Horace Warfield

Horace Warfield is a Terran Dominion military officer and current commander-in-chief of the Dominion Armed Forces.

Biography
Horace Warfield was raised on Tarsonis with the rest of his family. Unlike his other siblings, who went into medicine, Warfield joined the Confederate military.

Early in the Guild Wars, Warfield met a Confederate captain, Arcturus Mengsk, who was in charge of a 33rd Ground Assault Division company. Warfield was impressed by Mengsk's strategic abilities. During a closely-fought battle in the South Kreen Mines, Warfield led a charge into an enemy bunker, taking three bullets in the shoulder as he cleared a vital position. Warfield was quickly made first lieutenant under Mengsk, and the two became friends.

Warfield was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel as the war drew to a close. Mengsk left the Confederate military, but both men stayed in contact.

Warfield was assigned "peacekeeping" duties. He became especially disenchanted with the Confederacy as a result of the Destruction of Korhal. Commanding the battlecruiser Iron Justice in the Sara System, he cut off contact with the military network and took his crew, loyal and handpicked by him, with him. Labeled a deserter, he was hunted by the Confederacy's forces.

He made secret contact with Mengsk's Sons of Korhal and helped direct th eir strikes at the Confederacy. His intelligence may have led to information about the psi emittter on Mar Sara, as well as its use on Tarsonis. Warfield was never officially a member of the Sons of Korhal and had no official role in the Fall of Tarsonis.

Warfield became one of Mengsk's most trusted advisors and became a general. Before his death on Korhal, General Edmund Duke is said to have referred to Warfield as "the emperor's other brat," insinuating that Warfield wasn't in Augustgrad helping fight against the zerg threat due to his privileged status in their leader's eyes.

At some point he fought in an action for which he was later hailed as the "Hero of Torus".

Warfield retired in 2501, having served in some of the most historic battles in the terran occupation of the Koprulu sector. But his military days were not over. Recent movements by the zerg in Dominion territory have alarmed Emperor Mengsk enough to reactivate his old comrade. General Horace Warfield is now in command of the entire Dominion armed forces, and the history books stand to bear his name once again.

Recall to Arms
"My finest military minds are being brought to bare, and it's my pleasure to announce that they'll soon be led by the Hero of Torus himself&mdash;General Horace Warfield. With General Warfield at the helm, and our finely honed Dominion military under his command, I have every confidence that this new zerg threat will be contained very soon."

- Arcturus Mengsk reinstates Warfield



The onset of the Second Great War prompted Emperor Mengsk to reactivate Warfield. The general was placed in command of the Dominion Armed Forces and immediately sent to execute Operation Burnout to clear the Sara System.

Warfield took command of Korhal City's garrison when Raynor's Raiders seized control of three of the city's broadcast towers. Despite his efforts, the rebels managed to broadcast Mengsk's admission of ordering the use of psi emitters on Tarsonis.

Battle of Char
Prince Valerian Mengsk requisitioned Warfield and nearly half the Dominion Fleet for a strike on Char. The prince was assembling a xel'naga device that he hoped would deinfest Infested Kerrigan. The fleet rendezvoused with Raynor's Raiders and struck an alliance with the rebels, who had been unwittingly collecting artifact pieces for the prince. By this stage Warfield had led five invasions against the zerg and was less than impressed with the Raiders and what he considered their self-serving motives. The general disregarded Raynor's advice and launched a frontal assault. The terrans suffered heavy casualties and were nearly repulsed. The general transferred to the battlecruiser Helios, which was badly damaged in the subsequent fighting and crash landed on the surface. Raynor's Raiders were fighting nearby to establish a foothold and after hearing Warfield's claim that his ship had taken terrible terrible damage, the Raiders rushed to relieve the embattled crew. The rebels arrived just as the zerg began overrunning Warfield's position. The general was trapped in a trench and, after witnessing several of his troops get massacred, was attacked by two hydralisks. Although his right arm was impaled by spines, he managed to punch out one attacker with his other arm, but was left in a disadvantageous grapple with the other. Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay personally aided Warfield while a flight of Banshees destroyed the next wave of zerglings. Warfield was grateful and promised not to forget that Raynor had saved him and his troops. Warfield's armor was repaired but his arm remained poisoned from the spines. The general was in no condition to resume command and gladly appointed Raynor to replace him. He advised Raynor to cripple enemy air forces prior to attacking the primary hive. The general developed a warm rapport with the rebel, and recognized Raynor's operational and tactical acumen. Warfield's right arm was amputated and replaced with a cybernetic arm. The arm converted between a hand and a cannon. The general then delivered the assembled artifact to Raynor and marveled at what Raynor managed to achieve on Char.

Achievements
Horace Warfield's portrait is available on battle.net for players who complete the Liberty Completionist achievement.

StarCraft: Ghost



 * Horace Warfield's portrait in StarCraft: Ghost videos looks just like an image for Jackson Hauler.

General Warfield was an adviser to Dominion Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. He was in charge of Project Shadow Blade, a program to convert ghosts into spectres using the dangerous gas, terrazine. However, the spectres would "serve their true master", which was not necessarily Warfield or Emperor Mengsk.

Warfield guided ghost agent Nova through at least a few missions.

Images
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