2501

Early

• Sarco Angelini and Kevin Bick make changes to the Ghost Academy to improve its image and foster teamwork.^[1][2]
  • Nova Terra trains at the Ghost Academy, where she meets Aal Cistler and Delta Emblock.^[1]
  • Cistler is quickly thrown out after making another trainee, Lio Travski, sick with a drug overdose.^[1]

After

• The zerg evolve the roach by assimilating the zantar slug on Garrxax.^[3]

February

• Cistler exposes the Academy's amoral practices and is reinstated as a trainee, becoming part of Team Red. Teams Red and Blue soon come to form a combined unit.^[4]

• The Kusinis Twins continue broadcasting a distress signal from Shi.^[4]

March

• The combined Red and Blue trainees (Team Purple) depart for the fifth planet of the Baker's Dozen for a training exercise aboard the Dominion battlecruiser Cyrus. Technopath Lio Travski picks up the faint signal released by the Kusinis Twins.^[5]

• The anniversary of Arcturus Mengsk's coronation is celebrated. Kevin Bick appears on UNN to mark the occasion.^{[4][note 1]}

Misc Events

• Jake Ramsey and his team work on Pegasus and Gelgaris.^[6]

• Terrazine gas is discovered for the first time by a terran probe. The use of this gas paves the way for spectres and Project Shadowblade.^[7]
  • Project Shadowblade, under the command of General Horace Warfield, fails.^[7] Warfield retires from Terran Dominion military service.^[8]
  • Jackson Hauler, fresh from the failure of Project Shadowblade, meets Gabriel Tosh, who has deserted from the Dominion. The two begin forming a plan to launch a coup against the Dominion.^[7]

• Rosemary Dahl and Ethan Stewart go their separate ways, though still keep in touch.^[6]

• Kate Lockwell fires her cameraman Zach Oliver.^{[9][note 2]}

• Rin Shearon becomes marshal of Quijadas, Choss.^[10]

• Gehenna Station destroys a Dominion space platform orbiting Maltair IV. Only a single survivor is found.^[7]

• Foster Cray joins the Dominion Marine Corps.^[11]

The following section contains information from Heart of the Swarm that is ambiguously canonical.

• Alexei Stukov, having been cured of his infestation, is handed over to the Moebius Foundation to research the protoss cure, but is instead tortured by Emil Narud.^[12]

The next article in this series is 2502.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 DeCandido, Keith R. A. (w), Fernando Heinz Furukawa (p, i). StarCraft: Ghost Academy: Volume 1 (paperback binding). Tokyopop, December 29, 2009. ISBN 978-1427-81612-2. Timing derived from the StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils timeline. ↑ April 6, 2010. "Timeline". StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). pp. 311 - 323. ISBN 978-1416-55084-6. ↑ Johnston, Antony. "“Acid Burns”." (April 18, 2013). Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft Lore: Acid Burns Accessed 2013-04-18. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gerrold, David (w), Fernando Heinz Furukawa (p, i). StarCraft: Ghost Academy: Volume 2 (paperback binding). Tokyopop, August 10, 2010. ISBN 978-1427-81613-9. ↑ Gerrold, David (w), Fernando Heinz Furukawa (p, i). StarCraft: Ghost Academy: Volume 3 (paperback binding). Tokyopop, March 8, 2011. ISBN 978-1427-81614-6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Taken from Golden, Christie (May 22, 2007). StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga #1: Firstborn. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). ISBN 978-0-7434-7125-1., which occurs in 2503 according to the timeline in StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Kenyon, Nate. (September 27, 2011). StarCraft: Ghost: Spectres. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). ISBN 978-1439-10938-0. ↑ Blizzard Entertainment staff. 2010-11-12. Cast of Characters: Horace Warfield. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-11-13. ↑ Randolph, Grace (w), Nan Kim (p, i). "Newsworthy." In StarCraft: Frontline: Volume 2 (paperback binding), pp. 68-121. Tokyopop, January 1, 2009. ISBN 978-1427-80831-8. ↑ Derived from Bogdanove, Kal-El. "Frenzy". (Feb. 28, 2013). Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft Lore: Frenzy Accessed 2013-02-28. ↑ Derived from time in Zahn, Timothy (November 8, 2016). StarCraft: Evolution. Del Rey Books. ISBN 0425284735. ↑ Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Map Editor. (Activision Blizzard) (in English). March 12, 2013

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