Hale

Commander Hale is a 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 Sutur V.

Appearance
In Mercenaries, Hale appeared as a copy of the Hyperion while in Revolutions (the battle of Sutur V) he appeared as Arcturus Mengsk's face. He personally took part in the first battle (as a selectable mercenary leader) but not the second.

Hale's followers
Hale's military force is called Hale's Commandos, and is led by Hale piloting a battlecruiser and accompanied by Elite Science Vessels.

In the battles on Sutur V, Hale's troops included LaGrave (a Marine), Welke (a female Ghost) and Murphy (a Siege Tank operator), who seemed more interested in playing cards than in fighting.

Alternity connection
Commander Hale is based on former Orion League 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 proclaims itself independet of the Orion League, but maintains somewhat friendly relations.

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