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The protoss high authority, the Conclave, is defeated by the Swarm, along with a large proportion of all protoss.

It is similar to Blizzards previous hit Warcraft II, except that it has a space opera setting as opposed to a high fantasy setting.

StarCraft is praised for being a benchmark of RTS for its depth, intensity, and balanced races.

A remastering named StarCraft: Remastered was announced for summer of 2017.

WC II, while advanced for its time, featured what many gamers believed to be a weakness in that, apart from a few minor (but significant for balance, especially at higher skill levels) differences in available spells and the cost of upgrades, the games two races were exactly the same mechanically, with only graphical differences.

StarCraft improved upon this by adopting the technique introduced by Strategic Simulations game War Wind of having sides with obvious asymmetries.

The asymmetry was inspired, in part, by Magic: The Gathering.

Though the games three races ( protoss, terrans, and zerg ) were slightly imbalanced when the game was first released, the expansion pack and fifteen patches (of which four significantly affected the game play mechanics) have balanced the three races.

Many fans enjoy playing in groups against the computer in skirmish games.

While the AI is considered to be weak compared to a good player, decent early game performance can make it an enjoyable opponent for more casual players.

Fans are also able to create unfair maps that are advantageous to the computer and can be extremely hard to beat.

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A few years after the release of the game, Blizzard also released several free maps of a higher difficulty.

The expansion pack adds new units and continues the storyline in the form of a campaign structure similar to the original game.

As of 2010, Blizzard has not decided whether these are canon or not, but would be willing to incorporate certain material from the games.

In some cases these expansion packs have been removed from circulation and legal action taken.

This asymmetry was similar to that pioneered in the lesser-known 1996 SSI release War Wind.

The unit types available to each race define its racial identity.

The Protoss can field powerful and expensive warriors and machinery, while the Zerg count on sheer numbers and speed to overwhelm their opponents.

The Terrans are the versatile and flexible alternative to both races, with an emphasis on specialization and combined arms.

In many ways, the Terran can be considered the in-between race in that they tend to benefit from more moderate conditions, whereas the other two races tend to prefer one extreme or the other.

This can make it difficult to create maps that are fair for all races.

After they have destroyed the Confederate colony on Chau Sara, the zerg are used by the rebel organization Sons of Korhal, which lures them to a number Confederate worlds using psi-emitters to further their own goals.

After the Confederacys fall, the Sons of Korhals leader, Arcturus Mengsk, establishes the Terran Dominion, crowning himself emperor.

The Zerg Swarm is, however, closely followed by a protoss fleet which burns down all worlds the zerg infest.

The leader of the Protoss task force, High Templar Tassadar, later discovers that he can disrupt the Overmind s control over the Swarm by eliminating his cerebrate servants with the help of the Dark Templar.

The involvement of the fallen Dark Templar will prove to be fateful; indeed, while slaying the Cerebrate Zasz, the Dark Templar Zeratul briefly comes in psychic contact with the zerg Overmind, who is then informed of Aiurs location and directs his Swarm towards the protoss world.

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