Infested Sacred Shrine. Possible new Zerg unit?

[jaywalker]

Hi guys, I just saw this and was thinking maybe this'll give some hint about new zerg unit.

here:
http://starcraft2.com/features/protoss/

and here: Immortal
The sacred shrine that was dedicated to the creation of the dragoons was infested by the zerg and lost along with the protoss homeworld itself.

i wonder what the shrine will do to the zerg force, hopefully not ability to create exploding dragoons though :p lol

[generalrievous]

hmm are you sure its not just talking about just some shrine on aiur :P

[Nikzad]

yeah...I would assume they wouldn't just give you an infested Protoss unit without having to do something to get it...like infest a Protoss building

It's most likely just a thing they put in there as a reason to get rid of the old dragoons

[coalescence]

God man, it's just a story, learn to think.

[jaywalker]

Well I know to think lol (though may not the best thinker in the world). Besides, who says something in the story can't be implement into the game :p anyway just a thought that I think is interesting, peace out.

[FlyingTiger]

oh he was trying to be creative :-P

[coalescence]

Go knitting :P

[GuiMontag]

i dont think we will see any infested protoss units, mainly because the protoss would have warped in most of their buildings to shakuras

[LoserInLosing]

I agree it has to be part of the story, i cant imagine infested tosses

[capthavic]

I think it's just an excuse to change them to immortals.

On a side note why can't they just build a new one?

[Sinbues]

Thats an awsome idea but i dont think blizzard is gunna take advice from us pplz >.>

[ShoGun]

I think the whole protoss/zerg concept is interesting no matter what you think or speculate about it. But as far as making zerg dragoons just because you have an infested protoss building goes, I think its a little more complicated then that.

The protoss are probably way too sophisticated to have their DNA modified and copied so easily, unlike the simpler life forms that were previously assimilated into the swarm.

[Bullet101]

I think it's just an excuse to change them to immortals.

On a side note why can't they just build a new one?


I'm sorry, but you don't just build sacred shrines.

[starcraft2iscoming]

I dought there will be infested Dragoons, because Zerg would need crippled Protoss to power them.

[capthavic]

I think it's just an excuse to change them to immortals.

On a side note why can't they just build a new one?


I'm sorry, but you don't just build sacred shrines.


Why not, it didn't just appear out of thin air. They have been using the shrine to make dragoons for who knows how long but they don't know how it works or how to replicate the tech used for the process? Even if it was mostly (or even all) Xel'naga tech I would think the Protoss would know enough to reverse engineer or jury rigging something close to it.

[Bullet101]

I think it's just an excuse to change them to immortals.

On a side note why can't they just build a new one?


I'm sorry, but you don't just build sacred shrines.


Why not, it didn't just appear out of thin air. They have been using the shrine to make dragoons for who knows how long but they don't know how it works or how to replicate the tech used for the process? Even if it was mostly (or even all) Xel'naga tech I would think the Protoss would know enough to reverse engineer or jury rigging something close to it.


I'm not saying they don't know how, but it was a sacred shrine. You don't just build them because you lost it.

[capthavic]

Again, why not? If they can't make any more dragoons/immortals then eventually there will be no more and their army will lose a valuable asset. So wouldn't it make sense to make a new one if they can? I understand it was sacred and all that but it's been defiled by the zerg and in these desperate times they need every advantage they can get.

[Itsmyship]

I'm just gonna go out on a limb here...maybe since their population was severely decimated, maybe its just easier to make the stalkers using the Dark Templar tech and shrines. Since I'm guessing that there are more protoss now that use dark templar energy as opposed to high templar, its just easier to gain access to dark energy as opposed to the energy needed to make dragoons

[Bullet101]

Again, why not? If they can't make any more dragoons/immortals then eventually there will be no more and their army will lose a valuable asset. So wouldn't it make sense to make a new one if they can? I understand it was sacred and all that but it's been defiled by the zerg and in these desperate times they need every advantage they can get.


I'm not exactly sure about the story behind the Temple, but for all I know the Xel'naga (did I get that right?) could of instructed the Protoss to build that temple. And If they did build another one, from what I've seen from the Protoss, the veteran warriors probably wouldn't volunteer because it was the sacred shrine that was supposed to do that. (Another possibility is that they don't have the tech, because they never thought they'd lose it)

Also, sorry if I'm a bit hard to understand.

