The United Earth Directorate

I'm not sure if anyone has the same feelings as I do. But I would like to see the remainder of the UED in starcraft two. I heard they wont be in there, but perhaps mentioned(on the starmap, etc)

In the last game(specifically broodwar) I loved being the Captain of the UED fleet it gave me a feeling of, oh i dont know Patriotism? So what do you all think, fitting into the lore context what happened to the remainder of the UED fleet that stayed behind? Do you think they'll make a return? How about anything involving them in SC2 in this thread.

I'm also going to add a small FAQ because alot of people seem to be confused by alot of things in this thread

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Q. What are is the UED?
A. The United Earth Directorate (UED) is a human government based on Earth. The UED succeeded the United Powers League (UPL) after the undeniable confirmation of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Q. Why were the UED in the Korpulu(The system that takes place in Starcraft) anyways?
1.Conquer all of the "rogue" terran colonies, and capture Arcturus Mengsk, the Emperor of the newly formed Terran Dominion.
2. Take control of the entire Zerg Swarm by capturing the new Overmind with psychics and powerful drugs.
3. Use the captured Zerg Swarm to pacify all protoss activity within the sector.

Q. Didnt Kerrigan kill all of the UED's forces at the end of Brood War?
A. No, it was a small expeditionary force, the real fleet is actually many times larger then the UED's fleet

Q. Well if some of them arnt dead then were are they?
A. The main fleet is at earth, and many of the survivers are held out on planets in the Korpulu System(Including Stukov)

Q. Wait.. isnt Stukov dead?
A. No he isnt, read about it here

Q. Why does the UED use the Korpulu sector technology?
A. Although there is no confirmed reason why its probably because
1. They needed to keep there weapons out of the Dominions(or any other Korpulu resident factions) hands
2. There weapons couldent adapt to the resources used

 

well i don't think they'll come back unless they make a new fleet. the old completly got destroyed by zergs...

As the earth is very far from kropulu sector they are more likely safe(for now) from the zerg but well they can only come that far with a fleet.

 

Actually some of the Fleet is still alive, not everyone met the same fate DuGaulle did. Stukov is still alive aswell.

But as a side note I do dought the zerg could take down earth(unless they push outward in a covert ops mission first, the fleet in the Korpulu sector was a "small" UED fleet.

 

Stukov is death.

they wouldn't send the best general with a little fleet.

to take control of the terran dominon, they needed a big forces and so sent most of their ship.

Maybe they are still UED survivor in kropulu. the occupation force of braxis even if they shall now be hidding.

 

Thats what I was thinking to most likely Braxis houses the UED remanants

Also Stukov is alive
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Stukov#Reanimation

Also another thing that needs to be pointed out, you have to understand how enormous the UED fleet is. That fleet they sent was minor in comparison to the whole, it was indeed a small fleet.

 

Stukov is actually alive, the events of StarCraft: Resurrection are considered canon.

Link
It's towards the bottom, CTRL+F and search for Stukov.

One of the lead guys, I can't remember who, said they'd like to continue the Stukov storyline, so I wouldn't be surprised if he popped up with some UED men somewhere in SCII


EDIT: Damnit Captain, beat me too it.
The UED presence in the Koprulu Sector wasn't even really a fleet, it was an 'expeditionary force,' meaning a couple ships equipped with long range jump drives, enhanced sensor packages. In short, it wasn't really a full military presence.

 

^^I am that awesome ^_^

That is true I was actually playing it over again, what do you think happened to The Captain? Do you think he/she died along with the Admiral or do you think he survived?

 

From what i hear that was a very very very small portion of earths entire fleet


I also agree with this suggestion, UED was bomb, Stukov was an amazing character too. It was very tragic for me to see the UED fleet being decimated by the dasterdly zerg, even if it was just a game. >=\

 

^^Apparently they may bring them back in the game but as a subrace, kinda like the Bloodelves with the Alliance. Although most likely the main fleet wont be there...

 

I think the captain died because he/she is the captain of the flagship so he should be on Alexander when the general retreat order was called. He's not supposed to be in some outpost at the most crucial time for the fleet.

 

I would imagine the UED would have had SOME response to the destruction of their expeditionary force. Maybe a secondary fleet arriving in one of SC2's expansions? Though I don't think they would send anything bigger than what they had the last time. I would imagine they would keep quite a bit of the fleet at home. They may have other threats to contend with (maybe a war between Earth and a closer colony, or some unknown aliens that live a bit closer to home).

 

I don't like really the idea of people dieing and beeing infesting and ressurrected.

how can a person dead be infested and ressurrected? The infestation shouldn't work. when kerrigant got infested,she were alive.

And what are those new story?

I don't like starcraft story spliting :|

 

"I would imagine the UED would have had SOME response to the destruction of their expeditionary force."

Nope. Attacking in the first place was a really dumb decision. Sending another fleet would just result in another fleet being destroyed. If you try to invade a country and fail, it's foolishness to just keep trying.

Link: http://sclegacy.com/feature/33-bc-08/335-post-blizzcon-starcraft-ii-faq

"Maybe a secondary fleet arriving in one of SC2's expansions?"

StarCraft III, sure, but not StarCraft II. The hybrids are a big enough threat as it is.

"I don't like really the idea of people dieing and beeing infesting and ressurrected."

Yet people don't complain when cerebrates did that to torrasques. Odd that. Anyway, cerebrates have different abilities, so it's unlikely any other cerebrates can do this, so we won't have formerly dead people popping up all over the place.

"And what are those new story?

I don't like starcraft story spliting :|

What?

 

it easy for torrasque as he is part of the swarm. they know how he is so they can ressurrect it but people already death that not part of the swarm. the swarm don't have *data* on him and shouldn't be able to ressurrect him like he were before.

 

The Swarm got data on him when they infested his corpse, which they can later regenerate. Given the types of wounds zerg can heal, I'm not surprised they got his brain somewhat intact.

Also, this is an ability that one cerebrate has and requires a fairly intact body to use, and there's no evidence they can just spawn a Stukov if he dies; not too different from one cerebrate that can generate a free body over and over again (that is had the initial plans for).

 

I know that the brain is beeing decomposed faster than other part of body. So for the zerg, it would be impossible to get data on brain. If he get ressurrected he wouldl be half brain or no brain at all.

(remember that it took days befores alexei was throwed in space)

 

Uh, no. We weren't told when Stukov was reincarnated. It could have been immediately. In fact, it almost certainly had to be, given cerebrate Kaloth still had to be alive to bring Stukov back.

Also, how fast do bodies decompose in space?

 

good point... I don't think it decompose.

well maybe he could be reincarnable depending the time after his death the human choose to set him in space. Maybe even the human freezed him to prevent decomposure while they were fighting on char.

 

they'd still partially decompose from the inside out. the gut bacteria would start chewing away at things. on the outside, it would either freeze in the shade or burn up in the sun.

 

It hardly matters. It's sci-fi.

infested terrans don't make sense anyway.