Resoc marines dont actually make up the majority of terran marine forces.
Resoc is reserved for the worst of the worst, and because of that, most are either resistant to it and are sent to the icehouse to become Reapers, or they become Firebats due to a lingering love of things being on fire. On top of that, resoc can break during stressful environments and even when it doesnt, resoc'd personel tend to be cognitively handicapped to the point of making Ogryns look like Einstein.
Seriously, despite how much the StarCraft community may joke about it, it wasnt as prevalent canonically.
To be fair the implication of the comics and Mengsk’s multiplayer forces is Marines are resocs, but with a superior program. He just has a massive force of non-Marine infantry with better guns and better leadership.
Like if you swapped Astartes and Guard.
To add to your comment: I remember reading a book that was from the POV of a neurally resocialized marine during the Brood War days.
“Resoc” marines are basically soldiers who’ve had their memories rewritten and replaced with the memories of a veteran, highly trained soldier. They’re hardwired to be incapable of doing anything without an order from a commanding officer, which makes them useful for holding the line, but useless for everything else. It sort of explains why your marines have zero self-preservation in-game: if they’re on a move-command, they’ll die without retaliating or running away, and if ordered to attack, they’ll always fight to the last man.
In the book I read, the Confederacy wasn’t just using criminals on death row for neurally resocialized marines. Spoilers for the story: >! they kidnapped civilians in frontier planets to replenish their ranks, removed their memories of being kidnapped, and replaced them with memories of being attacked by the Zerg. It took a ghost and a lot of psychic prodding before the main character really remembered what happened to him and his family. !< I don’t know what it’s like for the Dominion, but I do know that Raynor’s Raiders use a purely volunteer force, and the Dominion under Valerian probably has the same policy.
Edited for spoiler tags.
There’s a comic where the families of protestors against Mengsk were subjected to resoc. The methods were better than the Confederacy, and graduating was to execute your protestor family that got you into it. In that case the Marine’s girlfriend.
Um... the entire Terran population are descendant from the worst and most violent criminals the Earth had to offer.
>During this period, Doran Routhe became obsessed with founding colonies on the outlying worlds, convinced that the discovery of new minerals and alternate fuel sources would make him one of the most influential men on Earth. He used his political connections and personal fortune to secure fifty-six thousand prisoners that were slated for mass execution under the edict of Project Purification.
[...]
The forty thousand who were deemed viable were loaded onto four supercarriers loaded with enough supplies, rations and hardware to aid them once they arrived at their destination.
That's why everyone in Starcraft has such terrible language, and is constantly spouting insults. It's a miracle they even survived and built a civilization without nuking themselves out of existence.
Uh, no. The UPL also jailed anyone developing psionic abilities, genetic modifications, recreational drug users or who had cybernetic implants. In other words, eugenics. You can think of the UPL as imperium of man adjacent. If you werent 100% pure, homo sapiens human, you were classed as a criminal by UPL. Your quote is from the original manual, which i own, and the previous section goes into detail about who were "criminals" in the eyes of the UPL.
[Yes and no](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/455/504/6b5.jpg).
It must be understood in the context of Earth's development, which was basically that it was falling into absolute chaos. With socialism being defeated in the east, corporations were peddling all sorts of gene modification bullshit that was poisoning the genetic makeup of mankind. Genetic modification got out of control, leading to debilitating mutations, which were lowering both long term health and mental fitness. But corporations gonna corporation. All the while, the environment was being trashed and becoming hostile to life on the planet. Breakdown in quality of life led to economic systems failing all around the world, humanist factions popping up to fight against the corporations, and terrorism from both sides becoming commonplace.
Basically, the world was going to hell, and there was a global revolutionary war between corporations and humanists.
By some miracle, the humanists managed to gain enough political control to band nations together into forming the United Powers League, with the aim to fight back against the corporations, and this was the turning of the tide. And yes, the UPL was fascist as fuck, but there was clear evidence that genetic alteration had made the gene pool so muddled that the entire human species was in danger. They banned genetic modification, and culled ~2% of the population that was beyond genetic repair. They also banned cybernetic implants and psychoactive drugs because they seemed to have an effect in amplifying existing psychic potential.
The people that were put on the colony ships were not innocent mutants, those had been culled. That's why of the 56k prisoners, only 40k were found viable. The passengers were violent criminals who refused to go without gene modification, or cybernetic tech, or psychoactive drugs. And yes, [I know that sounds like apologia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_prohibition#War_on_Drugs), but it has to be seen in context. Allowing psychoactive drugs meant needing to cull more percent of the semi-psychic population to keep them from [becoming a danger to themselves and others](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCOavjtpeuM&t=129s). (spoilers for Gen V)
I think you do forget that everyone in starcraft is descended from actual criminals since they were on the ark tp the koprulu sector. Even the original tech was provided cheaply from a criminal to criminals.
Twelve second life expectancy, fifteen if you give them a car door to use as a shield.
Managed to usurp a god and install one of their own to replace him.
