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The original was posted on /r/starcraft by /u/yuikkiuy on 2025-07-14 17:30:14+00:00.

So i have a crack theory on the origins of abathur as the player character from SC1.

Matt Horner and Selendis were supposed to be the player characters afaik before they did the perspective change to the main cast.

But what of unnamed cerebrate no.5? What we know is that we were birthed by the overmind for the express purpose of raising kerrigan who at the time was a terran in a cocoon. And in SC2 we know that abathur was directly responsible for the evolution and mutation of kerrigan as she isnt a run of the mil zerg HEV infected terran, she was hand crafted by the overmind.

Pre SC2 all zerg who had independant thought were cerebrates, which means abathur, a being with independant thought would have been a cerebrate under the overmind.

Seeing as unnamed cerebrate no.5 was the only surviving cerebrate who served kerrigan from the moment she was concieved it would make sense for her to do something special with him. We know she created SC2 queens to replace cerebrates, so i propose that she created abathur using the player character during this time.

We spend half the OG campaign guarding and nurturing kerrigan, so it makes sense that we were working on her evolution under the guidance of the overmind as the overseeing cerebrate aka abathur