Zerg Planet Eater

[ImaGiNe.]

With the Zerg moving to assimilate only the most impressive and useful species of planets into the swarm, it makes you wonder what the Zerg do to a planet that contains species that are regarded as unimpressive and useless. They unleash the previously unseen Planet Eater upon the world. The Zerg Planet Eater is a colossal entity made only for the destruction of a planet that offers nothing of value to the swarm. It begins by burrowing huge tendrils into the planet's core and starts a long process of absorption, ridding the planet of its vital core elements.

This absorption process empties and weakens the planet and in effect, the Zerg Planet Eater whittles it a fragile shell of what it used to be. The planet will no longer be able to support life and the Zerg Planet Eater will soon die off from a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential elements that the world no longer possesses over a prolonged period.

The Zerg Planet Eater is created by a vast number of Zerg larvae combining together to achieve the genetic sequence required. The Zerg Planet Eater matures at a slightly faster rate then that of a similar colossal entity known formerly as the Overmind. It is also genetically limited to prevent it from becoming a sentient entity so as to pose little threat to the Overmind's psionic control of the Zerg Swarms.

I thought it would be cool to toss an idea around for a Zerg ultimate unit, what do you guys think about it?

[[LightMare]]

kind of a lot like fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer

[ImaGiNe.]

I actually got the influence from "The Big Tick" from Ben 10 and yes, Galactus. It totally suits the Zerg.

[[LightMare]]

but how would you use it in a game?

[coalescence]

Reminds me of the Tyranids in 40k.


but how would you use it in a game?


'Game over! Enemy used planet eater'
I think you wouldnt want to use that in a game, I even think that a species like the zerg is much better of colonising a planet, they have building like lifeforms for a reason.

[paragon]

This would not be a good in game thing.

[burkid]

"The Zerg ate the planet. You lose"
that would be more dreaded than "Nuclear Launch Detected"

[paragon]

Technically they would lose too. Everyone would lose. And it would be a draw.

Or, like the mothership's planet cracker, the ability would be massively scaled down.

[Fenix]

It's the kinda thing that would be in the novels, but no games.

[paragon]

It's the kinda thing that would be in the novels, but no games.

I've never read the novels. Have you? Are they good?

[capthavic]

Yeah they are good.

[Itsmyship]

Huh...sounds like the Zerg version of the Death Star to me

[paragon]

Huh...sounds like the Zerg version of the Death Star to me

More of a World Devastator really.

[burkid]

Huh...sounds like the Zerg version of the Death Star to me

More of a World Devastator really.

"HUUUNNNNGRY! OO A PLANET! YUM!"

[Ghost]

Reminds me of the Tyranids in 40k.


but how would you use it in a game?


'Game over! Enemy used planet eater'
I think you wouldnt want to use that in a game, I even think that a species like the zerg is much better of colonising a planet, they have building like lifeforms for a reason.


Its a very unoriginal idea but maybe it could be like a wonder in age of empires, is you actually manage to get enough larvae and time to build this thing its an autowin.

[ImaGiNe.]

but how would you use it in a game?

You would not be able to as it would probably take a huge amount of resources and a lot of time to build, plus it is too ultimate.

It's the kinda thing that would be in the novels, but no games.
The Planet Eater is something that I thought could be placed into some story, I just decided to put it in this forum instead of the StarCraft 2 Story and Races board. So right on Fenix! :D

[paragon]

Its a very unoriginal idea but maybe it could be like a wonder in age of empires, is you actually manage to get enough larvae and time to build this thing its an autowin.

Autowins are dumb. So is age of empires.

[SirBaron]

With the Zerg moving to assimilate only the most impressive and useful species of planets into the swarm, it makes you wonder what the Zerg do to a planet that contains species that are regarded as unimpressive and useless. They unleash the previously unseen Planet Eater upon the world. The Zerg Planet Eater is a colossal entity made only for the destruction of a planet that offers nothing of value to the swarm. It begins by burrowing huge tendrils into the planet's core and starts a long process of absorption, ridding the planet of its vital core elements.

This absorption process empties and weakens the planet and in effect, the Zerg Planet Eater whittles it a fragile shell of what it used to be. The planet will no longer be able to support life and the Zerg Planet Eater will soon die off from a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential elements that the world no longer possesses over a prolonged period.

