Umoja (StarCraft)

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Umoja is one of the three original Terran-colonized worlds in the StarCraft universe. Umoja is the base of operations of the Umojan Protectorate.

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The supercarriers Reagan and Sarengo crash landed on this world. The Sarengo, which had suffered massive systems failures during its atmospheric descent, smashed into the planet, killing all of its 8,000 passengers. The Reagan was more fortunate, making a controlled descent and landing safely. Once the ship had landed, the 'cold sleep' chambers were deactivated and the surviving passengers slowly awakened. The passengers, attempting to discern where they were and how long they had 'slept', found that the ATLAS system had somehow erased all knowledge of their journey from the computer banks. The exiles began to salvage their wrecked ship in an attempt to find refuge in their new surroundings.

The inhabitants of Umoja worked to survive in what they termed 'the New World'. Unaware that their fellows also thrived upon Tarsonis and Moria, the vagabond Umojans made do with whatever meager resources they could find. Having lost the means to communicate over interplanetary distances when the Reagan was stripped for essential materials, the Umojans lived in isolation for sixty years. In a relatively short amount of time, they founded sister colonies upon Umoja, and grew into a prosperous, self-contained community. Tarsonis, the largest and most technologically advanced of the Terran colonies, soon developed second generation sub-warp engines, allowing their ships to explore the myriad, barren planets of the surrounding star system and eventually led them to find the other survivors of the Long Sleep.

Once reunited, the three colonies benefited from mutual trade and commerce treaties. Although Tarsonis kept pushing Umoja and Moria to join in a conglomerated government, the two colonies steadfastly refused.

At the end of the Guild Wars circa 2489, the Umojan colony, after seeing what blatant abuse the Terran Confederacy was capable of when it annexed almost all of the Kel-Morian Combine's supporting Mining Guilds into its holdings, founded the Umojan Protectorate. This nationalized militia would work to keep its colony free from Confederate tyranny.

After the Terran Confederacy was overthrown by the Sons of Korhal, which became the Terran Dominion, Umoja came under under Emperor Arcturus Mengsk's rule when the Umojan Protectorate rallied to his banner.

[edit] Trivia

Umoja is one of the principles of Kwanzaa representing togetherness.

[edit] References

• Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.