@@ghostly8846 Duran's round was filled with Void power of Xel'naga. That's why Stukov got gibbed on death. See why Zeratul has got disintegrated on death.
@@ghostly8846 How did Zerg glued his gibbed body back together? He was gibbed by Duran's Void Round which blasts the victim apart. Despite not strong enough to disintegrate victim like Bane Blade of Corrupted Templar or Taldarim(See Zeratul's death). Luckily, Primal queen of blades didn't got disintegrated by Narud's bane blade and survived, though.
i always had this idea: 1:43 - DuGalle: Computer, where the hell is Lieutenant Duran? Computer after scanning hell: i can't detect the Lieutenant in hell.
He was still undercover at this point. He still needed to manipulate Kerrigan as Samir Duran, since he had set up himself as "infested" to that end. To reveal his true power while killing Stukov would mean the gig is up and he'd have to abandon the Duran persona and everything he'd worked for throughout the game (and since his hybrids weren't quite ready just yet, it'd be a particularly annoying setback)
@Broadway JR its just funny as a thought on how an almighty cosmic being still use somwthing as primitive as a gun (alien standards) to kill off the guy after when we can see what he is capable of in the starcraft 2 heart of the swarm cutscenes. Psionic blast with energy blades. But he's like NAW GOTTA KEEP IT TERRAN.
The few parts? I mean there's a lot of recycled mission objectives and the protoss dialougue was meh but... ALARAK FUCKING CARRIED THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN! 10/10 would buy again
For those who did not know what happened to Stukov between end of Broodwar and SC2 LOTV, there was an Expansion to Broodwar called Stellar Forces, a bonus campaign that explains the whereabouts of Stukov after he is infested
The official campaign is the Stukov missions in Starcraft 64 that explains what happened top Stukov after Broodwar, but since it is SC 64, there will be no voice acting. However, these missions are remade in SC Mass Recall, which is telling the story of the first Starcraft in SC2's engine.
Let's recap. I was betrayed and killed, shot into space, captured by the zerg, resurrected and infested, cured, given to Moebius to research the protoss cure, and was instead experimented on as the cure slowly failed. Everyone up to speed? Good."
@@Rosielx I'd like to see that please, i am sure there is lot of cut content out there. for example in the Sc1 editor there is an archon hero unit called Tassadar/Zeratul, which clearly meant they were gonna merge in the final mission to kill the Overmind, or something like that, they didn't like it so they went with the classic Jesus-Martyrdom thing typical of Blizzard storytelling
It wouldn't do anything. Du Gaulle was convinced that psi diatrubter was dangerous to UED ( by Duran of course) becose they planned to take control of the overmind, and probably Du Gaulle thoguht that it is usless for them as overmind is commanding all the zergs in the sector so why bother capturing a machine that could potentialy be used against them?
@@szymonzuberycki7525 same with aldaris,if he just said kerrigan is ontrolling raszageth,not the oh bravee templars u are mistaken,while you struggled against the zerg which rivals mighty tassadar,here on the dark banished dark one world discovered a sercreet most unthinkable
I think the commander (player) was infested or brainwashed by Kerrigan as well, because at the end of the mission on Aiur Stukov said that Duran intentionally left his position and the commander was actually hearing that yet he did not say anything to DuGalle. So I think he was probably brainwashed on mission 1 when he met Duran :)
Didn't remember Narud said good night line, make sense that Stukov said it in return. Always wonder why "xel naga" Narud look so different to Ouros and Amon. Was he a "lesser" xel naga?
@@Malo-os9kk Amon and his fallen Xel'naga don't seem to be capable of creation. It's kind of the whole reason they had to manipulate the Zerg the way they did, and later the Terrans into genetically splicing the hybrids (since they were the first to develop the means of doing so). Coming back to the void after death also seems to also be uniquely a true Xel'naga thing Blizzard has referred to Duran/Narud as a Xel'naga before, and some of the art looks different than either Amon and Ouros or Duran, with face tentacles being the one common feature, so I'm guessing that either there was a lot of variation in their kind before ascension, or Ouros and Amon being more powerful means they changed a lot more.
SC1: a soldier named Duran infiltrates a Terran base, comes up to a soldier named Stukov and shoots him with a rifle. SC2: a resurrected half-zerg mutant Stukov comes into a fantastic place that cannot exist, approaches a huge abomination named Duran and kills him with a giant green hadoken emerged from his hand. Me: "What kind of anime is that?"
