four years after the end of the brood war emperor arcturus mengsk has rebuilt much of the terran dominion and consolidated a new military force despite an everpresent alien threat within this boiling cauldron of strife and subversion a young woman known only as nova shows the potential to become mengsks most lethal and promising ghost operative utilizing a combination of pure physical aptitude innate psychic power and advanced technology nova can strike anywhere with the utmost stealth like a phantom in the shadows she exists only as a myth to the enemies of the terran dominion yet nova wasnt born a killer she was once a privileged child of one of the old families of the terran confederacy but her life changed forever when a rebel militia murdered her family in her grief nova unleashed her devastating psychic powers killing hundreds in a single terrible moment now on the run through the slums of tarsonis she is unable to trust anyone pursued by a special agent tasked with hunting down rogue telepaths nova must come to terms with both her burgeoning powers and her guilt before they consume her and destroy everything in her path