- The name of this article is based on conjecture.
The Spectre Rebellion was a covert battle between Project Shadowblade and the Terran Dominion.[1]
Background
Jackson Hauler
During the time of the Terran Confederacy, a man with powerful psionic powers was taken to the Ghost Academy. The "brain-panning" didn't "take" due to his high PI rating of 8.5. The Program wanted to eliminate them. However, he managed to escape.
He murdered an enlisted man named Jackson Hauler and took his name and place. His psionic memory-altering abilities, plus some forgery, made this simple. Hauler eventually became an officer and rose to lead Nova Squadron. In this position, he kept his psionic abilities a secret. Following Mengsk's Uprising, Hauler proved his loyalty and usefulness to the Terran Dominion.
In 2501, the Dominion discovered a planet, Demon's Fair, with Tal'darim protoss ruins and a strange gas, terrazine, which enhanced psionic potential. Hauler put himself on a "secret assignment", which allowed him to disappear and play the role of Cole Bennett, a scientist assigned to the secret project, Shadowblade. The project was led by General Horace Warfield.
Bennett experimented on himself. Reports on what happened next vary. According to some, Bennett was driven mad by the gas and killed most of the team members. Warfield only barely managed to escape. The other team members were all in jail (three of them) or dead. According to Hauler, the Dominion grew frightened of the project and tried to eliminate it. Hauler faked Bennett's death and escaped. Eventually Hauler returned to lead Nova Squadron, but was left feeling a desire for revenge against the Dominion.[1]
|
Gabriel Tosh and Lio Travski
After escaping from the Ghost Academy, Travski used his abilities to save Tosh's life several times.[1]
|
|
The Alliance
|
|
Prelude
Project Shadowblade began a secret campaign of attacks to weaken the Dominion from the cloaked Gehenna Station. The station generally traveled in a straight line, with the spectres making attacks from short-range from the station.
The survivors tended to be "brain-panned" in a manner similar to neural resocialization. UNN referred to these attacks as UED attacks. There were rumors of a station which could not be picked up by scans. Renegade reporter Michael Liberty was picking up on the story, but Mengsk was blocking him, for the moment. Mengsk realized his regular channels had been compromised and would make tackling the secret threat a priority.
A ghost named Kath Toom was sent to investigate rumors of UED terrorist activity near Oasis, Altara, although her orders were in fact fakes created by Travski. Several kilometers from Oasis, Toom discovered a modified refinery sitting over a big rift and mine. She was attacked by a mysterious attacker, a spectre named Dylanna Okyl, who beat her up and captured her. Toom was whisked away to Gehenna Station for spectre conversion. Tosh intended to reunite Team Blue.
Wrangler Malcolm Kelerchian was dispatched to collect Toom. He learned that Mengsk had not sent the order for Toom to investigate Altara.[1]
|
|
Course of the War
Battle of Altara
Nova Squadron, based out of the Palatine, and Nova Terra, a powerful ghost, were dispatched to Altara in order to rescue Kelerchian. A swarm of zerg reached the distress site first.
Terra convinced Hauler to place her on Altara before the rest of Nova Squadron. He told her she had an hour.
Terra discovered the zerg landing on a strange green rift and collected some of the gas leaking out of it to analyze it. She made it to the now-destroyed refinery. As she continued to scout the zerg, Grizzlies carrying Nova Squadron troops landed early. These troops were led by Lt. Chet Ward, a veteran officer, but with little experience fighting the zerg. He grudgingly followed Terra's advice, but believed the terrans had the advantage of surprise.
Roaches and zerglings emerged from the ground and attacked the marines. Terra instructed Ward to send his men to a high point and create a crossfire on her signal. Terra baited the zerg into the crossfire. Ward was then told to retreat to rocky terrain near the Grizzlies, in the hopes the zerg could not burrow there.
Meanwhile Terra located the November and discovered the injured Kelerchian within. The ship's gun was still working. Unfortunately, her request for medical evacuation was interrupted by mutalisks attacking the marines. Hauler sent heavy reinforcements, but made rescuing the wrangler the top priority.
The marines were cut off from the Grizzlies by banelings and mutalisks. Terra flew the November over to them and used the ship's guns to take out mutalisks. After she got out, a hydralisk ripped her mask off. Terra was now exposed to the strange gas. Terra helped the marines out of their current predicaments, but their retreat was then cut off by hydralisks. Terra used her powers to blow open part of the rift as the marines finally made it to the Grizzlies. Ward had been unwilling to abandon her, despite his misgivings, but Terra reminded him that she knew his secrets, and if she failed, those secrets would die with her.
Terra finished off the zerg attack with a massive mind blast.[1]
The Investigation of Altara
|
|
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kenyon, Nate. (September 27, 2011). StarCraft: Ghost: Spectres. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). ISBN 978-1439-10938-0.
 StarCraft: Ghost Franchise |
|---|
| The next article in this series is Covert Missions. |