Kerrigan came back and was zergified again using the "original" source. The swarm went into disarray queen's evolved out of a necessity and essentially went back to a pack behavior. When the Xelnaga artifact was used on her it wiped the "Perfect the swarm directive". (Best way to put it would be overmind is leader cerebrates officers and overlords NCOs everything else) Overmind and cerebrates were killed, Kerrigan took over developed queens in place of Cerebrates, but still had the original drive to perfect the swarm. The zerg forces got bigger so the Overmind developed the cerebrates to help control the swarm. Implanted goal was to make the zerg "perfect" by assimilating the protoss. The zerg taken were then bound to a singular driving entity the overmind. The xelnaga Amon came in saw the rapid evolution trait and decided that it would be best to use them to develop the "purity of form". The primal zerg all the lower creatures (drones lings etc) haven't consumed enough mutations to develop "higher thought." The smarter and stronger a zerg developed, the higher on the leadership order until it got to be a pack leader. The zerg are a species that rapidly evolves assimilating mutations that it finds useful. He's so expensive to build the Overmind could only afford Abathur. There's only one Evolution Master of the Swarm after all. There's just not many of those of course. I would hazard a guess that the truly intelligent zerg are waaaaay smarter than the Terran and probably approach the Protoss. Higher resource investment should be able to intelligently operate itself without micromanaging. As you go up in the tech tree it would make sense to have them be smarter. In conclusion, most zerg, by quantity, have basic animal intelligence. except they are resolved 2 missions after you meet him. Stukov is the Infested rep, he at least has a story and a purpose. Dehaka is kind of cool, but he doesn't have a purpose.
Move to SC2 and we have cardboard cut-out Kerrigan, "What is free will?" Zagara, and a cooky scientist that gets barely any characterization. Kerrigan is almost a prophet figure to them. It's almost as if the Overmind is their God and the cerebrates its priests. In SC1 the few Zerg characters we got were fascinating. I wish we got more speaking Zerg characters.
The cerebrates are mentioned to not have free will of their own, Kerrigan specifically retained hers though she could not act against the Overmind still. Because Zerg are immortal there is even an overlord that has been with the swarm for millions of years. They were almost entirely unchanged from their original forms and were presumably quite intelligent as they willingly joined the Swarm to prevent extinction from an ecological disaster.
Overlords were assimilated for their psionic abilities that allow them to control the Zerg. They are capable of making basic decisions on their own, but only to ensure their own survival and ability to protect the swarm. It directs the swarm, and they all work to the Overminds goals. The Overmind doesn't literally control each and every Zerg. I remember Hydralisks being mentioned as being smarter than things like drones and zerglings. In the books many of the zerg are decently intelligent. r/wow /r/diablo /r/hearthstone /r/heroesofthestorm /r/overwatch Same- and similar-topic submissions that exceed 4 per top 25 Promotional submissions that exceed "2 per 1 per 1"ĭuplicate results posts for the same individual match will be removed. To hide spoilers use format: (/spoiler) ( details)ĭeceptive links to shock sites, malware, etc
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