This brings to mind SHODAN's making of a mindless army on Citadel Station in the original System Shock.
Of course in the sequel, the Many took that role.
Exactly. That’s how the zerg are established to work in literally every other instance across the games…
except Kerry Sue. The writing is schizophrenic and inconsistent af, as to be expected from scatterbrained Metzen.
She was the boss already so they listened.
No. The Overmind and the PC cerebrate were the bosses. You got specific orders to kill the terrans. The idiot who wrote the script bends over backwards to let Raynor survive when by all rights the zerg should kill him. It’s bad writing written by a known hack.
And how do you know Zerg can just take Psionic potential and clone mindless drones with it? If they could they would have done it with captured protoss long ago. Kerrigan was remade over her own body, not created from scratch.
Because the manual literally says the zerg invaded human space to assimilate human psychic potential and use that against the protoss. Literally called humanity as a whole “the determinant” in the upcoming war. Not to find an individual, but to make whole armies because that’s their shtick. That’s how the zerg work in literally every other instance outside of Kerry Sue.
All zerg are innately psychic already. They just don’t have the right kind of powers to stand toe to toe against the protoss. They can’t steal it from the protoss, no explanation given. So they attacked humanity. This is all explained in the manual.
Of course Metzen forget all this when he wrote the scripts and introduced nonsense contradictions, but that’s par the course for Blizz. Trying to make sense of this garbage is impossible.
She is unique in similar way Overmind is unique
And that’s dumb af. The entire premise of the zerg is that they’re omnivoracious commie space bugs, not individuals. Any seeming instances of individuality, like cerebrates or queen or overlords (all of which canonically can speak in complete sentences), are a narrative convention to make their briefings more interesting than simple growls. Their premise fundamentally doesn’t work with human-like individuals with human motives.
Kerry Sue is a mary sue who breaks the established rules and premise of the zerg simply by existing, ruining them in a similar way to how the borg queen ruined the borg. Arguably she’s worse, because Kerry actually changed the zerg’s motivation from “consume all bio-matter” to “follow whatever dumb shit currently enters her head.”
It’s bad writing. I’ve said this multiple times already. If it still hasn’t sunk in, then that’s not my problem.
Ask yourself this: if
you were writing the zerg instead of Metzen, and you had creative control over the scripts, then would you have given them human leaders? Why or why not?