The Zerg Planet Eater is created by a vast number of Zerg larvae combining together to achieve the genetic sequence required. The Zerg Planet Eater matures at a slightly faster rate then that of a similar colossal entity known formerly as the Overmind. It is also genetically limited to prevent it from becoming a sentient entity so as to pose little threat to the Overmind's psionic control of the Zerg Swarms.

I thought it would be cool to toss an idea around for a Zerg ultimate unit, what do you guys think about it?

Really interesting.
Although i gotta admit:
It begins by burrowing huge tendrils into the planet's core and starts a long process of absorption, ridding the planet of its vital core elements.
I dunno about you, but this sounds really reminiscient of FF7 in my ears... or eyes.

Anyways, have a :powerup: for the creativity and well-detailed description. :P

[Fenix]

It's the kinda thing that would be in the novels, but no games.

I've never read the novels. Have you? Are they good?


Never even touched one. Too afraid really.

[paragon]

It's the kinda thing that would be in the novels, but no games.

I've never read the novels. Have you? Are they good?


Never even touched one. Too afraid really.

Me too. They're probably nerdy.

[SirBaron]

paragon is right. They're bad.

[paragon]

paragon is right. They're bad.

In that case I'm very glad I haven't read them. Or even actually seen them.

[SirBaron]

paragon is right. They're bad.

In that case I'm very glad I haven't read them. Or even actually seen them.

Mostly they're just cheesy and generally unimaginative. It's like fan-fiction except they're being sold and Blizzard gave consent to (or even hired) the writers to use their game-material. Sometimes i get the feeling the writers haven't even played the game (mostly when they use already existing characters).

[paragon]

paragon is right. They're bad.

In that case I'm very glad I haven't read them. Or even actually seen them.

Mostly they're just cheesy and generally unimaginative. It's like fan-fiction except they're being sold and Blizzard gave consent to (or even hired) the writers to use their game-material. Sometimes i get the feeling the writers haven't even played the game (mostly when they use already existing characters).

Any big inconsistencies? Think Blizzard will use book characters in SC2?

[SirBaron]

paragon is right. They're bad.

In that case I'm very glad I haven't read them. Or even actually seen them.

Mostly they're just cheesy and generally unimaginative. It's like fan-fiction except they're being sold and Blizzard gave consent to (or even hired) the writers to use their game-material. Sometimes i get the feeling the writers haven't even played the game (mostly when they use already existing characters).

1: Any big inconsistencies? 2: Think Blizzard will use book characters in SC2?

I hope they do not use book characters in SC2. It would suck.

[burkid]

i kinda hope that they put nova in SC2 because she hasnt had her time to shine, cloak, and kick some ass since ghost was postponed indefinately.

[SirBaron]

i kinda hope that they put nova in SC2 because she hasnt had her time to shine, cloak, and kick some ass since ghost was postponed indefinately.

I heard she was to make some kind of appearance in SC2. Could just have been false rumors though, but tbh we need some smokin' fine female Ghost now that Kerrigan's gone over to the slime-squad... and been there for like years.

[burkid]

i kinda hope that they put nova in SC2 because she hasnt had her time to shine, cloak, and kick some ass since ghost was postponed indefinately.

I heard she was to make some kind of appearance in SC2. Could just have been false rumors though, but tbh we need some smokin' fine female Ghost now that Kerrigan's gone over to the slime-squad... and been there for like years.

...that means kerrigan hasnt bathed in 10 years... ugh...

[SirBaron]

i kinda hope that they put nova in SC2 because she hasnt had her time to shine, cloak, and kick some ass since ghost was postponed indefinately.

I heard she was to make some kind of appearance in SC2. Could just have been false rumors though, but tbh we need some smokin' fine female Ghost now that Kerrigan's gone over to the slime-squad... and been there for like years.

...that means kerrigan hasnt bathed in 10 years... ugh...

Stained chicks = not cool.

[burkid]

i kinda hope that they put nova in SC2 because she hasnt had her time to shine, cloak, and kick some ass since ghost was postponed indefinately.

