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 * A Koprulu Liberation Front force takes over a Terran Dominion munitions factory on New Sydney. However, Ghost Agent Nova and the Annihilators retake the facility.


 * Jake Ramsey and his team are hired by Valerian Mengsk to excavate a strange artifact on the world of Nemaka. One thing leads to another and soon things get out of hand...


 * Nova begins a series of missions that lead to her uncovering information about the nature of Project Shadow Blade...and the revelations it presents.


 * Khastiana completes her training to become a zealot.


 * Former anti-Dominion activist Jin-ho Lim completes his training to become a marine for the Terran Dominion.


 * The Dominion Marine Corps battles against the zerg on Artika. The protoss in turn enter the fray. The battle is also the first action for Khastiana and Lim. In the end, the Protoss claim victory albeit with heavy cost. Khastiana becomes an Immortal while Lim is killed in action by Zerg.


 * Sandin Forst, Rieff and Garth embark on a heist to retrieve ardeon crystals from the ruins of the Jacobs Installation. It ends badly, with Reiff and Garth being killed and Forst becoming infested


 * The zerg attack Maltair IV. Only Senator Phash and his son survive.


 * Captain Jon Dyre and Wes Carter engage in a mechanized duel on Ursa. In the end, Carter prevails.


 * PAX is overrun by an experimental form of creep. It is discovered by a Dominion Armada force.


 * A Kel-Morian Combine team is ambushed on a Fringe World by a ghost serving the Church of Besainted Pelagius. The team is wiped out, with some members indoctrinated.


 * Numerous vehicles in service of the Dominion Armed Forces are withdrawn from service, including the Goliath, Arclite Siege Tank, Vulture, Wraith and Valkyrie. However, Raynor's Raiders and some other factions still have access to them.


 * Dr. Burgess experiments on the protoss high templar Muadun.


 * A lounge singer on a backwater planet brokers peace between Dominion and Kel-Morian forces stationed there. At least until the zerg arrive.


 * A protoss teacher embraces the powers of "the dark."


 * Colin Phash is hunted by the Dominion for conscription into the Ghost Program.


 * The War Pigs are reunited for one final mission–the assassination of Jim Raynor.


 * Tychus Findlay makes a successful escape attempt from New Folsom Prison. He contacts Jim Raynor on Mar Sara, the pair engaging in a business partnership in retrieving alien artifacts for the Möbius Foundation. One such artifact is recovered from the Dominion at White Rock.


 * Satellite 1 reports unusual activity in the Char System. The Dominion Armada is put on alert.


 * Guitar Hero XVI: Galaxy ships.


 * Valerian Mengsk opens a veterans' hospital.


 * In response to the raid on White Rock, the Dominion declares martial law on Mar Sara, claiming that the retrieval of the artifact was a raid led by insurgents to claim bio-weapons. Kate Lockwell reports on the incident.


 * The zerg invade Mar Sara, landing at White Rock and moving towards Riksville. The Raiders hold out long enough for extraction by the Hyperion.


 * Simultaneously, the Queen of Blades led a zerg attack on several Terran Dominion worlds, restarting the war. Arcturus Mengsk withdraws his forces to protect the Core Worlds, leaving the Fringe Worlds to fend for themselves.


 * Agria comes under attack by the zerg, resistance being non-existant due to the departure of Dominion forces. Ariel Hanson sends out a distress call.


 * Having escaped Mar Sara, Matt Horner briefs Raynor on the zerg's actions. The Hyperion picks up the distress call from Agria, though Tychus presents him with another opportunity to retrieve an artifact, this time from the world of Monlyth.