Blizzard has unleashed a massive content drop with the updates of their StarCraft 2 website. In that includes a short story called 'Changeling'.
The Changeling has an ability called Disguise, which will transform and take the appearance of a tier one unit when in range of the enemy. In this story for example, a squad of marines come across changelings when on patrol.
Below are the six first paragraphs of the short story written by James Waugh, story developer at Blizzard Entertainment. To read the full story, enter the links below.
Changeling, a short story by James Waugh
It was always the damned KMs. Here they were in the middle of one of humanity's darkest hours, with two alien menaces wreaking havoc on the Koprulu sector, and the Kel-Morians were busy threatening the Dominion's mining interests.
Yep, the KMs were why Walden Briggs found himself on this barren moon-mining colony high above Roxara's orbit and seemingly light years away from Korhal IV or anything close to what he considered civilization. Or at least that's what he was thinking as he marched, left foot, then right, with four other marines from Zeta Squad, decked out in heavy CMC-300 power armor toward the mineral-filled caverns some eight miles ahead.
Roxara's moon was the least scenic place in the galaxy, nothing but dust and rock beneath an endless canvas of winking stars. Well, nothing but dust, rock, stars, and a mother lode of coveted resources.
"Hey, Jenkins," Hendrix said, his voice hollow through the comm in his helmet. "I got one for ya."
"Oh, here we go again," Wynne interrupted, his usual dim chuckle quick to follow.
"This one best actually be funny," Jenkins said as he scanned the vast plain in front of him. In the distance he could see refining plants and other structures in various stages of construction. It looked like a city of skeletons, unfinished scaffolding: the bare bones of what could be.
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It was always the damned KMs. Here they were in the middle of one of humanity's darkest hours, with two alien menaces wreaking havoc on the Koprulu sector, and the Kel-Morians were busy threatening the Dominion's mining interests.
Yep, the KMs were why Walden Briggs found himself on this barren moon-mining colony high above Roxara's orbit and seemingly light years away from Korhal IV or anything close to what he considered civilization. Or at least that's what he was thinking as he marched, left foot, then right, with four other marines from Zeta Squad, decked out in heavy CMC-300 power armor toward the mineral-filled caverns some eight miles ahead.
Roxara's moon was the least scenic place in the galaxy, nothing but dust and rock beneath an endless canvas of winking stars. Well, nothing but dust, rock, stars, and a mother lode of coveted resources.
"Hey, Jenkins," Hendrix said, his voice hollow through the comm in his helmet. "I got one for ya."
"Oh, here we go again," Wynne interrupted, his usual dim chuckle quick to follow.
"This one best actually be funny," Jenkins said as he scanned the vast plain in front of him. In the distance he could see refining plants and other structures in various stages of construction. It looked like a city of skeletons, unfinished scaffolding: the bare bones of what could be.
[...]
Links
StarCraft2.com - Read the full short story
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