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Terran
185 entries tagged Terran, 185 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Terran Dominion and Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades.
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15- Aal CistlerAal Cistler was the privileged son of a Terran Dominion Treasury Ministry leader, pushed into the Ghost Academy on his father's influence despite a low psionic index, where his drug trafficking and self-interest made him a recurring problem across three training teams.
- AdjutantAdjutants were the non-sapient artificial intelligences that served terran commanders across the Koprulu sector as advisers, navigators, and keepers of data. Humanoid in form but bereft of social grace, they descended from the original ATLAS coding and offered commanders an ever-present strategic eye over the field of battle.
- AgriaAgria was a terraformed colony world and botanical preserve of the Terran Confederacy and later the Terran Dominion. During the Second Great War its population was evacuated by Raynor's Raiders ahead of a zerg invasion.
- Alan SchezarAlan Schezar was a smuggler and crime lord whose Scavengers raided Aiur for protoss technology and learned to control zerg cerebrates, drawing the wrath of the Terran Dominion and the protoss before he died fighting on behalf of the dark archon Ulrezaj.
- Alexei Stukov: murdered, then infestedDuGalle's oldest friend and second in command was killed on his own admiral's orders, after Samir Duran worked on the fleet. The zerg brought him back.
- Alpha SquadronAlpha Squadron, nicknamed the Blood Hawks, was an elite Terran Confederate military formation under General Edmund Duke that defected to the Sons of Korhal during the Great War and went on to serve the Terran Dominion.
- Angus MengskAngus Mengsk was a senator of Korhal and a member of the Old Families who turned against the Terran Confederacy, declared Korhal's independence, and was assassinated with his family by Confederate ghosts. His murder set his son Arcturus on the path that would forge the Terran Dominion.
- AnnihilatorsThe Annihilators, officially the 22nd Confederate and later Dominion Marine Division, were a small ground-based special forces unit famed for the highest zerg kill rate in the terran armed forces. They served first the Confederacy and then the Terran Dominion.
- Antiga PrimeAntiga Prime was a terran fringe world in the Antiga system, the site of an open revolt against the Terran Confederacy that the Sons of Korhal turned into a zerg massacre, and a world later repopulated under the Terran Dominion.
- Arcturus MengskArcturus Mengsk led the Sons of Korhal to bring down the Terran Confederacy and crowned himself Emperor of the Terran Dominion, ruling through cunning, propaganda, and brute force until his death during the Second Great War.
- Ardo MelnikovArdo Melnikov was a young Confederate Marine Corps private whose memories of his home on Bountiful were rewritten by neural resocialization. Discovering that the Confederacy, not the zerg, had stolen his past, he died on Mar Sara buying time for civilian transports to escape.
- Ariel HansonAriel Hanson was a selfless bio-engineer from the colony of Agria who joined Raynor's Raiders after they evacuated her people from the zerg. She worked to cure a zerg infestation among the colonists, and her fate at Haven depended on the choice Jim Raynor made there.
- Armory: research forge of the terran war machineThe armory was a terran research structure where scientists and test groups developed improved materials for the weapons and armor of vehicles and starships. Built around a core of cooling turbines and raised among the first buildings of any Dominion field base, it kept terran armor and airpower ahead of the enemies arrayed against them.
- ATLASThe Artificial Tele-empathic Logistics Analysis System, or ATLAS, was a revolutionary supercomputer that selected which prisoners would survive the journey that founded the Koprulu sector colonies. Fragments of its code still survive in terran adjutants.
- AugustgradAugustgrad was the capital city of Korhal and seat of the Terran Dominion, rebuilt from Confederate ruins and named for Augustus Mengsk. The most heavily fortified city in the Dominion, it was the site of Arcturus Mengsk's death at the hands of the zerg.
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13- BansheeThe AH/G-24 Banshee was a terran ground-attack aircraft built by Procyon Industries for the Terran Dominion. Designed for counter-insurgency, it became a cloaked raider notorious as a Dominion terror weapon.
- Barracks: mustering hall of terran infantryThe barracks housed and trained all terran infantry, a mobile structure that could cross great distances to reach new hot zones. Pitched by the Dominion as a safe and comfortable staging point, it was in truth a sterile warren of bunks, deployment ramps, and resocialization tanks that unnerved many of the recruits who lived inside it.
- Battle of Adena: the ambush that poisoned the peaceThe Battle of Adena was a three-way conflict fought after the One-Day War on the abandoned world of Adena, inside the demilitarized zone between the Terran Dominion and the Daelaam. Renegade Dominion forces looting a jorium stockpile sprang a trap laid by Broodmother Niadra, dragging Admiral Urun's protoss into a battle that killed him and wrecked relations between the two powers.
- Battle of Antiga Prime: the uprising that broke the ConfederacyThe Battle of Antiga Prime was the campaign fought on the Confederate colony world of Antiga Prime during the Great War, in which the Sons of Korhal backed a colonial revolt, turned General Edmund Duke's Alpha Squadron to their cause, and lured the zerg onto the Confederate blockade with a psi emitter before the protoss purified the world.
- Battle of CharThe Battle of Char was fought during the Second Great War between a joint Terran Dominion and Raynor's Raiders force and the Zerg Swarm. Instigated by Prince Valerian Mengsk and led by Jim Raynor, it ended with the de-infestation of Sarah Kerrigan by a xel'naga device.
- Battle of KorhalThe Battle of Korhal was the final battle of the Second Great War, a joint assault by Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg Swarm and Jim Raynor's Raiders on the Dominion capital. It ended with the death of Emperor Arcturus Mengsk and the destruction of much of Augustgrad.
- Battle of TarsonisThe Battle of Tarsonis, also called the Fall of Tarsonis, ended the Terran Confederacy. The Sons of Korhal lured the Zerg Swarm to the Confederate capital with psi-emitters, abandoned Sarah Kerrigan to the zerg, and cleared the way for Arcturus Mengsk to found the Terran Dominion.
