Control tower

"Jeeze, calm down. It was just a fancy radio station."

- A Terran Dominion marine on the phasing out of the control tower^(src)

Control Tower
Structure
Race	Terran
Role	Advanced aircraft add-on
Production
Minerals	50
Gas	50
Build time	40
Parent	Starport
Requires	Factory
Protection
Hit points	750
Armor	1
Function
Allows	Dropship Valkyrie Science vessel Battlecruiser
Research	Apollo Reactor Cloaking Field

Control towers are terran anciliary structures which coordinate the construction and upgrading of advanced vessels. After the Great War, the fusion core and tech lab provided coordination functions for the starport, but the control tower remained an iconic and enduring symbol of terran aerospace supremacy.

Game Structure

StarCraft

In StarCraft, the control tower is an add-on for the starport.

Researched Abilities

Cloaking Field

The Wraith can cloak. It can still attack while cloaked.

Usage
Hotkey C Cost 25 (+1 per second)

Acquisition
Purchased from Control tower Hotkey C Cost 150 150 100

v • e

Researched Upgrades

Apollo Reactor

• Increases the Wraith's energy by 50.
• Increases starting energy from 50 to 62.5.

Acquisition
Purchased from Control tower Hotkey A Cost 200 200 166

StarCraft II

The control tower does not appear in StarCraft II; the starport can instead have a tech lab or reactor add-on.

Development

Early versions of the StarCraft manual state that the Apollo Reactor and Cloak upgrades were to be researched at the physics lab, and instead the control tower would have a Burst Laser upgrade that would allow wraiths to attack ground. This has been changed for later releases of the manual.

Images

Building wireframe

Remastered building wireframe

References

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War v • e

Infantry SCV Marine Firebat Medic (BW) Ghost Ground vehicles Vulture Goliath Siege tank Air units Wraith Dropship Valkyrie (BW) Science vessel Battlecruiser Basic buildings Command center ComSat station Nuclear silo Supply depot Engineering bay Barracks Refinery Missile turret Academy Bunker Advanced buildings Factory Machine shop Armory Starport Control tower Science facility Physics lab Covert ops Other Nuclear missile Spider mine Scrapped units Cargo ship Merc biker Mercenary gunship Raider Spysat Scrapped buildings Cantina Dry docks Power station Repair bay Star base