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Hey there. I know there aren't too many completed SC campaigns out there - and not many good SC campaigns either - but I decided to try and break these taboos. If I accomplished my objectives or not, you'll tell me.

For a long time I've been working on a SC:BW campaign called The Flame Knives. The bizarre name is due to an old Eastern tale that inspired me to start this project, about a group of assassins in Afghanistan called the Flame Knife. In the end, the campaign wasn't much related with the original premise, but the main theme of plot is still there. Let me give you further details:

From the Archives of Ansham, planet Kharnikha:

2 millenia ago, the Protoss species reached one of its greatest moments. Technology, scientific knowledge and psionic development ensured the superiority of this species, as it began exploring the space around Aiur. However, this progress came at the cost of blood and sacrifice...

Most of the laws of the Protoss were written by Khas, a wise Templar, worshipped by the future generations as the greatest lifeform to have ever existed. Yet, he had a treacherous oppositor during his lifetime, who tried to vanquish Khas and his code of laws, known as the Khala. This fiend was called Zarthiom. A long war between Khas' Army - the Conclave - and Zarthiom's followers - the Flame Knife - finally ensured the survival of the Khala.

Yet, before Templar Zarthiom met his fate, he cursed every following Protoss generation, claiming that somehow his wrath for the Khala would not cease. This threat was faced as the last attempt of Zarthiom to tear down the Protoss, and the fiend finally succumbed to the strength of the khalai.

The Conclave was not a tolerant government, thus several groups of Protoss had to flee Aiur in desperate attempts of survival from the dictatorship of the Judicators. Some of these exilees arrived in the distant world of Kharnikha, where a new government was established. The ruler of Kharnikha, Haissar, was a High Templar whose son was left on Aiur to die, for being born with the symbol of the Flame Knife incrusted in his chest. Nevertheless, Kharnikha prospered under the rule of Haissar's successor, Ashtorium...

What you should be looking forward to:
- A story different from most told in SC.
- Ambience-heavy campaign.
- Original gameplay, especially after map 4.
- Lots of new graphics for doodads.
- A lot of sounds, which includes battle music, fanfares, cutscene music, intro themes and so on.

Here go the files. They're huge because of the many sounds and music tracks in each of them, but in the T3/200 MB HD era, I don't think it's much of an issue. The only real setback IMHO is the fact that it requires SC 1.10 to work, but simply renaming the SC dir and reinstalling does the trick.

Executable file - needs Sc version 1.10, otherwise it'll give you error messages and not load
1.10 files. Get these if you use 1.12b. If it doesn't allow you to downgrade, change the name of your SC dir, insert the original SC disc, reinstall SC and BW and then run this file. To switch back to 1.12B just rename the former SC folder.

Map 1- Heir of the Flame Knife
Map 2- Mind Curtain
Map 3- Underground Raiders
Map 4- One Mind, Thousand Bodies
Map 5- The Hawk's Palace
Map 6- Master of the Flame Knife
Map 7- The Darkest Hour
Map 8- Natural Selection
Map 9- Veil of Isis(3 files)
Map 10- Beyond the Obscurity(2 files)
Map 11- Slithering Shadows(3 files)
Map 12- Marble Pillars of Nayadar(2 files)
Map 13- Kharnikha of Dusk(2 files)
Map 14- The Core(2 files)

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Have fun! Kindly hosted by The Star Alliance.

Pinned by .Coko[CK], because everyone should play this! - CK

Once again, I'm impressed by the depth of the campaign (even including custom doodads!), this certainly merits a download.

A real gem of a campaign, anyone who thinks they are any good at Starcraft should play it, the storyline is good, and the gameplay is brilliant.

A MUST PLAY!

It better be good to be a sticky. I'll take a look at it at some indefinite point in the possibly near future (translation: busy ATM).

I didn't ask for it to be a sticky, but you guys decide if it should remain sticked or not. Feedback is vital to that, of course.

Theres still people out there with 56k
And t'is a shame too; its looks good and I want to play it too.

You could just let it download slowly. Though i'll push Meta for a 56k friendly version.

Ahh, Korea's brilliant internet connection
Just kidding.
WE're running out of IP's (very VERY LOW)

Anyways, What happend to aeon of hawk? I like the name of that campaign better.
but no matter.

I'll definatly try these SAM, cause it looks the ever godly star.

Maybe Blind (aka Wraith on Sen) could beat this!

Oh, my poor 56k modem...

lol, too many 56kers. Anywoot another great map mate i loved it waiting on your next campaign if your making another one =)

I'm still making Aeon of the Hawk, maps 4 and 5 will be out soon. But then FK is a completely different campaign, with a different theme and ambience, so I hope you enjoy both of them. And they both take place in the same universe, so one is actually a complement and a side campaign to the other.

Different is good means where not playing same old stuff over again. I enjoyed both of your Campaigns FK and AOTH =)

I love your maps.
Never Mind. I downloaded some and it was
It would be much more comfortable, if you could put them all in a compressed folder. Or does the site you hosted doesn't allow zips?

Yeah, I'm going to eventually zip them for the broadband guys, so that you don't need to download several small files.

Hey Moogle, nice to see you again. What did you like the most about FK? Did you finish the campaign? What are your favorite maps? What characters did you like the most? What did you not like?

Also, due to having sucky beta testers, I detected some bugs concerning doodads in all the "underground sections" of the maps. I'm uploading a new version of maps 1, 2 ,3 ,4 and 11 to fix this. It's not a fatal bug, but you'll stop seeing strangely out-of-place doodads that were meant for Snow in Twilight.

Map 1 - updated.
Map 2 - updated.
Map 3 - updated.
Map 4 - updated.
Map 11 - updated.

It looks very good, and must be because of the feedback, but i'm just not into the campaigns... I'm more of a multiplayer type gamer. I mean, No matter what it is, it's always funner with a friend.

Man, i want to see how people are doing with this map.
Name what map your on

Me,
MAP 1

Map 2, and... is it just me, or is the site the files are hosted on down?

I hope it's back up before I finish the map, this campaign is really neat.

SAMODs.Org is currently down, i'm unsure as to why. You'll have to wait a bit.

Yeah, it's been down for a while. It'll hopefully be back soon, and I'll also update FK with a few grammar fixes. Nothing worthy redownloading the maps for those who got all of them, but still an update, right?

Also it seems that Tux played and enjoyed it, I wonder if he's done with the campaign already.

a modded SC campaign! And a good one to.

I really want to download this, but I'ld need to reinstall .

Also, do we need to download all the maps and the executable? or just he executable?

See i love the campains. I need to understand though. So you made these to continue the campaign? Or you made your own part of it? It looks really fun also. I'm going to start playing them today. I hope they have sounds .

You need to download the executable and the maps. It has plenty of sounds, that's why the maps are so big.

Btw you can keep two versions of SC by changing the name of your SC folder and then inserting the SC CD on your CD-Rom drive. It'll ask you to reinstall; do so and then install BW and 1.10. When you want your 1.12b SC back, simply rename the former SC folder.

What would happen if we play this on 1.12?

I think the maps crash when you load them.

How did you make that moon in the space terrain? That is cool? Wait is this a mod? I am an idiot...