- BattlecruiserThe battlecruiser was the terran sector's capital ship, a heavily armed and armored warship dating back to the early Confederacy that served as both a general-purpose combatant and a fleet command vessel.
- Behemoth-class battlecruiserThe Behemoth-class was the most common terran battlecruiser of the Great War, an improvement over the Leviathan-class that could travel through warp space, operate in atmosphere, and land on planets. It was the class of the famed Hyperion and remained in service well into the Second Great War.
- Bhekar RoBhekar Ro was a remote terran Fringe World settled by colonists fleeing the Confederate inner worlds, where a buried xel'naga artifact awoke in 2500 and drew protoss and zerg into the Battle of Bhekar Ro.
- Brood War: Kerrigan's war for the SwarmThe Brood War was a zerg civil war between Kerrigan and the cerebrate Daggoth over who would succeed the Overmind. The UED invaded from Earth at the same time.
- BucephalusThe Bucephalus was a Gorgon-class battlecruiser and Terran Dominion flagship, built at the Ursa Shipyards to replace the stolen Hyperion. It carried Crown Prince Valerian Mengsk through the campaign on Char and the rogue flight that followed Kerrigan's rescue, and later served as Valerian's command ship during the Defenders of Man Insurgency.
- Bunker: fortified strongpoint of the terransThe bunker was a low domed terran defensive structure, plated in paristeel or neosteel and pierced by weapon ports on every side. Soldiers called them battlefield coffins for their ubiquity and lack of amenities, yet the squat shelters anchored terran lines from the Confederacy through the wars of the Dominion.
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18- C-14 Impaler: the Marine Corps' standard gauss rifleThe C-14 Impaler fires 8 mm armor-piercing spikes at thirty rounds per second, driven by a magnetic accelerator pack that gives the gauss rifle its name. Standard issue for Confederate and Dominion marines, in service by 2478, it still runs on gunpowder and fails when its ammunition gets wet.
- Caleb: the last salvager of the MagpieCaleb was a young terran engineer from a backwater farm world who joined the Kel Morian scavenger vessel Magpie for a single illegal salvage run. The only survivor of the massacre that followed, he was enslaved by a Nerazim murderess and forced to hunt an experimental anti protoss weapon, a hunt he ended by destroying the weapon, his captor, and himself.
- Candore ColonyCandore Colony was a settlement on the Terran Dominion world of Candore. In 2502 a Dominion Marine Corps force arrested or massacred its colonists for sheltering the Knights of Freedom, an atrocity uncovered by embedded reporter Kate Lockwell.
- Captain (Episode V): field commander of the UED Expeditionary FleetThe Captain was an unnamed officer of the UED Expeditionary Fleet who executed the Directorate's conquest of the Koprulu sector under Admiral Gerard DuGalle and Vice Admiral Alexei Stukov. From the capture of Boralis to the chaining of the second Overmind on Char, the Captain carried out every major ground operation of the invasion. What became of the officer after the fleet's destruction was never recorded.
- Carolina DavisGeneral Carolina Davis was a Terran Dominion officer and lifelong loyalist of Arcturus Mengsk who came to lead the Defenders of Man insurgency against his son Valerian. She engineered zerg attacks on Dominion worlds to discredit the Emperor before Nova Terra brought her down.
- CastanarCastanar was a nondescript planet on the fringe of Dominion space, notable as the site of a secret Terran Dominion research installation that cloned protoss-zerg hybrids as part of a clandestine breeding program.
- Cerberus ProgramThe Cerberus Program was a Terran Confederacy black ops unit formed from the remnants of the Cerberus Recon Squad. Under Tamsen Cauley it defected to the Terran Dominion, and after the death of Arcturus Mengsk it went underground as a renegade outfit devoted to enslaving zerg broods for sale to the highest bidder.
- CMC Powered Combat SuitThe CMC Powered Combat Suit was the standard armored exoskeleton of terran infantry across the Koprulu sector, an enclosed hardskin worn by marines and firebats of the Confederacy, the Terran Dominion, and the Kel-Morian Combine. Its successive models defined the appearance and survivability of the human foot soldier from the Guild Wars through the End War.
- Cole HicksonCole Hickson was a terran outlaw and soldier scarred on the left side of his face, a sniper and frequent leader of the War Pigs. He once saved Jim Raynor's sanity in a Kel-Morian prison camp, then years later was resocialized by Tamsen Cauley into an unwitting assassin sent against Raynor.
- Colin PhashColin Phash was a young terran with powerful psionic gifts, the son of the Dominion senator Corbin Phash. Hunted for his abilities and forced into the Ghost Academy, he was eventually freed and became the youngest known member of the Umojan shadowguard.
- Colonial FleetThe Colonial Fleet was the naval branch of the Terran Confederacy's armed forces, older than the Confederacy itself. It provided air and orbital support from its Tarsonis platforms until the fall of the Confederacy folded its remnants into the Dominion Armada.
- Command Center: mobile heart of every terran outpostThe command center was the core structure of every terran outpost, a mobile resource processor that manufactured SCVs and anchored new colonies wherever minerals and vespene gas were plentiful. Heavily armored and able to fly on jump jets, it evolved from a Confederate prospecting platform into a fortified military headquarters.
- Confederate Armed Forces: military arm of the Terran ConfederacyThe Confederate Armed Forces was the military of the Terran Confederacy, headquartered on Tarsonis and organized into squadrons of conscripts and resocialized criminals. It fought the Kel-Morian Combine in the Guild Wars, razed Korhal with nuclear weapons, and collapsed when the zerg overran Tarsonis.
- Confederate Marine Corps: infantry backbone of the Terran ConfederacyThe Confederate Marine Corps was the best known military arm of the Terran Confederacy, an infantry service older than the Confederacy itself that filled its ranks with resocialized criminals and reluctant volunteers. It fought the Kel-Morian Combine through the Guild Wars and was destroyed alongside its government when the zerg overran Tarsonis.
