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* Protoss often greeted with each other with the phrase ''"En Taro Adun"'' during the first game and the Brood Wars, but after then they switched to ''"En Taro Tassadar"'' to honor their most recent hero. Immortals, however, show their age by still using ''"En Taro Adun."''
* The Protoss race' very game mechanics are symbolic of their role in the plot. Unlike Terran units, which can be healed by medics or repaired, or Zerg units which can regenerate, Protoss units and buildings have replenishing DeflectorShields but can not otherwise regain their actual life points. That means that while Protoss units and buildings are formidable, any damage that makes it through their shields is ''forever'', and if the enemy is persistent enough, they would always eventually be able to defeat a Protoss unit through attrition - even if each wave of attackers only manages to cause 1 point of damage before being defeated, and the next one will still have to content with fully regained shields, they'll still have caused irreparable harm, that will eventually accumulate... This fits perfectly the Protoss' role as a stagnant, DyingRace who is keenly aware of its own coming doom.
** As it turns out in ''Legacy of the Void'', the ancient Protoss ''did'' have ways of rejuvenating robotics, but had misguided policies regarding them. Under Artanis, the Purifiers, a race of robots with memory databases of deceased Protoss, were integrated and treated as equals, thus ensuring the rejuvenation of the Protoss as a race.
** When cooperating with different races like the Terrans to work towards a common goal, it was then that their their wounds could be healed and machines repaired, which can symbolize the Protoss dropping their old prejudices finding strength in dialog and teaching their technologies to other races and vice versa. In ''Legacy of the Void'', the Daelaam gain the ability to repair their machines on their own but still need an ally from another race to heal the wounded and indeed, Artanis has good terms with the New Dominion & Kerrigan's Swarm. While the Terrans do get into conflict with the Tal'Darim, their ways aren't shared with the Daelaam. Dialog also makes sense considering many of the Protoss's interest in seeing the Terrans develop Psionically in addition to repair and healing expertise they possess. Notably, [=SCVs=] & [=MULEs=] can repair ancient machines like Motherships and Colossi, even in team matches.

* It seems odd at first that the original formula Stimpacks were phased out in favor of less potent ones issued in ''Wings of Liberty'' but the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] for ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' mentioned all kinds of nasty side effects from the classic Stimpacks including negative psychological effects for surviving Marines. Considering how high Marine casualties were back then, it's likely public pressure would mount to increase the survival rate of infantry and there would obviously be complaints about veterans suffering psychosis from Stimpacks. Thus it makes sense Marines would be issued Combat Shields to give a significant boost to their defenses and the next generation Stimpacks would be less effective but have less negative effects. Plus, the Dominion doesn't have infinite soldiers to throw away making it sensible help more live to fight again in the face of the Zerg menace. By the time of ''Nova Covert Ops'' the Stims could even heal instead harm.
* It seems strange at first that the Protoss lost their Dark Archons in multiplayer and their mind control spells by extension, but now that Terran [=SCVs=] are able to repair Protoss machines and Terran Medivacs can heal any biological unit, allowing the Protoss to mind control an SCV to build Terran units would be potentially overpowered, given that this makes it possible to heal and repair any damage to HitPoints. Thus, Mind Control was given to the Zerg in the form of Neural Parasite and made a temporary ability for good measure to mitigate Zerg players easily utilizing GameBreaker hybrid strategies.

* A mission in the Protoss mini-campaign has a part where you rescue Protoss who were stuck mid-warp in time-space due to pylon power being cut off. Just imagine what would have happened to them if Zeratul never restored power...or, for that matter, imagine that happening in any multiplayer game where a player manages to destroy a pylon field before units manage to finish warping in...

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