Protoss

The Protoss are the focus of the third campaign of StarCraft.

In the events immediately preceding the beginning of the game, the Khalai Protoss have become aware of a Zerg invasion of Terran worlds, and respond by dispatching a fleet commanded by the high Templar Tassadar to destroy infested Terran worlds.

Tassadar instead disregards his orders to massacre the Terran populations, attempting to destroy the Zerg by conventional means.

Tassadar later meets a Dark Templar, Zeratul, and embraces the Dark Templar culture, prompting the Khalai Protoss to brand Tassadar as a traitor.

Zeratul unwittingly reveals the location of the Protoss homeworld Aiur to the Zerg, leading to a Zerg invasion that devastates the planet.

At the end of StarCraft, Tassadar sacrifices himself to save his people and their Terran allies by destroying the Zerg Overmind by crashing his carrier, the "Gantrithor", directly into the hivemind.

The Protoss return in Episode IV of Brood War, the expansion to StarCraft.

Following immediately on from the conclusion of StarCraft, Zeratul and a ranking templar Artanis evacuate the surviving Khalai Protoss from Aiur to the Dark Templar world of Shakuras.

After the Zerg follow them to Shakuras, Zeratul and Artanis harness the energy of a resident Xel'Naga temple, scouring the planet of all the Zerg.

The Protoss attempt to rebuild their lives on Shakuras, but are interrupted by a Zerg raid commanded by Sarah Kerrigan that kidnaps the dark templar leader Raszagal.

Using Raszagal as leverage, Kerrigan coerces Zeratul into killing a new Overmind in incubation.

Zeratul complies, but later kills Raszagal after it is revealed she has been brainwashed by the Zerg.

Zeratul disappears while Artanis takes leadership and tries to reconstruct his people's civilization.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty introduces the fanatical Tal'Darim, who are at odds with Jim Raynor while he attempts to find Xel'Naga artifacts for the Moebius Foundation.

More significantly, Zeratul discovers that some force has successfully combined Protoss and Zerg genetic material, creating a race of incredibly powerful hybrids.

Zeratul travels to Aiur to probe the corpse of the Zerg Overmind for information on an apocalyptic prophecy, and unexpectedly finds Tassadar in an ethereal form.

Memories found in the Overmind's cortex depict a vision of a future in which Kerrigan is killed, whereupon the hybrids (led by an entity known only as the Dark Voice) take control of the Swarm, destroy all other forms of life, then obliterate the Zerg as well.

The Protoss are the last society left standing against the Dark Voice's armies.

Zeratul finds Raynor, knowing his intent to track down and defeat the Queen of Blades, and tells him to spare her life.

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Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoss#Protoss
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