Brood War Introduction



StarCraft: Brood War is the sequel to StarCraft, a video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment. This expansion pack added to the original game new units to each race. For the Terran race the Valkyrie and Medic were added. For the Protoss race, Dark Templar, Dark Archon and Corsair were added. For the Zerg race, Lurker and Devourer were added.

At the end of the original StarCraft, the Protoss hero Tassadar sacrificed himself to slay the Zerg Overmind in a powerful blast of Dark Templar energy.

With the death of their Overmind and multiple Cerebrates, the Zerg ran rampant and leaderless across 70% of Aiur, homeworld of the Protoss, slaying all Protoss they encountered.

A small number of Protoss heroes, including Aldaris, Fenix and Zeratul, plus their Terran ally Jim Raynor survived to try to protect the Protoss survivors.

The Terminal Agenda
In a somewhat controversial move, Blizzard Entertainment revealed that the United Powers League had been watching and recording the Koprulu Sector Terrans since their exile.

Apparently Blizzard wanted to create a new race (the United Earth Directorate Terrans) but fans disagreed. As a result, Blizzard simply gave the UED Terrans the exact same units and technology as Koprulu Sector Terrans.

The UPL saw no reason to interfere in the Koprulu Sector until the sudden (and violent) first contact between Terrans and the Protoss and Zerg were made.

The UPL had never made contact with any alien species before, and panic spread throughout the UPL, which feared alien invasion of Earth. The fear even brought the few Earth nations not under the command of the UPL into its fold. The organization changed its name to the United Earth Directorate and took on a militant stance towards the aliens.

After monitoring the Protoss and Zerg for several months, the UED believed they had discerned their strengths and weaknesses. The UED collected an Expeditionary Force, whose purpose was to conquer the entire Koprulu Sector. It was led by Admiral Gerard DuGalle and his friend, Vice Admiral Stukov. They were given a secret order to take control of the Zerg and use them to pacify Protoss activity in the Koprulu Sector.

Brood War
The Brood War got its name from an effective "civil war" among the Zerg. Roughly half of the Zerg Broods fell under the control of Senior Cerebrate Daggoth, while the other half fell under the control of the Queen of Blades. The two sides vied for control of the Zerg, and both the Protoss and the Terrans would be drawn into this conflict.

Brood War Introduction Movie
The game opens with a few Terrans in a trench, defending themselves from a bloody Zerg assault. A battlecruiser appearing overhead is hailed as promised air support, though the ship does not open fire on the Zerg forces.

In the battlecruiser, soft opera music plays on a vintage phonograph while two Terrans speak. The bald man is Admiral DuGalle, and the slightly younger man smoking a cigar is Vice Admiral Stukov.

DuGalle demands Stukov watch the ongoing massacre of the Terrans. Stukov said he has seen tapes of Zerg already, but DuGalle insists he watch the battle with his own eyes to fully understand the power of the Zerg. As the Zerg begin to overrun the colony, an officer asks if they should intervene to save the remaining Terrans; DuGalle declines and orders the battlecruiser to leave the area.

A lone marine watches DuGalle's ship leave as his trench is overrun by Zergling, while the background opera music crescendos to a dramatic finale and a sudden cut to black.

''A two-minute trailer was released by Blizzard sometime before the expansion pack and depicted many scenes from the introduction movie along with some new scenes (see External Links). The background opera music from the introduction movie is used as the dominant song throughout the trailer. The official credits list the song as having Latin and French lyrics but a translation of the lyrics has not been found, so this cannot be substantiated.''


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