User blog comment:Hawki/Scavenging for a Feeling/@comment-31277203-20180726183538/@comment-31277203-20180726220836

I remember what Fenix said. Personally though I think even by the time of the BW the KMC weren't happy with Mengsk's rule. However it seemed the KMC were unsure whether they should openly break away or not (this decision didn't come until after BW), but they were prepared to take advantage of the situation given the UED's actions.

If you're going to go with the whole tyrant matter, that works too as the KMC would at least say that the UED leaders were the more competent tyrant, whereas Mengsk had made promises of defeating the zerg and that didn't happen.

Now, when we go over to Valerian's rule, I just feel that the whole "peace ventures" matter is something the Dominion people aren't fully ready to accept. Certainly for the zerg this seems ludicrous given all the worlds they've infested, but even on the protoss end this is very difficult. I'm not entirely sure if the Dominion people were ever told the details of Amon corrupting so many of them in LotV, which means the Dominion people may feel the protoss are still hellbent on burning their worlds. The events of NCO would reinforce this matter, since the slightest provocation on the Tal'darim caused them to bring their fleet to Vardona to kill everyone.