User:PsiSeveredHead/Archive

Q&A
Karune. 2007-07-23. StarCraft II Q&A - Karune Briefings. StarCraft II General Discussion Forums. Accessed 2007-09-06.

Mothership. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2007-09-06.

Basic timeline
This isn't canon, but I guess it's close.


 * ~1450: Raszagal is born, based on her age (1045) in Brood War (about year 2500). Within a hundred years, the Rogue Templar are banished from Aiur. A brief civil war on Aiur breaks out (noted in Maps of the Month).


 * 1998: StarCraft the game is created. Dr. Frederica Wallis became aware of this after visiting Braxis. (This is actually mentioned in the Maps of the Month, July 1999.)


 * ~2200: Terran science, especially involving genetic engineering and cybernetics, explodes. This creates the conditions for civil war between corporate factions (which are in favor of the new technology) and "humanist" and religious factions.


 * 2229: The United Powers League is formed by the humanist faction, which won the war, controlling 93% of Earth's population. The UPL ends racial separation, destroys religions, and enforces English as the sole language. It also unleashes Project Purification to destroy its enemies, which include people with genetic mutations; 400 million people are killed and many others imprisoned. Project Purification may have lasted until ~2300.


 * ~2270: The UPL begins exploring space using warp travel and cryogenics; about forty years after the foundation of the UPL the Earth has colonized other planets within the solar system. Doran Routhe works on his colonization project, using prisoners of the Purification, four deep sleeper ships, and ATLAS. The project goes awry.


 * ~2300: The population of Earth reaches 23 billion. Routhe's prisoners emerge in the Koprulu Sector. The Protoss detect the emergence of the Terrans and watch silently "for two hundred years".


 * ~2440: The Zerg discover humanity. It takes the Zerg Swarm sixty years to reach the Koprulu Sector.


 * ~2360: The colonists of Tarsonis develop second-generation subwarp engines after over sixty years and discover Umoja and Moria nearby.


 * ~2485-2490: The Terran Confederacy defeats the Kel-Morian Combine in the Guild Wars, which takes four years. (Dated from the intro of "Rebel Yell".)


 * ~2492: The Terran Confederacy discovers xenomorphs on or near Fringe Worlds.


 * ~2497: The Confederacy destroys Korhal IV with a lot of nukes. Mengsk establishes the Sons of Korhal; in one of his first missions, he rescues Sarah Kerrigan, an amnesiac Ghost, from a Confederate facility on Vyctor 5, and his forces also kill a number of strange xenomorphs in the facility.

(Dated from Mengsk's comments in the StarCraft Episode I mission the Jacobs Installation, which occurred in late 2499, when Mengsk said he saw Zerg in a Confederate installation "more than a year ago".)


 * 2499 (December 8th): Protoss destroy Chau Sara.


 * 2499 (December 12th): The game of StarCraft starts on Mar Sara.


 * ~2499: The UPL, somehow witnessing the alien attacks, reforms into the United Earth Directorate. It studies the Protoss and Zerg "for months" and eventually launches an Expeditionary Force.


 * ~2500-2501: StarCraft: Brood War ends. (Kerrigan at the www.blizzard.com/broodwar website have gained a year in age from her listing in the original StarCraft manual; Fenix gained two and Zeratul gained none.)


 * Late 2502: Nova kills Cliff Nadaner as part of her graduation mission.


 * 2505: StarCraft: Ghost supposed to start, four years after the Brood War. Since Ghost has not been released (and never may be) this is still subject to change.

Terran Military Psychology Mods
Aggression Inhibitors - present in Marines and Ghosts (probably Firebats too), seems to prevent troopers from murdering their superiors.

Neural resocialization - involves cybertechnology (Liberty's Crusade) and the process can "suppress" emotionally charged memories, covering them with "chocolate-coated" memories (Firstborn). This can change the victim's personality (Liberty's Crusade, Firstborn). Doctors program the resoc to find and remove certain memories; this process is painful (Firstborn). Until fairly recently, the process was physically obvious (Liberty's Crusade).

In Speed of Darkness, they used "resoc tanks" instead, which can add training.

Resoc means "and order is an order" (Firstborn), even when not coming from military personnel (Liberty's Crusade), and this is especially true when a Marine is stimmed (liberty's Crusade).

Terrans believe the process is strong, but the Protoss mystic Zamara knows better (Firstborn).

Ref of Swedish Units
Karune. 2007-07-18. New swedish magazine SC2 scans Battle.net StarCraft General Discussion Forum. Accessed 2007-07-18.

