Heh, I bought the starcraft battlechest last month and have been playing the heck out of it. Been so wonderful playing this great game again.

I've actually sat down and thought about how a Universe of Starcraft could work:

On Zerg:
While i agree most Zerg cannot and should not be played by characters simply because most zerg are not intellegent or free willed enough, there is a branch of zerg that can be. Namely, infected Psionics. Simply put, give this character a number of weapons, mostly melee and some minor psionic powers, and then grant them the ability to order free zerg into their own private brood. The number should vary based on the degree of power the zerg unit has, but the Infected player could order these units to attack, defend, or even jump inside the zerg's body and control it's power manually.

Zerg factions would be broken up into hordes controlled by cerebrates or high powered infected. Infected units could ally with one another, granted them more power with controlling zerg and creating their own mini-faction (read::Guild).

Zerg players would have the slightly confusing array of having the outer edges of their HUD be the vision of their controlled Zerg units (letting them moniter all activity while sacrificing some of their focus).

If they provide a skill system similiar to planet side, allow players to decide if they want to focus on being a very deadly infected or a very powerful commander of zerg forces.

On Terrans:
Oh it's faction city here. The key is, you don't start out with the big guns, you've got to earn that marine combat suit. This experience would be most like the planet side experience, with varrying human weaponry and skill sets, not to mention hordes of different vehicles from vultures to seige tanks, with wraiths and transports taking up the sky.

You've got the earth forces... the dominion, various planetary militas, pirate crews, etc, you've got a ton of factions to work with here.

On Protoss:
This experience will heavily, heavily depend on your skill set I believe. Sure most players will start as zealots, but the variety of skill trees really vary so much. From increasing your mastery in phsyical combat, to following the templar route, to choosing to sacrifice your body and become a dragoon, you've got so many choices.

One thing though is that so many protoss vehicles are pure mechanical, so setting up those might be a little difficult. A possiblity to make that a doctrine of the dragoon role, allowing them to transfer their mind into these larger vehicles temporarily once they've earned the skill to pilot them.


I have too much time on my hands.