Shinhan OSL2 - Sweet 16 - Week 6.1 - Page 2

On May 29 2006 02:19 TeRaTosS wrote:
I think I know how ProGaming Started:

During the peak of the Korean War, 1952, Arctucus Mengsk, after a detoured voyage from a remote Conferderate outpost, descended upon South Korea to meet up with Syngman Rhee, the President of South Korea at the time, at a strategic summit named CWAL (Covert Weapons Assistance Legislation). It was there that Commander Mengsk offered to train South Korean soldiers in an information technology war that would aid in decrypting Communist communication messages. An excerise in improving overall hand-eye co-ordination along with multi-tasking were set up as preliminary training and selection for likely candidates. The training regime was codenamed: StarCraft, and later enhancements to the program produced a newer version: Broodwar (so named as the South Koreans believed they were fighthing members of their own family 'brood,' in the North Koreans). Successful candidates from the training program were often only known by their code names.
Away from family and friends, these professional soldiers worked in hidden glass walled facilities to decipher Communist messages and were able to to aid US Forces in the bombing raid of the Kusong Damn, North Korea, by detectingthe movement of enemy MiGs.
After the end of the war in 1953, discharged professional StarCraft graduates, now skilled in the field of information technology founded, now major companies such as Samsung and SK Telecom. Few continued with their profession, and set up training camps to select new IT soldiers in LAN CAFE's(Logistic Army Network Counter Artificial intelligence and Field Electronics) , in which members of the public were welcomed to enlist in learning the art of StarCraft. The once military exercise, quickly arose as a national sport, and right up until present day, remains a beacon of triumph for South Korea, arising from the darkness of war.

As for the three races in the exercise: Terran represented the free world of democracy. It demonstrated that with teamwork and control, matched with strength in varied units and personel, a war could be won. The Zerg were often used to depict the communist where the soldiers are often considered expendable following an overall ruler without question and one-minded devotion. The race Protoss was added as war is never simply good against evil. Protoss represent the grey area of war, the war of intelligence and covert operations where strength placed tactically and strategically in a few can sway a battle from one way to another.