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, and raynor defends her and takes her in for medical examination. in heart of the swarm, the dominion discovers where raynor and kerrigan are hiding and launch an attack on them. kerrigan manages to escape, but is cut off from raynor and upon hearing news that he was captured and executed, she returns to zerg territory to retake control of the swarm and enact revenge on mengsk. during her quest, she has an encounter with zeratul, who advises her to travel to zerus, the original homeworld of the zerg, where she not only regains her powers as the queen of blades
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ordinary man, he has personally met and worked with the most influential characters in the series. in starcraft ii, raynor was again voiced by robert clotworthy. the tactical shooter starcraft : ghost was to feature raynor as clotworthy stated he was brought in to voice the character ; however, the game has been postponed indefinitely and raynor's role has not been revealed. bill roper, blizzard north's former vice president, stated that the game would not center on kerrigan or raynor. = = attributes = = despite an often laid back and sarcastic demeanor, raynor is described in the novel liberty '
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in the aftermath of her victory, kerrigan gathers the swarm and departs in search of amon. according to zeratul, kerrigan factors prominently into a xel'nagan prophecy concerning the zerg, the protoss, and the hybrids. heart of the swarm reveals that kerrigan is the only being powerful enough to stop the fallen xel'naga amon, though exactly how is not revealed. though originally intended as a throwaway character, kerrigan grew on the developers, who gave her a greater role in the series. talken campbell described kerrigan's transformation as " going from good girl to bad girl
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. this spurs aldaris to rebellion ; raszagal consequently orders his death. kerrigan and samir duran later kidnap raszagal from shakuras, using her to blackmail zeratul into killing the second overmind. it quickly becomes apparent that kerrigan has mentally subverted raszagal and has been using her to manipulate events from the beginning. zeratul captures raszagal, but is unable to hold off the zerg forces long enough to escape. realizing that the matriarch is beyond redemption from kerrigan's influence, zeratul kills raszagal. raszagal's mind is freed
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justify her actions on kaldir, saying that if the protoss could contact shakuras, kerrigan would not have been able to survive. however, lasarra is unconvinced, saying that self @ - @ preservation is no justification for killing so many innocents. eventually, kerrigan admitted she could not and would not justify her actions, stating that both the zerg and protoss were killers. eventually, as one of the protoss ships was able to break through the zerg blockade, lasarra was implanted with a special larva and allowed to warp in to that ship. the larva dev
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has crowned himself emperor of the new terran dominion. soon after, raynor is lured to the planet char by psychic dreams. he discovers the source is kerrigan, who has been captured and infested by the zerg. raynor tries to save her, but to no avail ; he and his men end up stranded on char for months. raynor discovers a protoss force led by high templar tassadar and the dark templar zeratul is also on char, likewise attracted by kerrigan's psychic emanations and subsequently stranded. the two groups ally and hold out against kerrigan and the zerg until rescue
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and for all. fighting through amon's minions, led by a reincarnated duran / narud, the trio release an imprisoned xel'naga named ouros, who had appeared to both zeratul and artanis in the form of their deceased friend tassadar to guide them towards his intended aim : for kerrigan to ascend to become xel'naga herself, and use her powers to kill amon, as only a xel'naga could defeat him for good. with the aid of artanis and raynor's armies, kerrigan undergoes the ascension, and destroys amon forever.