Hey just goes to show the shit they go up against is just as scary as them. There’s a good reason many Terran marines are psychotechnically imprinted with combat experience and instincts of expert veterans *in addition* to all the fancy computer-assist autosenses and such in their massive power armor suits, and are outfitted with gigantic hybrid Gauss rifles that can blow holes clean through tanks.
Tbf that one mostly just comes down to StarCraft being a relatively basic RTS with only ground and air “layers” of battle, and even then fairly little separation between the two.
Between penal troopers, arcoflagellants, penitent engines, and eversor assassins, 40k has a ton of stuff with that vibe. More if you include stuff outside the imperium.
There's also a lot of "Feral" Zerg following the Overmind's Death, even more after Kerrigan got deinfested. There was even a big game hunt for Feral Zerg on Mar Sara after it was resettled between games.
A lifetime alcoholic and stim user with history of self destructive and self sacrificing tendencies with open access to firearms, drinking alone in a bar that may or may not have been destroyed in the beginning of the second war (but two years is plenty time to rebuild it either way), watching all of this friends receiving their impossible "happily ever afters" across the galaxy.
Remembering the echoes of the life he lived before the war with the squad he quite literally owed his life to multiple times and how they were slowly ripped to pieces before the first war even started. Only for the one survivor -his best friend, greatest ally, and who's sacrifices set Raynor into the life of a good man- to come back from the figurative dead. Then for that man to betray him at the height of their triumph, the moment they had saved the literal galaxy from its greatest evil and he was forced to choose between the love of his life and his greatest (human) friend.
Then he literally walks out into the heavenly light with a pure human Kerrigan and was never seen leaving, or ever again, with only his badge found on the ground later by a local.
Personally I think Kerrigan just slurped him up into whatever super Kahala psychic domain she now runs.
Suicide just doesn't fit the writing of the game but it does for the books and would make for such a darker and more meaningful story. There could have been an amazing hit of writing about "Restless Dogs of War", survivors guilt, and loss of purpose. Now that it's over Raynor just can't let himself be the survivor when everyone else has died either for him or because of him. Believing that his hate and sorrow have no place in the new galaxy of a Unified Terran, Peaceful Zerg, and a resting Protoss he makes the decision to join Kerrigan and rest in his own "happily ever after" the only way he knows how, with violence.
It’s almost definitely not what happened so take comfort in that. Kerrigan is already space Jesus, you think she couldn’t get her boy toy out with her?
Bro is like "starcraft three is never coming out huh. And if it did, blizzards track record is not good rn." And made the obvious decision. Can't blame him.
Aka the ‘coping with blizzard not writing grimdark enough for them’ camp.
Kerrigan is basically a god by the end of the series, you think she can’t send down an avatar to yoink her man into space magic heaven?
Same, went from “huh, a starcraft 2 campaign challenge run? Well someone would get around to it eventually, let’s see to how it goes” to “oh my god this community made campaign mod is so funny i cant wait to see more!” Surprisingly smoothly.
https://preview.redd.it/3ki7y6zuhcad1.png?width=823&format=png&auto=webp&s=49ea38c02bf1f0e0ceb16f6894a5077d0f16aca1
Until the Adeptus Delicious churns out Administratus approved Finger lickin' Lictor, I have to give it to the Terrans. Best revenge against the enemy: eat em back.
Although what you say is indeed true, I have no interest in having a bug's memories, and am revulsed by that mere thought, that's why I have reported you to the Chaplain, and believe he'll do the right thing.
The Emperor Protects.
Pre-Sanguinius Blood angels (revenant Legion) used this organ to pass personality and memories from high-end members to new recruits, their Legion master died like 6 times.
I think during the heresy both sides abused that with inductee, yoinking a kid off Terra streets, pumping him full of organs (skipping a couple because who needs acid spit) then blast his brain with psycho indoctrination (skipping anything that isn't needed, so just pure unadulterated VIOLENCE) and then finish it off with a meal composed of the guy that teenager is gonna replace, off to the front line you go
I mean, maybe not the tyranids, but I think that the Flesh Teares eat just about anyone else. On the same topic, apparently, guardsmen love eating squids. They think they're delicious
They couldn't stop bullying people to the point of suicide or sexually harassing and assaulting employees, it's hard to imagine but some of the staff wanted to keep this and rest thought otherwise.
A pregant woman working there had to pump breastmilk and store it in a fridge, dedicated for just that and someone had stolen a few bottles. Happened a couple of times if I recall.
As grim as it sounds there is. The average consumer simply doesn't give a shit, especially considering the Blizzard sells games across the entire world and most consumers wouldn't have even heard of that. As much as some marketers swear by it social marketing is a whole bunch of bullshit. The social behaviour of a company barely has an effect on the consumer domestically let alone internationally unless that behaviour is a core identity of their brand(which isn't in Blizzard's case). Blizzard failed purely and only because it's a bad business. And the same goes for all of these woke companies that go out of business. Most of them are just bad businesses and their failure has nothing to do with their behaviours internally or externally.
As nice as it’d be for that to be it, that their moral and quality level decline went hand in hand, their best games were made during that period.
