Doran Routhe is an important character in the Terrans are the name used for humans in the fictional StarCraft universe to distinguish them from real_life humans. ...history of the fictional StarCraft (SC) is a real_time strategy computer game produced by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998. ...StarCraft The StarCraft universe is a fictional universe in which the StarCraft series of computer games and books are set. ...universe.

Routhe was a scientist on Earth during the rule of the In the StarCraft universe, the United Powers League (UPL) was a world government and police_state formed by most countries of Earth. ...United Powers League. As In the StarCraft universe, Project Purification was a genocidal project executed by the United Powers League (UPL). ...Project Purification, the UPL's plan to purify the human race by imprisoning and killing vast numbers of mutants, cyborgs, synthetics, political opponents, and so forth, operated, largely hidden from the media, Routhe made plans on increasing his own power within the UPL.

Routhe was obssessed with creating colonies on other planets outside of the solar system, hoping to find new StarCraft (SC) is a real_time strategy computer game produced by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998. ...mineral and other kinds of resources on such planets.

He had no part in Project Purification, but found it convenient for procuring 56,000 prisoners through his political connections to create a colonizing force. The prisoners were put into cold sleep. The new artificial intelligence, Artificial Tele_empathic Logistics Analysis System, or ATLAS, is an artificial intelligence in the fictional StarCraft universe. ...ATLAS, for Artificial Tele_empathic Logistics Analysis System, studied the prisoners and selected 40,000 as capable of surviving the journey and planetary colonization. The fate of the other 16,000 prisoners is unknown, but they had been slated for execution before being acquired by Routhe.

Routhe secretly built four huge carriers, the Nagglfar, Sarengo, Reagan and Argo, with experimental warp engines, and loaded the prisoners aboard. The ATLAS was installed on Nagglfar and the navigational computer was programmed to travel one year through warp space to the star system Gantris VI. The ships were also loaded with various supplies and hardware to help the colonists once they awoke.

During the journey, ATLAS catalogued the various mutations in the gene pool, and discovered that some of the prisoners carried would augment the latent psionic potential of the human brain. ATLAS sent this information back to Doran Routhe's databanks on Earth.

Unfortunately for Routhe, the navigational computer somehow became disconnected from ATLAS. The ships barreled blindly through warp space for 30 years, ending up In the StarCraft universe, the Koprulu Sector —nicknamed the Terran Sector— is a sector in space colonized by the Terrans. ...very far away from their destination.

References

• StarCraft homepage at Blizzard Entertainment (http://www.blizzard.com/starcraft/)
• Battle.net StarCraft Compendium (http://www.battle.net/scc/)