Why didn’t Tassadar hail Magistrate on Mar Sara?

I think it makes more sense for Tassadar’s character to propose an alliance with the terrans to prevent further losses and glassing. This is at odds with the game canon, but that’s what this blog is all about.

We know from the tie-in short story “Revelations” (written by the same author as StarCraft) that Tassadar and his forces were on the surface of Mar Sara during the battle, fighting off zerg and rescuing civilians and marines. Why did Tassadar never hail the Magistrate of Mar Sara and offer an alliance to repel the zerg? He hailed the Sons of Korhal in a cut mission on Antiga (which is apparently still canon?), so it would be in-character for him.

In the manual, after the glassing of Chau Sara Tassadar promises himself that he will never glass another planet and will find some way to rescue the terrans. But in the game he goes on to glass more planets. He completely fails to prevent the zerg from decimating the terrans. Why have him make this promise if he can’t keep it? I think this makes him look weak and unfocused, which clearly isn't the writer intent. The game strangely doesn’t mention how this failure to stop genocide would affect him emotionally, or really anything associated with this offscreen subplot.

If this had happened, then the entire trajectory of the plot would have been thrown off. The Magistrate and Raynor would never need to join the Sons of Korhal for assistance, would never meet Mengsk or Kerry, etc. You can argue that Tassadar hadn’t fully decided to defy the Conclave yet. Maybe that explains it, maybe not. We know from interviews that the writers created the characters and the plot on the fly, so that's probably explains it better. They simply didn't go back to revise their prior work to account for new additions. The plot of episode 1 was written without accounting for Tassadar's compassion or the zerg's intelligence, so their own goals don't derail the plot as it was originally written.

I suspect that if the writers had the freedom to write Tassadar's (or the zerg's) perspective of the events onscreen, then they probably would've gone in a different direction. But it's too late now, barring a reboot.

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