- Connor WardConnor Ward was a Confederate marine who lost his family to a Kel-Morian attack during the Guild Wars and joined the military consumed by revenge, serving in the squad that became known as Heaven's Devils alongside Tychus Findlay and Jim Raynor.
- Corbin Phash: the senator who defied the DominionCorbin Phash was a Terran Dominion senator from Maltair IV who hid his son Colin's psionic gifts from the Ghost Program. When the secret broke he fled to the Umojan Protectorate, survived a ghost assassin, and waged a propaganda war against Arcturus Mengsk from exile.
- Covert Ops CrewThe Covert Ops Crew was a Terran Dominion covert operations team turned vigilante group, given by Emperor Valerian Mengsk to Ghost Agent Nova Terra to fight the Defenders of Man. Operating from the stealth ship Griffin, the crew followed Nova into open defiance of the Dominion and became a loyal force answering to her alone.
- CycloneThe cyclone was a fast terran assault vehicle developed by the Dominion to keep personnel out of harm's way, armed with twin Typhoon missile pods and a lock-on system that let it fire on the move. It began as a robotic drone before becoming a piloted machine.
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13- Dauntless PlateauThe Dauntless Plateau was a raised position on Char from which General Horace Warfield directed the Dominion purge of the zerg after Kerrigan was deinfested. The reforming Swarm overran it, killing Warfield and reclaiming the world for the Swarm.
- Defenders of Man InsurgencyThe Defenders of Man Insurgency was a conflict fought after the End War between the Terran Dominion and the separatist Defenders of Man, who lured feral zerg onto Dominion worlds to discredit Emperor Valerian Mengsk. It was exposed and crushed through the efforts of the ghost Nova Terra.
- Defenders of Man: they staged the attacksGeneral Carolina Davis ran this separatist group in secret, luring feral zerg onto Dominion worlds to discredit Valerian Mengsk and seize power.
- Delta EmblockDelta Emblock, designated Agent X10128B, was a Terran Dominion ghost who rose from poverty on New Sydney to become a precognitive operative and, after a campaign of deception by the Defenders of Man, a member of Nova Terra's Covert Ops Crew.
- DiamondbackThe diamondback was a fast terran hover armored fighting vehicle able to fire on the move. First prototyped by the Confederacy, it was revived by Raynor's Raiders, who used its speed to hunt Dominion trains on Tarsonis.
- Dominion Armada: naval arm of the Terran DominionThe Dominion Armada, also called the Dominion Fleet or Dominion Navy, was the space naval arm of the Terran Dominion military. Built partly from former Confederate units, it fought at Char, through the Brood War and the Second Great War, and in the End War against Amon.
- Dominion Armed ForcesThe Dominion Armed Forces were the military of the Terran Dominion, built from the Sons of Korhal and the conscripted remnants of the Confederacy. Across the Brood War, the Second Great War, and the war against Amon they grew into the most powerful terran military in the Koprulu sector.
- Dominion Marine CorpsThe Dominion Marine Corps was the ground combat branch of the Terran Dominion's armed forces and the backbone of nearly every Dominion deployment. Drawn from volunteers, conscripts, and the resocialized, it fought in every major war of its era.
- Dominion Royal GuardThe Royal Guard were an elite unit within the Terran Dominion, drawn from Arcturus Mengsk's most loyal followers and entrusted with the security of Korhal Palace. Also known as the Elite Guard and Imperial Guard, they grew out of the Sons of Korhal.
- Donny VermillionDonny Vermillion was a Universal News Network anchor and devoted loyalist of Arcturus Mengsk who spread Dominion propaganda during the Second Great War. A breakdown, a crisis on the infested world of Tartarus, and a brush with rogue spectres slowly humbled his pro-Mengsk fervor.
- DropshipThe dropship was a heavily armored terran aerospace transport built to ferry troops and vehicles into combat. Designed by the Confederacy and in use by 2480, it was carried forward by the Dominion before the medivac dropship took over most of its work.
- Dylar IVDylar IV was a planet in the Koprulu sector that served as a Core World of the Terran Confederacy and the home of the Dylarian Shipyards. Once the site of an ancient protoss mining colony, it passed in turn to the Confederacy, the zerg, and the Terran Dominion.
- Dylarian ShipyardsThe Dylarian Shipyards were a vast orbital complex above Dylar IV, used by the Terran Confederacy to build and maintain warships. They were the site of Raynor's Raiders hijacking the Hyperion and of a later United Earth Directorate raid that destroyed the yards.
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9- EarthEarth, called Old Earth by the terrans of the Koprulu sector, was the birthworld of humanity and the seat of the United Powers League and its successor, the United Earth Directorate. It exiled the prisoners who founded the Koprulu colonies and later sent a fleet to conquer them.
- Edmund DukeEdmund Duke was a Terran Confederacy general in command of Alpha Squadron and a member of one of the Old Families of Tarsonis. After his rescue by the Sons of Korhal he defected to Arcturus Mengsk, becoming the chief military tactician of the Terran Dominion until his death at Sarah Kerrigan's hands.
- Egon StetmannEgon Stetmann was the chief science advisor of Raynor's Raiders, a brilliant and eccentric young scientist who fled the Terran Dominion after sabotaging a cyborg program. Years stranded on Bel'Shir under terrazine exposure unhinged his mind and led him to build the Mecha Swarm.
- Elms: mercenary marine and hidden psychicElms was a terran mercenary marine with a cybernetic arm and a psionic gift she kept hidden from those around her. Hired for a crooked salvage operation on Adena, she fought her way through a zerg ambush, exposed the officers who abandoned her, and killed them all rather than accept a leash from anyone.
- Emperor's Fall: the UED conquest of KorhalEmperor's Fall was the climactic battle of the United Earth Directorate's invasion of Korhal, in which the UED stormed Augustgrad, toppled Arcturus Mengsk, and seized the Terran Dominion capital. Though Jim Raynor and a protoss fleet snatched Mengsk from execution at the last moment, the UED took the planet and made it the staging ground for the rest of their campaign.
