Ghost academy

"You think your college years were stressful? Ghost academy classes are held next to a nuclear missile silo."

- A ghost

The ghost academy is a terran structure in StarCraft II. It is required for the production of ghosts and with a factory can produce nukes.

Arm Nuke

 * Main article: Arm Nuke

In StarCraft II, ghosts maintain the ability to launch nukes. The laser pointer has been replaced with a blast footprint visible to the launching player; however, the opponent sees only a red dot.

Nova Covert Ops
In Nova Covert ops the academy automatically builds free nukes for Nova to use.

Development
The ghost academy uses the former shadow ops render. It was capable of flying in early versions of the game, but this was later removed, as it was decided that only unit-producing structures should be capable of doing so. Such a technique unbalanced the ghost academy in multiplayer, as players could move it to an obscure corner of the map and nuke the enemy at will.