The Protoss on the ship. "Ya know, we should send in our warriors in small groups of 3 or 4 troops." "Should we activate all units in stasis at once?" "Na, no need."
She requires raw essence to do so. Well, she could be, in a sense, the most powerful, but... Mostly it's for Game Balance. Besides, it doesn't make sense for her to eat minerals and poop babies with it... That doesn't make sense
@@TrueBeliever04 yeah, the beginning of the battle for the Amerigo in SC1 shows a corridor which resembles one of Alien's Nostromo, it's almost copy-pasted. Also the way Hydralisks later assault the Marine is visually identical to how Aliens assaulted them in the Cameron's sequel.
@@deceiver157 Protoss mission 6 from Starcraft 1 Into the Darkness where you play as Tassadar searching Zeratul in infested installation gives me the same vibes. You even encounter marine survivors that join you and many times they say "Did you hear that?" and in a second Zerg or Infested Terran jumps on you.
Zerg don't really speak any languaje, like protoss they have some telepaty network called swarm mind. Primal zerg have similar means to talk each other but not at the same level.
Poor Niadra got straight up ghosted by Kerrigan and never brought up again. I wonder what she would've been up to after she fulfilled her only purpose.
in the lore, kerrigan never actually told niadra to stop, just the order "Kill all the protoss". So, niadra is still out there killing protoss wherever possible/
She's still killing Protoss, even magaed to kill Urun, a high ranking Templar who was a tribe head. However, she's acting rogue and not respecting the peace treaties that were in place and stated she does not serve Zagara. Since Zagara is the only broodmother who was personally taught and evolved by Kerrigan to become a leader of the Swarm. Many broodmothers do not have the same intellect as she does and are mainly only focused on whatever directive they were given. Niadra is one of these Broodmothers.Which is why she's still killing Protoss.
The one flaw about this mission that stood out to me, I think immediately, is: Why would the Protoss not have guards wherever they warped in somebody? If there had been a single zealot where they warped the female Protoss back in, the mission would have been over after 5 seconds. That larva had great plot armour.
Because u can only warp in ur own ppl, they can't warp in terrans, taldarim or zerg, only THEIR own protoss brethren. There is almost 0 need for guards to monitor WHO is being warped in. The better question would be as to why nobody met her due to her prolonged absence and check if she were injured or not
I think the most strange part is that Kerrigan in this semi human form could just easily create such zerg creature. Maybe it would have some sense after becoming a complete zerg again.
Funny, how we spent the entire WOL campaign trying to save Kerrigan, after being told that she was turned into a monster. And in HoTS, we found out that she was a monster all along, in human or zerg form.
yep. She was a monster when she was part of the Ghost program working for the confederacy until Arcturus Mengsk saved her...only to betray her to the zerg, becoming an even bigger monster.
So even after the events of the Protoss Campaign and the end of Kerrigains story, there is still a Protoss Ghostship floating around in the waste emptyness of space, full of Zerg who never got the memo that the war is over and are still out to kill and consume... Thats going to be awkward when at some point they are found...
That happens in some comic or novel. From what I remember from the wiki, the swarm queen has been responsible for the death of the Admiral Urun (of the protoss) and, following some events, that has stopped the collaboration between the terran dominion and the protoss empire. Abathur has also conspired against Zagara rule because she was actually respecting peace treaties, but Abathur wanted to go to the Overmind way once again. Because he is so useful, she has kept him but more like a forced worker than a major zerg of the Swarm. Huh, peace... as Kerrigan said here. Not even couting the Earth forces absent from SC2, the insurrection of Nova and Alarak's agenda, plus the fact Dehaka and the primal zergs exists, it seems Blizzard has planned everything to make another Starcraft game if they want.
@@garroshhellscream594 Wait is this real? Can you point me? Or as in tell me what I should put into the search bar in order to more effectively find this info?
The first time I played this mission I thought this plot line would come back later. "The Queen of Blades has given us one purpose: To destroy the Protoss! We will be prepared, we will serve again". Did the writers just forget?
If you move your units further before you have them attack, they will surround the enemy better any you won't have to deal with units having to path around each other.
@@NeilsonBuntowa Actually, in the books, Zagara and Abathur fight eachother over the Xel'Naga DNA, which Abathur wishes to implement into the Swarm to create perfected beings, while Zagara remains loyal to Kerrigan and tries to maintain peace with the other races following her final wish.