I heard she was to make some kind of appearance in SC2. Could just have been false rumors though, but tbh we need some smokin' fine female Ghost now that Kerrigan's gone over to the slime-squad... and been there for like years.

...that means kerrigan hasnt bathed in 10 years... ugh...

Stained chicks = not cool.

but on the bright side, nova is new, hot, and CLEAN!

[paragon]

Nova would be a nice addition. We need a new sexy female ghost for starcraft 2 since kerrigan is all zergified.

[Mika]

Meh, I thought of something: Since the Planet Eater is so hard to make, on a battle field the zerg can only afford 24 or so larvae to make a tiny one, it would burrow like the lurker and attack from there, splitting the earth ( and anyone who stands where the tendril is ) with a cool little SFX xD

[paragon]

but what would be its range, sight range, etc

[Highjustice]

A good use for something along these lines would be that you build this as a building, and it pulls resources from deep within the ground and spouts them out around the building. This would cause a never ending (slow) stream of minerals to sustain the fact that zerg rely on pumping out streams of units rather than the more brute force and tactical approaches of Terran and Protoss. The fact that this sort of "strip mining" makes it impossible for normal life to survive wherever these creatures are spawned would not mean anything to the Zerg, who create their own nutrient rich creep everywhere.

[Ghost]

Its a very unoriginal idea but maybe it could be like a wonder in age of empires, is you actually manage to get enough larvae and time to build this thing its an autowin.

Autowins are dumb. So is age of empires.


Yea, thats what i said, it leads to turtling and super fast tech tree climb.

[paragon]

Like in homeworld when someone always techs up to the battlecruiser/battleship or in supreme commander when someone plays the game or in warcraft 3 when someone techs up to frost wyrms of chimaeras.

[ImaGiNe.]

A good use for something along these lines would be that you build this as a building, and it pulls resources from deep within the ground and spouts them out around the building. This would cause a never ending (slow) stream of minerals to sustain the fact that zerg rely on pumping out streams of units rather than the more brute force and tactical approaches of Terran and Protoss. The fact that this sort of "strip mining" makes it impossible for normal life to survive wherever these creatures are spawned would not mean anything to the Zerg, who create their own nutrient rich creep everywhere.

Great add-on Highjustice. :good: That would be a neat application to the game.

[PainKiller]

With the Zerg moving to assimilate only the most impressive and useful species of planets into the swarm, it makes you wonder what the Zerg do to a planet that contains species that are regarded as unimpressive and useless. They unleash the previously unseen Planet Eater upon the world. The Zerg Planet Eater is a colossal entity made only for the destruction of a planet that offers nothing of value to the swarm. It begins by burrowing huge tendrils into the planet's core and starts a long process of absorption, ridding the planet of its vital core elements.

This absorption process empties and weakens the planet and in effect, the Zerg Planet Eater whittles it a fragile shell of what it used to be. The planet will no longer be able to support life and the Zerg Planet Eater will soon die off from a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential elements that the world no longer possesses over a prolonged period.

The Zerg Planet Eater is created by a vast number of Zerg larvae combining together to achieve the genetic sequence required. The Zerg Planet Eater matures at a slightly faster rate then that of a similar colossal entity known formerly as the Overmind. It is also genetically limited to prevent it from becoming a sentient entity so as to pose little threat to the Overmind's psionic control of the Zerg Swarms.

I thought it would be cool to toss an idea around for a Zerg ultimate unit, what do you guys think about it?



Sounds like something that could be in the campaign. Kerrigan is going to destroy Aiur/Shakuras/Earth/Braxis ( What ever) and you need to kill this creature before its task is done!

But i doubt it=)

[paragon]

Er nobody even knows where Earth is. And why would she destroy them when they have resources on them plus they can serve as a staging point for other zerg offensives?

[PainKiller]

It was just a though ;) There might be other reasons to destroy a planet!
and I guess that Kerrigan will find Earth some day... Somebody stop her!! and then Zeratul and Jim Raynor comes with backup from the Mothership and they will kick her ass!!

Earth is saved.. GG.. end of story

[Zergme]

kind of a lot like fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer

lol its almost exatly like that but its sounds realy cool

[Lemonparty]

They'd need a silver zerg surfer

edit: yeah right someone said it before me :(

[SirBaron]

I have another idea.

