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Fiction
Among other fandoms, I've done some Starcraft fanfiction, all of which is at ff.net, my profile being here. Below is a list of submissions;

Dae'Uhl

Oneshot: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Never was this demonstrated better in the Kalathi Intercession and the subsequent formation of the Dae'Uhl, where the protoss went from one extreme to another. An adaptation of the kalathi backstoy

Dark Tidings

Oneshot: The 'phoenix hybrid' on Bhekar Ro was mere herald. Know that those from beyond seek to return. Know that purity of essence and purity of form have been combined. Know that their number is legion and their name is death. (Prelude to SC2)

Dying Times

Oneshot: In the upcoming age of mass warfare, the ghosts have reached their dying times, as the need for infiltrators is diminishing. A fic in memory of SC: Ghost, pays homage to the SC2 trailer

Hindsight

Oneshot: The desire to become a Ghost and thus lose the memories of her past was what spurred Nova to dedicate herself to the Ghost Program. Still, hindsight and regret can be found in the minds of even the most dedicated people...

Intricacies

Oneshot: It was ironic that Zamara knew the secrets of the recurring cosmic cycle and that of the Xel'Naga's return yet could not for the life of her understand the human psyche. Based off an alternate ending to 'Dark Templar: Firstborn.'

Light and Darkness

Oneshot: While the Khala unified protoss sociey, it resulted in the banishment of the Dark Templar. What truely prevented the Dark Templar from submission? What caused such a schism of ideals? It was a question that Adun sought the answer to...

Lost Battle

Oneshot: With the zerg and protoss rampaging throughout the sector, the battle to save humanity, or at least the Confederacy, seems lost. However, the battle to retain humanity: that was lost long ago...

Loomings

What started on Chau Sara as a standard insurrection of the Sons of Korhal became a nightmare of epic proportions, as a tide of xenomorphs descended upon the planet. The darkness has begun. There will be no dawn (novelisation of the Prequel Campaign).

Last updated: 2-10-07

The Curse of Choice

Oneshot: The Cerebrate has the choice of serving under Kerrigan and help her defeat the new Overmind or experience the phenomenon that is death. Can he confront the terror that comes with choice?

If one chooses to read, feedback is appreciated.

Files
Don't ask me why, but I generally go for inclusionist policies. Part of this is factoring in non-official material, which, in the case of these files, often use cancelled units (eg Tempest, Soul Hunter) or even hoaxes (eg Succubus). Anyway, I've got quite a few but only post them if/when they appear in any 'serious' fanon writing I do.

Terran Files
Discovery-class Science Vessel

Given its versatility, it was perhaps inevitable that the Explorer-class science vessel would make its way into the Confederate armed forces. Despite this versatility however, these science vessels were extremely vulnerable to enemy forces given their lack of weapons, a vulnerability exploited by groups such as the Sons of Korhal on more than one occasion. It was thus decided that measures should be taken to protect these vessels from ship-to-ship assault.

The Discovery-class science vessel was the result, the different classification being driven by the radically different reactor and electrical systems design, such differences ensuring that simply introducing variation to existing production methods was too difficult and an entirely new system would make things easier.

Such differences made themselves manifest in the presence of laser batteries, similar to the ones found on Behemoth-class battlecruisers. Theoretically, these laser batteries would provide full protection for the science vessel, allowing it to operate as a fully independent unit. However, the batteries had been designed with the parameters of battlecruiser reactors in mind, not the more limited ones of a science vessel.

As a result, the laser batteries required a significant time period to warm up (5-10mins), a delay which could prove fatal at times. Added to which the extensive power requirements, the Discovery-class was scrapped soon after its conception, focus returning to the Explorer-class, tooling it as a support unit for the provision of electronic warfare. Although some Discovery-class science vessels remain, they’ve long since faded into obscurity.

''A/N: I was uneasy about creating this, but I wanted to give a science vessel laser turrets regardless of the reason (hey, had to give Epsilon Squadron a chance in Loomings ^_^). Anyway, it was either a different class of science vessel or simply a retrofitted existing on. In the end, the first option made for easier writing.''

Timeline
A fanon timeline that is taken from mathamatical deduction, actual dates, speculation and fanon writing. Woot.

Note: This timeline is broardly divided along the lines of fanon and canon. Fanon events/people have {} around them. Even speculative dates are taken as canon. In the event of novelisations of canon events yet with fanon characters filling in the void, usually in the whole 'player character' thing, the events are portrayed normally, the fanon characters left out.

And yes, much of this should be italicised, but I'd have to do that manually from a copy and paste task. Too much effort.

Timeline (Gregorian Calendar)

-2-9mya: The Xel’Naga, an extra-galactic race obsessed with the seeding of life, arrives in the Milky Way galaxy, establishing their domain and seeding life on various worlds. It is unknown exactly how many worlds they breathed life into and how many gave birth to life naturally, but Aiur and Earth are examples respectively.

-288,000-180,000BCE: The Xel’Naga arrive at the world of Aiur, seeing that it has produced the most advanced race of sentient creatures so far encountered. They name them the protoss, or “First Born.”

-7600 BCE (approx.): Frustrated at the slow rate of protoss evolution, the Xel’Naga accelerate the process.

-6600 BCE (approx.): The Xel’Naga descend to Aiur and make themselves known to the protoss. Protoss society begins spreading across the face of Aiur, culture and technology advancing rapidly. However, as time goes on, the protoss tribes begin to drift apart, setting more emphasis on personal achievement than communal effort. At first the Xel’Naga are intrigued, creating the Uraj and Khalis crystals and entrusting them to the Akilae and Sargas Tribes respectively. However, events take a turn for the worse, the Xel’Naga realising that they may have pushed protoss evolution ahead too rapidly.

-595 BCE (approx.): The protoss begin to venerate the Xel’Naga as gods.

-545 BCE (approx.): The protoss begin to view the Xel’Naga with unfounded suspicion.

-544 BCE (approx.): The Xel’Naga depart from Aiur, seeing the protoss as a failed creation. Disheartened at their departure, the protoss tribes turn on each other, each blaming their counterparts for their mentors’ departure. Thus begins the Aeon of Strife.

-543 BCE (approx.): The Xel’Naga arrive at Zerus, situated in the core of the galaxy. They once again try to create a perfect lifeform, engineering a dominiative race of insectoids known as zerg.

-496 BCE (approx.): Taldarin fights alongside Adun and is wounded. His body is placed in stasis.

-853 (approx.): By this stage the zerg have developed the ability to burrow into the hides of other animals, altering their metabolism to suit their own ends.

-1247 (approx.): Having risen to the top of the proverbial food chain, the zerg have become a ravenous, unified race. Wanting to maintain this state, the Xel’Naga create the Overmind; a collective conciousness of the zerg.

-1456: Raszagal is born.

-1556 (approx.): The Aeon of Strife ends with the unification of the protoss under the Khala. Those who reject it are banished from Aiur, becoming known as the Dark Templar.

-The creation of Dark Archons is banned.

-17th Century: The Golden Age of Expansion begins for the protoss. Regaining much of their former technological prowess, the Firstborn reactivate warp gates and re-establish links with colonies founded before the Aeon of Strife. Simultaniously explarotory fleets are sent out into space, led by the newly designed Motherships.

-1747 (approx.): By this stage all life on Zerus has either been eradicated or assimilated into the zerg swarm. Knowing that it will have to expand into space to extend the swarm, the Overmind casts a psychic beacon into space.

-1751 (approx.): The Behemoths are drawn to Zerus by the Overmind, giving the zerg the ability to travel through space. As they do so however, they encounter the Xel’Naga ships. Driven by the need to consume, the Overmind directs the zerg against its creators, overrunning their defences within a few hours and assimilated the bulk of the Xel’Naga race. Through their memories, it learns of each and every species that the Xel’Naga engineered, the protoss among them. Seeking to assimilate their “purity of form” so, in conjunction with their “purity of essence that it may become “perfect”, the Overmind directs the zerg to Aiur, carrying out a slow march across the galaxy, eradicating or consuming every species found along the way.

-1759: Aldaris is born.

-1865: Zeratul is born.

-1901: The dawn of the 20th century. It would be marked by unprecedented expansion of population and science.

-1945: In the aftermath of the second world war, the United Nations (UN) is formed, a conglomeration of nation states.

-Mid 20th Century: The US and USSR begin their space programs.

-The Kalath Intercession occurs. The protoss intervene, the results being devastating for the kalathi. To ensure that their mistakes aren’t repeated, the protoss found the Dae’Uhl; a “stewardship” over “lesser races”.

-1958, May 12: North American Air Defence Command, the precursor to NORAD, is established.

-August 1: NORAD is formed.

-Late 20th Century: Raszagal becomes Matriarch of the Dark Templar.

-2006, February 25: Earth’s population reaches 6.5 billion.

-Early 21st Century: A marked rise in the scientific fields of cybernetics, cloning and gene-splicing occurs, mainly conducted by private corporations. As their actions became known to the public, numerous militant humanist factions and hard-line religious groups rise to challenge their authority.

-Mid 21st Century: Communism is eradicated from the eastern nations (e.g. China, North Korea, etc.). In its wake, nuclear weapons quickly become more available and abundant. The new world order is thrown into pandemonium however as third world nations begin to challenge the economic and military might of the superpowers.

-Late 21st Century: Multitudes of people are becoming subject to cybernetic augmentation. Side effects ranged from heightened senses to advanced telepathy. As time goes on, the human gene pool becomes more unstable, as population growth soars.

-Early 22nd Century: Scientific fields become increasingly corporatized. Population rates continue to soar, despite the efforts of world leaders. Pollution is still a problem and fossil fuels are becoming increasingly expensive. In the wake of a lack of affordable resources, many international economic systems collapse in on themselves.

-The US and Russian space programs end, courtesy of drastically reduced budget cuts, political sabotage and the fact that space exploration has no place in a corporate world.

-Late 22nd Century: The gene pool continues to de-stabalise as genetic alteration becomes more commonplace. Humanist and corporate factions continue to clash, often resorting to acts of terrorism. Civil chaos engulfs the planet. It’s probably at around this point that the UN became defunct.

-2102: Fenix is born.

-2143: Tassadar is born.

-2229, November 22: The United Powers League (UPL) is founded, envisioned as the ultimate incarnation of a unified humanity. The new world order encompasses 93% of Earth’s population, with only some volatile South American states remaining independent. Founded on the basis of ‘enlightened socialism,’ it often resorts to fascist police actions to maintain control. From the outset, the organisation re-opens space exploration, made possible by advances in warp drive technology and cryogenic hibernation.

-It’s agreed that genetic alteration, cybernetics and psychoactive drugs led to the degeneration of humanity and instability of the human gene pool. The UPL began formulating a plan on “how to cleanse humanity of its more degenerate aspects.”

-2231: The UPL initiates its first ban on world religeons, Christianity being among them.

-2239: Artanis is born.

-Mid 23rd Century: The 2231 bill having sent a precedent, great lengths are undergone to eliminate any vestiges of racial separatism. Many forms of religion are banned and English designated as the common language of the planet, many other languages being banned from use.

-Late 23rd Century: It’s agreed that genetic alteration, cybernetics and psychoactive drugs lead to the degeneration of humanity and instability of the human gene pool. The UPL began formulating a plan on “how to cleanse humanity of its more degenerate aspects.”

