In the campaign, the Terrans are able to make a hive-mind emulator which overrides kerrigan’s control over the units, so my question is why didn’t the Terrans do this for all the Zerg?
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Why don’t Terrans just build a million thors and overrun the Zerg?
“Big Mech” wants endless wars, not wars ended.
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You can’t build enough emulators to cover the whole swarm ^^
The UED tried controlling swarm by controlling overmind only, and they couldn’t get full control, it’s not that easy.
The campaign emulator likely is jus “time effect” and probably the zerg must stay nearby the emulator at all times.
Distance between stars makes such technology highly unreliable - lead bullet works excellently, though, whereever it is used.
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Or depleted uranium. Or tungsten. What does the ghost rifle fire? C-20 Canister rifle, but what sort of munitiions?
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Chrystallized terran tears.
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How would they deploy them? Giant Walkers would only be good on the defensive, or in battles on flat planes.
Because the plot is badly written, as they went for “epic and engrossing” rather than grounded and pragmatic, as the latter would only appeal to a small minority of hard Sci-Fi fans.
Then again, it is not like civilizations with the power to easilly cross between solar systems, would be having their ships fight in range of actually seeing each other.
It would all be calculated through very advanced predictive algorythms, specially weapons targetting and discharges.
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The game’s storyline would break under that amount of logic being applied to it.
Personally I’ve never understood how Kerrigan being able to control the Zerg just as well as the giant brain Overmind is explainable, besides her being a Mary Sue. She doesn’t even need Cerebrates and the Broodmothers were created as an afterthought.
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The game never really makes this explicit, but Kerrigan’s swarm is only ever like a tenth of the size of the Overmind’s, even at its peak. The zerg suffered a lot on Aiur and during the Brood War.
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That’s actually true. There were also said to be a huge amount of ‘renegade Zerg’ still running around Aiur that weren’t even put under Kerrigan’s control, yet they somehow come under Amon’s control by the time of the LotV campaign.
They did. Check the “simulant” skin zerg descriptions to learn how they accidentally did and it went terribly wrong 
Spoiler
Especially important parts are on the Queen and the Infestor, though there are fun details on other units and buildings.
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I guess no one caught onto my joke. It costs money and resources to make hive-mind emulators. That’s why they can’t just magically make a million thors and wipe out the Zerg.
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Emperor Arcturus Mengsk didn’t seem to have a problem with magically finding enough resources and billions of people to build Korhal from a desolate desert into a planetary city within only a few years. That was in spite of the Terran Dominion being nearly destroyed by the UED and Kerrigan. Not to mention that half of the Terran planets were already wiped out by the Zerg, including the most populous one Tarsonis. Building a few thousand hive-mind emulators would be easy work for a man so resourceful.
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The infrastructure and civilian populace of the Dominion actually weathered the Brood War remarkably intact. The UED preserved it intentionally to support their own war machine, and Kerrigan only ever attacked the military bases on Korhal, when Mengsk was just starting to get set up there and before it became a major population center. Their army certainly got smashed, but Kerrigan deliberately allowed them to rebuild that.
That’s the point. There was no major population on Korhal in Starcraft 1/Brood War to turn it into any kind of major center. There was just military bases and maybe some small cities (not depicted). The planet was a radioactive pile of sand and rocks, with low population. Even if Mengsk moved most of the people from the other remaining planets onto Korhal, they still wouldn’t be able to build it into anything close to the megacity it’s depicted as in StarCraft II. This is just a plot hole.
I guess one could rationalize that a lot of refugees must have fled to Korhal from Tarsonis, Mar Sara, Chau Sara, etc. before those planets were ruined. But it still wouldn’t really make sense.
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Why not? The confederacy explicitly had major colonization and terraforming technology, which allowed it to expand out to so many worlds in such a relatively short period of time. Why is Korhal different in that aspect?
Maybe the rumors that Mengsk had unleashed the Zerg against the confederacy made people think it would be safer to be on the same planet as the emperor.
As a Terran could say: “Once you’re in the ultralisk stomach, it’s a bit late for regrets”.
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