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Son of Arcturus Mengsk and apparent heir of the dominion. He is interested in archeology, especially the relics of the Xel'naga. It turns out he owns and runs the Mobius Foundation when Raynor's planned meeting with the company's ships turned up meeting up with the Bucephalus, the Dominion's flagship.

*EnemyMine: with Raynor, actually he did manipulated him for a great deal through Tychus though[[spoiler: he was not aware of his father's plans with Tychus]].

* [[spoiler: BigGood / GuileHero.]]''[[spoiler: It [[XanatosRoulette set up the events of Starcraft]] to give the sector a fighting chance against the [[BiggerBad Xel'Naga]]]]''

During Brood War, Duran appears as the leader of a rebel force opposed to Mengsk's Dominion and allies with the UED. After betraying them and revealing himself to be infested, Duran turns to Kerrigan and helps her take out the UED, then mysteriously vanishes. EVERYTHING you thought you knew about him is turned on its head in the secret mission "Dark Origin", where we learn Duran is working for a mysterious "great power", has engineered a Protoss/Zerg hybrid, and more likely than not isn't even human, much less infested. [[EpilepticTrees Fan]] [[WildMassGuessing theories]] about him have been bouncing around for a long time now, and you can bet any fan who cares about the single-player storyline is eager for some answers when ''Starcraft II'' is released.

** BadassBiker: If one consider the Vulture units as bikes, then [[SoYeah yeah]].

:: '''Matt Horner''

* XanatosGambit: His dealings with [[spoiler: Tychus Finlay and Moebius Foundation]]

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:: '''Zeratul'''
-->''Though we strike at you from the shadows, do not think that we lack the courage to stand in the light.''

Zeratul is introduced with a bang: the shadowy Dark Templar achieved the seemingly impossible and murdered a top Cerebrate of the Zerg Overmind. With the knowledge that Dark Templars could permanently harm the Zerg, Tassadar makes a highly-controversial alliance with Zeratul, and the two of them, along with Jim Raynor and Artanis, return to Aiur, where Tassadar uses what he's learned from Zeratul to kill the Overmind. Zeratul then leads the Khalai survivors to the Dark Templar homeworld Shakuras, and eventually forms an uneasy alliance with Kerrigan to fight the rogue Zerg. When she betrays them he banishes her, but she returns later to kidnap Raszagal and blackmail Zeratul into killing the Overmind for her. Zeratul kills Raszagal rather than let Kerrigan control her, and as he leaves he finds Duran's experiments on Hybrids on the dark moon. Canonically, he hasn't been seen since, but resurfaces in ''Starcraft II'', having learned something horrible and omninous.

Alexei Stukov (occasionally misspelled "Alexi") is the second-in-command of the UED fleet. Throughout the campaign he advises [=DuGalle=], and unlike his commander is not taken in by Duran's slick talking and ignores an order to destroy a valuable piece of Confederate equipment Duran tricked [=DuGalle=] into having destroyed. He was murdered when Duran tricked [=DuGalle=] into thinking Stukov had betrayed him, and his dying words were to beg his friend to finish the job. In a bonus map confirmed canon, he's infested by the Zerg, but Raynor and a (really old) Protoss named Taldarin rescue him with experimental nanobots, and the human and revived Stukov was last seen fleeing with Raynor's forces. His status as of ''Starcraft II'' is unknown, if he'll even appear at all.

** Played with in '''Wings of Liberty''', the player gets to choose which mission Raynor will take. Which includes good or bad decisions.

* MoralEventHorizon: When she has Fenix and [[strike: Duke]] murdered after they helped her.

* MoralEventHorizon: When she has Fenix and Duke murdered after they helped her.

* [[spoiler:MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Starcraft II:Wings of Liberty strongly suggests that Kerrigan was made into the Queen of Blades as part of his plan to avert the end of all life in the universe. Reason for this being is that the Overmind was specifically created to serve the Xel'Naga but the Voice in the Darkness is suggested to have control of the Zerg by some unknown method. The Overmind offs itself by invading Aiur and letting the Queen of Blades control the Zerg and stop the Voice in the Darkness.]]

** BadassAbnormal (After infestation, and to a lesser extent before.

A mysterious and ancient eldritch entity sealed by the Xel'Naga centuries ago because they refused to destroy it. Has either been set free or had its seal weakened, depending on how you view the story it debuted in. [[spoiler:In Starcraft II it is dubbed "Dark Voice" and appears during a bonus side-campaign in a vision from Zeratul, where the voice has taken command of the Zerg, placed the Hybrids in charge of the Swarm, and with them utterly obliterates the Terrans and Protoss. This apocalyptic future is the Voice's ultimate desire. However, there's some debate in the fandom if the Dark Voice and the Voice in the Darkness are the same entity--they're similar but perhaps not exactly the same. This entry treats the two as the same being]].

A mysterious and ancient eldritch entity sealed by the Xel'Naga centuries ago because they refused to destroy it. Has either been set free or had its seal weakened, depending on how you view the story it debuted in. [[spoiler:In Starcraft II it is dubbed "Dark Voice" and appears during a bonus side-campaign in a vision from Zeratul, where the voice has taken command of the Zerg, placed the Hybrids in charge of the Swarm, and with them utterly obliterates the Terrans and Protoss. This apocalyptic future is the Voice's ultimate desire]].

*BadassBoast: Most of its dialogue in the graphic novel.

*EldritchAbomination : Blatantly a Lovecraft-inspired entity

*RedEyesTakeWarning: The "Dark Voice" portrait.

In Starcraft II he returns, leading Raynor's Raiders, a resistance group fighting the Sons of Korhal. He has become [[KnightInSourArmor cynical and bitter]] in the intervening four years since the Brood War, partly as a result of Mengsk and the Dominion [[HeroWithBadPublicity painting Raynor as a terrorrist]].

* {{Badass}}

--> "You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns, and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare.

* FigureItOutYourself: Though he shows little sign of it in the game, he is visciously this in the novels.

* HeroicBSOD: As shown in the Dark Templar Saga, he's still shouldering lot of guilt for killing Raszagal and handing the Zerg to Kerrigan on a platter four years after the fact. In said novel he's been in seclusion for most of the four-year, traveling the stars to try and make sense of things and come to terms with himself.

* TheMessiah: After he dies, even his former enemies elevate him to messianic levels.

* PsychicPowers: Other than the Overmind and possibly Kerrigan, he's the strongest psychic in the game.

* HeroicBSOD: As shown in the Dark Templar Saga, he's still shouldering lot of guilt for killing Raszagal and handing the Zerg to Kerrigan on a platter four years after the fact.

*Precursors