Ideas for New skin set and factions

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Automated Terran
An entire Terran army of robots and auto-piloted mecha & spaceships.

ACU (Automated Construction Unit) - SCV variant
Gunmen (Robotic Marine)
Incinerator (Robotic Firebat)
Rumbler (Marauder)
Santa Mechina (Medic)
Inquisitor (Robotic Ghost)
Terminator (Robotic Reaper)

ForeRunner (Automated Vulture)
Vulcan (Hellbat) - Vulcanlite (Hellion)
Decommissioner (Cyclone)
Worldshaker (Siege Tank)
Atlas (Automated Thor)
Invictus Walker (Goliath)

Sessrúmnir (Medivac)
Janus Fighter (Viking)
SS-62A Gunship/Helicopter (Banshee)
Justice (Liberator)
Dea Caelestis (Valkyrie)
Augustus-class Battlecruiser (AI Battlecruiser)

Protoss
The Abomination
These Protoss evolve differently from other protoss faction. They are failed experiments of Amon in intertwining Protoss and Zerg. They are more savage, lack language and technology but are highly biologically adapted in the same way as the Zerg.

Bladebearer (Zealot) - have 2 long claws growing from each of their hands that acts as warblades, equipvalent to the psionic blades.

Wargon (Dragoon) Flesh of dead Abomination is not really dead. Occasionally, strong Abominations will incorporate their fallen brethen’s flesh into themselves and create these Flesh Walkers. Their Psionic bolts are as strong as Dragoon’s phase cannon.

Bouncer (Stalker) Not all Abomination are equal. Some are much weaker than the others such as the Bouncer. Unable to gather as many corpses as the Wargon, the Bouncer resolved in making a lighter version of the Flesh Walker. These Bouncers are the final result, lacking in firepower and armour was made up by ability to jump in small distance.

Deathwisher (Dark Templar) These cowards are too afraid of a frontal assault. They don set of skin that can allow light to go through their entire body, becoming invisible to naked eyes. As no flesh is needed for armour, all of the evolution points go straight for this creature’s sickeningly sharp talons that can cut through materials without exception.

High-kin (High Templar) Every thousands kin born, one High-kin founded. These creature’s connection to the immaterial plane allows it to command the unseen power to destroy all in its sight.

Manifestation (Archon) In desperation, High-kin will choose to merge with another High-kin. The result of such extraordinary event is the incarnation of the greatest reality distortion. This creature covers itself with thick flesh barrier that rapidly generates when damaged. While its enemies are too occupied with cutting through the barrier, the unseen power weaved into sliver of distortion by its four hands will be the last memory of its nemesis.

Hellraiser (Immortal) Bringing down a Wargon is a feat only the mighty can hope to achieve but that may not be the end for the Wargon. Powerful Wargons are known to raise up once more as Hellraiser. Fueled by hatred and the Unseen power harvested when it died the first time, Hellraiser’s Psionic discharge far outclasses its Wargon’s weaponry by many magnitudes while its new reinforced flesh is a league of its own.

The Tribe (Colossus) Abominations are known to be war-loving, and massacre comes along. Fallen tribes are to be beheaded by their victors, not for trophy but for “The Tribe”, collection of Flesh made by thousands death. Its capsules held the intelligence of the dead tribe. Its decomposing tendrils swept over battlefield with horrific might. Towering over all, The Tribe carries out extinction by its victors’ command.

Miasma (Disruptor) Even these nightmarish Abominations are not immune to diseases but they shall not let it be their disadvantage. Extracting the essence of disease from the dead and surrounding it with carcass of the doomed. Utilising the deads’ frustration of dying to diseases, Miasma is an engine of the damned, its existence is to bring misfortune to all lives.

Spirit (Phoenix) while the primitives bend themselves to their earthly desire of carnage, the civilised push forth to the sky. Spirit is the reward of their diligence. Its abnormal beam defies law of gravity and its Scorched Visions tear through bodies of sky beasts.

Herald (Scout) Not all civilised are peace-loving. Fleets of Abomination dominate the space and Herald is the Omen.

Harvester (Voidray) Organic or inorganic, Abominations use all. Harvester with its tractor beam tears and siphons material from flesh, vehicle, asteriod and even the stars themselves.

