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Starcraft II is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two upcoming expansion packs called Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. The game is set in the 26th century in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy. It involves 3 called the Terrans which are human exiles from Planet Earth, the Zerg which is a race of insectoid genetic assimilators and the Protoss, a unique species with incredible psionic powers.