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Sarah Kerrigan—who calls herself the Queen of Blades—is a character in the StarCraft universe. Kerrigan was originally a Terran Lieutenant who was later infested by the Zerg and turned into a Zerg/Terran hybrid. She has since defeated the Overmind and assumed control of the entirety of the Zerg brood.
Biography
Early Life
Sarah Kerrigan was born "Psychically Gifted", meaning she has the ability to read minds. In the Starcraft Universe, those who are born psychically gifted are taken by the Terran Confederacy at an early age to begin Ghost training. Ghosts usually hold the rank of specialist and serve as covert operations specialists.
Not much is known about Kerrigan's early life, although there are clues in the game that suggest that she was part of an experiment or experiments dealing with the Zerg. It has been speculated that these experiments created secret military technology, but aside from the psi-emitter there is little evidence to back up this claim.
In and (the latter being a short story in Amazing Stories magazine and having nothing to do with Protoss/Zerg Hybrids) a little more of Kerrigan's early life is revealed.
Her father was mentally retarded. She was removed from her family at a young age and trained in the use of psionics. She had the ability to physically alter the brain of a victim, in a destructive way, but refused to use this ability for the Terran Confederacy. This may have been the forerunner for her psionic storm ability.
Under the enforced tutelage of Lieutenant Rumm, she was instructed to use her ability in a beneficial way, namely destroying the brain cancer present in a kitten. She refused. Her father was then injected with something that caused him to develop brain cancer and brought in front of her. Again she refused to do anything about it. In desperation Lt. Rumm had her fixed with a Psi Dampener, and gave her the Ghost Conditioning and Neural Processing treatments that most Terran Ghosts undergo.
She became part of the experiment at Vyctor 5's Fujita Complex involving Zerg. It was found that Zerg naturally responded to her telepathic commands. It was here that she was rescued by the Sons of Korhal and eventually became Arcturus Mengsk's right-hand woman.
As part of the Sons of Korhal, she was involved in a nearly suicidal attack on the Ghost Academy on Tarsonis. She found Lt. Rumm (who had been promoted to Major) and took her rather messy revenge.
The Sons of Korhal
Kerrigan's first appearance in the game comes during the Antigan Revolt. Kerrigan- now a Lieutenant with the Sons of Korhal- was dispatched to Antiga Prime to scout out the terrain and make contact with the rebel leaders. She assassinated the Confederate officers in charge of the Antigan base, placing it under the player's control. Later, Kerrigan and her men were sent to place a psi-emitter on the Antigan moon to break Confederate lines in order to escape undected.
New Gettysburg
Late in the Terran campaign in Starcraft, Kerrigan is dispatched to the Confederate capital world Tarsonis to protect the Zerg hives from the Protoss. Jim Raynor had pleaded with her not to go to the surface, but she insisted that she had to, and Raynor wished her luck. Upon completing her mission the Terran position was overwhelmed with Zerg, and Kerrigan issued a desperate plea for evac; Raynor, anticipating this, began dispatching transports to the surface. Mengsk, on the other hand, ordered the entire Korhal fleet to disengage from the Tarsonis system, and (to Raynor's horror) left Kerrigan and her men to die on Tarsonis. This caused a rift in Mengsk's forces, as Raynor and several men loyal to him defected.
Rebirth
While on Tarsonis, the Overmind sensed Kerrigan's power, and ordered the swarms to capture her. Over the course of the first few Zerg missions Kerrigan is contained within a crysalis, where she uses her telekinetic power to reach out and contact Jim Raynor, Arcturus Mengsk, and Edmund Duke. In each case the Terrans sent out a force to recover Kerrigan, and in each case they failed. Sarah Kerrigan is reborn into the Zerg Swarms, and adopts the name "Queen of Blades". From here, she begins a campaign of terror against the Protoss, namely Tassadar and Zeratul.
Ascension
The final battle on Aiur ended when the Overmind was destroyed by Tassadar, which left the Zerg Swarms extremely vulnerable. During this time, many Cerebrates desperately tried to create a new Overmind for the Swarms; however, Kerrigan began a campaign aimed at eliminating these Cerebrates in order to rule over the Swarms by herself. She blackmailed the Protoss and used the Terrans to achieve her goals, and in the end became the Queen of every remaining Zerg Brood. However, there is evidence to suggest that she is unhappy with this acquisition and longs to be human once more.
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