StarCraft 2: RECLAIMING AIUR!

[@WaterCrane]

Aiur was never a world that was under Kerrigan's control - she remaind on Char when the Overmind and the Cerebrates invaded. Nevertheless, after the Overmind was killed, the surviving Cerebrates instead moved to Shakuras, leaving the Zerg on Aiur to turn feral. Tarsonis has feral Zerg around by the time Legacy of the Void, but their numbers are relatively few because Kerrigan did use it as her base of operations (and it was effectively her birthplace as the Queen of Blades) until near the end of the Brood War, after which she returned to Char and presumably left some of them behind.

[@LowkoTV]

Thanks for the clarification. I misspoke!

[@davidjapuntich3860]

A couple Brood War missions featured feral Zerg. By this point, all the Zerg not under the control of Kerrigan can be controlled by Amon. Zagara and most of the Swarm Queens shared control with Kerrigan after rejoining the Swarm. The most notable exception is Niadra, who Kerrigan abandoned after she took control of that Protoss ship in Heart of the Swarm. Blizzard is currently examining what she's up to in the Shadow Wars digital comics.

[@royaldarkness8453]

btw if you want a good starcraft fanfiction,you should check this novel,it super good,dark and realistic,I can say this is the best story of a utilitarian MC where if she was in the Avengers movie,it would have been over in first 10 mins there (only warning:MC will do ANYTHING to achieve her goal,so expect some betrayal) royalroadl.com/fiction/16525/the-voyager and spoiler,only read after you done the next few mission after this : fun fact: you know why Amon only begin to corrupt Khala when they begin to reclaim Aiur ? ,because when they reach there, most of the Nerazim are left back on Shakuras and there will be not much dark temple who are next to their Daelaam brother so less chance of them rescure the golden fleet from corruption in time and Amon only have one shoot to do that so he want as higher chance to corrupt all as possible

[@theonebutcher677]

Spoilers!

[@royaldarkness8453]

oh,that count as spoiler ? ,maybe this only should be readed after he done a few more mission,like back to shakuras one now I edited back so other know it will be spoiler

[@Lesquidliestone]

The opening cinematic to LOTV will always go down as one of the best cinematics Blizzard has ever made.

[@Kallettaja]

Chris Lewis I agree it's great, personally though I love the HotS trailer most

[@Lesquidliestone]

Kallettaja Gaming I've always liked the protoss better so I'm biased

[@matthewskullblood9778]

the terran one is ok but the hots one is amazing

[@estellebright2579]

Wish there was a push from so many Protoss units as cinematic.

[@孙林可]

My personal preference: LotV opening and Wrath of Lich King opening tied for number 1. Watching all those in-game Protoss things realized thanks to new CGI technology can't be more exciting. Think about BW. Think about WoL and HotS, WoL and HotS were all about human fighting bugs that quite are frequent in sci-fi movies (though they were great).

[@cathulionetharn5139]

Lowko, this is Artanis talking in the cinematic he has 3 charges per gateway and instant warp ins

[@donbionicle]

Well you didn't always need an actual structure by a Pylon for fast warp ins. This is SC2 as it was 3 years ago.

[@jkoh93]

if this was coop artanis, he wouldnt need a pylon, he can deploy a power field instead. although maybe not, cos he doesnt have the spear of adun yet. but what ship did he come in? just a normal mothership? what top bar abilities would that have? warp in 50 zealots maybe?

[@cathulionetharn5139]

He Does appear as a mothership in zeratuls vision in WoL...

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

He obviously had the warp field ability powering his gateways, so he had to make a pylon either way.

[@Existential_Tempest]

100 Gate Proxy Pylon!

[@PhantomJavelin]

Warp prisms are so overrated

[@9517-h7o]

Artanis can store up to 3 charges, so he needs

[@tynado7807]

@@9517-h7o that’s not how math works

[@yomama8935]

200 supply cap hits after 1 warp in noice

[@Azrael2812]

lowko this was definitely not the first mention of the khala, the dark templar were banished from aiur and called heretics because they rejected the khala, that point was made back in the original starcraft already. :P but this is the first time it becomes this relevant to the story so I think they polished the whole concept a bit :D

[@LowkoTV]

Good point! Thanks for the clarification.

