Dylar IV
Confederate core world
Dylar IV was a planet in the Koprulu sector that served as a Core World of the Terran Confederacy and the home of the Dylarian Shipyards. Once the site of an ancient protoss mining colony, it passed in turn to the Confederacy, the zerg, and the Terran Dominion.
Dylar IV was a planet in the Koprulu sector, an inhospitable desert world whose thin nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere was nonetheless capable of supporting life. It served for a time as a Core World of the Terran Confederacy and as the home of the Dylarian Shipyards. (Alternity: StarCraft Edition; StarCraft)
Antiquity and the Confederate years#
In antiquity Dylar IV hosted a protoss mining colony, though the settlement was later abandoned and reduced to a set of ruins. Thousands of years afterward the planet became a Core World of the Terran Confederacy, serving as the home base of Omega Squadron and the Dylarian Shipyards. During the Guild Wars, Kel-Morian forces launched ambushes against the Confederate troops stationed there. (Alternity: StarCraft Edition; StarCraft; StarCraft: Brood War; StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils)
War and abandonment#
Dylar IV was infested by the zerg early in the Great War. The planet was later inherited by the Terran Dominion, and during the Brood War the shipyards were attacked by the United Earth Directorate Expeditionary Fleet, with the remnants of the world's defenders conscripted into the invaders' service. The world was eventually abandoned, and after the Brood War its ruins were investigated and then handed over to the protoss. By the time of the Second Great War the Dylarian Shipyards were back in Dominion use, and the Dominion's Second Fleet regrouped there. (StarCraft; StarCraft: Brood War; Alternity: StarCraft Edition; StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty)
Frequently asked questions
- What is Dylar IV?
- Dylar IV was a planet in the Koprulu sector, an inhospitable desert world whose thin nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere was nonetheless capable of supporting life. It served for a time as a Core World of the Terran Confederacy and as the home of the Dylarian Shipyards.
- Who lived on Dylar IV in antiquity?
- In antiquity Dylar IV hosted a protoss mining colony. The settlement was later abandoned and reduced to a set of ruins, and thousands of years afterward the planet became a Core World of the Terran Confederacy.
- What was Dylar IV's role for the Terran Confederacy?
- Dylar IV served as the home base of Omega Squadron and the Dylarian Shipyards. During the Guild Wars, Kel-Morian forces launched ambushes against the Confederate troops stationed there.
- What happened to Dylar IV during the wars?
- Dylar IV was infested by the zerg early in the Great War and was later inherited by the Terran Dominion. During the Brood War the shipyards were attacked by the United Earth Directorate Expeditionary Fleet, with the remnants of the world's defenders conscripted into the invaders' service.
- What became of Dylar IV after the Brood War?
- The world was eventually abandoned, and after the Brood War its ruins were investigated and then handed over to the protoss. By the time of the Second Great War the Dylarian Shipyards were back in Dominion use, and the Second Fleet regrouped there.
Sources
- GameStarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment, 1998
- GameStarCraft: Brood War, Blizzard Entertainment, 1998
- GameStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard Entertainment, 2010
- BookAlternity: StarCraft Edition, Bill Slavicsek, David Eckelberry and Shawn F. Carnes, Wizards of the Coast, 2000
- BookStarCraft II: Heaven's Devils, William C. Dietz, Gallery Books, 2010
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Dylarian Shipyards
The Dylarian Shipyards were a vast orbital complex above Dylar IV, used by the Terran Confederacy to build and maintain warships. They were the site of Raynor's Raiders hijacking the Hyperion and of a later United Earth Directorate raid that destroyed the yards.
Brood War: Kerrigan's war for the Swarm
The Brood War was a zerg civil war between Kerrigan and the cerebrate Daggoth over who would succeed the Overmind. The UED invaded from Earth at the same time.
Great War: protoss against zerg over Aiur
The Great War was the first open fight between protoss and zerg, with the terrans caught between them. It ended over Aiur with the Overmind destroyed.
Guild Wars: Confederacy against the Combine
Fought across the late 2480s over the mineral wealth of the Koprulu sector. The Confederacy won, seized the mining guilds and ruled the next decade.
Kel-Morian Combine: the sector's miners
A 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.
Koprulu Sector: where three races met
A fringe region sixty thousand light years from Earth, settled by exiled humans. The Great War and the Brood War were both fought across its worlds.
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Dylarian Shipyards
The Dylarian Shipyards were a vast orbital complex above Dylar IV, used by the Terran Confederacy to build and maintain warships. They were the site of Raynor's Raiders hijacking the Hyperion and of a later United Earth Directorate raid that destroyed the yards.
Guild Wars: Confederacy against the Combine
Fought across the late 2480s over the mineral wealth of the Koprulu sector. The Confederacy won, seized the mining guilds and ruled the next decade.
Koprulu Sector: where three races met
A fringe region sixty thousand light years from Earth, settled by exiled humans. The Great War and the Brood War were both fought across its worlds.
Raynor's Raiders: the rebel band of Jim Raynor
Raynor'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.
Terran Confederacy
The 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.
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