

She then broke through Warfield's Bone Trench, and assaulted his base. Kerrigan spared her, and began having Abathur manipulate her to make her more powerful. She first fought against the rogue Broodmother Zagara, who did not recognize Kerrigan's authority as the leader of the swarm. Kerrigan set her broods to reclaim the planet Char, which was under the control of the Terran Dominion under General Warfield. All protoss on board the ship were killed before they could contact Shakuras. The colonists then attempted to escape on the Daelaam Ark, but using a larva implanted in the protoss Lasarra, Kerrigan spawned a broodmother on the shuttle. They tried to contact Shakuras to bring their fleets against her, but she destroyed their psi-link spires and ark shuttles before they could contact the Golden Armada. When she arrived, she found the brood feral and scattered, and that the protoss colonists there had slew Nafash. Kerrigan sought to regain the broods of the rogue broodmother Nafash on the planet Kaldir. The following section contains timeline information which isn't necessarily in chronological order. She found Abathur and Izsha aboard it, who had served as her assistants when she was the Queen of Blades. Kerrigan boarded a zerg Leviathan, and took control of the broods there. She tuned into a UNN broadcast reporting that Jim Raynor had been killed, which set her on the path of revenge against Mengsk.

She reclaimed the Naktul Brood in the region, and destroyed the Dominion forces, but Jim was nowhere to be found. Kerrigan went to the rendezvous site to find Jim, but found only a Dominion force that had set up a Drakken pulse cannon. Kerrigan escaped, but Jim Raynor was captured. Valerian later let her go, but a Terran Dominion force under Nova stormed the facility to capture Kerrigan. Valerian and the Umojan scientists experimented on her control of the zerg swarm, which angered Kerrigan, and she sent zerglings against the robotic defenses of the lab. Kerrigan was taken by Jim Raynor and Valerian Mengsk to a Umojan Protectorate lab in order to escape the pursuit of Arcturus Mengsk, who wanted her dead. Summaryįollowing the Dominion victory on Char, the Zerg Swarm was scattered, and Kerrigan was transformed into a human form but still has some infested elements (such as her zerg "dreadlocks"), and whether she had her original personality back. She is torn in a sense, with her love for Raynor pulling her in one direction, and her hatred for Mengsk pulling her in another.

Themes of identity and responsibility will be present, of how responsible Kerrigan is for her actions and whether there are some crimes that can't be forgiven. Kerrigan is treated as an anti-hero storywise, and will have to make peace with her relationship with the Swarm over the course of the story. It begins three weeks after the end of Wings of Liberty. Questions remain about why Kerrigan is no longer with Jim Raynor and whether her transformation has given her new purpose. Kerrigan is no longer considered the Queen of Blades. It focuses on Sarah Kerrigan and the development of a zerg empire. Heart of the Swarm is a sequel to Wings of Liberty.
