
The mission pack is centered around Nova, offering several strategies and customisation such as stealth and mobility, similar to what the intention of StarCraft: Ghost was. Gaming media commented that the mission packs were a proxy for the cancelled StarCraft: Ghost, though Blizzard said that its story was not a large factor of Nova Covert Ops's storyline. As Nova Terra, a psionic ghost trained to be the perfect covert operative, you must delve into the conspiracy before it’s too late for the Terran Dominion. Their trail leads to a secretive Terran group, the Defenders of Man.

Along with facing political opposition, several Dominion ghosts have gone missing in action while under his rule. The protagonist is the psionic operative Nova, a character announced in 2002 as the lead character of the game StarCraft: Ghost, which was cancelled during development. The reign of Emperor Valerian Mengsk is under threat. The plot focuses on the aftermath of StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, set sometime after its conclusion in 2508. The first mission pack was released March 29, 2016, the second mission pack released on Augand the final mission pack was released on November 22, 2016. Consisting of nine missions, it was released over the course of three installments as DLC, with three missions in each separably purchasable pack.

StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops is a downloadable content single-player mission pack for the military science fiction real-time strategy game series StarCraft II.
