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Nova Terra was born into the Terra family, one of the Royal Mandalorian Federation's rich and powerful "Old Families". The family lived in the Terra Skyscraper in Keldabe, Mandalore. She possessed a degree of empathy that was generally lacking in the Old Families, a trait that did not go unnoticed. She also believed strongly in the concept of fair play.
Unknown to Nova, a great deal of her empathy was due to her Force sensitivity. Her father, Constantino, was aware of her talents, if not the full extent of them. Without training she could only sense emotions and at seven years of age was told that she was "empathetic". Normally, children were conscripted into the "Emergence Program" by wranglers. However her family hid her abilities from the Program, and her father attempted to prevent Nova from realizing she was force capable.
At her fifteenth birthday party, Nova learned that she was force sensitive by reading the mind of Morgan Calabas, a "suitor".

The Old Families began planning to send some of their children away from Mandalore to the relative safety of a resort on Yavin, due to the rising number of attacks against the Old Families and the escalating war the Royal Mandalorian Federation found itself in against numerous rebel groups. Nova Terra's parents agreed to send her away. Despite her protests, and Edward Peters' support, three days after her fifteenth birthday party she boarded a vessel for Yavin. However, Nova felt her parents' minds as they were killed by anti-RMF rebels and she quickly disembarked.
Nova returned to find that Edward Peters, Gustavo McBain, and other rebels were murdering her family and their employees. Peters ordered McBain to shoot Nova but now, with her powers elevated by the mental stress caused by the carnage she had just witnessed, she unleashed powerful force abilities without any control. A large section of the Terra Skyscraper was destroyed, and all of her would-be murderers, as well as many hundreds of nearby people, were killed. Nova then fled to "the Gutter", as far away from her former life as possible. The trauma of recent events led her close to suicide.
The destructive spectacle was proof enough that Nova Terra would be a valuable addition to the Emergence Program. Director Ilsa Killiany ordered wrangler Malcolm "Mal" Kelerchian to bring Nova in, assigning her the code X41822N even though she was not yet formally part of the Program.

The Gutter

Shortly after Nova Terra arrived in the Gutter, two men attempted to rape her. They were unsuccessful and severely injured by Terra's force powers. The goons worked for the crime lord of the Gutter, Julius Antoine "Fagin" Dale. Monitoring her through traffic monitors, Fagin resolved to "acquire" her for her abilities and, deducing from her expensive clothing, a ransom.
Terra was brought before Fagin but, despite being in a fragile state of mind, refused to serve him. Reading minds she realized that Fagin's chief lieutenant, Markus Ralian, wanted him dead. However, Terra was unable to intimidate Fagin nor provoke him to kill her. Instead, Fagin let Terra go and ordered the shopkeepers not to feed her. Fagin was confident that starvation would force Terra to serve him.
Four days later Nova gave up on starvation. While seeking food, she saw a newscast featuring Clara Terra, who claimed that her entire family had been killed. Nova lashed out mentally. Fagin, who was watching through cameras, learned Nova Terra's true identity. Realizing that he would be unable to ransom her, as he would be destroyed by the retaliation of the Old Families, he ordered a reliable enforcer, "the Pitcher", to kill her. Despite four days of starvation and partial dehydration Nova Terra easily killed the Pitcher by destroying his brain with her powers. She carried on by stealing food and resolved to go after Fagin for ordering her death.
Fagin responded by acquiring a phase-screen from Royal Mandalorian Federation Supply Sergeant Morwood (the device rendered him immune to mind effecting powers), then surrounded himself with insane heavily armed guards, drug addicts who desperately needed a fix, and children. Although distracted by the thoughts of the drug addicts Terra defeated the ambushing gunmen and confronted Fagin again. Fagin ordered his men to kill the children one by one until she surrendered while he used his psi-screen to torture Terra at range. Unable to bear more, Terra surrendered.

