Phoenix

Quotes Time for Battle

The Phoenix is a Protoss air unit to be featured in StarCraft II.

Introduction
The Phoenix is an agile Protoss spacecraft that is the replacement for the Corsair and Scout attack fighters of the original StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War.

It is constructed at the Stargate, and does not require additional buildings beyond the Stargate to be constructed, allowing for the building of Phoenixes immediately after the construction of a Stargate. Its speed and sensor range are upgraded at the Fleet Beacon.

Weaponry
The Phoenix is armed with twin ion blasters which are optimized for air-to-air combat, although they are also usable to engage lightly-armored ground targets.

However, in "desperate" combat situations, the Phoenix can utilize an "Overload" ability, creating an area-effect discharge in the immediate vicinity by "by overloading its warp field through the ship's ion blasters". This ability could previously damage all nearby enemy air units but was scaled down so that it could attack only six nearby air units. However, this leaves the Phoenix unpowered for a short amount of time after the overload, and thus vulnerable to attack. More "experienced" Protoss commanders have devised a tactic where when using a group of Phoenixes against enemy targets, they will overload one Phoenix at a time, so therefore, if the enemy units retreat to avoid the damage, they will be successively caught in the multiple overload fields, and the Phoenixes will be able to rotate powered and unpowered ships, with several Phoenixes fully powered at one time for traditional ion fire.

When grouped with Warp Ray capital ships, the two ships complement each other's weaknesses and become a formidable fleet, with Warp Rays firing at long range at heavily-armored targets with Phoenixes firing at lowly-armored targets.

Quotes

 * "Time for battle."
 * "On the wings of justice!"
 * "Warp field online."
 * "For honor!"
 * "Teleport successful."
 * "Understood."
 * "The skies await."
 * "Where do our enemies lurk?"
 * "We shall rise from the ashes."
 * "Warp field overloading."
 * "Valour shall rise again."
 * "I long for the skies of Aiur."
 * "I soar to victory."
 * "Our fury shall be unleashed."
 * "Weapons primed."
 * "None shall escape."
 * "They've broken through."
 * "Duty is my shield."


 * Blizzard Entertainment. Phoenix, Blizzard Entertainment, Retrieved 2007-09-06.