Nova Terra

“	If they’re not dead, it’s just because I haven’t killed them yet.	„
	~ Nova Terra in Heroes of the Storm

November Annabella "Nova" Terra, Ghost designation X41822N, is a character from the StarCraft science fiction media franchise. She has served as a ghost for the Terran Dominion, a covert, psionic agent and assassin.

Not only a ghost operative and one of its best, Nova is also one of the most powerful psionic soldiers ever known. Nova is extremely determined and deadly, and like a phantom in the shadows, she strikes her enemies anywhere with the utmost stealth.

(For other combatants named Nova, see Nova (disambiguation).)

Fanon Wiki Ideas So Far[]

Samus Aran vs. Nova Terra
Widowmaker vs Nova Terra (Complete)

Battle Record[]

WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. Read at your own risk.

Battle Record

Wins: 1
Losses: 0
Draws: 0

Possible Opponents[]

Aeon Flux
Agent Carolina (RvB)
Ana (Overwatch)
Caitlyn (LOL)
Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
Deadshot (DC Comics)
Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect)
Invisible Woman (Marvel Comics)
Kai Leng (Mass Effect)
Locus (Red vs Blue)
Master Chief (Halo)
Mordecai (Borderlands)
Predator
Prophet (Crysis)
Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
Sinon (Sword Art Online II)
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)
Sombra (Overwatch)
Spectre (Call of Duty: Black Ops 3)
The End (Metal Gear)
The Meta (RvB)
The Sniper (Team Fortress 2)
Tracer (Overwatch)
Yoko Littner (Gurren Lagann)
Zer0 (Borderlands 2)

History[]

Considered as one of the most dangerous assassins in the universe. Nova's so great at her job, she only exists as a myth to the enemies of the Dominion.

However, before becoming one of the most feared figures in the universe, Nova's life was a tragic one. Born into one of the Old Families in the Terran Confederacy on the planet; Tarsonis, Nova's full-name was November Annabella Terra. She was the youngest child of the Terra household, a powerful and wealthy bloodline, and a royal member of the Confederacy. But unlike the other old families, the Terra name were treated as celebrities due to their highly influential and wealthy contributions to the Terran Confederacy.

At a young age, Nova already exhibits her psionic powers at a high level, capable of telepathically reading others thoughts. After learning of her powers, her parents however, instead of handing her over to the Ghost Program to properly harness and made used of her powers to the Confederacy's benefit, her parents instead decided to shelter Nova and kept her powers secret. Of course, Nova at that time new of her powers from her parents via secretly reading their thoughts.

Like any other wealthy family, Nova was spoiled, and grew up in a sheltered lifestyle. Everything was perfect for Nova until the dreaded day of her fifteenth birthday.

During that time, the war between the three factions of the Protoss, the Terran Dominion, and the Zerg, were closing in on their homeworld. Afraid of getting caught up in the war, her parents plan to evacuate Nova first to a distant planet. Unfortunately, before the transport ship took off, Nova felt a disturbance in her thoughts relating to her parents and caretakers being slaughtered in her home, and bails out the last minute.

Upon arriving back to her home, Nova personally witnessed the horrible sight of carnage and the gruesome murder of her siblings right in front of her. Unable to handle and was overcome by various emotions welling up inside her head, Nova lashes out and unleashes a powerful psionic outburst that completely destroys everything around her. The psionic force that was unleashed by Nova was even felt from offworld away by telepathic Wranglers.

After the devastation she caused, Nova blindly ran away and ended up in a horrible place. After being found out by the local crime lord, he abuses Nova's powers and used her as a tool to murder his competition and enemies. Nova experienced cruelty first-hand which greatly affected her sheltered life.

Luckily, a Wrangler, which was a telepathic tracker of sorts named Malcolm Kelerchian, accompanied by a small elite Terran task-force, were able to track and rescue Nova on time right before the Zerg invaded the planet.

In order to forget the things she had witnessed and done, Nova decided to underwent a memory wipe procedure and join the Ghost Program. Nova underwent hard training to become a Ghost operative. But with her strong powers, she excels highest in the program in terms of psionic abilities.

Graduating as the top of her class, and now a full-fledge Ghost operative, Nova accomplished many missions, and soon made a name for herself in the galaxy as one of the most deadliest.