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- @ hand man, edmund duke. angry at kerrigan's betrayal, raynor promises that he will kill her one @ - @ day and then retreats. kerrigan travels with duran to shakuras and abducts raszagal, who she uses to blackmail zeratul into killing the overmind on char, thus bringing all zerg forces under kerrigan's control. zeratul attempts to rescue raszagal, but the player prevents their escape, and zeratul eventually kills raszagal when it becomes clear she has been irreversibly brainwashed by kerrigan. at that moment it became
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force, and used ued resources to mount an assassination attempt on mengsk and provided vital intelligence and strategic advice on the dominion to dugalle. duran convinced dugalle to destroy the psi disruptor, to stukov's chagrin, and as the ued closed in on mengsk and his allies, duran sabotaged a key operation, allowing the emperor to escape. when stukov reconstructed the psi disruptor, duran killed him and revealed his allegiance was actually to sarah kerrigan. with duran as her advisor, kerrigan successfully established command over the entirety of the zerg swarm. however, duran vanished shortly afterwards. in a secret
| 320 |
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forced to sever his own nerve cords, but had attached cybernetic tentacles to the tips, effectively giving him extra means of physical manipulation urun is the leader of the auriga tribe and a member of the hierarchy. he wished to retake aiur for the glory of the protoss. urun appears in " wings of liberty " leading the remnants of the protoss air force in battle during the end of the protoss mini @ - @ campaign, fighting against the hybrids and the enslaved zerg swarm. adun was a protoss warrior and strategist who led the templar shortly before the exile of the neraz
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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##rkens back to the ideology of the overmind, but is still a rational individual. in earlier times, kerrigan used her to store her thoughts and plans. on at least one occasion she entrusted izsha with a plan to infest a planet using the hyper @ - @ evolutionary virus through its water supply. izsha reunited with kerrigan following the latter's de @ - @ infestation and subsequent return to the swarm. she served as an advisor, recalling memories from kerrigan's time as the queen of blades, and helping her to reclaim the swarm while remaining attached to her queen's leviathan.
| 320 |
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an exemplar campaign showcasing the methods of creating a custom campaign for brood war is available. entitled enslavers : dark vengeance, the campaign follows the actions of a rogue dark templar, ulrezaj, and his attempts to remove the khalai protoss from his homeworld of shakuras, with the player and zeratul trying to stop him. however, it is not included in the release and must be downloaded separately from battle. net. = = cultural impact = = = = = critical reception = = = starcraft : brood war was critically acclaimed. the magazine pc zone gave brood war a short
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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aiur to the zerg, leading to a zerg invasion that devastates the planet. at the end of starcraft, tassadar sacrifices himself to save his people and their terran allies by destroying the zerg overmind by crashing his carrier, the " gantrithor ", directly into the hivemind. the protoss return in episode iv of brood war, the expansion to starcraft. following immediately on from the conclusion of starcraft, zeratul and a ranking templar artanis evacuate the surviving khalai protoss from aiur to the dark templar world of shakuras. after the zerg
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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and under his custody, using him as a leverage to have her keep the zerg swarm, now reunited under her command, away from dominion territory. kerrigan then manages to rescue raynor with the raiders'help and despite his rejection of kerrigan at first for choosing to abandon her humanity in order to save him, he and his forces join the swarm for a final battle on korhal to overthrow mengsk, saving kerrigan once more when the emperor tries to destroy her with the artifact, ultimately leading to mengsk's death at her hands. reconciled with kerrigan, raynor bids farewell to her as she leaves with the
| 320 |
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to the meaning of samir duran's cryptic statements regarding the protoss / zerg hybrids in brood war's secret mission " dark origin ". four years after the brood war, the dominion is once again the dominant terran power in the koprulu sector. news reports reveal that in the four years since the end of the brood wars, the standing dominion military forces have been reduced and defense budget has instead been diverted to hunting down rebel forces that operate against the dominion. for reasons unknown, kerrigan gathered the swarm at char and then vanished from sight. with the zerg gone, the protoss have once again taken a
| 320 |
