Corsair

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Corsair
Unit
Race	Protoss
Role	Medium Support Space Fighter
Armament	Neutron flare
Properties
Hit points	100
Shields	80
Energy	200
Size	Medium
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	100
Psi	2
Build time	40
Produced at	Stargate
Hot key	O
Combat
Air attack	5es
Cooldown	8
Armor	1
Attack range	5
Sight range	8
Unit speed	6.67

The corsair is a protoss anti-fighter spacecraft introduced in StarCraft: Brood War.^[1]

Contents 1 Overview 2 Game Unit 2.1 StarCraft 2.1.1 Abilities 2.1.2 Upgrades 2.2 StarCraft II 3 Known Units 4 Known Pilots 5 Images 6 References

[edit] Overview

The corsair is a fast, medium sized warship, built by the Dark Templar to safeguard their nomadic fleets. Extremely quick and agile, the corsair was a versatile addition to the protoss fleet with the Dark Templar's reunion with their Khalai counterparts.^[2]

Corsairs are designed for ship-to-ship combat, employing twin neutron flares. In addition, corsair pilots can focus their psionic powers through their vessel's Neutron Emitters against ground targets, making the corsair a valuable part of siege warfare.^[1]

Despite its abilities, the corsair is considered to be an aging vessel and is steadily being phased out by the phoenix.^[3]

[edit] Game Unit

[edit] StarCraft

The corsair has a low damage attack but with a very high rate of fire that also causes 1/2 splash damage to units within a 50 pixel radius around the target and 1/4 splash damage within 100 pixels.^[2]

This makes the corsair similar to the terran Valkyrie: both are ideal against groups of low-armor units like mutalisks but are somewhat less effective against more heavily armored units like battlecruisers and carriers. Disruption Web allows corsairs to provide valuable combat support by temporarily crippling an opponent's ranged-attack structures/units.

[edit] Abilities

Disruption Web
Acquisition Researched at Fleet beacon	Usage Energy 125 Range 9
Notes
The Corsair pilot can focus their psychic energy through the vessel's Neutron Emitter, which creates psionic static which disrupts neural impulses and renders computer-directed attacks inaccurate. The web is drawn towards the magnetic resonance found in ores and minerals. This static prevents all ground units and buildings (including base defenses such as bunkers and missile turrets) from attacking while they remain under it, but does not prevent attacks from outside. Affected units may still be attacked and damaged by units outside the web.

[edit] Upgrades

Air Weapons Researched at Cybernetics core Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100 175 250 Gas 100 175 250 Research time 266 298 330 Required Fleet beacon Fleet beacon Notes +1 bonus to attack per level for scout ground attack, arbiters, carrier interceptors, corsair air attack, and scout air attack.	Air Armor Researched at Cybernetics core Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 150 225 300 Gas 150 225 300 Notes +1 bonus to armor per level for shuttles, scouts, arbiters, carriers, interceptors, observers and corsairs.
Plasma shields Researched at Forge Hotkey S Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 200 300 400 Gas 200 300 400 Required Cybernetics core Cybernetics core Notes +1 bonus to shields per level for all units and structures.	Argus Jewel Researched at Fleet beacon Properties Minerals 100 Gas 100 Notes Increases the Corsair's maximum energy by 50.

[edit] StarCraft II

The corsair does not appear in StarCraft II, having been replaced by the phoenix.

[edit] Known Units

• Airun Corsairs

[edit] Known Pilots

• Khrillian

[edit] Images

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[edit] References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Underwood, Peter, Chris Metzen and Bill Roper. StarCraft: Brood War (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Corsair. StarCraft Compendium Protoss Units. 2007-07-01.
3. ↑ Phoenix. Accessed on 2008-02-12

Protoss Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War
Ground units	Probe · Zealot · Dragoon · Reaver · High templar · Archon • Brood War only • Dark templar · Dark archon
Air units	Shuttle · Scout · Arbiter · Carrier (Interceptor) · Observer • Brood War only • 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 Starship Classifications
Transports	Atmospheric vessel • Escape pod • Shuttle • Warp prism
Starfighters	Corsair • Phoenix • Scout — Pathfinder Scout · Scout Hero • Void ray
Support Ships	Arbiter — High Arbiter · Paganite • Mothership • Star relic
Capital Ships	Carrier · Fleet Carrier · Super carrier • Mothership • Tempest
Carrier-Launched Fighters	Escort • Interceptor