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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   3053 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 1, 2026

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You and I could probably discuss this for days. My friends and I were huge into SC1 and Battle.net back in the day.

Same. Many, many late nights doing 3v3 and 4v4 on group calls with the boys.

That said, did they ever finish the chapter or cliffhanger with Lieutenant Duran and his experiments he was conducting across the stars?

Yeah, Duran shows back up in Heart of the Swarm as "Dr. Narud", and after Kerrigan's heel-face-turn he takes over as a Zerg villain personality. He was doing the Big Bad's work fusing zerg and protoss into the hybrid, which are very powerful elite enemy units that show up increasingly often as HotS and Legacy of the Void progress. Duran himself is slowly revealed to be a sort of high level eldritch horror. HotS does a lot to humanize the zerg, with actual characters that have personalities. Alexi Stukov is revealed to still be alive, if zerg-infested, and he takes the role of "human friendly zerg guy". He gives some missions to finish Duran/Narud to satisfy his vengeance after what Duran did to him and the UED at the end of Brood War.

I will say that a lot of the missions are very fun, with good replayability.

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