- End War: Amon's crusade on the galaxyThe resurrected xel'naga Amon corrupted the Khala and cost the protoss both Aiur and Shakuras. Kerrigan, remade as a xel'naga, killed him in the Void.
- Engineering Bay: infantry research center of the terran militaryThe engineering bay was a terran research structure devoted to improving the quality of the weapons and armor fielded by infantry. In use by the Terran Confederacy as early as 2488, it remained one of the first two research facilities raised in any Dominion field base, and its work followed terran soldiers to every battlefield in the Koprulu sector.
- English: the common tongue of terran humanityEnglish was a West Germanic language of Earth that the United Powers League designated as the common language of the planet in the twenty-third century. Carried into the Koprulu sector by the exiled colonists, it was sometimes called Terran there, and it grew a vocabulary of frontier slang, military shorthand, and new units of time and measure that no speaker of earlier centuries would have recognized.
- Every Terran Unit in StarCraft and StarCraft II, ExplainedEvery terran unit from StarCraft, Brood War and the three StarCraft II campaigns, sorted into infantry, vehicles and starships. Each entry covers who built it, what it was for and which games it appears in.
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3- Factory: armored heart of terran vehicle productionThe factory was the automated terran structure that served as the primary production center for ground vehicles, structures, and ammunition. Behind walls of reinforced neosteel it housed elite vehicle crews in first class quarters, assembled war machines with interior cranes, and could lift off on ventral thrusters to follow the front wherever it moved.
- FirebatThe firebat was a terran close-quarters infantry trooper armed with arm-mounted flamethrowers, fielded from the Confederacy through the Dominion and drawn largely from resocialized criminals and pyromaniacs.
- Flashpoint Conflict: the Dominion civil war over KerriganThe Flashpoint Conflict was a Terran Dominion civil war fought during the Second Great War. Emperor Arcturus Mengsk hunted the deinfested and weakened Sarah Kerrigan across the sector, while his own son Valerian and Raynor's Raiders fought a running battle to keep her alive and deliver her to the Umojan Protectorate.
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12- Gabriel Tosh: the ghost terrazine remadeA loyal Dominion ghost until a psychic catastrophe and terrazine broke him. Tosh led Project Shadowblade against Mengsk, and his fate turns on a choice in Wings of Liberty.
- Gary: Egon Stetmann's harvesting botGary was a terrazine harvesting bot built by the stranded scientist Egon Stetmann on Bel'Shir. Upgraded into the combat leader of the Mecha Swarm, he served as Stetmann's confidant, bodyguard, and self declared best friend through years of isolation, war, and madness.
- Gerard DuGalleGerard DuGalle was a highly decorated admiral of the United Earth Directorate who commanded the Expeditionary Fleet sent to subdue the Koprulu sector during the Brood War. Manipulated by Samir Duran into ordering the death of his lifelong friend Alexei Stukov, he was defeated by Sarah Kerrigan and took his own life as the fleet fell.
- GhostGhosts were the feared psionic covert operatives of the terran sector, drawn from psychically gifted individuals, trained from infancy as assassins, and used to guide nuclear strikes for the Confederacy and the Dominion.
- Ghost AcademyThe Ghost Academy was the administrative and training center for the ghost programs of the Terran Confederacy and later the Terran Dominion, where psychically gifted recruits were forged into covert operatives over years of conditioning.
- Ghost ProgramThe Ghost Program was the project for the training and use of terran ghosts, psychically gifted operatives trained from infancy as commandos, assassins, and nuclear strike coordinators. Created by the Terran Confederacy and later adopted by the Terran Dominion, it relied on memory wipes and psychic limiters to enforce loyalty over its conscripts.
- GoliathThe goliath was a bipedal terran combat walker armed with twin autocannons and Hellfire missiles. Built for both ground and air defense, it served the Confederacy, the Sons of Korhal and the Terran Dominion across the sector's major wars.
- Gorgon-class battlecruiserThe Gorgon-class was the most powerful battlecruiser ever fielded by the terrans of the Koprulu sector, larger than the Behemoth-class and able to withstand multiple Yamato cannon hits. Its best-known example was the Bucephalus, outfitted as the Terran Dominion flagship.
- Great War: protoss against zerg over AiurThe Great War was the first open fight between protoss and zerg, with the terrans caught between them. It ended over Aiur with the Overmind destroyed.
- Griffin: stealth flagship of the Covert Ops CrewThe Griffin was an advanced stealth starship of the Terran Dominion, given to Agent Nova Terra by Emperor Valerian Mengsk as the base of operations for her Covert Ops Crew. It carried Nova through the Defenders of Man Insurgency, went renegade with her after the assassination of Carolina Davis, and was later stolen by rogue spectres before being reclaimed.
- Gui Montag: the Confederate firebat named for a Fahrenheit 451 firemanGui Montag was a Terran Confederacy firebat and a major of Omega Squadron's 28th. He survived the zerg invasion of Tarsonis in 2500 and resurfaced as a Terran Dominion soldier in StarCraft: Enslavers.
- Guild Wars: Confederacy against the CombineFought across the late 2480s over the mineral wealth of the Koprulu sector. The Confederacy won, seized the mining guilds and ruled the next decade.
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9- Hank HarnackHenry "Hank" Harnack was a hot-tempered Confederate Marine Corps firebat of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars. A rival turned friend of Jim Raynor, he wielded his flamethrower through the campaigns on Turaxis II until he burned to death during the Devils' final desertion.
- HavenHaven was a temperate world near protoss space where refugees from Agria resettled during the Second Great War, only to draw a protoss purification fleet when a zerg infestation virus surfaced among them.
- Heaven's Devils: the famed First Squad of the Guild WarsThe Heaven's Devils were the most celebrated squad of the Confederate Special Tactics and Mission Platoon, formed at the Battle of Turaxis II during the Guild Wars and counting Tychus Findlay and Jim Raynor among its members.