-2269: By this time, the UPL has founded colonies on the moon and many of the planets within the solar system.

-2270: Project: Purification occurs, the UPL’s solution to the problem of genetic instability. Based on the Inquisitions of medieval Europe, UPL troops scour the planet, rounding up dissidents, hackers, synthetics, the cyberneticly enhanced, tech-pirates and even simple criminals. By the time the operation ends, 400,000,000 people have been “culled” and many more slated for mass execution. The world media, under strict UPL control, downplays the events, leaving most of Earth’s population unaware of the numerous acts of genocide occurring.

-Doran Routhe, an ambitious and young scientist obsessed with founding colonies outside the Solar System, obtains a number of prisoners slated for mass execution. 40,000 out of 56,000 are deemed to be able to survive a one year journey in cryo-sleep to the outlying planet of Gantris VI. The prisoners are loaded into four supercarriers- the Nagglfar, the Argo, the Sarengo and the Reagan. ATLAS, a super computer, is programmed into the Nagglfar, with the other three ships programmed to follow it. The computer holds the co-ordinates for Gantris VI and Earth. Originally scheduled as a one year trip, events take a turn for the worst when ATLAS’s navigational systems shut down. The ships therefore barrelled onwards into space.

-2298: After 28 years, the four supercarriers’ warp engines reach critical meltdown, emerging in real space in a system roughly 60,000 light years from Earth near the galactic fringe. The ships engaged their emergency protocols. The Reagan and Sarengo crash land on Umoja. The Sarengo suffers atmospheric failures and is destroyed. The Reagan makes a more controlled descent. The Argo lands on the mineral rich world of Moria and the Nagglfar on the temperate world of Tarsonis. Those on Moria and Umoja have no idea what’s happened, apart from the fact that they’re clearly not on Gantris VI. Those on Tarsonis however have access to ATLAS, giving them a technological advantage.

-The protoss observe the newly arrived humans. Although they’re unsure as to their origins, they begin secret observation, knowing that they’ll make an interesting study.

-The Tarsonis Marine Corps is founded.

-2301: Earth’s population reaches 36 billion.

-2349: Andrea Tygore is born.

-2358: After sixty years of isolation, the three colonies are reunited by space travel. Tarsonis pushes Umoja and Moria to join it in a conglomarative government but the other two colonies steadfastedly refuse. Tarsonis explores the surrounding systems in what becomes known as the Koprulu Sector.

-2401: By this stage, Tarsonis has founded seven prosperous colonies on worlds throughout the sector. A new government, christiened as the Terran Confederacy (adopting the US Confederate flag) was founded, with Tarsonis as its capital. Its military and technological prowess continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

-Xerana begins her search for legacies of the Xel’Naga.

-2407: Antiga Prime has a poor harvest.

-2437: Gerrad Dugalle is born.

-2439: Zerg advance probes detect the human presence in the Koprulu Sector.

-2440: Terrance serves in the Confederate Army.

-{2442: Edwin Collins is born.}

-2446: Edmund Duke is born.

-2448, June 9: Alexei Stukov is born.

-Late 2440s/early 2450s: Phillip Randall is born.

-2459: Duke joins the Confederate armed forces (presumably as a cadet).

-2460: The colony of Bhekar Ro is founded by colonists wishing to escape the influence of the Terran Confederacy.

-2461: Arcturus Mengsk is born.

-2462: Jack Frost and Atticus Carpenter are born.

-2463: Robert Perry is born.

-2465: Collins joins the Colonial Fleet.

-2468: Samir Duran is born (or so he says).

-October 20: Tychus J. Findlay is born.

-2470: James Raynor is born, {Miranda Wilkes are born.}

-Bhekar Ro cuts off all contact from the Confederacy.

-2473: Sarah Kerrigan is born.

-2475: Somo Huang is born.

-Late 2470s/early 2480s: Charles Whittier is born.

-2479: The Ghost Program is founded.

-2480: Ardo Melnikov and Rosemary “R.M.” Dahl are born, {Daniel Parkes are born.}

-Malcolm “Mal” Kelerchian joins the Tarsonis Police Force (TPF).

-2481: Kerrigan unwittingly unleashes her psychic powers, killing her mother and damaging her father’s brain. She’s inducted into the Ghost Program, with Lieutenant Rumm as her psychological trainer.

-Hybrid (past) occurs.

-Melani Bradlaw and Kendra Massa are born.

-2482: Lars Bren is born.

-{Perry enlists in the Confederate Marine Corps.}

-2483: Octavia Bren and Valerian Mengsk are born.

-{Mid 2480s: Perry is promoted to the rank of Corporal.}

-2485: Confederate-Morian tensions erupt into war, with the Confederacy declaring war on Moria. This is the beginning of the Guild Wars. Umoja provides aid to Moria.

-January 4: November Anabella “Nova” Terra is born.

-Kerrigan graduates from the Ghost Program.

-Mid 2480s: Kare Vaessen is born.

-2486: Valerian and his mother arrive in a base within Umojan space.

-{2488: John Gulliman graduates from OTS. He’s given the rank of lieutenant and a place in Epsilon Squadron.}

-2489: The Guild Wars end, with the Confederacy ‘negotiating’ peace with the Combine. Although it retains its autonomy, the Combine’s supporting mining guilds are annexed by the Confederacy.

-The Bradlaws arrive on Bountiful.

-2490: Shocked at the blatant abuse that the Confederacy is capable of, the Umojan Protectorate is founded; a nationalised militia to “keep Umoja free from Confederate tyranny”. It may come to that, considering that the Confederacy has asserted itself as the dominant factor within the Terran power structure.

-The Confederacy experiences an economic boom, with many becoming rich because of it, becoming known as “bootstrappers.” They’re generally resented by the Old Families.

-Raynor marries Liddy.

-John “Johnny” Raynor is born.

-The shaved head look goes out of style on Tarsonis.

-2491: Anti-Confederate sentiment begins growing on Korhal.

-In order to stop Angus Mengsk from getting any ideas, a Confederate force is sent to kill his grandson Valerian. He manages to escape though.

-2493: Huang is sent to Umoja in order to get an education.

-Nova begins to truly notice her ability to sense how other people are feeling, courtesy of her psionic powers. Her mother claims that it’s due to her being an empathic individual.

-2495: The Confederacy finds zerg scouts on a number of Fringe Worlds. Labelling them as xenomorphs, they’re transported to research centres and the worlds depopulated by “cholera.”

-Noticing John’s psionic abilities, the Confederacy offers him a scholarship to a ‘special school’-basically a cover story to inaugurate him into the Ghost Program. They accept, but he dies (supposedly) in an “accident” a few months later. Liddy is overcome with depression and catches the flu in winter, dying from it. Raynor burries himself in his work.

-Going through adolescence, Melani catches the attention of Ardo.

-Tarsonis’ sun begins letting out a barrage of solar flares. Large mirror shades are made available on Tarsonis so that people can protect their eyes from the harmful UV rays.

-Gray and Alanna Milton buy a bodega in Tarsonis City, having saved up enough money from working in the 428 hoverbike factory in the Palombo Valley.

-Jake Ramsey meets Darius Greyson.

-2496: The citizens of Korhal IV begin to demand their independence from the Confederacy, instigating numerous riots against the Confederate forces stationed there. Martial law is declared but this only seems to aggravate the populance even further. They begin mass militarisation, including the installation of formidable air defences.The Confederates believe that if their most treasured and pampered colony turned against them and achieved independence, it might prompt other colonies to do the same. It is decided that Korhal would serve as an example of those who would consider rebellion.

-Dahl meets Ethan Paul Stewart on the world of Dead Man’s Rock, who helps her overcome her addiction to stims. They become lovers in the process.

-2497: Angus Mengsk, a prominent Korhalian Senator, takes it upon himself to formalize the sentiments of his fellow citizens. Whipping the people into a patriotic frenzy, Mengsk leads his forces to capture every Confederate outpost on the planet. He issues statements that the Confederacy no longer has any claim over Korhal. The Confederates withdraw their ground and space forces from Korhal, deluding Mengsk into thinking that he’s won a victory. However, such a belief is soon established to be poorly founded, as the Confederacy sends three Ghosts to assassinate him and his supporters. Mengsk’s decapitated body, along with those of his wife and young daughter are found on the balcony of his fortress like headquarters. Mengsk’s head is never found. Although it weakens the revolt, Mengsk is succeeded by his son; Arcturus.

-The Gutter section Tarsonis Police Force (TPF) begins demanding the space for extra digital memory from the Council.

-The Confederacy begins a mass conscription process; abducting tenagers from the Fringe Worlds and putting them through neural resocialization, thus making them effective soldiers.

-The Letters of Tenarsis are written.

-A spore blight strikes Bhekar Ro, mutating most of the wheat into a toxic substance. Octavia and Lars’s parents die from it, along with numerous others. Seventeen homes are burnt to keep the plague under control. Jacob “Nik” Nikolai becomes the new mayor.

{-Collins is promoted to the rank of Captain.}

{-Late 2498: Wilkes joins an OTU on Halcyon.}

-Early 2498: Arcturus rallies the various militia groups that had followed his father and succeeds in forming a ragtag army. They embark upon a crusade to rid Korhal of any Confederate influence, costing the Confederacy billions of credits in terms of men, machines and equipment.

-Rumours begin to circulate of Mengsk having formed an alliance between Korhal and Umoja. This was actually true, as Mengsk had left to visit Umoja, leaving Korhal under the command of Colonel Acton Feld. Seeing Korhal as a lost cause, the Confederacy settles on a “final solution”-nuking the planet.

-Uprising occurs.

{-2498: Wilkes graduates from OTU. She begins taking part in raids against drug lords that have “overstepped the margin between healthy crime in order to give the police something to do and the level where they forgot that they were nothing more than microchips in the cosmic order.” Depressed by the experience, Wilkes begins to consider applying for a discharge.}

-May 29: A rebel group known as the Colonial Liberation Army attempts to wrest control of the mining space station Tyra. At first they progress well, dividing the Confederate forces into small groups in which their skirmish tactics can be put to good use. However, by using “nuked earth” tactics, the Confederates win the day. -Late 2498: The Rample Murder Case occurs in which the bodies two children of a semi-prominent shop owner are found in the Gutter. The affair becoming a media sensation, Detective Kelerchian is assigned to track down the killer, who turns out to be Emmett Tygore-a member of the Tygore Old Family. Tygore is sent to Halcyon for “rehabilitation” and the affair quickly forgotten. Kelerchian keeps pushing for charges to be laid, putting him on the Tygore’s black list.

-2499: Morgan Calabas is plagued by acne. His parents spend money on skin modification to deal with it.

-January: Kelerchian is transferred from the TPF to the Ghost Program, becoming a Wrangler. He begins training in using the equipment.

-February: Kelerchian begins honing his ability to detect other telepaths.

[-June: Wilkes is offered a place in Alpha Squadron. She accepts and is promoted to 1st lieutenant, the head of 5th platoon in Echo Company of the Alpha Squadron 14th Division.}

-Early July: Kelerchian’s psionic training ends, the end result being that he always gets a headache when near a telepath.

{-July: Edwin Collins is made magistrate of Chau Sara.}

-Nova starts going through adolescence.

