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53 entries tagged Factions, 53 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Zerg and Terran Dominion.
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3- Alpha SquadronAlpha Squadron, nicknamed the Blood Hawks, was an elite Terran Confederate military formation under General Edmund Duke that defected to the Sons of Korhal during the Great War and went on to serve the Terran Dominion.
- Amon's ForcesAmon's Forces, also called the Forces of Amon, were a union of terran, protoss, zerg, hybrid and Void creatures subservient to the fallen xel'naga Amon during the End War. Bound to his will, they sought the eradication of all the xel'naga's creation and an end to the Infinite Cycle.
- AnnihilatorsThe Annihilators, officially the 22nd Confederate and later Dominion Marine Division, were a small ground-based special forces unit famed for the highest zerg kill rate in the terran armed forces. They served first the Confederacy and then the Terran Dominion.
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6- Cerberus ProgramThe Cerberus Program was a Terran Confederacy black ops unit formed from the remnants of the Cerberus Recon Squad. Under Tamsen Cauley it defected to the Terran Dominion, and after the death of Arcturus Mengsk it went underground as a renegade outfit devoted to enslaving zerg broods for sale to the highest bidder.
- Colonial FleetThe Colonial Fleet was the naval branch of the Terran Confederacy's armed forces, older than the Confederacy itself. It provided air and orbital support from its Tarsonis platforms until the fall of the Confederacy folded its remnants into the Dominion Armada.
- Conclave: the elders who exiled the NerazimA small body of Judicator elders ruled the Protoss Empire from Aiur. They banished the Dark Templar, enslaved the Purifiers and tried Tassadar.
- Confederate Armed Forces: military arm of the Terran ConfederacyThe Confederate Armed Forces was the military of the Terran Confederacy, headquartered on Tarsonis and organized into squadrons of conscripts and resocialized criminals. It fought the Kel-Morian Combine in the Guild Wars, razed Korhal with nuclear weapons, and collapsed when the zerg overran Tarsonis.
- Confederate Marine Corps: infantry backbone of the Terran ConfederacyThe Confederate Marine Corps was the best known military arm of the Terran Confederacy, an infantry service older than the Confederacy itself that filled its ranks with resocialized criminals and reluctant volunteers. It fought the Kel-Morian Combine through the Guild Wars and was destroyed alongside its government when the zerg overran Tarsonis.
- Covert Ops CrewThe Covert Ops Crew was a Terran Dominion covert operations team turned vigilante group, given by Emperor Valerian Mengsk to Ghost Agent Nova Terra to fight the Defenders of Man. Operating from the stealth ship Griffin, the crew followed Nova into open defiance of the Dominion and became a loyal force answering to her alone.
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7- DaelaamThe Daelaam was the unified protoss government that bound the Khalai, Nerazim, Purifiers, and some Tal'darim together after the fall of Aiur, led by Hierarch Artanis through the End War against Amon and the reclamation of their homeworld.
- Dark Templar (Nerazim)The Nerazim, known to outsiders as the Dark Templar, are the protoss tribes who shunned the Khala, severed their nerve cords, and drew their power from the Void instead. Banished from Aiur, they became masters of shadow and exile before reuniting with their kin under the Daelaam.
- Defenders of Man: they staged the attacksGeneral Carolina Davis ran this separatist group in secret, luring feral zerg onto Dominion worlds to discredit Valerian Mengsk and seize power.
- Dominion Armada: naval arm of the Terran DominionThe Dominion Armada, also called the Dominion Fleet or Dominion Navy, was the space naval arm of the Terran Dominion military. Built partly from former Confederate units, it fought at Char, through the Brood War and the Second Great War, and in the End War against Amon.
- Dominion Armed ForcesThe Dominion Armed Forces were the military of the Terran Dominion, built from the Sons of Korhal and the conscripted remnants of the Confederacy. Across the Brood War, the Second Great War, and the war against Amon they grew into the most powerful terran military in the Koprulu sector.
- Dominion Marine CorpsThe Dominion Marine Corps was the ground combat branch of the Terran Dominion's armed forces and the backbone of nearly every Dominion deployment. Drawn from volunteers, conscripts, and the resocialized, it fought in every major war of its era.
