Immortal

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"We serve forever."

―Protoss immortal^src

Immortal
Unit
Race	Protoss
Role	Ranged Assault Support Walker
Properties
Hit points	200[1]
Shields	100[1]
Type	Ground[1][2] Mechanical[1][2]
Armor type	Armored[2]
Production
Minerals	250[2]
Gas	100[2]
Psi	4[3]
Build time	50[4]
Produced at	Robotics facility[5][6]
Requires	Twilight council[2][7]
Hot key	I[2]
Combat
Ground attack	20 (+20 vs armored)[4]
Armor	0[2]
Attack range	5[2]

The immortal is a protoss cybernetic trooper.^[8]

Contents 1 Overview 2 Game Unit 2.1 Abilities 2.2 Upgrades 3 Known Immortals 4 Quotes 5 Herbie the Goldfish 6 References

[edit] Overview

Historically, crippled veteran templar could volunteer to continue serving by being transplanted into dragoon exoskeletons. This honored tradition was broken when the zerg infested the sacred shrine dedicated to the creation of dragoons during the fall of Aiur. After the Brood War, crippled protoss soldiers were transplanted into the new immortal shells.^[9] The remaining dragoons were transformed into immortals as well.^[8]

Immortals are outfitted with twin phase disruptors as their primary attack form; they give critical fire support to legions of zealots^[8] against ground targets.^[10] Their specially hardened energy shields only activate when struck by powerful attacks, which leaves them more vulnerable to the pinprick attacks of lesser foes.^[11]

[edit] Game Unit

Immortals can only attack ground units, but do additional bonus damage to armored units.^[12] Their powerful shields protect them against enemy units with heavy attacks but they are easily countered by rapid attacking units such as reapers,^[11] marines or zerglings.^[12]

[edit] Abilities

Hardened Shields Acquisition Researched at Automatically[5] Notes The hardened shields reduce incoming damage[13] to 10.[14][15] After the shields are depleted, the immortal takes damage directly to its hit points. Damage calculation is as follows: When the Immortal is attacked and it has Shields left, the damage is calculated in the same way than any other unit (including Shield Upgrades). If the calculated damage is 10 or below, it's applied directly (exactly the same than any other unit). If it's higher than 10, it's reduced to 10 by the Hardened Shield mechanic, then applied. [16] The shield even stopped the damage from an incoming nuclear missile in April 2008.[17] A battlecruiser's Yamato Cannon attack will not activate Hardened Shields[18] and other spell attacks ignore the hardened shields.[19] The ghost's EMP ability can be used to remove an immortal's shields.[20] Edit

Hardened shield in action.

[edit] Upgrades

Ground Weapons Researched at Forge[21] Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100[21] 150[21] 200[21] Gas 100[21] 150[21] 200[21] Research time 140[21] 170[21] 200[21] Notes Applies to zealots, dark templar, archons, stalkers, immortals, disruptors and the colossus. Edit	Ground Armor Researched at Forge[21] Hotkey A Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100[21] 175[21] 250[21] Gas 100[21] 175[21] 250[21] Research time 140[21] 170[21] 200[21] Edit
Plasma shields Researched at Forge[21] Hotkey S[21] Properties Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 200[21] 300[21] 400[21] Gas 200[21] 300[21] 400[21] Research time 140[21] 170[21] 200[21] Notes +1 to shields per level. Edit

[edit] Known Immortals

Khastiana

[edit] Quotes

Main article: StarCraft II Immortal Quotations

[edit] Herbie the Goldfish

As an Easter egg, the immortal's portrait occasionally shows a "goldfish", although currently it appears more often than it should. As a joke, Dustin Browder calls the fish "Herbie".^[22]

[edit] References

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