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SC1 - Alpha Squadron General Edmund Duke

Custom SC2 model of General Edmund Duke's marine version from StarCraft 1 and its expansion Brood War. This new custom model serves as an update for my old custom model of General Duke's marine appearance. His appearance is based from his in-game portrait appearance in StarCraft Remastered as well as based on from xiaorobear's old Brood War Heroes art chart of General Duke for its color scheme. General Duke has two separate marine models: On the right is his Confederate appearance, while on the left is his Dominion / Sons of Korhal appearance. 

Note 1:  Includes custom textures, unit icons, wireframes, and unit custom models.

Note 2: Credits goes to Cacho56 from SC2Mapster for Duke's portrait head model and xiaorobear from deviantART for the old Brood War heroes art chart of General Duke.

General Edmund Duke was the Terran Confederacy general in charge of Alpha Squadron. Duke was fifty-three years old when war with the zerg broke out. In his early service in the Confederacy as a member of the Duke family, Duke had a long military career, a significant portion spent as the leader of Alpha Squadron. It is known that he had defended Tarsonis "in over thirty major battles" and defeated the Colonial Liberation Army on Tyra Mining Station using "nuked earth tactics."

    Despite his impressive combat record, Duke's ascension through the ranks was slow; he was a captain in his 40s. The reason for this slow ascension was most likely known to only Duke and a select few, said reason likely being "loud, messy and deeply buried in the Confederate military files." Despite this leash, it hardly put a damper on Duke's ambitions.

    Before the beginning of the Guild Wars in the year 2485, Duke, with the rank of captain within the Alpha Squadron, worked alongside with Arcturus Mengsk, a captain of the Confederate 33rd Ground Assault Division, during the battle of Onuru Sigma. Duke would hold command authority and would even evaluate Mengsk's unit. The two captains did not get along.

    Later, in the year 2491, not long after the destruction of Korhal, Duke, now with the rank of colonel, was ordered to be on the lookout for a lost ghost. He came across a rebel ship, and upon its status being clarified, he engaged it with the Norad II. He sent a boarding party into the rebel ship, along with a ghost. As it was, the ship belonged to the rebel group the Sons of Korhal, who, under General Arcturus Mengsk, managed to damage the Norad II enough to escape through warp space. The ghost he sent was killed shortly afterwards. In short, the encounter had been a complete failure, Duke being shaken in the experience and his ambitions of being promoted reduced.

    By the time the Great War started, in the year 2499, the battlecruiser Norad II was assigned to patrol the space in and around the Sara system. He personally joined in the fighting at Chau Sara against the zerg, partaking in the reclamation of Los Andares and the assault against the zerg's primary hive cluster. While these initial efforts were successful, the zerg onslaught quickly intensified. Duke and his forces pulled out before the zerg could conquer the entire planet. Later Duke's forces launched a clumsy counterattack against the protoss fleet after they purified Chau Sara. Executor Tassadar, withdrew out of respect for Duke's courage. The clumsy counterattack was declared a success.

    Duke oversaw Alpha Squadron's efforts to lock down the planet of Mar Sara in the wake of the protoss attack on Chau Sara and the appearance of the zerg on Mar Sara. He was criticized by Mar Sara's Colonial Magistrate for his actions there, including avoiding action with the zerg, failing to rescue troops besieged by the aliens, and even arresting Marshal Jim Raynor and local militia forces. Duke accused him of being a "damn fringe world yokel."

    During the events of the Great War, Duke and his Alpha Squadron were given the task of suppressing the revolt on Antiga Prime. Unfortunately the Alpha Squadron detachment force were defeated by the Sons of Korhal and Antigan rebels. As Antiga Prime was beset by the zerg, the Alpha Squadron flagship Norad II was crippled and crashed into the planet's surface. Duke sent out a distress signal for a rescue. While the Alpha Squadron forces stationed nearby attempted to rescue him, they were stymied by the zerg. The Sons of Korhal arrived, striking an alliance with Alpha Squadron. Together they rescued Duke. Mengsk convinced him to join the Sons of Korhal, signaling a huge victory for them in their war against the Confederacy. Duke later assisted Mengsk in conquering Tarsonis by attacking a space platform defended by the Omega and Delta Squadrons as well as planting numerous psi emitters on Tarsonis to attract billions of zerg to the planet.

    With Tarsonis successfully overrun by the zerg, Raynor defected from the Sons of Korhal and attemepts to escape Tarsonis. In order to stop Raynor's escape,, Duke activated the Ion cannon to destroy any escaping ship. Raynor was forced to destroy the cannon in order to escape.

    After the fall of the Confederacy, Duke became a general in the Terran Dominion. In the opinion of Kerrigan, he was the real tactician in the new empire, despite Mengsk's impressive military resume. With Duke by his side, Mengsk was unopposed by any of the major terran militias within the Koprulu sector.