"The QoB has given me one purpose : To destroy the Protoss. We will be prepared, we will serve again" lol that's cute. Your QoB was trying her best not to confronting Artanis' Golden Armada, else she and her army will be wiped in seconds. And seriously tho, Lasarra was right, there's no need to destroy the Protoss Ship anyway. All she need to do is rally forces, and leave before the Golden Armada arrive. Destroying one whole vessel would just cause the Armada to notice that one of their ship is missing.
It makes a bit more sense if you do the Kaldir mission before Char. If you do Char first, the Terran evacuees ensure that the galaxy knows about Kerrigan; the last Kaldir mission becomes pointless, because the Golden Armada would never reach her before she left, even though they know she's gone Zerg-y again. But if you do the Kaldir mission first, no one knows that Kerrigan has taken up with the Zerg again. Letting the ship escape would reveal to the Protoss, and soon to the galaxy at large, that the Queen of Blades had returned. She doesn't have the numbers to survive a concentrated attack at that point. This delays the revelation until at least the second mission of Char, where she's already taken back a large portion of the Swarm, and all of the billions of Zerg on Char. As for Niadra... yeah, she'd be squashed like the bug-reptile-thing she is. But she realized how weak she was; after all, her first lessons from Kerrigan were about hiding and slowly developing strength. That's why in the comics, she starts trying to develop a larger army rather than just rushing off to take them out right away.
Basically, Kerrigan cut off all communication from Kaldir to Shakuras. If you were Artanis, and one of your entire legion sent to colonize a planet and wipe out the Zerg suddenly gone missing, would you sit still and let it go ? The Protoss would know about Kerrigan's deed sooner or later, there's really no point in destroying that Protoss ship. All Kerrigan had to do was much simpler : Make a quick getaway before the Golden Armada arrive. She's already got what she wanted : The Essence for her Swarm. Killing all the Protoss there would've enraged Artanis even more. And should Artanis unleash the full might of the Armada on her, even the Primal QoB would be no match. Remember, Mengsk, a mere Terran, gave Kerrigan, Jim and even the Ex-Vice Admiral Stukov one hell of a battle on Korhal ( Kerrigan even admitted that it was the toughest battle she has ever had to participate in up to that point ). Later in LotV we know that the full Dominion military might crumbled before the corrupted Golden Armada. But heck no, the QoB just had to kill them because she could.
+Hoàng Ân Phan Lê Based on how long it took them to send a message to Shakuras, there weren't in constant communication with their home; it would likely have taken at least days for any significant upset or investigation to occur, more time to actually investigate the colony, and more to process the information to take what knowledge they could of the Queen of Blades's current forces and abilities before actually starting to hunt for her. With immediate retaliation no longer an option, response is slower and more thorough. And while they would no about her actions sooner or later, the key word there is OR. The difference of a few days could make the difference between her managing to get the vital forces she needed on Char and her being wiped out in a decisive Protoss counterattack. And... honestly, there isn't enough distinction between "kill everyone" and "kill everyone except for one ship", especially when that ship is just going to disappear and the Protoss won't know what she did to take it out. Artanis would be murderously angry either way, and taking her out would have been an equal priority either way. But this way, the response is delayed. Finally, while Korhal did prove to be a difficult battle, remember that Kerrigan directed all the Broodmothers she brought with her to stay in orbit to prevent interference from the mass recall of all Dominion forces; only her own Brood, Zagara's, Dehaka's pack, and Stukov's forces were actually part of the invasion. And Char showed that some Broodmothers were reluctant to rejoin her, and that she hadn't exactly expected there to be real difficulties in retaking her position as Queen of Blades; it's likely that she expected to have regained control over a larger part of the Swarm than she did. Considering how many broods went feral without her leadership, there's no way to even know how much of the Swarm she hadn't managed to recapture by that point.
y'know it would've been interesting to see a constantly evolving Niadra in Coop, but now that they added Dehaka who constantly evolves and grows bigger i think the chances for Niadra as a commander are slim
Be kinda like a hero abathur type. Gaining essense but only to access more units, improve Niadara and whatnot. It would be similar.. reminds me of Zertaul now.
You know the player is bad at SC when he first attacked the photon cannon then stopped midway and attacked the probe AFTER the probe warped a structure, then attacked the cannon back then attacked the warping structure INSTEAD of the pylon.
