Ghost Corps note Nova, Gabriel Tosh, Kath Toom, Lio Travski, Aal Cistler, Malcon Kelerchian, Jackson Hauler, Devon Starke, Dylanna Okyl, Colin Phash, Kevin Bick, Sarco Angelini, Stone, Theodore Pierce.Terran Dominion note Arcturus Mengsk, Valerian Mengsk, Horace Warfield, Edmund Duke, Carolina Davis, Kate Lockwell, Donny Vermillion, Reigel, Corporal Faraday, Sandin Forst, Wes Carter, Jon Dyre, Stanley Burgess, Corbin Phash, Lt.Raynor's Raiders note Jim Raynor, Matt Horner, the Magistrate, Tychus Findlay, Rory Swann, Egon Stetmann, Graven Hill.Other prominent, separate Terran powers, include the Kel-Morian Combine, the Umojan Protectorate, and the Earth-based United Earth Directorate. For the majority of their history in the sector, power was in the hands of the Terran Confederacy, but in 2500 they were overthrown by Arcturus Mengsk and the Sons of Korhal, who founded the Terran Dominion. The Terrans founded their own governments and continued to develop their warfare tactics, fighting among themselves as much as against the Zerg and Protoss. Three of the ships landed safely on different habitable planets, and their inhabitants began the civilization called the Terrans. However, their computer systems malfunctioned and they went past their intended destination to arrive in the Koprulu Sector, some sixty thousand lightyears from Earth on the fringe of the Milky Way galaxy. These 40,000 humans were placed in cryogenic sleep, loaded onto four supercarrier spacecraft, and sent towards the Gantris VI system, where a habitable planet had been detected.

A UPL scientist named Doran Routhe wished to investigate the feasibility of colonizing other planets, and secured 40,000 subjects that were given the slim hope of a new life on another planet. To curb overpopulation and limited resources, they enacted a campaign of genocide against 'undesirable' humans, rounding up over 400 million people for extermination. In the 23rd century, Earth became united under a single government called the United Powers League. 'We got tossed to the far end of the galaxy, dropped smack dab between two ugly alien armies, and we're not all dead yet? Tell me that don't say something about us.'

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