Noranda Glacier

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Noranda Glacier is a thousands of meters thick sheet of ice found on the world of Onuru Sigma. It lay on the opposite edge of a shallow-bowled meteor crater which was formed thousands of years ago.

The crater is split by a fault line which lies thirty kilometers over a very large deposit of vespene gas, which is contaminated with hydrogen sulfide. The large quantities of gas which can be extracted from underneath the glacier, however, makes extracting the vespene economically viable, although the mixture of gases made harvesting the vespene hazardous.

The crater is also the site of a strange ruined city, seemingly not built by terrans.

The ice is so unstable siege tanks cannot cross it, for fear they might fall into a crevasse.

The glacier was the site of a battle between the Kel-Morian Combine and Terran Confederacy units drawn from Alpha Squadron (the detachment led by Captain Edmund Duke) and the Dominion section, led by Captain Arcturus Mengsk. The Confederacy were ambushed and responded by destroying the complex before large numbers of Kel-Morian ships and troops arrived at the scene of battle, forcing a Confederate withdrawal.

This battle became the first conflict of the Guild Wars.

[edit] References

McNeill, Graham (December 30, 2008). StarCraft: I, Mengsk. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). ISBN 1416-55083-6.