User:Hawki

I guess it's tempting to yak one about yourself, but I'll refrain from that. Anyway, here's stuff relavent to Starcraft.

[edit] Fiction Among other fandoms, I've done some Starcraft fanfiction, all of which is at ff.net[1]. My alias is the same, you'll find them under there. So far the fics I've submitted are;

The Curse of Choice Dying Times Light and Darkness Lost Battle

All of these are oneshots so far, with the qualities varying. Reviews are appreciated.

[edit] Timeline A fanon timeline that is partially developed, with some given fact and quite a bit of speculation. I know that bits of it are distinctly wrong, and I'll correct them at some point;

- 501BC: Adun and Taldarin fight under Khas to unify the Protoss tribes.

-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.

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

-21st Century: The 21st century made the scientific and cultural achievements of the 20th century pale in comparison. One of the most notable events was the eradication of Communism from the Eastern Nations (eg China, North Korea). In its wake, nuclear weapons quickly became more available and abundant. The new world order is thrown into pandemonium however as third world nations challenge the economic and military might of the superpowers.

The century also saw a marked rise in the scientific fields of cybernetics, cloning and gene-splicing, mainly conducted by private corporations. As their actions became known to the public, numerous militant humanist factions and hard-line religious groups rose to challenge their authority.

Multitudes of people were becoming subject to cybernetic augmentation. Side effects ranged from heightened senses to advanced telepathy. As time went on, the human gene pool became more unstable, as population growth soared.

-22nd Century: Scientific fields become increasingly corporatized. Population rates begin 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 gene pool continues to de-stabelise 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.

-November 22nd, 2229: The United Powers League (UPL) was founded, envisioned as the ultimate incarnation of a unified humanity. The new world order encompassed 93% of Earth’s population, only some volatile South American states remaining independent.

The organisation re-opened space exploration, due to advances made in warp drive technology and cryogenic hibernation.

The organisation was founded on the basis of ‘enlightened socialism’ but often resorted to fascist police actions to maintain its control. Great lengths were undergone to eliminate any vestiges of racial separatism. Many forms of religion were banned and English was designated as the common language of the planet, many languages being banned.

It was 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 clense humanity of its more degenerate aspects.”

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

-2278: Project Purification begins, the UPL’s solution to the problem of genetic instability. UPL troops scoured the planet, rounding up dissidents, hackers, synthetics, the cyberneticly enhanced, tech-pirates and even simple criminals.

-2287: Project Purification ends. After nine years of scouring, 400,000,000 people had been “culled” with many more slated for mass execution. The world media, under strict UPL control, downplayed the events, leaving most of Earth’s population unaware of the numerous acts of genocide occurring.

-2288: 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 were deemed to be able to survive a one year journey in cryo-sleep to the outlying planet of Gantris VI.

-2289: The prisoners were 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 took a turn for the worst when ATLAS’s navigational systems shut down. The ships therefore barrelled onwards into space.

-2301: Earth’s population reaches 36 billion.

-2317: 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.

-2377: After sixty years of isolation, the three colonies are reunited by space travel. Tarsonis pushed 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 had 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 continued to grow by leaps and bounds.

-2434: Moria begins to regard the Confederacy with suspiscion. The Kel-Morian Combine is formed; consisting of the Kelanis Mining Guild and the Morian Mining Coalition. Although a shady partnership, they resolved to supply military aid to any mining guild that was oppressed by Confederate policy.

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

-2446: Edmund Duke is born.

-2452: Tensions begin to develop between the Confederacy and Moria over the existence of the Combine, namely over the issue of who had access to various resources.

-2454: Tensions erupt into war, with the Confederacy declaring war on Moria. This is the beginning of the Guild Wars.

-2458: The Guild Wars end, with the Confederacy ‘negotiating’ peace with the Combine. Although it retained its autonomy, its supporting mining guilds were annexed by the Confederacy.

-2459: Shocked at the blatant abuse that the Confederacy was capable of, the Umojan Protectorate was founded. This nationalised militia would work to keep Umoja free from Confederate tyranny. It may have come to that, considering that the Confederacy had asserted itself as the dominant factor within the Terran power structure.

-2461: Arcturus Mengsk is born.

-2470: James Raynor is born.

-2473: Sarah Kerrigan is born.

-2494: 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.

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 was decided that Korhal would serve as an example of those who would consider rebellion.

-2495: 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 weakened the revolt, Mengsk was succeeded by his so; Arcturus.

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.”

Twenty battlecruisers appear in orbit around Korhal. The reason for this soon became clear as they unleashed a barrage of one thousand Apocalypse-class nuclear warheads against the planet. 35 million people were killed in the nuclear apocalypse and the colony was turned into a world of heated sand.

The Confederacy stated that Korhal would have done the same to them if given the chance and it was “unfortunate” that all the ‘evidence’ had been incinerated. In a magnanimous gesture, the Confederacy banned the use of full scale nuclear weapons on habitable worlds. However, smaller tactical warheads remained in their arsenal.

Mengsk isn't swayed by any of this. With nothing left save vengence, Mengsk and his supporters on Korhal vowed to bring the Confederacy down at all costs.

Canon Material

Just want to say that, unlike many Starcraft fans (as far as I can tell), I consider the books canon and any apparant errors as retcons rather than mistakes (for the most part). Just an opinion of course, but considering that Blizzard considers all its Warcraft written material canon (the books, RPG guides, etc.), I'm guessing that the same applies to its Starcraft universe too.