A recent scientific study by a pair of researchers at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh has revealed which of StarCraft's three factions they believe would be victorious if the war was to spread out onto a galactic stage.
First reported by Wired, it's a result that will offer up bragging rights to fans of the victorious faction, the Terran, who researchers Thomas Targett and Duncan Forgan concluded would eventually wipe out opposing Zerg and Protoss forces.
The blog outlining their findings explains: " Data were gathered from the online gaming community to provide a test set of outcomes for encounters between several fictitious alien species, each following various economic and military strategies... It was found that the Terran inhabitants of the fictitious Koprulu sector pursuing a strategy of early pressure against their opponents, would eventually conquer their Zerg and Protoss adversaries."
Their paper explains it all in considerable detail, but in a nutshell they used a complicated algorithm to simulate who would be victorious in a wide-scale conflict. Both macro (economic) and micro (rushing) tactics were analysed for each of the factions, with the micro Terrans coming out on top. So... that settles it then.