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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 Energy

Size

Medium

Production
Minerals

150 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

Gas

100 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

Psi

2 Psi

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

[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.

Corsair wireframe

[edit] Abilities

Disruption Web
Acquisition
Researched at

Fleet beacon

Usage
Energy

125 Energy

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

File:AirWeapons SC1 Upgrd1.png Air Weapons
Researched at

Cybernetics core

Properties
Level

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Minerals

100 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

175 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

250 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

Gas

100 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

175 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

250 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

Research time

266 time

298 time

330 time

Required

Fleet beacon

Fleet beacon

Notes
File:AirArmor SC1 Upgrd1.png Air Armor
Researched at

Cybernetics core

Properties
Level

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Minerals

150 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

225 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

300 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

Gas

150 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

225 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

300 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

Notes
File:PlasmaShield SC1 Upgrd1.png Plasma shields
Researched at

Forge

Hotkey

S

Properties
Level

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Minerals

200 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

300 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

400 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

Gas

200 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

300 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

400 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

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 Image:Minerals Terran SC1.png

Gas

100 Image:Gas Protoss SC1.png

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

[edit] Known Pilots

[edit] Images

[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
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