Death Battle Info[]

Background[]

Name: November Annabella Terra
Race: Terran/Human (Empath)
Gender: Female
Alias: Agent X41822N, Nova Terra, Nova, Mother of All Migraine, Blondie, The Blond, Blond Curve, Brain-Fryer, Class A Target, PI 10, Ms. Terra, Agent Nova
Age: Late 20's
Height: 6'3" (1.94 cm)
Weight: 189 lbs (86 kg)
Occupation: Soldier, Assassin, Ghost Operative (Former), Outlaw, Vigilante (Current)
Affiliation: Terran Dominion
Alignment: Neutral Good
Weapons: C-20A Rifle, Monomolecular Blade

Weapons and Armor[]

C-20A Rifle
- The C-20A is a terran canister rifle.
- The C-20A can be quickly customized into an assault rifle, especially effective in close quarters. It has a 24-round magazine and is referred to as the C-20A gauss rifle in this mode.
- The C-20A can also function as a sniper rifle. By attaching a scope, the C-20A effectively becomes a sniper rifle. In addition, a tripod may be attached to the rifle.
  - Using sniping mode, C-20A have a targeting function when aiming. Having options wither to call down a nuclear or orbital strike from Battlecruisers or hacked nuclear silos.
  - A Ghost can also snipe their targets with a psi-charged bullet or anti-armor shells. In Nova's case, she's skilled and precise enough to neutralize a single Overlord, and even a Protoss' Mothership in a single shot.
- The C-20A also features an in-built grenade launcher attachment, capable of lobbing a variety of grenades.
  - EMP Grenade
  - Flash Grenade
  - Hellfire Grenade
  - Irradiate Grenade
  - Lockdown Grenade
  - Sticky Grenade
- It is also capable of firing explosive and tazer rounds.
- A Flashlight or Torch, is also installed in the C-20A rifle.
- The C-20A canister rifle is Nova's prefered weapon of choice.
Monomolecular Blade
- Melee weapon.
- Some kind of prototype weapon likely based from the Protoss' energy sword.
- Ignores enemy armor and shields.
- Allows Nova to dash towards in just a short distance and deal damage against enemy units in her path.
- Also effective against burrowed units.
Ghost Tactical Stealth Body Suit
- Hostile environmental suit, otherwise known as skin or stealth suit is the standard issue combat gear for Terran Dominion Ghost agents.
- A form-fitting suit made from polymer light-refracting nano-fiber capable of outfitting its wearer's body, covering every inch of the skin except the head.
- Originally a suit specifically designed for miners. The now converted Ghost suit allows the wearer to adapt and survive any hostile and hazardous environment.
- Provides NBC (nuclear, biotic, chemical) protection by shielding the wearer through absorbing dangerous elements and rendering them inert.
- Also protect the wearer from extreme high and low temperature.
- The suit is also designed to withstand the cold vacuum of space.
- Aside from the suit's adaptability function, it also allows the wearer to control and adjust the suits temperature.
- Its temperature regulation system could even shield the wearer from heat detection equipment.
- State of the art detection/sophisticated equipment can't detect a Ghost unit when its cloaked.
- The most well known function of the suit is its cloaking ability. Many Ghost suits features a personal cloaking device, allowing the Ghost to render him/herself invisible to the naked eye. Allowing the Ghost unit to move about virtually undetected, invisible in plain sight and most passive scans due to the baffling fields generated by the white-navy-blue-trim suit.
- The stealth abilities are aided by coolant systems woven into its lining, rendering Ghost invisible to infrared and heat sensors.
- The suit also has a defensive vibration funtion that shakes off any adhesive substances attached on it, preventing its cloaking ability from malfunction.
- In addition to an adjustable temperature setting and stealth ability, the Ghost suit is equipped with a form of psi-sensitive artificial muscle fibers that react to the wearer's psychic powers, augmenting their natural physical strength, speed, and endurance to higher levels.
  - Strength Enhancement: Increases the wearer's strength.
  - Speed Adjustment: Increases the wearer's speed, allowing them to run the same distance in just a quarter of time.
  - Boast Endurance: Increases the wearer's durability against damage.
- The suit also helps Ghosts channel their psionic energy and boasts optimizations that enable permanent cloaking without impacting the wearer's psionic energy.
- Due to being a lightweight armor, it enables passive cloaking.
- The suit's HUD also provides the Ghost unit information in regards to their amount of psionic energy available, stealth meter (an indication as to how exposed a Ghost unit is to being seen) and a weapon meter, informing the Ghost unit of their remaining weapon's ammunition.
- Among the most advanced technology ever conceived by humanity.
Tactical Visor/Goggles
- Has a multi-function sensory for picking background radiation, various satelite and holographic signals, and faint electromagnetic signatures. Even capable of detecting alpha waves.
- Provides passive and active sensory scans.
- Installed with a comm system, infrared vision mode, a zoom function which enhances sight range and a target acquisition. Also includes an automated targeting system that calculates atmospheric pressure and wind shear.
- Such scans can designate affiliation of a target, alert Ghosts of hazardous terrain (e.g. fissures), scan chemical substances, and pick up living and/or moving targets.
- Also features a psionic "heat vision" mode which allows the Ghost to see through walls, reveal the location of enemy units within 20 radius from position, and capable of detecting cloaked and burrowed units.
- Have its own HUD system, capable of showing a map which can be displayed on the left-hand corner/wrist.
- Comes with a psi-screen to protect the wearer's thoughts from other Ghost units.
- Also acts as a chemical agent mask.
- Like the Ghost tactical stealth body suit, is among the most advanced technology ever conceived by humanity.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

