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====Terran Characters====
'''James "Jim" Raynor''': The main protagonist of the faction and the players avatar in the Terran Campaign of Starcraft 1 and Wings of Liberty. An Ex-Convict and veteran of several corporate wars between the Confederacy and the Kel-Morian mining combinate, who, by the merit of being the only guy left who could hold a gun, was named Confederate Marshal of the Tatoonine-expy planet of Mar Sara. Had an overall decent run as Marshal, but he found himself stuck between the Zerg, who came to nom his planet and the Protoss which arrived to [[Kryptman|glass the planet to deny it to the swarm.]] As the Confederacy abandoned him, he turned to the Sons of Korhal under Mengsk for aid, which started his stunt into being a rebel. When Mengsk stabbed him and Kerrigan in the back, he seceded with his squad from the Sons, founding Raynor's Rangers to continue the rebellion, this time against the Dominion, only for him to be backstabbed ''again'' by Kerrigan when they drove out the UED during the Brood War campaign. SC2 changed his character in various ways, not all of which were well received. The most divisive change was his sudden attraction to pre-Zergification-Kerrigan, which felt to many to come out of nowhere (mostly because Blizzard is Blizzard, they had outsourced much of this background to tie-in novels) and a bit misplaced; to say the least, as he had vowed that he would be the man to kill her once the time comes at the end of Brood War. He starts off Wings of Liberty as being throughly miserable due to all the backstabbing and ends the first chapter of SC2 being reunited with his girlfriend and spending the other chapters of SC2 being mostly moral support for Kerrigan and Artanis. Character-wise, he is somewhat of a disgruntled veteran who somehow always ends up being where shit is going down ''hard'' and just throughly tired of everything by the end of it. However, he is a good leader and a true friend to those he likes and hardly ever dishonest, even when it's to his own detriment (as seen with the various times he has been betrayed by his closest allies). He disappears from the story at the end of Legacy of the Void with Kerrigan to.... somewhere. We're not quite sure. But it probably involves copious amounts of [[/d/|extradimensional sex.]]

'''Arcturus Mengsk''':The ice-cold pragmatic leader of the Sons of Korhal and later the Terran Dominion, the largest of the four Terran nations. If you forgot who the other three were, don't worry, Blizzard did too. His backstory was that he was the scion of a noble family on Korhal (hence the name) that got killed when his father pissed off the Confederacy. Ironically (or not so ironically, as we'll see in a couple sentences), Kerrigan was the one who killed his family. He was already kind of a scumbag at the start of SC1, recruiting most of his allies at gunpoint; Raynor was left with the choice of either joining him or be murderfucked out of this plane of existence by the combined might of the Protoss and Zerg, Duke was literally recruited at gunpoint. Later on, he found a bunch of psionic gizmos that he could use to lure the Zerg to the Confederate homeworld of Tarsonis (and accepting Billions of civilian casualties as collateral), used them despite the strong opposition from Kerrigan, Raynor and Duke to this plan and succeeded - only for him to betray all of his allies then and there, leaving Kerrigan and Raynor to die on Tarsonis for his own petty revenge. He then collected the fractured Confederate military to found the Dominion in its stead, with him as military dictator no less, and not that much better than the Confederacy when it comes to his policies. During the Brood War, his six months in the sun came to a sudden end when the UED arrived on the scene and he only survived because Raynor of all people saved his ass. After the UED's expulsion from the Koprulu sector, he promptly reestablished his Dominion and mainly serves as the friendly face of Dominion Propaganda during the Wings of Liberty campaign. Despite being supposedly one of the big bads of Starcraft, he actually never gets all that much screentime, especially in Starcraft 2, where his most memorable moment might actually be his death, being impaled by re-Zergified Kerrigan and then having a psionic bomb implanted in him. 

