Auza

Auza is the Cerebrate in control of Incubus Brood, featuring as a minor character in StarCraft: Insurrection. As Incubus Brood lacks the sheer destructive capacity of most of the larger Broods, Auza's forces are most often directed towards smaller fringe colonies and settlements. Auza's skills lie primarily in scouting and deception, deeply rooting his forces behind the enemy lines and tactically striking them until they collapse in on themselves, often before Incubus Brood's presence is discovered.

Auza's brood formed the initial invasion of the Confederate fringe system of Brontes IV, infesting the orbital communications array and establishing itself on the surface on Brontes IV long before the colonial militia detected them. Incubus Brood proceeded to learn about and infest the colony without much resistance, even being assisted by the Fist of Redemption, Terran rebels who believed the Zerg to be their saviours and who were never far away from the Brood's operations. Despite several defeats, including two in an attempt to infest the city of New Dresdin, Auza remained resiliant, even as the main bulk of the Protoss Seventh Fleet engaged Incubus Brood on the surface.

However, a Protoss attack under Aedus/Xerxes destroyed the primary resource base of the Incubus Brood. The lack of resources forced Auza into rashly attacking the primary Seventh Fleet stronghold, but this was met with a devastating defeat. In an attempt to quickly bolster their numbers Incubus Brood infested a large amount of the Fist of Redemption, with Auza personally assimilating Atticus Carpenter. This fatally backfired as the powerful psychic mind of Carpenter proved to be too strong for Auza's own mind. Carpenter was able to establish full control over both Auza's body and Brood. Somehow the genetic link that bound all Cerebrates to the Zerg Overmind was severed and Carpenter was able to use his new Brood to his own ends. This prompted the Overmind to create a new Cerebrate from elements of Garm Brood. This new Cerebrate was tasked with the main invasion of Brontes IV and the destruction of the new Carpenter Brood as well as that of the surviving Protoss and Terrans. Ultimately Auza's physical body was killed along with Carpenter's mind by Zerg forces at the completion of the invasion, but by this point Auza no longer existed.