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November Annabella Terra, normally known by her codename Nova, is a ghost agent for the Terran Dominion, and the protagonist of the StarCraft: Ghost sub-series. Despite the indefinite postponement of the Ghost game, her character still continues through StarCraft Ghost: Nova, a novel covering Nova's early life that was meant to accompany the game's release.

According to StarCraft Ghost: Nova, Nova is the daughter of one of the highly influential Confederate Old Families, and despite having unusually high psionic potential her father is able to prevent her from being taken into the Confederate Ghost Program. However, after her family is murdered by an anti-Confederate resistance movement, Nova flees to the undercity of Tarsonis and is forced to work for an organized crime boss who wants to utilize her psionic powers for his ends. During the Zerg assault on Tarsonis at the end of StarCraft's Episode I, a Confederate wrangler eventually tracks her down and is able to get her off the planet, inadvertently ending up in the Sons of Korhal fleet. As a result, Nova voluntarily trains as a Dominion ghost agent and has her memory wiped to remove the reminders of her family's murder and her involvement with the Tarsonis underworld.

Due to the postponement of the StarCraft: Ghost game, Nova has not been featured in any media since. However, it has been speculated that Nova may have a role in StarCraft II as her armour discreetly appears in concept art depicting Arcturus Mengsk. At Blizzcon in August 2007, Blizzard Entertainment claimed that if there was a role for Nova in the game, she would appear, but she would not be in the game just for the sake of being in it.

At the 2009 BlizzCon, Dustin Browder, the lead designer of StarCraft II, confirmed that Nova would definitely make an appearance in StarCraft II. However, he did not reveal to what extent the character's role will be in the game's story events.[