{-August: Ensign O’Donnell is posted onboard the Discovery-class science vessel Vigilance.}

-The Sons of Korhal begin their activities on Chau Sara.

-September: Michael Liberty is assigned as a war reporter to Alpha Squadron, stationed on the Behemoth-class battlecruiser Norad II.

{-October: Daniel Parkes is assigned to Observation Satellite 5.}

{-October 15: The Sara System’s sun lets off a solar flare.}

{-October 18: With rumours of Antiga Prime considering rebellion, the Alpha Squadron 14th is dispatched to deal with the situation.}

{-October 22: A bomb detonates in Los Andares (Chau Sara’s capital), courtesy of the Sons of Korhal. The same evening, the zerg attack and destroy the Vigilance.}

{-October 23: Collins receives word of the Vigilance’s destruction, believing it to be the work of the SoK. He sends a request to Alpha Squadron.}

{-October 25: At noon, a platoon of light infantry comes under mortar fire by Antigan rebels, seemingly based in or around the Stickler Woods. Within six hours, Echo Company is dispatched via APC with light infantry support. They arrive at Sticklerville (a town situated just outside the forest) with orders to search for weapons and other suspicious materials. Things get out of hand and the town is burnt to the ground. They’re withdrawn for reassignment however.}

{-Zerg spores begin drifting down towards Chau Sara; part of the preliminary stages of the invasion.}

-November: Ian begins selling hab in O’Callaghan.

-November 7: Alpha Squadron forces arrive on Chau Sara, courtesy of a request by Magistrate Edwin Collins.

-November 8: Alpha Squadron forces fan out and search for the Sons of Korhal. However, they find themselves under attack by xenomorphs (zerg). They have trouble fighting them off but are rescued by Cerberus Recon Squad, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Kurze. They find the SoK base with all its inhabitants slaughtered.

The zerg forces encountered were just the tip of the iceberg and the Sons of Korhal withdrew their forces. Burns admitted that the Confederacy had known of the xenomorphs’ existence for some time and that they were being studied at the Flannum Instalation, which had fallen to the xenomorphs. However, bio-scans detected that a number of scientists were still alive.

-The zerg have fortified themselves around the installation but Alpha Squadron are able to break their defences. Cerberus Squadron firebats are sent in to rescue the scientists. Although they encounter heavy resistance from the zerg on the way out, who’d even managed to reprogram the base’s automated defences the firebats, aided by the marines stationed there for security are able to fight their way back out.

-November 11: The scientists are evacuated to Chau Sara’s main military stronghold, Los Andares falls to xenomorph attack but Duke leads a reclamation of it.

-November 12: Alpha Squadron presses on and manages to defeat the Zerg and destroy their hive clusters. Burns places all events under a Class 7 Seal-the existence of the xenomorphs is to remain secret. Failure to comply with these orders will result in instant termination. “This conversation never took place. We were never here.”

-Confederate controlled media portray the action on Chau Sara as a victory against the Sons of Korhal. Chau Sara is placed under lockdown, with all traffic and communication into and out of the colony heavily restricted. However, the zerg forces haven’t completely been defeated and have actually infested most of the top soil via spores. The citizens of Chau Sara are forced to fight against the zerg themselves.

-Late November: High Templar Tassadar, accompanied by his renowned expeditionary force, finds a number of organic deep space probes, seemingly headed towards the Terran colonies. They are brought back to Aiur for immediate study. In an attempt to discern their primary quarry the probes are subjected to Khaydarin Crystals. To the protoss’ shock, the probes respond quickly and naturally, revealing that they’d been engineered by the Xel’Naga. Their thought streams prove that wherever the bulk of this race was they were seeking to assimilate humanity.

-Tassadar argues that under the dictates of the Dae’Uhl it is the responsibility of the protoss to come to the humans’ aid. The Conclave argues that if the Terrans were to be assimilated they must be put to the torch and eradicated. In the end, it was agreed that Tassadar would lead an expeditionary force to discern the severity of the Terrans’ plight. Leading a fleet of fifty warships in his flagship the Gantrithor, Tassadar leads a protoss force to the Koprulu sector, answering to Judicator Aldaris.

-December 7: Mar Sara begins to loose contact with its outland colonist stations. Recon squads are sent in, but contact is lost with them also.

-Bunker Complex 3847 is abandoned.

-December 8: The Protoss fleet arrives at Chau Sara. Scans reveal that the topsoil has become infested with creep and most of the colonists killed or infested. Upon hearing of the situation, the Conclave orderes Tassadar to torch the planet, in which he sorrowfully obeyes. All life on the surface is extinguished, and Tassadar is ordered to do the same to any colony that had even the slightest possibility of infestation. Tassadar progresses, but begins to doubt the morality of such genocidal orders.

-Revelations (past) occurs.

-December 12: The Norad II confronts the protoss fleet over Chau Sara. Tassadar withdraws, not wanting to unleash more death. The phase is heralded as a Confederate victory, although Liberty voices his suspicions, being ‘escorted’ off the bridge for his trouble. Duke sends a message to the colonial magistrate, ordering its citizens to be relocated to concentration points in the wastelands, thus allowing easier evacuation.

-Marshal James Raynor leads a group of evacuees to an evacuation point in the wasteland.

-The Confederates send out a reconissance-in-force of Mar Sara, confirming that it’s been infested by the zerg.

-December 13: Backwater Station comes under attack by zerg forces. Duke reassures Raynor that Alpha Squadron will take care of it, but Raynor sets off on his own with some militia, knowing that Alpha Squadron, despite its reputation, probably won’t move fast enough.

-December 14: Raynor and Colonial Militia liberate Backwater Station.

-December 15: Liberty is allowed out of his quarters and takes a shuttle down to Mar Sara.

-December 16: After interviewing the locals, Liberty and Swallow enter Anthem Base, where they’re attacked by the zerg. Swallow is killed, but Liberty is saved by Raynor, who links up with a small group of colonial militia. They destroy an infested command centre near Backwater Station.

-December 17: Alpha Squadron marines arrest Raynor and the militia for “treasonous activities.” They’re hauled up to a prison ship in high orbit. Liberty makes his way back to the evacuation point but finds it abandoned, except for Sarah Kerrigan, who takes him to a safehouse. A hologram of Arcturus Mengsk appears. He reveals that the Confederacy plans to abandon Mar Sara so they can watch the zerg and protoss duke it out on and above the planet, “in order to save their own hides.” The citizens are considered expendable. However, Mengsk is willing to save them. They make a deal; Liberty speaks on Mengsk’s behalf and Mengsk will bust Raynor and his men from the prison ship.

-Speed of Darkness begins.

December 18: After the breakout, Raynor and Liberty lead a raid on the Jacobs Installation, encountering light resistance, yet finding zerg in holding pens. They retrieve the sought after weapons data and evacuate. The SoK abandon the planet

-Speed of Darkness ends.

-Revelations (present) occurs.

-December 19: Thirteen hours after the evacuation of Mar Sara, protoss ships arrive and incinerate the planet.

-December 29: Liberty and Mengsk play a game of chess in which they discuss where Mike’s true allegiances lie.

-December 31: Antiga Prime revolts.

-2500: The Council freezes the salaries of the TPF so they can fund the war against the zerg and protoss.

-January 1: The zerg down the Norad II, which crash lands on Antiga Prime. Seeing an opportunity to get Duke on his side, not to mention Alpha Squadron as a whole, Mengsk sends Raynor and a retrieval team to bail the general out. Duke agrees to side with the SoK in exchange for a place in Mengsk’s cabinet.

-January 2: In response to Duke’s defection, the Confederates fake a report by Liberty, claiming that Duke and Alpha Squadron have been brought under control of the SoK by “mind control drugs”, the result of indiscriminate spraying that has left hundreds of civilians dead. The Confederate Army and Colonial Fleet arrive on Antiga Prime and begin a blockade of the system. Due to the presence of the zerg however, things become complicated…

-January 3: Mengsk makes a pirate broadcast in which he condemns the Old Families and Constantino Terra in particular. Simultaniously, Sons of Korhal rebels destroy a 428 hoverbike plant belonging to Terra in the Palombo Valley, courtesy of explosives. Their sites of location are so precise that it has to be an inside job.

-January 4: Nova celebrates her 15th birthday.

-January 5: Nova is told that she’s being sent to Tyrador IX as part of the Old Families’ attempt to keep their children safe from rebel and alien attacks. Despite her protests, all the members of her family apart from Edward Peters (her mother’s jig) support the move.

-January 8: Nova and Morgan, along with numerous other children of the Old Families, wait to be shipped up to orbit to be taken to Tyrador IX. While waiting to depart, Nova’s telepathy picks up conflict at the Terra Skyscraper, namely feelings of pain, rage and fear eminating from her family. Knowing that they’re in trouble, she gets off the puddle-jumper and catches a cab back to the skyscraper, the feelings getting worse.

-Nova arrives back at the skyscraper to find her family being killed by a group of rebels, Peters among them. Through a combination of fear and emotional trauma, Nova lets loose her psionic powers, killing hundreds.

-Within hours the TPF has cordoned off a four block area surrounding the Terra Skyscraper, Agent Kelerchian among them (due to it being a psionic attack). Realising that Nova must have been responsible due to the nature of Peters’ betrayal and the fact that she’s neither here or on the way to Tyrador IX, Kelerchian realises that she must be a telepath, and an extremely powerful one at that. For his efforts, he’s charged with tracking her down.

-January 9: Nova regains conciousness in the Gutter, her memory slowly coming back to her. She’s accousted by two hoodlums but manages to psionically stun them, albeit losing conciousness in the process. She’s brought to Markus Ralian’s apartment.

-Kelerchian contacts those en route to Tyrador IX, to see if Nova is on the ship.

-January 10: As night falls, crime lord Fagin goes about business as usual, namely beratement, execution and promotion. Markus Ralian informs him of the events concerning Nova and how she’s at his apartment. Fagin, much to Ralian’s frustration (Nova’s telepathy has been freaking him out), tells him to bring her in tomorrow. The result is that Ralian has to deal with the freakiness that telepathy brings, not to mention that she’s lost the will to live.

-Kelerchian interrogates Clara Terra as to whether she’s seen her sister. Her (eventual) answer being in the negative, the same result being with everyone else he’s interviewed, Kelerchian realises that Nova isn’t among any of the Old Families and has perhaps run as far away from her life as possible. In essence, that means she’s in the Gutter.

-January 11: Nova is brought to Fagin, once again demonstrating her telepathic abilities and self-destructive nature. Fagin isn’t shaken and, after failing to secure her alliegance, lets Nova go, willing to let her experience the hell of the Gutter so that she comes crawling back to him.

-Kelerchian sees officer Larry Fonseca and tells him about Nova, giving a list of possible signs that could indicate her presence. Larry agrees to keep a lookout.

-Nova settles by a dumpster and waits to die from starvation.

-January 12: Waking up with a rumbling stomach, Nova realises that dying via starvation isn’t as easy as she once thought.

-January 13: The Sons of Korhal have basically taken Antiga Prime.

-January 14: A stray cat who rummages through the dumpster for food decides that Nova makes good company.

-Tenilee begins work in O’Callaghan

-January 15: Nova names the cat “Pip” after the Siamese cat she once owned.