Blizzard literally forget her story in the end ! Niadra didn't show up at the end of Swarm or Legacy ! Or did she died unscreen that i didn't know about ?
well they could not have dragged the mission for longer or risked killing the flow. but it is reasonable to asume that a brood mother larva with plenty of biomass at her disposal would be able to grow quite fast, and that we don't actually see her create her brood on the ship, at first she just runs around with a couple of zergs and infested creatures, which is still managable as we see kerigan acheive much the same results with larger armies before her transformation. she had to take a bit of time to actually develop and fully infest the ship, as here she was rushing to kill the protoss before they could evacuate
It's so dumb. There is no way that plan would turn out any good unless that protoss ship is deserted... come on... Also 7:25 "The zerg have infiltrated our vessel, warriors destroy them", expected some actual warriors to show up...
starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Niadra_Brood Niadra never heard Kerrigan again, but she still remembered her queen's orders "eliminate the protoss". Check that link guys. At least we know where she is now.
I can see Kerrigan in Starcraft 1 and the Human campaign of Starcraft 2 doing this but isn't Kerrigan supposed to be on the path to redemption in the Zerg campaign and beyond? Doing what she did here contradicts this idea!!
She _steps_ onto the path of redemption during the Zerg campaign, but not in the beginning. At the start, she clearly has no interest in redemption until she murders the fuck out of Mengsk. And that's before even the first mission. After Jim "dies", she goes on the warpath. She's angry, filled with hate, and willing to do absolutely anything if that's what it takes to get her revenge. It makes most sense if Kaldir is the first of the planets that you choose to go to. Following Char, she starts getting softer. Warfield reminds her about Raynor, and she's ashamed enough to let the remaining Terrans flee. This is also where she starts getting more renegade Broodmothers into the reborn Swarm, but she only assigns them to attack planets of military value, rather than centers of population--which would have been beneficial to the Zerg and have provided them with vast quantities of biomass for increasing their numbers. She also starts interacting with _people_ here. Izsha was basically a yes-man; Abathur doesn't give a crap about anything but evolving the swarm. But then she takes Zagara on as some sort of apprentice (as Kerrigan points out a few times when you click on her over the course of the game, she's willing to accept the consequences of what she did as long as she gets her revenge first. She's pretty clearly grooming Zagara to take over the Swarm after her), meets Stukov (who she doesn't even decide to kill, despite him only having been an ally of convenience and having actually been an enemy in the past) as well as Dehaka. People who she develops a... if not friendship, then a working relationship with, "humanizing" her more. Upon finding out about Raynor's survival, she becomes even more aware of moral matters, culminating in her many concessions to Valerian despite the difficulties it would impose on her.
(Right after this mission) ==== "Does killing the Protoss bring you no joy, my Queen?" "I might kill a lot of enemies, hut that doesn't mean I enjoy it." "Even Arcturus Mengsk, my Queen?" "Shut it, Izsha." =====
@@OrionoftheStar if she was so willing to accept the consequences of her actions after she gets her revenge, why the heck does she just stick around to become xel'naga? She'd earned death a million times over by then.
I dislike how we basically create a WHOLE NEW BROOD in this mission, and then we never see it again!!!!! Did the Colony Ship ever reach its pre-set destination or did it keep traveling at Warp Speed, events the point of leaving the MilkyWay Galaxy Entirely!???? For that matter, HOW BIG is the Korprulu Sector!?!?! There are A LOT of planets in it!!! The only planets confirmed NOT to be in it are Earth and Zeras!! And does the UED possess more planets than just Earth!?!??
Kinda. But he helped her. When he found her, she had been ravaged by zerglings. Torn apart and bones broken, only to be put back together in a stronger, chitinous form.
When you watch cinematic of 3-5 Protoss slaughtering hundreds of Zerg and then you play the campaign and the Protoss finally get there arse handed to them
That was one of my favorite missions in the HOTS. Can anyone tell me what happened to Niadra and her brood? I don't remember her reappearing in the game.
this is what Starcraft should be all about. no jolly cooperation between the races, no friendship is magic bullshit! only death and destruction, the strongest fucking survives whether it is evil or not.
Not really. The story of StarCraft 1 culminated with the high Templar and dark Templar and the Terrans coming together to defeat a common enemy, the Overmind. The story of Brood War centered around the Terrans and Protoss trying to survive against the UED and the Zerg.
WRONG. not terrans, only jim raynor and his band helped the Protoss. protoss/humans/zerg were hostile to each other to the bitter end. factions between those races were also hostile to each other. UED was hostile to every other alien race and the terrans.(some terrans sided with the UED) TERRANS were hostile to every other alien race including other terrans and UED. ZERG were hostile to every other race and other broods PROTOSS were neutral to terrans but hostile to ZERG and UED(plus some terran factions). ( there were small protoss factions, the khalai/nerazim were hostile to) Koprulu sector was no different that Syria today, everyone fighting for their interests.
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PS. That was a very... unusual... mission...
+CJake3 Kind of disturbing what one Larva, created in an instant, can do.
