Monolith/Development

The monolith is a structure. During the development of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, it was called the dark pylon, then the obelisk. The name "obelisk" was given to another building.

Development

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The monolith was a Dark Templar structure.

As the dark pylon, the monolith was similar to a pylon. It provided psi and power to protoss buildings like the pylon, but also has special abilities. However, Blizzard was not entirely happy with the dark pylon in February 2009, as they felt this Null Shield was uncompetitive. Early versions of the dark pylon cloaked surrounding structures. Its purpose was to hide a protoss player's tech tree and cloak photon cannons until they began firing, but it was removed from the multiplayer game as it wasn't useful enough.

The Dark Templar were set to have more defensive structures as of March 2008.

The monolith was removed from multiplayer in February 2010.

Abilities
No research was required to acquire the monolith's abilities.

The monolith no longer has a cloaking ability.

As of February 2010, the monolith lost Argus Link and Proton Charge and was canceled.