Harbor (Carrier) “All spirits come from harbor and enter physical plane. In due time, the spirits shall return to the harbor it came from.” This is the noble belief of those who sacrificed themselves to become the managing system of the Harbors that guides and shelters their species’ space-farers. The harbors shall continue its function for Eternity with the watchful eyes of its Messenger (Interceptor) Fleet.

Maelstrom (Tempest) Great power comes from great sacrifices. How many High-kin were used as tribute to the Power-pool in the middle of Maelstrom? None can answer. What they do know is the pool must be sustained.

Collector (Mothership) All the trophies, the treasures and its plunderers do not always have a home. The Collectors are made to meet this demand. Housing within the Collector are hordes of warmongers and remains of the demised.

New Skin set (added 21-March-2020)
Project: Prototype

Just as the Xel’naga created the Protoss as their firstborn, the Scientists of Umojan tried to replicate the miracle through Mechanical Creation. Successfully miniaturize the plasma shield of Capital Ship into personal unit device, Project: Prototype promised an army rival the strength of the Protoss.

Subjugator (Zealot)
Formidable yet simple humanoid robot, easy for mass production. The Subjugator are always the first to join combat. While agile and skillful individually, they become a deadly tide of metal in number. Wielding 2 Monomolecular blades as their weapon, only Ultralisk’s Kaiser Blade beat them in sharpness.

Attendance (Sentry)
Using a mini automobile as the frame, the Attendance has a slender bullet-shape than the Sentry. Their electric shock is indeed inferior to the Sentry’s Disruption Beam but are a hard-counter against most mechanical Constructs.

Chaser (Stalker)
Chaser is possibly the first warbot to be outfitted with the phantasmal Phasing Technology. Unable to reduce the phase reactor any smaller, the Chaser is visibly bulkier than the Stalker despite having the same level of armour. This spiderbot spots 2 more legs than the Stalker to support its additional weight and a powerful anti-material Sniper rifle to deal with its runaway targets.

Commissar (Adept)
This android probably resemble a Terran the most as its exterior was that of a public servant bot. It serves as a bridge between Terran users and Automatic units of the Prototype being able to wear armour and using weapons for humans. Its custom-made Neo-steel Power Suit and Division-class Particle cannon boost its fighting power equal that of a Commander-class Marine suit.

Authorities (High Templar)
Named after the sixth order of the Angelic Choir, Authorities are division of One AI. Its upper body is consisted of a humanoid torso with its head resemble a Digital Camera while its lower body is but an electromagnetic sphere allowing it to hover above ground. These drones are fragile among Project: Prototype but viable as support troops. Its Electro Surge prove to be super effective against clump of weak units.

Dominion (Archon)
In time of desperate, the One AI may authorise two Authorities to fuse their reactor. Two Authorities will be sacrificed to call forth the power of Dominion. According to Christian angelology, Dominion are the highest among Angelic choirs of the Second Sphere. Stay true to its given name, Dominion is a force of power, subduing its enemies with powerful electro discharge while its plasma shield is comparable to that of Capital ships.

Ophanim (Mega Archon)
As overwhelming as the Dominion, there is an even higher expression of the One AI among Authorities Division. The Ophanim or the Throne of God is the full might of the Division in one body.

Shinobu (Dark Templar)
Deadly and precise. The Shinobu Battalion are the best surgical attack force of Project: Prototype. Using the most advanced Stealth Technology, Shinobu can remain invisible permanently. Shinobu’s weapon of choice are Feudal Japan’s traditional weapons, the Yari Spear and sometimes the dual-headed Naginata.

Bishop (Observer)
More than just an eye on the sky. Bishop is a communication relay station providing signals and sometimes be the commanding position of the ground force should no Commanding unit is nearby.

Helios Chariot (Warp Prism)
Fitting the name of the Chariot of the Sun God, the Helios Chariot are both an energy field generator and a troop carriers.

Bulwark (Immortal)
The designer for this unit probably ran out of idea when they created the Bulwark for it looks no different from a tall cuboid with holes for cannon in the middle that walked on 4 legs. A news reporter even joke that due to copyright issue, it was called Bulwark instead of Brick.
Not very artistic but the Bulwark is a solid… wall with reinforced shield and 2 Overbearing Railguns capable of depacitace the thickest armour.

