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The Core Worlds are a group of planets within the Koprulu sector.

History[]

The core worlds were originally thirteen planets ruled over by the Terran Confederacy.[1][2][3] Their architecture was rather uniform.[4] An increasingly hectic urban lifestyle was predominant on most of them.[5]

Unlike the fringe worlds, the core worlds were not characterized by location, but simply by their importance. (e.g. Mar Sara was both a fringe world[6] and core world).[2] Under the Confederacy, the Core Worlds often relied on exports to remain viable.[4] By the time of the Confederacy's fall however, nine of these worlds had been laid waste to by the zerg.[7]

Under the rule of the Terran Dominion, the term "core worlds" is still in use. With the zerg invasion that began the Second Great War, Emperor Arcturus Mengsk pulled the Dominion Fleet back to protect these worlds.[8][9] They were fortified[10] and the First and Second Fleets combined to protect them.[11] Conscription stations opened across them after the defeat of the Kel-Morian Combine.[12]

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Refugees from the fringe came to be turned away from core world systems.[13]

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Sometime after the End War, taxes were raised on the Core Worlds. Magistrate Grayson questioned the action.[14]

Known Worlds[]

Confederate[]

Dominion[]

Notes[]

  • According to the manual of the original game and Overmind, the Confederacy consisted of "nearly a dozen planets"[15] and "thirteen worlds"[7] as a whole respectively. With the revealing of numerous other Confederate colonies, it appears that this number refers to the worlds of Confederacy itself, i.e. Core Worlds, since there were distinctions made in the original StarCraft between fringe colonies and main planets. This is confirmed by Blizzard Entertainment's website entry for Mar Sara, which refers to it as "the eighth of the thirteen core colonies of the Terran Confederacy."[2]
  • In the context of the Confederacy and real-world history, the Core Worlds may be a reference to the Thirteen Colonies of North America.

References[]

  1. Blizzard Entertainment. 2010-07-24. Koprulu Sector Systems: Korhal. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-07-24.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Blizzard Entertainment. 2010-07-24. Koprulu Sector Systems: Mar Sara. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-07-24.
  3. Blizzard Entertainment. 2010-07-24. Koprulu Sector Systems: Char. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-07-24.
  4. 4.0 4.1 McNeill, Graham (December 30, 2008). StarCraft: I, Mengsk. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Star). ISBN 978-1-4165-5083-9.
  5. Blizzard Entertainment. 2010-07-24. Koprulu Sector Systems: Shiloh. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-07-24.
  6. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft. Vivendi Games. Mission: Desperate Alliance (in English). 1998.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft. Vivendi Games. Mission: Among the Ruins (in English). 1998.
  8. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Matt Horner (in English). 2010.
  9. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Conversations after Zero Hour (in English). 2010
  10. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. UNN newscast after "Outbreak." (in English). 2010.
  11. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. UNN newscast after "The Great Train Robbery." (in English). 2010.
  12. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. UNN newscast after "The Devil's Playground." (in English). 2010.
  13. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. UNN newscast after "Haven's Fall." (in English). 2010.
  14. Kate Lockwell Twitter. Kate Lockwell's Twitter, accessed on 2016-03-22
  15. Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
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