-The classical music group called ‘Warp Drive’ gives a performance at Waits Amphitheatre, playing to a full house.

-January 16: UNN reports on Antiga Prime. The Confederate government uses it to encourage people to enlist.

-Clara Terra delivers a speech in a press conference, thanking people for consoling her in her “terrible moment of grief” concerning the death of the bulk of her family assuring that she and her fiancée Milo Kusinis intend to go along with her wedding as planned. She makes it sound as if Nova died in the attack.

-Waking up at night, Nova decides to get some food, not knowing that Fagin is watching her via the traffic sensors. Coming across a news vendor, she sees her sister’s televised speech, which makes it seem that she’s dead too. Enraged, she lashes out with her telekenisis, destroying the holo. Unfortunatly this is in sight of all those present, including the store’s ownder Martina Dharma. Not wanting any trouble she runs off, coming onto Gladstone Way. Entering a bodega owned by Terrance she uses her psionic powers to scare the owner into giving her food and drink, for both herself and Pip.

-Fagin contacts ‘The Pitcher’-his top hitman.

-After waiting for two hours, Kelerchian is able to see his superior Ilsa Killiany, confronting her as to why Clara Terra is declaring that Nova is dead. After pointing out certain facts and reminding Kelerchian where his loyalties lie, Killiany gives her reasons and returns to watching the holo.

-January 17: Nova wakes up in the early morning and is confronted by ‘The Pitcher.’ Ignoring her warnings he advances, forcing Nova to fry his brain with her psionic powers. Realising how deadly she can be and that Fagin won’t give up, she sets off to kill him. Seeing that Nova is on her way, Fagin calls all his supporters to his side.

-Kelerchian interrogates Dharma as to Nova’s actions, managing, after some considerable effort, to get the woman to stop babbling and tell him which way Nova ran. He contacts Sergeant Volmer of the TPF for the traffic feeds but finds that they’ve been erased as they don’t have the space to store them indefinetly.

-Nova easily makes it to Fagin, bypassing his supporters, but is brought to her knees by a psi-screen. She ends up working for him, her psionic powers useless against the crime lord.

-April: Insurrection occurs.

-Andrea Tygore has a heart attack.

-Kehl does a job for Getreu.

-His search for Nova getting nowhere, Kelerchian begins drinking heavily.

-June: Fagin’s hab suppliers on Halcyon cut him off.

-Late June: Getreu makes its last credit deposit to Kehl.

-July: Clara Terra marries Milo Kusinis.

-July 3: Terran, zerg and advance protoss forces begin a series of skirmishes in the mineral rich Stickler Woods of Antiga Prime.

-July 7: Delta Squadron arrives at Antiga Prime, blockading the SoK position. Kerrigan and Liberty succeed in planting a psi emitter in the Delta Squadron base camp, luring thousands of zerg to the planet, supplementing the ones that are already there. Confederate forces are either wiped out or are forced to retreat to Halcyon. Protoss ships arrive shortly afterwards and engage the zerg in space combat.

-July 8: In the last hours of the planet, Raynor leads a mission to save some colonists, aided by Tassadar. They succeed and the Sons of Korhal depart the planet for Tarsonis, the Confederate Army retreating to Halcyon. In the wake of the evacuation, Mengsk sends out a message to all the remaining terran worlds (exactly what it contains isn’t specified).

-Not long after the evacuation, protoss ships arrive at Antiga Prime and steralize the planet.

-July 10: Killiany makes it clear to Kelerchian that unless he finds Nova, he’s in for trouble.

-Mid July: Kehl sells her fone to Prix so that she can buy hab.

-July 14: Kehl finishes her latest job for Getreu.

-July 17: Kehl sees Harold about getting some more hab.

-Kelerchian is summoned to Killiany to account for his inability to find Nova. Claiming that he’d need an army to do so he’s given such a thing, namely the 22nd Confederate Marine Division (aka the “Anhilators”) under Major Esmerelda Ndoci. Soon after he’s contacted by Larry, who tells him that a blonde has been seen working for Fagin. Kelerchian heads off to Larry’s apartment in order to get more info, hoping that he can come up with a plan that doesn’t involve “Major Disaster” wiping out the entire Gutter.

-Buisness as usual occurs at Fagin’s place, or at least what has become usual for the last six months-subordinates are executed, Nova freaks out Marcus with her telepathy, along with Kehl, etc. Unable to take it Marcus heads home, taking Kehl with him.

-Larry tells Kelerchian about Fagin, about how he runs the Gutter.

-Marcus contacts Morwood about Fagin, realising that the psi screen he’s been wearing for the last six months is eating away at his brain (it shouldn’t be worn for more that nine hours at a time), thus explaining the psychosis. He resolves to see Fagin about it.

-Kelerchian and the Marines board a Valkyrie at Holyktown, flown by Lieutenant Commander Fleet, medic Sergeant Scheeler being her co-pilot. They fly to the Gutter. They arrive in time to find Markus confronting Fagin. Nova comes out to see and, taking advantage of Fagin’s distraction, telekenically controls Markus to shoot his boss. She reads Kelerchian’s mind about the Ghost Program and accepts, wanting to have her memories erased. However, the Anhilators, having been ordered by General Ledbetter to extract Nova by any means necessary. They bring the building down in their rampage, killing Markus and severely injuring Kelerchian.

-The Sons of Korhal arrive at Tarsonis. Psi emitters are placed in centres of Confederate power, luring billions of zerg to the planet. They quickly overrun the Confederacy’s defences and procede to lay waste to its urban and industrial centres.

-The Anhilators, along with Nova and Kelerchian escape Tarsonis in the Valkyrie.

-July 18: The protoss arrive at Tarsonis and procede to engage the zerg. Fearing that the Confederates will be able to escape, Mengsk sends Kerrigan planet-side to engage them. Raynor and Liberty attempt to go after her, but are slowed down by Duke, gloating at the chance to use this ‘mutiny’ against them. They manage to get past him though.

Protoss, zerg and SoK forces duke it out above the planet as Raynor and Liberty reach New Gettysburg, after hearing Kerrigan’s request for an evac due to zerg forces overrunning their positions. They’re able to save some of the soldiers, both SoK and Confederate, but Kerrigan is MIA, presumed dead. In reality, she’s captured by the zerg and entombed in a chrysalis.

Raynor and Liberty abandon the SoK; Raynor forming his own group (Raynor’s Raiders), while Liberty goes freelance, determined to get the real story out.

-July 19: The zerg depart Tarsonis for Char.

-Late July: Kelerchian is debriefed by Director Bick, head of the Dominion Ghost Program.

-July 24: Dominion forces occupy Nova Station; former headquarters of Nova Squadron.

-July 26: Raynor’s Raiders ‘raid’ the Dylarian shipyards, acquiring a number of vessels along with the Hyperion.

-Mid August: On Ursa, Kelerchian begins physical therapy to regain the use of his legs while Nova begins training under Sergeant Hartley.

-August 23: After six weeks of nightmares due to Kerrigan’s psionic prowess, Raynor realises that she’s on Char. He sets off after her, with the raiders in tow.

-September 7: Raynor and co. arrive at Char, finding that Duke and an Alpha Squadron force is already there for the same reason, although his forces have been severely mauled. Raynor takes a team of 300 down to the surface, learning from Horner that the protoss have arrived.

Raynor takes the team down into a series of underground caverns, confronting numerous zerg along the way. Taking heavy casualties, they reach a hive chamber, where they see Kerrigan emerge from the chrysalis as the Queen of Blades. She directs the zerg against them, but lets Raynor live, warning him to never confront the zerg again. She then heads off to rejoin the swarm. Raynor links up with those still in the tunnels and heads back to the surface. Of the original 300, only 23 have survived.

Kerrigan meanwhile takes a zerg force with her and attacks the Amerigo, hoping to gain access to the old ghost files and thus undo the psychic dampening installed. Bordering it via a Terran shuttle and doing the same to Duke and Raynor’s ships, she achieves her goals.

The zerg overrun almost all the ships, both those of Raynor and Duke. Duke manages to escape in the Norad III and Horner is able to make an emergency warp jump in the Hyperion, but few ships make it down to the surface. Raynor links up with the survivors, bringing the number of raiders up to just over fifty.

-September 8: The Raiders fan out, looking for signs of possible food or water. Raynor goes it alone and sees a protoss ship land, captained by Tassadar. They come to a mutual agreement, that Raynor will watch out for Kerrigan but not engage her. That’s Tassadar’s job.

Both the humans and protoss send out their scout parties, occassionly encountering each other but passing by without incident. Tassadar, an entourage of protoss and Raynor head off to find Kerrigan. However, she’s learnt of the protoss’s arrival and confronts Tassadar herself. After a battle of words, Tassadar retreats with his forces, Kerrigan leading her own in pursuit, playing right into Tassadar’s hands. Ignored by both parties, Raynor makes his way back to the base camp.

-September 9: Abernathy and Cavez make their report to Raynor on their situation. Assigning them their respective tasks, Raynor heads out to find the protoss.

-September 11: After two days of travel, Raynor finds the protoss base camp, around 100 warriors being present, led by Tassadar. Raynor watches on.

-September 12: The protoss move out and engage a force of Kerrigan’s zerg. In the initial confrontation, one third of the zerg are killed in exchange for only two protoss warriors. Kerrigan arrives herself, but the protoss have disappeared. The zerg set off to find them and Raynor is inclined to follow suit, but instead sees another protoss ship land nearby, disgorging several Dark Templar, led by Zeratul.

Raynor follows the new arrivals underground and finds Zasz, complaining to the Overmind about Kerrigan’s audacity and suspect leadership. Zeratul and the Dark Templar arrive, willing to tell Zasz of Kerrigan’s weakness. Letting his guard down, Zasz agrees to hear it. Said weakness is apparantly the same as what allows Zeratul to kill the cerebrate, causing the Garm Brood to go insane due to the severed link. Zeratul and the Dark Templar depart, as does Raynor, who makes it back to camp.

-September 13: Raynor briefs Cavez and Abernathy on what he’s seen. He prepares to set out again.

-September 14: Raynor sets out and comes across Kerrigan and a force of zerg. Daggoth contacts Kerrigan, telling her about Zasz’s death, and due to the energy wielded by the Dark Templar, the Overmind is unable to resurrect him. As a result, the Garm Brood has gone on a rampage. After debate on the best course of action, Daggoth agrees to eradicate the Garm Brood while Kerrigan continues her hunt for Tassadar.

She soon finds him, the two forces confronting each other in a valley with Raynor looking on. Kerrigan and Tassadar duel, with Kerrigan getting the Templar on the ropes. She sends the zerg against the protoss, who are horribly outnumbered. Desperate to help them, Raynor fires his pistol at some scourges, causing them to detonate and destroy an overlord.

The shockwave stuns both sides, but the zerg, even Kerrigan, get the worst of it. The distraction is enough for Tassadar to retreat with his forces. Enraged, Kerrigan sets after them, summoning reinforcements to boot. Raynor follows them. However, she’s confronted by Zeratul, who tells Kerrigan that she’s part of a culmination, “but not the end of it.”

The two duel, and like Tassadar, Kerrigan gets Zeratul on the ropes. However, Zeratul and his breatheren are able to slip away. Enraged, Kerrigan declares that they will sweap away all in their path, looking up at where Raynor is. He realises that “all” includes him and his comrades. However, zerg reinforcements cut him off from escape.

