Zerg

From Multiversal Omnipedia

The Zerg are a fearsome alien race of insectoid life-forms, created by another race known as the Xel'Naga. Having failed with the race known as the Protoss, the Xel'Naga moved to the desolate world of Zerus, and worked to advance a native insect species. Thanks to their genetic manipulations, the Zerg prospered and became a parasitic race, absorbing other life forms and using their genes to add useful traits and abilities to themselves. They eventually developed armor-piercing spines, razor-sharp limbs, and ultra-dense carapaces. The Xel'Naga made one final alteration, uniting the collective sentience of the race into a single Overmind. This was a fatal mistake, as the Overmind severed the Xel'Naga's psychic link to their race and proceeded to assimilate the greater whole of their species.

The Zerg left Zerus, and began a war of conquest against the Protoss. During this time the Zerg took the planet Char as their main base. This war had many victories, but the Zerg were unable to counter the amazing psionic powers of the Protoss. However, humanity came onto the scene, a race that would soon develop their own formidable psionic abilities.

The Overmind saw humanity as a possible means by which the Zerg could assimilate the power to defeat the Protoss. Thus, the Overmind allowed a war to start between the humans and Protoss, and basically sat back to watch how it would unfold. The Zerg later joined that war, but the Overmind was destroyed thanks to a Terran invention known as the Psi Disruptor and the self-sacrificing actions of the Protoss commander Tassadar. Kerrigan, an Infested Terran Ghost, became the new Zerg ruler after defeating the various newly independent Cerebrates.

Zerg Breeds

• Zerglings
• Hydralisks
• Ultralisks
• Mutalisks
• Defilers
• Devourers
• Queens
• Broodlings
• Guardians
• Lurkers
• Cerebrates
• Infested Terrans

See also

• Brood
• Flood
• Tyranids
• Xenomorphs