Escape from Madness

Fagin used Nova as a "loyalty detector" and assassin. Those who failed to pass Terra's test were murdered. She was prevented from going outside which made it difficult for Malcolm Kelerchian and his allies to locate her. Over that same time Fagin had become progressively more unpredictable, killing people, even his own children, almost on a whim, due to overuse of the phase-screen. Markus Ralian's desire for Fagin's death only grew, but he could not bring himself to do it. Terra had no trouble reading this from his mind. Terra knew the phase-screen couldn't protect Fagin from her telekinesis, but she never had the opportunity to use it on him.
Meanwhile Agent Kelerchian discovered her location from contacts in the security force. To help him secure Terra, he was ordered by Ilsa Killiany to take with him Major Esmerelda Ndoci and her "Annihilators", an assault unit ill-suited for such a delicate mission but they were all that was available. The rebel offensive on Madalore's space platforms were not an ideal theater for a ground-based unit like the Annihilators. With "Ghosts" in short supply acquiring a powerful psychic was an "alpha priority" and they were ordered to bring Terra in unharmed.
Kelerchian resolved to bargain with Fagin first, and if that failed then he would "summon the marines". As the wrangler discovered, Fagin's mental faculties made bargaining difficult if not impossible. As the crime lord ranted Terra used her powers, forcing Ralian to shoot and kill Fagin. Kelerchian let Terra scan his mind and she learned that if she went with Kelerchian she would become a Ghost. She also learned that a memory wipe was a standard part of the training regimen. This Terra saw as an incentive, as she did not want to remember the deaths and murders.
A satisfactory end to the operation was interrupted by the penetration of the orbital defenses by the rebels. Killiany transferred oversight of the operation from Kelerchian to Ndoci, who directed her troops to kill everybody except for Terra (no exception was made for Kelerchian). In the ensuing firefight Fagin's compound collapsed. Ralian was killed, while Terra and Kelerchian were trapped together, and Ndoci was trapped elsewhere in the building.
Terra used her powers to rescue herself and Kelerchian, but Kelerchian was severely wounded. Terra forced Ndoci to summon medical aid for Kelerchian by threatening to reveal her dangerous tactics (nearly killing an alpha priority target) to Ilsa Killiany. Then the rebels attacked, but Terra, Kelerchian, and Ndoci survived.

Nova Terra was taken to the Ghost Academy based on one of the Maw's Space Stations. Despite her considerable power she started at a disadvantage due to the ill-effects of months of abuse and malnutrition and she barely handled Sergeant Hartley's physical training regime. She was the focus of resentment, jealousy and sexual desire from many of her fellow trainees.

As her training progressed, Nova Terra became part of Team Blue as part of the Academy's curriculum of team-based training. This presented a challenge for Terra as her experiences in the Gutter had taught her self-reliance – a strength that became a weakness in the squad.
One of her first training missions was the Valerian hostage rescue scenario. While Gabriel Tosh directed fellow teammates Kath Toom and Lio Travski, Terra ran off and tried to complete the mission by herself. Her teammates messed up and "died", enabling Terra to almost succeed. "Sparky" and Preceptor Lagdamen both rated her highly, something which Terra herself disagreed with. As Terra headed to her next class, she thought she saw a child, whom she would notice several times during her stay.
Terra was rudely confronted by Dylanna Okyl, the leader of Team Red. While Okyl hadn't scored as highly, she hadn't let her whole team "die". Terra ignored her. Tosh privately tried to convince Terra to display teamwork, but she brushed off his advice. Toom was left upset by the encounter. Terra displayed high competence but a lack of teamwork in other training scenarios. After several encounters with Okyl, in which Terra blamed her team for their poor performance, Tosh shouted at her that if she had worked with them, their poor performance wouldn't have mattered. The lesson finally sunk in.
Terra cooperated with Kath Toom on an assignment and later, upon meeting new trainee Delta Emblock, whose background had left her without schooling (which Terra learned by accidentally scanning her), Terra helped her with her literacy test. Toom was so surprised by this new attitude she asked what happened to the old Nova Terra. While celebrating Emblock's successful literacy test, Toom and Tosh discussed similarities between their backgrounds and Terra's. However, Tosh's comments hit too close to home, prompting Terra to run off. She suffered nightmares that night, which Tosh felt because he didn't sleep with a phase-screen on.
Terra participated in another Valerian scenario. This time she worked with her team, including new teammate Aal Cistler. However, as the scenario finished, Lio Travski suffered a bad reaction from drug abuse. Terra, recognizing the symptoms from her days in the Gutter, called for medical assistance. This brought her to the attention of Superintendent Sarco Angelini, who had been secretly testing the effects of drug abuse on Travski's psychic abilities. He memory wiped Terra and Travski so they would forget that experience. Terra now found herself uncomfortable with the prospect of memory wiping, as she would forget friends like Kath Toom. Angelini watched this conversation through the surveillance system. Meanwhile, Terra was promoted to third-class due to her new positive attitude and high scores. However, Terra's attitude toward the Ghost Program had worsened. She thought they were sloppy about numerous things.

