I bet you get invited to lots of parties...hman123456

This, right here...

 It's a game with acid-spewing aliens with completely unrealistic biology and life cycle, yet you're upset by the number of people on this fictional colony?

Here's another plot hole while we're at it: it's 2200AD, why do they still use human soldiers and not giant killer death robots that shoot lasers out of their eyes?

Oh that's right, artistic license to distort the rules of reality in order to make a suspenseful or otherwise compelling work of fiction.

You obviously didn't play too many videogames in the 90's then.

Starcraft came out in '98