
↑, Phill Gonzales - Discord Questions.StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void: Reclamation lore video (in English). ↑ (September 25, 2015) Blizzard Entertainment.StarCraft II Creative Development Q&A - Part 12. ↑, Heroes of the Storm is teasing new Warcraft, Starcraft crossover content.
Mission: Nova Covert Ops, Trouble in Paradise (in English). Mission: Wings of Liberty, All-In (air version) (in English).
↑, StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void - Reclamation. Cite error: Invalid tag name "SC:Moth" defined multiple times with different content Cinematic: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm opening (in English). Mission: Heart of the Swarm, Conviction (in English). ↑ Heart of the Swarm Index, Blizzard Entertainment. Mission: Wings of Liberty, Shatter the Sky (in English). However, early on the team decided to pivot to the name "leviathan" in order to have a more thematically named zerg unit. Early on in StarCraft II's development, the leviathan was intended to be the design for the behemoth, the established zerg supercarrier strain. The unit description states that the leviathan spawns scourges and mutalisks however, the game unit spawns mutalisks and brood lords instead. However, this contradicts the presence of leviathans at the Fall of Aiur. According to Brian Kindregan, Kerrigan assimilated leviathans into the Swarm between the events of the Brood War and Second Great War. In Modern Hebrew, it simply means "Whale." In Isaiah and the Psalms, "leviathan" can represent Egypt, the traditional nemesis of Israel. BDB translates leviathan as serpent or dragon. The Leviathan is a large creature in the Bible (e.g. Īrtwork of an undead leviathan appeared in the Heroes of the Storm CraftWars event. Its attacks include time-delayed explosive globules and four tentacles. The leviathan is the level 2 boss for the Lost Viking arcade game in Hyperion 's cantina. By 2511, leviathans continued to be a core part of the Zerg Swarm's stellar arsenal. Years later, feral leviathans were lured to Tyrador IX via psi-emitters from the Defenders of Man. Leviathans were used by Kerrigan when the Zerg Swarm entered the Void through Ulnar in the last stages of the End War. A number of leviathans under the command of Broodmother Kilysa formed a blockade to prevent the Dominion Fleet from entering the system. Leviathans alongside terran and protoss shipsĭuring the Swarm invasion of Korhal, Arcturus Mengsk ordered any and all Dominion troops from across the sector to return to the capital world. It would fly to different planets and land on them at her direction. Upon her return to the Swarm, Kerrigan's new base of operations was a leviathan. These broods were then scattered or destroyed. During the Battle of Char, zerg broods in leviathans were on their way to the planet when Kerrigan was de-infested. They were used by the Swarm in war as early as the fall of Aiur, and at least one was present at Char in the Second Great War. Leviathans were once space-borne creatures before being infested by the zerg, turning them into armored carriers. Leviathans rarely, if ever, travel alone.
Furthermore, cocoons birthed within the leviathan are capable of mutating into mutalisks and brood lords. Most leviathans can launch bile swarms at their enemies, and unleash powerful bio-plasmid charges that deal devastating damage to their targets. Giant, hollow tentacles resembling those of the spine crawler can grab smaller craft or puncture the hulls of larger ships and insert zerg boarding parties. Leviathans are typically armed with a daunting array of bio-weapons. The internal tunnels of the leviathan have no illumination, though many of the chambers themselves have light. Because of the sheer size, wraith sensors are unable to penetrate deep enough to see the leviathans' interior spaces. They can operate in temperature conditions of near absolute zero and are capable of traveling through warp space. Leviathans possess interior evolution chambers, can store tens of thousands of zerg strains within their interior chambers, and are capable of deep-space travel and can land on planets. They are classified as class-10 zerg flyers and are the largest in terran records, even larger than a mothership, though dwarfed by an arkship, and have been referred to as "moon sized." Measurements taken by the Terran Dominion have placed the leviathan at being around 6.7 kilometers long. Leviathans are the zerg's equivalent of a capital ship.