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* OffstageVillainy: The main reason some fans [[RootingForTheEmpire were rooting for them]] in ''Brood War''. Since the game focuses on the fleet sent to the Koprulu Sector and never shows how things are on Earth, players are given a vision of the UED as lead by {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s who spend their campaign [[KickTheDog pushing around the Dominion and the Zerg]]. Any atrocities or oppression their government employs on Earth, or may have employed against the Terran civilians they briefly occupied, aren't brought up in-game.

The Confederacy was founded on Tarsonis by the refugees of the supercarrier ''Nagglfar'', and was the first major government the Terrans knew in the sector. The ''Nagglfar'' computers remained operational when the supercarrier landed, allowing the settlers of Tarsonis to quickly re-establish space travel and colonize other worlds, united under one banner as the Confederacy of Man, or simply the Terran Confederacy. It was an open secret that the Confederate Senate was corrupt, and the real power in government was the "Old Families", societal elite descended from the ''Nagglfar'' commanders. The Confederates attempted aggressive expansion of the sector that was repelled by the Kel-Morian Combine in a conflict known as the Guild Wars, and their eventual victory over the Kel-Morians established them as the dominant Terran power in the sector.\\

* AmbiguouslyEvil: While the UPL was clearly a fascistic nightmare, it's unclear if these beliefs carried over to the UED when other Earth nations joined with them, plus the passing of centuries between the UPL taking control of civilization and their reformation as the UED. There's some evidence that the UED is at least somewhat more even-handed then the UPL, as its representatives met in-game show no signs of prejudice or hatred towards those the UPL demonized like psionics and mutants (in fact, Vice-Admiral Stukov is a Ghost in-game, suggesting that psychics may be widely accepted now). But since actual life on Earth under their banner in the present day is not hinted at, it's unclear how bad they truly are.

* GalacticSuperpower: They're the greatest power in the galaxy, second perhaps only to the Protoss Empire at its zenith. The expeditionary fleet they sent to the Koprulu Sector was a fraction of their total military might (albeit a non-insignificant fraction) and had to rely heavily on local manpower and resources and stole and reverse-engineered Terran technology to bolster their numbers, and they were still able to briefly rule the sector after enslaving the Zerg Swarm and seizing control of the Dominion. It's unclear how they stack up against the rebuilt Dominion and the Protoss Daelaam after the events of ''Legacy of the Void'', but they're surely comparable to them at the least.

* AntiAir: The main power of the UED comes from their superior aerial army and ground-to-air tactics. ''Brood War'' introduced numerous balance fixes to the Terran race, including the Goliath getting a stronger air attack with a range upgrade, and the Valkyrie frigate introduced as a powerful air-to-air bombardment craft: in-story these changes is explained as the UED bringing the technology to the sector and it gets copied by other factions. In missions as AI enemies they tend to favor aerial forces, their ground troops usually sticking to Marines, Medics, and Goliaths. In the eighth Zerg mission in ''Brood War'', the UED will combine their aircraft with mind-controlled Zerg, and eventually build up a fleet of mixed forces that will annihilate any enemy air army, and without the Defiler's Dark Swarm for protection ground units face the same fate.

* {{Foil}}: The UED in certain respects is humanity's mirror-image of the Protoss Empire at its height. Both emerged from periods of immense strife, ostensibly represent their species as a whole, had to deal with their own equivalent splinter groups (the Terrans of the Koprulu Sector and Nerezim respectively), and share a similar sense of hubris. Unlike the Conclave however, everything humanity on Earth achieved, both for good and ill, was done ''in spite'' of lacking anything comparable to the Khala or meddling from the Xel'naga.
* GalacticSuperpower: The true greatest power of the setting, second only perhaps to the Protoss Empire at its zenith. Despite being a minor expedition that consisted of little more than outdated warships and veteran troops meant to limit enemy reverse-engineering and working off near-identical technology with the more primitive Confederacy, the UED Expeditionary Fleet required the combined forces of the Zerg Swarm, Terran Dominion and Daelaam to defeat, and the UED itself considers the entire Koprulu Sector to be little more than a galactic backwater, and [[spoiler:with Amon dealt with]] are still considered the single greatest threat to the sector after the events of ''Legacy Of The Void''.

