the end of Brood War. The only remaining UED soldiers would be on Earth, I assume.

 

I want my UED. Nothing owns more than a population of around 7 billion human armed forces going in and taking out them perstersome zerg

 

haha i think it came a little poop when i read this
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Try about 800 billion.

www.sclegacy.com / starcraft wiki and read about the origin of the terrans. 800,000 (or maybe it was 800 million?) is one millionth of the total pop. 800,000 x 1,000,000 = 800,000,000,000

 

If we are talking about at the beginning of SC2 then sadly I would have to say Kerrigan and the Zerg. They were the clear winners last time and control the homeworlds/capital planets for the Terrans and Protoss.

If we are talking about who will win I'm hoping for a Terran win since Protoss "won" SC and Zerg won Brood war, and they are my fav faction. A Terran/Protoss victory would also be acceptable.

 

I also believe that there should be a victory for the Terrans in SC2, however with the arrival of the hybrids the logic will not be followed. That's my opinion. Of course they are not the fourth race that has to win. Maybe the Terrans will win SC2, but those Terrans belongs to Duran, those people who created the hybrids.

 

Duran doesn´t have significant military power, otherwise he wouldn´t have bothered messing around with the UED/Kerrigan. I think he is a lone Xel Naga survivor that continues his experiments.

The Xel Naga "mainforce" might not agree with him, they might want to correct the mistakes of their brothers. Maybe we can learn WHY they wanted to create a superrace (other than vanity).

 

i vote Valerian Megnsk since he'll most likely overthrow his father and bring a new age for the dominion. Fairly sure kerrigan's zerg forces will be annhiliated by a combination of raynor and hybrids. ^_^.

Artifacts and zeratul will most likely foil the plans of duran and his hybrids before they can reach their full power.