Turns out bad people can make good video games.
Starcraft 2v2 was making money. Just not enough money.
Putting the game into maintenance mode and focusing all effort from it and Overwatch onto Diablo was seen as a better.
I just can’t get into 40k Marines because I love Starcraft Marines so much.
Its just a different flavor, but I can’t help but feel like its brown sugar vs splenda. Or to put it another way, The Simpsons early seasons vs Paradise PD/Brickleberry. Or King Of The Hill vs reality TV.
Though to be fair the expanded universe of Starcraft also feels like that. The comics and novels have nothing on Amerigo.
There is also Mass Recall, a mod that lets you play SC 1 and Broodwar in SC2. Highly recommended with the caveat that it is a tad more difficult than the OG games
There's still plenty of custom maps seems like, but also there is a co-op where you can choose and level up commanders (from characters like Raynor, Zeratul etc to some no names like merc captains etc). Each commander has his own separate, albeit limited rosters, with some unique troops, mechanics and stuff here and there.
I didn't play it much myself, but my kids love that stuff
Man I discovered his channel by chance and I told myself that I HAD to replay StarCraft but , as with too many things , I got distracted by other fluff and never went around to it 😅
Giantgrantgames commissioned it and it lets people inject modded campaigns into the normal campaign client. This for example means a modded version of wings of Liberty can use the armory without having to be super jank.
A mix of both, surprisingly enough. She's got the endless chase of higher sensation for Slaanesh, but the sheer ultraviolence is enough for Khorne to begrudgingly tolerate her working with his greatest enemy.
Games Workshop actually got the license to and made prototype minis. It just never went past that.
In another universe we’d have Warcraft and Starcraft wargames by GW.
In StarCraft, human marines do drugs. in Warhammer, 40,000 aliens do the drugs.
Therefore, the terran Marines and the Druhkari need to meet so they can exchange each other’s drugs. And we do have some Protoss who do drugs, perhaps they could share as well. Humans and aliens can all get high together
A Warhammer 40,000/StarCraft crossover that leads to a drug war. I didn't know I needed this.
Also we need to see Druhkari get high off terrazine. Judging by how it made Alarak think he should show some compassion and think all the bad guys are misunderstood, one could probably make a reality show out of everyone in 40K get high on it.
Now that I type that, I really want to see Orks take some. No shenanigans are complete without Orks.
So win or lose, the Waaaagh! will be a success, because any Waaaaaagh! that sees combat is a successful Waaaagh!...
Is is a Waaaagh! if something keeps the Orks from getting to the fight?
Good question, what happens if the Ork ships are blown up in space by the Death Fleet, was it a successful Waaaagh or was the power of Alarak's Armada too strong?
Breaking Bad featuring a Haemonculus and an Aeldari pirate (a Jack Sparrow-esque one) selling refined and more potent Meth/Fentanyl to a new client, a xenos known as Protoss, and from its tribe known as the Tal'Darim. It's said that the drug get them so high they can see Slaanesh taking a shower in their palace.
Doesn't terrazine enhance psychic abilities? So, orks high on terrazine would have much stronger psychic gestalt field and some would turn into oddboyz.
It does. It doesn’t matter if the source of the psychic’s power is their energy or energy drawn from an outside source. it does sometimes have effects on sanity, but if we are talking about Orks the results probably wouldn’t be noticeable.
Druhkari on the other hand, likely wouldn’t touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole.
It also elevates anyone.
Stetmann was kinda left behind on the planet, and he created an army of robot Zerg that obey him like the Overmind. Not like simple AI following verbal commands, they’re connected to his mind and he even replicated Creep with nanites.
He also tapped into a cosmic consciousness that he thinks speaks to him through the planet, possibly Kerrigan, and the two are collaborating on mutual goals to evolve the universe apparently.
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If they made a game about Space Marines and gave it gameplay similar to Space Marine, the would be cool. But no, they have to sexually harass employees and fuck up franchises.
I have heard claims there is a fandom rivalry with Warhammer 40,000 and StarCraft, however, almost any time I see references to both IPs I see lots of people speak up who enjoy both.
Sit down and let me tell you something.
Look at the StarCraft sm. See his gun? That thing would be considered an AT in 40k. Not only that, it's a *rapid fire* AT.
Almost every zero, bar zergling and every protoss can easily shrug *bursts* of this gun.
Brother-captain Civilkil from the order of Child Eaters can roll in with his glorified grenade launcher thinking it's sweet in this corner of Galaxy, only to realize that none of his weapon can even scratch the baseline enemy units.
Nothing, bar custodes will stand a chance against what SC has to offer. Chance. Because Lord Poemwritter over there can run around, until he finds out that that scally mammoth over yander can shrug of SC level of AT and has regeneration so strong, it seemingly can revive after death.
That says nothing about how old the Star craft Marines live to be in the Star craft universe or how many races they fight. My ignorant statement is an invitation to ask you for those statistics, not how much damage Star craft technology can do. From what I can sumize based on comments here, Star Craft Marines are just prisoners as guardsmen in power armor with drugs.
