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The Terran Confederacy, also known as the Confederacy of Man, was a corrupt Terran government and major antagonists in the StarCraft franchise.

Though ostensibly a democracy ruled by an elected Senate, it was an open secret the Confederacy was truly governed by the oligarchical Old Families, whose influence dominated the Confederacy's government. In response to open dissidence against their rule, the Confederacy began to employ brutal tactics such as the destruction of entire worlds in order to crush insurgency against it.

The Confederacy was initially one of the three main powers in the galactic conflict known as the Great War. During the war however, the Confederacy was overthrown by a rebel group known as the "Sons of Korhal", who in turn established the Terran Dominion to replace it. However, the Terran Dominion would prove to be just as oppressive if not more than the Confederacy had been.

History[]

The Terran Confederacy was originally established on Tarsonis by the refugees of the supercarrier Nagglfar. The settlers soon began to colonize other worlds throughout the sector, forming a unified "Confederacy of Man" to govern them. After prevailing over the Kel-Morian Combine in what was later known as the 'Guild Wars', where Terran colonists formed factions and waged war against each other, the Confederacy became known to many as the first Terran government and grew to encompass many worlds through a campaign of aggressive interstellar expansion. While the government was purportedly dictated by the Confederate Senate, the real power lie within an elite circle known as the "Old Families", who were descended from the Nagglfar commanders.

However, with the invasion of both Protoss and Zerg, the Confederates struggled to maintain their grip on the colonies while ignoring the alien invaders clashing across their worlds, both fringe and core alike, causing immediate dissent on the colonies. Eventually, the Terran's faith in the Confederacy had shattered, and the colonies were forced to fend for their lives as the aliens wreak havoc across their lands.

The corruption within the Confederate government and their often oppressive rule led to unrest within many colonies, sparking many revolts against them. Eventually, the Confederacy faced a revolt from within one of their core worlds, Korhal IV, led by Senator Angus Mengsk. As Mengsk's rebellion began to spread over the planet, the Confederacy feared one of their core worlds rising up would cause other colonies to have revolutions against the Confederacy. To crush the dissent and discourage other colonies from revolting, the Confederacy had the Mengsk family killed by Confederate ghosts and bombarded Korhal with nuclear warheads, wiping out all life on the planet.

However, one member of the Mengsk family survived in Angus' son Arcturus Mengsk, who was off-planet at the time. After the destruction of Korhal, Arcturus formed a revolutionary movement known as the Sons of Korhal and waged a guerrilla war against the Confederacy. However, to carry this out, rather than traditional methods, Mengsk employed various disturbing tactics. By obtaining records from the Jacobs installation, Mengsk was able to obtain the Confederate's experimental weapons, obtained the recruitment of reknowned general Edmund Duke, and destroying the Confederates' military potential and properties. Lastly, by employing Psi-emitters, Mengsk was able to trigger a Zerg invasion of Tarsonis which resulted in the deaths of all of the Old Families and the loss of the Confederate capital planet. With the Confederate central government destroyed, the Sons of Korhal rose to power, forming the Terran Dominion to replace the Terran Confedarcy as the current Terran government.

Years after its demise, remnants of the Terran Confederacy continued to persist. Some fought against the Terran Dominion while others operated as mercenaries-for-hire. A group of Confederate Resistance Forces led by Samir Duran opposing the Dominion would later join forces with the United Earth Directorate's Expeditionary Fleet when it invaded the Koprulu Sector. However, after Duran's defection to the Swarm, it was unknown what happened to the Resistance Forces.

Some Confederate elite soldiers, such as the Devil Dogs and the Siege Breakers, eventually began work as mercenaries years after the Conferderate's fall, and eventually working for the rebel cell known as Raynor's Raiders, provided Raynor himself could afford their services.

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Terran Confederacy
Edmund Duke | Magistrate Collins | Samir Duran | Lieutenant Rumm

Terran Dominion
Arcturus Mengsk | Edmund Duke | Nova | Emil Narud | Carolina Davis | Defenders of Man

United Earth Directorate
Gerard DuGalle | Alexei Stukov | Samir Duran

Zerg
Overmind | Sarah Kerrigan | Daggoth | Zasz | Zagara | Abathur | The Cerebrate | Alexei Stukov

Tal'darim
Ma'lash | Alarak | Nyon

Forces of Amon
Amon | Samir Duran | Hybrids | Maar

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