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In the fictional StarCraft universe, Moria is a mineral-rich world located in the Koprulu Sector. The name is a reference to Tolkien's Lord of The Rings where Moria is the mine where the Fellowship is led after failing to pass through Mt. Caradhras, and where Gandalf the Grey faces the Balrog. The StarCraft universe is a fictional universe in which the StarCraft series of computer games and books are set. ...
Minerals are one of the two resources gathered in the computer game, StarCraft, the other being Vespene gas. ...
In the StarCraft universe, the Koprulu Sector —nicknamed the Terran Sector— is a sector in space colonized by the Terrans. ...
Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ...
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, was an ominous name given to what had once been an enormous underground city in Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, mines and huge halls or mansions, that ran under and ultimately through the Misty Mountains. ...
In the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, Caradhras, also called the Redhorn (the literal English translation of the Sindarin name), is one of the mightiest peaks in the Misty Mountains. ...
History
Doran Routhe of the United Powers League of Earth organized a colonization project in order to further his own power. He loaded 40,000 prisoners on four supercarriers, sending them to the planet Gantris VI. However, the guidance computer in the lead ship, the Nagglfar, failed, and the four ships barreled blindly through warp space for twenty eight years. As their warp drives began to melt down, they emerged in a habitable star system. This article is an alphabetical list of minor characters in the fictional StarCraft universe, a fictional universe in which a a games and several books are set, who do not fit into any other category. ...
In the StarCraft universe, the United Powers League (UPL) was a world government and police-state formed by most countries of Earth. ...
Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...
The original colonists of Moria arrived in the Argo, a vessel whose databanks were rendered inaccessible when it crashed on Moria.
Despite its wealth, Moria was behind Tarsonis in terms of technological development, mainly because Tarsonis had access to ATLAS, an artificial intelligence which contained great amounts of technological information from Earth. Furthermore, the Terran Confederacy based on Tarsonis was rapidly increasing its military power with its high technology and from forming new colonies. Tarsonis was the capital of the Terran Confederacy in the StarCraft universe. ...
Artificial Tele-empathic Logistics Analysis System, or ATLAS, is an artificial intelligence in the fictional StarCraft universe. ...
In the StarCraft universe, the Terran Confederacy, also known as the Confederacy of Man, was an interstellar confederacy established by the Terrans of the Koprulu Sector. ...
The government of Tarsonis attempted to convince the other two colonies to join in a conglomerate government, but both Moria and Umoja refused. Umoja is one of the three original Terran-colonized worlds in the StarCraft universe. ...
Kel-Morian Combine Two shady mining guilds, the Kelanis Guild and the Morian Mining Coalition, formed the Kel-Morian Combine, a group which looked out for Morian mining interests. The Confederates reacted with the Guild Wars which ended with the defeat of the Kel-Morian Combine, about 20 years before the StarCraft game begins. The Kel-Morian Combine is the military arm of Moria in the StarCraft universe. ...
Terrans are the name used for humans in the fictional StarCraft universe. ...
The Kel-Morian Combine remained in charge of their world, however, and remained one of the three major Terran powers in the sector. The Marines of the Terran Confederacy. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. After the creation of the Terran Dominion it joined as a member planet[1]. The Terran Dominion was created after the fall of the Confederacy at the height of the war between the Terrans, the Zerg and the Protoss. ...
Moria was untouched by the events of the original StarCraft, but in the Brood War it had its first taste of war in a generation. When the United Earth Directorate defeated the Terran Dominion, the Kel-Morian Combine made a deal with the UED to avoid invasion. StarCraft: Brood War is an expansion pack released in 1998 for StarCraft — an award winning real-time strategy computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. ...
The United Earth Directorate or UED is a fictional government in the StarCraft universe which is descended from the former controlling government, the United Powers League (UPL). ...
The Terran Dominion was created after the fall of the Confederacy at the height of the war between the Terrans, the Zerg and the Protoss. ...
During the Brood War Moria was invaded by Zerg, who were only there on a resource raiding run. However, Infested Kerrigan defeated several of their armies and infested many of their soldiers. StarCraft Expansion - Brood Wars Cover. ...
A Zerg Hydralisk The Zerg are a vaguely insectoid race in the fictional StarCraft universe. ...
Sarah Kerrigan—who calls herself the Queen of Blades—is a character in the fictional StarCraft universe. ...
Trivia In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, was an ominous name given to what had once been an enormous underground city in Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, mines and huge halls or mansions, that ran under and ultimately through the Misty Mountains. ...
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
References - ↑ Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
- ↑ Underwood, Peter, Chris Metzen and Bill Roper. StarCraft: Brood War (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
External links - StarCraft Legacy Planets - a fan site with information about every planet mentioned in StarCraft.
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