Some are. But it is a rarity, rather than rule. Most are volunteers, who serve like in any other army.
They are injected not with drugs, but with stimulants, like adrenaline and such.
People take fanon over canon.
Terran Confederation? Couple centuries. They are descendants of Earth empire, that is either collapsing or collapsed.
So far they have met only 2 alien species(technically 3)
I mean the Confederacy already collapsed, but we know that in Canon lore that the UED sent ships over with majorly worse tech than their normal equipment in fear of the Confederates (now Dominion) getting it and using it. One also must remember that they technically met 3 (maybe 4) species in the games at least, being the Xel'Naga, Zerg and Protoss. If you count the Hybrid as an individual race then it is 4. All that on top of it only being a small sector of the Galaxy.
EDIT: Forgot the Primal Zerg exist, and they are distinct from normal Zerg, so make it 4 maybe 5.
Raynor and his boys as a large group went to the void alongside with some Dominion forces to help, it may not be public information, but the Dominion definitely knows that the Xel'Naga exist.
Star Craft marines: what it we get a bunch of prisoners, put a shit ton of drugs in them and give them some heavy space armor
Brainwash them and point them towards the enemy? Say less chief!
Resoc marines dont actually make up the majority of terran marine forces. Resoc is reserved for the worst of the worst, and because of that, most are either resistant to it and are sent to the icehouse to become Reapers, or they become Firebats due to a lingering love of things being on fire. On top of that, resoc can break during stressful environments and even when it doesnt, resoc'd personel tend to be cognitively handicapped to the point of making Ogryns look like Einstein. Seriously, despite how much the StarCraft community may joke about it, it wasnt as prevalent canonically.
Resocs were the majority of the Confederate’s forces, but you are correct about the Dominion.
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To be fair the implication of the comics and Mengsk’s multiplayer forces is Marines are resocs, but with a superior program. He just has a massive force of non-Marine infantry with better guns and better leadership. Like if you swapped Astartes and Guard.
To add to your comment: I remember reading a book that was from the POV of a neurally resocialized marine during the Brood War days. “Resoc” marines are basically soldiers who’ve had their memories rewritten and replaced with the memories of a veteran, highly trained soldier. They’re hardwired to be incapable of doing anything without an order from a commanding officer, which makes them useful for holding the line, but useless for everything else. It sort of explains why your marines have zero self-preservation in-game: if they’re on a move-command, they’ll die without retaliating or running away, and if ordered to attack, they’ll always fight to the last man. In the book I read, the Confederacy wasn’t just using criminals on death row for neurally resocialized marines. Spoilers for the story: >! they kidnapped civilians in frontier planets to replenish their ranks, removed their memories of being kidnapped, and replaced them with memories of being attacked by the Zerg. It took a ghost and a lot of psychic prodding before the main character really remembered what happened to him and his family. !< I don’t know what it’s like for the Dominion, but I do know that Raynor’s Raiders use a purely volunteer force, and the Dominion under Valerian probably has the same policy. Edited for spoiler tags.
Speed Of Darkness by Tracy Hickman? If so, that was a fun read back in the day.
Such a good book
There’s a comic where the families of protestors against Mengsk were subjected to resoc. The methods were better than the Confederacy, and graduating was to execute your protestor family that got you into it. In that case the Marine’s girlfriend.
Only 50%
I only learned of it from a book and boy was that a slap in the face about how much lore I wasn’t aware of at the time
Um... the entire Terran population are descendant from the worst and most violent criminals the Earth had to offer. >During this period, Doran Routhe became obsessed with founding colonies on the outlying worlds, convinced that the discovery of new minerals and alternate fuel sources would make him one of the most influential men on Earth. He used his political connections and personal fortune to secure fifty-six thousand prisoners that were slated for mass execution under the edict of Project Purification. [...] The forty thousand who were deemed viable were loaded onto four supercarriers loaded with enough supplies, rations and hardware to aid them once they arrived at their destination. That's why everyone in Starcraft has such terrible language, and is constantly spouting insults. It's a miracle they even survived and built a civilization without nuking themselves out of existence.
Uh, no. The UPL also jailed anyone developing psionic abilities, genetic modifications, recreational drug users or who had cybernetic implants. In other words, eugenics. You can think of the UPL as imperium of man adjacent. If you werent 100% pure, homo sapiens human, you were classed as a criminal by UPL. Your quote is from the original manual, which i own, and the previous section goes into detail about who were "criminals" in the eyes of the UPL.
