Hi~ o(*̄▽ ̄*)ブ Today Barley is here to update the Article of StarCraft! Today to tell you something interesting, we all know that the huge thunder beasts in StarCraft must be impressed, especially the two huge blades on his head swept through everything on this battlefield.
In the interstellar world, the Thunder Beast not only possessed terrible destructive power and his defensive power was not inferior to that of the Thor, who was the human leader's meat shield. A thunder beast with a chitinous carapace has a shell as hard as diamond. As a result, not only can it stand still when facing the armor-piercing grenades of human tanks, but it can even resist the space distortion caused by the Marauder Shock Bomb and the psychic control of human ghosts.
Subsequently, the Thunder Beast gave birth to more powerful branch king beasts and barbarian beasts. Compared to the previous breeds, the King Beast has a larger size, and the offensive weapon has changed from a pair of single-molecule blades to two pairs of single-molecule blades. The savage beast can launch a brutal spit on the air unit, so as to make up for the weakness of the thunder beast, which is unable to face the air.
Generally speaking, a thunder beast may be twenty or thirty meters high, and we can see in the opening CG of the heart of the swarm that the thunder beast stepped on the Terran tank with one kick!
But interestingly, Blizzard's inspiration when designing such a behemoth tens of meters tall was actually a small creature with a size of only a few centimeters in real life. What kind of creature is that?
This is an insect called qiāo jiǎ (锹甲) that may be pronounced "autumn armor" at first sight.
Spade armor is actually a collective name for more than a thousand of tens of thousands of beetle species, and his biggest feature is that the head of the male insect has this pair of very large palates, but in fact many female insects also have it, and its huge palate and covered with hard carapace are really very similar to the interstellar thunder beasts.
Metharivo thin spade armor
Spade beetles are insects that are aggressive by nature and prefer to lie diurnal and nocturnal, much like the unicorn fairy loved by the Japanese. But he has no small danger, that pair of huge palates are not vegetarian, generally speaking, it is not a problem to pinch people's fingers to bleed, and some individual varieties can even clip human fingers!
More representative are the two types of Custer Ghost Yan and Sumatran Giant Flat Spade Armor, whose palates are extremely powerful and can completely cut off human fingers, in other words, if he does not know who can win when he fights twice? However, a long time ago, the Japanese did have a program that experimented with these two kinds of shovels together!
Ghost shovel armor
Giant flat spade armor
Shovel armor is like the heavy warriors of the insect world, and the unicorn immortal belongs to a classification, but I personally feel that the combat power of the spade armor is much stronger than that of the unicorn immortal, and the one-horned immortal can turn the opponent over at most and the shovel armor is going to cut you off!!! So I think that's why Blizzard chose the spade armor as the prototype for the Thunder Beast!
In fact, we in StarCraft buggers can indeed see a lot of shadows of insects in our real world, sometimes one, sometimes multiple, careful players will be able to find.
Well, today's story ends here, in future articles, Barley will continue to explore the story behind the design of the Insect Clan in StarCraft for everyone, if you like it, you can pay attention to a point of praise!