James Raynor

James "Jim" Raynor has always been a persistant warrior. When the Guild Wars began pressuring the Terran government, the Confederacy, Raynor signed up for the Confederate Marine Corps. During the course of the war, Jim was disgusted by the governments lack of care for Terran life, at one point was jailed for punching out a superior officer, and eventually he and his friends quit the Confederacy and became outlaws. When that fell through, James became the Marshall of Mar Sara, and eventually joined the Sons of Korhal, a rebellion group led by Arcturus Mengsk, after encounters with the alien monsters known as the Zerg and zealots called the Protoss. During his time with the rebels he met Sarah Kerrigan, an ex-Ghost and skilled sniper, and the two began to fall in love. However, Mengsk sent her on a suicide mission, and left her to the Zerg, causing Raynor to defect. The Sons of Korhal managed to defeat the Confederacy and became a new government- the Dominion. Raynor's Raiders, the troops that followed him when he defected, became friends of the Protoss and helped defeat the Zerg, before returning to the fight against Mengsk. While he was at first unaware that the Zerg had converted Kerrigan into the mighty Queen of Blades, he swore to battle her and Mengsk, and eventually managed to cure her back to a mostly human state.