The debut of Sarah Kerrigan took place in the distant 1998, simultaneously with the release of StarCraft strategy. The heroine instantly won the hearts of gamers and even now, after many years, is one of the most recognizable characters in computer games.
To understand the reason for such incredible popularity, you need to study the story of Sarah Kerrigan from beginning to end. A story filled with terrible atrocities and heroic accomplishments, friendships and betrayals, love and hate.
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Kerrigan as a game character was created by Chris Metzen and James Finney, lead game designers at Blizzard Studios. In its original version, Sarah was a kind of Tanya Adams - a female operative from the Red Alert strategy.
It's hard to believe, but then the developers did not plan to assign Kerrigan a significant role in the plot. She was supposed to appear in one or two missions, and then disappear, as is often the case with the characters of the second plan. Fortunately, the heroine was so liked by the developers that they decided to make a full story for her. That is how the idea came about with the transformation into the Queen of Blades.
It is hard to say where the image of Sarah Kerrigan came from, in her “Zerg” incarnation. However, one can trace some similarities between the Queen of Blades and the gorgon of Medusa, which appears in the myths of ancient Greece. The same hair-snakes, wild temper, cunning and a killer look ... By the way, you yourself can see this by comparing the photos of Sarah Kerrigan with one of the images of the mythical ancient Greek monster.
Before infection
At a young age, Kerrigan was found to have high psionic abilities, because of which she became the object of attention of the Confederate military. The heroine spent almost all her childhood in the laboratory, where various experiments were carried out on her, neuroimplants were implanted and forced to undergo various tests.
As for StarCraft, the player gets to know Sarah around the middle of the first campaign. Kerrigan is presented as a twenty-six-year-old psionic girl who betrayed the Confederacy and joined the Sons of Korhal extremist movement. Having recruited former sheriff Jim Raynor into their ranks, the rebels are fighting both their former state and the zerg - aliens who unexpectedly attacked inhabited planets.
As a result, Sarah Kerrigan, as well as her allies, manage to find out that the invasion of insect-like aliens was not an accident. As it turned out, the Zerg was lured by the leadership of the Confederation, using special psi emitters for this. Finding no other way out, the rebels decide to attack the capital planet Tarsonis.
Arcturus Mengsk, head of the Sons of Korhal, fearing losing the battle, uses a psi emitter against the Confederate army. At the same time, a fleet of protoss arrives at Tarsonis (yes, these are another aliens) and tries to destroy the zerg that have already attacked the planet.
Arcturus orders Kerrigan to stop the Protoss, and Sarah successfully copes with the task. The heroine asks for evacuation, but Mengsk ignores her and leaves the zerg to be torn to pieces.
Birth of the Queen of Blades
Raynor, who managed to penetrate Kerrigan with warm feelings, deserts from The Sons of Korhal, and Mengsk, meanwhile, creates his own state - the Dominion. But as it turned out, the zerg did not kill Sarah. The aliens, following the instructions of their lord of the Overmind, infected the heroine with a virus, under the influence of which she mutated into a unique creature - a hybrid of zerg and terran.
Having rejected all human feelings, Sarah Kerrigan proclaims herself the Queen of the Blades. The heroine even attacks Raynor, who arrived on the planet Char to save his former partner. True, in the end, Sarah decides not to kill Jim without feeling a threat to Roy Zerg in him.
Attracted by Kerrigan's enormous psi abilities, the Protoss commander Tassadar arrives at Char. He distracts the Queen of Blades while his comrade-in-arms Zeratul destroys one of the zerg cereals. At the time of the strike, the Overmind establishes a mental connection with the protoss and finds out the whereabouts of Ayur, the native planet of this race. Almost the whole Zerg Swarm immediately goes there, and Kerrigan stays on Char to get even with Zeratul and Tassadar.
I am Roy!
As a result of an unsuccessful attack on Ayur, the Overmind perishes. The Queen of Blades, seeing the prospects that opened up before her, decides to unite the whole Roy under her command. To do this, it first teams up with the protoss to destroy the uncontrolled zerg, and then with the terrans to counter the forces of the United Earth Directorate. In the end, Kerrigan betrays his former associates and defeats their army. Thus, zerg become the main force in the Koprulu sector.
In Starcraft 2, Sarah Kerrigan acts as one of the main antagonists. She tries to find parts of the mysterious zel-naga artifact by attacking the terran colonies and killing everyone in her path.
Jim Raynor, seeing that there is nothing human left in the Queen of Blades, decides to stop her by any means. To do this, he, joining forces with old and new allies, tries to get parts of the artifact before Kerrigan does.
As a result, Raynor manages to accumulate enough strength and attack the central planet of the zerg - Char. At the cost of many lives, he makes his way to the main hive of the Queen of Blades, activates the collected artifact and thus returns to Sarah a human face.
Rebirth
Once again human, Kerrigan did not lose her ability to control the zerg. She was placed in a secret laboratory, where scientists began to conduct experiments on her, trying to find out the possibilities of Sarah. However, after a short period of time, the Dominion forces attack the complex and capture Raynor.
For the sake of saving Jim Sarah, the scattered zerg flocks reunite. In addition, she meets with Zeratul, who warns her of the coming end of the world. Seeing no other way out, Kerrigan goes to Zerus, the home planet of the Zerg, where she again becomes Queen of the Blades.
Having gathered enough strength, Sarah attacks the capital of the Dominion and kills, not without the help of Raynor, the emperor Mengsk.
Savior
In the latest, at least at the moment, Legacy of the Void expansion, Sarah Kerrigan has not allotted so much story time. Only in a few missions does she help the protoss fight the forces of Amun.
Already in the epilogue of the campaign, having received the power of Uros, Kerrigan becomes the zel-naga of a new cycle. With the help of acquired abilities, she kills Amun and saves the world from death. Two years later, Sarah, in her human form, returns to Raynor. Since then, no one has seen them.