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Now, my opinion may be wrong, but I believe the reason the Terran are still fighting is because they never stopped. For a long while now, for several centuries at least, both the Protoss and Zerg had never really had to get into a no holds barred, no stopping fighting. Protoss did annihalte a few smaller races from what I understand, might be wrong, but the fact is it's the equivalency of wiping out ****roaches. same deal with the zerg. They never really had to get into fights, so there was no need to innovate, which is the biggest deciding factor when dealing with fights.
Plans are bound to fail, but for so long, the protoss and zerg never worried about that. Terran have been fighting each other for decades, are used to the horrors of war. They have constantly needed to improve their tech, and are accepting when the new guass rifle comes around. the Protoss have used weapons they have had for decades, even the majority of their new weapons from the brood war is just tech they had already but didn't want to use, like the colossus, or modifying their existing units, like the immortal.
Same deal with the zerg, no new data, they never fought, never improved on how they fought because they never met a real rival. only innovation that has occured with them is with a human leading them.
of course, it helps that neither has really gunned for them.

The biggest losses were at the battle of Aiur. Before that battle, the terrans were mere flies to be swatted aside by the zerg or protoss. There were 6 billion brotoss on Aiur, and who knows how many more warped back home to defend it. And the Zerg, well, they've been massing up for centuries and assimilating every creature they could from the galactic core to the galactic rim. It was a battle of titanic proportions, and brought both races down to the level of the terrans.

Even though the Wings of Liberty writers enjoy making Protoss look like morons and weaklings, the fact is that even though they're the most powerful, they're just not prolific. Being outnumbered is sort of their racial trait.

I think its just because the Terran's are practical. Their practical in the sense that they know they can't win in a straight up fight. So to win the Terran's make sure they always have the advantage and they develop technology towards that. They've made units with massive range so they will always shoot first, most of their army are glass cannons but they recognize that they won't always be able to stop people from getting up close and they make giant hulking machines to hold the line or they drop giant buildings in the enemies path.

The Protoss and Zerg both charge at everything until its dead. Advanced technology and Biology will only get you so far, sooner or later you need to deploy that in a practical sense or your just wasting it.

I know its because Terran is mostly human and humans are very smart.

You could debate that Terran's tech is catching up with Protoss with Ghosts. They have psionic power and are very tech advanced. Also Thors and battcruisers and no small feet, they are huge engeneering feets that certanly compare to many Protoss fleets and robots.

Side note, are sentries like dog's for Protoss?

on 8/12/11Quote by BobtheJob

Side note, are sentries like dog's for Protoss?

That's actually a good question, i would imagine them to be more like a TV or a toaster than a dog to be honest.

I like to think that Protoss have small special robots they use as pets. I can just imagine a Zealot walking his Sentrie on his day off (if they actually get 1). Or ridding around on thos giant snails as the universes slowest horse race. Keep your pritty little observer in a nice big cage. I'm getting off topic sorry.......OK if Protoss are soooo advanced they howcome they havent invented the wheel yet, i mean common. Boom

on 8/12/11Quote by Spartan929

on 8/12/11Quote by BobtheJob

Side note, are sentries like dog's for Protoss?

That's actually a good question, i would imagine them to be more like a TV or a toaster than a dog to be honest.

the name itself should answer your questions on the Sentry. It's basically sort of like a Librarian, containing some small time archives and whatnot, while also acting like security code or guard upon things. It's basically a support pod or combat drone in times of need.

Uh...lots of scientists developing weaponry? Or maybe armor? Or cool weapons? OR maybe it's because there's so many of them. You can't have a choice in game for toss that says "glass planet and win" or something like that and lings are kinda weak. Probably why.

, Terran main campaign export. Weaponry,armor,mercenaries and refugees.

on 29/1/12Quote by myname3000

Uh...lots of scientists developing weaponry? Or maybe armor? Or cool weapons? OR maybe it's because there's so many of them. You can't have a choice in game for toss that says "glass planet and win" or something like that and lings are kinda weak. Probably why.