[Yes and no](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/455/504/6b5.jpg). It must be understood in the context of Earth's development, which was basically that it was falling into absolute chaos. With socialism being defeated in the east, corporations were peddling all sorts of gene modification bullshit that was poisoning the genetic makeup of mankind. Genetic modification got out of control, leading to debilitating mutations, which were lowering both long term health and mental fitness. But corporations gonna corporation. All the while, the environment was being trashed and becoming hostile to life on the planet. Breakdown in quality of life led to economic systems failing all around the world, humanist factions popping up to fight against the corporations, and terrorism from both sides becoming commonplace. Basically, the world was going to hell, and there was a global revolutionary war between corporations and humanists. By some miracle, the humanists managed to gain enough political control to band nations together into forming the United Powers League, with the aim to fight back against the corporations, and this was the turning of the tide. And yes, the UPL was fascist as fuck, but there was clear evidence that genetic alteration had made the gene pool so muddled that the entire human species was in danger. They banned genetic modification, and culled ~2% of the population that was beyond genetic repair. They also banned cybernetic implants and psychoactive drugs because they seemed to have an effect in amplifying existing psychic potential. The people that were put on the colony ships were not innocent mutants, those had been culled. That's why of the 56k prisoners, only 40k were found viable. The passengers were violent criminals who refused to go without gene modification, or cybernetic tech, or psychoactive drugs. And yes, [I know that sounds like apologia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_prohibition#War_on_Drugs), but it has to be seen in context. Allowing psychoactive drugs meant needing to cull more percent of the semi-psychic population to keep them from [becoming a danger to themselves and others](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCOavjtpeuM&t=129s). (spoilers for Gen V)
The UPL brought back Socialism, or as they called it: enlightened socialism.
We just exiled the South to space.
I think you do forget that everyone in starcraft is descended from actual criminals since they were on the ark tp the koprulu sector. Even the original tech was provided cheaply from a criminal to criminals.
Pretty sure that's jus OG space marines.
WH40k marines: I say old bean, for the Emperor? Star Craft marines: Y'all ain't from 'round deez parts naw, is ya?
And in pro play they're possibly one of the most lethal early + mid game units when in medium quantities Scary shit.
That's just one more step than the Chem Dogs.
Twelve second life expectancy, fifteen if you give them a car door to use as a shield. Managed to usurp a god and install one of their own to replace him.
Hey just goes to show the shit they go up against is just as scary as them. There’s a good reason many Terran marines are psychotechnically imprinted with combat experience and instincts of expert veterans *in addition* to all the fancy computer-assist autosenses and such in their massive power armor suits, and are outfitted with gigantic hybrid Gauss rifles that can blow holes clean through tanks.
Don’t forget enough of them can shoot down a Battlecruiser in orbit somehow.
Tbf that one mostly just comes down to StarCraft being a relatively basic RTS with only ground and air “layers” of battle, and even then fairly little separation between the two.
Ah shit. I just realized sororitas do that. Am I the bad guys?
Either "Am I the bad guy" or "Are we the baddies." The second would be a quote of the meme.
Between penal troopers, arcoflagellants, penitent engines, and eversor assassins, 40k has a ton of stuff with that vibe. More if you include stuff outside the imperium.
Warhammer 40k marines: what if we get a bunch of children, put a shit ton of drugs in them and give them some heavy space armor
They would try to fuck half tyranid
In Warhammer the bugs eat the marines. In Starcraft the bugs still eat the marines. But sometimes the marines eat them back.
> But sometimes the marines eat them back. Really?
BBQ mutalisk wings were shown as part of an advertisement on the TV in wings of liberty.
Don’t know if they are being literal with their voice lines but the Firebats never shuts up about BBQ. “Ready to roast”.
‘How do you like your Zerg? Original, or extra crispy’ yeah, they definitely eat them
There's also a lot of "Feral" Zerg following the Overmind's Death, even more after Kerrigan got deinfested. There was even a big game hunt for Feral Zerg on Mar Sara after it was resettled between games.
Also, whole Kerrigan/Raynor pair Unless you are of camp that thinks that Jimmy offed himself in last cutscene and that's why he saw Sarah.
Oh shit I never thought of that maybe being what it was. Now I'm sad. Shit.
A lifetime alcoholic and stim user with history of self destructive and self sacrificing tendencies with open access to firearms, drinking alone in a bar that may or may not have been destroyed in the beginning of the second war (but two years is plenty time to rebuild it either way), watching all of this friends receiving their impossible "happily ever afters" across the galaxy. Remembering the echoes of the life he lived before the war with the squad he quite literally owed his life to multiple times and how they were slowly ripped to pieces before the first war even started. Only for the one survivor -his best friend, greatest ally, and who's sacrifices set Raynor into the life of a good man- to come back from the figurative dead. Then for that man to betray him at the height of their triumph, the moment they had saved the literal galaxy from its greatest evil and he was forced to choose between the love of his life and his greatest (human) friend. Then he literally walks out into the heavenly light with a pure human Kerrigan and was never seen leaving, or ever again, with only his badge found on the ground later by a local. Personally I think Kerrigan just slurped him up into whatever super Kahala psychic domain she now runs. Suicide just doesn't fit the writing of the game but it does for the books and would make for such a darker and more meaningful story. There could have been an amazing hit of writing about "Restless Dogs of War", survivors guilt, and loss of purpose. Now that it's over Raynor just can't let himself be the survivor when everyone else has died either for him or because of him. Believing that his hate and sorrow have no place in the new galaxy of a Unified Terran, Peaceful Zerg, and a resting Protoss he makes the decision to join Kerrigan and rest in his own "happily ever after" the only way he knows how, with violence.