Mind Games

Terra's abilities made her Team Blue's "ace in the hole," at least in Tosh's mind. However, despite the teamwork, Team Blue began to fall apart, the reasons including Tosh's admiration for her turning into distracting attraction. This was one of the reasons Dylanna Okyl was so aggravated by Terra; Okyl had a crush on Tosh.
During a training scenario against Training bots, Terra detected a "controlling consciousness" behind them—Sarco Angelini—and psychically attacked him. Angelini quickly ended the scenario, but was very impressed. He wished the other Ghosts were as powerful as her. As Okyl ranted about their performance, Terra read her mind, learning about her attraction to Tosh. Okyl was humiliated.
Aal Cistler used his father's influence to return to the Academy, and immediately joined Okyl's Team Red. At martial arts training, a bitter Okyl challenged Terra to a "duel", but Tosh stood up for her. Okyl beat him up. Afterward Tosh and Terra kissed while out of the view of security cameras, even though Academy policies forbade dating between students. When Delta Emblock asked her about it, she said she just wanted some happiness now, and they technically weren't dating anyway.
Tosh feared what could happen to them if Okyl found out and reported them. For this reason he rejected Nova's further advances to protect her. An emotionally stunned Terra then ran into Okyl and Cistler; the latter promised to ruin her. Terra then stumbled across the "spirit" of Colin Phash, who was using his astral projection ability to ask for help. He lured her to a restricted area.
Terra warned her other team members about Cistler's plans while meeting up with a newly-confident Lio Travski. Teams Blue and Red were taking part in a "live fire" (but non-lethal) exercise. Okyl arranged for her entire team to focus on Terra, believing her to be the only threat on Team Blue. She wanted to be the one to beat up Terra. Team Blue, except for Terra and Travski, were taken out. Okyl and Cistler skirted a group of abandoned Maintenance Droids in order to reach Terra, but Travski used his hacking abilities to activate them and capture the entirety of Team Red.
The exercise was terminated, and both teams informed they would join into a new team and take part in a training mission away from the Academy, on Dathomir.