[@VitoCalabreseVladinho10]

there are a couple of cool short novel about that you can find on the website

[@jkoh93]

from startcraft wiki : the khala was imposed on every protoss after the aeon of strife (a protoss civil war) to prevent another war. but some rogue protoss did not agree with it. adun was tasked with executing them, but instead talked to them and found that they were not irrational. he faked the executions to protect them and taught them how to cloak. but one day he was discovered, so he loaded the rogues into a xelnaga ship so that they can flee auir. the conclave was about to attack them, so adun created a blue mist using void energies to protect them. the mist caused his body to burn out, but the rogues were saved by his sacrifice, becoming dark templar. edit : upon reading further, it wasnt the conclave that attacked them. the conclave wanted to hide the existence of rogues from the public, so they wanted to banish them and ordered adun to load them into the xelnaga ship. although i dont know how they could do that with the khala. maybe the conclave had some sort of control over the khala where they could hide things but others couldnt. anyway it was some other jealous person that attacked them

[@darthvader4594]

WE ARE FINALLY RECLAIMING OUR HOMEWORLD*CRIES*

[@petercarioscia9189]

Darth Vader shouldn't you be stamping out a rebel alliance?!

[@cathulionetharn5139]

first give the jedi-akin aliens their homeworld back and when they all gather there... (Imperial March playing)

[@boltok9584]

Darth Vader Protoss/Dark Templar the first true Jedi/Sith

[@CommissarChaotic]

@@petercarioscia9189 I find your lack of faith, disturbing.

[@torchit2302]

Legacy of The Void intro -> Hero Probe! Also, my wife for Aiur!

[@diselallecringearchive2894]

my wife for hire Hehe

[@jasonlynch282]

I do this for a free washer and dryer.

[@Wraithdagger]

7:50 One time, I lost an ultralisk to a probe. Still won, but that #HeroProbe will forever be remembered as the Ultralisk Slayer.

[@excavenger3451]

And so begins the quest to find Artanis's long lost nose. And mouth. And ears. And so on.

[@santiagomachado7378]

The amount of nerd chills I got when I first saw the merging process of an Archon hasn't gone away a bit. Archons are lore-wise supposed to be psionic manifestations of the rage that burns inside the High Templar that create it, whether that rage is because they know Archon merging is a dead end to their existance or because they were forced into such choice by the circumstances. Every time I see this trailer, the chills come back. To quote Hoyt from Far Cry 3. "It brought a tear to my eye. And I'm rarely moved"

[@joelcristinamaldonado730]

The next episode... Zeratul: "I don't want to go Mr. Artanis..."

[@xergiojosebarriga9797]

Too soon...

[@martianunlimited]

It's more like.. "I don't feel so good, Mr Artanis"....

[@alexg1720]

The memes tho

[@sleepyyam5391]

I'd say Dr. Strange's line was more accurate, if only I could remember the exact wording

[@edwinelmore2082]

Unlost Ghostie i think it goes like "it was the only way..."

[@thelightningking9640]

The Zerg on Aiur are Feral Zerg and not under Kerrigan's control. Amazingly enough there are many worlds and broods Kerrigan doesn't control. I think Tarsonis was another as well.

[@derfzgrld]

Yes. Kerrigan never really tried to reunite the broods after the brood war. But how should she? She didnt have any time for that after the 2. overmind died and before that she was just not able to do that

[@fazanac7694]

This is not true ! After the Brood Wars finished and she killed all oponents Kerrigan and Swarm are stop whit invasion. And none know why this happen. Look into ingame cinematic after Raynor was escpae whit Hyperion what Matt say to Raynor. Sarah Kerrigan come for nowere and Swarm all galaxy !!! Also, Zerg Swarm never abandon all colonies, they just go from another planet to another. Zerg units on this planet are there to regrupe and get strainght. This "feral zergs" are swarm who Amon not found and not in his control !

[@tacticaldroidtx22]

There is also some portion of the Tiamat Brood on Cavir which remained feral after the death of Daggoth.

[@Max58183]

Well, comparing this mission to other "first" missions of all other Campaigns...This one is by far the most action-packed and epic one. Gold for sure. Silver goes to Protoss campaign "first" mission in SC:BW Episode IV. Where they have left Aiur... Bronze goes to SC2 WoL Terran "first" mission. Why? Because nostalgia...

