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In addition to the main characters, the StarCraft series also has a significant roster of supporting characters. These characters are usually main characters in their prospective source, for example Michael Liberty is the central character to StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade and Jack Frost is a key character in StarCraft: Insurrection but neither have any major influence on the overall storyline outside these mediums. Whilst their contributions are noteworthy in expanding the universe, they can be regarded as minor characters within the entirety of the StarCraft series. This article contains an alphabetical list of minor characters in the three primary sources of the fictional StarCraft universe - the official games developed by Blizzard Entertainment, the novels licensed by Blizzard and published by Simon & Schuster, and the add-ons authorised by Blizzard.

In the official games

Adun

Adun is a mysterious Protoss high templar. The Protoss, especially the templar caste, regard him as a hero and a demigod. In the history of StarCraft, the Conclave orders Adun to destroy a group of rogue tribes[1] to prevent a civil war over religion. Instead, Adun teaches the rogues to hide themselves and tries to show them the Khala's greater good that had led their race to unity[1]. However, his plan backfires and psionic storms rage across Aiur without the training of the Khala to hone the rogues' skills[1]. Unwilling to acknowledge their failure and the treachery of one of their warriors, the Conclave exiles the rogues from Aiur and labels Adun as a hero for supposedly destroying them[1]. The phrase "En Taro Adun" is used by the Protoss as a greeting[2] and a war cry[3]. Besides these events, it is revealed in Resurrection IV that Adun fought Taldarin, who claimed to have done so three thousand years before StarCraft[4], placing the time long before the incident with the dark templar.

Daggoth

Daggoth is the highest ranking cerebrate in the StarCraft universe and the leader of the Tiamat brood, the largest and most powerful brood in the Zerg Swarm[1]. Daggoth oversees the training of the player's character[5] in the early parts of Episode II and assists in the protection of the chrysalis housing Sarah Kerrigan[6]. Daggoth continues to act as an advisor for the player's character during most of the Zerg campaign, providing specially bred hydralisks as bodyguards to the fledging Kerrigan[7]. Following the Zerg invasion of Aiur, Daggoth is charged with protecting the Overmind's core hive cluster.

Following the Overmind's death, Daggoth orders several suriving cerebrates to form a new Overmind[8] and led the Swarm whilst the it grew. However, the new Overmind is enslaved by the United Earth Directorate[9] and eventually killed by the renegade Kerrigan[10]. For most of Brood War, Daggoth is only mentioned by Kerrigan and not seen. His final fate in unknown, although a cerebrate overseeing the Tiamat brood is killed by the UED during the invasion of Char[9]. As the brood was never seen again afterwards, this cerebrate may have been Daggoth.

Angus Mengsk

Angus Mengsk is the father of Arcturus Mengsk and was a famous political figure from Korhal IV in the history of the series[1]. Korhal IV was a loyal Confederate colony, but its citizens secretly despised Confederate rule. When security is tightened to avoid a rebellion, the tensions grew and the Korhal colony declares war on the Confederacy, with Mengsk leading the charge[1]. Worried that the rebellion would inspire other colonies to do so, the Confederacy sends three elite ghost agents to assassinate Mengsk[1]. His family is found killed and Mengsk himself had been decapitated - his head is never found[1]. Afterwards a barrage of nuclear missiles bombards Korhal[1], destroying nearly all life on the surface. These actions would later cause Angus' son Arcturus to lead a second rebellion in his father's stead[1].

Doran Routhe

Doran Routhe plays a major role in the Terran history of the StarCraft universe. Routhe is an ambitious scientist under the United Powers League[1]. Whilst the UPL was undertaking a purification of the human gene pool by mass murder[1], Routhe believed that the only way to secure more space for the growing population, as well as to further his own desires, is to colonize other planets[1]. Using his influence, Routhe secretly acquires fifty-six thousand[1] of the captured humans and loads forty thousand[1] of them into super-carriers destined to Gantris IV, an outyling planet believed to be habitable[1]. However, the ships malfunction and do not leave warp-space when required[1], sending them on to the Koprulu Sector. Despite being directly responsible for the Terran colonization of the sector, Routhe is never mentioned in-game and his ultimate fate is never revealed.