- HellbatThe hellbat, formerly called the battle hellion, was a transforming terran flame tank built by the Terran Dominion as an upgrade to the hellion. It could reconfigure between a fast vehicle and an armored mechanized walker armed with a napalm-spraying flamethrower.
- HellionThe hellion was a fast, lightly armored terran raider built on a four-wheel chassis and armed with an infernal flamethrower, used by the Dominion Armed Forces as its primary scouting vehicle and later upgraded into the transforming hellbat.
- HerculesThe Hercules-class dropship was a terran heavy airlift vehicle, a Raynor's Raiders combat variant of a commercial cargo transport with a reinforced superstructure derived from zerg biology, capable of carrying far more troops and vehicles than a standard dropship.
- Horace WarfieldHorace Warfield was a Terran Dominion general and commander-in-chief of the Dominion Armed Forces during the Second Great War. A longtime friend of Arcturus Mengsk, he led the war against the zerg, was saved by Jim Raynor on Char, and was killed by Sarah Kerrigan defending the wounded of his command.
- Hostile environment suitThe hostile environment suit, also called the skinsuit or stealth suit, was the standard combat gear of terran ghosts, a light-refracting nano-fiber suit that augmented its wearer's strength, channeled psionic power, and granted the cloaking ability for which ghosts were feared.
- HyperionThe Hyperion was a Behemoth-class battlecruiser that became the flagship of Jim Raynor and his Raiders, a souped-up warship capable of warp jumps from within a planetary atmosphere.
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6- Jack Frost: firebat commander of Brontes IVLieutenant Jack Frost was a terran firebat and retired Confederate officer who was drawn back into service when the zerg and a wave of insurgencies engulfed Brontes IV. As leader of the New Dresdin Outlaws he fought the Fist of Redemption, a corrupt colonial government, and the Swarm itself before dying in a final act of defiance.
- Jackson HaulerJackson Hauler, also known as Doctor Cole Bennett, was a powerful psychic who murdered his way into the Confederate Marine Corps and rose to command the black-ops Nova Squadron. Betrayed by the Terran Dominion, he plotted a coup against Arcturus Mengsk before dying at Gehenna Station.
- Jacobs InstallationThe Jacobs Installation was a Confederate facility on Mar Sara where the Terran Confederacy experimented on captured zerg and stored secret weapons data. A raid led by Jim Raynor seized that data, which the Sons of Korhal used to build the psi emitter.
- Jake RamseyJacob Jefferson Ramsey was a maverick terran archaeologist who became the unwilling host of the protoss preserver Zamara. Carrying her memories and hunted by Valerian Mengsk, the dark archon Ulrezaj, and the Queen of Blades, he was drawn into the secret history of the protoss and the xel'naga.
- Jenson's Raiders: the Dominion's strongarm on AridasJenson's Raiders were a specialist force of Terran Dominion soldiers raised by Jenson Archimedes, head councilor to Emperor Arcturus Mengsk, to stabilize the world of Aridas and recover the Argus Stone. They broke the Fragile Alliance, rescued their own leader from the zerg, and seized the stone, only to lose it to the Zerg Crusaders in the final battles of the conflict.
- Jim RaynorJames Eugene Raynor was a farm boy turned Confederate marine, marshal, and rebel who helped bring down the Terran Confederacy and later fought its successor, the Terran Dominion, becoming one of the few terrans to ally long-term with the protoss.
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4- Kate LockwellKate Lockwell was a reporter and later chief anchor for the Universal News Network. Long a loyal supporter of the Terran Dominion, she gradually confronted its propaganda, publicly challenging Arcturus Mengsk and covering the Koprulu Sector through decades of war.
- Kath ToomKath Toom was a telepathic terran ghost, a member of the Ghost Academy's Team Blue alongside Nova Terra and Gabriel Tosh. Mind-wiped into Agent X52735N, she was later captured and transformed into a spectre by Project Shadowblade before General Cole Bennett killed her.
- Kel-Morian Combine: the sector's minersA business conglomerate that governed Moria and ran the mining guilds. It fought the Confederacy in the Guild Wars and outlived it as a corporate power.
- Korhal: the world Mengsk rebuilt from glassThe Confederacy answered Korhal's rebellion with a thousand nuclear missiles. Arcturus Mengsk rebuilt the black glass as his Dominion capital.
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5- Leviathan-class battlecruiserThe Leviathan-class was an early type of terran battlecruiser that had largely been replaced by the Behemoth-class by the start of the 26th century. It could travel through warp space, but its auxiliary craft ports sat dangerously close to the bridge, leaving the class vulnerable to enemy boarding actions.
- LiberatorThe liberator was a terran gunship armed with twin anti-air missile launchers and able to transform into a stationary platform mounting a heavy anti-ground cannon, an aerial counterpart to the siege tank.
- Lio TravskiLio Travski was a hab-addicted ghost trainee whose technopathic gift let him command machines with his mind. After dying at the Ghost Academy, his consciousness survived as an artificial intelligence, and he became a key agent first for Project Shadowblade and later for Nova Terra.
- Lisa CassidyPetty Officer Lisa "Doc" Cassidy was a Colonial Fleet medic attached to the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars, a skilled doctor and crab addict coerced into spying on the platoon by Colonel Javier Vanderspool. Her betrayal exposed the squad before she was killed in the crossfire at Korsy.
- Long SleepThe Long Sleep was the centuries-defining journey during which four supercarriers loaded with cryogenically frozen prisoners were exiled from Earth, drifted blind through warp space, and crash-landed in the Koprulu sector, founding the colonies from which all terran civilization descended.
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16- Malcolm KelerchianMalcolm Kelerchian was a terran detective turned ghost wrangler, the man responsible for bringing Nova Terra into the Ghost Program. Bound to a job he hated, he survived Tarsonis and the spectre crisis and grew close to the agent he had once hunted down.