Poor abathur :(
You know you can attack multiple units at once yeah?
One larva warped into a virtually unguarded zoo full of biomass*
With no post-warp inspections*
Or security cameras*
Do you play your shit on easy or what?
And your logo is a fucking fly in the ointment
The Protoss on the ship. "Ya know, we should send in our warriors in small groups of 3 or 4 troops." "Should we activate all units in stasis at once?" "Na, no need."
Lets warp Lasarra up and never look after her...
Templar should we not A move with all our forces?
Boxfortress you guys seem like uh nooks in starcraft it is making me cringe
oh thier using the vents, lets get a bunch of centuries to continously wall them off
Well the moment the protoss would identify some zergs as a major threat to activate all units at once, it would have been too late, wouldnt it?
Niandra secretly the most powerful Zerg? Doesn't need Minerals to craft units
She requires raw essence to do so. Well, she could be, in a sense, the most powerful, but...
Mostly it's for Game Balance. Besides, it doesn't make sense for her to eat minerals and poop babies with it... That doesn't make sense
She's loyal too. Even though lost contact with her queen,she still carry on her order
@@kiloklavdi1185 But Blizzard forget her...
She appears in the comic
It's her ability as Brood mother
This was the coolest mission in the whole trilogy. THIS was what it felt like to command the Swarm.
Right? I always had echoes of Alien with this mission. It was and still is fairly unique out of all the other missions in Heart of the Swarm.
@@sethraelthebard5459 Yeah, I think that this and one of the cinematic of the original Starcraft are pretty clear references to Alien.
@@TrueBeliever04 yeah, the beginning of the battle for the Amerigo in SC1 shows a corridor which resembles one of Alien's Nostromo, it's almost copy-pasted. Also the way Hydralisks later assault the Marine is visually identical to how Aliens assaulted them in the Cameron's sequel.
@@deceiver157 Protoss mission 6 from Starcraft 1 Into the Darkness where you play as Tassadar searching Zeratul in infested installation gives me the same vibes. You even encounter marine survivors that join you and many times they say "Did you hear that?" and in a second Zerg or Infested Terran jumps on you.
The poor Protoss lady though.
turning into creepy beautiful zerg... how weird
i smell simp
@@lowella8812 technicaly she turn into food wasnt she?
10 seconds old and already speaks fluent English. Damn, Niadra.
Zerg don't really speak any languaje, like protoss they have some telepaty network called swarm mind. Primal zerg have similar means to talk each other but not at the same level.
r/wooooooooooosh
@@eurtz876 Wait what he said was a joke?
Cookie Gamer He’s just using it wrong
Zerg is all instinct.biological programming...their evolution.
Poor Niadra got straight up ghosted by Kerrigan and never brought up again. I wonder what she would've been up to after she fulfilled her only purpose.
in the lore, kerrigan never actually told niadra to stop, just the order "Kill all the protoss". So, niadra is still out there killing protoss wherever possible/
ghosted
I thought she was gonna go back for the final battle but didn't show up :(
She's still killing Protoss, even magaed to kill Urun, a high ranking Templar who was a tribe head.
However, she's acting rogue and not respecting the peace treaties that were in place and stated she does not serve Zagara. Since Zagara is the only broodmother who was personally taught and evolved by Kerrigan to become a leader of the Swarm. Many broodmothers do not have the same intellect as she does and are mainly only focused on whatever directive they were given. Niadra is one of these Broodmothers.Which is why she's still killing Protoss.
Lasarra’s “do not warp me in, Templar!” is one of the best line deliveries in the game
Dat Larva tho
Light - Biological - *HEROIC* xD
I mean it says Larvae have low ass hp, but it takes forever to kill one.
I'm pretty sure it's quicker to kill an Ultralisk than a Larva.
A larva is most. Armored ani.....alien as zerg
and the 'evolve' into units with less armor
The in game reason is, yes, larvae have low health but obscene armor
The one flaw about this mission that stood out to me, I think immediately, is:
Why would the Protoss not have guards wherever they warped in somebody? If there had been a single zealot where they warped the female Protoss back in, the mission would have been over after 5 seconds.
That larva had great plot armour.
Apparently Sentinel's cannot scan through steam vents.
Because u can only warp in ur own ppl, they can't warp in terrans, taldarim or zerg, only THEIR own protoss brethren. There is almost 0 need for guards to monitor WHO is being warped in.
The better question would be as to why nobody met her due to her prolonged absence and check if she were injured or not
I think the most strange part is that Kerrigan in this semi human form could just easily create such zerg creature. Maybe it would have some sense after becoming a complete zerg again.