Taldarin

Taldarin is a Protoss dragoon from the StarCraft 64 secret mission Resurrection IV. In this mission he accompanies Jim Raynor on an expedition to find and de-infest Vice-Admiral Stukov[4]. The two are successful in this mission, escaping from the planet Braxis before it is destroyed on the orders Artanis[4]. During the course of the mission Taladrin shows intrigue in human behaviour, in particular in the arrogance of one human attempting to assault Stukov's fortress single handedly[4].

He also reveals his history to Raynor at the beginning of the mission, where he claims to be over three thousand years old and a personal friend of Adun[4]. According to Taladrin, he has survived as he was mortally wounded in combat and spent millenia in a stasis cell until the life sustaining dragoon technology became available and he was able to rejoin the Protoss military[4]. Taladrin's true age is never revealed, and the character has not been featured since Resurrection IV.

Zasz

Zasz is a Zerg cerebrate and the leader of the Garm brood in the StarCraft universe. He described as a clever but somewhat questioning leader[1], Zasz performs first strike assaults for the Swarm[1]. Kerrigan often comes to blows with Zasz through Episode II over her impulsive and seeming rebellious actions[11]. Despite the support of the rest of the cerebrates and the Overmind's assurance that Kerrigan is loyal, Zasz remaines untrusting[12]. Whilst Kerrigan is distracted by attacking Tassadar, Zasz is attacked by Zeratul and slain[13].

Despite being relatively unimportant, Zasz's death gives the Overmind and Zeratul a temporary mental link, allowing the Overmind to find and invade Aiur[14], and Zeratul to learn the origins of the Zerg and how to kill them[15]. In essence, Zasz's death sparks one of the largest battles in the Brood War. His final recorded words are to Kerrigan, proclaiming she "would be the doom of us all."[11] Ironically, following Kerrigan's rise to power at the culmination of Brood War, Zasz is proven correct.

In the authorised add-ons

Atticus Carpenter

Atticus Carpenter is the overriding antagonist in StarCraft: Insurrection. A Terran ghost agent aged thirty-eight[16], Carpenter is the ringleader of the Fist of Redemption, an insurgent group on Brontes IV who believe that the Zerg are the saviours of humanity. Carpenter himself was originally in the employ of the Confederacy until his psychic control implants malfunction, resulting in the murder of his superiors[16]. Although he initially appears in-game as a ghost agent, Carpenter later appears as a Zerg cerebrate.

Carpenter and his forces are always in the background throughout Insurrection's storyline. Uncovered by an investigation into a missing patrol[17], the Fist of Redemption is the primary target for the colonial militia during the early parts of the Terran campaign[18]. Despite taking substantial losses through these missions, the Fist of Redemption remains strong, with Carpenter even being able to launch a direct - if unsuccessful - assault on the colony's primary military base[19]. Carpenter is also able to bring the Hammer strike force over to his side[20], using it to target his enemies in the militia[21]. After the main Fist of Redemption stronghold is destroyed by Jack Frost's militia, Carpenter allows himself to be consumed by the Zerg cerebrate Auza. However, Auza is unable to assimilate Carpenter, whose unique psionic power ends up taking control of the cerebrate and thereby the entire Incubus brood[22]. Although both the Terrans and the Protoss attempt to destroy Carpenter's new brood, they are unable to and are eventually defeated by other Zerg forces[23]. However, the the Overmind perceives Carpenter as a major threat[16], and has the Incubus brood destroyed. Unable to hold back the Swarm, Carpenter is ultimately killed when the cerebrate's body is destroyed[24].

