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General Edmund Duke was the Terran Confederacy officer in charge of Alpha Squadron, a military force in the fictional StarCraft universe. A 53-year-old man in 2499, Duke claimed to have been a Terran Confederacy general for fifteen years. According to StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade, he was a member of the Confederate "Old Families".

Personal History

Early history

A loyal citizen of the Terran Confederacy, Duke personally joined in the fighting at Chau Sara against the Zerg, but eventually left before the Zerg could conquer the entire planet.

General Duke oversaw Alpha Squadron's efforts to lock down the planet of Mar Sara in the wake of the Protoss attack on Chau Sara and the appearance of the Zerg on Mar Sara. He was criticized by Mar Sara's Colonial Magistrate for avoiding action with the Zerg, failing to rescue Confederate troops besieged by the aliens, and even arresting local militias. Duke accused him of being a "fringe world yokel".

As the Zerg overran the planet, Alpha Squadron prepared to leave. Before they were able to do so, however, the rebel Sons of Korhal raided the Jacobs Installation, stealing forbidden Confederate technology in the form of a data disk. After the evacuation, the Protoss burned all life on the surface of Mar Sara.

Duke next joined action over Antiga Prime, a Confederate colony. He was responsible for suppressing a rebellion of the colonists there, which he did by surrounding the rebels with his troops and putting one of his officers in charge of the rebel Command Center. He was defeated by the Sons of Korhal, however, who teamed up with the rebels to do so.

The planet was then beset by the Zerg. During a battle in low orbit, his battlecruiser, the Norad II, was crippled by the Zerg and crashed onto the planet. Duke survived the crash, however. His forces on the planet tried to rescue him, but the Zerg made this very difficult. They were forced to turn to the Sons of Korhal for help. Arcturus Mengsk took the opportunity to rescue Duke and get him to join his rebel movement. This signaled a huge victory for the Sons of Korhal in their war against the Confederates.

Shortly afterwards, Arcturus Mengsk was able to decrypt the data disks stolen from the Jacobs Installation. They contained plans for a powerful weapon, the psi-emitter.

Transfer of Loyalties

Duke assisted Mengsk in conquering Tarsonis, the capital world of the Terran Confederacy. He personally led an attack against a space platform defended by the Confederate Delta and Omega squadrons in order to cause enough of a "ruckus" (in Duke's own words) to divert the Confederates' attention and enable a small force to descend to the planet itself. The status of this force is in doubt.

A number of psi-emitters were installed on Tarsonis and activated to attract Zerg to the planet. As a result, a huge Zerg force attacked Tarsonis, destroying most of the Confederate infrastructure and people on the planet, effectively ending the Terran Confederacy.

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