Psionics: Nova Terra is classified as a PI10 psionic, the most highest in terms of psionic potential as well as the most lethal psionic class. Only a handful has ever been listed in this rank. This type of psionics are the most dangerous since they're capable of many possibilities of using their mind to do wonders.
- Telepathy: Having a greater level of telepathy, Nova casually read a person's thought. She's capable of reading a person's mind from miles away, and can even pinpoint their general location. Nova generally uses her telepathy in sweeping out the area when locating her mark. She's also capable of understanding animals thoughts, easily detect other psionic beings, and even others with telepathy protection equipment. Her telepathy is so great, she can't help reading other's mind, and can even see actual ghosts. And after being exposed to a gas called "Terrazine", Nova's telepathy was further enhanced, allowing her to even pinpoint locations of stealth and invisible enemies.
- Mind Control (type: Dominate): One of the most highly sought after abilities among Ghost units in the Terran Dominion. Nova had mind control powers, she can easily dominate a person's mind and controls them like a puppet.
- Telekinesis: Nova can easily rip and throw things around with her mind. Her range of telekinesis is so strong, she can even work her way through walls, and fully control a person's movement like a puppet without resorting to use her other ability of Mind Control.
  - Using her telekinesis, Nova lifted ten stories worth of building off her.
  - Nova can use her ability to lift herself up in the air, similar to hovering or even flying.
  - Stalled firearm bullets from leaving their chamber.
  - Jammed mechanism of firearms aimed at her.
  - Fired a gun without using her hands.
  - Halted a number of Zerg in their tracks and neutralized them.
  - Destroyed a large metal wall.
  - Ripped out and threw a stalactite to impaled her opponent.
  - Brings back Gabriel Tosh's vitals from the brink of death.
  - Controls her usage of telekinesis to avoid having headaches.
- Psionic Attack: Nova's most feared and dangerous move is the ability to kill others from a distance with a single thought. The receiving end will suffer agonizing pain from brain hemorrhaging before succumbing to death. But Nova, however, seldom uses this attack in favor of mostly finishing off her targets with a bullet to the head.
- Mind Blast: Nova's most devastating move of all. She unleashes a powerful outburst of psionic energy that annihilates everything within the whole area she's in. The power of her mind blast is strong enough to destroy a huge building built to withstood a nuclear warhead to wiping out an entire Zerg colony. But like her psionic attack, Nova only resorts to using her cataclysmic ability when cornered and/or out of options.

Abilities[]

Expert Markswoman
Weapons Specialist
Martial Artist
Skilled Hacker
Expert Driver
Cunning
Sharp Intuition
Leadership
Stealth & Espionage
Survival Instinct & Willpower

Feats[]

Strength[]

Kicked a Space Marine in the gut which rocked him so hard.
Threw over another (which weighs half-a-ton) over her shoulder with ease.

