Abathur (Starcraft)
Abathur is a video game character who features in Starcraft.
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Biography
Abathur was an organism that was created by the Overmind during the departure of the Zerg from their homeworld of Zerus. The hive-minded race sought out to assimilate other forms of life and incorporate it within the Swarm in order to achieve perfection. To aid in this process, the Overmind used genetic sequences from various races that were assimilated in order to spin an organism to improve the Zerg’s evolution. There would be no other creature like it as it would be a brood of one leading to the emergence of Abathur.
After the capture of Sarah Kerrigan, the Overmind sensed within the Terran the potential to become its greatest creation. Thus, she was given over to Abathur who had her go through a painful transformation into becoming one of the Zerg.
Kerrigan, now following her own agenda, found Abathur aboard a leviathan. To her frustration, Abathur seemed to consider her and the Queen of Blades as separate entities. In Abathur's view, the Queen of Blades had carried ancient zerg qualities, with only minor terran influence. Kerrigan as she was now, was 'infected' with more terran matter. He offered to 'improve' Kerrigan but she refused. She was, however, willing to let Abathur evolve the Swarm. She was suffering from memory loss, and could not recall her background with the creature. Abathur obliged. While Kerrigan was out on missions, Abathur experimented on zerg and searched for worlds where he could derive strains from existing breeds. When readied, he showed these to Kerrigan through demonstrations, and evolved the appropriate strain chosen by her. Kerrigan eventually learnt the truth of what Abathur had done to her after her infestation at Tarsonis. She told him that she'd have killed him if he wasn't vital to her plans. Abathur was puzzled by her anger.
Kerrigan brought her Swarm to the icy moon of Kaldir. Abathur commented that the zerg were suffering due to the moon's extreme cold, with temperatures as low as that of deep space. He explained that apart from the leviathan and Mutalisks, there was no need to have driven the Swarm to adapt to such cold temperatures beforehand. He informed Kerrigan that he would look for local fauna, to assimilate their essence to allow the zerg to better cope with the conditions. He recommended that the Swarm absorb ursadon matriarch essence to achieve this end. In the conflict that resulted against the protoss forces present on the moon, a prisoner was taken at Abathur's request. He wanted to dissect her, even though protoss genetic material was useless to the Swarm. Instead, Kerrigan kept the protoss as a prisoner. In the subsequent battle, Abathur was able to reconstruct the hydralisk. He recommended that Kerrigan's forces retrieve biomass the protoss had stored. The protoss forces on the ground were defeated, but they still had a spaceworthy vessel that they intended to escape to Shakuras. By implanting the prisoner with a parasite and letting the protoss teleport her away, Kerrigan was able to use the parasite to cripple the protoss ship from the inside. Abathur was impressed with Kerrigan's lateral thinking, but did not know the parasite's origins. Kerrigan revealed that she had created it herself, that Abathur wasn't the only one able to spin sequences. Taking in the 'revelation', Abathur continued his work.
Overview
Personality and attributes
His position within the Swarm led to him being referred to as the Evolution Master.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Abathur was created by Blizzard Entertainment where he was voiced by actor Steve Blum.
In other media
Video games
- In Heroes of the Storm, Abathur appeared as a playable character in the setting of the MOBA video game.
Appearances
- Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm:
- Heroes of the Storm:
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