Infested terran (StarCraft II)

"Infested marines? Oh hell Jimmy, I don't care for that notion one bit."

- Tychus Findlay

The infested terran is a unit in StarCraft II created by an infestor. It is often referred to as the infested marine.

A similarly-themed melee weaker with lower stats, the infested terran or "infested colonist" appears in campaigns and Co-op Missions.

Game Unit
An infestor uses 25 energy to deploy an infested swarm egg a short distance away; the infested terran hatches five seconds afterwards. An infestor may deploy as many infested terrans as energy allows.

Infested terrans have short lifespans and move slowly, but have slightly better health and attack power than s. Infestors may spawn infested marines while burrowed, enhancing surprise and utility for economy raiding. Infested terrans provide on-demand firepower against ground and air targets.

Wings of Liberty Campaign
In the campaign of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, infested terrans are referred to as "infested marines", distinguished from their unarmed infested colonist counterparts.

Heart of the Swarm Campaign
The infestor does not have the ability to create infested terrans in the campaign. Instead, these are produced from garrisons infested by virophages.

Co-op Missions
Alexei Stukov is able to construct infested marines from his infested barracks. These marines have a timed life, but deal high damage and are rallied alongside infested civilians with his psi emitter ability. Stukov also gets infested troopers, which are identical to infested marines, but are spawned for free from the infested bunker and have a shorter timed life.

Infested terrans serve as enemies on the Dead of Night and Miner Evacuation maps, and are spawned during the Outbreak mutator.

Trivia
The infested marine portrait can be earned with the Team Zerg 50 achievement.

At the end of their limited duration, the infested terran death animation depicts them committing suicide with their gauss rifle.