Daggoth contacts Kerrigan, stating that the Garm Brood has been eradicated and the protoss ships have been destroyed. Imidiatly afterwards, the Overmind contacts the Swarm as a whole, stating how Zeratul, by assassinating Zasz, had accomplished something none before him had, the energies of the Dark Templar being akin to that of the Overmind.

However, in doing so, the Overmind connected to Zeratul’s mind, allowing him to learn the location of Aiur. He gleefully declares that the zerg will soon assault Aiur directly. Kerrigan however, opts to stay behind, wishing to ‘punish’ the protoss who dared set foot upon the world. The Overmind aggress, but orders Kerrigan to journey to Aiur as soon as her business is complete. Having heard enough, Raynor heads back to camp.

-September 15: Arriving back at camp in the early morning, an exhausted Raynor collapses into sleep.

-September 16: After sleeping through most of the day, Raynor briefs Cavez and Abernathy. He orders them to stockpile weapons and equipment so they can be ready to move at a moment’s notice. In the meantime, he’ll head off to try and secure an alliance with the protoss-either group.

-September 22: After nearly a week of searching, Raynor and his fellow scouting soldiers find the protoss-both groups of them facing off. As per the tenants of the Khala, Tassadar considers Zeratul and the Dark Templar heretics and duels his counterpart. Their warriors follow suit.

Zeratul goads Tassadar, causing the Templar to attack without focus. The confrontation is broken off by the arrival of the zerg however. Tassadar leads his warriors into battle, despite the suicidal odds. Raynor reveals himself and convinces Zeratul that they have to retreat. Zeratul convinces Tassadar likewise and the protoss, along with Raynor and his companions, break away, Kerrigan’s taunts and threats ringing in their ears, especially the claim that Aiur is under attack by the zerg, its location supplied by what she implies to be Zeratul.

-Raynor contacts Cavez, ordering him to move out and head for the mountains. However, before they can do so, they come under attack by the zerg. Raynor tells them to dig in while he and the protoss come to aid them. They eventually arrive, finishing off the rest of the zerg. The raiders have suffered ten losses. The humans and protoss set off together for the mountains, despite the misgivings of some of Raynor’s men. They set up camp in the mountains.

-October 2: The Kel-Morian Combine discovers a labyrinth on Warrant VI, dating back several millennia and bearing resembelence to the labyrinth of Crete back on Earth. However, their main concern is the valuable mineral fields nearby.

-October 5: Raynor confronts the misgivings of his men, telling them to at least consider the protoss as allies, if not friends. It’s just as well, considering that a zerg force is closing in on their position. They decide to set up an ambush and thus whittle the Swarm’s numbers. The ambush works perfectly and all of the zerg are killed. They move out to another location, knowing that the rest of the Swarm will soon arrive. This sets the scene for the course of events over the next week. All those present start acting on more friendly terms.

-October 8: The zerg invade Aiur, launching a massive assault across the entire planet that catches the protoss by surprise. Key to the assault is the Jormungand Brood, which is sent to recover one of the Khydarin Crystals.

The zerg reach the crystals and despite a fierce protoss counterattack, it’s able to be harvested.

-October 9: The zerg are sent to the site of a Xel’Naga temple, the site where the ancient race first set foot upon the planet. The zerg are to destroy it, for it is only on this site that the Overmind can make itself manifest.

Despite fierce protoss resistance, the temple is destroyed and the Khydarin Crystal planted. Using the crystal’s power, the Overmind embeds itself in the very crust of the planet.

-UNN reports on the Dominion Engineering Corps taking up the task of rebuilding many orbital platforms.

-October 11: Executor Artanis is met by Judicator Aldaris, who dispatches him to Antioch and strengthen its defences, currently commanded by Praetor Fenix, who’s withstood numerous zerg assaults over the last two days. With Artanis and his reinforcements, they’re able to hold the line.

-October 12: Tassadar, courtesy of Zeratul’s powers, contacts Aldaris and Artanis on Aiur, informing them that killing the cerebrates could be the key to defeat the zerg. Despite Aldaris’s misgivings due to Tassadar’s affiliation with the Dark Templar, he agrees to the proposal. Artanis will lure the zerg forces out, while Fenix preps his own warriors in order to assassinate the cerebrate.

Zeratul however has his misgivings, unsure if Templar energy will be truly able to harm the cerebrates. Tassadar’s curiosity spikes.

-October 13: Artanis establishes himself near the primary hive cluster of the Baelrog Brood. He withstands the attack that the zerg launch at him, withstanding their assault.

-October 14: Fenix arrives and leads an entourage of warriors into the hive cluster, taking advantage of the fact that most of its forces are assaulting Artanis. They fight their way through, assassinating the cerebrate Gorn. Fenix tells Artanis to return to the citadel while he remains behind to observe the effects.

Two hours later, Fenix returns also, informing Artanis and Aldaris that the cerebrate was reincarnated and is currently preparing its brood more a major offensive. Seething with rage at Tassadar’s ‘betrayal’, Aldaris orders Artanis to take a force and engage the zerg situated in the province of Scion while Fenix remains behind to safeguard Antioch.

-October 15: Tassadar asks Zeratul to teach him how to use Dark Templar energy. Over the next two weeks, Zeratul instructs him how to use it while teaching Raynor about the history of the protoss.

-October 16: Artanis and his forces reclaim Scion for the protoss. However, Antioch comes under attack. Although those present are able to defend it, Fenix is killed in the battle.

-October 17: The Conclave declares that they’re winning the war against the zerg and resolves to turn the bulk of their attention to Tassadar, namely bringing him back to Aiur to stand trial.

-October 18: Artanis and Aldaris are dispatched to Char with an entourage of warriors in order to arrest Tassadar.

-October 29: The history lessons reach the issue of the near destruction of Aiur by the Dark Templar when trying to wield the powers of the Khala. Zeratul breaks off the conversation.

-October 31: The zerg attack again, but the combined protoss and human forces are able to fend them off. They relocate to another valley.

-Duke and his Alpha Squadron force that was sent to Char arrive back on Korhal.

-November 1: The history lessons continue.

-Duke and Alpha Squadron are resupplied and sent out into space to survey space routes, map worlds for potential colonisation and re-establish contact with forgotten colony worlds.

-November 2: Zeratul reveals to Raynor the truth of his nightmares, how it’s Kerrigan filtering away elements of her former psyche. As a result, an faint band of psionic ‘light’ exists between them, allowing the protoss to gauge how far away Kerrigan is.

-November 6: Tassadar completes the Shadow Walk, officially becoming recognised as a Dark Templar, albeit keeping his original status. The zerg attack imidiatly afterwards, but are beaten back, thanks in no small part due to Tassadar’s new powers. Raynor ‘hears’ an overlord and knows that they have to move out. Revealing this to those assembled, they resolve to use this ability to their advantage.

-November 9: The plan is executed; Raynor lures Kerrigan in by using the dreams to his advantage, luring the zerg into a valley. Their scouting overlord is immediately taken out, allowing Kerrigan to think that they’re located there in force. She sends virtually her whole brood against them, but finds the valley empty. It’s at this point that Tassadar and Zeratul, who have sneaked into the now virtually empty caves where the cerebrate is, kill it, sending the zerg into a frenzy. As this happens, the humans and protoss spring their trap, revealing themselves and mowing down the zerg.

Zeratul appears before Kerrigan, stalling her long enough for Tassadar and Raynor to arrive. They take her on, but Kerrigan activates Raynor’s suit lockdown system and once again gets Tassadar and Zeratul on the ropes. However, an incoming protoss ship arrives, opening fire on the zerg.

Zeratul and the Dark Templar depart, informing them that their ship; the Void Seeker still exists, courtesy of deceiving the zerg via illusion. The ship lands and disgorges Aldaris and Artanis, accompanied by an entourage of protoss warriors. Aldaris declares that they’re here to arrest Tassadar. Much against his will, Artanis is forced to comply.

Tassadar is willing to submit himself before the Conclave, but asks that he be allowed to find Zeratul and the Dark Templar first. Much to Aldaris’s disgust, Artanis agrees to support him. At the same time, Raynor receives a transmission from Matt, who’s arrived in the Hyperion. Raynor resolves to see things through to the end and agrees to help Tassadar and Artanis.

Aldaris, deprived of warriors, contacts the Conclave, informing him of what has transpired. One hour later, he demands that Artanis stand down and cease in this course of action. After Tassadar and Aldaris engage in a battle of words, Artanis resolves to help Tassadar. Seething, Aldaris returns to Aiur, most of the protoss he brought with him loyal to Tassadar. Artanis and his warriors head off to repair the Gantrithor while Raynor returns to the Hyperion to brief his men on what’s been occurring. Tassadar heads off to find Zeratul, accompanied by his warriors and some of Raynor’s men.

-November 10: Kerrigan’s zerg catch Zeratul unawares and they retreat into a Dominion outpost, courtesy of Duke’s short stay on the planet. As night falls, Tassadar traces their psychic signals and enters the installation. Fighting their way through numerous zerg, they find Zeratul and the Dark Templar. Zeratul agrees to return to Aiur.

-November 11: The protoss fleet, led by the Gantrithor and accompanied by the Hyperion, depart Char for Aiur.

-December 3: Tassadar and co. arrive on Aiur, where they’re greated by Fenix, telling them of how his body was recovered and placed inside a dragoon exoskeleton. He also informs them of how the Conclave has branded Tassadar as a traitor. However, Fenix resolves to stand with them.

Tassadar and his forces land and are imidiatly surrounded by Judicator forces. Fenix and his forces manage to save them, but the situation soon turns into a pitched battle. In desperation, Tassadar submits himself to the Conclave’s judgement in exchange for them drawing off their attack. Aldaris agrees and Tassadar is taken into custody. In the chaos, Zeratul and the Dark Templar disappear.

-December 4: Tassadar is tried and sentenced to death. Until then, he’s placed inside a stasis cell. Fenix refuses to give up however, and resolves to rescue him. Raynor offers his help, which Fenix accepts.

-December 5: Fenix’s forces, accompanied by the Hyperion, storm the heart of the Conclave, rescuing Tassadar. In the midst of the battle, Zeratul confronts Aldaris, having a debate of ideals. Aldaris, perhaps swayed to an extent, lets Zeratul depart.

-December 6: Zeratul tells Artanis and Tassadar about how, when he assassinated Zasz, he connected to the mind of the Overmind, learning how they too were created by the Xel’Naga and seek to assimilate the protoss; combining ‘purity of form’ with ‘purity of essence’ and therefore becoming ‘perfect.’ They therefore agree to assassinate the cerebrates guarding the Overmind, which should weaken the hive cluster’s defences long enough to assault the Overmind directly.

-December 7: Fenix leads a force against the primary hive clusters of the Baelrog and Grendel Brood, weakening their defences. This allows Zeratul to infiltrate the hive clusters and assassinate the two cerebrates. Fenix reports this and Tassadar and Artanis, later accompanied by Zeratul and Raynor in the Hyperion, prepare for the final battle. Just before the onset, Aldaris contacts them, giving the endorsement of the Conclave.

