User blog comment:Godzillavkk/Star Craft 3 story ideas./@comment-4817-20181225235157

New characters?

We don't know who any new characters might be. We can only really discuss archetypes.

Unlike StarCraft I, where the main Confederacy character seemed to be Duke, we actually know the civilian leader of the Dominion. However the only military leader of note left seems to be Matt Horner. There was a cluster of scientists introduced, so while note "new" I wouldn't be surprised if one of them shows up somewhere.

We need a main terran character! Raynor is gone, and Valerian Mengsk is too high-ranking to be the main character. I suppose that could be Matt Horner, but I'd rather see a new character (or not particularly well-developed character) who would have more room for character development or at least character portrayal.

Umoja and the Kel-Morian Combine have had little play in StarCraft and StarCraft II. While we know the names of their leaders and a few character names, I think we should expect a commander and/or diplomat from at least one of these factions. I expect, with advances in (real-life) technology, that the factions would have some new units, be missing some units, and so forth. (Way back in Warcraft III, the high elf "race" was similar to the Alliance, but did things like replace dwarven riflemen with elven archers. There were even a few NPC-only races, such as corrupted treants, and some less developed campaign races, such as the nagas. StarCraft II already did this, to some extent, with the co-op characters.)

UED sympathizers: there are still UED fleet remnants left (who need a leader) and a Koprulu-born sympathizer needs to be present, IMO. Also Stukov... what does he think about a new fleet? How would he even contact them? The sympathizers seemed to be really xenophobic, at least against the protoss. PvT conflict right there, but the sympathizers seem too weak to really take on the protoss.

Zerg: we already have Zagara, who is basically a good guy. We have Niadra, a bad guy. If Blizzard could explain how Niadra gains power (to be a rival for Zagara) then I think a zerg villain works. Also Abathur is still alive.

Johnny Raynor: not as a main character, and not being more powerful than other ghosts, but it would be interesting to see a freed ghost who can't connect to family since they mysteriously vanished.

Protoss: Artanis is obvious. Alarak is still out there. With Amon defeated, one wonders what Alarak is interested in. (Perhaps he overreacted to Dominion provocation out of sheer boredom.)