'''November "Nova" Terra''': If Kerrigan is Starcraft's Fap-Bait number 1, Nova very closely follows at number two. Nova is a bit of an interesting tidbit in the Starcraft story because the game that was supposed to bring her to the forefront never came out. She was conceptualized as the protagonist of the third-person-shooter Starcraft: Ghost, first announced in 2002 and then cancelled in 2005. It even had its own cinematic trailer. She later made a reappearance in Wings of Liberty, where she warns Raynor about Gabriel Tosh and his true intentions (and also gives him the knowledge to create Ghosts along the way, funny how she betrays her own government and never faces any punishment for it). Due to being a hot blonde, there was instant fan demand for more of her and they got more of her as Starcraft 2 went on, eventually being pushed to main character level in her own standalone campaign for Starcraft 2 that wraps up some of the loose ends that Legacy of the Void left behind. She has gotten a crapload of supplemental material for such a minor character that expanded on her (actually quite tragic) backstory. Her family was murdered as a result of some political intrige in the Confederacy. She killed the murderers right back in a psionic explosion, where it turned out that was only second to Kerrigan in Psionic potential. Now, before you, dear reader might think this pushes her into Mary Sue-territory, this comes with the serious downside that she, unlike lesser psionics, could not stop reading and hearing other peoples thoughts, which made her very dependent on a drug dealer, who kept her compliant with a device to suppress her psionic potential and abused the fuck out of her. Later on, she escaped her boss and made it to the Ghost Academy of the Confederacy, who routinely subjected her to mindwipes to erase her identity. From then, she stayed a hapless victim of the people in charge, be it the Confederacy, the UED or Mengsk who kept her as their most skilled assassin in their backpocket. Little of that complexity or interesting stuff remains in the games however, where she is a very bland, forgettable villain that throws edgy one-liners (not even [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Grey DeLisle aka Princess Azula can save her character]] ) and an even blander protagonist in her own very mediocre campaign. 

'''Matthew Horner''': Goody two-shoes idealist right hand of Raynor in Wings of Liberty. Despite his kinda bland exterior, he proves that still waters can reach really deep. For one, he basically managed Raynor's Raiders while his boss drank his worries away, two, he is a kickass commander with the skill to boot, and third, he ended up accidentally being married to an insane mercenary warlord as the prize of a poker game. Other than that, he serves as the ever idealistic, morally upstanding angel on Raynors shoulder, in contrast to Tychus Findlay, who plays the devil. Ends up becoming the Commander-in-chief of the reformed Dominion after Starcraft 2. 

'''Rory Swann''': 

'''Gerard DeGalle''': Main commanding officer of the UED expeditionary fleet, he ends up falling under the psychic influence of Samir Duran (a being pretending to be the leader of Confederate remnant partisans) which costs him the life of his subordinate and close friend, Alexei Stukov. After he gets his ass handed to him by Kerrigan after a last-ditch alliance between him, Mengsk and Artanis, he commits suicide after writing a last letter to his family. Neither the letter, nor the remnants of the expeditionary force make it back to Earth.

'''Valerian Mengsk''': Arcturus's son who luckily happens to have none of the colossal asshole genes. In fact, he tries to be more of a reasonable leader than his father, especially after being forced to succeed the role of Emperor of the UED.

'''Edmund Duke''': 

'''Tychus Findlay''': One of Raynor's partners way back in the day as the "Heaven's Devils". Got arrested during one raid gone wrong and was locked up in cryosleep until such a point where Mengsk decided to wake him up use him as a mole within Raynor's ranks (and his personality meant that a cover story of breaking free by himself would totally make sense) and to kill Kerrigan. Depending on who you ask, he's either a scumbag only looking for his own personal benefit or thug with a heart of gold, with the most fiercely debated part of Wings of Liberty being his death - he was either a douchebag who kept his own self-interest above all else and potentially screw the entire universe sideways by killing Kerrigan, or he took one for the team because he just wanted Raynor to be happy and realized that he was screwed either way. There are pointers and hints in the Wings of Liberty Campaign that support both ends of this theory and we best it at that.