Team Purple, overseen by Preceptor Lagdamen, was transported to the star system on the battle cruiser Cyrus, commanded by Commodore Georg Darabont. During the trip, Nova learned from a crew member that the ship was significantly underpowered as the crew were trying to not think about the ship's history. Other trainees also learned that the crew were regarded as "cowards" for retreating at the Battle of Mandalore.
At the Dathomir star system, the ship diverted to the Space Station when Lio Travski picked up a distress signal via his headset. Darabont was swayed due to the chance to fight the rebels and prove he wasn't a coward, but Lagdamen opposed going into combat in the "wrong" area. Upon the realization that it was being sent from a mining post on the planet by the Kusinis Twins—friends from Nova's life as a child of the Old Families, Nova demanded that she personally take part in their rescue.
The marines landed on Dathomir but were inundated by waves of rebels from a cluster south of The Great Canyon. Darabont ordered the use of Apocalypse-class nuclear missiles. These would be fired by Dylanna Okyl and Aal Cistler and guided by Nova. The mission was a success, allowing a landing zone to be established. Afterward, through her telepathy, Nova discovered that more Old Family scions, Morgan Calabas and Antonia Tygore, were also alive on the world.
As Team Purple and the marines cleared out the remaining rebels from the area, Nova came across the Kusinis Twins while the rest of the troops found Calabas and Tygore. Nova and the Kusinis Twins linked up with the other troops. However, more rebels arrived in force from previously undetected areas on the far side of The Great Canyon, destroying the transports.
The cloaked Ghosts were discovered by Heat-Screens, forcing a hard fight. The Cyrus was itself shot down by Hyper-velocity cannons. The rebels invaded, killing both Darabont and Mirne.
Gabriel Tosh took the opportunity to rekindle his relationship with Nova. He said he had broken up with her to protect her, but realized this had only hurt her. Nova was receptive to his advance. Morgan Calabas, who had carried a keepsake of Nova, apologized for his previous behavior. Nova forgave him. Meanwhile Travski used his powers to track the Cyrus. It was damaged but still "alive", and he believed he could repair it. However, making it there and keeping it safe would require time and protection. Nova Terra's force abilities, which could inflict massive damage in a four-block radius, would be useful here. Aal Cistler suggested she lure the rebels, but Lagdamen and Tosh disapproved of the plan. Terra decided to go through with it. She would attack the rebel base. Tosh decided to go with her.
The others headed to the Cyrus while they were cloaked by Travski. He then began repairing the ship. Toom used her shooting skills to take out curious rebels.
As Tosh and Terra headed out, Lagdamen gave the cloaking systems controls to Tosh. Along the way they encountered walking artillery platforms, which they had to avoid. The Cyrus fell under attack, but eventually the rebels retreated as Nova Terra was "powering up" her abilities there.
Tosh had to flee the area as Terra was charging up. He ran out of energy for his cloaking system and had to fight rebels. As he struggled to get clear, Terra was also under attack. When she alerted him to this fact, he told her he was clear but he hadn't actually made it out of the blast radius. Terra unleashed her power, frying the rebels and their vehicles. She found a crippled, barely alive Tosh. A distraught Nova kept Tosh alive through first-aid.
The Cyrus, now repaired, picked up the two Ghosts. Tosh's brain was scanned. The Cyrus was able to leave Dathomir now that the rebels had been reduced in number or eliminated.
For all of Team Purple's efforts however, they weren't to remember it, as per Arcturus Mengsk's orders. Within a few days of the battle, the entire team bar Tosh had been memory wiped, Nova included. In the same period, it was announced that the Old Family children the ghosts and marines had rescued had been killed by the rebels nearly a year ago. Nova, remembering her Old Family friends but not the part she'd played in their rescue, went to visit Tosh. He tried to tell her about what really happened, but Nova was entrenched in the cover story of the "accident" that had injured Tosh and the "delusions" he was having as a result. With each Ghost entrenched in his/her own truth, the two failed to reconcile. Tosh said everything would be like before... as if nothing ever happened.

Later, in 576 ABY, Nova was assigned to shadow the War Pigs—a group of outlaws gone rogue from the Royal Mandalorian Federation.


Nova pulled through and completed her Ghost training in a record two and a half years, whereas it normally took four years.
Nearing the end of her training Nova Terra was met by Commander Arcturus Mengsk himself, who gave her a final training assignment: kill Cliff Nadaner, a former anti-RMF terrorist. Nadaner had led the group that sent Edward Peters, Gustavo McBain and others to kill her family. Terra was to go to Mandalore alone and kill Nadaner with only her force powers. She was inserted via drop pod with only some of a Ghost's standard equipment. Terra successfully located her target, eliminating the defending troops. She verbally confronted Nadaner for ruining her life and killed him last.
Upon completion of her training, Nova was designated Agent X41822N and received a memory wipe, becoming yet another Ghost single-mindedly focused on serving the Federation and destroying the Federation's enemies.

