Zerg travelling between planets.

I have been thinking about this for quite a while now. The overmind used to create some kind of wormhole to travel between planets. Is Kerrigan also able to do this? The whole idea behind this kind of travelling is weird anyway, since the protoss have just as much psionic powers as the Zerg, but they need warpgates and stuff to travel. It is strange that a mothership needs a huge crystal and high templar psionic powers to power and control it, while the overmind could transport entire broods by just using its mind. Does this make any sense? -- discuss

 

In Shadow of the Xel'Naga, Weapon of War and Shadow Hunters, she sent forces between planets. At the beginning of StarCraft II, she's on a planet that isn't Char, and her forces were able to attack numerous Dominion planets.

The Overmind was a singularly powerful being, created by the xel'naga ... and those guys can do anything.

How the zerg transport, we don't know yet. Shadow of the Xel'Naga implied the behemoths do it, but we don't know for sure.

 

i thought of this for a while as the reason Kerrigan didnt attack, but it was mentioned in one of the comics that she uses infested terran ships

 

Which comic was this?

 

i dont know the name, it was the one where kerrigan tried to duplicate her own creation

 

Well the Overmind is the only pisonic being of the Zerg while the Protoss have most/all of their people pisonic, maybe that the the Xel' Naga have a limit to what power they give the races in serch of perfectness maybe they gave Protoss even power and the Overmind great power so that they were even.

so maybe the Overmind was strong enogh to create large wormholes.

so the Overmind could warp but what of Kerrigan, i would think that she makes the Overlords able to survive in space and goes in them with a drone or 2 then bingo the enemy fights a army of 2 to 200.


Also: what was her creation

 

At the beginning, it said that the Overmind was forced to use Overlords or other creatures.
Then it absorbed the Xel'Naga worldships around it.
Now?

It probably has psiconic powers of ??? Xel'Naga.

Kerrigan alone would not be able to accomplish this.

So... OVERMINDS.

With this discussion, how do Nydus Canals operate?

 

As ijffdrie said, Kerrigan uses infested Terran ships. Thanks again for that info. About the NW, there are at least 3 topics about that subject just on the first page on the zerg board. Look around there for more info on the NW. -As a short explanation: huge worm creature embeds its ass in the ground, digs a tunnel and emerges its head on the other side. Then it somehow lets zerg travel between the two sides through its intestins. I believe there is some lore about it in the sc section on battle.net. I believe it is still called the sc compendium or someting.

 

That isn't a comic, it's a short story in a magazine. See here: StarCraft: Hybrid.

She tried to duplicate her creation in StarCraft: Hybrid, where she took posession of an infested space platform (now believed to be Char Aleph).

@Forsaken

"As ijffdrie said, Kerrigan uses infested Terran ships."

Except it's wrong. (Also illogical; Kerrigan isn't Ms. Fixit, she doesn't know how to maintain warp engines.)

 

That's a pretty lame excuse for her not using infested ships:
- Infested ships are partially organic, so they would be be able to repair and maintain themselves.
- Kerrigan was a ghost, one of the smartest humans out their and an expert at hacking computers. I highly doubt that she would be unable to fly a ship.
- She infested thousands of terrans and protoss. There have to be some scientists in her ranks. Since the zerg have some sort of collective mind, kerrigan only has to extract the information out of them.

 

Infested ships don't exist in lore! And if they did, their warp drive systems would still be technological and inorganic. (The closest things we have are corrupted ships, which exist for a short time before breaking down.)

Ghosts don't have to be smart. Sure Kerrigan is, but that's not a requirement.

Hacking computers isn't the same thing as fixing faster-than-light technology. Plenty of biologists can't fix a radio (there's even a book by that title!) It's very rare for even geniuses to be omnidisciplinary.

Only one protoss has ever successfully been infested, and that was due to an experiment in which the protoss infested a sample of creep. Said protoss was a zealot, not a scientist, and is now dead. As for terrans, only Infested Kerrigan, Alexei Stukov and Ethan Stewart have successfully been infested. Every other infested terran is drooling and "brain dead" or being mentally preserved by nanites that keep their mind free from the Zerg Swarm (eg Morik, Sistask).

Stukov wasn't under Kerrigan's control (he was part of the "New Swarm") and Stewart is a mercenary, not a subwarp engineer. You're looking at (within the Swarm) a sample size of two.

 

I think its cool and its my thumbs up because they should travel planets and infest alot because there can be more and more story line

 

How can giving the zerg even more power be good for the storyline? An invincible enemy doesn't really give you a lot of options.

 

Achilles.

Shoot him in the heel.

 

And you are satisfied with such a crappy solution for beating someone who seems to be invincible?

 

What sort of power?

They already have FTL travel.

 

What I was reffering to with them getting more power had to do with them infesting new planets, like JacobBlair wants them to. Their strength lies in numbers. If they infest even more planets they woule become unstoppable. And most stories where the goodguys win from such an enemy, the ending is kinda crappy. -Like in the remake of war of the worlds, where insects cause the impervious supershielded planetkilling to malfunction. That just makes me sick. And then they pay those scriptwriters tons of money for that crap.-

 

I think Kerrigan has a control limit. She can barely control the zerg on Aiur (according to Shadow Hunters).

 

The problem is that I can't get any of those comics around here without importing them, which is a bit to expensive for my taste.

 

Which comic again?

The only starCraft "comic" that has been released are the first two issues of StarCraft: Frontline.

I hate to brag (oh, who am I kidding, I love to) ... I have every StarCraft lore product ever made. Even those incredibly hard to find short stories. I'm trying to solve this mystery.