![]() In that moment, the Overmind discovered the location of the protoss homeworld of Aiur. When Zeratul killed the cerebrate, he made fleeting telepathic contact with the Overmind. The zerg brood formerly controlled by the slain lieutenant ran amok and turned against the rest of the Swarm, which was forced to obliterate them. Yet the Overmind had suffered a terrible blow: Zeratul, a leader among the protoss’s estranged brethren, the dark templar, killed one of the Overmind’s cerebrates. Ultimately she emerged as the Queen of Blades: the Overmind’s loyal servant, an extraordinary entity stripped of human ethics and morality and ruthlessly dedicated to the survival of the Swarm. Her subsequent evolution unlocked incredible strength and immeasurably potent psionic abilities. The Overmind–the supreme consciousness who controlled the zerg–had altered Kerrigan by infecting her with the zerg hyperevolutionary virus. What Raynor could not have known, was that Sarah Kerrigan was not dead. Haunted by her death and the many other demons of his past, Raynor stole Mengsk’s flagship, the Hyperion, and resolved to seek justice in Kerrigan’s name. Meanwhile, Jim Raynor struggled with the loss of Sarah Kerrigan as he came to the full realization that he had begun to fall in love with her. Promising victory over the aliens, he declared himself emperor of the Dominion. As planet after planet appealed to the Sons of Korhal for aid, Mengsk announced that a new government, the Terran Dominion, was necessary to protect these worlds. With the destruction of Tarsonis and the collapse of the Confederacy, most terran survivors quickly pledged allegiance to the Sons of Korhal, which had become the primary military force opposing the alien invaders. Yet in spite of his best efforts, he arrived too late.Ġ04. Furious, Raynor rushed to Tarsonis in a desperate attempt to save his partner. ![]() However, in a shocking betrayal, Mengsk abandoned Kerrigan and her troops to their fate. Surrounded by zerg, Kerrigan called for evac. Despite her misgivings, Kerrigan obeyed and ensured that the planet would fall to the zerg Swarm. Mengsk ordered Kerrigan to vanquish the protoss. This time the protoss fleet’s leader, Executor Tassadar, deployed ground forces in an effort to save the planet. As the zerg descended on Tarsonis, Raynor began to question Mengsk’s sanity: no measure seemed too extreme for Mengsk if it achieved his goals. To Kerrigan’s horror, he had psi emitters placed on the uninfested and densely populated planet. Next Mengsk struck at Tarsonis, the capital of the Confederacy. Soon afterward the protoss incinerated Antiga Prime from orbit, just as they had done to Chau Sara and Mar Sara. He then employed a psi emitter–a Confederate-designed device that acted as a beacon for the zerg–to destroy the Confederacy’s forces. Mengsk stirred up a full-scale revolt against the Confederacy on Antiga Prime. Despite a rocky start, Raynor and Kerrigan quickly formed an efficient partnership. On the planet of Antiga Prime, he worked with Mengsk’s second-in-command, Sarah Kerrigan– formerly an elite assassin for the Confederacy–whom Mengsk had liberated from the government’s neural conditioning. ![]() ![]() Thoroughly disillusioned with the Confederacy, Raynor joined the Sons of Korhal. Jim Raynor and the rebels evacuated as many people as possible from Mar Sara before the mysterious protoss fleet reappeared and incinerated the planet. ![]() Attacks broke out across the planet, and it took the Sons of Korhal to mount any kind of organized resistance to the aliens, which had now become known as the zerg. On Chau Sara’s sister planet, Mar Sara, Marshal Jim Raynor found evidence of a second alien presence. Humanity first learned that it was not alone in the universe when a gleaming fleet of protoss warships emerged over the Confederate planet of Chau Sara and incinerated its surface without warning. Yet as Mengsk and his Sons of Korhal strove to liberate their terran brethren from the yoke of oppression, a far greater conflict loomed on the horizon. A bloody rebellion ignited against the Confederacy, led by an ambitious and charismatic ex-prospector named Arcturus Mengsk. In time the largest and most technologically advanced of the colonies, Tarsonis, founded a powerful yet oppressive government called the Terran Confederacy. These hardy and resourceful terrans established colonies and eventually spread to other planets. Long ago four supercarriers loaded with political dissidents and convicts from Earth crash-landed on the distant planets of Tarsonis, Moria, and Umoja. ![]()
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