* OffstageVillainy: The main reason some fans [[RootingForTheEmpire were rooting for them]] in ''Brood War''. Since the game focuses on the fleet sent to the Koprulu Sector and never shows how things are on Earth, their government being a ruthless, intolerant dictatorship and their objective to use their controlled Zerg to "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide pacify]]" the Protoss [[AllThereInTheManual were only mentioned in support material]], leaving them with ''very'' little KickTheDog moments while their campaign focused exclusively on [[KickTheSonOfABitch beating up the Dominion and the Zerg]]. As a result, they came out as heroic, especially considering their main opponent ended up being [[CardCarryingVillain Kerrigan]].
** It also should be noted, that there is no data about actual situation on Earth by the time of the game events. More than two centuries passed since the launch of the future colonists of Koprulu sector, and the political regime of UPL could change a lot during that time. It's notable that UED personnel did not show any prejustice against terrans of Koprulu sector (which contain significant part of cyborgs, synthetics, hackers, psionic mutants, ect. - i.e. exacly the kind that old UPL wanted to exterminate).
* OutsideContextVillain: Until their invasion they were entirely disconnected from events in the Koprulu Sector, and they're the only major antagonist faction with no connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Amon]], either. For a while after their arrival no one knew who they were until they really began shaking things up, and the Terrans never expected an attack fleet from '''Earth''' to show up in their lifetime. This ends up working against them; the other characters don't know much about the UED, just that they're here and they're hostile, and it's this ambiguity that allows Kerrigan to convince others they're a greater threat than her and they should ally with her against them.[[note]]Though given what [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]] says about the UED, they absolutely ''are'' a threat to the entire sector and probably could be on-par with Kerrigan if they devoted more resources to their invasion.[[/note]]

* ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts: Said fleet sent was a single expeditionary force that relied heavily on repurposing local manufacturing to keep themselves supplied and nowhere near the full weight the UED could bring to bear materially or technologically.

* DeepSouth: They have this flavor to them. Their leaders that we see are Southern stereotypes, most prominently General Duke (whose name is either a ShoutOut to Series/TheDukesOfHazzard or, less flatteringly, to notorious Southern separatist/Klansman David Duke), their flag is the Confederate Battle Flag/Navy Jack, taken from Earth's historical archives, and to top it all off their nation is known as [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Confederacy]] . Justified, due to a sizable portion of the Terran population hailing from the American South.

* TheFederation: Typical example; ruled by a senate, composed of numerous worlds, corrupt and inefficient, unwilling to suffer unrest from its colonies.

* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Kerrigan, [=DuGalle=] and the UED are the antagonists of ''Brood War''. He's the more prominent of the two, with the UED being the only threat big enough for the zerg, terrans, and protoss to all unite against them, but due to making enemies of every other faction he ends up being beaten and usurped by Kerrigan.

* DeepSouth: They have this flavor to them. Their leaders that we see are Southern stereotypes, most prominently General Duke, and their flag is the Confederate Battle Flag/Navy Jack, taken from Earth's historical archives. Also justified, due to a sizable portion of the Terran population hailing from the American South.

* AbusivePrecursors: The United Powers League and its "Project Purification" are pretty the main reason why the Terrans are in the Koprulu Sector at all.

* DeepSouth: They have this flavor to them. Their leaders that we see are Southern stereotypes, most prominently General Duke, and their flag is the Confederate Battle Flag/Navy Jack, taken from Earth's historical archives.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Just before the Zerg began to arrive to the Koprulu sector, the Terran Confederacy was at the height of its power, but then they created the Psi-Emitters to further experiment on the Zerg and unleashed the Swarm on themselves.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He’s a high ranking officer in the military of The fascistic government of Earth sent to the Koprulu Sector to conquer and enslave it, however in his suicide Note he sends to his wife Before he kills himself it’s quite clear that he genuinely loves his wife and children.

* DeepSouth: Has a mild but noticable southern accent.

* TemptingFate: During his proclamation to his troops, he declared that "if we fail in our mission here, not one of us will be going home". Guess what, nobody of them did.

** Dugalle states to Duran that he and Stukov "have been friends since long before [Duran] was born". Fast-forward to "Dark Origin", when we find out that Duran is [[Really700YearsOld at least a millennia old]] along with [[spoiler:being a Xel-Naga, an ancient race]].