Post by Valsharen on Mar 4, 2006 8:14:30 GMT -5
This is just a synopsis of what has happened in Starcraft so far:
The plot of the original StarCraft game revolves around the Terran civilization in the Koprulu Sector, which was founded by former prisoners. The most powerful Terran faction is the Terran Confederacy. It is opposed by other factions, such as the terrorist organization "Sons of Korhal". The arrival of the Zerg, led by the Overmind and its Cerebrates, greatly complicates matters for the Terrans. The Zerg Swarm is itself closely followed by a Protoss fleet, led by High Templar Executor Tassadar, which burns all worlds the Zerg infest.
After the Protoss destroy the Confederate colony on Chau Sara, the Zerg are used by the rebel organization Sons of Korhal, whose leader Arcturus Mengsk lures them to a number of Confederate installations using psi-emitters to further his own goals. Mengsk acquires the services of General Edmund Duke, a Confederate general, and sacrifices his right-hand woman, the psychic Sarah Kerrigan, to the Zerg after she begins to object to his morals and tactics. This action alienates another of his followers, Jim Raynor, who, along with the unnamed commander played by the player, flees from Mengsk with a small number of soldiers.
After the Confederacy's fall, Arcturus Mengsk reorganizes the Terran worlds he controls into the Terran Dominion, crowning himself Emperor. Meanwhile, the Zerg flee to the planet Char with their prize, Kerrigan, who is in the process of becoming a Zerg in a cocoon under the protection of a Cerebrate under player control.
Tassadar discovers that he can disrupt the Overmind's control over the Swarm by eliminating its Cerebrate servants with the help of the Dark Templar, a group of Protoss who have forsaken their ancestral psionic powers and the religion of the Khala. While on Char, Tassadar encounters one of the Overmind's newest servants, the recently infested Kerrigan, a powerful psychic. The involvement of the fallen Dark Templar will prove to be fateful; indeed, while slaying the Cerebrate Zasz, the Dark Templar leader Zeratul briefly comes in psychic contact with the Overmind, which is then informed of the Protoss home-world Aiur's location and directs its Swarm towards the Protoss world. This contact also gives Zeratul knowledge of the origin of the Zerg.
The Zerg inflict a number of heavy defeats upon the Protoss, who fight back bitterly, but are simultaneously involved in a civil war between the Protoss high authority, the Conclave, and the alliance between Tassadar and the Dark Templar, with whom the player's character is aligned. In a desperate attempt to put an end to the Zerg's destructive rampage, Tassadar, Zeratul, and the remaining Protoss unite their strengths with Terran forces and attack the Overmind itself. They manage to crush its outer shell, and Tassadar sacrifices himself by ramming his ship into the vulnerable form of the Overmind, thereby killing it.
Following Tassadar's sacrifice, the Zerg on the Protoss homeworld are in disarray, but still overwhelmingly numerous. Protoss refugees retreat to Shakuras, the homeworld of the Dark Templar, despite protests from Aldaris, the leader of the Conclave. They are, however, followed there by the Zerg. The Protoss and Dark Templar reluctantly join forces with Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg forces, after she explains she's now free of the Overmind's control, but that a new Overmind is growing on Char. Kerrigan asks for their help to kill it before it reaches maturity and takes control of Kerrigan's mind again. However, the Protoss ask for a favor in return. Two ancient crystals, fused with the powers of the dark and high templar, must be recovered to defeat the Zerg on Shakuras. The two crystals are discovered and the Overmind is crippled to slow its development. During the battles, a massive Terran fleet from the distant United Earth Directorate intervenes, and Aldaris, troubled by their alliance with the "traitorous" Dark Templar, gathers supporters and declares war on Zeratul's forces and the Dark Templar. The two crystals, infused with the power of the two templars, are then joined in a Xel'Naga temple on Shakuras. The two energies fuse and destroy all Zerg on the planet, thus saving the Protoss.
United Earth Directorate (UED) Expeditionary Fleet, assigned to subdue the Terran worlds in this sector, but their high-handed actions quickly make enemies of all the various Zerg and Protoss factions as well. Their first enemy to fall is Mengsk's Dominion, and later they also gain telepathic control of the local Zerg. Kerrigan convinces Raynor to rescue Mengsk. Though divided by a Zerg-infested human spy, Samir Duran, the UED succeeds in capturing and enslaving the new Overmind and control of Zerg swarms.
With the massive UED fleet controlling increasing numbers of Zerg, Kerrigan is severely threatened. Painting herself as a victim, and the combined Zerg-UED as the greater enemy (as well as the judicious use of threats and hostages), Kerrigan gains the reluctant assistance of the scattered Terran, Protoss and Dark Templar forces. As the UED is beaten back, however, she turns on each of her "allies" one by one. The Overmind is killed by the Dark Templar, and Kerrigan gains complete control of the Zerg. Eventually, Kerrigan defeats the Protoss, UED, and Dominion fleets in a single epic battle, and by the end reigns as the dominant power in the galaxy. In this campaign, Duran is an ally of Kerrigan, though it is revealed in the secret mission, "Dark Origins", that he is a much greater power than at first thought, and his true origins are unknown. It is also discovered that he has made many thousands of Zerg-Protoss Hybrids...