Eh, he’s got three ghost buddies who’d refuse to let him die. Tassadar, Fenix, or Kerrigan. Roll a d4, a 1 is a reroll.
Tassadar was the last Xel'naga who empowered Kerrigan. So 1 or 2 is reroll.
Fuck, I skipped Legacy and only got the cliff note version. Good correction.
If I remember properly it wasn't actually tassadar and was using his voice and/or image as a way to get Arcturus to help
That's when Ouros used his voice and image in Legacy of the Void. I had forgotten about that little bit, thank you!
No problem!
It’s almost definitely not what happened so take comfort in that. Kerrigan is already space Jesus, you think she couldn’t get her boy toy out with her?
Bro is like "starcraft three is never coming out huh. And if it did, blizzards track record is not good rn." And made the obvious decision. Can't blame him.
Aka the ‘coping with blizzard not writing grimdark enough for them’ camp. Kerrigan is basically a god by the end of the series, you think she can’t send down an avatar to yoink her man into space magic heaven?
Introducing: Firebatman (Memes of Liberty)
I have never seen someone transition a one off algorithm blessing to a career as effectively as Grant did
Same, went from “huh, a starcraft 2 campaign challenge run? Well someone would get around to it eventually, let’s see to how it goes” to “oh my god this community made campaign mod is so funny i cant wait to see more!” Surprisingly smoothly.
And his trusty sidekick: the Ombudsman
And his trusty sidekick: the Ombudsman
https://preview.redd.it/3ki7y6zuhcad1.png?width=823&format=png&auto=webp&s=49ea38c02bf1f0e0ceb16f6894a5077d0f16aca1 Until the Adeptus Delicious churns out Administratus approved Finger lickin' Lictor, I have to give it to the Terrans. Best revenge against the enemy: eat em back.
if i remember correctly the warhammer marines also have an organ that lets them absorb memories off people they eat
Although what you say is indeed true, I have no interest in having a bug's memories, and am revulsed by that mere thought, that's why I have reported you to the Chaplain, and believe he'll do the right thing. The Emperor Protects.
Pre-Sanguinius Blood angels (revenant Legion) used this organ to pass personality and memories from high-end members to new recruits, their Legion master died like 6 times.
I think during the heresy both sides abused that with inductee, yoinking a kid off Terra streets, pumping him full of organs (skipping a couple because who needs acid spit) then blast his brain with psycho indoctrination (skipping anything that isn't needed, so just pure unadulterated VIOLENCE) and then finish it off with a meal composed of the guy that teenager is gonna replace, off to the front line you go
Yeah but do they slather it in barbecue sauce and slap it on the grill?
salamanders, hell yeah. space wolves, probs just chewing faces straight off people
So why the hell is there no entry for Bubba's Gas and Grub over Nocturne?
I mean, maybe not the tyranids, but I think that the Flesh Teares eat just about anyone else. On the same topic, apparently, guardsmen love eating squids. They think they're delicious
Did you mean squigs?
No way to consume squig without the potential for ork spore spreading
Pretty sure Warhammer Fantasy humans can eat Greenskins. Meanwhile, Ogres can eat Great Unclean Ones without getting sick and digest actual rocks.
Yep, typed it on my phone, and the autocorrect changed it without me realizing, lol!
I can't imagine them being anything *but* delicious.
I mean at least half of all squig breeds are cattle-adjacent anyway so I doubt it's impossible.
Throw them right into the field corpse-harvester.
Actually I think some 40k space marine chapters do eat their enemies, to gather information obviously.
Ah, that's the stuff Blizzard why did you have to fall apart?
They couldn't stop bullying people to the point of suicide or sexually harassing and assaulting employees, it's hard to imagine but some of the staff wanted to keep this and rest thought otherwise.
Don't forget about them stealing breastmilk
What?
A pregant woman working there had to pump breastmilk and store it in a fridge, dedicated for just that and someone had stolen a few bottles. Happened a couple of times if I recall.
Didn't know Homelander worked at Blizz. I kid but what the fuck
Reality is stranger than fiction and more depressing.
I think he was called Bobby Kotick at that time.
Yup he worked there. He was known as Bobby Kotic.....
While that's true it's not the reason they went to shit. Bobby Kotick is simply an incompetent businessman.
Yeah but there is no place in any industry for shit like that.
As grim as it sounds there is. The average consumer simply doesn't give a shit, especially considering the Blizzard sells games across the entire world and most consumers wouldn't have even heard of that. As much as some marketers swear by it social marketing is a whole bunch of bullshit. The social behaviour of a company barely has an effect on the consumer domestically let alone internationally unless that behaviour is a core identity of their brand(which isn't in Blizzard's case). Blizzard failed purely and only because it's a bad business. And the same goes for all of these woke companies that go out of business. Most of them are just bad businesses and their failure has nothing to do with their behaviours internally or externally.
As nice as it’d be for that to be it, that their moral and quality level decline went hand in hand, their best games were made during that period. Turns out bad people can make good video games.