- Mar Sara: where Raynor's revolt beganA dusty Confederate mining world, among the first the zerg overran and the protoss then glassed. Jim Raynor raised his open revolt against Mengsk there.
- MarauderThe marauder was a terran heavy infantry unit developed by the Dominion to support marines against armored targets, an armored trooper firing Punisher grenades from twin arm-mounted launchers.
- Matt HornerMatthew Horner was an idealistic Sons of Korhal recruit who became captain of the Hyperion and Jim Raynor's loyal first officer, serving as the conscience of Raynor's Raiders before rising to admiral of the reformed Terran Dominion fleet.
- Max ZanderMax Zander was a Confederate marine of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars, a slum-born mechanic and grenadier known for his oversized loadout and his habit of risking himself to protect civilians. Colonel Javier Vanderspool murdered him for witnessing his treachery.
- MedicThe medic was a terran support trooper who healed friendly biological ground units with arm-mounted trauma gear and medical nanobots, fielded from the Confederacy through the Dominion and considered an indispensable battlefield asset.
- MedivacThe medivac was a terran aerospace transport that doubled as a flying triage station, healing wounded troops while ferrying personnel and vehicles into combat. It became a staple of the Terran Dominion.
- MeinhoffMeinhoff was a high-UV mining planet where Rory Swann's outfit rose against Kel-Morian control. It later became a refugee staging point during the Second Great War and the scene of a zerg virus outbreak cleared by Raynor's Raiders.
- Mengsk's UprisingMengsk's Uprising was the rebellion waged by Arcturus Mengsk and his Sons of Korhal against the Terran Confederacy. It overthrew the Confederacy as the dominant terran power of the Koprulu sector and laid the groundwork for the Terran Dominion.
- Michael LibertyMichael Liberty was a terran news reporter whose pursuit of the truth carried him from the Confederate press to the Sons of Korhal and finally into open defiance of the Terran Dominion. Through pirate broadcasts and the Liberty Manifesto he became the most persistent voice against Arcturus Mengsk.
- Mira HanMira Han was a terran mercenary, crime lord, and leader of Mira's Marauders. Forced into marriage with Matt Horner after a poker game, she ruled the underworld of Deadman's Rock and lent her forces to the rebels and later the Dominion against Amon.
- Mira's Marauders: the mercenary company that rules Dead Man's RockMira's Marauders are the terran mercenary company led by Mira Han, based at Deadman's Port on Dead Man's Rock and the primary power on that lawless planet since the death of Ethan Stewart.
- Moebius CorpsMoebius Corps was the military arm of the Moebius Foundation. After the death of Emil Narud and the rise of Amon, its soldiers were enslaved by the hybrid and turned into mindless thralls who waged a crusade to destroy all life in the sector.
- Moebius Foundation: who bred the hybridsPublicly an archaeology group studying xel'naga sites, owned by Valerian Mengsk and led by Emil Narud. In private it bred protoss-zerg hybrids.
- Moirai-class battlecruiser: exclusive capital ship of the Dominion Special ForcesThe Moirai-class battlecruiser was a terran capital ship developed exclusively for the Dominion Special Forces during the reign of Valerian Mengsk. An upgrade over its predecessors, it emerged from a lengthy research and testing period and demanded a specially engineered fusion core with quadruple the standard power output.
- MoriaMoria was a mining world in the Koprulu sector, settled by the survivors of the crashed supercarrier Argo and grown into the industrial base of operations of the Kel-Morian Combine.
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6- NeosteelNeosteel was an exceptionally durable material used by the terrans for everything from battlecruiser hulls and CMC armor to bunkers and personal weapons. Its manufacture required catalytic elements, and to be "like neosteel" was a terran idiom for great strength of will.
- Neural resocialization: the manufacture of obedient soldiersNeural resocialization was the Terran Confederacy process for turning criminals into loyal troops by layering false memories over their own and enforcing obedience. The Terran Dominion inherited it, refined it, and used it on ghosts and spectres, until Emperor Valerian Mengsk announced its abolition.
- New FolsomNew Folsom was a deadly, geologically rich planet whose Confederate mine became New Folsom Prison, a high-security penitentiary that held members of the Sons of Korhal and, in one campaign branch, was broken open by Raynor's Raiders.
- New Recruit Processing and Acclimation CenterThe New Recruit Processing and Acclimation Center was the facility where applicants to the Dominion Armed Forces sat an entrance exam gauging their reaction to stress, after which each recruit was assigned to a unit and told where to report for active duty.
- Nova Terra: Dominion ghost, Agent X41822NNova Terra was born to one of the Confederacy's Old Families. Rebels murdered them, her telepathy erupted, and the Ghost Program made her Agent X41822N.
- Nuclear missile: terran weapon of mass destructionThe nuclear missile, or nuke, was the terran weapon of mass destruction, launched from structures, vehicles, and starships across the Koprulu sector. After the Confederacy burned Korhal IV with a thousand Apocalypse class missiles, terran arsenals shifted to smaller tactical warheads guided to their targets by ghost operatives.
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2- OdinThe Odin was a Terran Dominion heavy combat walker and the prototype from which the smaller thor was derived. Developed in secret on Korhal, it was stolen by Raynor's Raiders and used to expose Arcturus Mengsk's war crimes.
- Old FamiliesThe Old Families were the descendants of the commanders of the colony ship Nagglfar and the dynastic ruling houses of Tarsonis. Through control of the media, the economy, and the Confederate Council they dominated the Terran Confederacy for generations, until they were largely wiped out in the Fall of Tarsonis.
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3- Project Blackstone: the Dominion's secret xenoscience programProject Blackstone was a classified Terran Dominion research program ordered by Arcturus Mengsk to unlock the secrets of the zerg and protoss. Conscripted scientists laboured on a hidden asteroid installation until a zergling outbreak nearly killed them all, and Valerian Mengsk rebuilt the project aboard the science vessel Brin.