During a mission against on Taris, Esmerelda Ndoci recognized Nova but due to the memory wipe Nova no longer recognized Ndoci, nor did she particularly care.

Terra would encounter Ndoci at least one more time. During this mission, Ndoci died during transport in a rebel firefight. Captain Spaulding would blame Terra for this death.
Terra conducted a number of assassination missions, and even encountered the Galactic Empire on the world of Anaxes.

Sometime after Taris, Nova was attached to Nova Squadron as part of a mission to Coruscant to investigate the disappearance of a fellow Ghost and a wrangler sent to locate her. She was granted her own quarters on the battle cruiser, Palatine. Arriving at the world, it was discovered that a Galactic Empire force was en route to the planet as well. Through her telepathic abilities, Nova could sense that the Empire was here for a specific reason, and that their presence was not a coincidence. She informed Colonel Jackson Hauler of this development. Aware that the marines of the Palatine had little experience against the Empire, she requested that she be sent in solo, in order to do reconnaissance and to give the marines time to prepare, and to provide support if necessary. Hauler agreed to her request.
Nova made her way across the city, keeping in contact with Hauler as she did so. She made it to the site of the wrangler's ship, but against her advice, Hauler began deploying ground forces, stirring up the Empire. To make matters worse, the marines had little experience against the Empire and their CO, Lieutenant Chet Ward, was oblivious to the effects this lack of experience could have on the outcome of the battle. He ignored Nova's advice for the most part and the marines he sent to scout the enemy position were quickly overwhelmed by enemy forces. The bulk of the ground forces were hard pressed by the Empire, but Nova was practically unstoppable, her force powers and C-20A rifle felling numerous opponents. She turned the tide by acting as bait for the Empire, drawing them into a crossfire. Nova emerged unscathed and the enemy force was mowed down in a hail of gunfire. Ward grudgingly thanked her, but Nova brushed him off, ordering him and his men to set up a defensive perimeter while she headed off to find the wrangler.
The wrangler turned out to be Kelerchian, though while he recognized her, a history of mind wipes prevented Nova from doing the same. She used her force abilities to get him to safety, though this was a task not made easy by the Empire closing in on her position. During the fighting, an explosion damaged the filters of her face mask, which left her exposed to the gas present from the prior explosion. Nova kept fighting, providing a distraction to let the marines get to safety, but the gas started to kick-start her memory, granting her flashbacks of her time with Fagin, her mission to Dathomir and the death of her family. Nova finished off the enemy with a mind blast, then passed out.