Yeah but if you worked somewhere that breastmilk kept showing up in fridges, you'd give that some sip too. Right..?
Ok Homelander.
Starcraft 2v2 was making money. Just not enough money. Putting the game into maintenance mode and focusing all effort from it and Overwatch onto Diablo was seen as a better.
Hell yeah, StarCraft marines will always have a soft spot in my heart
Love their rectangle size guns
what's the size of a rectangle?
Long.
at least 3?
Maybe 4.
7 in some rare cases
Stop making things up, please. Noone's heard of a rectangle bigger than 5
I just can’t get into 40k Marines because I love Starcraft Marines so much. Its just a different flavor, but I can’t help but feel like its brown sugar vs splenda. Or to put it another way, The Simpsons early seasons vs Paradise PD/Brickleberry. Or King Of The Hill vs reality TV. Though to be fair the expanded universe of Starcraft also feels like that. The comics and novels have nothing on Amerigo.
I gotta replay both rts from these franchises
StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty campaign is free to play. Just sayin to all y'all who have never tried it.
There is also Mass Recall, a mod that lets you play SC 1 and Broodwar in SC2. Highly recommended with the caveat that it is a tad more difficult than the OG games
How active are all the TD and whatnot servers now? I used to love playing anything but StarCraft in StarCraft
Few months ago it was still easy to find and fill lobbies
There's still plenty of custom maps seems like, but also there is a co-op where you can choose and level up commanders (from characters like Raynor, Zeratul etc to some no names like merc captains etc). Each commander has his own separate, albeit limited rosters, with some unique troops, mechanics and stuff here and there. I didn't play it much myself, but my kids love that stuff
unfortunately I don’t have something I could play it on
There's a custom campaign manager for SC2 that has a lot of interesting stuff.
Oh shit for real ? ,
It's from Giant Grant Games, just Google "SC2 Custom campaign Giant Grant Games"
Man I discovered his channel by chance and I told myself that I HAD to replay StarCraft but , as with too many things , I got distracted by other fluff and never went around to it 😅
BRO SAME. IM STILL SUPPOSED TO CHECK OUT SC2 CUSTOM CAMPAIGNS!
IM STILL SUPPOSED TO INSTALL THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE
LMAO I NEVE FINISHED THE PROTOSS CAMPAIGN!
Giantgrantgames commissioned it and it lets people inject modded campaigns into the normal campaign client. This for example means a modded version of wings of Liberty can use the armory without having to be super jank.
You wanna a piece of me boy?
Man as space marine dude what a crossover
I know this is off-topic, but I've been thinking about Cocaine Bear being a Minor Chaos God of Animals who use Drugs. Just putting that out there.
Khorne or Slaanesh, Who’s his patron?
The bear is a female bear in the movie actually.
"How can you tell"
A mix of both, surprisingly enough. She's got the endless chase of higher sensation for Slaanesh, but the sheer ultraviolence is enough for Khorne to begrudgingly tolerate her working with his greatest enemy.
So, opposite of Horned Rat that is mix of Nurgle and Tzeentch?
Cocaine Bear is the GHR's main predator.
https://imgflip.com/i/8vryyg
Ssssssaaaaaaah yeah!
If they ever made a Warhammer style tabletop Starcraft my wallet would spontaneously combust.
Did you said combust? 
Games Workshop actually got the license to and made prototype minis. It just never went past that. In another universe we’d have Warcraft and Starcraft wargames by GW.
In StarCraft, human marines do drugs. in Warhammer, 40,000 aliens do the drugs. Therefore, the terran Marines and the Druhkari need to meet so they can exchange each other’s drugs. And we do have some Protoss who do drugs, perhaps they could share as well. Humans and aliens can all get high together
Tal'Darim would really like Commoragh. I'm pretty sure a cultural exchange would work more amicably than the T'au had with the Drukhari
Alarak would establish war zones on the drug planets so that he can get even more high off the blood-infused vapors.
A Warhammer 40,000/StarCraft crossover that leads to a drug war. I didn't know I needed this. Also we need to see Druhkari get high off terrazine. Judging by how it made Alarak think he should show some compassion and think all the bad guys are misunderstood, one could probably make a reality show out of everyone in 40K get high on it. Now that I type that, I really want to see Orks take some. No shenanigans are complete without Orks.
I wanna see Orks take terrazine. You've never seen a purple ork in the purple fog.
Orks on terrazine would either be the most wonderful thing in the universe or the most terrifying. Or both.
Me and the Boyz going on another Waaaagh! to the Taldarim homeworld to renew our stock of Terrazine:
So win or lose, the Waaaagh! will be a success, because any Waaaaaagh! that sees combat is a successful Waaaagh!... Is is a Waaaagh! if something keeps the Orks from getting to the fight?
Good question, what happens if the Ork ships are blown up in space by the Death Fleet, was it a successful Waaaagh or was the power of Alarak's Armada too strong?
Breaking Bad featuring a Haemonculus and an Aeldari pirate (a Jack Sparrow-esque one) selling refined and more potent Meth/Fentanyl to a new client, a xenos known as Protoss, and from its tribe known as the Tal'Darim. It's said that the drug get them so high they can see Slaanesh taking a shower in their palace.
