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Of the three universes that Blizzard walks in, StarCraft is technically the least developed; Warcraft now spans four games, three expansions, eight novels, a manga series and a pen-and-paper RPG. Diablo encompasses two games, an expansion, an RPG and four novels. This is changing, as Starcraft II was announced on May 19th, 2007, and new books are in the works.
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Brood War
The StarCraft expansion set was a huge success. Brood War expanded the storyline through a new campaign for each race, with new units, upgrades and tilesets.
The Stand
Though the insidious Zerg Overmind is dead, the Protoss are forced to abandon their homeworld to the now-insane Zerg Swarms. The survivors flee to Shakuras, homeworld of their fallen brethren, the Dark Templar, only to find that the Zerg have followed them there. In a desperate attempt to survive the Protoss must form an alliance with one of their most hated enemies, and initiate a galaxy-wide serach for their salvation...
Directorate
The Terrans of the Koprulu Sector are descended from a number of hackers, outlaws and rebels, sent in cryosleep from Earth three hundred years ago. Unknown to them, their progress has been watched from afar. Now, the United Earth Directorate (UED) has determined that the Terran Dominion be annexed, and that the Zerg threat be neutralized.
Queen of Blades
While the Protoss fought for survival, and the Directorate sought supremacy, one being waited in the shadows. Now the time to strike is here. For Sarah Kerrigan, once a defender of Humanity, then a near-mindless murderess, the recent upheavals are but the warm-up to her own campign: to rule over the Zerg with supreme power. The time for empires, dominions and directorates is over... the reign of the Queen of Blades has come.
Novels
Liberty's Crusade
Danny Liberty was a good reporter. But when his investigations struck too close to the heart of the corrupt Confederacy, he was sent to cover the Marines on the front lines of the Koprulu Sector. Thrown into the middle of a war between two alien species, Danny Liberty knows only one thing - the only person that can keep him alive is himself.
Shadow of the Xel'Naga
Bhekar Ro: a bleak, backwater world on the fringe of the Terran Dominion, where every day is a struggle to survive for its handful of human colonists. It is a verible wasteland- one speck of dust among many in the vast, dark sea of space. But when the most violent storm in recent memory unearths an unfathomable alien artifact, Bhekar Ro becomes the greatest prize in the Terran Sector- the Holy Grail of the Zerg, Protoss, and Humanity alike- as forces from the three great powers converge to claim the lost secrets of the most powerful species the universe has ever known.
Speed of Darkness
Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm, as each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars - a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter or foretell its violent, bloody end.
Queen of Blades
Former marshal-turned-rebel Jim Raynor has broken away from the power-crazed Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. Enraged over Mengsk's betrayal of the powerful telepath, Sarah Kerrigan, to the ravenus Zerg, Raynor has lost all faith in his fellow humanity.
Yet, in the aftermath of Mengsk's tearchery, Raynor is plagued by strange visions of Char- a deadly, volcanic world haunted by horrifying alien creatures. As the nightmares grow in intensity, Raynor begins to suspect that they may not be figments of the imagination- but a desperate form of telepathic contact. Convinced that the woman he loves is still alive, Raynor launches a hasty mission to rescue Kerrigan from Char. But deep beneath the planet's smoldering surface, Raynor finds a strange chrysalis... and is forced to watch in horror as a terrible, all-too-familiar entity rises from it.
Before him stands a creature of depthless malice and vengeance...
Sarah Kerrigan: the Zerg Queen of Blades.
Ghost: Nova
Four years after the end of the Brood War, Emperor Arcturus Mengsk has rebuilt much of the Terran Dominion and consolidated a new military force despite an ever-present alien threat. Within this boiling cauldron of strife and subversion, a young woman known only as Nova shows the potential to become Mengsk's most lethal and promising "Ghost" operative. Utilizing a combination of pure physical aptitude, innate psychic power, and advanced technology, Nova can strike anywhere with the utmost stealth. Like a phantom in the shadows, she exists only as a myth to the enemies of the Terran Dominion.
Yet Nova wasn't born a killer. She was once a privileged child of one of the Old Families of the Terran Confederacy, but her life changed forever when a rebel militia murdered her family. In her grief, Nova unleashed her devastating psychic powers, killing hundreds in a single, terrible moment. Now, on the run through the slums of Tarsonis, she is unable to trust anyone. Pursued by a special agent tasked with hunting down rogue telepaths, Nova must come to terms with both her burgeoning powers and her guilt -- before they consume her and destroy everything in her path....
Dark Templar Saga: Firstborn
Jake Ramsey -- an unassuming, yet talented archaeologist -- has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilities for his career. Yet, when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake has become the sole inheritor of the protoss's total history -- every event, every thought -- every feeling.
Struggling to maintain his own fragile identity amidst the raging psychic storm in his mind, Jake soon realizes that he has stumbled upon a secret so cataclysmic in magnitude -- that it will shake the very foundations of the universe.
FIRSTBORN
An original tale of space warfare based on the bestselling computer game series from Blizzard Entertainment.
