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A rare pencil drawing concept art from StarCraft 1 showing a Zerg Hydralisk, Ultralisk, and Zergling. I have never found the original source, it has a bit of a frame with a drop shadow peeking into the corner that suggests it was maybe part of a magazine spread or something. I saved it from a website that no longer exists.

A high res full-color render of the 3D model used to create the sprites for the Zerg Scourge. A small, black and white version of this image exists in the game's manual, but to my knowledge only a few full-color ones were shared with a German games magazine/website interview, that also is no longer online.

Images of an unpainted prototype scale model kit of a Protoss Zealot, by Nucle/Academy. The company went out of business before putting this model into production. The model is not completely accurate to the game's 3D model Zealot, and in this images is standing too-upright, but it is far better than the Zealot action figure that exists.

Concept art orthographic views for a Protoss reaver for the StarCraft board game, posted by the artist to the conceptart.org forums before those died. The artist was not given any secret reference material of the original SC1 units, so for those he would draw a few different possible interpretations based on the sprites and submit them for licensor approval. For some of the newer units that appeared in StarCraft: Ghost, he was given reference of those to follow instead. So, this is not really SC1 art, more like officially licensed 'fan art,' but it is interesting to see, and again its original source is gone from the internet.

The media property where I do save everything related I can get my hands on is the original StarCraft. That was my big early experience with websites going down and previously-accessible artwork being completely gone from the internet. So I started saving everything, here are some random rare things

Oh no I haven’t finished the @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social list yet don’t do this to me

Sadly looks like the panel got, in a twist of irony, scheduled right in the middle of the StarCraft tournament I’m helping cast. Will see if I can slip out but deffo will show up for the signing event!

Yooo I’ll be there too! Will deffo drop by. Actually will be displaying part of my StarCraft collection in the Magfest Museum this year too!

You can’t powerwash terran tech, that’s load bearing dirt you’re removing

StarCraft’s banshee was always peak for that

Another random StarCraft model turntable. This ship never appears in game, but is briefly in the cinematics. The SC wiki calls it a 'recovery vessel.' This was also the last ship model I made before starting to do some sort of method for window interiors. Encapsulates the SC1 terran style very well!

When you just finished Acthung Panzer on the James list so now you understand the pre-war assessment of French tanks.

A screenshot from the SC:Ghost intro cinematic featuring Nova in a red-lit dropship hold.

A screenshot from a StarCraft 2 cinematic, featuring Kerrigan wearing the same type of suit as Nova in the previous shot, probably a retextured version of the same geometry.

The cancelled SC:Ghost's cinematics are never mentioned by Blizzard, not even in the 'Cinematic Art of #StarCraft' book, which jumps from SC1 to SC2 with nothing between. But SC2 reused a number of assets from those SCG cinematics with only minor modifications. Here is a thread with some examples:

DAVID BROOKS SAYS GENERAL STRIKE NOW AND BILL KRISTOL SAYS ABOLISH ICE

Breaking in BlueSky with my most unhinged rant on the new Hydralisk ability name for the StarCraft II patch

New website, same lore

If you want to get into StarCraft lore I made a revival project for all the short stories and webcomics, Chronicles of the Great Wars. You can check it out here!

drive.google.com/file/d/1kgvF...

For the sake of posterity, the reading lists I made for military theory and war related literature.