Zerg Planet Eater
Description: Essentially, the Planet Eater resides inside a small shell of rock that floats through space propelling itself using Psi. It may crash at it's own desire on any planets it wish. Once the Planet Eater falls to the Planet's surface, it may immediately call upon the Zerg Meteor, a powerful meteor mutated to life by Zerg organisms, that crashes into the planet and opens up a wound big enough to endanger the planet, after which the life-force of the planet, called Planet-psi, will amass inside the wound and attempt to heal it. At this point, the Planet Eater will "suck" the Planet-psi out of the planet and become immense in power and strength, grow a large wing out of it's side and become a god.

Trivia: The first Zerg Planet Eater was mutated out of a Terran known as Seph I. Roth, son of Jen Ova.

[burkid]

so it can only be stopped by Clou D.?

[Lemonparty]

BRILLIANT!
We still need a bunch of Terran with big ears called jedilegolas/darknaruto and demoninuyasha to save the world, though.

[DontHate]

god. i hated the wonder type of play in AOE.

[Trooper_Lozer]

All i will say is FLAT OUT NO!!! this idea would be totally rigged. Though it may be a good idea to fit it in the story line somehow now with the overmind gone zerg may want some new weapon, other then zerg, but i dont even like that idea myself. O and i read the books and thought tey were pretty good, i also read the halo books. And laslty need i mention it Instant wins are GAY.

-Trooper

[paragon]

i don't even think it would be a good storyline addition. what could they possibly infest that would be big enough to eat a planet? remember with the zerg they actually had to go out and find those things to twist them into killing machines. like the zergling was a dune runner and i think the hydralisk was a kind of sloth.

[ImaGiNe.]

What do you think a cerebrate is? The overmind? They are not creatures that have been infested and appear to have characteristics similar to that of the original Zerg parasite although they are much larger.

[Lemonparty]

New unit added in the Zerg section : Infested Galacticus! Available trough capturing a Silver surfboard!

edit: Of course the Overmind isn't something infested, the Xel'Naga created it to watch over the Zerg broods

[paragon]

and the overmind created the cerebrates to do the same thing

[overmind]

it would be cool if it was a building and it gathered recourses and slowly 'nutrients' the creep maybe even damaging enemies on the creep

[burkid]

^...what do you mean " 'nutrients' the creep"? and if it damaged enemies on the creep it would still have to have range, or else you could hide a bunch in the corner of your base and anything that tries to attack you cant kill them.

[overmind]

nutrients was my story discription

i was thinking of building one and it slowly killls units on your creep (maybe have to be in range of hive or something)

[MarineCorp]

Zerg planet eater.... reminds me of Unicron from Transformers but nah i dont think that's far
the zergs are very dominant but it is a cool idea though....it's like a countdown xD

[JudicatorPrime]

Sounds exactly like Galactus... probably just me though. Kind of crap Super-Weapon when it kills EVERYONE... pretty much once you launch this thing the game ends in a Stalemate because both sides get pwned.

And unless the planet is filled with useless ferrets and has absolutely no vespine gas or minerals and has no strategical value whatsoever I still doubt the Zerg would just leave it alone, and I doubt they have such a thing and are capable of making something like that.

[CapMan]

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kind of a lot like fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer


lol i was thinking that when i was reading it too, it would be a compleate noob weapon to have it

[DontHate]

yea i dont like this idea either, i mean if the zerg had a world eater then it'd basicly be gg for protoss and terran in the story.

[Itsmyship]

Now who would win in a fight....a Zerg Planet Eater or a Terran Death Star? I personally go with the Death Star

[JudicatorPrime]

Well... the Death Star would have a giant "Laser," that could destroy Galac... the Zerg wold eater before it got close.

[Pariah1401]

This sounds an awful lot like the tyranids, which is where blizzard got the idea of zerg from

They would come, assimilate positive traits into they're biology, and leave it nothing more than a barren rock

maybe this thing could be a sort of "protect" or "destroy" thing

not a unit that u cna build, but is vital to teh storyline

[Tankman131]

haha 40k got the ideas for tyranids from alien the movie