Nova awoke in the medical bay of the Palatine, and was greeted by Captain Rourke and Doctor Shaw. The CO explained that her mind blast had eradicated the Empire forces present, saving the Nova Squadron ones. Nova however, still had problems, namely hallucinations and flashbacks—the consequences of her gas exposure. Shaw brushed her concerns aside, though was also hiding something from her...aside from his obvious contempt for the Ghost, as sensed by her telepathy. Regardless, Rourke took Nova to see Kelerchian and while she didn't immediately recognize him, the flashbacks filled in some of the blanks, how Kelerchian had been the one to recruit her into the Emergence Program. He went on to provide an account of his mission to Coruscant until the pair were summoned to the bridge for a report on the effects of gas. During this period, Commander Arcturus Mengsk contacted the vessel, ordering that he be allowed to converse with Nova and Kelerchian privately. Although aggravated, Hauler agreed and granted the pair the comm. room in privacy.
Nova could sense unease from both Mengsk and Kelerchian. There was good reason for it, as Mengsk revealed that there never had been any report of a rebel cell on Coruscant, nor had he given the order to send a Ghost in to investigate. Mengsk elaborated on the shadow war the Royal Mandalorian Federation had been waging over the last few months and wanted the perpetrators stopped before the truth was revealed. The pair were ordered to find the missing Ghosts and shut down those responsible for the abductions.
The pair's first order of business was to make inquiries in the Coruscant District of Oasis. While few of the townsfolk had any useful information, they heard from a smuggler that an rebel spy had appeared in the town several weeks ago. Kelerchian was feeling the effect of fellow Ghosts assigned to help them and Nova began to feel something too, its nature standing out from the rest of the town. It was a Spectre, one that supposedly got the best of fellow ghost, Agent X72341R. It was also at this point that she encountered a young telepath named Lila, who had had a brush-in with the Spectre as well. Nova learned of her past through telepathy and developed an attachment to her, given that her circumstances were akin to her own ordeal in the Gutter (so remembered due to her gas exposure). Nova offered to take her back to Mandalore, but was slightly uneasy at the prospect, knowing that Lila would likely be conscripted into the Emergence Program.
Nova and Kelerchian returned to the Palatine where they met the assembled Ghosts assigned to them and, as per their real names being classified, assigned nicknames— "Bones" (from the surface), "Lethal", "Rook", "the Veteran", "Rip" and "Guns." Along with Rourke and Hauler, they discussed the information that had been gathered on the surface. Despite Rourke's suggestions to the contrary, Nova maintained that the disappearances were related, and that the rebels weren't responsible. Kelerchian voiced his theory that the insurgents were using a mobile base of operations, but either way, the meeting was called to a close as the Annihilators arrived alongside the Palatine, demanding permission to board. It was granted and Nova once again found herself in the presence of Annihilator members, namely Major Spaulding and Captain Vincent. It was a presence that she didn't enjoy—thanks to her gas exposure, she vaguely recalled the unit rescuing her from Fagin, their heavy-handed M.O. not exactly endearing them to her. Hauler reinforced the fact that Nova and Kelerchian were in charge, but as Nova began experiencing hallucinations of Fagin and Markus Ralian, it wasn't a position she was in perfect condition to take on. A concerned Kelerchian made her take a return trip to visit Dr. Shaw. Shaw however, had little to offer bar psychiatric platitudes and barely concealed thoughts of fear and loathing. However, he did offer the information that the gas she'd been exposed to was repairing her brain tissue, reversing the effects of her memory wipes. Shaw was clearly hiding something, but it became moot as Kelerchian received an encrypted message, warning them that Mandalore had come under attack.

