Did the Xel'Nagas let the Zerg go?
For this week’s entry, I’m going to put my views on why the Xel’Nagas are probably never truly destroyed by the Zerg:
As far as I’ve led to believe by Blizzard, Zerus was surrounded by an unspecified (but a lot of) number of Xel’Naga Worldships. If the Xels did not interfere in the assimilation of genes by the Zerg, then they were just watching intently in order to see the evolution of the purity of essence. And they still didn’t interfere when the Overmind cut off communications with the Xels. What is more confusing is that before the Overmind cut of communications, while still psionically linked to the Xels, It thought about assimilating the Xels, though maybe just for a short moment. Shouldn’t the Xels have detected it? Further more, if you started seeing space-based creatures flying into the atmosphere of a planet, wouldn’t you be the least intrigued? It seems that the Xels were just too stupid to project the possible plans of the Overmind. Or were they really that stupid?
Which brings me to another point: What if they allowed it to happen? They did see the appearance of the pre-Mutalisks, yet just let them passed by. The Xels could have possibly made/introduced those pre-Mutalisks into the star system of Zerus, since the Xels could possibly create primitive creatures but failed to achieve the purity in their creations. It felt like the Xels were just giving new toys for the Overmind to study It’s reaction.
Another point is that the Xels had totally surrounded the planet, placing it under one giant microscope. Shouldn’t they have anticipated the probability of an attack? I mean, if the Zerg could overwhelm the Xels through superior numbers, then the Overmind must had been Overworking to pump out those little broods, which would then cover the entire planet. A population boom gone unnoticed? What is more interesting is the mention of the Xels’ capital ships. Worldships? Either Blizzard is out of names or maybe the ships really lived up to their names. Ships the size of planets, perhaps? Taking out the problem of gravity exerted by those ships, the Zerg had to practically defeat an army the size of a few (at least, since Blizzard did mention a lot) planets, while only having the resources of one planet to spend? Could the Xels possibly let the Zerg win?
On the Zerg assimilating the Xels, what if those aren’t really Xels? Maybe their body double? The body doubles where the Xels impart only certain knowledge to, like the psionic signature to fool the Overmind into thinking those are the real Xels, and also the knowledge of the existence of the Protoss, minus the location of the Protoss homeworld. If the Zerg really had absorbed the Xels, then they would have gained the location of Aiur. Why is the Overmind still in the dark?
Then, there are those few Xels that escaped. The real Xels? Did they really escape from the Zerg, or are they just camouflaging, just like how field scientists hide themselves after releasing their animal subject in order to continue their study?
What if the Xels, even until to Starcraft: Ghost, still studying the Zerg and the Protoss? To study the requirements for the creation of purity. To see if the purity of essence would do something they had been trying to do – perfection through the assimilation of the purity of form?