I think in a conversation with Abathur she said that she can make her own zerg. I can't remember when tho
The one that cause their death is a terran infested by zerg but with human intelligence
Kerrigan throughout the whole mission was like "Go Niadra, you're our only hope" then ghosts Niadra the moment she got what she wanted.
Imagine waking up from stasis surrounded by zerglings
Kinda sound's like every Monday when you have to get up early but you don't want to and then comes your mother father or twin brother to wake you up
Isn't it weird that they need pylons inside their own ship? Isn't the whole ship just a force field?😂
basically... starcraft logic
TheCommentGuy well😂😂
Lol seriously why the protoss cannot defend them selves???....they have plasma shield arent they???
You must craft additional pylons!
Johari Osman you can only defeat a protoss if you had a lot of health
Nice nod to Ash from Alien when the sentry detects the intruder and says, "Priority one. All other priorities rescinded."
I totally remember this mission. From what I remember, it was one of the best and most enjoyable missions in the whole campaign.
Funny, how we spent the entire WOL campaign trying to save Kerrigan, after being told that she was turned into a monster.
And in HoTS, we found out that she was a monster all along, in human or zerg form.
yep. She was a monster when she was part of the Ghost program working for the confederacy until Arcturus Mengsk saved her...only to betray her to the zerg, becoming an even bigger monster.
@@tidan4575
Well Kerrigan killed Arcturus family, he pretended to have forgiven her
So even after the events of the Protoss Campaign and the end of Kerrigains story, there is still a Protoss Ghostship floating around in the waste emptyness of space, full of Zerg who never got the memo that the war is over and are still out to kill and consume...
Thats going to be awkward when at some point they are found...
In 40th millenium we call ship like that the space hulk.
I think we see this ship again in the comics
That happens in some comic or novel. From what I remember from the wiki, the swarm queen has been responsible for the death of the Admiral Urun (of the protoss) and, following some events, that has stopped the collaboration between the terran dominion and the protoss empire. Abathur has also conspired against Zagara rule because she was actually respecting peace treaties, but Abathur wanted to go to the Overmind way once again. Because he is so useful, she has kept him but more like a forced worker than a major zerg of the Swarm.
Huh, peace... as Kerrigan said here.
Not even couting the Earth forces absent from SC2, the insurrection of Nova and Alarak's agenda, plus the fact Dehaka and the primal zergs exists, it seems Blizzard has planned everything to make another Starcraft game if they want.
@@garroshhellscream594 - that's bad plot.
@@garroshhellscream594 Wait is this real? Can you point me? Or as in tell me what I should put into the search bar in order to more effectively find this info?
Aliens reference mission.
Ah I never made that connection for some reason
droserabinata
lol
i thought i saw jihadi terrorists.
Ellen Ripley would be proud
And here I thought it was Sonic fans with their army of OCs from Deviantart.
22:19 The awkward moment when you arrange a date and your partner doesn't show up
The first time I played this mission I thought this plot line would come back later. "The Queen of Blades has given us one purpose: To destroy the Protoss! We will be prepared, we will serve again". Did the writers just forget?
There is an open plot for Niadra, Zagara and the other four Brood Mothers after Kerrigan is gone, but I thought they were planning SC3.
@@ErixdiegoYeah.. it's kinda sad they announced the discontinue of StarCraft on LOTV.
No SC3 coming anytime soon.
If you move your units further before you have them attack, they will surround the enemy better any you won't have to deal with units having to path around each other.
Always loved this mission. There were echoes of Alien, mixed with a bit of Deadspace.
And warcraft 3 custom campaign "Queen of spiders Arachna"
The lack of multitasking here is painful, but good video. Good shit man.
"I will see the Solarite is recovered properly."
"Excellent! Solarite gathered."
Damn thats some Alien level mission...
4.30
At first I thought sentries are just mindless bots, little did I realise they can actually Talk
I was expecting this mission to impact LOTV, maybe they'll do something for Nova or a co-op mission
Yeah I thought they would use this to justify Protoss v Zerg missions without fighting Kerrigan.
I think niadra and her brood will be the main antagonist in starcraft 3. Imagine zagara vs niadra in future installments
@@NeilsonBuntowa Actually, in the books, Zagara and Abathur fight eachother over the Xel'Naga DNA, which Abathur wishes to implement into the Swarm to create perfected beings, while Zagara remains loyal to Kerrigan and tries to maintain peace with the other races following her final wish.
Obviously, all the Protoss were on leave, during that time, and the ship was maintaining itself.
