User blog comment:Hawki/Scavenging for a Feeling/@comment-31277203-20180726183538/@comment-250398-20180726211248

Hawki's right on the UED thing, when the UED took the Dominion the KMC jumped ship and continued to operate. Remember Fenix's quote:

"It is strange that this Kel-Morian Combine continues to operate, while the UED grips the Dominion with an iron fist. I will never underestimate the motivational effects of terran greed again."

Plus if they were still loyal to the Dominion at that point Mengsk could have just gone there and asked for the minerals to retake Korhal. They were very much in bed with the highest bidder, in this case the UED.

I never took it as shortsightedness at all, but the same kind of motivation that lead the people to accept Mengsk: security. The UED were tyrants, but they accepted a tyrant before, and the UED had at least been able to successfully take the Overmind and halt the zerg before the three races allied to bring them down. After all if you're going to pick two kinds of oppression that can save you from annihilation why not pick the one that's winning.

But during the era of Valerian it's a bit of a strange one, but still not unexpected. Terrans fear the protoss and zerg coming back to finish the job still as seen in NCO. Valerian and the current leadership is making peace overtures. The only government seemingly in the "wipe the aliens out" camp is the UED. Not that I think it's the CORRECT choice, but I can easily see why there's sympathizers remaining in the sector.