Starcraft: The Dark Templar, Shadow Hunters Audible
The StarCraft: The Dark Templar, Shadow Hunters Audible is now available for pre-order. This unabridged audiobook will go live on March 12, 2020. The audibook is narrated by…. wait for it… Christie Golden!
You should also purchase the Audible version of the first part of this book: StarCraft: The Dark Templar, Firstborn Audible.
Something truly interesting about this novel is that none of the main characters have ever appeared in-game in StarCraft II, which makes you wonder if the lore was meant for the cancelled StarCraft project, or if we will someday see it introduced in a new StarCraft game — in the same way Diablo: The Sin War introduced Diablo III story elements before that game shipped.
Nevertheless, we did see some elements from this novel in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void.
I wrote a quick 2-paragraph spoiler summary preview inside this accordion.
Jake Ramsey is an archeologist hired by Mengsk to study a Xel'Naga temple, and inadvertedly encounters a dying Protoss who placed herself in a time-delayed stasis field -- but not any kind of Protoss. Zamara is a protoss preserver, sort of a living archive of memories of protoss who ever lived in the past thousands of years.
As Jake reaches out to the enigmatic protoss, she comes to life and grabs him -- transfering her consciousness into him, and slowly altering his brain to be able to hold all those protoss memories.