[@Skylair95]

Excuse me sir, but you're forgeting Nova covert ops. The first mission there is just amazing with the infiltration part, the dungeon crawling and the vulture "race".

[@Max58183]

Thanks for the comment, but I was observing the Campaigns, not the mission packs, such as Covert Ops, LotV Prologue and Epilogue. Aside from this, yes, the first mission of Nova "campaign" was ground-breaking!

[@TrueCarthaginian]

Too short. Need more. Stop holding out on me, Lowko!

[@destructoidbot6426]

Literally was about to quit KZbin and saw a lowko campaign video and instantly changed my mind ! Lowko you are awesome please keep up with all your great content.

[@janmacek4923]

Legacy of the noses

[@besenyeim]

My Horcrux for Aiur!

[@BlueMadness666666]

12:13 you see those fancy phoenix tricks? Spinning mid battle, what show-offs

[@S3rial85]

only 17 minutes? aww man :(

[@canebro1]

Warp in 50 units... uh... maybe 50 gateways? Unless you have superior gateways, then about 17 :)

[@sillysaili]

I HAVE 8 BILLION GATEWAYS PER PLANET!!!! In my dreams :( although superior gateways is pretty good for people like me with trash macro

[@tacticaldroidtx22]

The classic 50 warp gate rush...

[@Bassterino]

wasn't power overwhelming a cheat code in starcraft Brood war? So now wonder the arcon could kill the ultralisk.

[@derfzgrld]

It was. For invincibility

[@NinjaAdorable]

Ah Ha......

[@NinjaAdorable]

Khaldhalis !!!! That Archon merge scene is too beautiful for me ........ An epic start to an epic Campaign. This intro always gets me going..

[@zaxtonhong3958]

NinjaAdorable Epic cinematic for a meh campaign.

[@NinjaAdorable]

Zaxton Hong Dude, what ? The campaign is awesome... The story is really engaging as far as I am concerned, and protoss is my favourite race.... So yeah Best Campaign in SC2

[@BigJoe6669]

that cinematic was so dope ! i remember when it came out had goosbumps too !

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

I like how the Feral Zerg on Aiur actually have old-school Queens. Aka the flyers who spawn Broodlings.

[@TheIndignation]

The Khala has definitely been mentioned lots of times Lowko :P Anyway I'm excited to keep watching this, even though things get pretty heavy pretty fast in this campaign in terms of story.

[@damionjohnstone2326]

Lowko: Its been Ages since they had their homeworld Quarians from mass effect: you know nothing of loss

[@YukishiroShikaze]

One of my fav cinematic of all time. Kaldalis and Probius are just awesome.

[@Shoepots]

God that intro is one of my favorite cinematics in all of the videogames I’ve played. So many epic chills.

[@praisekek6634]

Blizzard makes the best trailers of any companie. They are so good at this

[@georgeacosta8570]

Lowko en verdad esperaba que agregaras el video de "reclamation" al principio, muestra una conversacion entre Artanis y el zealot del video. De cualquier maneta estoy muy emocionado por ver el resto de la campaña. Saludos desde Argentina

[@rodmusic3787]

So many years and still everytime i see Zeratul i cry, brother youll not be forgotten, the best guy in Starcraft lore, he was the MVP in this story

[@snarejayltr842]

Lowko youre twice the man I am! I dont understand why but I do shed a tear everytime I see most of the cutscenes, especially this trailer. I need help man jhahahah it gets me everytime! Keep it up by the way your videos are amazing and I hope ill get as good as you one day! I remember your Queen inject videos, thats what got me in Diamond League. Love from Canada!

[@PowefulLucy]

a zealoth manages to get 3 banelings, 2 templar become into archon almost instantly and manages to beat ultra in 1v1 and Lowko just cares about how many warpgates toss have :D I love it

[@lovehawks2814]

The Khala is actually one of the StarCraft concepts that goes all the way back to the beginning. It was mentioned in the background information of the Protoss way back in the original release's manual.

[@epultric5007]

It's going to be so fun watching lowko experiment with the war council units

[@Replikar134]

I always get goosebumps all over my body, the trailers are so awesome and i love starcraft

[@spamfilter32]

Sent chills down my spine when the newly minted Cotton Ball said "Power Overwhelming!"

