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 * Terran Dominion, zerg and protoss forces fight for control of a xel'naga temple on the world of Artika, the protoss emerging victorious.


 * Project Gestalt is formed. Dr. Stanley Burgess begins experimenting on captured Khalai Caste protoss, creating Gestalt Zero.


 * The crew of the Generous Profit land on a Fringe World in hopes of salvage. The team is converted or killed by the Church of Besainted Pelagius.


 * A psychotic viking pilot, Captian 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 killing spree, in which he succeeds.


 * Sandin Forst, Rieff and Garth attempt a heist of the ruined Jacobs Installation. Forst succesfully recovers ardeon crystals, but is infected by zerg spores that have bonded with them.
 * The months of this year are full of pain for Juliana Pasteur, as she draws ever closer to death, and Valerian, who stands by her the entire time, a process aided by them returning to permanent accommodation on Umoja.


 * Tamsen Cauley offers the War Pigs freedom if they assassinate Jim Raynor, though secretly intending to use his Cerberus Program to terminate the outlaws once they complete the task.


 * The War Pigs investigate Raynor's time on Moria, only to be attacked by the Kel-Morian Combine and subsequently heading to Grissom IV to repair the General Lee. Cerberus Program troops, led by Lars Trakken, follow them at a distance.


 * Juliana Pasteur dies. Her funeral is held on Umoja soon afterward. Arcturus Mengsk tells Valerian the story of the Mengsk Dynasty after the funeral.

August

 * August 13: The Terran Dominion sends a ghost to terminate rebel leader Castor Mezzo, who took shelter on Agria. The ghost exterminates the town of Hudderstown Colony, but the remnants are rescued by the War Pigs, who then shoot Mezzo to death for recklessly endangering people.


 * August 17: Leonid Celsus arrives at the ruins of Hudderstown with a troop of marines. He is surprised at how the War Pigs managed to exterminate the ghost.

October

 * October 25: The War Pigs track Raynor to Urona Sigma, only to discover the planet infested with zerg. While eventually confronting Raynor, Cerberus forces arrive to attack the outlaws and the protoss in turn to purify the planet.

December

 * Nova finishes her training in the Ghost Program. Mengsk thus gives her her 'graduation mission': terminate rebel/terrorist Cliff Nadaner.