okay, so technically this could be just sc1...

the manual of the original game apparently talks a lot about human conflict over cloning, gene splicing, etc. i'm just wondering why this issue was chosen to create conflict, whether anything decisive is in the storyline...basically, why is it even there?

 

This conflict was pretty much limited to earth, with the Terrans, descendants of gene-enhanced/psionic/cyborg humans, crashing in the Koprulu sector(they were used as guinae pigs to test a new warp drive). Earth still has philosophy focusing on 'the divinity of mankind', but the Terrans don't. The UED abhors non and subhumans.

The UED won't show up in sc2 except as some mercenaries, so it won't play a big deal storywise.

 

Was that confirmed by Blizzard or just guessing?

I feel the UED has a large amount to play. Duran's Hybrids (I *think* some were on Earth) are still present. The UED knows of the existence of the Dominion, and of the Zerg and Protoss.

 

It was confirmed by blizz quite early on.

 

most people ignore it, but i like that factoid (being a biologist at heart). terrans are inherently more psionic than normal humans, since their ancestors were all the psionic, cyborg, and gene-spliced humans shipped off on a prison ship.

which helps explain why all ghosts have latent psionic ability (that sometimes have to be suppressed via training and conditioning) how kerrigan was identified by the overmind as having great potential, etc. also why they have all this psi technology at all, like the psi emitters and stuff. could also explain how protoss talk to terrans without having mouths.

 

Nah, the protoss can talk to random UED guys as well.

 

wow. o.o Thanks for the detailed replies.
They do, however, reference a lot I don't know. To ask straight out, would anyone with conservative values (those mentioned or anything, really) have problems with SC1? ^^;