The plot of the original StarCraft game revolves around the Terran civilization in the Koprulu Sector, which was founded by former prisoners. The most powerful Terran faction is the Terran Confederacy. It is opposed by other factions, such as the terrorist organization "Sons of Korhal". The arrival of the Zerg, led by the Overmind and its Cerebrates, greatly complicates matters for the Terrans. The Zerg Swarm is itself closely followed by a Protoss fleet, led by High Templar Executor Tassadar, which burns all worlds the Zerg infest.
After the Protoss destroy the Confederate colony on Chau Sara, the Zerg are used by the rebel organization Sons of Korhal, whose leader Arcturus Mengsk lures them to a number of Confederate installations using psi-emitters to further his own goals. Mengsk acquires the services of General Edmund Duke, a Confederate general, and sacrifices his right-hand woman, the psychic Sarah Kerrigan, to the Zerg after she begins to object to his morals and tactics. This action alienates another of his followers, Jim Raynor, who, along with the unnamed commander played by the player, flees from Mengsk with a small number of soldiers.
After the Confederacy's fall, Arcturus Mengsk reorganizes the Terran worlds he controls into the Terran Dominion, crowning himself Emperor. Meanwhile, the Zerg flee to the planet Char with their prize, Kerrigan, who is in the process of becoming a Zerg in a cocoon under the protection of a Cerebrate under player control.
Tassadar discovers that he can disrupt the Overmind's control over the Swarm by eliminating its Cerebrate servants with the help of the Dark Templar, a group of Protoss who have forsaken their ancestral psionic powers and the religion of the Khala. While on Char, Tassadar encounters one of the Overmind's newest servants, the recently infested Kerrigan, a powerful psychic. The involvement of the fallen Dark Templar will prove to be fateful; indeed, while slaying the Cerebrate Zasz, the Dark Templar leader Zeratul briefly comes in psychic contact with the Overmind, which is then informed of the Protoss home-world Aiur's location and directs its Swarm towards the Protoss world. This contact also gives Zeratul knowledge of the origin of the Zerg.
The Zerg inflict a number of heavy defeats upon the Protoss, who fight back bitterly, but are simultaneously involved in a civil war between the Protoss high authority, the Conclave, and the alliance between Tassadar and the Dark Templar, with whom the player's character is aligned. In a desperate attempt to put an end to the Zerg's destructive rampage, Tassadar, Zeratul, and the remaining Protoss unite their strengths with Terran forces and attack the Overmind itself. They manage to crush its outer shell, and Tassadar sacrifices himself by ramming his ship into the vulnerable form of the Overmind, thereby killing it.
Following Tassadar's sacrifice, the Zerg on the Protoss homeworld are in disarray, but still overwhelmingly numerous. Protoss refugees retreat to Shakuras, the homeworld of the Dark Templar, despite protests from Aldaris, the leader of the Conclave. They are, however, followed there by the Zerg. The Protoss and Dark Templar reluctantly join forces with Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg forces, after she explains she's now free of the Overmind's control, but that a new Overmind is growing on Char. Kerrigan asks for their help to kill it before it reaches maturity and takes control of Kerrigan's mind again. However, the Protoss ask for a favor in return. Two ancient crystals, fused with the powers of the dark and high templar, must be recovered to defeat the Zerg on Shakuras. The two crystals are discovered and the Overmind is crippled to slow its development. During the battles, a massive Terran fleet from the distant United Earth Directorate intervenes, and Aldaris, troubled by their alliance with the "traitorous" Dark Templar, gathers supporters and declares war on Zeratul's forces and the Dark Templar. The two crystals, infused with the power of the two templars, are then joined in a Xel'Naga temple on Shakuras. The two energies fuse and destroy all Zerg on the planet, thus saving the Protoss.
United Earth Directorate (UED) Expeditionary Fleet, assigned to subdue the Terran worlds in this sector, but their high-handed actions quickly make enemies of all the various Zerg and Protoss factions as well. Their first enemy to fall is Mengsk's Dominion, and later they also gain telepathic control of the local Zerg. Kerrigan convinces Raynor to rescue Mengsk. Though divided by a Zerg-infested human spy, Samir Duran, the UED succeeds in capturing and enslaving the new Overmind and control of Zerg swarms.
With the massive UED fleet controlling increasing numbers of Zerg, Kerrigan is severely threatened. Painting herself as a victim, and the combined Zerg-UED as the greater enemy (as well as the judicious use of threats and hostages), Kerrigan gains the reluctant assistance of the scattered Terran, Protoss and Dark Templar forces. As the UED is beaten back, however, she turns on each of her "allies" one by one. The Overmind is killed by the Dark Templar, and Kerrigan gains complete control of the Zerg. Eventually, Kerrigan defeats the Protoss, UED, and Dominion fleets in a single epic battle, and by the end reigns as the dominant power in the galaxy. In this campaign, Duran is an ally of Kerrigan, though it is revealed in the secret mission, "Dark Origins", that he is a much greater power than at first thought, and his true origins are unknown. It is also discovered that he has made many thousands of Zerg-Protoss Hybrids...