What happened to Earth

Apologies if this was explained, I only know the SC2 story. Is the exile from Earth a mystery or has it been explained earlier?

 

It's not so much an exile as testing a warp drive with political prisoners.

Basically, Earth is a single government now, with a 'religion' revolving around the divinity of mankind. Back when their government first came around, they started killing all people with other political views, cyborg-implants or mutations. One of their scientists decided to use a couple of these to populate the Koprulu sector. Back when the zerg and protoss first invaded, they sent the UED expeditionary fleet, to try and take over the overmind, annex the dominion and annihilate the protoss. The fleet got annihilated although there are still a few remains.
Earth itself is still protected by massive fleets however.

 

That's a cool backstory. Is the Earth/Terran force as a whole really more powerful than the Protoss? I just assumed the protoss as a whole were more powerful than all terrans combined (but not zerg)

 

Protoss are unmatched in space, Zerg are mostly unmatched on the ground, Terrans are a bit in the middle of it. Lore wise, that is. Obviously the (multiplayer) game has all three fairly balanced out.

 

We're not really sure about the tech-level of Earth. We know that they are more advanced than the Terrans, but not how much, since they only sent a very small amount of ships and used the vessels from the dylarian shipyards to attack the dominion instead.

I'd say that the protoss were definately stronger before the fall of Aiur in starcraft 1, but now I am not so sure.

 

Essentially the UED got crushed and moved back home.

Earth hasn't been attacked by anyone yet. At least not on any major level. But they are very aggressive in dealing with "mutants" and exile terrans who have defected from their original purpose, so to speak.

 

Earth is England, Mar Sara is Australia.

The expeditionary fleet (basically armed scouts) was able to bring the Terrans to their knees in a matter of weeks. I think even pre-Fall Protoss would've had a heckuva time defeating the fleets defending Earth.

In fact, I think the Overmind at its best would've had a heckuva time.

 

Indeed. However, you all seem to forget about some crucial new additions to the Protoss fleet. They may have lost most of their Carriers to the Zerg, but now they have Void Rays and their Motherships. Nothing has been able to even scratch those yet in lore. (the ms)

 

As far as I'm aware, the UED expeditionary fleet got crushed and wasn't able to go back to Earth to report anything going on in the Koprulu sector. Of course, the fleet sent out to scout is likely but a small fraction of the UED's military force. They wouldn't have been sent out unless they were expendable.

Tsk, tsk. UED is turtling and their scout died before sending intel. Despite being more advanced than Terrans, I think they're going to have some serious problems should they be faced with a joint attack from Zerg and Protoss forces.

 

because no one has had uber tachyon lazers yet. In all seriousness, I think even the motherships would be phazed by the terrans(also, they aren't new additions, they are retconned to have always been there, same for void ray)


I don't really think the UED is turtling, they might have a massive amount of colonies in other sections of space(Koprulu being very far away). Also, there might be another exile-state out there(from the 56.000 captured for Doran Rourke's project, only 40000 were sent to koprulu) which was annexed.

 

the pre-Fall protoss incinerated whole planets.

i never quite understood how the toss could be destroyed by the zerg. like holy freakin crap their tech was amazing powerful. if u looked at dragoons, their wep was a phase disruptor. i have no idea how it could only do 20 dmg in-game.

although i really like the lore of sc, imo, the more probable story (if toss terran and zerg existed) is this:

- while zerg is getting ownd by toss (toss will kill all space-borne units, and incinerate zergs on ground), terrans will be absolutely destroyed too (if the toss felt like it).
gg toss win end of the deal.
ofc this plot sux insanity's forehead but w/e

@ijffdrie, no the void ray was later. 1st lore was khala + dt tech but it was changed. it wudnt make sense for the void rays to be there cuz of brood war.

 

I could easily see the rest of those 56k to be used in genetic experiments and such things.
But uhm, where did the motherships get retconned into not being ancient uber thingies? >_>

 

Misconception. They glassed entire planets. Basically, heat ray so intense, it scours everything. However, the Dominion did much the same thing with nuclear devices. Plus I'd imagine that glassing takes a while, and the ships need to devote their entire everything to using that weaponry. Not a good idea when conceivably millions of battlecruisers are attacking you.

Numbers. Protoss are a race of extremely small populations. One child per couple every decade or so. Zerg, on the other hand, are a race who, for all intents and purposes, have limitless reproductive capability.

Sure, a garrison of Protoss troops would wipe the floor with an equal amount of Zerg troops, but they'd likely be facing anywhere from 4-15 times their amount, depending on the location and type of troop.

 

1st: im pretty sure they cracked the planet's crust to allow magma to seep thru but w/e
2nd: What happened to the rest of the toss fleet? tassadar's fleet was the one that purified the planet. the toss gotta have more than just that!

3rd: the toss have extreme powerful AI (warp prism being an example). use them as shock troopers??

 

The majority of Protoss war machines are actually re-purposed manufacturing equipment. A sickle makes a great weapon, but not when the other guy has a halberd.

 

oh yes, and they just killed every single genetic experiment in a culling taking decades for fun. The UED have little use for genetic experiments.

 

Ah, so like how the reaver was originally a civilian manufacturing plant turned into a scarab-producing facility. And that unit still kicked butt despite it not being in its originally designed role. Even the MotherShip was seen as more of a holy relic to the protoss before the fight with the zerg.

The colossus seems to be the only notable exception to this rule.

I wonder if the UED will ever appear again, I would like to see what power they would have if they sent their main force rather than a scouting fleet.

 

Didn't they have some kind of psionic experiments going on back on earth as well?

Anyways, the Protoss can create freaking black holes out of nowhere. If they really want to utterly destroy something, instead of just purifying it, they'd most likely do that. Can't really imagine that any sort of Terran vessal is able to withstand that either. At the very least the Protoss could do fast hit and run strikes. Do massive damage, and be gone before their shields even start to take decrease.

 

I don't think I have heard of psionic UED. One of the odd things about the Terrans was that due to their mutated ancestors, they had a far higher psionic potential.


I doubt the pre-aiur protoss would fight like that, 'rora. Not that much honor to garnish.

 

about the terran you have to take in count that they reproduce much faster that the protoss. I'n the first moments of the fight they can even match the number of the zerg. The number are similar as a planet can host the same number of zerg and terran but zerg can reproduce much faster wich will eventually be a dsavantage for the terran. You can be sure that in a war of attrition the protoss are no match for the terran or the zerg. if protoss have a child every decade think that the terran can have a child every year.