Samir Duran (StarCraft)

Samir Duran
Unit
Race	Terran
Affiliation	Confederate Resistance Forces United Earth Directorate
Campaign	The Iron Fist
Base unit	Ghost
Armament	C-10 rifle
Properties
Maximum energy	250
Size	Small
Sight	11
Protection
Hit points	200
Armor	2
Combat
Ground attack	25
Air attack	25
Cooldown	22
Attack range	6

Samir Duran appears as a ghost hero unit in the missions "First Strike," "Ruins of Tarsonis," and "Patriot's Blood." He also appears in a cutscene as an NPC hero in "To Chain the Beast." In "Drawing of the Web," Duran appears as Infested Duran. He is statistically identical to his normal unit, besides the addition of the Consume ability.

In both his hero units, Duran has the ghost's Lockdown and Cloak abilities, but cannot target nuclear strikes. As an infested unit he also has the Consume ability. This makes Duran indispensable for defense in "Drawing of the Web," able to Lockdown powerful protoss units and then Consume zerg to replenish his energy.

Curiously, Infested Duran is the only unit to be upgraded with weapon and armor upgrades from separate factions: zerg carapace upgrades will improve Duran's armor, but it is terran Infantry Weapons upgrades that improve the power of his weaponry.

Duran also has a unique death sound that is in the game data, but not implemented.

Infested Duran
Unit
Race	Zerg
Affiliation	Zerg Swarm
Campaign	The Queen of Blades
Armament	C-10 rifle
Properties
Maximum energy	250
Size	Small
Sight	11
Protection
Hit points	300
Armor	3
Combat
Ground attack	25
Air attack	25
Cooldown	22
Attack range	6

Abilities

Personal Cloaking

The ghost can cloak. It can still use attack and use other abilities while cloaked.

Usage
Hotkey C Cost 25 (+1 per second)

Acquisition
Purchased from Covert ops Hotkey C Cost 100 100 80

Lockdown

The ghost disables enemy mechanical or robotic units. Targets may not attack, move, or use abilities; passive detection and cloaking are disabled. Lockdown may be removed by a medic's restoration ability.

Usage
Hotkey L Cost 100 Range 8 Duration 60

Acquisition
Purchased from Covert ops Hotkey L Cost 200 200 100

Consume

Kills target allied zerg unit and restores 50 energy to the caster.

Usage
Hotkey U Range 1

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Upgrades

Infantry Weapons

• +1 bonus per attack per level for ghosts, and marines.
• +2 bonus per attack per level for firebats.

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay Hotkey W Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Science facility

Infantry Armor

• +1 upgrade to armor per level for SCVs, marines, firebats, ghosts, and medics.

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay Hotkey A Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Science facility

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Carapace

• +1 bonus to armor per level for broodlings, defilers, drones, hydralisks, infested terrans, larvae, ultralisks, and zerglings.

Acquisition
Purchased from Evolution chamber Hotkey C Level 1 Cost 150 150 267 Level 2 Cost 225 225 300 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 300 300 333 Required Hive

Quotations

See: Samir Duran Quotations

See: Infested Duran Quotations

See also

• Emil Narud (StarCraft II)