- Project ShadowbladeProject Shadowblade was a classified Terran Dominion research program that used the psionic reagent terrazine to forge spectres, the volatile super-soldiers meant to surpass the ghost. Born under Arcturus Mengsk, it spawned a rebellion and outlived its creator.
- Psi emitterThe psi emitter was a portable terran device that broadcast the amplified neural imprint of a ghost to draw the zerg across interstellar distances. The Terran Confederacy built it as a containment weapon, and Arcturus Mengsk used it to annihilate the Confederacy at Tarsonis, an atrocity that haunted the Koprulu sector for years afterward.
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9- RavenThe Raven was a terran support aircraft built around a powerful onboard AI and an internal manufacturing plant. Developed by the Terran Dominion to replace the costly science vessel, it served as a detector, defender and engineer.
- Raynor's Raiders: the rebel band of Jim RaynorRaynor's Raiders were the terran rebel formation led by Jim Raynor, born from Raynor's Rangers after Arcturus Mengsk abandoned Sarah Kerrigan at New Gettysburg, waging a long insurgency against the Dominion from the battlecruiser Hyperion.
- ReaperThe reaper was a terran jet-pack infantry unit specializing in hit-and-run close-quarters combat, drawn largely from criminals resistant to neural resocialization and organized into the Dominion Reaper Corps.
- Rebellion of KorhalThe Rebellion of Korhal was a terran independence movement based on the Confederate colony of Korhal IV, founded by Senator Angus Mengsk and later led by his son Arcturus. After the Confederacy destroyed Korhal with nuclear fire, the survivors reorganized as the Sons of Korhal.
- Redstone IIIRedstone III was a volcanic mining planet in the Koprulu sector. Abandoned by the Kel-Morian Combine during the Second Great War, it later hosted Gabriel Tosh's jorium mining operation.
- ReigelReigel was a cybernetically armed Terran Dominion scientist and weapons specialist who aided Nova Terra against the Defenders of Man. A former Moebius Foundation researcher driven to do good for the sector, he became a fugitive alongside Nova and later clashed with her over the fate of a cache of spectres.
- Resurrection IVResurrection IV was a post-Brood War episode of uncertain canon status in which Jim Raynor and the ancient protoss Taldarin tracked the infested Alexei Stukov to Braxis, cured him of his zerg infestation with an Artanis-provided serum, and fled as the protoss purified the world.
- Rory SwannRory Swann was a one-armed engineer and former miner who became the chief engineer of Jim Raynor's battlecruiser Hyperion. He kept the Raiders armed and operational through the Second Great War and went on to serve the new Dominion under Valerian Mengsk.
- Ryk KyddRyk Kydd, born Ark Bennet of the Old Families, was a Confederate Marine Corps sniper of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars and a friend of Jim Raynor. After deserting with Raynor and Tychus Findlay, he became an assassin for hire and was killed by the bounty hunter Ezekiel Daun.
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12- Sara systemThe Sara system was a star system in the Koprulu sector, unusual for holding two habitable planets, Mar Sara and Chau Sara. It was a Confederate frontier holding whose worlds became the first targets of the protoss purification that opened the Great War.
- Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of BladesSarah Kerrigan was a psychic terran who began as a Confederate ghost, rose to be second-in-command of the Sons of Korhal, and after Arcturus Mengsk abandoned her on Tarsonis was captured and infested by the Zerg Swarm to become the Queen of Blades.
- Science VesselThe science vessel was a terran starship built for exploration and research that doubled as a battlefield support craft. Its detection, EMP and irradiation abilities made it valuable in war before the Dominion replaced it with the raven.
- SCVThe T-280 space construction vehicle, or SCV, was the terran general-purpose engineering walker used across the Koprulu sector to build outposts, maintain space platforms, and harvest resources, and was regarded as a foundational unit of terran forces.
- Second Great War: Swarm vs Dominion, 2504The Second Great War broke out in 2504 and ended on Korhal with Arcturus Mengsk dead at Kerrigan's hand. Deinfesting her mid-war let the xel'naga Amon return.
- Siege TankThe siege tank was a terran armored vehicle that could switch between a mobile combat mode and a static long-range artillery emplacement, developed by the Confederacy and carried forward by the Dominion.
- Sigmaris PrimeSigmaris Prime was a Terran Dominion planet of the Koprulu sector. Its moon Valhalla housed a Dominion weapons center.
- Skygeirr StationSkygeirr Station, also called Skygeirr Platform, was a secret Terran Dominion research facility where Doctor Emil Narud bred protoss-zerg hybrids in service of the fallen xel'naga Amon. It was destroyed when Sarah Kerrigan's Swarm attacked it during the Second Great War.
- Sons of Korhal: Mengsk's rebel movementArcturus Mengsk founded it after the Confederacy destroyed his homeworld. It toppled the Confederacy, then remade itself as the Terran Dominion.
- SpectreSpectres were terran special forces operatives whose psionic powers were enhanced by the reagent terrazine. Created in secret under Project Shadowblade, many were former ghosts pushed toward protoss levels of psionics, at the cost of addiction and unpredictable side effects.
- StarCraft: Ghost, the Cancelled Game and Its StoryStarCraft: Ghost was a console action game starring the ghost Nova, announced by Blizzard in 2002 and shelved in 2006. It never came out, but its heroine and much of its plot found their way into the novels and StarCraft II.
- StoneStone, codenamed Agent X74996R, was a powerful Terran Dominion ghost whose unusually resilient memory survived repeated mind wipes, and whose loyalty was bent and rewritten by the Defenders of Man before he chose, finally, to walk away from the program.
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10- Talen AyersTalen Ayers was a famous research geneticist and author whose bestselling books on xenobiology made him a household name before he was abducted into the Dominion's secret Project Blackstone, where his doubts about Arcturus Mengsk and the fate of his daughter slowly hardened.
- Tarsonis: the world Mengsk fed to the zergArcturus Mengsk lured the Swarm to the Confederate capital with psi emitters in 2500, then left Sarah Kerrigan there to be taken by the zerg.