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clear that aldaris's uprising in the first episode was an attempt to stop the brainwashed raszagal from betraying her people any further. upon leaving char in search of artanis, zeratul stumbles upon a genetics facility run by duran without kerrigan's knowledge where a protoss / zerg hybrid is being developed. at the same time, kerrigan is attacked on char by the dominion, the ued, and a vengeful fleet commanded by artanis. despite being outnumbered, kerrigan defeats all three fleets and eradicates the surviving ued fleet, leaving her the dominant power in
| 320 |
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after zeratul tells her there she can obtain enough power to move on with her vengeance plans. on zerus, kerrigan learns that amon stole a large portion of the zerg from zerus and bound them to a single overriding will, making them amon's slaves as part of his plot to destroy both the zerg and protoss and remake life in his own image. kerrigan enters a chrysalis in the first zerg spawning pool and emerges, transforming again into the primal queen of blades. she also realizes that amon's lingering taint was partially responsible for the crimes she committed during the brood
| 320 |
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nerazim memories were preserved ) he met jake ramsey ( the terran carrying zamara's essence ) and zeratul. the latter made ready to leave. mohandar told him his place was on shakuras within the hierarchy. zeratul promised to return to shakuras soon. mohandar appears once in zeratul's apocalyptic vision at the end of the protoss mini @ - @ campaign in wings of liberty. by this time, it is implied that he is the most senior member of the dark templar remaining aside from zeratul. mohandar appears in the starcraft ii short story children of the
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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##ss race through the khala, the telepathic bond that unites all emotions for the khalai faction of the protoss. only zeratul and the nerazim, the dark templar, are immune due to their lack of connection to the khala, and the nerazim proceed to save as many khalai as they can by severing their nerve chords, which connect them to the khala, with zeratul sacrificing himself to save artanis in the occasion. after escaping the planet with an ancient vessel, the spear of adun, artanis reclaims the artifact as
| 320 |
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, dominion and the ued, consequently destroying the last of the ued fleet, kerrigan and her zerg broods become the dominant power in the sector. four years later, in wings of liberty, kerrigan and the zerg suddenly vanish from the koprulu sector, allowing the protoss to once again take on a passive role in the galaxy. meanwhile, raynor forms a revolutionary group named raynor's raiders in order to overthrow mengsk. on mar sara, raynor liberates the local population from dominion control and also discovers a component of a mysterious xel'naga artifact. the zerg suddenly re
| 320 |
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several starcraft novels that greatly expand her backstory before the first starcraft game. the novel uprising portrays kerrigan's training as a ghost assassin from an early age, where she is subjected to intense psychological abuse from her confederate trainer, lieutenant rumm. when she was a young girl, an accident, most likely involving her powers, kills her mother and puts her father in a vegetative state. consequently, kerrigan is terrified to use her psionic abilities, and refuses rumm's demands to show her power, even when he threatens to kill her father. kerrigan is eventually subdued with mental implants and used as
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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##un. the character appears in brood war, where she is voiced by debra deliso, and in the novel shadow hunters. described as one of the oldest living protoss and imbued with tremendous psychic powers, she is one of the few to clearly remember the protoss homeworld from before the exile of the nerazim. during her youth, raszagal was important in ensuring the dark templar were only exiled, rather than exterminated. in brood war, raszagal directs zeratul and artanis to cleanse the zerg from shakuras and welcomes sarah kerrigan as an ally in their mission
| 320 |
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psi disrupter " — a device capable of disrupting zerg communications — on the former confederate capital tarsonis. although duran persuades admiral gerard dugalle to have the anti @ - @ zerg device destroyed, stukov's forces relieve duran at the last moment. the ued proceeds to the dominion throne world korhal iv where the player defeats arcturus mengsk's armies, although mengsk is rescued when a protoss fleet commanded by jim raynor arrives. the ued tracks raynor and mengsk to the protoss homeworld of aiur, but the two escape the massive ued assault when
| 320 |
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the course of the three campaigns : a confederate colonial governor who becomes a revolutionary commander, a zerg cerebrate pushing forward the species'doctrine of assimilation, and a protoss fleet executor tasked with defending the protoss from the zerg. starcraft soon gained critical acclaim, winning numerous awards, including being labelled " the best real @ - @ time strategy game ever made " and being ranked the seventh best game of all time by ign in both 2003 and 2005, and the eleventh best game in 2007. starcraft : brood war is the official expansion pack for starcraft, developed by blizzard entertainment and saffire.
