StarCraft improved on its predecessor Warcraft II, which showcased two incredibly very similar playable factions, by introducing asymmetry amongst the units and technologies available to its a few races (Protoss, Terran, and Zerg). This asymmetry was comparable to that pioneered while in the lesser-acknowledged 1996 SSI release War Wind. The unit styles accessible to Every single race outline its racial identity. The Protoss can field impressive and high priced warriors and machinery, whilst the Zerg count on sheer quantities and pace to overwhelm their opponents.
The story concentrates on the things to do of three species within a Section of the 헬스 Milky Way often called the Koprulu Sector. Millennia just before any of the occasions in the online games, a species often known as the Xel'Naga genetically engineer the Protoss and afterwards the Zerg in tries to create pure beings.[11][12] These experiments backfire as well as the Xel'Naga are mostly wrecked with the Zerg.[twelve] Hundreds of years in advance of the start of StarCraft in 2499, the hardline Intercontinental governing administration of Earth, the United Earth Directorate (UED), commissions a colonization program as part of a solution to overpopulation.