Both sides take heavy casulties. In a final bid for victory, Tassadar steers the damaged Gantrithor on a collision course with the Overmind. Channelling Dark Templar energy, Tassadar sacrifices himself and kills the Overmind in a malestorm of energy. The psychic death scream of the Overmind sends the Swarm into disarray, even reaching Kerrigan. Aware of her ‘father’s’ death, she knows that the time of her ascension has come.

-December 8: Daggoth, still loyal to the Overmind’s mission, uses a number of cerebrates to form a new Overmind. They depart for Char, locking onto a strange energy signature (the Khalis Crystal). However, given its youth, the new Overmind’s control doesn’t extend over the entire Swarm; the zerg on Aiur essentially remain mindless beasts and Kerrigan is able to exert control over a number of broods.

-December 9: Realising that the zerg are still intent on killing any protoss that they come across, Fenix, Aldaris, Zeratul and Raynor band together in order to unite and lead the scattered survivours.

-December 10: A seismograph set up by Lars and Octavia Bren detects a massive tectonic movement fifteen kilometres away from Free Haven. They resolve to check it out tomorrow, unable to do so in the current storm.

-Kerrigan begins setting up her own hives on Char, using the power vacuum of the Overmind’s defeat to her advantage.

-December 11: The colonists of Free Haven emerge to inspect the damage. They find that four of the colony’s best scientists have been killed by the storm. Octavia and Lars set out to check the source of the tectonic readings, finding that a bowl shaped valley has formed, with a giant alien structure in the centre of it.

The Brens check out the structure, finding a number of crystalline portrustions coming out of it. While Lars is caught up in excitement, Octavia is more cautious, feeling uneasy in the structure’s presence. Lars enters the structure and Octavia reluctantly follows. Entering the structure, they find it to be a mix of organic and artificial architecture. They inadvertently activate it however, and Lars is sucked into an electric matrix. Simultaniously, a beam of white light shoots off into space. Octavia flees back to Free Haven to warn the other colonists.

Arriving in Free Haven, Octavia informs the colonists on what’s transpired. After some debate, they agree to send a transmission to the Confederacy or whatever government is in charge. They patch a transmission through to the Terran Dominion. After much thought, Mengsk decides to send Alpha Squadron to investigate.

-The Dark Templar scholar Xerana stops off on a derelict world, finding the remains of a Xel’Naga outpost. She takes them with her onto her ship and flies back into space, continuing her search for more artefacts.

-General Duke and Alpha Squadron stop off in a Vespene Rich asteroid field to restock their fuel supply. Lieutenant Scott asks him about his ‘plan’, concerning when they’re going to strike at the Terran Dominion, but Duke puts him in his place. For Duke, his loyalty is to whoever’s in charge. Bored out of his mind, Duke retires to his quarters, where he plays tactical simulations for the next three days.

-A protoss expeditionary force led by Executor Koronis, with Judicator Amdor as his political superior, detects the energy spike unleashed by the Xel’Naga artefact. They set their course to its point of origin and send an observer to scout the planet.

-December 12: The observer dispatched by Koronis arrives at Bhekar Ro, mapping out the Xel’Naga artefact. However, it strays too close to Free Haven and is targeted by the town’s missile turret, destroying the craft.

-On Char, Kerrigan senses the psychic signal emitted by the artefact. Recognising it as being of Xel’Naga origin, she sends the Kulkulkan Brood to retrieve it.

-December 13: Mayor Nikolai calls another meeting concerning the downed observer. The colonists begin discussing as to how they can defend themselves.

-Koronis and Amdor review the transmitted footage of the observer. Although Koronis suggests caution in light of the human presence, Amdor wants to arrive at the planet ASAP. Koronis concedes and the fleet heads for Bhekar Ro at top speed.

-December 14: The colonists of Bhekar Ro begin preparing for a possible assault. Octavia can’t shake the sense of forboding that’s growing in the back of her mind.

-December 15: Unable to take the feelings of unease any more, Octavia takes the robo harvester to the artefact and tries to destroy it with the harvester’s rocket launcher. The blasts are simply absorbed by the artefact which in turn lets out a stream of lightning, destroying the harvester, frying the harvester’s electrical systems. Octavia is unscarred however. In frustration, she walks back to Free Haven.

-Xerana finishes dechiphering the meaning of the transmission sent by the artefact. She sets out for Bhekar Ro.

-The Kukulkan Brood arrives at Bhekar Ro. The bulk of its warriors are dispatched to the surface and set up their hives near the artefact while the rest of the brood remains in orbit. Those on the surface descend on Rastin’s vespene refinery, killing the colonist and infesting his dog; Old Blue.

As night falls, Octavia catches sight of the refinery and heads towards it, hoping to get a ride back to Free Haven. However, Ratsin is nowhere to be seen and after finding the soil covered in creep and finding an infested Old Blue, she realises why.

Octavia evades Old Blue and flees into the refinery, blasting the infested dog with superheated vespene gas. Sizing the opportunity, the runs to Ratsin’s field crawler, finding it unlocked. However, Old Blue limps after her as she struggles to start it and an infested Ratsin bursts out of his shed. Octavia manages to get the veichle started and roars off, just as Old Blue lets the unstable chemicals get to him, detonating in an acidic explosion. Hydralisks crawl out of the ground and unleash a barrage of needle spines, but Octavia is able to escape and speeds back to Free Haven.

-The protoss fleet arrives at the planet. Koronis and Amdor descend to the surface with a sizeable force, while the rest of the fleet remains in orbit. They land at the temple, but receive a transmission from the Qel’Ha that a zerg fleet is moving to engage them. Koronis orders the fleet to engage the enemy.

-Alpha Squadron; a fleet consisting of fifteen battlecruisers, arrives at Bhekar Ro, finding the zerg and protoss in a pitched battle above the planet. The protoss are initially able to gain the upperhand, the carriers wrecking havoc on the zerg overlords and guardians. In response, a flight of scourges takes out one of their carriers. Although satisfied at the mutual alien destruction, Duke doesn’t want to be left out, so, against the advice of Lieutenant Scott (his second-in-command), Alpha Squadron plunges into the fray.

Alpha Squadron bites deep into both the zerg and protoss, the battlecruisers’ Yamato Cannons taking out numerous overlords and a protoss carrier in the first barrage. With the alien forces reeling at the unexpected assault, numerous Wraith squadrons are dispatched. As they wreck havoc on protoss Scouts, the Norad III and Napoleon use their Yamato Cannons together to take out another protoss carrier.

Although Duke is certain that victory is theirs, the protoss think otherwise; an arbiter casts a statis field on the Napoleon and Bismarck, allowing Scouts and carriers to take out a Wraith squadron. Once the field wears off, the carriers turn their attention back to the battlecruisers.

Duke tries to move the rest of Alpha Squadron in to aid them but the zerg then attack the fleet’s flank. Mutalisks engage Wraiths in aerial combat while the Bismarck is crippled by protoss Interceptors and the Napoleon is unable to disengage. A queen ensnares the wraiths in sticky goo, making them easy targets for the mutalisks, along with numerous scourges.

Duke orders Alpha Squadron to fall back, science vessels launching EMP warheads at the protoss ships and casting defensive matrixes over the battlecrusiers to cover their retreat.

-December 16: Just after midnight, Octavia reaches Free Haven and imidiatly alerts Mayor Nikolai to the danger. He gets on the comms system to alert outlying farmers while Octavia runs through the town, waking up colonists. Over the next few hours, supplies and weapons are stockpiled and the town’s perimeter fortified. As dawn breaks, just as the town has finished preperations, a zerg army is spotted bearing down on them.

The first wave consists of zerglings. The colonists open fire, but it isn’t long before they run out of ammunition and the zerglings reach the perimeter fence, forcing the colonists to rely on scythes and other implements to fight in close quarters combat. Seeing that they’re fighting a losing battle, Nikolai flees to contact the fleet that’s supposedly coming to help them.

The colonists are forced to fall back and Octavia remembers the missile turret. She operates it manually, its remaining missiles into the zerg horde. While the zerg initially reel from the heavy firepower, they have hundreds to spare, along with infested Terrans, which detonate along the outer perimeter, taking out entire sections of fence and those guarding them. Although some zerglings are killed in the detonations, they’re able to afford such losses.

In desperation, Octavia and some other colonists board some harvesters, just as the second wave, made up of hydralisks join the fray. With blades used for cultivating wheat, the harvesters are surprisingly effective and the hydralisks are gutted while the zerglings are run over. The boulder throwers are also used, scattering the zerg. Stunned at the sudden counterattack, the zerg seemingly retreat. However, they begin to loop around the town, heading for the fuel depot. Reacting quickly, Octavia uses the harvester’s flamethrower on the depot as the zerg move in, the flame causing the vespene gas to detonate, taking out the bulk of the zerg and forcing the rest to fall back.

There’s initially great relief, especially when Nikolai announces that he’s managed to contact the fleet in orbit. However, the colonists then see a third wave of zerg descending upon them, made up of ultralisks and mutalisks in addition to hydralisks and zerglings.

The space battle continues above the planet, with both the zerg and protoss hammering away at Alpha Squadron. The Bismarck has been destroyed and the Napoleon is still trying to escape from the protoss carriers. Despite the dire straits, Duke decides to act on Nikolai’s plea for help, taking the bulk of Alpha Squadron planetside to aid in Free Haven’s defence.

Simultaniously, the mutalisks on the surface head for orbit, supposedly in an attempt to deal with the protoss. This ensures that, when Alpha Squadron arrives above Free Haven, the zerg are denied air support. Battlecruisers and wraiths easily decimate the zerg forces while Siege Tanks, Goliaths, marines and firebats unleash death upon the ground. Although Free Haven takes heavy collateral damage, the town has been saved.

-The zerg establish a hive at Rastin’s homestead, a queen assimilating Old Blue’s DNA into the zerg gene pool. Simultaniously, the zerg send a force against the protoss forces.

Koronis and Amdor study the temple, sending a force of dragoons into it. However, alerts come from outside of the zerg attacking, their initial assault driving the protoss forces back. Taking command, Koronis is able to co-ordinate a defence but still requests that some carriers descend to the surface, given that the zerg outnumber them many times over.

As the zerg attack the protoss, Duke fortifies Free Haven, taking it under the wing of Alpha Squadron, despite the colonists’ protests. Duke questions Octavia as to the nature of the artefact. Afterwards, he hears the distant sounds of battle and resolves to move quickly to seize the artefact before the protoss or zerg capture it.

-On Char, Kerrigan seethes at the arrival of the protoss and zerg on Bhekar Ro. She gives the Kukulkan Brood new orders and begins planning for the upcoming Brood War.

-December 17: As the battle between the zerg and protoss rages at the artefact, Lieutenant Scott leads a commando team into the artefact itself. Although they meet with protoss resistance, they’re able to steadily progress. Meanwhile, numerous zerg break through the protoss lines and enter the artefact, soon encountering Scott and his team. Although they take heavy casulties, even losing both their Goliaths, the team manages to press onward.

Meanwhile, while helping the wounded, Octavia senses something tugging at the back of her mind; similar to what the artefact gave out yet different and closer. As night falls, she sets out to the foothills, eventually coming across Xerana. The Dark Templar tells her that the artefact is only a threat to the zerg and protoss, as it was created by the Xel’Naga. Xerana tells Octavia to convince Duke to back down while she tries to warn her bretheren.

