User blog comment:Hawki/Loving the Skin You're In/@comment-31277203-20180808134027

For me, I saw the Umojan skins as a sleek and smooth type, which matches up nicely with the lore because the Umojans are supposed to be technologically advanced (just small in number). There will obviously be some recklessness to it all, but the Umojans aren't perfect, can't blame them for that. The whole reaper corps for the Umojans seem to imply they didn't want to start things off with criminals like the Dominion did, which would explain why it took them so long before they got theirs.

On the zerg side, the Simulant project is nothing really new. There's been experiments on the zerg for years, and the zerg-bots that existed before the Simulant project was a way to prepare people for the real thing. I see this project as them trying to take this to the next level, only to have it backfire on them.

The golden age skins on the protoss end only showed that Evolution already told us: there's plenty amongst the Khalai people who aren't happy with the loss of the Khala. And despite the Daelaam is to include the Khalai, Nerazim, Purifiers, and Tal'darim (those that stayed on Aiur), it's obvious the Khalai still have a sense of superiority over the other factions. If you look at the history books, this is hardly anything new. Even after Germany's defeat in 1945, the occupying forces from both the East and West quickly got the impression that the Germans still saw themselves as a master race. For the Russians especially, they quickly saw the Germans still had that superiority flare over the Slavs.

It's no different with the protoss here, and in that regard you can argue they haven't really learned as much as people think. In the end there's still too many amongst the Khalai who regard themselves superior to the Nerazim (just look at the lore on the stalker skin).