- Dominion Royal GuardThe Royal Guard were an elite unit within the Terran Dominion, drawn from Arcturus Mengsk's most loyal followers and entrusted with the security of Korhal Palace. Also known as the Elite Guard and Imperial Guard, they grew out of the Sons of Korhal.
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3- Ghost ProgramThe Ghost Program was the project for the training and use of terran ghosts, psychically gifted operatives trained from infancy as commandos, assassins, and nuclear strike coordinators. Created by the Terran Confederacy and later adopted by the Terran Dominion, it relied on memory wipes and psychic limiters to enforce loyalty over its conscripts.
- Golden Armada: the fleet Amon turnedArtanis built the greatest protoss fleet ever assembled in order to retake Aiur. Amon seized it through the Khala and aimed it at the Koprulu sector.
- Great FleetThe Great Fleet was the principal military space force of the protoss, the fleet that carried their power across the stars. Built around the carrier and tended by the Auriga Tribe, it was shattered in the fall of Aiur and rebuilt over the wars that followed.
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2- Heaven's Devils: the famed First Squad of the Guild WarsThe Heaven's Devils were the most celebrated squad of the Confederate Special Tactics and Mission Platoon, formed at the Battle of Turaxis II during the Guild Wars and counting Tychus Findlay and Jim Raynor among its members.
- Hierarchy: the twilight council of the DaelaamThe Hierarchy, also called the Twilight Council, was the governing body of the unified protoss on Shakuras and the successor of the fallen Conclave. Fractious and slow until Artanis agreed to lead it, the council steered the Daelaam through crisis after crisis until the destruction of Shakuras.
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2- Jenson's Raiders: the Dominion's strongarm on AridasJenson's Raiders were a specialist force of Terran Dominion soldiers raised by Jenson Archimedes, head councilor to Emperor Arcturus Mengsk, to stabilize the world of Aridas and recover the Argus Stone. They broke the Fragile Alliance, rescued their own leader from the zerg, and seized the stone, only to lose it to the Zerg Crusaders in the final battles of the conflict.
- Judicator CasteThe Judicator Caste was a collection of protoss tribes who acted as the leaders and statesmen of their people, descended from the first tribes to join the Khala. Governed through the Judicator Assembly and the Conclave, they shaped protoss policy until the caste was shattered and finally dissolved.
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4- Kel-Morian Combine: the sector's minersA business conglomerate that governed Moria and ran the mining guilds. It fought the Confederacy in the Guild Wars and outlived it as a corporate power.
- Kerrigan's Swarm: the Zerg Swarm under the Queen of BladesKerrigan's Swarm was the faction of the Zerg Swarm led by Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, formed when the death of the Overmind split the leaderless zerg and Kerrigan seized control of the broods she would command through the Brood War, the Second Great War, and the war against Amon.
- Khalai CasteThe Khalai Caste were the working class of the Protoss Empire, the artisans, scientists, and builders who formed the great majority of the protoss population. Long regarded as the lowest of the three castes, they were dissolved during the End War when the age of the caste system came to an end.
- Koprulu Expeditionary ForceThe Koprulu Expeditionary Force was the protoss fleet, commanded by Executor Tassadar, that first answered the zerg invasion of the Koprulu sector and was ordered by the Conclave to burn the infested terran worlds.
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4- Mercenary: soldiers of fortune of the Koprulu SectorMercenaries were soldiers and warriors who fought for profit, selling their guns, ships, and broods to whichever employer paid best. Terran outfits, rogue protoss warbands, and even zerg broods plied the trade, and their hired firepower shaped wars from the fall of the Confederacy to the End War.
- Mira's Marauders: the mercenary company that rules Dead Man's RockMira's Marauders are the terran mercenary company led by Mira Han, based at Deadman's Port on Dead Man's Rock and the primary power on that lawless planet since the death of Ethan Stewart.
- Moebius CorpsMoebius Corps was the military arm of the Moebius Foundation. After the death of Emil Narud and the rise of Amon, its soldiers were enslaved by the hybrid and turned into mindless thralls who waged a crusade to destroy all life in the sector.
- Moebius Foundation: who bred the hybridsPublicly an archaeology group studying xel'naga sites, owned by Valerian Mengsk and led by Emil Narud. In private it bred protoss-zerg hybrids.