-December 18: Duke sends Alpha Squadron’s ground forces against the protoss and zerg fighting at the artefact. Forming a phalanx, marines and firebats press forward while Siege Tanks provide support. They drive a wedge through the protoss and zerg forces. However, the troops press forward too quickly and the Siege Tanks aren’t able to keep up. As a result, the protoss descend upon the soldiers, cutting them off from support. Duke sends a Wraith squadron to help them out along with some battlecrusiers, but High Templar psionic storms drive them back, only to be destroyed by zerg forces. Simultaniously other zerg, including roverlisks (formed from Old Blue’s DNA) attack Alpha Squadrons’ flank. To top it off, protoss Reavers and carriers descend upon Alpha Squadron, wiping them out.

As Koronis continues to issue orders, Xerana reveals herself to Amdor, trying to warn him about the artefact. Amdor moves to apprehend her but Koronis intervenes, willing to hear her out. Xerana warns that the artefact is a danger to both the protoss and zerg, and they must withdraw before it’s too late. Amdor refuses to listen though. Simultaniously, Scott and his team reach the heart of the artefact, along with protoss and zerg. They find the artefact’s ‘heart’; an electric blazing ‘sun’ that seems alive, surrounded by a biopolymer exoskeleton. Suddenly, tentacles of light shoot out, drawing all those present into the chamber. Although the being does not need the humans, it successfully draws the protoss and zerg into its DNA matrix. It begins to make preperations for its emergence.

-Back at Free Haven, Octavia tries to warn Duke about the artefact but the general isn’t listening. Knowing that he doesn’t have enough firepower to capture the artefact, he calls in McGregor Golding-his best Ghost. Golding enters and senses Octavia’s psychic potential, enough to warrant entry into the Ghost Program. Duke skims it over (much to Octavia’s relief) and orders Golding to initiate ‘Plan B’, namely making a nuclear strike on the artefact.

Back at the artefact, Xerana continues to protest, but Amdor still refuses to listen. Seeing that it’s a lost cause, Xerana interrupts the psychic links of the Khala, sending the protoss present into disarray. Using the distraction to her advantage, Xerana manages to escape.

-Golding is dropped by the artefact and ‘paints’ the target, guiding the nukes in. With confirmation of their launch, he proceedes to escape the GPIP (Guaranteed Permenant Incapitation of Personal) radius. Meanwhile, Amdor leads an entourage into the temple while Koronis stays behind to continue directing the artefact’s defence. Upon entering the artefact’s interior, Amdor and those present are drawn into the DNA matrix, completing the required genetic repitoire for the creature to fully awaken.

-Golding makes it to shelter just before the nukes drop. Upon detonation however, the nuclear energy is drawn into the artefact, feeding the creature, although the sonic boom sends both the protoss and zerg sprawling. Shedding its exoskeleton, the creature ‘hatches’ from the artefact; a prototype organism developed by the Xel’Naga. Koronis watches as it reveals itself, its form reminiscent of a combination of a butterfly, jellyfish and sea anemone. Its energy sweeps over the entire valley, drawing all the protoss and zerg into its DNA matrix. Bearing resembelence to a phoenix, it shoots off to the stars. Battlecrusiers open fire on it with their Yamato Cannons, but it simply absorbs the energy, destroys the battlecruisers, draws in the remaining protoss and zerg forces and shoots off into space.

-Octavia links up with Xerana on the hill of their first encounter and watch the creature’s ascension in awe. For some reason, the valley starts to bloom with small plants, courtesy of the creature sheding some of its biological energy. As they near the valley, they see Lar, Scott and the remaining marines emerging from the artefact, having been rejected from the creature’s DNA matrix. As Lars and Octavia embrace, Xerana departs for the ship, intent on following the creature or perhaps find other similar embryos.

-The humans make their way back to Free Haven where they’re greeted with general celebration, along with the fact that the valley has become a fertile Eden, promising them with a bountiful harvest. Duke and the remnants of Alpha Squadron however, have been left without transport. Not really caring, the colonists head off to begin cultivation.

-On Char, Kerrigan seethes at the destruction of the Kukulkan Brood. However, considering it nothing more than a setback, she continues to make plans for the coming Brood War.

-December 19: Protoss forces, aided by Raynor’s Raiders, engage zerg forces in the Garden of Aiur. Due to the disorganised nature of the Swarm following the death of the Overmind, they succeed in driving the zerg off.

-Late December: Kerrigan arrives at Shakuras and secretly begins to corrupt the dark templar matriarch Raszagal.

-The UED Fleet arrives in the Koprulu Sector, capturing some zerg. They unleash them on a border colony to observe them in action.

-2501, January: The Stand begins.

-February: The Stand ends.

-By this stage Nova has progressed further in the Ghost Program in six months than most others have in a year.

-Kelerchian is assigned to bring in a telepath by Mengsk, hoping that he turns up dead in the process. On the eve of his departure, Kelerchian and Nova give their final farewells.

-Late February: The UED captures Braxis and the Dylarian Shipyards, Duke’s forces retreating to Korhal.

-Early March: The UED recovers the psi disruptor from Tarsonis. Korhal is assaulted shortly afterwards, Mengsk’s forces being defeated. However, Mengsk escapes with Raynor to Aiur.

-Dark Vengeance occurs.

-Late March: The UED tracks Raynor and Mengsk to Aiur. However, zerg forces intercede and allow the fugitives to escape, Duran having moved his forces out of position. Stukov departs for Braxis.

-By this stage Nova has progressed further in the Ghost Program in six months than most others have in a year.

-Early April: Duran’s treachery is revealed, albeit at the cost of Stukov’s life.

-April 23: The UED takes control of Char, the Overmind and through it, the bulk of the zerg.

-May: DuGalle develops a series of harsh training programs on Char.

-May 5: The UED makes its victory report.

-Early June: Brood War begins.

-November: Brood War ends.

-Kelerchian is assigned to bring in a telepath by Mengsk, hoping that he turns up dead in the process. On the eve of his departure, Kelerchian and Nova give their final farewells.

-December: Retribution occurs.

-2502: Safari Land begins work on a Bengalaas exhibit.

-The Reaper Corps is formed.

-March 26: Mercenaries occurs.

-July 31: Protoss forces on Aiur reclaim the Asari Hunting Grounds from the zerg.

-August 14: Terran “reconstructionists” visit Chau Sara, wanting to rebuild the major towns. However, they encounter zerg who wish to harvest minerals. After a series of skirmishes, the terrans are forced to retreat.

-August 21: Strange symbols, akin to the crop circles of Earth, begin appearing on space platforms on the edges of terran space. Teams of scientists are dispatched to investigate.

-September 4: Another game of ‘Steal the Beacon’ is played, this time hosted by Beacon Jak.

-September 11: Protoss and zerg forces on Aiur have a skirmish on one of the planet’s plateaus in order to acquire minerals.

-October 9: Terran Wildlife Services, in conjunction with LarsCorp Technologies, announces the opening of their new hunting preserve known as "Big Game," spawned from the overwhelming success of their "Hunters" park.

-An uncharted island is uncovered on the jungle planet of Ynoth, on which six massive citadels surround the ruins of a seventh.

-October 16: Skirmishes erupt in Polaris Prime.

-October 23: Contruction finishes on the Gauntlet.

-A group of protoss come to the Proving Grounds on Gyras to test their mettle.

-December 4: The group of protoss tests themselves again, this time at the Crossroads.

-December 11: Umojan Protectorate forces performs a regular security sweep of Sarengo Canyon, driving out illegal settlers.

-December 22: The Dominion Engineering Corps announces the availability of the Gemini Series of orbital space platforms.

-Early 2503: Hybrid (present) occurs.

-January 29: Dominion Defence Force recruits undertake the ‘Glacier Bay’ trial.

-February: Dr. Fredrica Wallis discovers the letters BLIZZARD carved into a two mile wide section of snow on Braxis. She develops the theory that the universe is nothing more than a computer simulation.

-February 19: The Kel-Morian Combine makes a GPS survey report on Char.

-February 26: A skirmish occurs between terran factions on the mineral rich moon of Urthos III over the minerals situated there.

-March 12: Members of rival terran factions vacationing on Hemidall IV start up a skirmish.

-March 19: Dominion forces fire sweep Scorpion Ravine on Korhal, keeping the scantid population under control.

-April 2: Genna Xann of UNN reports on recent breakthroughs of the Kel-Morian Research Facility in decrypting the Sarengo’s data files concerning the true meaning of Easter. Suffice to say, their conclusions are a bit off.

-April 16: Yet another skirmish occurs on Nidhogg III over the minerals situated there.

-April 30: Yet another bloody battle occurs in the civil war on Surtur V.

-May 7: Rexx Perry, the V.P. of Bunker Command Marketing, announces the release of Bunker Command II.

-May 12: The Korhal ‘Heat Blisters’ and the Braxis ‘Glaciers’ have another brawl on the world of Zenn.

-May 19: Terran Wildlife Services, in conjunction with LarsCorp Technologies, announces the grand opening of another hunting preserve: The Creek.

-June 4: The last battle occurs on the Summeria V space station before it falls into a black hole.

-June 11: “One Eye” McAlester, the sales rep. for Shipley Enterprises, advertises the “Slow Burn” adventure package.

-June 18: Terran factions clash in the Broken Mesa on Korhal for the remains of the fabled plasma pulse weapon that was detonated by rogue scientist Ozmel Dodds.

-July 2: Brian Ari of the Physical Sciences Steering Committee makes a report on Dr. Fredrica Wallis’ theory that the universe is nothing but a computer simulation, having found the letters BLIZZARD carved into a two mile wide section of snow on Braxis. He recommends that she be transferred to the metaphysics department where she can “ignore reality and continue to spout irrational nonsense to her heart's content.”

-July 8: Dr. Bazio Thurgood, Astrophysics Professor and host of the "Space is a weird, wacky place!" science show on the Galactic Entertainment Network states that protoss warp gate technology might also occur as a natural phenomenon.

-July 16: Terran raiders attack the Isle of Razjan on Shakuras, looking for wealth, knowledge and power. The protoss beat them back.

-July 23: The UED Military Academy develops a new simulation for its recruits.

-July 30: Marine 219XMS87632 makes his final diary entry, having been dropped into the ‘Abattoir’.

-August 6: Merchant space captain Roberto Lamas makes a diary entry complaining about space pirates, maintaining that “they’ll get what’s coming to them” someday.

-August 20: Norman Goodfellow, Senior Park Ranger of Terran Wildlife Services highlights the Twisted Trail Recreation Park that his organization isn’t just about hunting game.

-August 27: Dominion Defence Force recruits begin the Mountain Stronghold scenario on Braxis.

-August 30: The Mountain Stronghold Mission ends, the survivours moving on to Glacier Bay.

-September 3: Alan Johnson, Founder and CEO of Big Sky Inc., announces the future opening of Megalopolis; humanity’s first space city.

-September 10: UED Marine 384DTA47631 is debriefed concerning his experiences on Char.

-September 17: The Klondike Gold Rush begins.

-September 24: Uran Golenko, leading stress therapist and featured guest on the popular "Universe Today" talk show advertises the world of Helioc III.

-October: Oscar is stationed on Exile Station.

