The Shroud

	The following section contains information from StarCraft: Insurrection.

"Your mind betrays your tongue rebel. Here's your freedom."

- The Shroud to the Informant, when they saw through his lies^(src)

The Shroud
Political
Type	Black Ops Unit
Race(s)	Terran
Affiliation	Terran Confederacy
Historical
Status	Terran Confederacy military force (lapsed), current status unknown

The Shroud were an elite Confederate black ops unit. Like many ghosts, they were considered "creepy".

History

Marshal Bill Constantine of the Brontes IV Colonial Militia had lost track of a routine patrol near an old installation, and was unable to count on the Confederates for help. He sent his own troops to try to find them, but they were ambushed by a mysterious militia.

Now Constantine finally received some assistance from the Confederacy; they loaned him five members of the Shroud. They infiltrated the rebel installation, with orders to investigate and rescue any captured militia members. During the mission, they learned of Atticus Carpenter and his rebel movement, the Fist of Redemption, from an Informant.

They discovered that the Fist was keeping zerg captives within the installation, along with some of the missing soldiers. The Shroud freed the soldiers and escorted them out of the installation.

The data disk they delivered to Constantine enabled him to temporarily acquire the services of Jack Frost.

Game Unit

The Shroud
Unit
Race	Terran
Affiliation	Terran Confederacy
Base unit	Ghost
Properties
Size	Small
Sight	9 (11 upgrade)
Protection
Hit points	140
Armor	2
Combat
Ground attack	20 (+2 per upgrade)
Air attack	20 (+2 per upgrade)
Cooldown	22
Attack range	7 (9 in Bunker)

The members of the Shroud were significantly more powerful than the standard ghost.

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

Nuclear Strike

A nuclear silo may build and store one missile each.

A ghost launches and "aims" the nuclear missile at a targeted location. The missile arrives 14 seconds after. The ghost must aim for the entire duration; if the ghost takes any other action, or the ghost is killed, or the missile is cancelled, the launch is aborted and the missile is wasted.

The launch is broadcast to all players with the audio and visual message "Nuclear Launch Detected." The targeted location is visible to all players as a small flashing red dot.

The missile deals 500 damage or removes two-thirds of total hit points (whichever is greater) to all units within a wide blast radius. One nuke kill most units, and critically damage most buildings. Two nukes will destroy nearly anything. Without Ocular Implants, the ghost's targeting distance is within the blast radius.

Usage
Hotkey N Range 8 or 10 (1 less than ghost's sight range)

Acquisition
Purchased from Nuclear silo Cost 200 200 8

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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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Ocular Implants

• Increases ghost sight range by 2 (to 11), making sight range greater than the nuke blast radius.

Acquisition
Purchased from Covert ops Hotkey O Cost 100 100 166

Moebius Reactor

• Increases ghost maximum energy by 50.
• Increases ghost starting energy from 50 to 62.5.

Acquisition
Purchased from Covert ops Hotkey M Cost 150 150 166

Quotations

Quotes
Trained
Somebody call for an exterminator?
Selected	Confirming order
Ghost reportin'. I'm here. Finally. Call the shot.	I hear that. I'm gone. Never know what hit 'em. I'm all over it.
Repeatedly selected
You called down the thunder... ...now reap the whirlwind! (breathing faster) Keep it up! I dare ya! I'm about t' overload my aggression inhibitors!
Other lines
Death 1. Death 2. Abilities Nuclear Strike. Lockdown.