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Authors: Christie Golden
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Unwil ing to become a propaganda tool, the reporter
begins transmitting rogue news broadcasts that
expose Mengsk’s oppressive tactics.
StarCraft: Liberty’s Crusade
by Jeff Grubb)
StarCraft: Queen of Blades
by Aaron
Rosenberg)
Arcturus Mengsk declares himself emperor of the
Terran Dominion, a new government that takes power
over many of the terran planets in the Koprulu sector.
StarCraft: I, Mengsk
by Graham McNeil )
Dominion senator Corbin Phash discovers that
his young son, Colin, can attract hordes of deadly
zerg with his psionic abilities—a talent that the
Dominion sees as a useful weapon.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 1, “Weapon of War”
by Paul Benjamin, David Shramek, and Hector
Sevil a)
The supreme ruler of the zerg, the Overmind,
discovers the location of the protoss homeworld of
Aiur. The zerg invade the planet, but the heroic high
templar Tassadar sacrifices himself to destroy the
Overmind. However, much of Aiur is left in ruins. The
remaining Aiur protoss flee through a warp gate
created by the xel’naga—an ancient alien race that is
thought to have influenced the evolution of the zerg
and the protoss—and are transported to the dark
templar planet Shakuras. For the first time since the
dark templar were banished from Aiur, the two
protoss societies are reunited.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 3, “Twilight Archon”
by Ren Zatopek and Noel Rodriguez)
StarCraft: Queen of Blades
by Aaron
Rosenberg)
StarCraft: Twilight
, book three of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
The zerg pursue the refugees from the planet
Aiur through the warp gate to Shakuras. Jim Raynor
and his forces, who had become al ies with Tassadar
and the dark templar Zeratul, stay behind on Aiur in
order to shut down the warp gate. Meanwhile, Zeratul
and the protoss executor Artanis utilize the powers of
an ancient xel’naga temple on Shakuras to purge the
zerg that have already invaded the planet.
StarCraft: Shadow Hunters
, book two of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
On the fringe world of Bhekar Ro, two terran
siblings named Octavia and Lars stumble upon a
recently
unearthed
xel’naga
artifact.
Their
investigation goes awry when the device absorbs
Lars and fires a mysterious beam of light into space,
attracting the attention of the protoss and the zerg.
Before long, Bhekar Ro is engulfed in a brutal conflict
among terran, protoss, and zerg forces as each fights
to claim the strange artifact.
StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel’Naga
by Gabriel
Mesta)
The United Earth Directorate (UED), having
observed the conflict between the terrans, the zerg,
and the protoss, arrives in the Koprulu sector from
Earth in order to take control. To accomplish its goal,
the UED captures a fledgling Overmind on the zerg-
occupied planet of Char. The Queen of Blades,
Mengsk, Raynor, and the protoss put aside their
differences and work together in order to defeat the
UED and the new Overmind. These unlikely al ies
manage to accomplish their goal, and after the death
of the second Overmind, the Queen of Blades attains
control over al zerg in the Koprulu sector.
On an uncharted moon near Char, Zeratul
encounters the terran Samir Duran, once an al y of the
Queen of Blades. Zeratul discovers that Duran has
successful y spliced together zerg and protoss DNA
to create a hybrid, a creation that Duran ominously
prophesizes wil change the universe forever.
Arcturus Mengsk exterminates half of his ghost
operatives to ensure loyalty among the former
Confederate agents who have been integrated into
the Dominion ghost program. Additional y, he
establishes a new Ghost Academy on Ursa, a moon
orbiting Korhal IV.
StarCraft: Shadow Hunters
, book two of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
Corbin Phash sends his son, Colin, into hiding
from the Dominion, whose agents are hunting down
the young boy to exploit his psionic abilities. Corbin
flees to the Umojan Protectorate, a terran government
independent of the Dominion.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 3, “War-Torn” by
Paul Benjamin, David Shramek, and Hector Sevil a)
The young Colin Phash is captured by the
Dominion and sent to the Ghost Academy.
Meanwhile, his father, Corbin, acts as a dissenting
voice against the Dominion from the Umojan
Protectorate. For his outspoken opposition, Corbin
becomes the target of an assassination attempt.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 4, “Orientation” by
Paul Benjamin, David Shramek, and Mel Joy San
Juan)
2501
Nova Terra, having escaped the destruction of
her homeworld, Tarsonis, trains alongside other gifted
terrans and hones her psionic talents at the Ghost
Academy.
StarCraft: Ghost: Nova
by Keith R. A.
DeCandido)
StarCraft: Ghost Academy
, volume 1, by Keith R.
A. DeCandido and Fernando Heinz Furukawa)
Nova encounters Colin Phash, whom the
academy is studying in an effort to harness his unique
abilities. Meanwhile, four comrades from Nova’s past
desperately seek rescue from a zerg onslaught after
they become stranded on the mining planet of Shi.
StarCraft: Ghost Academy
, volume 2, by David
Gerrold and Fernando Heinz Furukawa)
2502
Arcturus Mengsk reaches out to his son,
Valerian, who had grown up in the relative absence of
his father. Intending for Valerian to continue the
Mengsk dynasty, Arcturus recal s his own progression
from an apathetic teenager to an emperor.
