Mira Han

Mira Han, who also went by the alias Mira Horner, was a terran mercenary, crime lord, and the leader of the mercenary outfit Mira's Marauders. Crazy, reckless, and charismatic, she built a small army from across the Koprulu Sector and rose to become the chief crime lord of Deadman's Rock. Her life was entangled with that of Matt Horner of Raynor's Raiders, whom she was forced to marry after a poker game and whose discomfort with their union she delighted in.

Beginnings#

Mira Han founded the mercenary group Mira's Marauders by drawing recruits from various mercenary outfits across the Koprulu Sector. Some of her earliest recruits were squadrons of marauders who held an uncommon loyalty to her, rumored to stem from blackmail she held over them. Her charisma won her a small army with an especially large contingent of reapers, though she rarely succeeded in recruiting and keeping former ghosts. The Marauders became known for their brutality and intimidating style, modifying their weapons and armor with scrap metal and spikes.

She was forced to marry Captain Matt Horner after winning a poker game. Horner said he would never have played had he known what the prize was and made little effort to maintain contact with her afterward. Han took the alias Mira Horner, continued to address Horner by his full first name, Matthew, and gave him a set of encrypted communication codes that he did not use until 2504. She also knew Commander Jim Raynor and was on friendly terms with him before the Second Great War, by which point she had earned a death sentence in twelve star systems.

The Second Great War#

During the war, Raynor hired Colonel Orlan to decrypt an adjutant, but Orlan tried to sell it to the Terran Dominion and tentatively hired Mira's Marauders to protect him from Raynor's Raiders. Han proved more amenable to working for Raynor and Horner, offering to betray Orlan if Raynor could pay the recruitment fee before Orlan could, and she pointedly told Raynor to ask Matthew why he never called. While the Raiders gathered minerals to pay the fee, Han supplied them with vultures, and once paid she helped them retrieve the cryogenically frozen Orlan, agreeing to keep an eye on him afterward at no charge. She also passed on intelligence about the Dominion's plan to unveil the massive siege-walker Odin on Korhal, which the Raiders exploited to broadcast proof of Arcturus Mengsk's responsibility for the destruction of Tarsonis.

By this point Han had become the chief crime lord of Deadman's Rock, succeeding the deceased Ethan Stewart, and she quietly provided food and other support to Dominion refugees fleeing the zerg invasion.

Flashpoint and the betrayal at Paradise#

After Jim Raynor and Valerian Mengsk rescued the deinfested Sarah Kerrigan and turned against Emperor Arcturus Mengsk, the rebel fleet's two surviving vessels were badly damaged and needed repair. Horner contacted Han, who welcomed them to Paradise, behaving flirtatiously toward him while events repeatedly interrupted them. The rebels hid their two battlecruisers in a junk pile, and Raynor asked her to treat a medical patient whose identity was to be kept secret even from Han herself.

Twin betrayals struck her. A bartender among the Raiders learned of her sheltering Kerrigan and contacted Gary Crane, one of her own subordinates assigned to protect the rebels, and the two plotted an attack. Raynor, Valerian, Horner, and the visiting Doctor Emil Narud were pinned in a bar; Raynor punched Crane out and they fled, but Horner was injured. As a mercenary battlecruiser and a number of outdated vikings attacked the hidden rebel ships, Han sent Kerrigan to safety aboard one of them and used her own fleet to beat back the aerial assault. She revealed to the rebels a secret tunnel she had kept hidden even from Crane, and when Crane brought his troops to find them, Han arrived in person and opened fire on him from a long distance, particularly furious that he had threatened Horner.

With friends like these#

Later in the war the Raiders again needed Orlan, still in Han's custody, to hack the Dominion network. Han refused to negotiate with anyone but Raynor, even after Horner revealed that he was being held by the Dominion, so the Raiders attacked her space mining operations and forced her to surrender Orlan. She told Horner she would have to begin rebuilding her mercenary organization, but that she would see him soon.

The End War and after#

At some point after their creation, Han won a fleet of liberators in a dramatic poker game, only to lose them all to a rival mercenary not long afterward. During the End War she contacted Horner, chastising him while offering her aid against Amon. Horner reluctantly accepted, and Mira's Marauders were combined with the Dominion fleet to help push back Amon's forces. When the Omega Swarm later attacked Deadman's Port, Han enlisted allied forces to hold back the zerg while she charged a psi disrupter, and the successful defense wiped out the attacking swarm, much to her joy.

Character#

Han was crazy, reckless, and chaotic, with a charismatic but eccentric personality that came out most strongly around Horner, who for his part considered her one of the meanest and craziest mercenary leaders alive. Unlike her husband, she enjoyed their marriage, chiefly for how much it bothered him, though she held some genuine respect for him, seeing him as tough in his own odd and gentle way. Fond of Horner as she was, her role and status as a mercenary always came first, even as she occasionally engaged in discretionary charity such as aiding refugees. She spoke with an Eastern European accent.