Corsair (StarCraft)

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Corsair (StarCraft)
Unit
Race	Protoss
Affiliation	Dark Templar
Role	Medium Support Space Fighter
Armament	Neutron flare
Properties
Maximum energy	200 (init. 50)
Size	Medium
Sight	8
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	100
Psi	2
Build time	40
Produced from	Stargate
Hotkey	O
Movement
Speed	6.67
Protection
Shields	80
Hit points	100
Armor	1
Combat
Air attack	5
Cooldown	8
Attack range	5

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 battlecruisers and carriers. Disruption Web allows corsairs to provide valuable combat support by temporarily crippling an opponent's ranged-attack structures/units.

Abilities

Disruption Web

The Corsair pilot can focus their psychic energy through the vessel's Neutron Emitter, which creates psionic static which disrupts neural impulses and renders computer-directed attacks inaccurate. The web is drawn towards the magnetic resonance found in ores and minerals. This static prevents all ground units and buildings (including base defenses such as bunkers and missile turrets) from attacking while they remain under it, but does not prevent attacks from outside. Affected units may still be attacked and damaged by units outside the web.

Usage
Hotkey D Cost 125 Range 9

Acquisition
Purchased from Fleet beacon Hotkey D Cost 80

Upgrades

Argus Jewel

• Increases the Corsair's maximum energy by 50.
• Increases corsair starting energy from 50 to 62.

Acquisition
Purchased from Fleet beacon Hotkey J Cost 100 100 166

Air Armor +1 bonus to armor per level for shuttles, scouts, arbiters, carriers, interceptors, observers and corsairs. Acquisition Purchased from Cybernetics core Hotkey A Level 1 Cost 150 150 267 Level 2 Cost 225 225 300 Required Fleet beacon Level 3 Cost 300 300 333 Required Fleet beacon

Air Weapons +1 bonus to attack per level for scout ground attack, arbiters, carrier interceptors, corsair air attack, and scout air attack. Acquisition Purchased from Cybernetics core Hotkey W Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Fleet beacon Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Fleet beacon

Plasma Shields

• +1 armor bonus to shields per level for all units and structures.

Acquisition
Purchased from Forge Hotkey S Level 1 Cost 200 200 267 Level 2 Cost 300 300 300 Required Cybernetics core Level 3 Cost 400 400 333 Required Cybernetics core

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Quotations

See: StarCraft Corsair Quotations

References

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

Ground units Probe Zealot Dragoon Reaver High templar Archon Dark templar (BW) Dark archon (BW) Air units Shuttle Scout Arbiter Carrier Interceptor Observer Corsair (BW) Basic buildings Nexus Assimilator Pylon Gateway Forge Shield battery Cybernetics core Photon cannon Advanced buildings Robotics facility Stargate Citadel of Adun Robotics support bay Fleet beacon Templar archives Observatory Arbiter tribunal Canceled buildings Maintenance bay