| 320 |
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##sk is far from the force for good when he abandons kerrigan and the entire population of a planet to die by the hand of the zerg to satisfy his own thirst for power. disillusioned and embittered, raynor deserts mengsk and becomes a persona non grata in the new terran dominion. the situation gets no better when kerrigan, who was captured by the zerg, is assimilated into the swarm and becomes one of their most powerful assets. after desertion, raynor and his forces take part in major combat operations across the sector : he fights alongside the protoss templar tassadar
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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invasion of aiur and manifests itself on the planet's surface. following a lengthy and costly campaign on aiur, tassadar harnesses the energies of the dark templar to strike at the overmind directly, disintegrating it. although no longer a major character in the story, the remains of the original overmind appear again in starcraft ii. following the interpretation of the prophetic fragments recovered by zeratul on ulaan by the preservers of zhakul, zeratul deduces that the " great hungerer " referenced by the prophecy refers to the zerg overmind, and travels to ai
| 320 |
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awakens on aiur and takes control of the majority of the protoss race through the khala, the telepathic bond that unites all emotions for the khalai faction of the protoss. only zeratul and the nerazim, the dark templar, are immune due to their lack of connection to the khala, and the nerazim proceed to save as many khalai as they can by severing their nerve chords, which connect them to the khala, with zeratul sacrificing himself to save artanis in the occasion. after escaping the planet with an ancient vessel,
| 320 |
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##oured her and then other lifeforms being stored on the ship, evading detection. it eventually transformed into a broodmother, niadra, which bred a new brood that infested the ship, killing every protoss on board. kerrigan later showed some regret over lasarra's death, as she told izsha that she did not enjoy having to kill her. kaldalis is a protoss zealot and a close friend of hierarch artanis. kaldalis takes pride in the history of the protoss and the khala, though does not express prejudice towards the nerazim
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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her time as the queen of blades. however, the facility is attacked by dominion forces and while kerrigan and valerian manage to escape, raynor becomes trapped. after returning to look for him, kerrigan hears mengsk's announcement that he was captured and executed. to enact revenge against mengsk, kerrigan, while traveling through the sector to reunite the zerg swarm under her control, is approached by zeratul. zeratul tells her to travel to zerus, the original homeworld of the zerg, where the primal zerg are in a constantly evolving state. kerrigan, initially reluctant, is convinced
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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but the reconciliation is marred by mutual distrust. starcraft ii : wings of liberty also depicts a third faction of protoss, known as the tal'darim. left behind on aiur during the zerg invasion, the splinter group lost their connection to the khalai society and regressed to a state of aggression and fanaticism. during the events of heart of the swarm and legacy of the void the tal'darim society is further explained to worship amon, a fallen xel'naga who seeks to extinguish all life and recreate the universe in his image. the tal'darim follow a hierarchy
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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| 320 |
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war. mengsk contacts kerrigan and reveals that raynor was not killed, but is held as a hostage instead, threatening to kill him should she wage war against the dominion. with help from valerian and raynor's raiders, kerrigan manages to rescue raynor, but is rejected by him for renouncing the human self that he worked so hard to restore. now in full control of the zerg swarm once again, kerrigan launches an attack on the dominon's main world, korhal, to defeat mengsk. she is assisted by valerian, who convinces her to give an opening for the civilians
| 320 |
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naga artifact, until it is revealed that the foundation is actually led by valerian mengsk, arcturus's son. valerian intends to use the artifact's power to destroy the queen of blades, proving to the empire's citizens that he will be a worthy successor to the throne. raynor begrudgingly finishes assembling the artifact and joins the imperial army in an assault on the zerg homeworld of char, but not before uncovering proof of mengsk's treachery on tarsonis and broadcasting it across the sector. the terran forces on char use the artifact to partially restore kerrigan
| 320 |
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##n installation under control of amon in order to pinpoint the exact location of his resurrection, taking advantage of a sudden attack by kerrigan and the zerg swarm. after obtaining the exact location, he departs to an ancient xel'naga temple where he has a vision of tassadar, who prompts him to claim the artifact in possession of the terrans. zeratul then returns to warn artanis of amon's return, but he decides to proceed with his plans of leading his army to reclaim aiur. however, amon awakens on aiur and takes control of the majority of the proto
| 320 |
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##igan relocated to char, pulling back most of the zerg, and has since been quiet. she has the power to wipe out all her enemies but has not, creating a tense state of peace in the sector. metzen also indicated an interest in exploring if there was any humanity left in kerrigan or if she is beyond redemption in her current state. he revealed that kerrigan's withdrawal has little to do with any suspicion she has of duran, who is revealed towards the end of brood war to be conducting secret experiments on creating a protoss / zerg hybrid ; she does not know much about him, but in the time after
