(Author's Note: Starcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard entertainment. Jim Raynor, Sara Kerrigan, Acturusk Mensk, unit types, Planets, Overmind, species names, Xel'Naga, Adun, Terran Confederacy, Terran Dominion, Zeratul, Tassadar, UED, Queen of Blades, Kahla, andCerebrate also belong to Blizzard. John C. Kerrigan and Jim Johnson are my own characters, please ask me if you want to use them.)
Prologue
In the beginning, a distant Galaxy was inhabited by one race. The master race, The Xel'Naga. The Xel'Naga were a creative race, not wanting to have their legacy lost they decided to create a race to carry on their legacy. This race came to be known as The Protoss. The Protoss were gifted with great Psionic abilities, but soon The Protoss forgot about the Xel'Naga and abandoned them for their new god Adun.
The Xel'Naga seeing the betrayal left The Protoss to their new god and decided to create a new race, one that would be totally obedient. This race soon became known as the Zerg. The Zerg started life as a larval entity, but that did not last long. Soon the Zerg found that they could control other beings and mutate them into whatever they saw fit. It was not long before a new type of Zerg was formed, The Overmind, a being that had total control of all the Zerg through a hive mentality. As the Zerg grew the Xel'Naga became pleased with their new creation, but all was not well with the Zerg. The Overmind soon learned of the Xel'Naga's existence, and sought to absorb them into the Hive Mind. After a long battle the Xel'Naga were no more, destroyed by their own creation.
While the Xel'Naga tinkered with life in another Galaxy another race was having their own war. That race was the Humans. As life advanced on Earth it soon became intertwined with that of machines. People soon took computer components into their own bodies. As some humans evolved into cyborgs, others were committing crimes and destroying the already failing Earth Economy. In the Earth year 3028 the world leaders formed the UED(United Earth Directorate). Seeing the growing threat from the new cyborgs and the criminals alike they decided to gather them all and cryogenicly freeze them and shoot them into the deepest part of space.
As the Humans drifted through space life advanced in the Galaxy of the Xel'Naga. The Protoss, now using all of the psionics at their disposal, had created a utopia of life on a planet they named Aiur. The Zerg, with the help of the Overmind, consumed all life they found within their part of the Galaxy. Time passed and The Protoss and The Zerg eventually found one another. After this first confrontation war broke out between the races. The Overmind driven to consume the Protoss sent swarm after swarm after the Protoss, and every time being defeated. Soon a new race entered the war. The Humans.
After drifting through space for close to a century the Humans hit a planet. As they awoke to their new surroundings, they began to use the planet's resources to build a mighty empire, this became known as the Terran Confederacy. The Confederacy ruled the planet with an iron fist, keeping all the criminals and cyborgs in check. Soon the resources of the planet they named Tarsonis, began to deplete, so in an act of desperation the Confederacy started a colonization group. Soon the entire system was under the command of this Confederacy, but even as the Confederacy kept rule, there was a group that sought to end the Confederacy once and for all. This group was called The Son's of Korhal, an extremist faction that sought total domination of all the Terrans. The Confederacy, seeing this threat launched an all-out Nuclear assault on the the faction's homeworld of Korhal.
Years pasted, and soon the Terrans were engulfed in the war of the Zerg and the Protoss. For years this war raged, Human against Zerg, Protoss against Zerg, Humans against Protoss. As this war reached it's peak one lone man decided to revive The Son's of Korhal. The man's name was Arcturus Mensk. He managed to find an ally with a man named Jim Raynor, and a woman, Sara Kerrigan. With these two under his command he waged another war. This time it was Terran against Terran. As the fighting progressed Mensk found away to lure the Zerg to any place he wanted. With the help of a few hundred psi emitters he lured the Zerg to the Confederacy homeworld, Tarsonis. Soon there was nothing left of the once mighty Terran Confederacy, and from the dead remains of the Confederacy arose a new government. The Terran Dominion, with Arcturus Mensk as Emperor, but this new government was bought with blood. As the Zerg overran Tarsonis they overran Sara Kerrigan's squad.
The Overmind, ever conniving, saw great potential in Kerrigan. He had his Cerebrate, a being created for the soul purpose of directing the will of the Overmind to the brood it watches over, not kill Kerrigan, but transform her. Sara was taken against her will and transformed into a shadow of her former self, she became the will of the Overmind and carried out it's will. As the war raged the Zerg found the Utopian planet of Aiur, and immediately set out to absorb the Protoss and bring them under the "perfection" that was the Zerg.
Seeing that their homeworld was under threat, a brave two sought an alliance with, the now homeless Jim Raynor. As these two, Zeratul and Tassadar, formed an alliance with Raynor, the Protoss Enclave, the heads of all the Protoss, declared them traitors. Soon war erupted between the Protoss. Undeterred the new alliance soon found the Overmind's sanctuary on Aiur and managed to destroy it. The Zerg were defeated, the Protoss safe for another day, and Raynor finally found a place to call home. The Terran Dominion thrived under the rule of their Emperor. The Zerg though defeated, found a new leader. Sara Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades.
As life returned to normal for the Terrans. The Protoss, however, were left homeless. Rather than try to rebuild their utopia, Zeratul decided to take them to his home. The home of the Dark Templar, a secret sect within the Protoss long considered traitors to Adun, and for that they were Exiled, the planet bathed in darkness, home of the Kahla (God of darkness) Shakuras. The Queen of Blades, Sara Kerrigan began to rebuild the mighty Zerg. Bit by bit the broods began to fall under her command, but all was not well. Seeing that Kerrigan wanted total control a few Cerebrates merged and formed a new Overmind.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the UED saw the potential of the new Overmind, and the Zerg it controlled, they decided to try and capture it for themselves. They soon sent a fleet of Directorate ships to the distant Galaxy. Soon, the UED had their prize. The Overmind and the Broods it could control, and they began to study the Zerg. Kerrigan realizing that her control of the broods was in danger formed a plan with the help of the Dark Templars, to destroy the Overmind once and for all. With the UED defeated, the Zerg under Kerrigan's control, and the Protoss allied with their long lost brothers, the war began again. This time the outcome was one sided. Kerrigan, with her control of the Zerg, defeated the Terran Dominion and the Protoss. With the Dominion Defeated, Mensk returned to Korhal to rebuild his Dominion. The Protoss returned to Shakuras to rebuild their once mighty race.
(Another Author's Note: All of the prolgue is from the games. Yes...I know the games too well.)