I would watch this series.
Doesn't terrazine enhance psychic abilities? So, orks high on terrazine would have much stronger psychic gestalt field and some would turn into oddboyz.
It does. It doesn’t matter if the source of the psychic’s power is their energy or energy drawn from an outside source. it does sometimes have effects on sanity, but if we are talking about Orks the results probably wouldn’t be noticeable. Druhkari on the other hand, likely wouldn’t touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole.
It also elevates anyone. Stetmann was kinda left behind on the planet, and he created an army of robot Zerg that obey him like the Overmind. Not like simple AI following verbal commands, they’re connected to his mind and he even replicated Creep with nanites. He also tapped into a cosmic consciousness that he thinks speaks to him through the planet, possibly Kerrigan, and the two are collaborating on mutual goals to evolve the universe apparently. https://preview.redd.it/ever0gwc1dad1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=387ac6424f483db48d4db0c639149493461c7da9
All the more reason we need Orks to take the stuff.
"Wait, these people LIKE IT when I stab them?"
My Helldivers2 super destroyer is named Wings of liberty.
Callin' in the Hyperion.
i dont mind too much about the meme.....but man, did i dislike cocaine bear.
context for the batman panel I need it
[I recognized the art style so it was only a matter of time to find it](https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3402#comic)
You want a piece of meat, boy?
If they made a game about Space Marines and gave it gameplay similar to Space Marine, the would be cool. But no, they have to sexually harass employees and fuck up franchises.
Oh Starcraft 😔
Ahhh yas dats da stuff…
Hrrn, that's the stuff...
Ah the Oolitic Kidney. The *dumbest* organ a Marine has.
https://preview.redd.it/3l53uqeaodad1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2da652d458e300006e908ec9230238764e269e25
W-why?
It'd probably be more of a drip than a mist.
I have heard claims there is a fandom rivalry with Warhammer 40,000 and StarCraft, however, almost any time I see references to both IPs I see lots of people speak up who enjoy both.
I don't really know much about Star craft Marines but I doubt they have served for 10,000 years fighting against 10+ alien races simultaneously.
Sit down and let me tell you something. Look at the StarCraft sm. See his gun? That thing would be considered an AT in 40k. Not only that, it's a *rapid fire* AT. Almost every zero, bar zergling and every protoss can easily shrug *bursts* of this gun. Brother-captain Civilkil from the order of Child Eaters can roll in with his glorified grenade launcher thinking it's sweet in this corner of Galaxy, only to realize that none of his weapon can even scratch the baseline enemy units. Nothing, bar custodes will stand a chance against what SC has to offer. Chance. Because Lord Poemwritter over there can run around, until he finds out that that scally mammoth over yander can shrug of SC level of AT and has regeneration so strong, it seemingly can revive after death.
That says nothing about how old the Star craft Marines live to be in the Star craft universe or how many races they fight. My ignorant statement is an invitation to ask you for those statistics, not how much damage Star craft technology can do. From what I can sumize based on comments here, Star Craft Marines are just prisoners as guardsmen in power armor with drugs.
Some are. But it is a rarity, rather than rule. Most are volunteers, who serve like in any other army. They are injected not with drugs, but with stimulants, like adrenaline and such. People take fanon over canon.
Okay, so then do you know from a lore perspective how long they live for and how many alien species they actually interact with?
Terran Confederation? Couple centuries. They are descendants of Earth empire, that is either collapsing or collapsed. So far they have met only 2 alien species(technically 3)
I mean the Confederacy already collapsed, but we know that in Canon lore that the UED sent ships over with majorly worse tech than their normal equipment in fear of the Confederates (now Dominion) getting it and using it. One also must remember that they technically met 3 (maybe 4) species in the games at least, being the Xel'Naga, Zerg and Protoss. If you count the Hybrid as an individual race then it is 4. All that on top of it only being a small sector of the Galaxy. EDIT: Forgot the Primal Zerg exist, and they are distinct from normal Zerg, so make it 4 maybe 5.
So that's pretty much nothing in scale to Warhammer's Space Marine life expectancy and number of alien threats they encounter
Sure, but that just means the IoM is older.
Yeah, the Dominion is like at max 30 years old at the end of SC2, probably much, MUCH younger.
2 aliens and themselves
Realistically 4 aliens, since people forget Xel'Naga exist, 5 if you count the Hybrid although they are artificial.
But does the xelnaga count I mean terra s don't attack them directly
Raynor and his boys as a large group went to the void alongside with some Dominion forces to help, it may not be public information, but the Dominion definitely knows that the Xel'Naga exist.
Yeah shit forgot about the Epilog
8mm is what you call AT? I feel sorry for your wife
Have you ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton?
I take it you haven't heard of Robert Mainhardt Biehl.
I didn't.
It's like they make a 8mm spike go really really fast
Nothing a bolter shell doesn't do. And that spike doesn't even detonate after penetration, sad
They have different variants