Highlander (Colossus)
From afar Highlander looks like a moving mountain for its main body for unknown reason is turned into a Tetrahedral shape. Certainly this kind of shape is much easier to build than the squid-head of the Colossus but it still attract lots of controversial opinion. Unlike the Colossus, Highlander also have 6 instead of 4 legs, the public opinion and theory is that the Highlander is much heavier than the Colossus for unknown reason whether it personally house a secret weapon or just simply because of inferior technology. One thing for sure is its 6 rocket tube beneath its bottom side is surely to ensure its stability when walking up and down cliff. While in odd shape, the Highlander’s Neutron Displacement beam is raised to be as destructive as the Thermal Lance.

Crusher (Disruptor)
We must say this one is an exact plagiarism of the Protoss Disruptor with Neo-steel, LED lights and… a hamster ball for omni-direction mobility. Lack of creativity must be because the designers have already hit the deadline for submission. Though its Graviton bomb is a plus out of these minuses. This fabled weapon increases gravity in a closed proximity of 10 m dramatically in just a split second, enough to crush almost all ground troops into the ground.

Poltergeist (Phoenix)
The supernatural Poltergeist can move objects. The Prototype Poltergeist can lift unit above the ground for anti-air weapon to attack them. While its twin Burst Lasers are now sessile and can’t target ground units as in the old Wrath fighter, Poltergeist’s experimental graviton beam should be a good countermeasure for this shortcoming.

Radiator (Oracle)
While small, Radiator is a flying nuclear reactor. Harnessing the power from fusion reaction, it can use the gamma ray as temporary weapon, overcharge an entire space with time disruption to block down enemy and use its electromagnetic radiation to detect invisible enemy.

Quasar (Voidray)
“All the power of the Sun combine into a single Ray of Death”. Be it a metaphor, the statement is very closed to the truth as Quasar’s Gamma Burst are as energetic as an kilometre square surface of the sun, burning all obstacles with ease. The ship exterior have more coverage compare to the Voidray but its plating barely more durable than its inspiration.

Reinforcement (Carrier)
As long as this Space Fortress is still on the sky, supports will arrive.

Neutron Collider (Tempest)
This giant scientific facility can unleash high-energy particles into the enemy. The larger the target, the more particles to be hit and producing chain fission reaction.

I.C.U. aka Intergalactic Command Unit (Mothership)
Currently it is the only mobile base of Project: Prototype but many more will be built. Acting as a producing, researching and developing Facility for the Prototype.

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I like the Stett inspired Terrans though too many KMC names in it. Ripper and Outrider.

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What is this KMC thing?

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Kel-Morian Combine. You know, there are three Terran factions, the Terran Confederacy - later Terran Dominion, the KMC and the Umojan Protectorate. Miner Evacuation’s narrator is a guildmaster for the KMC.

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I know the Combine, just not familiar with the abbreviation.

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Hey man, would you mind if I used some of your ideas for a commander concept?

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Huh. I always assumed the KMC and Umojians were subfactions of the Dominion.

Also you forgot the UED, which could make for their own interesting set of skins.

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Oh gosh no, the KMC and Umojans are separate nations entirely, from different supercarriers. While the KMC usually rolled over to Dominion aggression, the Umojans were behind a lot of anti-Dominion (and anti-Confederacy) operations. They were the ones who gave Mengsk the Hyperion in the first place to take down the Confederacy, and funded the first group of spectres who rose up against Mengsk.

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The KMC is a corporatocratic organization, somewhere between a state and a gigantic business. While they did work together with the Dominion in some cases they are an entirely different faction. Supposedly they have the second strongest army of the three Terran factions.

I didn’t forget the UED, just didn’t count them in because they are not a Koprulu-sector faction. But yeah, the UED is cool.

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Well the game itself doesn’t really make that clear. If anything it implies that Mobius and the Umojians are pro-dominion due to their support of the blonder Mengsk.

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The Umojans are pro-Valerian only during HotS, partially because he’s half Umojan and his grandfather was a major Umojan diplomat (on his mother’s side), and partially because they want to stick it to Arcturus, and Valerian was in an outright shooting conflict with Arcturus between WoL and HotS.