[@fedirkryvyi]

It is even a bit odd to watch Lowko playing lotv the second time on his channel, but I am still loving it!!! It would be cool to see some montage comparing his first walkthrough and this one 🤣

[@Fitoju]

That would be very cool

[@SZRLM]

3:20 (The Invasion of Auir) Lowko, a filthy Zerg player: How many Gateways do you have? Every Protoss player: Whatever is takes.

[@navi2710]

Finally some. SC2. Loko thank you for bring Sc2 back to KZbin.

[@JotaDeeMeO]

A tip for you Lowko, check the enemy units you are attacking, you see old SC1/Broodwar units like Zerg Queens and whatnot. it's a cool detail.

[@leom9744]

It's true there is always light at the end of the tunnel thank you lowko i needed that

[@toekie3352]

I KNEW IT. I was already betting on lowko going to talk about the archon vs ultra. Just as you did during the old LotV play!

[@phanCAbe]

Oof no joke on Blizzard having the best trailers. That lone Zealot getting ready to make his last stand brings a tear to my eye Every. Time.

[@cameroncruz8956]

The opening cinematic was what actually brought me to love StarCraft 😍

[@alexanderelson6324]

by the end of the trailer i had goosebumps on my skull, didn't know i could haave those until seeing this

[@Lesquidliestone]

10:38 demonitized 🤔

[@bogdanalexandruungureanu9592]

The Khala is also mentioned ONCE in Starcraft 1 during the briefing before a Protoss mission.

[@destructoidbot6426]

Hey lowko the protoss who died to let you escape in the last prologue mission is actually one of the personalities that fenix can have in the coop missions .

[@BatteryProductions]

The best cinematics for sure!

[@ssmanchat]

Khala was mentioned since the beginning of the original StarCraft lore (I think in the game manual). It just wasn't mentioned in the game itself.

[@SimaoRodrigues...]

Love your casts and lotv playthrough, keep up da gut work

[@youssefbenyahia5614]

Lowko I apologize for saying the word on stream (as killerbangos) yesterday I didn't know u don't like it

[@Zekurity]

Aw, you didn't show the cutscene in the end.

[@Anomen77]

In order to get the "kill all Zerg units in less than 10 minutes" achievement you have to kill the drones before killing the hatcheries. When killing a hatchery all the drones burrow and you don't have vision so you can't complete the achievement. I had to try so many times until I read that somewhere.

[@Max58183]

Lowko, do you remember StarCraft: Brood War first campaign mission? When Protoss escaped from Aiur? With small group of survivors, seeking shelter on Shakuras? Now it's time to return the favor!

[@simonstaysnclr]

Always loved the fact the Zerg on Aiur use units from the original StarCraft

[@mikerado1681]

Here we gooo!!! Legacy of the Bois is here finally!

[@glassdtomato4046]

Those flying queens bring so much memories for me...

[@romank9611]

8:02 Fun fact, in his old playthrough he also was taken back and commented on the phoenix speed

[@TheDubDisciple]

That wreckage in the background is Tassadar's ship. No one ever notices the significance of that... the Protoss decided to start their reclamation of Aiur at the exact place that their leader gave his last stand and killing the Overmind.

[@jkoh93]

artanis spelled backwards is?

[@dy1antheidiot395]

*anis*

[@redarkhon482]

@@dy1antheidiot395 it's actually my name, and I used the nickname Arthanis As a mix of Artanis Arthas and Anis back in the days.

[@randomdude7052]

It’s Sinatra

[@f00dify]

This is one of those situations where the main character would say 'I told you so', but knowing Zeratul he won't.

[@cybergrimmmmmmmm]

blizzard: "hey remember that trailer for LotV?" "yeah, we're making that into a coop commander"

[@MinesCafeOHG]

1:12 That's a new one, Melee Hydra.

[@sweetxnothing13]

0:31 the chills tho

[@MrTuranic]

They perfectly explained how to play as protoss at the start of the mission: press f2 to select army, then a-click to send them on attack.

