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The ghost academy is a terran structure in StarCraft II. It is required for the production of ghosts and with a factory can produce nukes.

Game Structure

Arm Nuke

Main article: Arm Nuke

In StarCraft II, ghosts maintain the ability to launch nukes. The laser pointer has been replaced with a blast footprint visible to the launching player; however, the opponent sees only a red dot.

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Arm Silo with Nuke

Arms the silo with a tactical nuke.

Nukes take 20 seconds to land, but they deal up to 300 (+200 vs. structures) damage in a large radius.

Acquisition
Purchased from Ghost Academy
Hotkey N
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 43seconds
Required Factory
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Researched Upgrades and Abilities

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Personal Cloaking

Enables ghosts and spectres to cloak.

Usage
Hotkey C
Cost 25 (+0.9 per second) Energy
Acquisition
Purchased from Ghost academy/Shadow ops
Hotkey C
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 120seconds
ve

Wings of Liberty

Increases the ghost's starting energy by 25.

Acquisition
Purchased from Ghost academy
Hotkey M
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 57seconds
ve

Building Upgrades

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay
Hotkey B
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 100seconds
ve

Wings of Liberty Campaign

All structures repair themselves to 50% life. All structure fires are automatically put out.

This all-in-one safety system automatically dispatches robotic drones to put out any fires and perform basic repairs on damaged structures. Although these drones are effective at doing basic repairs, they do not have a strong enough AI to perform the more delicate repairs needed to restore a structure past half life.[1]

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Complete 12 missions.
Acquired from Hyperion armory for $90,000
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Development

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Concept art

The ghost academy uses the former shadow ops render. It was capable of flying in early versions of the game, but this was later removed, as it was decided that only unit-producing structures should be capable of doing so.[2] Such a technique unbalanced the ghost academy in multiplayer, as players could move it to an obscure corner of the map and nuke the enemy at will.[3]

References

  1. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Armory upgrades (in English). 2010.
  2. 2011, Terran Engineering Bay. Deviantart, accessed on 2011-05-30
  3. 2011, SC2: Terran Ghost Academy. Deviantart, accessed on 2011-06-10
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