Jack Frost

Jack Frost is the primary Terran protagonist in StarCraft: Insurrection and a thirty-eight year old[16] retired lieutenant of the Brontes colonial militia[16]. Described as "having written the book on colonial warfare"[16], and brought out of retirement by the colony's marshal, Frost is tasked with putting down a rising insurgent threat from the Fist of Redemption[18]. After several missions against the Fist of Redemption, Frost is conscripted in to lead the Delta squadron strike force the Hammer[25], but deserts after being ordered to destroy civilian targets[26] by his superiors and assists the colonists in escaping the Hammer with Black Morgan[27]. As the Zerg threat to the colony increases, Frost destroys the Hammer's headquarters using tactical nuclear missiles in hope that the Hammer would then return to it's original task of protecting the people[28], but discovers that they are in fact in league with the Fist of Redemption[20]. In response, Frost launches an assault on the primary Fist of Redemption stronghold and is successful in destroying the Hammer and killing the leading collaborator, Tsuname[20].

Frost later allies himself with the Protoss fleet commanded by Andraxxus[29], but both forces are gradually beaten back by the Fist of Redemption and the Zerg[30]. Ultimately, Black Morgan is infested[31] and unintentionally leads the Zerg to Frost, who in turn leads them to Andraxxus[23]. As this last Protoss emcampment is being destroyed by the Zerg, Frost detonates the fuel tanks on his firebat suit, killing both himself and his immediate attackers[23].

Mojo

Mojo is a male Protoss and one of the protagonists in the Enslavers campaign for the original StarCraft. In the campaign, Mojo is a praetor in the vanguard of Aiur and is represented in-game by a scout-class starfighter. He is first seen in Enslavers when he makes contact with the Dominion, warning them not to kill a Zerg cerebrate Alan Schezar had gained control of[32]. In the canonical events of the campaign, Mojo is rescued from Schezar's captivity along with the reaver Warbringer and the arbiter-class starship Danimoth, later leading a joint Terran and Protoss force against Schezar's group on Aiur[33], destroying Schezar's forces and his abilities to control the Zerg.

Mojo also makes a brief appearance in one mission of the sequel to Enslavers, Dark Vengeance, where he works with Zeratul and leads an attack on Schezar's forces on Korhal IV[34].

Alan Schezar

Alan (or Allen) Schezar is the primary antagonist of the Enslavers campaign. A smuggler and crime lord, Schezar's character is named after a character of the same name in The Vision of Escaflowne and he appears in-game piloting a goliath combat walker. Somehow able to build a base on Aiur during the Zerg invasion, Schezar steals Khaydarin amulets from a Protoss temple and uses them to control a Zerg cerebrate[32]. Despite the ability to reinforce his men with Zerg, a Dominion task force allies with the Protoss under Mojo and destroys the cerebrate along with Schezar's base[33], although Schezar himself escapes.

In Enslavers: Dark Vengeance, Schezar is contracted to free Ulrezaj from capitivity on Shakuras[34] and assists him in assaulting the Khalai Protoss on the surface. However, Ulrezaj has Schezar's goliath rigged with a bomb to ensure continued loyalty[35]. Schezar successfully captures numerous Zerg on Char for Ulrezaj and also builds an EMP device capable of disabling Protoss shields[35]. However, an assassination attempt on Schezar disables Ulrezaj's trap[35], and he quickly allies with Zeratul[36], joining in an assault on Ulrezaj's orbital base over Shakuras. Despite this, a group of Ulrezaj's dark templar infiltrate the Protoss compound and assasinate Schezar[35]. Schezar's remaining men help in the defeat of Ulrezaj[35] and are either imprisoned or disbanded afterwards.

Ulrezaj

Ulrezaj is a male dark templar in the StarCraft series and is the primary antagonist of the Enslavers: Dark Vengeance bonus campaign. In-game he appears initially as a dark templar and later as a dark archon comprised of six other dark templar.

