Corsair

"The sky is my battlefield."

- A corsair pilot

The corsair is a protoss anti-air-fighter spacecraft.

Overview
The corsair is a fast, and agile medium sized warship, built by the Dark Templar to safeguard their nomadic fleets. Following the reunification of the Dark Templar with the Khalai, it became a versatile component of the combined fleet.

Corsairs are armed with twin neutron flares to attack ships. The pilots can focus their psionic powers through neutron emitters against ground targets, making the corsair a valuable unit for siege warfare.

By the Second Great War, the corsairs were being replaced by phoenix in the main fleet.

StarCraft
The corsair has a low damage attack but with a very high rate of fire that also causes 1/2 splash damage to units within a 50 pixel radius around the target and 1/4 splash damage within 100 pixels.

This makes the corsair similar to the terran Valkyrie: both are ideal against groups of low-armor units like mutalisks but are somewhat less effective against more heavily armored units like s and carriers. Disruption Web allows corsairs to provide valuable combat support by temporarily crippling an opponent's ranged-attack structures/units.

Quotations

 * See: StarCraft Corsair Quotations                                               

StarCraft II
The corsair was replaced in StarCraft II by the phoenix.

The corsair may be found in the Galaxy Map Editor.

It will be playable in the campaign of Legacy of the Void, and is accessible to Vorazun in the Co-op Missions mode. Here, it can be upgraded at the fleet beacon.

Quotations

 * See: StarCraft II Corsair Quotations

Known Units

 * Airun Corsairs

Known Pilots

 * Khrillian