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In the StarCraft universe, the Terran Confederacy, also known as the Confederacy of Man, was an interstellar confederacy established by the Terrans of the Koprulu Sector. The home of the Confederacy was the colony of Tarsonis.

History

Tarsonis was one of the three original Terran colonies founded in the Koprulu Sector. The colonists of Tarsonis enjoyed a technological advantage over the colonists of the other two original colony worlds, Moria and Umoja, due to the artificial intelligence ATLAS. ATLAS contained much technological information from Earth.

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.

Tarsonis attempted to convince the other two colonies to join in a conglomerate government (they refused) even as its prospectors helped to create a large number of new colonies. Tarsonis and its colonies formed an interstellar government which they called the Terran Confederacy.

The Guild Wars

The Confederacy came into conflict with Moria as the Morian government believed the Confederates would try to "regulate" its rich mining industry. The Morians founded the Kel-Morian Combine in order to protect itself. The tensions broke into open war, which lasted four years. The Guild Wars, as the conflict was called, resulted in bitter defeat for the Kel-Morian Combine. The Confederates annexed the Combine's supporting guilds, but allowed the Morians to maintain their independence.

As a result of this war, Umoja formed its own military body, the Umojan Protectorate, in order to defend itself from the Confederacy.

Since the defeat, Moria has founded new mining colonies and provided the Terran Confederacy with so much money that they are effectively immune to Confederate laws.

Meanwhile, Confederates prospectors founded many new colonies and Confederate enforcement agencies abused the colonists, causing many rebel groups, such as the Colonial Liberation Army, to rise up against the Confederates, but they were rarely any match for the Confederate forces. By the time of the Korhal incident, the Terran Confederacy controlled seven prosperous colonies in the originally settled star system.

Rebellion of Korhal

Korhal IV, one of the oldest Terran Confederacy colonies, was a world of affluence. Its people, however, resented their affiliation with the corrupt Confederate senators.

The citizenry revolted against the local Confederate militia. The Confederates imposed martial law, but the revolt continued. Angus Mengsk, a Korhalian senator, came to lead the revolt. The Confederates decided to withdraw their military from the planet, while three covert assassins called Ghosts slew Angus Mengsk, his wife and youngest child. Angus Mengsk's head was never found. This did much to weaken the revolt.

Arcturus Mengsk, Angus's son, a former Confederate Colonel and prospector, was embarrassed by his father's actions, and while aware of Confederate corruption, was generally uninterested in Koprulu Sector politics. However, he was outraged by the death of his family and returned to Korhal to continue the rebellion. He rallied the militant groups that had followed his father and created an army which struck at various Confederate bases and installations. When he was gone to visit Umoja, an important rival of the Terran Confederacy, the Confederates fired a thousand Apocalypse-class nuclear missiles at Korhal, wiping out all life on the surface.

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