If Blizzard remakes SC1/BW for SC2...

[Hawki]

Actually you wouldn't. Raynor steals the Hyperion.

He stole it between Rebel Yell and Overmind. At the time of mission 10, it was still in the hands of Duke/Mengsk.

[TheEconomist]

There were two hidden missions on the original discs. Raynor could have stolen it during one of those. I can't remember the content of those missions though since its been so long.

[Aldrius]

They're both before the Kerrigan mission.

But uh, I'm pretty sure he stole it during Rebel Yell... if the novels contradict me... meh. It makes more sense than him stealing it later... but uh, whatev.

[Turalyon]

I've always thought that Raynor stole it during the Terran mission The Hammer Falls. It would be the only realistic chance for Raynor to do such a thing given his relationship with Mengsk up until he rebelled. I'd doubt Raynor would've been able to stage a theft of Mengk's personal flagship after this mission since Mengsk would be on "high alert" and Raynor having exhausted his element of surprise.

[Hawki]

He didn't. He wasn't expecting to have so many militia/SoK members follow him, and while he had the Thunder Child, he needed more ships. The result was the Dylarian Shipyards raid where, among getting a small fleet, captured the Hyperion as well.

[Turalyon]

Oh... (see Aldrius' comment above mine)

[Gradius]

Uh... That dragoon was cloaked. Remember the Arbiter flying over at the end of the cutscene?

Didn't look like it to me. The return to aiur scene had obvious ripple marks everywhere. In the ambush they all just kind of appear.

[Quirel]

Didn't look like it to me. The return to aiur scene had obvious ripple marks everywhere. In the ambush they all just kind of appear.

Ah, yes, the Predator Silhouettes. So much harder to see when they aren't moving.
I suppose that they might have been recalled, but I would have expected more flash and bang from something warping in through atmosphere.

[phazonjunkie]

In the ambush they all just kind of appear.

Well duh. That's kinda why it's called an ambush. You generally don't move until the very moment of attack. Even when cloaked, even the slightest movement could potentially give your position away prematurely.

[Sheliek]

Well duh. That's kinda why it's called an ambush. You generally don't move until the very moment of attack. Even when cloaked, even the slightest movement could potentially give your position away prematurely.

You mean like being able to spot burrowed roaches or cloaked ghosts entering your base? :P