And as stated by others the novels themselves aren't consistent enough to be an accurate measurement of SC's power. In Liberty's Crusade an unarmored Lieutenant Swallow shreds a bunch of zerglings with a gauss rifle (not to mention Raynor messily blowing apart two armored ConFed marines with single shots in a later chapter), but in the Brood War intro a marine emptied over a hundred rounds into a single pair of zerglings and couldn't kill them. I doubt Blizzard has cared about consistency until recently with the released storyline and planetary info, not to mention their efforts to retcon the entire universe into some bizzare Warcraft/40k hybrid (Well, more so than before, at any rate) judging by the new art style and character designs.
