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The StarCraft universe is a fictional universe in which the StarCraft series of computer games and books are set.

==Blizzard Entertainment computer games set in the StarCraft universe==

Strategy games

StarCraft
StarCraft: Brood War

Third-person shooter

StarCraft: Ghost

Books set in the StarCraft universe

StarCraft: Uprising
(2000) ISBN B00005AS12 (eBook only)
StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade
(2001) ISBN 0671041487
StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga (2001) ISBN 0671041495
StarCraft: Speed of Darkness (2002) ISBN 0671041509
StarCraft: Queen of Blades (to be released June 2006) ISBN 0743471334
StarCraft Ghost: Nova (to be released December 2006) ISBN 0743471342

Amazing Stories Articles

Metzen, Chris and Samuel Moore. “StarCraft: Revelations
.” Amazing Stories 596 (Spring 1999): 20-27.
Neilson, Micky. “StarCraft: Hybrid
.” Amazing Stories 601 (Spring 2000): 70-75.

Races

Locations and territories

Koprulu Sector

The Koprulu Sector—nicknamed the Terran Sector— is a sector in space colonized by the Terrans in the StarCraft series. Much of the series' action is set in it, and it comprises several planets, possibly distributed around different stars.

History

Following a period of social anarchy and the "fall of western civilization", a new world-government is re-asserted over Earth: the United Powers League (UPL). A police-state, it encompassed almost all of Earth. Rounding up "undesirables" —cyborgs, genetically "impure" individuals, hackers, political dissidents— Project Purification was instituted: a mass genocide campaign in which millions died.

However, the dynamic scientist Doran Routhe wanted to explore deep space. It was very risky, but he had no problem with sending political prisoner lab rats to their deaths; 56,000 prisoners were secretly prepared for transport. Of these, 40,000 were loaded into four sleeper-ships designated the Reagan, the Argo, the Sarengo, and the Nagglfar and were sent on a 1 year journey into deep space to Gantris VI, an outlying planet. The Nagglfar was also equipped with an artificial intelligence called ATLAS. Routhe believed they would set up a colony and mine new resources for the United Powers League.

ATLAS scanned the prisoners, and discovered something unusual about them - a high proportion of them had a mutation leading to psionic potential. While currently weak, it would manifest in only a few generations. This information was logged and sent back to Earth. This may explain how the United Powers League came to know of this experiment.

However, the guidance computer failed, and they traveled at faster than light speeds for 28 years, travelling 60,000 light years to the far edge of the galaxy, emerging in a habitable star system with a large number of wasteland planets. When they awoke, the survivors had no idea where they were or where Earth was: all hope of making contact again was lost.

The Sarengo crashed on Umoja, killing 8,000 prisoners, the Reagan, which landed softly, founded the colony of Umoja, the Argo founded the colony of Moria, and the Nagglfar built the main Terran colony in the sector: Tarsonis.

As the Tarsonians had access to ATLAS, they had a technological head-start on their stellar neighbours. Even so, it took them sixty years to build second-generation subwarp engines and explore the rest of the system, discovering the other two colonies.

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