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Nawce.....  

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The Great War
As 2499 drew to a close, a hivemind of bioengineered creatures, the Zerg Swarm, descended on the Sector. The zerg sought to assimilate humanity to prepare the Swarm for their long-awaited struggle against the protoss. The protoss had long observed the terrans since their arrival in the Sector but had kept their presence hidden; the arrival of the zerg forced the protoss to reveal themselves.

The zerg, then called "xenomorphs" by the terrans, arrived on Chau Sara and began infesting the planet. The Confederacy sent Alpha Squadron troops and the "Cerberus" attack squad to contain and suppress knowledge of the alien invasion. The Confederacy were using zerg for weapons development and wished to keep any knowledge of them secret; they did not yet know the full danger the Swarm posed.

The protoss were not so complacent. The protoss were the scions of the xel'naga, and in the zerg they recognized another offspring of their ancient mentors. The protoss were wary of the zerg's potential and their fears were confirmed when they witnessed the infestation and destruction wrought on Chau Sara. They took decisive action and cleansed the planet of all life. However, it was too late to stop the zerg spreading to other terran worlds.

In a short period of time the terrans came into contact with two seemingly hostile species. The Great War had started.  

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The terrans were discovered by the zerg approximately sixty years before the Great War, although the terrans themselves would not know about them for five decades, and even then kept their findings secret.
The strongest terran faction, the Terran Confederacy, consisted of Tarsonis (the capitol world) and numerous colonies. Corruption by the Old Families (the economic leaders of the Confederacy), economic repression of the colonists and general poor treatment sparked numerous rebel movements. The most important of these was the Rebellion of Korhal, a secret movement led by Senator Angus Mengsk and heavily supported by Umoja. After the Confederacy defeated the Kel-Morian Combine in an economic and military conflict, the Guild Wars, in 2480, using numerous neurally resocialized criminals as troops, Korhal declared its independence. Senator Mengsk was killed by ghosts and his genius son, Arcturus, became the rebellion's new leader.

The Confederacy discovered a zerg infestation on a remote fringe world and went to great lengths to destroy the initial infestation, which was found on multiple fringe worlds, but kept a number of the xenomorphs for study. By 2491 they were using psychics in experiments with the creatures.

In 2491 the new Rebellion of Korhal became so strong under Arcturus Mengsk's leadership that the Confederacy retaliated with a massive nuclear strike. The movement was renamed the Sons of Korhal.

Confederate experiments with the zerg became known to Mengsk after he stumbled upon them while pursuing his insurgency against the Confederacy. One of the psychic test subjects, Sarah Kerrigan, was rescued by Mengsk, eventually becoming his second-in-command.
Mengsk would spend the next eight years leading the Sons of Korhal in attacking the Confederacy.

Suffering low numbers of recruited troops, the Confederacy began abducting colonists and subjecting them to neural resocialization.  

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By 2499, the Confederacy had developed a number of devices called psi emitters, which would broadcast the telepathic signal of a ghost across interplanetary distances. Activated in the Sara System, the Confederacy intended to lure more zerg (which they called xenomorphs) into their traps in order to fashion them into a weapon-one that could put an end to their rivals, but without any of the bad press. Indeed, with the Confederacy coming in and destroying the xenomorphs after they'd done their work, they'd be lauded as heroes. However, by November of this year, the xenomorphs had arrived en masse in the outskirts of the Koprulu Sector. And with the psi emitters activated, what had started out as isolated zerg became an entire species.  

[CaptainKillbot]

"Priority alert! Backwater station under attack by unknown alien organisms. Distress beacon activated at 0658."
―Terran adjutant  

[CaptainKillbot]

Zerglings don't bite.....
Zerglings aren't bad pets...
As long as you feed them your enemies
And you keep your hands away from thier mouths