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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##ur but falls under amon's control, like many other protoss. she leads the golden armada against artanis's forces, who holds them out long enough for the keystone to break them free from amon's control. under artanis's urging, selendis severs her nerve cord and urges her fellow templar to sever their cords as well, permanently freeing them from amon's grasp. aldaris is a member of the ruling judicator caste of protoss society ; in starcraft he acts as liaison between the player character and the protoss government. he is voiced by paul
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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zeratul suggested and gathers allies among the many protoss tribes scattered across the galaxy in order to remake his army and launch another assault on aiur. using the artifact, artanis'forces restrain amon's essence, time enough for the other khalai protoss who were still under his control to sever their nerve chords and banish amon to the void. in a short epilogue after the end of legacy of the void, kerrigan calls for artanis and raynor's help to confront amon inside the void to defeat him once and for all. in the occasion, they meet ouros,
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attempting to eradicate the infestation. horner also arranges a series of missions to undermine mengsk, recovering intelligence information about his war crimes and broadcasting them across the dominion. finally, zeratul sneaks aboard the hyperion to deliver a psychic crystal that allows raynor to share visions involving an ominous prophecy where zerg @ - @ protoss hybrids and an enslaved zerg swarm wipe out humanity and the protoss. the vision reveals that only kerrigan has the power to prevent the eradication of all life in the sector and beyond. after collecting more artifact pieces, raynor's forces encounter dominion battleships at the pre
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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, and then into kerrigan's own human form, in which he wounded kerrigan with a psi blade similar to that wielded by the protoss. kerrigan gained the upper hand in the end, impaling narud with her wing @ - @ spikes. with his dying breath, narud proclaimed that amon had been resurrected and that she would see him soon. during the epilogue campaign, the combined forces of kerrigan, raynor and artanis ventured into the void in order to rescue " tassadar " ( really ouros ) and encountered narud, who was ouros's jailer. after
| 320 |
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the last of the xel'naga who reveals that to confront amon on equal terms, kerrigan must inherit ouros'essence and become a xel'naga herself, as ouros himself is at the last of his strengths. assisted by the zerg, terran and protoss forces, the empowered kerrigan vanquishes amon, before disappearing without a trace. two years later, kerrigan appears before raynor in human form and he departs with her to never be heard from again, while the zerg, the terran and the protoss civilizations begin to rebuild in an age of peace and prosperity.
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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##ur to recover whatever memories lingered within the remains of the overmind's husk. in the course of his investigation zeratul encounters the spirit of tassadar, who passes on vital information he obtained from the overmind concerning the queen of blades, the hybrid, and the overmind's vision of one possible future brought about due to the death of kerrigan. alongside kerrigan, the overmind was rated the eighth most diabolical video game villain by gamepro. cerebrates are secondary agents in the zerg swarm, each of which commands an individual brood of zerg that possesses a distinct tactical role within the
| 320 |
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becomes convinced that he is a traitor. the player helps duran hunt down stukov inside the psi disrupter, but before he dies, stukov reveals to dugalle that duran is the real enemy. duran flees after the player foils his attempt to sabotage the psi disrupter. using the psi disrupter's capabilities, dugalle and the ued are able to assault the zerg world char and take control of the new overmind growing there. the final section of brood war sees the player helping sarah kerrigan defeat the ued. with the overmind falling under the united earth directorate's command, all operations amongst native factions
| 320 |
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| 320 |
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. in legacy of the void, zeratul invades a terran installation under control of amon in order to pinpoint the exact location of his resurrection, taking advantage of a sudden attack by kerrigan and the zerg swarm. after obtaining the exact location, he departs to an ancient xel'naga temple where he has a vision of tassadar, who prompts him to claim the artifact in possession of the terrans. zeratul then returns to warn artanis of amon's return, but he decides to proceed with his plans of leading his army to reclaim aiur. however, amon
| 320 |
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terrans, the protoss remain hidden to examine the humans, while protecting them from other threats without their knowledge. however, the zerg target the terrans for assimilation to harness their psionic potential, forcing the protoss to destroy tainted terran colonies to contain the zerg infestation. starcraft begins just days after the first of these attacks, where the predominant terran government, the confederacy of man, falls into a state of panic as it comes under attack by both the zerg and the protoss, in addition to increasing rebel activity led by arcturus mengsk against its rule. the confederacy eventually succumb
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not hold anything against their estranged brethren, seeking to defend aiur in any way they can. the nerazim are presented as nomadic, liberal society, only settling on the planet shakuras to study a xel'naga temple there. during the brood war event, the protoss lose their homeworld of aiur to the zerg ( even with the overmind being destroyed by tassadar ) and the khalai protoss are forced to escape and seek refuge on shakuras, by then the homeworld of the nerazim protoss. after the conclusion of starcraft, the two groups begin to reconcile,
| 320 |
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