User blog comment:Hawki/Loving the Skin You're In/@comment-250398-20180808132637

On the Golden Age: I actually really liked it as a plot thread. We knew from Evolution that the protoss weren't in a state of happily ever after and rebuilding was hard, but I don't think it's exactly the same conflict. This one feels like a realistic evolution of a group where the power dynamic used to have an oppressed class, and now the two are considered to be equals. But there was always that past of hunting the Nerazim, a past the Templar are now trying to have some twisted ideal image of, while stepping around things like the Judicators. It's not done out of malice for the Nerazim, like tribal tensions of the past, but it's simply a movement that is offensive to the Nerazim as many remember that it's an era which wasn't kind of them.

I think the other thing I like about it is it isn't a "faction" or even a political movement that wants anything, it's just an artistic and cultural movement. Makes it feel very real in an RTS universe where every minor grievance has to be communicated through something becoming a faction. I don't think this will turn up anywhere as a faction or anything, I think it's just one of the more modern tensions they're having, and not necessarily the same one, and the sort of tensions you can't just remove overnight, especially since the Khalai have pride in their past mixed with a need to look toward the future.

I agree on Umoja, I think they're limited by the fact they have to use multiplayer units, but it felt rather lacking on the blurbs. At the very least there could have been more connection to past Umojan actions like have the Thor be their own engineered version from the Odin from their operations in Collateral damage.

For Simulants, I just wish we got more. They're interesting but we don't even know if it was a Dominion or Umojan project or not. While I think the base concept is a little silly and I hope they don't get top billing in a main story or anything, it'd be cool to see a Frontline-style side story explaining their origins and fate similar to Gestalt Zero.