Carrier

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For the Terran Troop Carrier, see Mammoth-class Carrier.

Carrier
Race	Protoss
Role	Heavy Command Ship
Statistics
Hit points	300
Shields	150
Size	Large
Production
Psi	6
Minerals	350
Gas	250
Build time	140
Produced at	Stargate
Requires	Fleet Beacon
Hotkey	C
Combat
Armor	4
Range	8
Sight	11

The Carrier is a Protoss heavy air unit.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 "Super Carriers" 2 Game Unit 2.1 StarCraft 2.1.1 Abilities 2.1.2 Upgrades 2.1.3 Quotations 2.2 StarCraft II 2.2.1 Abilities 2.2.2 Upgrades 2.2.3 Development 2.3 StarCraft: The Board Game 3 Known Carriers 4 Images 5 References

[edit] Overview

Carriers are large, heavily armored and shielded warships that form the core of the Protoss fleet, serving as command centers for fleet commanders. Although Carriers lack weapon batteries or other armaments of any kind, their ability to unleash swarms of computer controlled Interceptors makes them devastating in ship to ship battle.^[1] In addition, the Carrier's hangers can house Scout fighters and even Arbiters.^[2]

Carriers are capable of making jumps through warp space^[3] and can operate in both atmospheric and deep space conditions.^[2] When not on the bridge, a Carrier commander is entitled to his/her own quarters.^[2]

[edit] "Super Carriers"

A relatively small number of heavily armed carriers exist. One of the most famous of these was the Gantrithor, the flagship of former Executor Tassadar.^[4]

[edit] Game Unit

[edit] StarCraft

The Carrier is more durable and much faster than the Battlecruiser. Forcibly recalling its Interceptors and releasing them again may extend Interceptor life and save resources since Interceptors are automatically repaired upon returning. Interceptors self-destruct if their parent Carrier is destroyed. If a Carrier is disabled (for example, through Lockdown), its child Interceptors will return to the Carrier and only resume attacking once the Carrier becomes active again.^[5]

[edit] Abilities

• Build Interceptor
  • Cost: 25

[edit] Upgrades

• Air Armor
• Plasma Shields
• Carrier Capacity
  • Cost: 100 100
  • Upgraded at: Fleet Beacon
  • Increases the number of Interceptors the Carrier can hold at once by 4.

[edit] Quotations

See: StarCraft I Carrier Quotations

[edit] StarCraft II

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Carrier
Race	Protoss
Statistics
Hit points	250[6]
Shields	100[6]
Type	Air, mechanical, armored.[6]
Production
Psi	6[6]
Minerals	200[6]
Gas	400[7][6]
Build time	90[6]
Produced at	Stargate[6]
Requires	Fleet Beacon[6]
Combat
Ground Attack	Interceptor
Air Attack	Interceptor
Range	8[6]

The Carrier was originally replaced by the Tempest during the development of StarCraft II but was brought back due to "an emotional connection with the original unit."^[8] Although it keeps the structural design of the Tempest, the 'light' color scheme has been maintained.^[9]

[edit] Abilities

• Manufacture Interceptors

For the cost of 25 minerals, Carriers can produce interceptors.^[6] Can build eight interceptors.^[7] There is also the option to set it to produce interceptors automatically.^[9]

[edit] Upgrades

Air Armor Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100 150 200 Gas 100 150 200 Upgraded at Cybernetics Core Cybernetics Core Cybernetics Core Hotkey A A A Edit Source
Plasma shields Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 200 300 400 Gas 200 300 400 Upgraded at Forge Forge Forge Hotkey S S S Edit Source

[edit] Development

The Carrier used to have the ability to produce Escorts.^[6] This ability has been removed in the latest builds of StarCraft II.^[6]

• Manufacture Escorts
  • Carriers may manufacture up to four Escorts.^[9]
  • Strike Fighter Escorts cost resources (and about one second) to build and last only 45 seconds, but add a decent amount of firepower to a Carriers attack. A Carrier can have a maximum of 4 Escorts. Escorts are given attack orders to focus-fire on whatever the Carrier is attacking and they can be destroyed independently of the Carrier or each other. The cost for these Escorts will be significant enough to where players will not want to just have the max number all of the time, as that would bleed one's economy needlessly. Thus, players will have to pick and choose their battles in where they want the full force of the Protoss fleet present.^[9]

[edit] StarCraft: The Board Game

Carriers are featured as unit pieces in StarCraft: The Board Game.

[edit] Known Carriers

• Gantrithor
• Qel'Ha
• Tempest (not to be confused with the Tempest unit).

[edit] Images

The Carrier profile in StarCraft I

Three Protoss Carriers attacking a Battlecruiser (StarCraft II)

[edit] References

Protoss Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War
Ground units	Probe · Zealot · Dragoon · Reaver · High templar · Archon · Dark templar · Dark archon
Air units	Shuttle · Scout · Arbiter · Carrier (Interceptor) · Observer · Corsair
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

Protoss Units and Structures of StarCraft II
Infantry	Probe · Zealot · High templar · Dark templar · Archon
Land vehicles	Stalker · Immortal · Nullifier · Colossus
Air vehicles	Phase prism · Observer · Phoenix · Warp ray · Carrier (Interceptor) · Mothership
Basic buildings	Nexus · Assimilator · Pylon · Gateway (Warp gate) · Forge · Cybernetics core
Combat buildings	Photon Cannon
Advanced buildings	Twilight council · Dark obelisk · Templar archives · Robotics facility · Null circuit · Observatory · Stargate · Fleet beacon
Removed units	Escort · Reaver · Soul hunter/purifier · Star relic · Stasis orb · Tempest · Twilight archon
Removed buildings	Dark pylon · Robotics support bay · Phase cannon · War beacon · War shrine