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Мой небольшой хэдканон о Валериане
после того, как Валериан занял место своего отца, он попытался найти свободное время в своем рабочем графике и посетил детские дома, чтобы убедиться, что дети живут в хороших условиях, и сделал крупные пожертвования в фонды детских домов
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My little headcount on Valerian
after Valerian took his father's place, he tried to find free time in his work schedule and visited orphanages in order to make sure that children live in good conditions and made large donations to the foundations of orphanages
#myart#starcraft#sketch#valerian mengsk#valerian#mengsk#mira#Matt Horner#hedcanon#my doodles#doodles
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General Sahl
This guy right here is my boss, commander of the fleet in Sols orbit and adopted son of General Warfeild.
so so so, heres what we do; we send the tanks to rush the turrets-
Emperor Mengsk
This briney old bastard is my Bosses Boss, Emperor Arkturus Mengsk.
Connor Ika
My uh… first boyfriend and fellow Spectre, a tad bit obsessed and sadistic but otherwise pretty nice.
Oh? Indeed, my name is Connor.
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🏳️⚧️👱🏻♀️ Valerian Mengsk
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Watching my girlfriend @sometipsygnostalgic play starcraft 2 and decided this universe NEEDED an entrapta
A companion piece to her kerrigan/catra
#entrapta#starcraft 2#arcturus mengsk#jim raynor#starcraft#super pal trio#the existence of mengsktrapta and kerricatra implies#some sort of scorpia Protoss super duo!!!#heart of the swarm#sc2
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I forgot I still have to draw transfem valerian (valéria) ✋😭
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There are many lines from Liberty's Crusade, a starcraft novel novelizing most of the Terran Campaign from SC1 from the POV of reporter Michael Liberty.
But one of my favorite is about Mengsk's declaration of the end of the Confederacy. I don't have the book with me right now, but the line is something like:
"He pronounced that the Confederacy had died of Zerg Poisoning compounded by Protoss trauma. That his fingerprints were all over the murder weapon was ignored. It wasn't something the networks were reporting on at that point."
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40 Parsecs
40 Parsecs and a M.U.L.E, Steamroller, 2021
(No relation to 40 Degree Fever, another game on my review list. Also no relation to the antique computer strategy game M.U.L.E.)
The name is, as you hopefully guessed, a reference to "Forty acres and a mule". For those who don't know Starcraft, a M.U.L.E. is a mining machine that you can call down from orbit.
I love alternate imaginations of the future, especially when they're on the optimistic side. 40 Parsecs is an afrofuture reimagining of Starcraft and it's amazing.
Instead of the Terran Dominion's fascist monarchy, the Umoja wa Galaksi (Galactic Unity or something like it in Kiswahili) is locally-run, multi-faceted, and multicultural. Every planet has its own unique ships. Some of them are fused with Protoss psychic crystals or Zerg biotech, because, like humanity, the Protoss and Zerg are not presented as monocultures! There are overminds who embrace peace. "Dark Templar" isn't frightening or an insult. There's an assumption that everyone has a little Protoss or Zerg (or both) going on and is tapped into a shared psychic network.
The PCs are citizens of a community (there's a community-building flowchart that the whole group uses) who have pledged to defend it. You see, there are still Terrans who are fascist, Zerg who don't like anyone, and Protoss who do want to telepathically control you, and they're trying to sneak into your territory. You find them, root them out, and defend your people.
Character types let you mimic the medium-scale characters from SC1 and SC2, though without their trademark gear until shit goes down. Terrans can be Enlisted (Marine, Firebat, Reaper, etc.), Agents (Ghosts), Construction (SCVs), Pilots, and Commanders. Protoss can be Priests, Scientists, Zealots, or AIs. Zerg can be Queens, Warriors, Overseers, or Corruptors. All of those are broad categories rather than the exact unit type.
The rules for 40 Parsecs are concise and effective, with a medium amount of "swing" to the rolls. Most of it is 3d6 + bonus vs. target number. A lot is handled through opposed rolls. Combat involves a neat die-swapping trick that lets you "steal" good dice from your opponent's failed roll to add to your attack roll to get your damage. Matters of scale are handled by adding large bonuses - a battlecruiser has +40 scale, for instance, whereas Marine armor gets +10, so doing even a small amount of damage takes an amazing shot.
Ability scores include the usual sci-fi set (Str, Agi, Sta, Int, Psy, Per) plus three cultural ability scores (unique to each culture) that map to each other in the game's most complex interactions. I'm not 100% sure how well those work in practice, but they sound cool and I like the approach to culture-as-a-defining-part-of-character. You can also borrow skills through the psychic network.
The art for the ships and units is pretty good, though the character art would have benefited from a professional artist rather than the writer's cousin. Bonus points for not using any of the video game art, though!
As you might guess from the name this one's on itch - or it was until ActiBlizzsion sent them a cease-and-desist and the page disappeared. You can occasionally find a copy on file-sharing services. Be warned that for some reason it's a touch over 3.4 GB. I suspect that the image compression went badly, badly wrong.
#ttrpg#imaginary#indie ttrpg#rpg#starcraft#afrofuturism#arcturus mengsk was a nazi#fuck the confederacy#in the grim dark future there is only proxy ultralisk rush lol get rekt
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damn I'm insanely excited about Valerian, who looks like a very nice young man, acts the same way, but he still looks like his father, he has anger issues and he also fights all sorts of bandits on equal terms.
I love it, seriously.
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Girl these mechanics. We already have a fascist cult leader playable character in Alarak Mengsk can't even be written as a really weird ship bait dynamic with Artanis
#Mengsk is not whatever Alarak has going on Alarak goes harder than any real life dictator for no reason Mengsk is like textured and shit#Alarak is just like This guy cannot be real Mengsk is like avg Republican senator
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Okay I made a mistake.
#Me: to go to bed I will put on my favorite SCII playthru from the start ^^#Mengsk: MAKE NO MISTA#Me: FUCK
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i don't even think the other 15 people on this earth that also care about starcraft lore care about valerian as much as i do
#probably bc i only have such strong opinions abt him because of the books#like i kinda liked his vibe in wol but it took flashpoint and i mengsk for me to be like#i would literally kill a man for him
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Mengsk: "You'll carry your prison with you. That armor will be your new cell. Make no mistake, war is coming. With all its glory and all its horror. Mr. Findlay, your freedom awaits."
Findlay: "Hell... it's about time!"
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010)
#tychus findlay#starcraft 2#2010s#gifs#dailyvideogames#videogamemen#gamingedit#gamingnetwork#videogameedit#vgedit#gameedit#gameredit#our gifs#*#by shania#gif warning#flashing gif#long post#smoking
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I know I've said this before ad nauseum, but the little hints of plot and distinctive voices do really make me yearn for the degree of narrative and character writing seen in, like, Starcraft, or Warcraft 3. The final quest battle wasn't that distinct structurally from like the final Zerg mission in Brood War but really impossible to overstate how much more I cared about any one of Kerrigan/Mengsk/Stukov/Artanis than I do for every character portrayed in this entire game combined.
A lost art though, sadly.
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There's at least one instance in which WoW players should play another game but I'd honestly recommend just watching the cutscenes because watching Valerian Mengsk hit Metzen's old sona with that bratty ass "Jim." is truly something
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Hello, Mengsk by Dexistor371
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