"The QoB has given me one purpose : To destroy the Protoss. We will be prepared, we will serve again" lol that's cute. Your QoB was trying her best not to confronting Artanis' Golden Armada, else she and her army will be wiped in seconds. And seriously tho, Lasarra was right, there's no need to destroy the Protoss Ship anyway. All she need to do is rally forces, and leave before the Golden Armada arrive. Destroying one whole vessel would just cause the Armada to notice that one of their ship is missing.
It makes a bit more sense if you do the Kaldir mission before Char. If you do Char first, the Terran evacuees ensure that the galaxy knows about Kerrigan; the last Kaldir mission becomes pointless, because the Golden Armada would never reach her before she left, even though they know she's gone Zerg-y again. But if you do the Kaldir mission first, no one knows that Kerrigan has taken up with the Zerg again. Letting the ship escape would reveal to the Protoss, and soon to the galaxy at large, that the Queen of Blades had returned. She doesn't have the numbers to survive a concentrated attack at that point. This delays the revelation until at least the second mission of Char, where she's already taken back a large portion of the Swarm, and all of the billions of Zerg on Char.
As for Niadra... yeah, she'd be squashed like the bug-reptile-thing she is. But she realized how weak she was; after all, her first lessons from Kerrigan were about hiding and slowly developing strength. That's why in the comics, she starts trying to develop a larger army rather than just rushing off to take them out right away.
Basically, Kerrigan cut off all communication from Kaldir to Shakuras. If you were Artanis, and one of your entire legion sent to colonize a planet and wipe out the Zerg suddenly gone missing, would you sit still and let it go ? The Protoss would know about Kerrigan's deed sooner or later, there's really no point in destroying that Protoss ship. All Kerrigan had to do was much simpler : Make a quick getaway before the Golden Armada arrive. She's already got what she wanted : The Essence for her Swarm. Killing all the Protoss there would've enraged Artanis even more. And should Artanis unleash the full might of the Armada on her, even the Primal QoB would be no match. Remember, Mengsk, a mere Terran, gave Kerrigan, Jim and even the Ex-Vice Admiral Stukov one hell of a battle on Korhal ( Kerrigan even admitted that it was the toughest battle she has ever had to participate in up to that point ). Later in LotV we know that the full Dominion military might crumbled before the corrupted Golden Armada. But heck no, the QoB just had to kill them because she could.
+Hoàng Ân Phan Lê
Based on how long it took them to send a message to Shakuras, there weren't in constant communication with their home; it would likely have taken at least days for any significant upset or investigation to occur, more time to actually investigate the colony, and more to process the information to take what knowledge they could of the Queen of Blades's current forces and abilities before actually starting to hunt for her. With immediate retaliation no longer an option, response is slower and more thorough.
And while they would no about her actions sooner or later, the key word there is OR. The difference of a few days could make the difference between her managing to get the vital forces she needed on Char and her being wiped out in a decisive Protoss counterattack.
And... honestly, there isn't enough distinction between "kill everyone" and "kill everyone except for one ship", especially when that ship is just going to disappear and the Protoss won't know what she did to take it out. Artanis would be murderously angry either way, and taking her out would have been an equal priority either way. But this way, the response is delayed.
Finally, while Korhal did prove to be a difficult battle, remember that Kerrigan directed all the Broodmothers she brought with her to stay in orbit to prevent interference from the mass recall of all Dominion forces; only her own Brood, Zagara's, Dehaka's pack, and Stukov's forces were actually part of the invasion. And Char showed that some Broodmothers were reluctant to rejoin her, and that she hadn't exactly expected there to be real difficulties in retaking her position as Queen of Blades; it's likely that she expected to have regained control over a larger part of the Swarm than she did. Considering how many broods went feral without her leadership, there's no way to even know how much of the Swarm she hadn't managed to recapture by that point.
She's a daughter to the QoB, in a sense. She's just following orders. Kerrigan never really told Niadra ALL of her plans, did she?
I love how she talks to it like a child at some points of the mission. Particularly at 5:30
You know you play too much SC2 when in a youtube video you move the cursor to try and see more of the map...
or click on the screen to move/create the units, attack, etc
Hahahahahaha so true
True but you did that did you?
Awwwww man i really liked Lasarra :(
I had NOOO idea starcraft had such an interesting storyline
Dear Protoss commander:
Next time, for Aiur's sake, send all of your men to contain the infestation. Don't release them one by one.
y'know it would've been interesting to see a constantly evolving Niadra in Coop, but now that they added Dehaka who constantly evolves and grows bigger i think the chances for Niadra as a commander are slim
Be kinda like a hero abathur type. Gaining essense but only to access more units, improve Niadara and whatnot. It would be similar.. reminds me of Zertaul now.
