StarCraft Wiki
Register
Advertisement
StarCraft Wiki
File:Zalt.jpg

StarCraft Adventures cover art

StarCraft Adventures was an Alternity game system table-top roleplaying game set in Blizzard Entertainment's popular StarCraft universe. It used much simpler "fast play" rules rather than the full Alternity rule set. It comes with three pamphlets, a GM's card, and a set of dice.

The Adventures

File:Zalt2.jpg

StarCraft Adventures

The adventure pamphlets has three very short linked adventures. The player characters are assumed to be members of "the Alliance", a Protoss and Terran organization. General Jim Raynor is a member of the Alliance and gives orders to the characters. The Alliance may be the same organization as Raynor's Raiders. The adventures take place after the Brood War.

Spoiler Warning: Plot or ending details follow.

The heroes were sent to Dylar Station via the Sleepwalker (a cloaked and armed Dropship). Dylar Station is a refueling depot and an outpost that the Alliance uses to spy on the coreward part of the Koprulu Sector, but now communications had been cut off. The people who worked there had been captured by the Zerg, and the heroes had to rescue them. The Zerg were studying strange ruins on the surface of the now-abandoned desert planet Dylar IV.

The heroes traveled to the ruins, which turned out to be an ancient Protoss city. Unfortunately, it was guarded by a number of Zerg and also ancient Protoss Sentinel robots. After solving some of the mysteries, a number of Terrans built a base camp there in order to study the ruins. The heroes were expected to attend a celebration, but this was interrupted by Miratix, a Dark Templar, and his companions. During the battle, Miratix stole an artifact, a Shockwave Inducer, from the ruins, which gave him powers similar to an Archon. However, he was defeated by the heroes and left in a comatose state.

The heroes had to escort Alliance dignitaries Naganis and Jim Raynor to safety from Zerg attacks. At the end of the adventure, the Alliance donated Dylar IV to the Protoss, as the ancient ruins proved the Protoss were the first colonists of the world.

Spoilers end here.

Characters in StarCraft Adventures

The player characters are assumed to be part of a quick-response squad within the Alliance, skilled in infiltration, investigation and combat. General Raynor uses them as a first line of defense against the Zerg and other enemies.

  • Bratalix, Zealot with the ability to read minds and a fondness for Terrans that he tries to hide.
  • Captain Julian Byrne, Wraith and Dropship pilot. Byrne came from a wealthy philanthropist family and has been convinced he is "better than everyone else". He joined the military as an enlisted man but was eventually promoted to officer status.
  • Darakian, Dark Templar.
  • Ketalis, High Templar with a tolerance for Terrans.
  • Sistask, the product of a Terran experiment involving a small captured Brood. Mixing Terran and Zerg genes resulted in the creation of a small number of mutates such as Sistask. Her violent urges are kept in check by nanites... barely. She must speak through an electric voicebox and is armed with claws and a spine-throwing organ in her chest. She has the skills of a hunter.
  • Lieutenant Mari Suzek, Medic. She has remarkable pistol skills and acts as her squad's "morale officer".
  • Specialist Kare Vaessen, female Ghost of college age. Her psychic dampeners malfunctioned under mysterious circumstances, granting her more powerful psionic abilities than most other Ghosts.
  • Private Dennis Wiker, a young Marine, went into law and business before his homeworld of Chau Sara was destroyed. He then enlisted in the military, seeking revenge. He has already won a medal of valor. His surname is based on Alternity author JD Wiker's surname; Shawn F. Carnes, one of the authors of StarCraft Adventures, is a friend of Wiker's.

Non Player Characters

  • Miratix, villainous Dark Templar.
  • Naganis, High Templar and an Alliance leader. He is armed with psi-blades and can fight both psionically and physically. Naganis is no longer a front-line warrior, however.
  • General Jim Raynor, an Alliance leader. He is said to have held a desk job just a little too long to fight on the front lines anymore.

References

Advertisement