History Headscratchers / Starcraft

[[folder:Why infest Kerrigan at all?]]

** The games have no qualms with portraying the Zerg as the most dangerous force in the galaxy bar Amon. But they're neither invincible nor undefeatbale. The Zerg are effectively a keystone army. Without a commanding presence they devolve into an animal-state, engage in in-fighting, and are much easier to conted with. After the first Overmind was destroyed the cerebrates had to band together for control, and after the UED took control of the second Overmind the Zerg threat was effectively decapitated. After Kerrigan was turned back into a human the Zerg were basically defeated again, with the Terran making huge strides against them and with Queens falling into in-fighting. So the Zerg can adapt and replenish their numbers like nothing else in the galaxy, but when they lose they lose '''hard'''.

* So Tychus has a killswitch in his suit that will kill him via total organ failure if it ever receives the correct transmission. Horner and Raynor discuss it for a while. They know that one of their closest allies is being manipulated by an outside force, but not who or to what end... and that's the end of it. I understand this is done for the RuleOfDrama, but it means that Tychus's storyline is a huge IdiotPlot:

* Okay, I have to ask: why the hell everybody in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki refers the UED and its leaders ([=DuGalle=] and Stukov) as bad guys? I mean, they just went there to check (and neutralize) a possible alien invasion. Sure, they wanted to conquer (not erradicate) the protoss, and they're far away from being beacons of justice and goodness, but they weren't as bad as Mengsk or the Zergs. They just wanted the welfare of mankind.

* Why do Protoss flyers have masks (with tubes) when they, y'know, don't have mouths? They absorb water and air through their skin. Normally they get that through the atmosphere, but their cockpits may get punctured. Having a tube transport that to the skin on their face is a good back up system.

* Why do Protoss flyers have masks (with tubes) when they, y'know, don't have mouths?

** It's said in the manuals that when the UED was formed, it was pretty much a facist police state, and most political dissenters were arrested. The initial colonization fleet was more their 'humane' way of getting rid of the dissenters, shipping then into Deep Space. Kerrigan mentions this to Raynor as a reason to work with her, saying that he knows what the UED will do once they control everything. Of course, you have an excellent point that it's still pretty nice compared to Mengsk and the Zerg. Then again, neither of those two are thought of as heroes either. At the very least, better the devil we know (Mengsk) than the devil we don't. (UED)

** Kerrigan was meant to come later in the battle, probably to assasinate the Judicators and other authority figures.
** This troper always assumed that the overmind attacked without kerrigan on purpose with full knowlege that he was going to end up losing, he knew that if he stayed on char then the dark templar would finish their dispute with the high templar and then unified they would kill his cerebrates and render him powerless then kill him, leaving kerrigan to deal with the unified protoss of shakuras and aiur and the humans, she wouldn't have lasted very long against that so instead he sacrificed himself to destroy aiur while the dark templar and the high templar still hated eachother and in the desperation of the moment he was able to cause the most powerful protoss (tassadar) to sacrifice himself to destroy him, decimating the protoss and leaving kerrigan with only shakuras and the humans to deal with, and the cerebrates merging to become a new overmind was likely not planned by him at all and just a rogue cerebrate.

** Actually, gauss would sound ballistic weapons becuse of sonic booms generated by firing the rounds.

*** And that one he refused to burn is all that's necessary for Aldaris' statement to be true because after that one Tassadar's fleet was destroyed to the point he couldn;t burn any more worlds to counter the spreading infestation.

** MoralDissonance and {{Double Standard}}s? In my KnightTemplar ScaryDogmaticAliens? [[SarcasmMode NO WAI]]!

* Here is a completely absurd example of {{Railroading}} and CutsceneIncompetence: The UED have chaseed Jim Raynor, Fenix, and Arcturus Mengsk to Aiur. The Warp Gate is right in the middle of the map between the UED, the Zerg, and Raynor & Fenix's safehouse. The UED can easily just set up a heavily fortified camp around the Warp Gate and a fleet of a hundred air units to guarantee that James and Fenix would never be able to slip through but nope, the sudden Zerg attack provides Plot Armor that prevents the UED from being able to stop them at all. WHY NOT JUST DESTROY THE WARP GATE BEFOREHAND TO GUARANTEE A 100% CHANCE OF CATCHING THEM???

* Here is a completely absurd example of {{Railroading}} and CutsceneIncompetence: The UED have chaseed Jim Raynor, Fenix, and Arcturus Mengsk to Aiur. The Warp Gate is right in the middle of the map between the UED, the Zerg, and Raynor & Fenix's safehouse. The UED can easily just set up a heavily fortified camp around the Warp Gate and a fleet of a hundred air units to guarantee that James and Fenix would never be able to slip through but nope, the sudden Zerg attack provides Plot Armor that prevents the UED from being able to stop them at all. WHY NOT JUST DESTROY THE WARP GATE TO GUARANTEE A 100% CHANCE OF CATCHING THEM???

*** The worlds that the Zerg infested after Tarsonis were Char and Aiur, and neither of them could be considered Terran worlds.