@@AleksanderDrako then why did his last speech while dying in sc1 take like 2 mins straight? i know he had to explain things to DuGalle, but i mean, he's in front of his traitor comrade, killer, and reason for his unwanted second existence in that body... i would have liked him to say at least a pair of sentences more before going for it :D
@@eggeggy4743 At least he got some revenge dialogue/scene with Duran. Remember how it was Kerrigan who killed his best friend and destroyed his life's work, for which he clearly cared much more than for himself considering he pretty much willingly jumped on the bullet for the betterment of mankind? Yeah, Stukov doesn't remember that either.
@@tarvoc746 It'd be a forced retcon, as it was never implied that DuGalle's wife had anything to do with the military (if anything, the opposite seems true, as per the wording of DuGalle's letter to her: 'Whatever you may hear about what happened here...' - if she were high-ranking in the military, as she'd need to be in order to lead a second expedition, she'd have the full story, although possibly the real reason for Stukov's death was hidden even from the insiders).
@@kuj2887 I don't think she'd have the _full_ story necessarily, since (1) DuGalle can't know how much information can even get through to Earth, and (2) the UED is a totalitarian government, and those are known to be secretive even towards higher-ranking members of the military. But you are right, there's no indication that Helena is military. She might have a non-military government position. Or maybe she's just a housewife.
@@tarvoc746 Right, I did concede that in my reply, too. Still, not enough exposition for her to justify such a plot point. It was the same with Leonidas's wife leading the Spartans in the sequel to '300'. That was actually even worse since it was supposed to be quasi-historical.
@@tarvoc746 yeah, a little cut of Infested Stukov that goes in the night and put a rose on Helena's grave. A little touch of sensibility but a huge moment for those who played a lot the campaign of the original game. Oh, and also the Goliath/man fused with machine like Fenix/Edmond Duke could have been fun.
Human Stukov's final words are kinda nonsensical... It was actually DuGalle who suspected Duran the entire time, while Stukov was the one supporting him. Yet, in his final words (pre-dying), Stukov says that he always tried to warn DuGalle... Meh...
That's just SC1 death animation shenanigans. Duran just shot one bullet at his head so it's likely Stukov's body was pretty much intact by the time the Cerebrate picked him up
@@1erickf50 As we can see from SC2's Marine getting torn apart even by Gauss rifle, we know that Gauss rifle can Tear armorless terran apart by automatic fire.
Likely, there was nothing left to infest. Not only Gerard shot himself, but later Kerrigan hunted down the remaining UED fleet, including the flagship Alexander and blown it to pieces in the vacuum of space. However, it is obvious that Stukov has shown some interest in his best friend ultimate fate, as he bids "sleep well, old friend!" to the stars in the Zerg campaign in SC2. Furthermore, Stukov consider himself an abomination and affront to everything he believed in. It is very unlikely he will ever put his best friend through the same torture, even if he had the chance.
Because Gerard was a standard human. In a powerful position, but just a human like Raynor... Stukov was a Ghost, a psionic full of potential, just as Sarah Kerrigan. You have to remember the sole reason the zerg attacked the humans during SC1 (according to the lore of those times) was because humans had great psionic potential, something the zerg struggled to achieve, hence the complex net of psionic control cerebrates, queens and overlords constituted... EDIT: I just realized you were wondering why Stukov didn't do it, while I thought you meant why Duran didn't... The answer to that is much simpler: Stukov hated his fate despite all his power. Nobody in that position would wish something like that to a dear friend...
sc1 AI is stupid as fuck and this is not even a building mission. All you need to do is attack ground. There's no meaning to grind your wrist with high apm.
It always bothered me that Duran went with all this afford to put Stikov back together from what was basicly minced meat for no reason . . ...unless he wanted some exotic man from earth for his hybrid cooking
Because Stukov was a powerful Ghost, a psionic full of potential, just as Sarah Kerrigan. You have to remember the sole reason the zerg attacked the humans during SC1 (according to the lore of those times) was because humans had great psionic potential, something the zerg struggled to achieve, hence the complex net of psionic control cerebrates, queens and overlords constituted...
Duran didn't repair Stukov's body and infested it, it's a Zerg Cerebrate who did it so he can control a Zerg brood ala Kerrigan. Stukov then was cured by a serum made by the Protoss, then was captured by Duran (Narud) and then experimented on to his current form.
Duran created the hybrid by meticulously interweaving Protoss and Zerg DNA. Stukov was the same except with human and zerg DNA. Stukov was the 0.5 version of the hybrid; a scientific stepping stone toward Duran's main goal.