[capthavic]

Well I didn't even know they had a special temple to make them (thought it just needed the cyber core) so I can only speculate. I don't see why injured warriors would give up the opportunity to continue fighting to save their race just because it wasn't the same shrine. And I don't think that the Xel'naga instructed them to make it since the protoss didn't come together until long after they left. They might not have expected to lose the shrine, but it just seems to me that an intelligent race like the protoss would know (at least a little) about how something as important as that shrine works. It's possible that itsmyship is right, however the way it was implied as a lack of ability not just that it was simpler not to.

[GuiMontag]

they did build a new shrine, they took the chance to completely overhaul the dragoons design and created the immortal to take its place. the stalker is completely different becuase its the dark templars version of a dragoon.

[capthavic]

No they just took the remaining dragoons and refit them into immortals. Once they are all dead there will be no more.

[GuiMontag]

No they just took the remaining dragoons and refit them into immortals. Once they are all dead there will be no more.


woops, lol what was i talkin about :P
well then, this means we must retake Aiur immediately (FOR AIUR!!)
cant have zealots being crippled with no hope of fighting again :P

[jaywalker]

that's fine... crippled zealots make no dragoons, dark templars invented stalkers... fair trade

[PrivateJoker]

Unless I am mistaken the games storyline alluded to a hybrid race of Zerg-Protoss that the Xel-naga created. Maybe the Zerg have used the Khala and the psionic energy of the good Protoss to evolve themselves.

[Star-Crap]

ok maybe not a infested dragoon could come from the infesting of the shrine but some sort of new zerg unit. The would be pretty crazy (crazy as in cool)

but if this is all for story so they could introduce the immortals then thats cool too

[ImaGiNe.]

Good job for making a topic for us to think and discuss, however by the description posted at the official StarCraft 2 site:
The sacred shrine that was dedicated to the creation of the dragoons was infested by the zerg and lost along with the protoss homeworld itself.
Infested here means that it was contaminated or made impure. You remember the fact that Protoss are... how shall we say it... stubborn. They strive for perfection and as such have shown this by appointing themselves the watchdogs of their universe.

[overmind]

the zerg could power the dragoon exo-skeletions but making a new strain like putting a larvea in a dragoon and telling it to evolve to power it.

i can see clicking on an infested dragoon and seeing a mass of living terror in the unit picture (maybe like that emperor dalek from dr who) disjointed nerves and face strecting to the sides and hearing "errrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh please kill me" in a f'd up primitive zerg voice
COOL!

[Longquark]

The protoss are probably way too sophisticated to have their DNA modified and copied so easily, unlike the simpler life forms that were previously assimilated into the swarm.

Oh, really? What about sharing a creator (Xel'Naga)? Maybe that would merit some compatibility. I mean, they infested the Terrans quite easily. The protoss also came way before the Zerg, in terms of creation. Maybe the Xel'Naga had some new tricks up their genetic engineeriNg sleeves when they made the original Zerg parasites. And then, to place them on a highly volcanic planet...
This is just my counter-theory : D

[Star-Crap]

kick back, its a game, lets not put our theories of how this **** whould work if it were real

Frankly its kinda dumb but YES! Zerg can control Protoss because karrigan already did it to that one protoss *****

[starcraft2iscoming]

But that was her just being mind controled by Kerrigan, she wasn't infested. And in the end, she returned back to normal, but then died. :'(

[TheFearless]

it's just a background story for the bldg. i think blizzard is gonna purposely hide zerg

[timedragon888]

that's fine... crippled zealots make no dragoons, dark templars invented stalkers... fair trade

Note: the stalkers are dark templars FUSED into the stalker body (that does not necessarily mean that they must be severely injured to do that) while dragoons are injured zealots, so dragoons should be better than stalkers.

[TidalSpiral]

the zerg could power the dragoon exo-skeletions but making a new strain like putting a larvea in a dragoon and telling it to evolve to power it.

i can see clicking on an infested dragoon and seeing a mass of living terror in the unit picture (maybe like that emperor dalek from dr who) disjointed nerves and face strecting to the sides and hearing "errrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh please kill me" in a f'd up primitive zerg voice
COOL!


That's the most awesome thing I've heard all day. :O I can totally picture that, hearing the Protoss voice all jacked up and begging for death. I almost want to write Blizzard a letter... that they'll never read but still. Great idea.

Also here are versions I could imagine the unit saying.
1) "Uuuuunnnnggghh pleeeaase kill meeee..."
2) "Iii want to dieeee..."
3) "End my liiiife..."

Sounds kind of emo there but it would be awesome in-game.