60,000 light years from Earth, the corrupt Terran Confederacy rules the Koprulu sector with an iron fist, tightly controlling every aspect of life for its citizens. One man dared to stand up to this faceless empire and vowed to crush it: Arcturus Mengsk is a brilliant propagandist, tactician and freedom fighter. A monstrous act of bloody violence sows the seeds of rebellion in Arcturus, but he is not the first Mengsk to speak out against the evil tyranny. During the years when Arcturus was still very young, his father, Angus Mengsk, also defied the Confederacy and tried to end its brutal rule. The fate of the Mengsk dynasty has been tied to the Confederacy and the Koprulu sector for many years, but when a new one was reborn from the ashes of the fallen empire , when the very existence of humanity is threatened by aliens, what does the future hold for the next generation?..