Ulrezaj is the leader of a minority of dark templar who want Shakuras cleaned of the Khalai Protoss in retaliation for the exile of the dark templar from Aiur. First revealing himself by attacking a rescue operation on Aiur[37], he is imprisoned on Shakuras but forcibly freed by a Terran fleet under the command of Alan Schezar[38]. Despite being opposed by Zeratul, Ulrezaj formed a two-stage plan with the help of Schezar. Building an orbital base over Shakuras, Ulrezaj's forces use copied Khaydarin crystals to mutate Zerg in order to attack the Khalai Protoss on the surface[35] whilst Schezar employs an EMP device to disable the Protoss power networks on the planet[35]. In the canonical ending, of the campaign, Schezar betrays Ulrezaj[36] and has the EMP device destroyed before assisting Zeratul in destroying the orbital base[35], although Ulrezaj manages to escape the battle and flees into the void of space. Ulrezaj is confirmed to have a role in the upcoming novel Shadow Hunters[39].

In the novels

Matt Horner

Matthew Horner is the primary advisor to Jim Raynor in StarCraft II. A "young and idealistic"[12] Terran lieutenant, Horner was first introduced in the novel Queen of Blades, a novelisation of the events of StarCraft Episode II, where he is seen as the executive officer of the battlecruiser Hyperion[12]. He is one of two StarCraft characters to be introduced in the novels and carried on into the games.

Horner's appearances in Queen of Blades are relatively brief. Whilst under attack from the Zerg on Char, Raynor gives Horner an order to withdraw the Hyperion from the system[12] in order to prevent the ship from being attacked as well, but thereby stranding Raynor on the surface[12]. Horner does so by executing an emergency warp jump[12] and despite the dangers this reckless action faces, he is successful in doing so. Horner reappears with the Hyperion at the end of the novel, a good number of months later[12], in order to evacuate the survivors. At Blizzcon in August 2007, Horner's character was revealed to continue with a similar role in StarCraft II[40] and trying to keep his commander focused[41], and is described as acting as Raynor's conscience[41] and trying to keep his commander focused[41].

Khas

Khas is an important character in Protoss history. In the novel Firstborn his real name is revealed to be Savassan[42], a member of the Shelak tribe, although in Protoss myth he is known as "Khas", which means "he who brings order"[1].

In the history of the series, Khas and his apprentice Temlaa discover that the Protoss psionic link - thought destroyed in the midst of civil war[1] - had simply been rendered inaccessible by the disparate Protoss egos[42]. Using a complex series of mathematics based on the golden ratio[42], Khas discovers that it could be revitalised through the use of Khaydarin crystals. He then begins to spread this knowledge through the Protoss youth[1].

Khas' actions mark the beginning of the Khala[1], a philosophy developed by Khas involving restructuring the Protoss into its caste based system, designed to remove the tribal separations and promote unity[1]. His philosophy also leads to the beginning of the dark templar, who reject it on the belief that the psionic link will strip them of their individuality[1].

Michael Liberty

Michael Daniel Liberty is the main character in StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade. A Tarsonian reporter, his life is threatened by political interests involved in illegal dumping activities[43]. In order to keep him alive, his boss arranges for him to be embedded on the Norad II, the command ship of Alpha squadron commander General Edmund Duke[43].

Whilst on the Norad II, Liberty witnesses first contact with the Protoss when they nearly attack Duke's fleet at Mar Sara[43]. Once on the planet, he makes contact with Marshal Jim Raynor[43] and Sons of Korhal operative Sarah Kerrigan[43]. After Raynor is arrested by General Duke, Liberty elects to embed himself with the Sons of Korhal, promising to work with Arcturus Mengsk to "make him look good"[43]. In return, Mengsk helps him rescue his friend Raynor from Duke's prison ship.

Present for most of the important events of Episode I, he witnesses Mengsk abandoning Kerrigan to the Zerg on the space platform "New Gettysberg" over Tarsonis[43]. He escapes and uses his media influence to produce truthful and incriminating broadcasts on Mengsk and the Terran Dominion[43]. Liberty has made cameos in StarCraft: Uprising, StarCraft: Queen of Blades and StarCraft Ghost: Nova.

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