Nova Terra (StarCraft: Ghost)

Nova Terra was the player character in StarCraft: Ghost.

In the campaign, she was sometimes guided by General Horace Warfield. At some point in the game's storyline, she would come to choose between loyalties to Arcturus Mengsk and Colonel Jackson Hauler.

Design
Nova's appearance shifted from "realistic" to a more "anime-ish" look when Swingin' Ape Studios was purchased by Blizzard and their console design teams were merged. Concept art also depicted her in Nerazim gear.

Psionic Abilities
Nova's psionic abilities included cloaking, psionic sight (which enabled her to see heat signatures) and psionic speed (which quadrupled her speed). She could also use psi blast (knock down opponents surrounding her) and psi stun (stun an opponent by touch).

Weapons
Nova typically carried an AGR-14 assault rifle and a sniper rifle, and sometimes uses the E-11 lockdown device; however, she could use nearly any terran weapon that she could pick up such as the Perdition flamethrower, C-14 rifle and Torrent SR-8 shotgun.

Nova could use a variety of grenades, like other ghosts.

Nova could also use the psyblade as a melee weapon. It is designed from a combination of terran and protoss technology.

General Combat Abilities
Nova was capable of a wide variety of combat moves, including climbing and sliding down ziplines. Nova could also kill silently by sneaking up on an opponent, and could use techniques such as "dangle snipe" (in which she hung from a pipe with her legs and snipes an opponent). She could inflict a deathblow on a downed opponent.

Calldowns
Nova had the ability to "call for help"; she had at least six calldowns; Identify, Irradiate, EMP Burst, Arclite (which directs attacks from a powerful siege tank), Yamato Cannon, and the ever-popular nuke.