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2- Raynor's Raiders: the rebel band of Jim RaynorRaynor's Raiders were the terran rebel formation led by Jim Raynor, born from Raynor's Rangers after Arcturus Mengsk abandoned Sarah Kerrigan at New Gettysburg, waging a long insurgency against the Dominion from the battlecruiser Hyperion.
- Rebellion of KorhalThe Rebellion of Korhal was a terran independence movement based on the Confederate colony of Korhal IV, founded by Senator Angus Mengsk and later led by his son Arcturus. After the Confederacy destroyed Korhal with nuclear fire, the survivors reorganized as the Sons of Korhal.
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2- Shel'na Kryhas: those who endure on AiurThe Shel'na Kryhas, meaning "Those Who Endure," were protoss survivors stranded on Aiur after the warp gate was shut during the evacuation. Led by the templar Ladranix and composed mostly of Khalai, they sheltered in the ruins of Antioch and held out against the zerg.
- Sons of Korhal: Mengsk's rebel movementArcturus Mengsk founded it after the Confederacy destroyed his homeworld. It toppled the Confederacy, then remade itself as the Terran Dominion.
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6- Tal'darimThe Tal'darim were a warlike sect of protoss taken from Aiur by Amon before the Aeon of Strife. Calling themselves the Forged and the Chosen, they spent ages worshipping the fallen xel'naga as their god until Highlord Alarak turned them against him.
- Tal'darim: the fanatical protoss sect of AmonThe Tal'darim, known as the Forged or the Chosen, were a fanatical and warlike sect of protoss taken from Aiur by Amon before the Aeon of Strife, who served the fallen xel'naga for ages before Highlord Alarak turned them against him.
- Templar CasteThe Templar Caste was the order of protoss warriors who followed the disciplines of the Khala to ever-escalating pinnacles of psionic power. In service first to the Protoss Empire and then to the Daelaam, they produced some of the most powerful individuals in the Koprulu Sector.
- TerranThe terrans are the descendants of a failed 23rd century colony mission from Earth, a young and highly factionalized species with latent psionic potential. Despite endless wars among themselves and with their alien neighbors, they stand as one of the three dominant species of the galaxy.
- Terran ConfederacyThe Terran Confederacy, also called the Confederacy of Man, was the dominant human government of the Koprulu sector before the Great War, ruled by the Old Families of Tarsonis and brought down by the zerg invasion and the Sons of Korhal rebellion.
- Terran DominionThe Terran Dominion was the human empire founded by Arcturus Mengsk on the ruins of the Terran Confederacy, crowned from Korhal and ruled first through oppression and propaganda, then reformed under his son Valerian after the Second Great War.
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5- UED Expeditionary FleetThe UED Expeditionary Fleet was the human strike force the United Earth Directorate sent to seize the Koprulu Sector during the Brood War. Commanded by Admiral Gerard DuGalle, it captured the second Overmind and briefly ruled the sector before being annihilated by the zerg.
- Umojan Protectorate: the neutral powerSmaller than the Confederacy or the Dominion, Umoja held both off with advanced technology and espionage, and sheltered the dissidents they wanted.
- United Earth Directorate: Earth's invasionEarth's militarist government sent a fleet into the Koprulu sector to enslave the second Overmind. Kerrigan's Swarm destroyed it in the Brood War.
- United Powers League: the police state that exiled humanityThe United Powers League ruled almost all of Earth from 2229 onward, banning religion, imposing a single language and killing more than four hundred million of its own citizens under Project Purification. Its surplus prisoners became the involuntary colonists of the Koprulu sector, and its panic at the discovery of alien life reforged it into the United Earth Directorate.
- Universal News NetworkThe Universal News Network, or UNN, was the dominant terran media organization of the Koprulu sector. Headquartered on Korhal and Tarsonis, it veered between acting as a Confederate mouthpiece and antagonizing the government, and it served the Terran Dominion in the same fraught role.
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2- ZergThe zerg are a ravenous collective of biologically advanced aliens who evolve by assimilating the essence of other species in pursuit of genetic perfection. Created by Amon's xel'naga on Zerus and bound to the Overmind, they grew into one of the three dominant powers of the galaxy.
- Zerg CrusadersThe Zerg Crusaders were a zerg force active during the Great War that fought across Aridas to recover the Argus Stone, channeling it into the Supreme Being on Char after defeating a combined terran and protoss effort to stop them.