Samir Duran Options

[Slug]

For those StarCraft freaks out there, I offer a challenge: Who is Samir Duran?

After playing the secret level in Brood War a few times, I was left with an impression. Could he be a Xel'naga?

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[BattleDoctor]

How do you get to the secret level? I have heard of this level and know about it, but nobody ever told me how to get there.
I have heard elsewhere that Duran may be a Xel'Naga

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[Avatara]

Originally posted by BattleDoctor:
How do you get to the secret level? I have heard of this level and know about it, but nobody ever told me how to get there.
I have heard elsewhere that Duran may be a Xel'Naga

I think you have to beat Zerg mission #9 with more than 5 minutes left on the timer.

Slug, what I'd like to know is what Duran is breeding.

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[Desert Fox]

He is breeding the new race for the next game. You are right, I believe, on the requirement for the secret mission.

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[The Catacomb]

You have to beat the zerg mission in under 30 minutes. I think he is either a Xel'naga, or an infested Terran.

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[Servack]

Originally posted by The Catacomb:
You have to beat the zerg mission in under 30 minutes. I think he is either a Xel'naga, or an infested Terran.

More likley the Xel'naga, but I was more suspecting he was some sort of new pure evil race breeding the Zerg/Protoss hybrids for the new Starcraft game.

-Andrew

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[The Catacomb]

Originally posted by Servack:
More likley the Xel'naga, but I was more suspecting he was some sort of new [b]pure evil race breeding the Zerg/Protoss hybrids for the new Starcraft game.

-Andrew

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Yes, but je does look like a Terran.

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[Titan]

I'm not sure what he is, but I think he might be a Xel'naga.

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[Avatara]

Originally posted by The Catacomb:
You have to beat the zerg mission in under 30 minutes.

That's to win the mission and move on to #10. You need to beat it in under 25 minutes (so you have at least 5 minutes left on the timer).

He's also breeding some odd terran/zerg things, and one cell had a ghost and a high templar together.

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[The Catacomb]

Originally posted by Avatara:
That's to win the mission and move on to #10.  You need to beat it in under 25 minutes (so you have at least 5 minutes left on the timer).

He's also breeding some odd terran/zerg things, and one cell had a ghost and a high templar together.

One thing to note is that his army was terran.

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Ick, StarCraft!

I used to like StarCraft, but here is a way to make yourself get bored by it, and maybe even begin to feul a burning hatred of it

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[The Catacomb]

All the ppl on B.net are assholes. I only play it with freinds now like MadFax7.

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[Dark Templar]

Duran is a Terran. An infested Terran. The Xel'naga were working to create the perfect race. The Protoss were modled in thier image. The Zerg were another attemp...that broke out of its cage. The Zerg destroyed the Xel'naga. Duran is breeding a new hybrid to mabye continue the Xel'naga goal of a perfect race, or for his own sick reasons, what ever they are.

Jeez, someone needs to go back to StarCraft History 101

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[Constantine MoG]

Which B.net? I'm assuming you mean battle.net, being the rabid Bungie loyalist I am, but both battle.net and bungie.net are called b.net.

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[Slug]

Well, you remember in StarCraft origional how the overmind said that by merging the Protoss and Zerg, they would finally be perfect? The Xel'naga had a perfection complex.

Samir Duran is merging the Zerg and Protoss (to create the perfect race), is a servent of "a far greater power", and has travelled accross "many, many worlds". Add that to the fact that he called Zeratul "young prodigal", I have to conclude he's a Xel'Nagan

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[Soviet mikee]

Duran is NOT a terran or infested terran. He is far to old to be that.

I think he is the last of the Xel'Naga and is merging hybrids to kill off the Zerg... maybe even their other failed creation, the Protoss.

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[foo12]

Hmmm... didn't he put Barberella in the Orgasmitron? Oh wait... diffferent Duran.

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[Slug]

Jeez! Why can't the Xel'naga make themselves perfect?

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[Celestial Storm]

I got the impression that Duran is a servant of the Xel'Naga, a sort of agent or spy for them. Especially because he looked quite human in the beginning. He may even be especially created by the Xel'Naga to look human as to avoid suspicion. If he's an agent, that is..

Anyway, I doubt the XelNaga have a human-like appearance.

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[Cotton Mouse]

Meh, I hope he turns out to be cool in the end and we get to play as him. (anyone trying to kill the zerg is good in my book)

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[Dark Templar]

Originally posted by Cotton Mouse:
Meh, I hope he turns out to be cool in the end and we get to play as him.  (anyone trying to kill the zerg is good in my book)

zerg - bleh
protoss - yes!

That is where i got my name. The Protoss Dark Templar with they're invisability and shadow blades and stuff.

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[Flatulence]

If he looks like a terran, he's not a Xel'naga. I read on sc.org (I think) a long time ago about the Xel'Naga.... they don't look at all human. They look like insects, and there's some proof... in the very last cinematic, with our good Templar friend going down into the Xel'Naga temple, we see a lot of insect like things sculpted into all the stuff in the temple... and then, there's the little thing with the protoss reaver. Not very 'toss like, but there's an explanation for it... perhaps it was modeled after the Xel'Naga, to instill fear into any of their enemies.

Mind you, this is not my own text.... it's what my memory is able to call up from something I read about 6 months ago.

Peace.

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[Dark Templar]

i added a place on my ezBoard where we can discuss this stuff

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[Flatulence]

orr.... we could just discuss it here... you know, this being banter & brawl and all.

No offense to all you people with your own webboards.... but, this is the best place for discussion. Why not just leave it at that? I don't even think it's called a discussion if only 2-3 people are involved

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[Slug]

Originally posted by Flatulence:
If he looks like a terran, he's not a Xel'naga. I read on sc.org (I think) a long time ago about the Xel'Naga.... they don't look at all human. They look like insects, and there's some proof... in the very last cinematic, with our good Templar friend going down into the Xel'Naga temple, we see a lot of insect like things sculpted into all the stuff in the temple... and then, there's the little thing with the protoss reaver. Not very 'toss like, but there's an explanation for it... perhaps it was modeled after the Xel'Naga, to instill fear into any of their enemies.

Mind you, this is not my own text.... it's what my memory is able to call up from something I read about 6 months ago.

Peace.

Funny, I seem to recall from my SC Handbook that the Xel'naga modeled the Protoss to their own form, and the Protoss are fairly humanoid.. except they don't have mouths... or noses... and have goat legs.

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[This message has been edited by Slug (edited 02-18-2001).]