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The Protoss now try and make amends for the actions which drove away the Xel'Naga, whom they kind of consider to be the Protoss version of Original Sin.</p><p>During the events of the first <em>Starcraft</em> game, the Protoss are forced off their homeworld by the Zerg, find a new religious leader, and reunite with their prodigal heretic clan that severed the psionic link to preserve their individuality.</p><p>Despite the unique aspects of the <em>Starcraft</em> universe, the game's creators are good sports about the similarities to other scifi works and often name characters after their scifi forebearers or give them dialogue straight out of sci-fi history. For instance, the Terran dropships quote <em>Aliens</em> obsessively (ie, "In the pipe, five by five!" and "Hang on, we're in for some chop!"). but what makes <em>Starcraft</em> an exciting part of the military science fiction canon is the way it lets you play around — both literally and metaphorically — with the story universe.</p><p>The storytelling of a novel tends to be deep but not broad. by the time you get to the end of <em>Starship Troopers</em>, you know almost everything there is to know about the military culture of Heinlein's future Earth. However, the Buggies are still largely a mystery and the Skinnies are utterly unknown outside of their brief appearance at the start of the novel.</p><p><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/07/340x_tpop_blizz_starcraft_promo_by_udoncrew.jpg" class="left image340 image_4" width="340" alt="Everything you need to know about Starcraft II"/><em>Starcraft</em>'s story shifts between the viewpoints of all three species, giving you a full look at the way each of them operates. Characters from one species often appear later as opponents or temporary allies. For example, the player meets Sarah Kerrigan for the first time as a Terran, but she's later converted into a Zerg as you play through her story, giving both you and her a chance to adapt to her Zerg persona.</p><p>The result is a universe that feels almost too full to explore with a traditional story. Many of the most interesting elements of the <em>Starcraft</em> universe, such as the Xel'Naga and the discovery and development of human psionic abilities, are only briefly mentioned in the game proper, leaving the player to explore those ideas outside of the core narrative.</p><p><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/07/thumb160x_kerrigan.jpg" class="left image158 image_5" width="158" alt="Everything you need to know about Starcraft II"/>Unsurprisingly, <em>Starcraft</em> has spawned quite a few spin-off stories. There's a novel that explores Kerrigan's rise to power among the Zerg. more recently, Blizzard has released a series of manga stories set in the <em>Starcraft</em> universe that cover topics only briefly touched upon in the first game, such as Terran research into the Zerg and the Protoss.</p><p>currently, the <em>Starcraft</em> universe is pretty screwed up. The Protoss are in bad shape and trying to set up a new homeworld. The Terrans aren't doing much better after Earth rediscovered them and — just barely — failed to conquer them. meanwhile, Kerrigan, the new undisputed leader of the Zerg, is poised to take over the galaxy. So what new directions is the story taking in its sequel? since it hasn't been released yet (and most of the previews have been of the story-free multiplayer version), we don't know the whole of the storyline, but we do know a few things.</p><p><strong>**STARCRAFT II SPOILERS BEGIN HERE**</strong></p><p><em>Starcraft II'</em>s initial release is going to concentrate once again on the Terrans. The revolution from the first game has come back to bite Jim Raynor. After helping overthrow one government, Jim Raynor's former ally Arcturus Mengsk has set himself up as the totalitarian leader of a new Terran Dominion and branded Raynor as a terrorist and traitor to the state. As a result, Raynor has fled to the edges of Terran space and become a mercenary accepting missions from anybody of any species as long as he deems the goals acceptable.</p><p>The big news concerns the return of the enigmatic Xel'Naga, the ancient alien race that helped spur the development of both the Protoss and the Zerg. Initially, this may sound like good news considering the nasty state of affairs at the end of the first game. However, from what we know, the Xel'Naga aren't very fond of any of the game's many species. The Protoss are a failure in their eyes, the Zerg are a plague upon the galaxy that actually attacked them and drove them away, and who knows what they think of these weird pink-skinned Terrans that have shown up since they left. it seems likely that their plan to fix the situation will be some variation on killing them all and letting God sort them out. this plan's unlikely to go over too well with any of the game's major characters.</p><p><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=393386711693&width=460&connections=8&stream=false&header=false&height=180" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:460px; height:180px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> <p class="contactinfo"> Send an email to David Daw, the author of this post, at <a href="mailto:davidd@io9.com?subject=http://io9.com/5589872/everything-you-need-to-know-about-starcraft-ii">davidd@io9.com</a>. </p> <div 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