-October 8: The UED Naming Committee gives the space platform being built over the world of Reynif II ‘New Venice’.

-October 22: Ghost trainees undertake Scenario A11-X93.

-November 5: Rassidan, High Templar of the Akiliae Tribe, reflects that while the destruction of Aiur still haunts him, he’s found peace on Shakuras.

-November 12: Colonel Riley Bullhorn complains about Terran Orbital Platform G11-F3

-November 19: Engineer's Mate Aaren Ruth of the Hyperion makes a diary entry concerning Shakuras, finding the world surreal.

-November 24: First Mate Norris Bailey of the Recovery Vessel Starheaper reflects on the sorry state of the Koprulu Sector, getting slapped over the head by the captain for daydreaming as a result.

-December: Mengsk gives Nova her assignment to kill Cliff Nadaner.

-December 17: Corporal Max Redius, having completed his tour of duty on Braxis, maintains that he’d prefer Hell’s warmth to Braxis’ freezing temperatures.

-December 23: The song Twelve Days of StarCraft is released, a parody on the Earth song Twelve Days of Christmas.

December 30: Benjamin Slater, a doctor of zoology, makes a report on the bengalaas.

-December 31: Nova arrives on Tyrador VIII in order to assassinate agitator Cliff Nadaner to graduate from the Ghost Program.

-2503: Transmatter Inc. creates the Gluon-B21 Teleportation System. However, when field tested, the marines spontaneously combust. The system is shelved for re-evaluation.

-Jake Ramsey and his team begin work on the world of Gelgaris.

-Stewart quits being a mercenary and becomes a crime lord. Although Dahl continues work as a mercenary, they still keep in touch.

-January 4: Nova kills Nadaner, thus graduating from the Ghost Program.

-January 7: Colonel Ronald "Hardcore" Jackson reflects that he used to think that defeating the zerg would require precise military manouvers and superior leadership. Now, he’s come to realize that it’s just as effective if he tells those under his command to shoot anything that moves.

-January 14: Lieutenant Thomas Dufay of the UED reflects on the action he saw in the city of Graschek during the UED’s campaign.

-January 21: Oscar writes a letter to his mother, expressing how the isolation of Exile Station is “maddening” and that he needs some clean underwear.

-January 28: Training Coordinator Max Herai gives a final pep talk to his cadets before they undertake their final exam.

-February 4: The UED Surveyor General approves of the name ‘New Aegean Sea’ for a body of water on the world of Exgelia IV. He complains about the department’s lack of creativity and declares that the next “uninspired” report which comes to his desk will be rejected imidiatly.

-February 11: Captain Jonathan Rogers is KIA by a freak hailstorm on Grnaki Prime.

-February 18: Gregory Raj, author and self-proclaimed "Guru of the Stars" reflects on how much he likes deserts.

-February 25: General Tyco Eiche reflects how High Command is treating its soldiers as if they weren’t living, not appreciating the need for R&R in-between battles.

-March: Col. James Dather is assigned to the space platform S630-M71, better known as “The Void,” becoming its commanding officer.

-March 3: Colonel Riley Bullhorn reflects how his new space platform posting is no better than his old one.

-March 10: Corporal Aaron Parkinson writes in his diary about his hellish experiences on Char.

-March 17: Ralph Smith, leader of the “Hunters are People Too!” organization is interviewed in which he stresses the worth of hunting animals.

-March 24: Dr. Ula Isarki, Head of the Koprulu Meterological Institute, stresses the fascination of xenometeorlogy and its worth.

-April 7: The Koprulu Wilderness Society recommends that people keep their distance from the Braxis ursadon.

-April 14: Engineer's Mate Aaren Ruth of the Hyperion watches a protoss templar on Shakuras doing ‘excercises.’ His memory takes him back to his sixth birthday, in which he had a magician do magic tricks for him. He reflects how the protoss have ‘real’ magic.

-April 21: Admiral David Jones reflects how dueling has lost its honor, being resolved with gauss weaponry, Goliath walkers, etc.

-April 28: A 20 megaton device is detonated on Uilila IV by the Kel-Morian Combine in order to dispose of their rivals.

-May 5: Colonel Abraham Vahn writes in his journal about the thrill that facing off an enemy brings.

-May 19: Sergeant Axel “Guns” Enrozes preps his platoon before they begin ‘living’ in the jungle as part of their training.

-May 26: Col. James Dather makes a status report on how the pseudonym of his space platform “The Void” is well earned, with equipment repeatedly failing and a medic dying for no discernable reason.

-June 8: Commandant L. H. Smith of the MCT Training Program disciplines a recruit with embarrassing ease, putting him in a coma.

-June 9: Smith writes a memo maintaining that platoon leaders should schedule daily CQC sessions in order to improve recruits’ proficiency at close quarters.

-June 16: Another battle occurs between the two factions of Thanix III.

-June 23: Dr. Iliac Weston is interviewed as to how he prefers using old fashioned traps to catch animals rather than modern technology.

-July 7: Commandant Uraj Al'Kural reflects on Training Scenario A17.

-July 14: Dr. Oswald Connor reports on the Gheilia Plateau of Ullalah II.

-July 21: Firebat squads on Braxis are given the task of using their flamethrowers to melt the planet’s permafrost so that the dead can be buried.

-Early August: Dr. Frederick Thompson, xenoarcheologist, arrives on Aiur.

-August 4: Safari Land opens its bengalaas exhibit, faithfully recreating their ecosystem on Aiur.

-August 11: ‘The Modern Koprulu Sector Battlefield’ is written by Gen. Ulysses Hargrove, Ret.

-August 18: Thompson makes his final transmission, having found the Ziggurat.

-September 29: Dr. Ulani Tirano of Transmatter Inc. announces that, after four years of testing, the vastly improved Muon-B22 Teleportation System is ready for field testing. However, in field trials, soldiers begin to ‘fade out of existence.’

-September 30: Transmatter Inc. issues a statement that the events of the field test and the apparent loss of life was “an unfortunate but minor setback.”

-October 27: Deception occurs.

-2404, January 2: Operation: Claws occurs.

-January 31: Mercenaries II occurs.

-March 19: Colonel Fenius Hassad reflects how at times, betraying your teammates can ensure your survival on the battlefield.

-April 2: Barnabuss the pink anthropomorphic lizard reflects how fun sharing is.

-April 18: Jimmy Jo Jameson reflects how well ‘Crazy Bob’ serves him.

-June 12: Resurrection occurs.

-2505, March 1: Alternity occurs.

-Mid 2505: Ghost occurs.

-Late 2505: The Dark Templar Saga occurs.

-StarCraft II begins.

Canon and Retcons
The following is something of a personal take on canon, retcons and possible errors that have cropped up in Blizzard's expanded universe. This is for personal reference in anything else, mainly for fanon writing and the timeline;

StarCraft: Uprising

 * Battlecruisers are not two leagues long. However, it does raise the possibility...


 * Korhal was nuked by battlecruisers rather than using long range weaponry. The former makes far more sense in that it would be more accurrate and use less fuel-even in the 25th century, the act of guiding a missile to the dark side of a planet would be difficult. Casulties are 35 million; 5 million feels too small for a core world. Besides, it says that 5 million people "were killed in an instant." In essence, the nukes killed 5 million people directly, with millions of others died from radioactive fallout.


 * Shields are force fields, like those in StarCraft Ghost: Nova. This doesn't give an excuse to use them freely, but does raise the possibility of using them...


 * Guild Wars lasted 4 years (seven cycles possibly a typo for several?)


 * Koprulu Sector was settled at the dawn of the 24th century (see timeline), not millenia ago.


 * Duke's "been a general for fifteen years" is a gag quote and of low canonical status. It's distinctly said in the book that he'd been made a general for catching the SoK. It's almost certainly a retcon.

StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade

 * "Been a general for fifteen years..." is only accessible as a gag quote and is therefore of low status in heirarchy. Duke "was well overdue for his general's stars...", hinting that the rank discrepency is intentional


 * Duke was on Chau Sara but not nesecarilly the Norad II
 * The encounter between the protoss and terrans actually fits the manual, which states that the Confederacy launched a clumsy counterattack" Said counterattack consisted of the Norad II, Huey Long and Jackson V being dispatched seperatly.


 * Norad II was destroyed on Antiga Prime. Mission 8 is absent from the novel and by the time of Char, Duke has the Norad III. This is probably a retcon and explains why Duke used the Hyperion at the Dylarian Shipyards, as he no longer had the Norad II.

StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga

 * Duke hates aliens, made clear in the novel. I don't think assuming the the zerg and protoss working together is too out of character when one considers his prejudice.


 * Casulty stats are overexageration.


 * Kerrigan gains control of listed zerg broods apart from Tiamat, later looses most of them to new Overmind.

StarCraft: Speed of Darkness

 * I'm guessing a seperate team obtained a psu emitter and planted it for Mengsk, the future emperor ordering a raid on the Jacobs Installation to obtain their schematics so he could produce them. Lousy slike was probably feigning ignorance the entire time.


 * Littlefield=minor plot hole.


 * Vultures can only fly just above the ground.


 * It's pretty much without a doubt that the zerg never attacked Bountiful, the marines instead dragging him away. The rest of Ardo's memory is probably real though.

StarCraft: Queen of Blades
As a novelisation of Episode II, I generally consider QoB to take preferance by default. However, to be specific;


 * Exclusion of Mission 1 is understandable as it focus on the zerg too much in the prologue. However, it almost certainly happened.


 * Char has two suns.


 * Chrysalis; see summary comment.


 * Who's to say that becoming a zerg didn't unlock some of Kerrigan's abilities beforehand? Her dialogue indicates that she's gained new abilities as soon as she hatches. She had telekenisis before being infested anyway.


 * Zasz; see summary comment.


 * Garm Brood; see above comment.


 * Lack of protoss tech; see summary comment.


 * Kerrigan being beaten makes more sense in light of Fenix's comments in Episode VI, how Tassadar taught her a lesson. It works better than said lesson being the slaying of one measly cerebrate.


 * Zeratul is a Prelate. Still, Prelate could be an equivalent rank of Preator. I doubt the two protoss kindreds would develop the same rank system.


 * Devourer's inclusion is an error.

StarCraft Ghost: Nova

 * Six months, at the very least, gives the UED a more realistic ammount of time to arrive. It also makes the fall of the Confederacy seem more realistic; I don't see it happening in two.


 * Valkyrie, in light of Metzen's comments, is not originally of the UED, the UED Valkyrie being a "new addition"-an addition from the Koprulu Sector perhaps.

StarCraft: Dark Templar Saga

 * It doesn't absolutely say that the Ara Tribe was created by Khas. "They were the first group" to rally behind him, not FORMING a group. In my mind at least, this implies a pre-existing tribe. Besides, why would Khas create an actual tribe per se when this goes against the fundemental aspects of the Khala and caste system? Granted, it being a "young" tribe lends credence to the theory, but as far as I can tell, the Ara Tribe always existed.


 * The Xel'Naga use a protoss word to describe themselves.


 * Firstborn depicts protoss society shortly before the end of the AoE. It's very plausible that millenia of war would degenerate their technological prowess.


 * I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard pushes back the Rebellion of Korhal at some point, as "over a year ago" is a very general term. Still, Valerian's ages are pretty much an error I guess.