This thread is about lore.

The Protoss and Zerg have some fairly significant weaknesses, which Terran do not share. Combine that with the fact that they basically spent all their energy fighting each other, and the Terran some how come out on top.

The Zerg's weakness is that they have absolutely no fall back position. They're a purely migratory race. Char was just supposed to be a temporary base of operations. They go to a planet, infest the natives, take the resources, and move on. When they met the Protoss, and couldn't entirely annihilate them, they really weren't prepared for falling back and recuperating. Even less so when the Overmind died, and they have to fight a massive internal war to pick a new leader. Char didn't have any planetary defenses besides the mass of Zerg living on it, which is sufficient, except when you move out to attack, and a single small rebel strike force moves in to snipe your irreplaceable leader. Raynor wouldn't have been able to do that to Mengsk, because the Terran have things like orbital defenses, and ion cannons, which the Zerg, as a purely migratory race, had never had a use for before they fought the Protoss.

The Protoss haven't been challenged for thousands of years. The one minor race they fought, they easily wiped out, and since then they've basically stayed out of most conflicts, nor do they have any real risk of internal strife thanks to the Khala. It would be like if all war stopped a thousand years ago, we'd still be using catapults and swords. They wouldn't even have an army if they didn't have a policy of protecting weaker races from stronger ones.

Finally, the Terran haven't stopped fighting, settling, and developing for the two hundred years they've been in the sectors. Major planets like Korhal are well entrenched and defended, making them hard to attack, they have dozens of minor planets like Mar Sara colonized, making them difficult to entirely root out, and giving them hug potential for population growth, and on top of it all, they've been fighting themselves with virtually no breaks the entire time, giving them specialized military technology, and a high level of expertise. Don't forget, that the Confederacy used mega nukes to entirely wipe out Korhal as well. Mengsk managed to rebuild it, but it was turned into a desolate wasteland nonetheless. Add all that up and we're a warrior race, with destructive capacity on a global scale, and a home-field advantage, fighting two races who all but cancelled each other out to begin with.

So basically what FPSFanatic and Destroyer said.

For a comparison I would look to the Korean and/or Vietnam War's in our history.

The M-16 andm1 was in all ways more advanced than the NVA and Vietcong weapons(russian made ak's or NVA sks' or you know, the clubs some koreans carried etc.) but a bullet from killed an American as sure as if it was from an M16.

In Korea a big giant group of chinese came across and kicked our ass despite boatloads of them having only HAND-To-HAND weapons. It was'nt even just about the surprise or the numbers, it was lots of factors, like we have guns we, it will be the greatest slaughter(as macarthur said).

Vietnam is a good example as well - we had planes, they didn't. We had boats, they had a few tiny ones we steamrolled, we had artillery, they didn't. On paper we should have mopped up the vietnamese in a matter of days. The kill ratios were astounding during the war. We estimate that we killed between 1-3 million vietnamese civilians/soldiers and an additional 2-400k cambodians/laosians. could even be more. But the war wasn't even over or considered to be near over when we evacuated.

The Terrans can compete because they have to. The Toss tech would have to be so advanced that literally nothing the Terrans have could hurt them. The zergs are a different story. IF it matters, the terrans dont REALLY compete against them straight up in the lore. Usually when Terran/Zerg armies meet up if the Terrans actually "win" it is due to additional help or circumstances that pop up in some way.

on 26/3/12Quote by Shanks

The Terrans can compete because they have to. The Toss tech would have to be so advanced that literally nothing the Terrans have could hurt them. The zergs are a different story. IF it matters, the terrans dont REALLY compete against them straight up in the lore. Usually when Terran/Zerg armies meet up if the Terrans actually "win" it is due to additional help or circumstances that pop up in some way.

At this point in Starcraft 2 I think the Terran are mostly concerned with their petty differences, like the Dominion and Anti-dominion forces alike. There really is no conflict between any Terran fraction and Protoss fraction except for Raynor's Raiders vs Tal'Darim, which was shortly lived in WoL.