Perhaps one of the biggest names in the history of real time strategy games is the StarCraft series. Having been made made by Blizzard Entertainment, the same technological wizards and creators that brought you Warcraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft, it was one of the first games to incorporate their extensive BattleNet network into a game, allowing easier access to online play against human controlled opponents. While the graphics were very limited at the time (1998), they have upgraded dramatically since the release of StarCraft 2, utilizing more of a 3-D plane and models to the gameplay. This is the story of StarCraft.
It all started when long ago (which is actually some four hundred years into the future) four ships housing inhabitants of Earth crash landed in a remote region of space known as the Koprulu Sector. The three planets that were colonize were Tarsonis, Moria and Umoja. They quickly set up a government system known as the Terran Confederacy, but it was very oppressive with its power. A group rose up against it, later known as the Sons of Korhal, led by a former supporter by the name of Arcturus Mengsk. However, they'd soon learn that the Confederacy wasn't the only thing wrong with the area.
The Confederate colony on Chau Sara was suddenly incinerated by a fleet of warships that belonged to an advanced species called the protoss. While this was happening, a marshal named Jim Raynor on the nearby world Mar Sara was reporting strange alien creatures on the surface, eventually being called the zerg. The Sons of Korhal helped evacuate the citizens and liberate Raynor before the protoss did the same to the sister planet. As an official induction into the group, Jim Raynor and turned Confederate GHOST, Sarah Kerrigan, led an assault on the Confederate base on Antiga Prime. They planted psi emitters to lure the zerg to the base and destroy it before the protoss incinerated the planet as well, the rebel group zooming off before the fireworks began. This all turned sour, however, when Mengsk duplicated the act on the Confederate capital on Tarsonis. He left Kerrigan to take care of the overwhelming zerg presence and the protoss forces arriving, leaving her to die when she called for an evac. Mengsk had gained the support of many and had turned the Sons of Korhal rebellion group into the new Terran Dominion, declaring himself emperor and running on a campaign of combating the alien forces present. Jim on the other hand wanted no part and decided to run away, stealing Mengsk's flagship the Hyperion in the process and still grieving over the loss of Sarah. Little did he know, the zerg had other plans for Miss Kerrigan.
Kerrigan was actually reconstituted with the zerg virus that had corrupted so many other species into the alien species, transforming her into a being of psionic power that could be used as a puppet of the Overmind, the entity that controlled all parts of the Swarm. He did this through other beings called cerebrates, one of which was killed by a protoss dark templar known as Zeratul, causing its brood to run rampant and turn feral. The Overmind had no choice but to eradicate it entirely. But it was not a complete loss for the Overmind. It revealed the location of the protoss homeworld of Aiur, where they overtook the valiant efforts of protoss resistance and established their new base of operations.
Feeling desperate for help, Tassadar, executor of the protoss, teamed up with Jim Raynor to defeat the hulking mass of alien flesh. They rallied their troops and assaulted the Overmind, but their defensed proved too strong to defeat. In a last ditch effort, Tassadar gathered the energies of all Aiur and forbidden energies of dark templar into the hull of his ship, the Gantrithor, and crashed it into the Overmind ending the reign of both rulers. However, there was little time for celebration, as Aiur was still in ruins and having sensed the Overmind's death, it was now time for a new ruler to take command of the Swarm: the Queen of Blades.
To be continued....
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