[@genericgamer5137]

what i thought of just now. remeber in the terran campaign zeratul gave james a crystal, and on the 3rd misson he went to auir, and it look like every zearg unit is there including infested terrans, in heart of the swawrm kerragan should of just went to auir and reclaim all the feral zerg and she would of gotten all the zerg units in one go.

[@KayakithLebita]

One does not simply unsee "legacy of the boys" version of this opening

[@nahrms]

2:30 archons counter everything

[@SlayPlenty]

7:31 well unless the archon creates a wormhole and pulls his foe into it. DUUHH

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

14:00 actually the Khala was mentioned plenty in SC1 and also the Starcraft manual.

[@katianamonero4820]

OMG!! This is it! This is the completion of a cycle initiated with the first SC Remastered!

[@ryanfrantz8994]

Goosebumps on your legs? Lowko doesn't have legs...

[@Luhrak]

The cinematics are so gooood - they not only give me goosebumbs all over my body - I hven start to cry at iconic and badass voice-lines. xD :´)

[@PeterAviro5370]

Lowko, I strongly recommend you to watch the "Reconquista" video . It shows the prologe to Artanis's invation on Aiur.

[@michaelahn8329]

A shield battery was hidden behind the pylon. That is how archon was able to fight the ultralisk.

[@farbodbadihi5332]

If you look closely you'll see that before the archon melts those zerglings his shield goes up and breaks a moment before he gets smashed against the wall

[@calming_cat]

The cutscene and storyline of the first 7 missions of lotv so good, too bad that they couldn't keep up the good work in the later missions.

[@acezafra216]

that trailer was so sick!

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

Goosebumps every time...

[@kr1mzy26]

7:32 I mean... none of them did actually win... both the archon and ultralisk died, so it's more of a stalemate right?

[@fynon35]

the Light at the end of a tunnel can be a train aswell

[@ibainesy]

Regardless of the quality of game, the story and all that, Blizzard's quality of their cinematic cut-scenes is A+ every time.

[@JosephiKrakowski512]

Man that mission is so cool

[@mastersonogashira1796]

You made the exact comments on the the fenix chasing muta 2 years ago Lowko :)

[@hisser3]

yeah that opening movie, i think, is my favorite of the 3

[@SolusEmsu]

Yesssss Artanis! Best hero. Bae. Alright boys let's do this LEEROOOOYYYYYY!!! The Khala has been there since the beginning story, but it was never really focused upon. Mostly in the lorebooks.

[@gamechanger8908]

I'm how many years late Lowko, but Fenix says something like this in the first game "I fear no enemy for the khala is my strength, I fear not death for our strength is eternal"

[@Boiling_Seas]

Those colossi can get quite the workout in this mission if you choose to. Kill everything before they can strike at your deathball.

[@Ta0SaPa0]

After xelnaga artifact use on kerrigan during wing of liberty, she lose control of all zerg swarm, during heart of the swarm she never came to reclaim the swarm on aiur because she was more focus on attacking korhal, the zerg on aiur is still feral or under amon influence

[@kaptankancik9816]

THIS DOESN’T COUNT AS AN EPISODE, ONE MORE😭

[@cremisi26]

Power Overwhelming == Invincibility!! oh how I miss these kinds of cheats

[@luiscabrales3478]

One of the best game trailers

[@istvanbalogh3197]

The zealot called Kaldalis from coop

[@NinjaAdorable]

István Balogh kaldhalis dies in the charge as the vanguard and is reborn as a Purifier. So is Tapos.who dies saving Zeratul in the prologue.

[@MrShirial]

You can also get Probius in coop if you play as Fenix and researched all 6 A.I Personalities

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

8:20 Well, it's probably a heroic unit.

[@Grey_World1]

Power overwhelming! It's beautiful, they should have sent a poet. Break on through!

[@Urza26]

"Back when she took control of this world, she was still under the influence as well..." - Lowko, under the influence.

[@milodon316]

13:35 lowko: "also, by the way i'm pretty sure this right here is the first mention of the khala, right?" Literaly "For the Khala is my strength!" is one of the quotes of the first protoss heroic unit you meet in SC1 campaing, Fenix. i wouldn't trust your memory lowko

[@natureshamy]

The Halo trailers are really good too. Not a big fan of FPS but I LOVED the ODST Live Action trailer.