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The Story of StarCraft

The Story of StarCraft The story of StarCraft II takes place in a fully-realized scifi universe full of interesting characters and unique locations, and the people and places you encounter over the course of the game all have a meaning and a purpose in the StarCraft universe. Read up on the rich history of StarCraft now!

Short Stories

• Momentum By DANNY McALEESE, 5/22/2013 A veteran siege tank driver's skills are put to the ultimate test.
• Lost Vikings By MATT FORBECK, 5/16/2013 A wing of vikings must overcome impossible odds.
• Carrier By MICHAEL KOGGE, 5/9/2013 The fate of a protoss legend hangs in the hands of a lowly engineer.
• In The Dark By DAVID GERROLD, 5/2/2013 Jake finally found paradise — if he didn't mind a few mutant zerg and an obsessed dark templar warring inside a super-volcano.
• Lens of the Void By HUGH TODD, 4/25/2013 A venerated dark templar teacher must overcome the pain of an old wound.
• Acid Burns By ANTONY JOHNSTON, 4/18/2013 A group of marines fights to survive a zerg attack that unleashes the fearsome roaches.
• Great One By ALEX IRVINE, 4/11/2013 When a recon op goes south, marine platoon Torch Seven must face an unexpected threat.
• The Education of PFC Shane By ROBERT BROOKS, 4/4/2013 Some are born soldiers; some are made. Some are infested.
• Command Performance By ALEX IRVINE, 3/28/2013 Filming an ad for Axiom Ordnance's new Warhound is not the kind of situation that leads a man to his artistic destiny... or is it?
• Just an Overlord By GAVIN JURGENS-FYHRIE, 3/21/2013 A lone marine squadron tragically underestimates the vicious cunning of a feral overlord.
• Icehouse By MICHAEL O'REILLY and ROBERT BROOKS, 3/14/2013 Become a reaper or die trying. Welcome to the Icehouse.
• Cold Symmetry By CAMERON DAYTON, 3/7/2013 Stranded on Aiur's zerg-infested moon, a lone veteran zealot finds his courage, skill, and endurance put to the ultimate test.
• Frenzy By KAL-EL BOGDANOVE, 2/28/2013 A small-town marshal risks all to save her family and her home from a ravening horde of winged killers.
• The Teacher By MATTHEW MAXWELL, 2/20/2013 A Dominion scientist has cracked the secret of the Swarm's control over the Zerg, and is ready to turn the creatures against their former masters. But when the Dominion military takes a firm hand over this dangerous new weapon, who will end up controlling who?
• A War On By JAMES WAUGH, 2/12/2013 Haunted by his past, Virgil Caine is forced to make a choice: escape the front lines and live the rest of his days in peace, or avenge his fallen brothers and go to war against the nightmarish zerglings.
• In the Blood By MATT BURNS, 1/22/2013 The street urchin Vik confronts humanity’s dark underbelly every day, but when he crosses paths with stolen zerg larvae, he discovers what it truly means to be a monster.
• Colossus By VALERIE WATROUS, 4/7/2011 The protoss rush to uncover a legendary weapon that will change their battle against the zerg – and their people – forever.
• Stealing Thunder By MICKY NEILSON, 10/13/2010 As a bomb technician during the Guild Wars, Isaac White always kept a level head… until the day he made one terrible mistake. Now, Isaac must face the demons of his past and overcome the deadliest enemy of all: a ticking clock.
• Collateral Damage By MATT BURNS, 5/13/2010 A Umojan spy must decide how far she's willing to go in order to infiltrate a secret Dominion research facility.
• Broken Wide By CAMERON DAYTON, 3/5/2010 Nature doesn’t just adapt. Nature cheats, changes the rules, and for Pvt. Maren Ayers, nature has a nasty surprise.
• Mothership By BRIAN T.KINDREGAN, 1/14/2010 The inventor of the protoss mothership awakens from a centuries-long sleep to discover a furious new galaxy of warfare and bloodshed.
• Changeling By JAMES WAUGH, 10/14/2009 Just because the years since the Brood War have been relatively peaceful, doesn’t mean the Koprulu Sector is safe. A rag-tag group of Dominion Marines known as Zeta Squad is about to find that out… the hard way.

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