Speed[]

Capable of firing three shots at once.
Swiftly killed three armored troops before they can even react.
Quick enough to dodge automatic gunfire.
Casually evaded sniper shots.
Outran Black Windows (explosive drones).
Neutralized Nadaner's troops in just a second.
Claims to be capable of shooting the wings of a fly.

Durability[]

Endured being zap many times by Fagin when she was younger.
Fought through starvation for days while she was in the Gutter.
Overcome being weakened by drugs.
Emerged unscathed after luring the Zerg into a crossfire.
Survived a nuclear blast.

Experience & Intelligence[]

Conducted numerous successful operations, mostly assassination and infiltration missions like Operation: Rapid Dog and Operation: Toolbox.
Infiltrated the neigh-impenetrable fortress of the Umojans, the Keep, and enemy bases the like of the Defenders of Man.
Knocked out Raynor by precisely not shooting him fatally in the head, and capturing him afterwards.
Casually hunted down and neutralized rogue Ghosts and Spectres.
Bested and killed a Shadowguard (an elite and better geared unit) in single combat.
Successfully commandeered her forces and defended the city from an abrupt alien invasion.
Got the spooked on Gabriel Tosh (a Spectre) and killed him without him noticing her presence (Choosing to side with Nova).
Chased down General Davis across space and neutralized her.
Took down a giant mech built for war.
Has wicked butterfly knife skills.
Held her own against the Lich King in combat (Heroes of the Storm).
Called down a nuclear strike on Diablo (Heroes of the Storm).

Flaws[]

Electromagnetic pulse could fry/damage a Ghost's electronic system, rendering its cloaking ability.
The ghost suit only provides limited protection against gunfire and life support. Furthermore, constant damage to Nova's suit could also affect her cloaking ability.
Cloaking drain much of the suit's power, so Nova must decloak from time to time in order to save and recharge the suit's power.
Detectors such as other powerful psionics and telepaths can detect a Ghost unit while invisible.
Unstable emotions. Sometimes let's feelings get the better of her, especially rage.
Tends to blunder off on her own.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

Nova is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
Ghost agents commonly serve as snipers.
It is noted by many in her universe that; November "Nova" Terra is one of the most powerful psionic soldiers ever known, as well a beauty.
In some cases, Nova is seen wielding her weapons left-handed, while other times, right-handed, implying that Nova is probably ambidextrous.
A Nova skin is available for Widowmaker in Overwatch. Similarly, a Widowmaker skin is available for Nova in Heroes of the Storm.
Interestingly, Nova shared quite a bit of similarities to Widowmaker. Both once led a normal life, came from a wealthy family, tragically lost their love ones, underwent an intense neural reconditioning, are snipers, have versatile weaponry and state-of-the-art equipment, and became one of the most effective assassins in their respective universe.
Nova has two siblings (Clara & Zeb), with her, being the youngest.
Nova hates it when others addresses her with her full name. She also hates sushi for some reason.
Nova is oftentimes compared to Sarah Kerrigan due to their similarities as a Ghost and psionic potential. However, Nova is just slightly less psionically gifted than to Kerrigan was as a Ghost.
In spite of their artwork, Nova never directly fought Kerrigan in combat.
Nova first appeared in StarCraft: Ghost: Nova (November 2006 novel) and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (July 2010 game). Her own game however, (StarCraft: Ghost) got cancelled in 2014.
Nova, however got her own books, comics, appearances in StarCraft II, and later her own game story in Nova Covert Ops.
While Nova uses the ability to call down a Nuclear Strike in StarCraft II and in the Heroes of the Storm intro cinematic, it was change to Orbital Strike (a reference of her devastating attack) instead in Heroes of the Storm game.
Much of Nova's promotional art were focused on her rear, which many fans hinted and noted out.
When she was younger, Nova was once used as a lie-detector and executioner during her time in the Gutter.
She once had a brief romantic relationship with her team leader: Gabriel Tosh, during her time in the Ghost Academy. Ironically, in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty if Raynor choses to side with Nova, the latter later kills Gabriel Tosh.