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== Background == {{Starcraft-section}} {{sc|Nova Terra|November "Nova" Terra}} spent the best parts of her youth as the golden child of one of {{sc|Tarsonis}}'s wealthy {{sc|Old Families}} who ran the {{sc|Terran Confederacy}}. Though she exhibited signs of burgeoning psionic potential, Nova's parents insisted that she was merely sensitive or "empathetic", hoping to keep her abilities a secret from both the {{sc|Ghost Academy (installation)|Ghost Academy}} that would conscript their child and from Nova herself. When her family was violently betrayed by separatist groups and her telekinetic powers became destructively apparent, Nova was forced into hiding in the crime-ridden slums of Tarsonis' Gutter, and was forcibly enslaved by the crimelord {{sc|Fagin}}. However, the means he used to prevent Nova from using her psionics on him gradually wore on his sanity, and she was eventually rescued by a insurrection in Fagin's own ranks alongside Ghost Academy wrangler {{sc|Malcolm Kelerchian}}. She was taken off world just as Tarsonis fell to the zerg, and the Confederacy fell to give way to the Terran Dominion. Supremely dedicated, Nova excelled as a trainee in the Ghost Academy on Ursa, eventually earning the questionable reward of a mind-wipe that erased all recollection of her tragic youth β and the majority of her long-term memory with it. As a full-fledged {{sc|Ghost}} operative, Nova's duties have included battling zerg, ending the insurrection of renegade enhanced ghosts named Spectres, and even dealing with noted enemy of the people [[Raynor|Jim Raynor]]. Her service record has seen her assigned tasks of increasing importance to the leadership of the {{sc|Terran_Dominion|Dominion}}, and she stood ready to be dispatched on missions that will make her past pale in comparison at the whim and direct order of Emperor [[Arcturus Mengsk]]. At the crux of the {{sc|Second Great War}}, Nova was sent to capture a now deinfested [[Sarah Kerrigan]] and Jim Raynor. While Kerrigan escaped, Raynor was imprisoned. At the end of the war, with Arcturus Mengsk dead, Nova began to serve under the new emperor, his son Valerian Mengsk. While Valerian had a much fairer government, he still required Nova's skills to keep the peace from foreign and domestic threats. Soon a contingent of supporters of Arcturus Mengsk, displeased with Valerian's more peaceful rule and outraged of his connection to Arcturus's death, created a paramilitary group named the {{sc|Defenders of Man}}, and staged zerg and {{sc|Tal'darim}} attacks on terran worlds to erode the people's faith in Valerian. Nova helped uncover the plot, with the assistance of [[Alarak]], and soon cornered the leader of the Defenders of Man, General {{sc|Carolina Davis}}. However, Nova defied orders to bring her in alive and killed Davis, declaring that her and her special forces group would operate independent of the Terran Dominion's command structure. From now on her and her forces would defend the Dominion their own way.
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