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Andre Madrid was a gunnery sergeant in charge of a unit of marines on Chau Sara.

Biography[]

Andre and his family lived on Chau Sara before the Great War. His mother possessed an old Bible and was familiar with its stories. When Chau Sara was attacked by the protoss, Andre Madrid and some other soldiers survived by taking refuge in an underground shelter, and were picked up from its ruins by a passing Confederate medevac that receive his emergency signal.

A few weeks later, he served on the frontlines on Mar Sara at Fire Base Chimera. He grew resentful of the protoss attack considering them murderers. The zerg attacked the base and he and his allies fought back. During the battle, he was attacked and infested with the zerg hyper-evolutionary virus. The terrans did not understand what was happening to him and moved him to a storage room under the base's command center along with other wounded soldiers.

The zerg barged into the room and slaughtered all of the defenders except Madrid. They simply stared at him rather than attacking, and Madrid began to "hear" disturbing things in his mind which were urging him to kill.

Two protoss zealots entered the room, and Madrid witnessed the two protoss fought the zerg, one of them died and he watched as the surviving one, Thuras, performed a ritual honoring the fallen. The protoss Executor Tassadar entered the room and Thuras argued with him to abandon the world, with Tassadar intervention Madrid was able to understand the discussion. Tassadar had engaged in battle with the zerg intending to rescue the terran and was not willing to abandon them until they had spended all other options.

Madrid confronted Tassadar over the protoss attack on Chau Sara. Tassadar admitted that he destroyed it at the orders of the Conclave, but only because the zerg had secretly overrun the world, rendering the terrans incapable of resisting. Tassadar discovered that Madrid's infestation had gone too far to save him. Tassadar offered a mercy killing, which Madrid accepted. Tassadar used his psychic fire to burn through the body of Madrid, killing the invasive alien cells within his blood. In his final moments Madrid felt at peace and was able to connect with the minds and spirits of hundred and then thousands of protoss. After his passing, Tassadar carried the broken body of Madrid and walked outside the base.

References[]

Metzen, Chris & Samuel Moore (March 29, 1999). "StarCraft: Revelations." Amazing Stories 596 (Spring): 20-27.

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