any thoughts about the UED(spelling)?

[Visions of Khas]

Tassadar himself managed to contact the Protoss on Aiur from Char using only the power of his & Zeratul's mind. :P

"With our powers combined...!"



I think it safe to say the UED has FTL communications. They were able to get info about the K sector and prepare accordingly in a very short amount of time. The ending cinematic of the BW is meant only to show that no individual ship was able to make it home, not that news of their defeat didn't reach earth.

[Perfecttear]

Could some one help me understand this sentenced quoted from the wiki :

"Four years later the Dominion became the strongest terran force in the Koprulu Sector, vying with the Kel-Morian Combine and the Umojan Protectorate for influence.[16] Kerrigan launched a major attack against the Dominion, resulting in "billions" of terran casualties."

How can that make sense?

[Gradius]

It doesn't. <_<

I suspect they'll retcon the original populations of and/or the time of arrival of the supercarriers in the k-sector.

[Visions of Khas]

The early sneak preview of WoL - the one with non-Clotworthy-Raynor - had a correspondent corroborate that statement, saying the surprise Zerg assault resulted in casualties "in the billions".

That took me by surprise, and apparently others as well. I remember Kimera or someone saying shortly there after "millions", not "billions", were lost.

Maybe something strange happened in the K sector, like their own brand of the Clone Wars? *shrug*

[n00bonicPlague]

It makes perfect sense to me. Today, millions live in New York City alone. The earth's population is somewhere around 6.5 billion. All you would need to do in SC to annihilate billions is take out, like, two planets — maybe just one if it's densely populated.

[Pandonetho]

You have to take into the account that only 40 000 Terrans came to the Sector initially, a lot of them died when one of the supercarriers crashed, the Protoss burned down many worlds of the Terrans, and it's only be something like 500 years.

[Gradius]

200 years tops.

[Kimera757]

StarCraft I took place in 2499. The terrans have been in the sector for two centuries. The billions figure works if humanity expanded as fast as possible, made plausible by all those empty worlds out there. (Empty when first found, and Tarsonis, Moria and Umoja were almost empty even after the terrans landed.)

I think the growth figure ha to be 6% per year, which is about the maximum humanity has ever spread on Earth, or maybe a bit more. (By the time modern medicine was invented, the world was almost covered in settlements anyway. The terrans probably had advanced medicine from the beginning; you didn't need ATLAS for that. Just basic knowledge of disease, plus empty space, would make it possible to exceed maximum human growth figures on Earth.)

[Visions of Khas]

I wonder if it might be possible that additional refugees from the UED may have fled to the K sector to escape... whatever. Assuming the UED is more dictatorial than Mengsk's regime. Would provide some reason for the population growth, and make for interesting backstory to boot.

[Pandonetho]

They probably are pretty dictatorial. After all, they banned all Religion and made English the main language of Earth (both of which I fully support of course.. hehe)

But they did do some good stuff too, like get rid of racial separatism and advance technology. What's interesting though is probably that the UED is very advanced technologically and rely little on stuff such as psionics, while the inhabitants of the Koprulu sector have very advanced psionics and ghosts.