- TerranThe terrans are the descendants of a failed 23rd century colony mission from Earth, a young and highly factionalized species with latent psionic potential. Despite endless wars among themselves and with their alien neighbors, they stand as one of the three dominant species of the galaxy.
- Terran ConfederacyThe Terran Confederacy, also called the Confederacy of Man, was the dominant human government of the Koprulu sector before the Great War, ruled by the Old Families of Tarsonis and brought down by the zerg invasion and the Sons of Korhal rebellion.
- Terran DominionThe Terran Dominion was the human empire founded by Arcturus Mengsk on the ruins of the Terran Confederacy, crowned from Korhal and ruled first through oppression and propaganda, then reformed under his son Valerian after the Second Great War.
- Terran MarineThe marine was the foundational infantry unit of the terran nations of the Koprulu sector, an armored soldier in a powered combat suit who formed the bulk of most front-line forces from the Confederacy through the Dominion.
- Terran technologyTerran technology was the engineering of humanity in the Koprulu Sector, a paradoxical middle road that advanced through constant conflict and gave the terrans adaptable armies, FTL transmission and sensors, and an ever-growing arsenal of weapons and vehicles.
- ThorThe thor was a huge and heavily armed terran siege walker, one of the most powerful mechanical units in the Dominion Armed Forces, derived from the Odin prototype of the Terran Dominion Thor Project.
- Tychus Findlay: sent to kill KerriganRaynor's old friend from the Guild Wars turned outlaw and served decades in prison. Mengsk freed him on a secret contract to kill the Queen of Blades.
- TyradorTyrador was a terran system whose co-orbiting outer worlds, Tyrador VIII and Tyrador IX, served as core worlds and luxury resorts. Tyrador IX, ancient homeworld of the Ihan-rii protoss, became jointly owned by the Ihan-rii and the Terran Dominion after a zerg invasion.
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6- UED Expeditionary FleetThe UED Expeditionary Fleet was the human strike force the United Earth Directorate sent to seize the Koprulu Sector during the Brood War. Commanded by Admiral Gerard DuGalle, it captured the second Overmind and briefly ruled the sector before being annihilated by the zerg.
- UmojaUmoja was a fertile world in the Koprulu sector and the capital of the Umojan Protectorate, a fiercely independent terran nation known for its small government, advanced technology, and long opposition to the Terran Confederacy and Dominion.
- Umojan Protectorate: the neutral powerSmaller than the Confederacy or the Dominion, Umoja held both off with advanced technology and espionage, and sheltered the dissidents they wanted.
- United Earth Directorate: Earth's invasionEarth's militarist government sent a fleet into the Koprulu sector to enslave the second Overmind. Kerrigan's Swarm destroyed it in the Brood War.
- United Powers League: the police state that exiled humanityThe United Powers League ruled almost all of Earth from 2229 onward, banning religion, imposing a single language and killing more than four hundred million of its own citizens under Project Purification. Its surplus prisoners became the involuntary colonists of the Koprulu sector, and its panic at the discovery of alien life reforged it into the United Earth Directorate.
- Universal News NetworkThe Universal News Network, or UNN, was the dominant terran media organization of the Koprulu sector. Headquartered on Korhal and Tarsonis, it veered between acting as a Confederate mouthpiece and antagonizing the government, and it served the Terran Dominion in the same fraught role.
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5- Valerian Mengsk: the archaeologist emperorArcturus' secret heir allied with Jim Raynor to deinfest Kerrigan, broke with his father over her fate, and took the Dominion throne on his death.
- ValkyrieThe Valkyrie missile frigate was a United Earth Directorate anti-fighter spacecraft that arrived in the Koprulu sector during the Brood War. Armored and salvo-firing, it later served terran factions and inspired the Liberator.
- VardonaVardona was a temperate core world of the Terran Confederacy and later the Terran Dominion, the birthplace of General Carolina Davis and the base from which she ran the Defenders of Man before her downfall.
- VikingThe A2 Viking Armored Mechanical Hybrid was a terran combat vehicle that could transform between a ground assault walker and an air-superiority fighter, developed by the Terran Dominion to close gaps in terran anti-air defense after the Brood War.
- VultureThe vulture was a lightly armored terran hover bike built for speed and scouting. Fast, reliable and cheap, it served as cavalry for the Confederacy and later the Dominion, and remained a favorite of pirates and raiders.
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4- War PigsThe War Pigs were a band of terran mercenaries, originally a Confederacy penal program that sent convicted criminals on expendable missions. Hard-drinking and chaotic, they became some of the most dependable killers in the Koprulu sector.
- Why Did Raynor Kill Tychus in StarCraft 2?Raynor killed Tychus to save Kerrigan. Tychus had made a secret deal with Emperor Mengsk to assassinate her in exchange for his freedom, and when he aimed at her on Char, Raynor shot him. Here's the deal, the scene and what each side's choice meant.
- Widow MineThe widow mine was a remotely controlled terran support weapon, a quadrupedal device that burrowed into the ground and launched a sentinel missile at any enemy that drew near. It was introduced into Dominion service as the next step in automated weaponry.
- WraithThe Wraith was a terran cloaking-capable space superiority fighter used extensively across the Koprulu sector from the Guild Wars onward, prized for its maneuverability and stealth before being gradually supplanted by the Viking and Banshee.
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- 2502: the year of quiet atrocities2502 fell in the uneasy years between the Brood War and the Second Great War. The Terran Dominion hid a colonial massacre behind parade broadcasts, Emperor Mengsk buried the mother of his heir, a squad of outlaw commandos was sent to kill Jim Raynor, and secret programs built on stolen ghosts and captive protoss advanced in the dark.
- 321st Colonial Rangers BattalionThe 321st Colonial Rangers Battalion was an elite Terran Confederacy unit formed on Turaxis II during the Guild Wars. Under the corrupt Colonel Vanderspool it gave rise to the Special Tactics and Missions Platoon, nicknamed Heaven's Devils, which counted Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay among its members.