Story-wise SC2 was a sequel to the SC1 books rather than the SC1 game. I don't know if they thought that everyone who cared about the story would have read the

Story-wise SC2 was a sequel to the SC1 books rather than the SC1 game. I don't know if they thought that everyone who cared about the story would have read the books and preferred that version of the story or if they just forgot that they were different (or didn't care), but it was pretty weird.