But even after LotV they REALLY aren’t on Valerian’s side, in the games you can see this with the fact Nova is unacquainted with Umojan tech. Outside the games their relations with Valerian range from super icy and distance to outright conflict (see the comic Nova: The Keep, where Nova literally destroys one of their space stations on Valerian’s orders).

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We got a lot of UED ideas before so I don’t intend to put it in again.

For the Terran in The sector
Confederacy the most powerful faction of human in the sector. Second in technology and number 1 in number among the Terran.

Kel-Morian Combine, originally 2 corporation dealing with trading and mining. They hate the Confederacy for the arbitrary tax. When situations get direr they form this alliance and establish military to protect themselves and fight the Confederacy. They are mostly rag-tag mercenary or milita with below-Confederacy tech level and a lower population but is still sizeable enough to protect their interests.

Umojan, number one tech and the lowest number of population. They try not to get on the bad side of other factions but are scheming underneath.

Dominion, replace the Confederacy position.

UED, Earth Terran, most advanced tech Terran in the entire Universe with number a little below the Dominion.

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And no problem . Feel free to take some :3

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Awesome, man, thanks!

Imagine Umoja as future reverse Amish territory, they are technologically advanced and paranoid hippies who want to stay independent because they see everything around them as evil.
They are constantly funding underground wars against the bigger Terran factions (The Sons of Korhal against the Confederacy and Valerian/Raynor’s Raiders against the Dominion) because they don’t really want war, I guess. And they steal tech from everybody else to make it shinier.

The KMC is like the CIS (the bad guys) from the Star Wars prequel trilogy, a bunch of big corporations banding together to protect their interests from a big bad government and possessing an interesting mixture deemed as an army in the process. I just love 'em so much.

Do we actually know how many people live under the yoke of the UED? We know they have other colonies close to Earth, but not much else is known of them, so they may outnumber the Koprulu sector Terrans by a great deal. Unless you know something I don’t know.

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Nah, i mean military personnel not civilian population.

The UED exploration fleet in Broodwar is described by Stukov as “The combined might of the United Earth Directorate” and they seem to be about the same as the Dominion army after the Great War so we can speculate that the Dominion at full strength > the UED fleet.

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Actually, the UED Expedition Fleet in Brood War represented a tiny fraction of the UED’s true military power, plus they have much more advanced technology. It’s safe to assume that the UED can actually beat back all of the Koprulu Sector terran factions should they choose to send a bigger fleet, they’re just interested in fixing internal issues than dipping their fingers into the Koprulu pie right now.

Also the UED conscripts military personnel from their civilian population.

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Yeah, I think (haven’t played StarCraft though) that the expeditionary fleet, while impressive in it’s own right, was just a small portion of their combined might.

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I am not sure though. DuGalle made it quite dramatic when he lost though.

His letter to his wife is as if he lost Humanity greatest fleet + military power and the Earth is now defenseless against the Zerg. If the fleet is truly that small, he wouldn’t need to be that worried and ashamed.

Stukov also made that quote about the fleet is the total might of the entire Earth.

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According to the 2007 StarCraft lore panel editorial at BlizzCon, the loss of the expeditionary fleet was only a minor impact on the UED’s strength. You can find the reference in the wiki.

His letter to his wife is as follow:

Dearest Helena, - By now, the news of our defeat has reached the Earth. - The creatures we were sent here to tame are un-tamable. - and the colonies we were sent to reclaim have proven to be stronger than we anticipated. - Whatever you may hear about what has happened out here, know this; - Alexei did not die gloriously in battle. - I killed him. My pride killed him. - And now my pride has consumed me as well. - You will never see me again, Helena. - Tell our children that I love them, - and that their father died in defense of their future. - Au revoir.

He was stating that the fleet failed what it was meant to do, and his pride killed his best friend.

Nothing about any possible impact on the loss of the fleet on the UED. Most of his shame is from knowing that he basically murdered Stukov with his own hands.

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I wonder if we’ll ever get another StarCraft game, maybe one where the UED returns. I wouldn’t mind that at all, since that could open up the possibility for even more episodes… well, if it’s written well.

Alternatively they could go back in time with a StarCraft game, but not sure how much is there for them to turn it into a game.

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