Scout

The Scout is a Protoss space superiority fighter.

Overview
The Scout is a versatile and powerful Protoss fighter though are generally considered by the Protoss to be mere scouts. However, Scouts are easily a match for most other craft, employing Anti-Matter Missiles against aerial targets and Dual Photon Blasters against ground targets.

In their days of service, Scouts served as point guards for the Protoss fleet, being maintained in the hangars of Carriers, though were often called upon to engage hostile forces. Shortly before the war against the Zerg, recent developments in enhanced sensor systems and high-power engines further increased its effectiveness.

Since the end of the Brood War, the Scout is steadily being phased out by the Phoenix.

StarCraft
Like the Terran Wraith, the Scout is optimized for the anti-air role. The major difference is the Scout's lack of the cloaking ability. The Scout must leverage its increased durability instead. Scouts are relatively slow units when first produced though their speed can be upgraded with the Gravitic Thrusters upgrade, making them just as fast as Wraiths. Like their Terran counterparts, Scouts have a weak ground attack; only causing 8 damage. In large groups of 8-12 they can destroy small groups of units quickly. Its air attack however, is very powerful, able to inflict 36 damage when fully upgraded making it even more powerful than a Battlecruiser's attack.

They are recommended as escorts alongside Corsairs and Carriers. Suggested counters against Scouts include mass Hydralisks, Goliaths and other ground-to-air anti-air units.

Upgrades

 * Air Weapons
 * Air Armor
 * Plasma Shields
 * Apial Sensors
 * Cost: 100 100
 * Upgraded at: Fleet Beacon
 * Increases Scout sight to 10.
 * Gravitic Thrusters
 * Cost: 200 200
 * Upgraded at: Fleet Beacon
 * Increases Scout speed.

Quotations

 * See: StarCraft I Scout Quotations

StarCraft: Ghost
Scouts make a possible appearance in StarCraft: Ghost.

Scout Pilots

 * Praetor Artanis
 * Praetor Mojo
 * Templar Aurioch
 * Judicator Kizrath
 * Scout Heroes

Variants

 * Pathfinder Scout

Miscellaneous Quotations
Praemonitus, promunitus. "Forewarned, forearmed." - Motto of the Venatir Tribe Scouts.