Will they bring back the old Overmind

With its deep voice base voice and brooding presence, it really made Starcraft 1! Will is be coming back?

 

It was killed. Of course it isn't coming back. At least not in its old form. Besides, Kerrigan wants no new Overmind, so no new one will be created by here. Kerrigan has no need of a new Cerebrate team, so no chance that any of those can go rogue and make a new Overmind. Sorry man, this is just very unlikely to happen. Still, the Overmind was pretty awesome.

 

I agree

 

I like kerrigan but I can't help but feeling the swarm has become a toy for a raging emotional woman bent on revenge. I much preferred it when its goals were simple, unhatefull and unemotional assimilation of everything it sees.

Can anyone that read shadow hunters explain how Kerrigan has been able to dispose of the whole command chain of giant brains and use her tiny 1300 cubic centimetres to control the entirety of the swarm?

 

I agree with Sueco in a way. I think the overmind was the best leader or organism they could've put in charge. The overmind, i think was'nt an actual individual that controlled them but was the Zerg's desire's, want's, and need's all piled into this one semi-conscious omnipotent Zerg God like influence, which I believe was created or directed to evolve that way by the Xel'naga. But the answer to your question, if he's coming back? No. Theres no way anything can come back from what he went through!

 

I believe it is impossible to destroy the overmind entirely, tassadar was able to physically destroy it and scatter it psychic energies, but it would only take time for them to come back together. The only possible death i could see for the overmind is if the entire zerg race is exterminated in a hail of gunfire and hellfire.

 

I agree, a new overmind should be able to coalesce once more from the collective consciusness of all Zerg. Unfortunately it wouldn't be the same millenia-old being that we fought in SC1. Plus it would have to fight for the cool factor with kerrigan, which we know, is a lost fight.

I mean they could make him say "I'm the queen *****/pimp/brain of the universe.", but it wouldn't have the same... gravitas. Hope the swarm gets to do good assimilation and evolving in the story however... its what they are here for right?

Kerrigan said they are becoming much more... well see about that.

 

It's not coming back. It's dead. It was killed by Dark Templar energy, there's no coming back from that.

All the cerebrates are supposed to be dead. Even if a few survived, there aren't enough to make a new Overmind. So in short, dead, dead, dead, dead and dead.

 

I really want to see some overmind-like thing for the zerg, kerrigan shouldnt controll the whole swarm

 

while the Overmind is the collective sentience of all the Zerg, it only came that way(and into being) by the Xel'Naga, they thought that their last experiment failed because of the Protoss arguing and fighting because of their differences.

*skip some eons to the events of Starcraft and Brood War*

Tassadar sacrifice himself to kill the Overmind, the Overmind is officially dead. A few of the Cerebrates(that lived from the Dark Templars hunting) merge together into a new Overmind, the new overmind wouldnt have the same memories as the old Overmind did. Kerrigan then blackmailed Zeratul(sp?) into using the Dark Templar to kill this new Overmind.

*have to step away from the game now, and go to what Blizzard stated during a lore panel question(cant find source but I KNOW that they answer this question)*

someone asked Blizzard what was the possibility of any Cerebrates that were hiding to merge into yet again another Overmind. Blizzard responed that since they didnt want to do the same thing over again, that all the Cerebrate died shortly after the new Overmind died, ending that possibility. And since the Overmind only came into being because of the Xel'Naga, I dont think he will be coming back, because I doubt that the Xel'Naga would recreate a thing that tried to kill / assimilate them last time.

 

well there goes this thread then, just had to go and spoil our fun didn't you lurk. Oh well, plenty more topics to go to.

 

Maybe they could bring the overmind back for one of those zerg vs zerg type scenarios. Where kerirgan fights the overmind. It would bring the overmind back, and it would add to the twists and turns of the storyline..

 

did you not read anything that has been said so far? it can not come back, its dead.

 

Maybe Kerrigan continues to morph to a bigger thing, so she can control the ever groving swarm better. Just a random idea.

 

Maybe a lost swarm was still out there that was separated from the rest of the swarm. This "lost swarm" then could have a slightly diferent version of the overmind.
*now think the 3rd xmen, there was a guy with the power to make copies of diferent parts of him. Basicly he could make as many copies of himself as he had in his persanality.
So unless the overmnd had absolutly no personality maybe a sertain part of him had the idea that he was going to die. So he sent a small section of he swarm with that side of his being to another part of the planet in so that they would not be found for centurys and the overmind would then live on with all of it's original memories. (and sry if none of this fits the lore. I haven't read anything on it and only know stuff from other threads.)

 

Didn't Cerebrates merge to create a new Overmind in BroodWar? Since the Cerebrates are just really huge versions of the original Zerg insectoids, can't Overlords for example possibly merge or something to create new Cerebrates, then these Cerebrates would eventually merge to create a new Overmind? Or something to that effect. Given the vast number of mutations the Zerg have undergone through the ages, it kinda fits in with the lore. Of course these Cerebrates and the new Overmind they'd create would be very different from the original form, given how Kerrigan's sorta molded the Swarm after her own twisted way of thinking, and this could only happen after Kerrigan is killed/de-infested/overthrown.

 

The overmind has been killed, i doubt it's possible to ressurect it. @cmss08, the overmind was created by the Xel nagas, without it's technology i doubt they can assimilate into an overmind based on your theory. Also, the events of SC2 suggests that kerrigan is the sole ruler of the Zergs, pointing out that the cerebrates have all been eliminated. As a consequence, i don't think it's possible for the overmind to return unless the xel nagas created another one which will probably erupt into another Zerg v Zerg war. hey, it's just a speculation, who knows what Blizzard will do?

 

Kerrigan wanted to retain all control over the zerg, she killed the cerebrates and the terran captured the overmind and then kerrigan planned the dark templar too kill the new overmind that the cerebrates created. I doubt there will be zerg vs. zerg confilcts. *very much*
Edit: I just read back on the posts. I basically just copied lurk. anyway thats what happend and even if that statement is not true by blizzard. We know they provide a good storyline and will not give us repetitive resources of gameplay. Blizzard gives us the best.

 

The swarm is firmply in the grip of kerrigan, and her psionic abilities allow her to control it fully without the aid of cerebrates.

Without ouside interference, it is difficult to imagine rivaling Zerg.

Oh and about outside interference, the Xel'Naga created the zerg. Now that they are coming back they are sure to mess with kerrigans empire. Plenty of ZvZ scenarios to draw from that.

 

But is canon (i think) that Kerrigan still has a FEW Cerebrates left.
And Duran has some Zerg too.

The Overmind may be unlikely, but you never know. I don't think there will be one.

The Xel'Naga wanted the perfect race, right?
The main thing is:
What for?