And now they stopped so niadara isnt a commander
You know the player is bad at SC when he first attacked the photon cannon then stopped midway and attacked the probe AFTER the probe warped a structure, then attacked the cannon back then attacked the warping structure INSTEAD of the pylon.
4:30 centry talk? LOL XD
Poor Niadra :( The call for her queen ;_;
Mission has that nice "classic alien sci-fi" feel to it. Nice!
6:43, I believe Niadra absorbed at least 1 trait from the protoss she was born in, not a mouth.
That is what all queens and broodmothers are like. It is hinted the base Swarm Queen strand was partially made with protoss DNA.
Blizzard literally forget her story in the end ! Niadra didn't show up at the end of Swarm or Legacy ! Or did she died unscreen that i didn't know about ?
I found her in the comic called "Shadow Wars"
i can see this story arc taking off
Awwwww, they let us play as the adorable little larvae of the zerg. Their almost cute, until they mutate.
lorewise most badass mission, unfortunately the larva grew way too strong too soon, should've had a bit of "mid phases" IMO
well they could not have dragged the mission for longer or risked killing the flow. but it is reasonable to asume that a brood mother larva with plenty of biomass at her disposal would be able to grow quite fast, and that we don't actually see her create her brood on the ship, at first she just runs around with a couple of zergs and infested creatures, which is still managable as we see kerigan acheive much the same results with larger armies before her transformation. she had to take a bit of time to actually develop and fully infest the ship, as here she was rushing to kill the protoss before they could evacuate
damn I wish all broodmother was like Niadra
yeah because they are not already op enough :P
I don't think this guy knew that A-move existed
Niandra: "My queen, can u hear me?...We are alone..."
Me: ***Awww...can I adopt her?***
Rick Astley will never gonna run around and desert u :)
I'll adopt her if you send my younger bro a "RickRoll"
Sentry: creep detected, priority one established, all other priorities establishing, patrolling
Me; I didn't know you guys can talk!!
I thought she was Chell in Portal for a second.
And then this queen was never seen from and mentioned again.
She was read shadow Wars comics
This was honestly pretty good.
THIS IS ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE PART OF THIS GAME
Niandra should be a coop character you can play as
It's so dumb. There is no way that plan would turn out any good unless that protoss ship is deserted... come on... Also 7:25 "The zerg have infiltrated our vessel, warriors destroy them", expected some actual warriors to show up...
The only reason why it turned out so good was the biomass from other animals so yea, kerrigan got pretty lucky tbh
What a cool mission!
The little larva that could
So many reference in this mission
70 seconds before an escape pod fires off ? What, are those designed to kill the people they're supposed to save or what ?
starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Niadra_Brood Niadra never heard Kerrigan again, but she still remembered her queen's orders "eliminate the protoss". Check that link guys. At least we know where she is now.
i wish i could go on the base after beating the game. i have to watch these YT videos
Alien reference :)
Mannn I remember watching HuskyStarcraft play this campaign years ago. Good times.
this is one of the best levels im hots
Mengsk was the good guy.
They want to live inside of us... like a disease.
This was such a fun level.
was just such an awesome mission. i miss my pc with this....
Starfcraft 2 solo mission was amazing
I can see Kerrigan in Starcraft 1 and the Human campaign of Starcraft 2 doing this but isn't Kerrigan supposed to be on the path to redemption in the Zerg campaign and beyond? Doing what she did here contradicts this idea!!
She _steps_ onto the path of redemption during the Zerg campaign, but not in the beginning.
At the start, she clearly has no interest in redemption until she murders the fuck out of Mengsk. And that's before even the first mission.
After Jim "dies", she goes on the warpath. She's angry, filled with hate, and willing to do absolutely anything if that's what it takes to get her revenge. It makes most sense if Kaldir is the first of the planets that you choose to go to.
Following Char, she starts getting softer. Warfield reminds her about Raynor, and she's ashamed enough to let the remaining Terrans flee. This is also where she starts getting more renegade Broodmothers into the reborn Swarm, but she only assigns them to attack planets of military value, rather than centers of population--which would have been beneficial to the Zerg and have provided them with vast quantities of biomass for increasing their numbers.
She also starts interacting with _people_ here. Izsha was basically a yes-man; Abathur doesn't give a crap about anything but evolving the swarm. But then she takes Zagara on as some sort of apprentice (as Kerrigan points out a few times when you click on her over the course of the game, she's willing to accept the consequences of what she did as long as she gets her revenge first. She's pretty clearly grooming Zagara to take over the Swarm after her), meets Stukov (who she doesn't even decide to kill, despite him only having been an ally of convenience and having actually been an enemy in the past) as well as Dehaka. People who she develops a... if not friendship, then a working relationship with, "humanizing" her more.
