The movement was renamed the Sons of Korhal. In 2491 the new Rebellion of Korhal became so strong under Arcturus Mengsk's leadership that the Confederacy retaliated with a massive nuclear strike. By 2491 they were using psychics in experiments with the creatures. The Confederacy discovered a zerg infestation on a remote fringe world and went to great lengths to destroy the initial infestation, which was found on multiple fringe worlds, but kept a number of the xenomorphs for study. Senator Mengsk was killed by ghosts and his genius son, Arcturus, became the rebellion's new leader. After the Confederacy defeated the Kel-Morian Combine in an economic and military conflict, the Guild Wars, in 2480, using numerous neurally resocialized criminals as troops, Korhal declared its independence. The most important of these was the Rebellion of Korhal, a secret movement led by Senator Angus Mengsk and heavily supported by Umoja. Corruption by the Old Families (the economic leaders of the Confederacy), economic repression of the colonists and general poor treatment sparked numerous rebel movements. The strongest terran faction, the Terran Confederacy, consisted of Tarsonis (the capital world) and numerous colonies. The terrans were discovered by the zerg approximately sixty years before the Great War although the terrans themselves would not know about them for five decades, and even then kept their findings secret. Around 2440, it discovered this species - humanity. In order to both combat the protoss and save the zerg from extinction, the Overmind sought to assimilate a species with sufficient psionic potential. The Overmind also knew that if it did succeed in assimilating the protoss, the resulting hybrid would enslave and eventually exterminate the zerg, as Amon intended. While the Swarm absorbed numerous species during its journey, the Overmind feared it would be unable to contend with the protoss' psychic abilities. The Overmind and the Swarm subsequently departed Zerus and began seeking out the protoss. Although Amon himself was felled and banished to the void during this conflict, the Overmind could not override its directive to destroy and assimilate the protoss. The xel'naga fell, and the Overmind absorbed most of them into itself, learning many of their secrets. Amon unleashed the Swarm upon his enemies. At this point, the xel'naga from Ulnar, who opposed Amon's plans, arrived at Zerus and waged a war against Amon and his followers. Soon they had taken over the planet, and after absorbing a space-faring species, became capable of space flight. The zerg had the ability to absorb genetic material (also known as ' essence') from other species, consuming what they wished and destroying any species deemed unworthy of assimilation. Amon also instilled a 'directive' into the Overmind, which would force it to destroy and assimilate the protoss and remold creation in his image. In order to keep the zerg from losing their purity, as the protoss had, Amon created the Overmind, a physical embodiment of their collected sentience. Amon and his xel'naga discovered them and, considering them to have purity of essence, pushed their evolution.

The zerg were a species of parasitic worms which evolved on the ash world of Zerus near the galactic center. The protoss, constantly on the lookout for xenomorphic threats, intervened in terran affairs when the Koprulu Expeditionary Force under the command of executor Tassadar discovered zerg probes near terran worlds. Under the dictates of the Dae'Uhl, the protoss philosophy concerning other species, the protoss secretly watched them from afar. In 2259 the terran colonists arrived in the Koprulu Sector, in the shadow of protoss space. However, a rogue group of protoss known as the Dark Templar refused to join, and were eventually expelled by the protoss leadership, the Conclave. They believed straying from the link could provoke another civil war. However, the protoss started to lose their psychic link due to the rise of individual egos, and when the xel'naga abandoned them, the protoss fought a long civil war called the Aeon of Strife.Īt the end of the war they regained the use of their link, which they called the Khala, and built a religion and philosophy around it. At first, the protoss worshiped the xel'naga as gods. Amon and his faction of like-minded xel'naga considered the protoss to have purity of form, and eventually revealed themselves to the protoss. Millennia ago on Aiur, the protoss, a race of powerful humanoids united by a psychic link, were uplifted by Amon, a renegade xel'naga who sought to create the perfect lifeform in order to end the xel'naga's Infinite Cycle. Background Protoss Main page: Protoss history

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