Commander Arcturus Mengsk managed to hide in his panic room and get a message off.
Colonel Hauler dispatched Terra and her Ghost team, and would send Lt. Chet Ward and then other forces afterward. The Ghosts were dropped off at the outskirts of Kedalbe and took vultures to the palace. On the way, Terra noticed that "Bones" could sense her presence even when she was cloaked. She realized that "Bones" was the Spectre who had attacked her on Coruscant.
Bones was standing by a fountain, and Terra, using her newly-enhanced senses, could locate him well enough to telekinetically throw water on him, revealing him more fully. She used a psychic attack to "cook" his brain, killing him. That's when the Spectre team led by Gabriel Tosh arrived. Four Spectres launched mental attacks which disabled the Ghosts' suits. All the ghosts but Terra were immobilized as well. Terra broke the Spectres' grip and started killing them. The Spectres fled, but the other members of Terra's team were all killed or taken away by the Spectres.
Tosh mentally introduced himself to Terra. She wasn't interested and telekinetically threw a statue at him. Terra escaped and entered Mengsk's HQ, but another Spectre, Dylanna Okyl, was waiting there. Okyl ambushed Terra, cutting her back with a knife and spraying her with gas. Okyl mocked her with the words "breathe deep" before leaving.
Terra woke up with Okyl and Tosh standing there. Tosh asked her to go to Mengsk. However, marines entered the palace, prompting the Spectres to flee. Terra waited outside Mengsk's panic room, guarding it. A medic treated Terra's wound.
Commander Mengsk met with Terra and Malcolm Kelerchian, and threw everyone else out. He was impressed with Terra's loyalty.
The Annihilators leaders boarded the Palatine. They insulted Terra, who snapped back mentally. Spaulding demanded a meeting. They were angered because they had wanted to immediately descend and attack, but Hauler had refused due to the communication breakdown. Spaulding had gone to a meeting with Mengsk in order to gain control of the operation, but Mengsk preferred to leave control with Hauler. Spaulding then accused Terra of being a Spectre. He accused her and Kelerchian of hiding evidence and manipulating the situation, such as blowing up the Coruscant area from before. Ward gave an edited account of Terra's threats against him, making it nearly impossible to refute. Dr. Shaw also gave evidence against her. Hauler was angered at his subordinates Shaw and Ward, as they hadn't spoken to him first. He had Spaulding thrown off his ship. Afterward, Terra asked him for information about Project Shadowblade and the Battle of Dathomir.
Terra and Kelerchian discussed their next moves. Terra had also come to realize that Kelerchian was in love with her, the reason he had named his ship the November. During their conversation, knockout gas entered the room, knocking them out.

Nova ended up capturing numerous Spectres. They were imprisoned in the Kessel System.

Nova was sent to assassinate Spectre Gabriel Tosh and stop his Spectre program. Tosh was working with Raynor's Raiders and had so far neglected to inform the rebels of his true nature or intentions. Nova attempted to dissuade further cooperation by sending an anonymous message to the Raiders exposing Tosh as a Spectre.
Raynor was prepared to continue working with Tosh, especially as they both had anti-RMF goals. Nova learned of the operation to raid Kessel and decided to contact Raynor directly in an attempt to forestall the operation. She revealed the prison held captured Spectres, which Tosh wanted to reactivate with the materials and supplies the Raiders had procured for him. Furthermore, she claimed all Spectres became psychopathic killers, and that Tosh would inevitably crack and betray Raynor. Nova exaggerated the risk posed by Spectres. Finally, she warned a jailbreak would inevitably release prisoners better left imprisoned.


Raynor was convinced by Nova's argument. Nova and Raynor's Raiders destroyed the Spectre's training facility. Tosh himself was killed by Nova while arguing remotely with Raynor. For their assistance, Nova gave the Raiders the materials needed to escape. She also ominously told Raynor that she'd be seeing him.

After using Raynor to aid her in eliminating Tosh and his plan to release the imprisoned Spectres, Nova heads back to the Maw to discuss what mission she needs to carry out next. On route to the Maw Nova's ship refueled at a Mandalorian Flag Ship only for her to be attacked on the ship after docking. After killing many on board, Nova headed to the command room of the ship and hacked into their files. This is when she discovered that the Spectre Programs true purpose was to replace and eliminate the Ghost Program. This confused Nova at first, but then began to make sense. Every mission she had been sent on to eliminate the Spectre she had completed, but it truly wasn't her mission at all. It was theirs. That's why on Mandalore when she and a host of other ghosts were deployed, there was a Spectre hidden within their midst, and why all the others were killed. She fell into trap after trap and made it out alive every time. Probably to much disappointment of the Royal Mandalorian Federation. Upon further research into the program, Nova discovered that the Ghost Academy at the Maw was now a Spectre Academy that was being run by former Ghost, Sarah Kerrigan.

In hindsight of the Royal Mandalorian Federation, Nova led a task force which attacked the lab housing Kerrigan. Jim Raynor, showed up and attempted to defend her, but it was a moot point, as Kerrigan swept aside her would-be assassins. With Nova's task force minimized to few, and unable to stop Kerrigan, she fell back, retreating away from the Maw and out of the Federation controlled space to Taris.