Upon finding out about Raynor's survival, she becomes even more aware of moral matters, culminating in her many concessions to Valerian despite the difficulties it would impose on her.
(Right after this mission)
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"Does killing the Protoss bring you no joy, my Queen?"
"I might kill a lot of enemies, hut that doesn't mean I enjoy it."
"Even Arcturus Mengsk, my Queen?"
"Shut it, Izsha."
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@@OrionoftheStar if she was so willing to accept the consequences of her actions after she gets her revenge, why the heck does she just stick around to become xel'naga? She'd earned death a million times over by then.
It's kind of like that second Alien mission from Aliens Versus Predator 2..
Basically Kerrigan literally wipes some of Artanis's people. Damn she had no chill.
I dislike how we basically create a WHOLE NEW BROOD in this mission, and then we never see it again!!!!! Did the Colony Ship ever reach its pre-set destination or did it keep traveling at Warp Speed, events the point of leaving the MilkyWay Galaxy Entirely!????
For that matter, HOW BIG is the Korprulu Sector!?!?! There are A LOT of planets in it!!! The only planets confirmed NOT to be in it are Earth and Zeras!! And does the UED possess more planets than just Earth!?!??
they need to make an ALIEN game exactly like this, not AVP for ps2, but an updated version, RTS
1:14 savage, lol
Anyone going to mention that that was the most badass cutscene ever?
1:20 Is it just me, or is Abathur telling the Queen of Blades that she's not half as badass as she thinks she is?
Kinda. But he helped her. When he found her, she had been ravaged by zerglings. Torn apart and bones broken, only to be put back together in a stronger, chitinous form.
I feel so bad for the animals stuck in their cell and aren’t able to defend themselves
i wonder what how signal so strong to communicate queen and kerigan that lightyears away
When you watch cinematic of 3-5 Protoss slaughtering hundreds of Zerg and then you play the campaign and the Protoss finally get there arse handed to them
They can float eggs? Its like a weird glowing jelly bean.
Just finished all of StarCraft 2, what happens to this ship? It just disappears.
I want a custom game like this
1:30 from the dark side of the moon? :D
Kerrigan be like "tatakae!!"
Doom of Malan'tai Starcraft version... Nice
The golden armada should have asked for the death fleet to help them wipe out the zerg.
Protoss must be crazy rich.................even their fish tank is made of gold.
They teleported some more clothes onto Lasarra as well.
This is some horror movie shit right here. I approve
Welcome to *warcrimes 101*
The bet hero, is a larva hero
That was one of my favorite missions in the HOTS. Can anyone tell me what happened to Niadra and her brood? I don't remember her reappearing in the game.
Niandra is still on the ship, there's a post game mission where it is said or shown idk, it's DLC, but it appears she's still alive
Next time, stay away from the cantina
this is what Starcraft should be all about. no jolly cooperation between the races, no friendship is magic bullshit! only death and destruction, the strongest fucking survives whether it is evil or not.
look i caught a bronny
that's starcraft 2 which i also criticize. Starcraft 1 shared the "in the grim darkness of future there is only war" formula.
Not really. The story of StarCraft 1 culminated with the high Templar and dark Templar and the Terrans coming together to defeat a common enemy, the Overmind. The story of Brood War centered around the Terrans and Protoss trying to survive against the UED and the Zerg.
WRONG. not terrans, only jim raynor and his band helped the Protoss. protoss/humans/zerg were hostile to each other to the bitter end.
factions between those races were also hostile to each other.
UED was hostile to every other alien race and the terrans.(some terrans sided with the UED)
TERRANS were hostile to every other alien race including other terrans and UED.
ZERG were hostile to every other race and other broods
PROTOSS were neutral to terrans but hostile to ZERG and UED(plus some terran factions). ( there were small protoss factions, the khalai/nerazim were hostile to)
Koprulu sector was no different that Syria today, everyone fighting for their interests.
...I see facts and evidence will not convince you of this. Very well, keep your delusions.
Poor Abby. He cant figure out why Kerrigan is mad at him for making her stronger.
(A) then (left click) ground to Auto-ATTACK!!!
this is basic ...
this was one of the few quest i realy liked from starcraft 2 HOTS :/
Our heroine ladies and gentlemen!
Thats one ruthless woman
We should have a Niadra commander instead of zagara :/