Sarah Kerrigan

Sarah Kerrigan is a female video game character who features in StarCraft.

Biography

Origin

Sarah Louise Kerrigan was a female human who was born among the colonies located in the Koprulu Sector.

During ghost training, her most hated instructor was Lieutenant Rumm. Rumm attempted to break her sense of right and wrong and persuade her to demonstrate her psionic powers to prove to his superiors that she was psychic. Kerrigan refused, unwilling to relive what happened to her parents. In an attempt to coerce her into using her powers, Rumm injected a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, then ordered Kerrigan to use her powers to destroy the tumor or euthanize the kitten. Still unsuccessful Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Kerrigan refused once again and Rumm decided not to shoot, leaving the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Rumm later discovered his pistol's firing mechanism had been destroyed. However, the malfunction could be plausibly attributed to non-psionic factors, and so could not be treated as incontrovertible proof of her psionic powers. A technician recommended the use of a neuro-adjuster, a device which would weaken a ghost's psionic powers and ensure their loyalty to the Confederacy. Rumm refused as a neuro-adjuster could kill the patient. Sarah was taken to another room and strapped to a chair with a needle against her skin. In another room, she could see her brain-damaged father, similarly strapped to a chair. Rumm's scientists were about to inject her father with the same substance that caused the growth of a tumor in the kitten unless Sarah cooperated with the Confederacy. Instead, Sarah said she would kill herself and her father rather than use the power for the Confederacy. She was injected with the needle and quickly lost consciousness. Rumm felt he had no choice now but to employ the neuro-adjuster.

The neural processing treatments left her a withdrawn and introverted young girl. Kerrigan would spend a year undergoing mental torture at the hands of Lieutenant Rumm. Kerrigan's further training included a combat scenario between her and an elder opponent—done with combat knives while scientists watched from overhead. Even at her young age, Kerrigan was able to defeat her opponent. In defiance, she used her psionic powers to shatter the glass of the viewing room the scientists were in. However, such defiance came to nothing—the Confederacy broke her down even further, to the point where Kerrigan was able to kill without remorse. Kerrigan was designated Ghost No. 24601, following the successful completion of training. As a Confederate agent she would go on to assassinate many of the Confederacy's enemies. Her mental conditioning meant she was physically unable to refuse a direct order given by a Confederate superior. In 2489, senator Angus Mengsk declared Korhal to be a free world, independent of the Confederacy. In response, the Confederacy assigned a trio of ghosts to assassinate him and his family. Kerrigan was one of the three, and was accompanied by ghosts 24506 and 24718. They easily bypassed his security system, killing him, his wife and young daughter. Kerrigan was the one who personally killed Angus, decapitating him. The ghosts disappeared and took the senator's head with them. One of Kerrigan's missions involved the newly formed Umojan Protectorate. She took position above a political rally. She lined up her sights on the target, even as a child obstructed her view. She was seemingly able to make the kill.

This led to her joining the Sons of Korhal as she was indebted to Mengsk and aided in his revolution against the Confederacy. The militant group looked to starting a revolution on the fringe colony world of Antiga Prime by assassinating Confederacy officers on the planet. During this time, she met new recruits in the form of Jim Raynor and a colonial magistrate both of whom were on the run from the Confederacy. In response, the Confederacy began to blockade the world at which point contact was made with an extraterrestrial species that were the hive-minded Zerg Swarm. The aliens invaded the surface where during this time the Sons of Korhal uncovered the Confederacy being aware of the Zerg and having constructed Psi-Emitters designated to attract the creatures to target locations. Against Kerrigan's advice, Mengsk had her and Raynor use the Psi-Emitter technology in an effort to break the blockade. This allowed the Sons of Korhal to escape whereupon Arcturus sought to use the technology to draw the Zerg into an attack on the Confederate capital world of Tarsonis. Kerrigan and Raynor were unaware of the fact that Mengsk intended to use the Zerg Swarm to completely destroy the planet which was when they were confronted with another alien race known as the Protoss who were attempting to curb the Swarm's rampage across space. Kerrigen along with a detachment of troops was dispatched to stop the Protoss from interfering with the Zerg's attack on Tarsonis. This led to her position being overrun and Mengsk abandoning her behind despite the pleas from Raynor leading to Sarah being captured for infestation once her ammo had run out. In the aftermath, she was presumed death with this leading to Raynor deserting Mengk's forces in disgust over his actions. Unknown to her former allies, Kerrigan had survived as her psionic potential interested the aliens ruling intelligence known as the Overmind who intended to transform her into his greatest creation for the benefit of the Zerg. The entity known as Abathur was then used to transform the Terran into a powerful creature to serve the Swarm. Her body was slowly going through a metamorphosis within a chrysalis with the Overmind tasking a newly created Cerebrate with protecting the entity within it.

Overview

Personality and attributes

After her transformation by the Zerg, she came to take the name of the Queen of Blades.

She came to demand all living beings in the universe bow before her or face oblivion. Kerrigan liked to test the resolve and strength of her enemies but ultimately believed that she would win against them.

Powers and abilities

Originally, Sarah Kerrigan was a human with notable psionic potential that led to her being recruited as a Ghost. It was noted that initially much of her powers had been reduced due to her Ghost conditioning.

Sarah Kerrigan was an extremely powerful terran psychic. At a young age, she fried her mother's brain accidentally with psionic powers and demonstrated powerful telekinetic abilities.

After her Zerg infestation, she came to be altered by Abathur in a pain process that saw her body being changed in a chrysalis with her DNA receiving telomeric additions. This saw her appearance being changed where her stature had increased as her body was covered in an armored carapace whilst she gained bone-like wings that she could use as melee weapons. Unlike Infested Terrans, she retained her individuality and had a sense of personality that was partly based on her old persona. In this form, she was regarded as the Overmind's ultimate weapon and he maintained a connection to her as he did to all his servants among the Zerg broods.

Such was her power that she came to possess a class 12 psi signature. In her chrysalis, she was able to create psionic storms over a planet and could sense Protoss that were hiding. She also unaware that her subconscious mind had reached out psychically to people she trusted to help save her. She only grew stronger once the mental conditioning was removed and by the time the Overmind was killed she was strong enough to gain control over half of the Zerg Swarm. Her growing power even allowed her to dominate the mind of a Dark Templar and force them to serve her.

Upon becoming a terran/primal zerg hybrid, her psionic power was said to had grown even stronger to the point that she could not be measured by the PI scale.

Even after being returned to normal, it was shown that she retained the ability to control Zerg.

After bonding with Ouros's essence, Kerrigan came to gain immense psionic power that allowed her to wield celestial energy.

Notes

• Sarah Kerrigan was created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney for StarCraft (1998).
• She was designed by Chris Metzen, Samwise Didier and Glen Ran

In other media

Video games

• In Heroes of the Storm, the Queen of Blades appeared as a playable character in the setting of the MOBA video game.

Appearances

• StarCraft: (1998)
• StarCraft: Brood War:
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty:
• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm:
• StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void:
• Heroes of the Storm:

External Links

• StarCraft Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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