StarCraft (1998 Video Game)

Michael Gough: Tassadar

Quotes 

• Edmund Duke : Protoss Commander, this is General Edmund Duke of the Terran Dominion Armada. You are in violation of our air-space and have endangered human lives in your reckless attack against the Zerg. I order you to withdraw your ships immediately. If you fail to comply, I will not hesitate to open fire upon your vessels.

  Tassadar : General Duke, I am Tassadar, and you are well known to me. Whatever leniency I extended to you and your comrades before, may have been in error. If you persist in halting our course, we will burn your pathetic fleet down to the last man.

  Edmund Duke : I'm going to have to assume that was a hostile response...

• Tassadar : Executor, I stand ready.

  Zeratul : As do I.

  Jim Raynor : Well, I guess all I have left is to se this through. The Zerg have taken everything from me. My home, my friends, my family. I know that nothing I can do can bring those things back but I'll be damned if I just sit on my hands and wait for the end. I want a piece of them all right. I'm in.

  Tassadar : Then let our actions speak for us! For Adun! For Aiur!

• Tassadar : Remember us, Executor. Remember what was done here today. And may Adun watch over you.

• Tassadar : My friends, this is our final hour. Not all of us may survive the coming conflict. Yet, death may be a blessing should we fail here.

• Infested Kerrigan : [in shock and disarray]  An illusion? Are you afraid to face me, Templar?

  Tassadar : So long as you continue to be so predictable, O Queen, I need not face you at all. You are your own worst enemy.

• Aldaris : [after meeting Jim Raynor,a Terran Rebel]  Amusing... Tassadar, your taste in companions grows ever more inexplicable. Executor, prepare to take Tassadar into custody.

  Tassadar : Executor, wait. I do not know what they have told you about me, but what I've done, I've done for Aiur. Help me find Zeratul and his Dark Templar. They alone can defeat the Overmind's Cerebrates. Once we've won I'll gladly submit myself to the judgement of the Conclave.

  Aldaris : Unthinkable! You presume that we would side with the Dark Ones as you have? You have gone quite mad, Tassadar.

  Tassadar : You shall speak of them with respect, Aldaris. Executor, there is much that I can explain to you, if only you'll help me find Zeratul.

• Aldaris : [the Protoss Executor has chosen old and wise Tassadar over an old fanatical Conclave]  Executor, by following Tassadar and attempting to rescue the Dark Templar, you have openly defied the will of the Conclave. Abandon this mad scheme now, and the Conclave may show you mercy.

  Tassadar : Don't let him control you, Executor. The Judicator have long since steered the actions of the Templar to their own ends. It's time we acted of our own accord

  Aldaris : Ah, Tassadar, have you fallen so far? To think that you were our brightest hope; our most beloved son. Now you are everything that we are not. You are lost to us. Not only have you damned yourself, but you have damned those who have followed you.

  Tassadar : Such is the price for our race's salvation, Judicator! I have been here, with the Dark Templar, these last few months. While I helped them in their fight against the Zerg, I learned many of their secrets from their Prelate, Zeratul. Apparently, the energies which empower the Dark Templar also course through the Overmind and its Cerebrates.

  Aldaris : The same Cerebrate which you told us to destroy. Your advice was useless, for the creature was reincarnated before our eyes!

  Tassadar : Unfortunately, yes. Your attack on the Cerebrate failed because the energies that you wield are useless when used directly against the Overmind and its Cerebrates. Only the Dark Templar's power can truly harm the Zerg. That is why we must rescue Zeratul and return him to Aiur!

  Aldaris : You were warned, Executor. The Conclave will not be pleased.

• Tassadar : En Taro Adun, Executor! My gratitude to you, for having secured my release, knows no bounds. By all the gods, we may win yet! The time has come to let loose the fury of the Dark Templar. Zeratul, perhaps the time has come to tell our friends of the foe we face.

  Zeratul : Indeed. When I slew the Cerebrate on Char, I touched briefly with the essence of the Overmind. In that instant, my mind was filled with its thoughts, and I tell you now our worst fears have come true

  Tassadar : So you see my friends, we fight not only to save Aiur, but all creation! If we fall to the Zerg then the Overmind will run rampant throughout the stars, consuming all sentience-all life. It is up to us to put an end to this madness, once and for all.

  Fenix : Our forces shall engage the primary Zerg Hive clusters in an attempt to weaken their defenses. Once their numbers have thinned out, Zeratul and his companions can infiltrate the clusters and assassinate the Cerebrates. Adun willing, the Cerebrates' deaths will distract the Overmind long enough for us to assault it directly.

• Tassadar : I never believed that they would go so far. In the face of total annihilation they still cling to their failing traditions!

  Fenix : Yes, and that makes them all the more dangerous.

• Tassadar : So you see, my friends; we fight not only to save Aiur, but all creation. If we fall to the Zerg then the Overmind will run rampant among the stars, consuming all sentience, all life. It is up to us to put an end to this madness, once and for all.

• Tassadar : Unfortunate it is, to see that one who was once so honorable and full of life would succumb to the twisted wiles of the Overmind.

  Infested Kerrigan : Do not presume to judge me, Templar. You'll find my powers to be more than a match for yours. In fact, I sense that your vaunted power has diminished since last we met.

  Tassadar : Mayhap, O Queen. Or is it only that I need not flaunt my power in such an infantile test of will?

• [Kerrigan fights Tassadar, but he vanished into thin air] 

  Infested Kerrigan : An illusion? Are you afraid to face me, Templar?

  Tassadar : So long as you continue to be so predictable, Oh, Queen, I need not face you at all. You are your own worst enemy.

• Tassadar : En Taro Adun, Executor! My gratitude to you for having secured my release knows no bounds. By all the Gods, we may win yet! The time has come to let lose the fury of the Dark Templar. Zeratul, perhaps the time has come to tell our friends of the foe we face.

  Zeratul : Indeed. When I slew the Cerebrate on Char, I toughted briefly with the esense of the Overmind. In that instant, my mind was filed with its thoughts, and I tell you now: our worst fears have come true. The Zerg were indeed created by the ancient Xel'Naga, the same beings that empowered us in our infancy. But the Overmind grew beyond their constraints and has at last come to finish the experiments they begun so long ago.

• Aldaris : Tassadar of the Templar, by your actions you have severed yourself from the mercy of your brethren. You refused to destroy the Terran worlds as was commanded. You have questioned time and time again, the sacred will of the Conclave. And you have abandoned your Homeworld in its darkest hour. Most grievous of all is that you have allied yourself with the blasphemous Dark Ones, and learned to utilize their profane powers in tandem with our own! What say you, oh fallen Templar?

  Tassadar : Aldaris, I submit myself to the Conclave's judgment. But know this, given the same choices again, I would surely have made them. I have sacrificed all that our world might live. I have sullied my honor, I have discarded my rank and standing, and I have even broken our own most ancient traditions. But never think that I would, for one moment, regret my actions. For I am Templar, and above all else, I have sworn to protect our homeworld 'till the end.