Hale

"After raising my sons, you cannot find a war that is too tough for me to handle."

- Commander Hale introduces himself at New Trinidad

Commander Hale is a Terran mercenary commander and battlecruiser captain.

Hale has made at least two appearances in the StarCraft storyline; he was one of the mercenary leaders in the mission at New Trinidad and fought in the massive civil war at Surtur V.

Appearances
In Mercenaries, Hale appeared as a copy of the Hyperion. In Revolutions (the battle of Surtur V) he appeared as Arcturus Mengsk's face. He personally took part in the first battle (as a selectable mercenary leader), where he commented on his history with his sons, but only appeared in the mission briefing of the second battle.

Trivia
The concept of Commander Hale seems to have been borrowed from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR%2C_Inc. TSR's] Alternity game system Star*Drive setting, another space opera setting. TSR, the same company that created Alternity, created a crossover product entitled StarCraft: Alternity.

Commander Hale is based on former Orion League (a human Stallar Nation) President Warthen Hale (renowned for helping end a galactic war); he makes a comment about how raising his sons was harder than any war. Warthen Hale's two sons are Senator Bruce Hale (now running for President of the Orion League) and Christopher Hale, who abandoned his father during the war with a very large number of troops and massive amounts of equipment to found the Bluefall Regency in a region of space quite far from the Orion League, which is probably responsible for Commander Hale's somewhat bitter comments. The Bluefall Regency proclaimed itself independent of the Orion League, but maintains somewhat friendly relations.