StarCraft And StarCraft II

[Misha]

I think there was one smilie-marine in.. the mission where they gotta wait for hyperion

 

[Dromlexer]

@Misha, Zero Hour?

@VelikoM, it's from The Gates of Hell.

I took it with the previewer which are in-built the world editor.

 

[Misha]

think so.. yes

 

[Tleno]

En Taro Void Ray Rush, everyone!

 

[AIagremm]

Great Archon, I convinced the great terran engineer Tleno to join our ranks!

 

[Misha]

ah, welcome, terran :]

lol..

 

[Tleno]

Yes, it's me, Tleno, the one who managed to programm the Adiutants to be seductive!

 

[varsaigen]

It's just a machine. It only looks humanoid from the chest up. And it's made of metal.

See?

It returns no emotions or feelings.


I have to say though, the adjutants look awesome. But a Murloc Adjutant is even cooler! (I need to recreate mine :c)

 

[Misha]

why to recreate, var? Oo you lost the first?

 

[VeljkoM]

Var that is standard issue Adjutant. Who knows what nerd in sc universe have made for themselves...scary thought...

Anyway how is going SC Murloc project?

 

[Tleno]

I wonder if there are male adjutants for female oficers. Just askin'...

 

[AIagremm]

My god... seriously, imagine some nerd technofiliac. The horrors he could has done with a poor adjutant

But I simply love adjutants, they are cool. One of the best things in StarCraft if you ask me =P
Though adjutants in SCI scared me...

 

[VeljkoM]

Uh can't say I really payed attention to them.

 

[varsaigen]

Well, not many people would be able to get their hands on one. They are pretty important military hardware afterall. They tend to keep a tight grip on those things. :/ Only one (Monica 2342) was abandoned intact on Tarsonis when the Directorate fled in quite a hurry from invading rebel forces.

And yes, there have been male Adjutants. They are just less common. Never shown though :/

 

[VeljkoM]

Well nothing about that on wiki but I guess that would be valid for Military Adjutants. Then again games don't really show us what civilians have. Its not that's strange that outdated equipment gets its way to public. But still this was mostly joking about ugh...the special adjutants...

 

[Tleno]

And couldn't they just make a non-humanoid adjutant? You know, a vending machine with sophisticated strategical calculation equipment or something

 

[Misha]

enough with perverting adjutants or I'll remove posts and people >.<

 

[VeljkoM]

What are Adjutnats exactly? Aren't they some sort of AI?

 

[Misha]

Adjutants are more than AI, they are interact-able databases and tactical devices, I think every command center has one adjutant, just that they aren't as important as one Raynor found

 

[VeljkoM]

... uh that doesn't make it more then AI. Its just specialized AI. I mean AI is artificial intelligence so that would well roughly said be a thinking computer which means it can interact and since it is computer it can already access the database.

 

[Misha]

oh well *shrug*

 

[Tleno]

Actually they are like Command Droids from Star Wars universes. All of them contain some data for the military operation they're currently on, plus store all of the data from previous battles to compare the overall data.
Other adjutants are not useful since they kinda like contain the tactical information that is kinda like useless now when you wrecked enemy command center and wiped all forces so enemy lost the battle already... the one on Tarsonis didn't contain any immportant military information, it just contained record of conversation... so yes, Adjutant is a military cybernetic Secretary/Advisor.

 

[VeljkoM]

To me it still sounds like just a smart computer.

 

[Misha]

droid, people

 

[Dromlexer]

Yeah, both smart and awesome. (Word: Or androids? Maybe?)
Old adjutants looks and sounds like screwed and it is same effect to smart computers which are not working correctly. I mean Adjutant 23-46 from "The Great Train Robbery" and rest of the line of Matt Horner missions.
A thing more: The MULE's portrait are similar to the HAL 3000

Hidden

 

[Tleno]

Yes, they did remind me of HAl wjem I saw them first time.
I wonder where is their self-destruct button...

 

[AIagremm]

Same, saw the similarity and lul'd.

"Daisy, daisy, you are making me crazy... krazeh... creeeeeeizzzziiiiii..."

 

[Tleno]

I want Glados as my adjutant :3

Oh, and what is your favourite robot in SC2? Mine would be ARES.

 

[VeljkoM]

Uh...mine favorite are broken robots.

 

[Tleno]

You mean doodads?

 

[VeljkoM]

I duno I like robots only to smash.

 

[Tleno]

Oh. Makes sence. Everybody likes that.

 

[AIagremm]

ARES was fun. Though Adjutants are my fav robots.

I guess Probes are good robots though =P

 

[Misha]

Probe is actually more like a living being, but artificial. I mean.. lore says that Probe's "brain" crystal lattice can perform "warping in" task that would kill a strongest protoss psionic master

 

[Tleno]

Hmmm... that's an easy one.
I mean, real computers solve equations that would kill us if we'd try to solve these.
Plus it's just an adapted "|brain". I mean, it can't really think or have emotions or anything, so it's not a living thing. Just a tinny portable super computer with gravity manipulator and warp-in module.

And all the Protoss tech is based on Psionics, as I recall, including their shields and weapons.

 

[AIagremm]

Khaydarin crystals!!!

Man, I feel so geeky saying that :3

 

[Tleno]

I wonder why :3

 

[Misha]

I think probes are sentient and with personalities. I mean.. they're just so complex for a worker unit

+ their sounds actually sounding like talk

 

[VeljkoM]

Well droids are capable of speech. But then again protoss tech is weird. From what we know heck even pylon might be alive. I mean those crystals protoss are similar to living beings.

 

[Misha]

true.. special Khaydarin crystals can store memories of the Protoss

 

[AIagremm]

Khaydarin crystals seem to be in a way organic really.

 

[Luffy_299]

Mothership uses one as its core, the way it talks maybe?

 

[VeljkoM]

Yea think you are right. Must recheck though.

 

[Tleno]

If they can just store protoss mind, I wonder why can't protoss attach the wounded to some plasma shooting wheelchair (Dragoons/Immortals), instead of transporting his mind into a crystal and having more mobile fighting unit.
Dunno, I mean probes may be like real smart, but except for pylo the probe, I'm sure no other probe has emotions... I mean even if Protoss can make their crystals behave like living stuff, I doubt that an emotional probe could be more useful that loyal robotic servant...

 

[VeljkoM]

Uh memories not minds.

And living beings don't have to have feelings. Plants don't.

 

[Tleno]

Uh come on. If you can put all memories and knowledge into a single crystal, then attach it to probe, you'll get a probe with all the knowledge and memories of some protoss.
Of course, I can imagine what the combination of probe warp-in processor and master high templar's mind can bring to :3

 

[VeljkoM]

Probe would lack ability to use Templar powers...besides it just for recording of memories so later generations could relive them (remember zeratul campaign). Its not like the memory crystal "thinks" for itself.

 

[Tleno]

It's an alien USB drive that can store 15 uberbytes. Duh.

 

[Misha]

well.. think of a probe as a really smarter bee.. Bees have higher intellect than other insects and have a somewhat language

 

[VeljkoM]

They have hive intellect like ants and termites but yea that is very high thing.