My Starcraft Player Characters

Magistrate Michael Drake

As the pragmatic but loyal to his men type of fellow Micheal Drake, after he had enough of seeing  the Confederacy’s utter disregard for the people of Mar Sara as the planets Magistrate. He joined up with the Sons of Korhal -a rebel force that fought against the Confederacy- after the colony was abandoned to the Zerg.  Arcturus Mensk, the organisation’s leader saw much potential in the young man’s tactical mind after witnessing his strategies hold back a Zerg assault, and ask him to help in many of the important tactical decisions in his campaign against the Old Families of the Terran Confederacy.
He agreed becoming close friends with the Marshall he met on Mar Sara, Jim Raynor and the Ghost, Sarah Kerrigan along the way.

At the battle of New Gettysburg however he figured out that Mensk was not the benevolent revolutionary he had made himself out to be. With his recruitment of Edmund Duke and his almost assured use of Psi Emitter’s a device designed to attract Zerg to your enemy that would cause unimaginable destruction on whatever planet it was used against. He began planning a way to get his troops out of the mess before anything bad could happen.

Then something bad happened. Kerrigan was taken by the Zerg and Jim, in a fit of rage and grief. Pretty much told Mensk where he could stick his new Dominion, rendered any, and all possibility of plans that involved a subtle exit, moot.

After stealing the Hyperion and making their escape, he and Jim started to have a fallout, Micheal feelt that one too many had died already thanks to Jim tipping Mensk off about their desertion from the Sons of Korhal, and Jim was still sore over everything to watch his mouth or even think about what he was coming out of it. 

They attempted to stick it out, Micheal trusting that Jim only needed time to cool off and deal with the loss of Kerrigan, believing that he at least owed him one as a friend... Then Jim started hearing his dead girlfriend call out to him in from his dreams.

So the former-Magistrate decide that Jim probably wasn't resistance leader material dispute Raynor's assurances that he was sure it was real, but Michael was no longer going to risk the lives he was responsible for another’s causes. So after taking part in the evacuation of Aiur he left with any who wanted to leave as well and set off to start his own PMC group. But not without having one last argument with Jim, confronting him on his descent into alcoholism, saying how he had no right to risk the lives of his men on some self serving goal, just like Mensk would.
This comment earned him a right hook to the face, in hindsight he came to think he deserved it. 

Afterword he assisted refuges and struggling planets against both the Zerg and UED during the Brood War. Even taking on stranded UED troops and gear, one of whom was the UED Captain who served directly under Admiral DuGalle named Eleanor Weiss. Hoping these efforts would help bolster his new Company and help in keeping him out of the limelight in the process. Sometimes sending some Tech or recruit’s to Raynor's Raiders as a way of staying in limited contact with his old Friend.

Despite assurances from Mensk that he held no quarrel with Michael, saying that he understood that: “You only assisted Raynor, out of an obligation to your friendship”. He made sure to ignore Dominion contracts on the off-chance his former employer was less than honest about that statement.

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UED Captain Eleanor Weiss

Known for her high risk tactics and her loyalty to those under her command Eleanor came from a long line of Military commanders going back to the Middle Ages.

Most would use such a family legacy to ensure them an Officer’s position from the start, and stay out of the fight, not her. Instead she continued the Weiss Tradition of starting off enlisted and earn her way into Command, still she able to make Captain before her 30's allowing her to eventually take part in the UED campaign in the Kapulu sector under the leadership of the highly decorated Admiral DeGalle, as  commander of a Cruiser called The Raven.

Thanks to her, the UED managed to gain a foothold in the sector with territories taken from both the Zerg Horde, and the recently formed Dominion.
But not without great cost in Alexi Stukov, DeGalle’s right hand man thanks to the manipulations of the mysterious Duran. Eventually despite the courage of her men and the attack on Queen of Blades Serah Kerrigan by DeGalle the UED was eventually driven from the Sector.

Bravely she and her ship voluntarily turned to face the Zerg forces chasing the fleet as she just as DeGalle had become disillusioned with the death of Sukov. With their defeat at the hands of The Queen of Blades both her and her crew where fully prepared to die holding back the Zerg, to try and allow the rest of the fleet to make it home.

After her final briefing with DeGalle she knew without any doubt -thanks to his tone- that he personally, had no intention of making it home alive. Giving him one final Salute before signing out and headed off to face her end.

But fate was far crueller than they believed it would be that day. As she discovered too late the Force pursuing them was in fact, far smaller than they realised its true purpose being to corral the unsuspecting fleet into a far larger Zerg ambush. With no chance of warning them in time and knowing pursuit would only result in the Raven’s destruction as well, she ordered her ship deeper into the Sector, allowing the sole UED ship to escape the fate of doomed returning Fleet.   

Cut off far from home and in danger at every turn, with only each other to rely on Eleanor and her Crew were forced into piracy raiding Mercenary’s and out of the way rogue settlements (as she refused to prey on the innocent out of principle.)  They eventually managed met the Former Magistrate and Rebel Strategist; Michael Drake and his ship the Oculus. When both were preparing an attack on the same target. Both were impressed with how well they worked together the two lost groups joined forces to form their own Mercenary company with Drake and Weiss as business partners, naming it: Ravens Eye after a combination of their ship names.