"Gabriel Mesta - StarCraft 02 - Shadow of the Xel'Naga" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mesta Gabriel)

Back when she'd beenweak.

She sat back within the pulsing organic walls of the burgeoning Zerg Hive. Monstrous creatures moved
about in the shadows, guided by her every thought, functioning for a greater purpose.

With her mental powers and her control over these awful and destructive creatures, a transformed Sarah
Kerrigan had established the new Hive on the ashen ruins of the planet Char. It was a gray world, blasted
and still smoldering from potent cosmic radiation. This planet had long been a battlefield. Only the
strongest could survive here.

The vicious Zerg race knew how to adapt, how to survive, and Sarah Kerrigan had done the same to
become one of them. Raised as a psi-talented Ghost, a telepathically powered espionage and intelligence
agent for the Terran Confederacy, she had been captured by the Zerg Overmind and transformed.

Her skin, toughened with armor-polymer cells, glowed an oily, silvery green. Her yellow lambent eyes
were surrounded by dark patches of skin that could have been bruises or shadows. Her hair had become
Medusa spinesтАФjointed segments like the sharp legs of a venomous spider. Each spike writhed as plans
continuously burned through her brain. Her face still had a delicate beauty that just might lull a human
victim into a moment of hesitationтАФgiving her enough time to strike.

When she caught a reflection of herself, Sarah Kerrigan occasionally recalled what it had been like to be
human, to be lovelyтАФin a human sort of wayтАФ and that she had once even begun to love a man named
Jim Raynor, who was also very much in love with her.Human emotions and weaknesses.

Jim Raynor. She tried not to remember him. She would have no scruples now against killing the burly,
good-natured man with his walrus mustache, if such was required of her. She did not regret what had
happened to her, since she had a more important mission now.

Sarah Kerrigan was much more than just another Zerg.

The various Zerg minions had been adapted and mutated from other species that they had infested
during their history of conquest. Drawing from a sweeping catalog of DNA and physical attributes, the
Zerg could live anywhere. The swarms were as much at home on bleak Char as they had been on the
lush Terran colony world of Mar Sara.

A truly magnificent species. The Zerg swarm would sweep across the worlds in the galaxy, consuming
and infesting every place they touched. Because of their nature, the Zerg could suffer overwhelming
catastrophic losses and still keep coming, keep devouring.
But in the recent war against the Protoss and the Terran Confederacy, the almighty Overmind had been
destroyed. Andthathad nearly spelled the end for the Zerg swarms.

At first, their victory had seemed secure as the Zerg infested the two Terran fringe colony worlds of
Chau Sara and Mar Sara. Their numbers grew while the rest of the Confederacy remained oblivious to
the danger. But then a Protoss war fleetтАФnever before seen by humansтАФhad sterilized the face of Chau
Sara. Though the unexpected attack obliterated the Zerg infestation there (and also slaughtered millions
of innocent human colonists), the Terran Confederacy had responded immediately to this unprovoked
aggression. The Protoss commander had not had the stomach to destroy the second world of Mar Sara,
and so the Zerg infestation grew there unchecked.

Eventually, the Zerg minions had wiped out the Terran Confederate capital of Tarsonis. And Sarah