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'''Alexi Stukov''' (also known as '''Alexei Stukov''') is a fictional character in the ] universe. He is the ] of the ]'s Expeditionary Force. |
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==Introduction== |
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His primary role involved research, especially into technology and physical theory, and more recently into the ] and ]. While a brilliant tactician, he did not contest ]'s leadership of the ] expeditionary force to the ]. |
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Stukov is 52 years old, and is a childhood friend of ], who is 64. |
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Stukov is represented in the game by the ] unit and may indeed have been psychic. This ability may have enabled him to resist the influence of ] - assuming Duran was using psionics to manipulate people. |
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==War Action== |
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We first see him trying to blockade ] when the Protoss visited, for reasons unknown to him. The Protoss were able to penetrate the blockade, and eventually Stukov had to give up the chase. |
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Duran was ordered to destroy the ] on ] but Stukov's Ghosts told Duran they would take care of this themselves. Stukov disassembled it and transported it to ] in order to hide this from Duran; However, he never told DuGalle about this. |
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When the UED force pursued ] and ] to Aiur, DuGalle split his forces into three or four sections. One directly attacked Raynor and Mengsk, while Stukov and Duran's forces were tasked with preventing more Zerg from entering the combat arena. |
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However, a huge flood of Zerg attacked just as Raynor and Mengsk were escaping. Stukov tried to warn DuGalle, but Duran claimed that there must have been a problem with Stukov's equipment. Instead, Duran moved away from his assigned area. So did Stukov; he was going back to ], where he activated the ]. |
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==The Traitor== |
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DuGalle was livid, especially since Duran was goading him. He ordered Duran to execute Stukov for treason against the UED, a task Duran gladly accepted. Stukov's personal forces resisted the UED, but eventually Duran located Stukov and shot him, possibly with a small pistol in the heart. In any event, Duran promptly vanished. |
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With his dying breath, Stukov told ] that Duran had been manipulating him from the beginning, was almost certainly infected by the ] and may have been for a long time. Stukov's last words were punctuated when the outer walls of the Psi Disrupter were breached by a massive wave of Zerg, triggering alarms and possibly setting of the Disrupter self-destruct sequence. At DuGalle's request the remainder of Stukov's personal forces assisted the UED forces in their efforts to recapture the ] from the Zerg. |
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According to the ending video of ], Stukov was given a burial in space near ]. This is doubtful, however, due to the obvious false nature of the video (it claimed Stukov was killed fighting the Zerg on Char, which was definitely untrue). |
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DuGalle took Stukov's death personally, especially because he was the one who originally argued that Duran was untrustful. Kerrigan taunted ] on Char, claiming that Stukov was "twice the man DuGalle was". |
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==Reanimation== |
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Stukov may have made a comeback, however. In the Blizzard Map of the Month called '']'', Stukov was observed, obviously infested, and working with former ] in a high-tech science facility. According to data acquired by the ] in the facility, the Confederates were studying how to revive Terrans using Zerg reanimation techniques. |
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In the Blizzard Map of the Month '']'', Stukov made yet another appearance. He hired mercenaries to destroy enemies of his who had conveniently settled on the same dark planet. If you play the three-player version of the map, you will notice that the white Terrans in the southwest corner have a battlecruiser with them - the ''Kimeran Juggernaut''. That is the name of the high-tech battlecruiser used by the ]. The Kimerans were mostly or completely wiped out by Stukov's mercenaries. |
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Stukov's most recent appearance was in ], a secret map in the Nintendo 64 version of StarCraft. In this mission, ] revealed that ] ] had reanimated Stukov, who was now in charge of his own ] on ]. However, Stukov was weak, which was reflected in the power of the Brood ... it had little. |
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Nonetheless, the Brood apparently wiped out the Terran civilians on the planet. |
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Artanis sent ] and ], a very old ], along with a small Terran force (taken from ]) and a small Protoss force, down to the surface with a high-tech nanite serum which could reverse the infestation process. These nanites (or something similar) have also made appearances in ] and StarCraft: Alternity. |
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Stukov's forces, most of which seemed to consist of former Confederates such as Bud Morris, were not completely with him, and many of them felt he had gone insane. Many of them decided to join forces with Raynor, helping him free the ] prisoners Stukov was keeping on Braxis. Eventually the heroes cornered Stukov, who was surrounded by Nydus Canals (a Zerg transport system) and four large Zerg Cocoons. These cocoons exploded, revealing a quartet of ]s. Despite such formidable opposition, the heroes prevailed and Stukov was injected. Freed from the ] (but somewhat bitter of this fact), Stukov helped the heroes to evacuate. In orbit over ], the Protoss fired a single powerful energy beam at it, burning it's surface of all life. A small, icy world, that's all it took. |
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==External Links/References== |
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* Underwood, Peter, Chris Metzen and Bill Roper. ''StarCraft: Brood War (Manual)''. Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998. |
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