War council

The war council

The war council is one of the locations of Spear of Adun that can be accessed on the story-mode space of the Legacy of the Void campaign.

Game Effect

Characters

• Rohana
• Vorazun

Units

Unit selection

The war council acts as a unit hub - as new units are unlocked throughout the campaign, they will appear in the background. Each unit will have three alternate versions which by design will aim to be of similar power levels, but suited to different scenarios. The designs are inspired by the faction the unit was acquired from. These choices are not permanent, and can be changed between missions.

Name	Variants
Melee warrior Base unit: Zealot
Variants	Aiur Zealot	Centurion	Sentinel
Abilities	Charge, Whirlwind	Shadow Charge, Darkcoil	Charge, Reconstruction
Available	Complete "The Spear of Adun"	Complete "The Spear of Adun"	Complete "Forbidden Weapon"
Ranged warrior Base unit: Stalker
Variants	Stalker	Dragoon	Adept
Abilities	Blink, Phase Reactor	Phase disruptor, Dragoon Chassis	Psionic transfer
Available	Complete "The Spear of Adun"	Complete "The Spear of Adun"	Complete "Temple of Unification"
Cloaked Warrior Base unit: Dark templar
Variants	Dark templar	Avenger	Blood hunter
Abilities	Shadow Fury, Permanently Cloaked	Emergency Recall, Permanently Cloaked	Void stasis, Permanently Cloaked
Available	Complete "Amon's Reach"	Complete "Amon's Reach"	Complete "The Infinite Cycle"
Robotic support Base unit: Sentry
Variants	Sentry	Energizer	Havoc
Abilities	Double Shield Recharge, Guardian shield	Chrono Beam, Phasing Mode	Target Lock, Squad Sight, Force Field
Available	Complete "Forbidden Weapon"	Complete "Forbidden Weapon"	Complete 5 missions after "Forbidden Weapon" or a mission after "Harbinger of Oblivion"
Robotic assault Base unit: Immortal
Variants	Immortal	Annihilator	Vanguard
Abilities	Barrier, Improved Barrier	Shadow Cannon	Scatter cannon
Available	Complete "Brothers in Arms"	Complete "Brothers in Arms"	Complete "Harbinger of Oblivion" or 4 missions after "Brothers in Arms"
Starfighter Base unit: Phoenix
Variants	Phoenix	Corsair	Mirage
Abilities	Double Graviton Beam	Disruption Web	Graviton Beam, Phasing Armor
Available	Complete "Temple of Unification"	Complete "Temple of Unification"	Complete "Purification"
Psionic warrior Base unit: High Templar
Variants	High Templar	Dark archon	Ascendant
Abilities	Feedback, Psionic Storm, Plasma surge, Archon Merge	Mind Control, Confusion	Mind Blast, Psionic orb, Sacrifice
Available	Complete "Harbinger of Oblivion"	Complete "Harbinger of Oblivion"	Complete "Rak'Shir"
Assault ship Base unit: Void ray
Variants	Void Ray	Destroyer	Arbiter
Abilities	Prismatic Alignment, Prismatic Range	Destruction Beam	Stasis Field, Mass Recall, Cloak Field
Available	Complete "Steps of the Rite"	Complete "Steps of the Rite"	Complete a mission after "Rak'Shir"
Robotic siege Base unit: Colossus
Variants	Colossus	Reaver	Wrathwalker
Abilities	Cliff Walker, Fire Beam	Scarab Shot	Cliff Walker, Charged Blast
Available	Complete "Unsealing the Past"	Complete "Unsealing the Past"	Complete a mission after "Purification"
Capital ship Base unit: Carrier
Variants	Carrier	Tempest	Mothership
Abilities	Repair drones, Build Interceptor	Disintegration	Black Hole, Thermal lance, Blink
Available	Complete "Templar's Charge"	Complete "Templar's Charge"	Complete a mission after "Templar's Charge"

Development

Early concept art for the War Council

The war council was the first set designed for the story-mode space of Legacy of the Void. It was designed to be dark and foreboding, in order to keep in with the tone of Artanis having to command a protoss army. Initially, the war council was named the "war room."

Several other unused units were once intended to be available to the player through the war council. The signifier as a Nerazim high templar, the skylord as a Tal'darim carrier, and the skytalon as a Tal'darim phoenix exist as partly completed units. The instigator is a completed unit that appears in one mission as a Purifier stalker, but in the final product the adept represents the Purifier faction alongside the stalker and dragoon.

Data for the scout as a Purifier-faction unit exists; the scout uses the same assets as the AI-exclusive scouts, but has different stats and tooltips that imply it would have an afterburners ability to give it a temporary speed boost. There is also an incomplete Aiur void ray, and a "shadow archon" that would be merged from two dark templar. The shadow archon would have completed a trio of archons with the normal archon and dark archon, each accessible only by certain factions: the Tal'darim blood hunter contains unused commands to merge into dark archons, while the shadow archon was created by merging Nerazim dark templar. Data exists for a Purifier robotic assault unit called the "Resistor," which was replaced by the Nerazim annihilator. Data also exists for a Nerazim Sentry called Manipulator and a Nerazim Carrier called "Shakuras Carrier" that use the dark carrier model, there is also data for a Purifier Carrier named Bomber, that have an ability similar to the Battlecruiser Tactical Jump.

In the final product, the Tal'darim motherships occupy the third slot in the capital ship tier, and the arbiter represents the Aiur faction in the assault ship tier. Unfinished data for a purifier mothership and an Aiur mothership exist; along with the Tal'darim mothership and arbiter, the three would have provided a separate tier reserved for cloaking support ships.

Videos

StarCraft 2- Legacy of the Void All War Council Upgrades