StarCraft: I, Mengsk
by Graham McNeil )
Reporter Kate Lockwel is embedded with
Dominion troops to deliver patriotic pro-Dominion
broadcasts to the Universal News Network. During
her time with the soldiers, she encounters former UNN
reporter Michael Liberty and discovers some of the
darker truths beneath the Dominion’s surface.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 2, “Newsworthy” by
Grace Randolph and Nam Kim)
Tamsen Cauley plans to kil off the War Pigs—
who are now disbanded—in order to cover up his
previous attempt to assassinate Arcturus Mengsk.
Before doing so, he gathers the War Pigs for a
mission to kil Jim Raynor, an action that Cauley
believes wil win Mengsk’s favor. One of the War Pigs
sent on this mission, Cole Hickson, is the former
Confederate soldier who helped Raynor survive the
brutal Kel-Morian prison camp.
StarCraft
monthly comic #1 by Simon Furman
and Federico Dal occhio)
Fighters from al three of the Koprulu sector’s
factions—terran, protoss, and zerg—vie for control
over an ancient xel’naga temple on the planet Artika.
Amid the violence, the combatants come to realize
the individual motivations that have brought them to
this chaotic battlefield.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 1, “Why We Fight”
by Josh Elder and Ramanda Kamarga)
The Kel-Morian crew of
The Generous Profit
arrives on a desolate planet in hopes of finding
something belonging to the planet’s former
inhabitants that is worth salvaging. As they sort
through the ruins, the crew members discover the
terrifying secret behind the planet’s missing populace.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 2, “A Ghost Story” by
Kieron Gil en and Hector Sevil a)
A team of protoss scientists experiments on a
sample of zerg creep, bio-matter that provides
nourishment to zerg structures. However, the
substance begins to affect the scientists strangely,
eventual y sending their minds spiraling downward
into madness.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 2, “Creep” by Simon
Furman and Tomás Aira)
A psychotic viking pilot, Captain Jon Dyre,
attacks the innocent colonists of Ursa during a
weapon demonstration. His former pupil, Wes Carter,
confronts Dyre in order to end his crazed kil ing spree.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 1, “Heavy Armor,
Part 1” by Simon Furman and Jesse El iott)
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 2, “Heavy Armor,
Part 2” by Simon Furman and Jesse El iott)
Sandin Forst, a skil ed Thor pilot with two loyal
partners, braves the ruins of a terran instal ation on
Mar Sara in order to infiltrate a hidden vault. After
getting access to the facility, Forst realizes that the
treasures he expected to find were never meant to be
discovered.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 1, “Thundergod” by
Richard A. Knaak and Naohiro Washio)
2503
Dominion scientists capture the praetor Muadun
and conduct experiments to better understand the
protoss’ psionic gestalt—the Khala. Led by the
twisted Dr. Stanley Burgess, these researchers
violate every ethical code in their search for power.
(StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 3, “Do No Harm” by
Josh Elder and Ramanda Kamarga)
Archaeologist Jake Ramsey investigates a
xel’naga temple, but things quickly spiral out of control
when a protoss mystic known as a preserver merges
with his mind. Afterward, Jake is flooded with
memories spanning protoss history.
StarCraft: Firstborn
, book one of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
Jake Ramsey’s adventure continues on the
planet Aiur. Under the instructions of the protoss
preserver within his head, Jake explores the shadowy
labyrinths beneath the planet’s surface to locate a
sacred crystal that might be instrumental in saving the
universe.
StarCraft: Shadow Hunters
, book two of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
Mysteriously, some of the Dominion’s highly
trained ghosts begin to disappear. Nova Terra, now a
graduate of the Ghost Academy, investigates the fate
of the missing operatives and discovers a terrible
secret.
StarCraft: Ghost: Spectres
by Keith R. A.
DeCandido)
Jake Ramsey is separated from his bodyguard,
Rosemary Dahl, after they flee Aiur through a xel’naga
warp gate. Rosemary ends up alongside other
refugee protoss on Shakuras, but Jake is nowhere to
be found. Alone and running out of time, Jake
searches for a way to separate the protoss preserver
from his mind before they both die.
StarCraft: Twilight
, book three of the Dark
Templar Saga by Christie Golden)
A team from the Moebius Foundation—a
mysterious terran organization interested in alien
artifacts—investigates a xel’naga structure in the far
reaches of the Koprulu sector. During their research
the scientists uncover a dark force lurking in the
ancient ruins.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 4, “Voice in the
Darkness” by Josh Elder and Ramanda Kamarga)
Kern tries to start his life anew after a career as a
Dominion reaper, a highly mobile shock trooper who
was chemical y altered to make himself more
aggressive. But his troubled past proves harder to
escape than he thought when a former comrade
unexpectedly arrives at Kern’s home.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 4, “Fear the Reaper”
by David Gerrold and Ruben de Vela)
A nightclub singer named Starry Lace finds
herself at the center of diplomatic intrigue between
Dominion and Kel-Morian officials.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 3, “Last Cal ” by
Grace Randolph and Seung-hui Kye)
2504
A world-weary Jim Raynor returns to Mar Sara
and struggles with his own disil usionment.
StarCraft: Frontline
, volume 4, “Homecoming” by
Chris Metzen and Hector Sevil a)
After four years of relative silence, the Queen of
Blades and her zerg Swarm unleash attacks
throughout the Koprulu sector. Amid the onslaught,
Jim Raynor continues his struggle against the
oppressive Terran Dominion … and the restless