Leaks coming fast and furious
Terran units graphics - http://bloggernews.media.daum.net/news/226976

Terran unit info - http://bloggernews.media.daum.net/news/226975

Terran building info - http://bloggernews.media.daum.net/news/226974

New units introduced:

Banshee - cloakable ground bomber (fires missile volley)

Cobra - hovering unit with two railguns.

Also Vikings start as land units and must upgrade to transform into air units. The ground variant can only attack ground units.

Reapers can lay mines (different from spider mines).

The Thor is built from an SCV (huh?) and has a powerful siege weapon. It is slow and vulnerable to hit and run attacks.

New buildings introduced:

Radar Dome - upgrade of sensor dome?

BlizzCon Ref'ing
"James Raynor"

"Zeratul!"

"I bring tidings of doom. The Xel'Naga return, the cycle nears its end, the artifacts are the key."

"Key to what?"

"To the end of all things."

Movie/Unit Ref'ing
Protoss Units

Ghost Movie

Novels



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Enslavers
Branch: 2B and 3 B or 3A.

Voice Actors
Casting of StarCraft. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.

Casting of StarCraft: Brood War. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.

Other Sources








C-20 Rifle
The C-20A Canister Rifle is one of the weapons featured in StarCraft: Ghost. The C-20A replaces the C-10 and is the standard issue weapon for Ghosts. It has three main functions; sniper, grenade launcher and assault rifle.
 * Sniper Mode: By attaching a scope, the C-20A effectively becomes a sniper rifle. It gives info on the target such as health, range and whether they can be locked down.
 * Assault Rifle Mode: Effective at close range, it emits little sound and has 24 bullets to a magazine. Not to be confused with the AGR.
 * Grenade Launcher: The C-20A, when set to this mode, can fire a variety of grenades;
 * EMP Grenade: Disables enemy shields.
 * Flash Grenade: Used for stunning enemies.
 * Hellfire Grenade: Breaks up into numerous pieces that track heat sources and then explode.
 * Irradiate Grenade: Emits powerful radiation that is extremely deadly to living organisms.
 * Lockdown Grenade: Disable mechanical units and structures. Not to be confused with the E-11 Lockdown Device.
 * Sticky Grenade: 'Sticks' to enemies or surfaces before detonating.

Succubus Hoax
Quote: "While little has been announced about changes to the Zerg and Terran forces, Blizzard has dished on a couple of changes. Two new Zerg units are the Nydus Worm, an underground transport system, and Succubus, which can "Infect" other organic beings before exploding them."

Tech Tree




Game characters needing lots of work
Down to the minor characters now
 * Tom Kazansky
 * Cerberus (Commander)
 * Danimoth
 * Magellan
 * War Bringer
 * Danimoth

Novel Characters

 * Ardo Melnikov - can move most Speed of Darkness information there. Also Cutter, Jon Littleton and L. Z. Breanne?
 * Lt. Deke Cavez, Lt. Abernathy and Sgt. Mannix from Queen of Blades
 * Somo Hung, Sons of Korhal - can move most Uprising information there.
 * Amanda Haley - can move most StarCraft: Hybrid information there
 * Andre Madrid - can move most StarCraft: Revelations information there


 * Mitch Tanner; minor NPC from Uprising
 * Forest Keel; NPC from Uprising
 * Sela Brock; as above
 * Tibbs; as above (pointless?)

Herobox Template needed for...
All regular game heroes that show up in the game (eg Jim Raynor, Tassadar, etc)

Fenix (twice for Dragoons; stats in StarCraft and True Colors.)

Bud Morris.

Taldarin.

Mojo.

Images
http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/8051/8051_46b677c4bac31.jpg - salvage.

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/8052/8052_46b67aadf32e3.jpg - autocast interceptors.

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/8052/8052_46b67aafcf0db.jpg - 400 damage.

Blocking the spammer
Here's the message I got:


 * Hi, yes, they look like the same person. You could try blocking 76.247.222.101 and 69.234.0.0/16 - although I wouldn't keep the second blocked for too long, it's a common IP -- sannse@Wikia (talk) 21:45, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Potential other IPs: 159.83.4.150
 * 76.213.157.97
 * 64.58.144.10

Zerg to be Unveiled in South Korea?
An announcement and Zerg unit demonstration is speculated to occur on March 10, 2008 in South Korea at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel, along with an interview with Frank Pearce.

StarCraft II Reaches Beta?
StarCraft II was depicted as having reached the beta phase at the Game Developers Conference on February 20, 2008.

It appears to have reached beta stage as of February 2008.