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- Terran science vessel(src)

The science vessel is a flying terran support unit in StarCraft. It is voiced by Tracy W. Bush.[1]

Overview[]

The science vessel is a terran mobile detector. Like most other spellcasters, science vessels have no direct form of attack. Air units such as the scourge, wraith, or scout are ideal for dealing with the slower science vessel.

Abilities[]

This unit may detect cloaked and burrowed enemies.

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The Defensive Matrix absorbs 250 points of damage from all damage type. The shield is not perfect; some damage will "leak" and reduce the unit's HP by 0.5 per hit.

Matrixes count as having priority over shields, so health will appear to go down first on Protoss units.

Successive casts on the same unit do not stack, but replace any old Matrix with the new one.

Usage
Hotkey D
Cost 100 Energy
Range 10
Duration 56.7 seconds seconds
InterEMPShock Terran SC1
EMP Shockwave

Reduces shield and energy to 0 for all enemy or allied units within the blast radius. Particularly useful against protoss units and buildings.

Usage
Hotkey E
Cost 100 Energy
Range 8
Acquisition
Purchased from Science facility
Hotkey E
Cost 200 Minerals 200 Vespene gas 120seconds
InterIrrad Terran SC1
Irradiate

Reduces the hit points of biological units near the targeted unit (and the targeted unit itself if it is biological) by 250 over 25 seconds. (Deals 3.33 damage in 8-frames intervals, resulting in 75 damage instances over 600 frames.)

Mechanical units are immune, but biological units within 2 hex radius of an irradiated mechanical unit will still be affected.

Damage from multiple instances of Irradiate fully stack.

Usage
Hotkey I
Cost 75 Energy
Range 9
Acquisition
Purchased from Science facility
Hotkey I
Cost 200 Minerals 200 Vespene gas 80seconds

Upgrades[]

Acquisition
Purchased from Armory
Hotkey H
Level 1
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 267seconds
Level 2
Cost 225 Minerals 225 Vespene gas 300seconds
Required Science facility
Level 3
Cost 300 Minerals 300 Vespene gas 333seconds
Required Science facility
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  • Increases the science vessel's maximum energy by 50.
  • Increases science vessel starting energy from 50 to 62.5.
Acquisition
Purchased from Science facility
Hotkey T
Cost 200 Minerals 200 Vespene gas 166seconds

Quotations[]

Quotes
Trained
Selected Confirming order
Repeatedly selected
Other lines
Abilities


Science Vessel Heroes[]

Development[]

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The science vessel in the StarCraft beta

In the beta for StarCraft, science vessels had mechanical legs and could move along the ground.[2]


Images[]

Trivia[]

Science vessel commanders are usually ranked "Major" (an army rank rather than a navy rank). This can only be seen if the science vessel is affected by lockdown or stasis.

References[]

  1. 11-8-2018, Facebook Correspondence with Tracy W. Bush
  2. 2011-05-03, Blizzard Archive. "Blizzarchive.com," accessed on 2018-07-03
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