Mothership Core
Unit
Race	Protoss
Role	Caster
Armament	Repulsor Cannon
Properties
Maximum energy	200 (init. 50, resets to 50 when upgraded)[1]
Sight range	14[2]
Production
Minerals	100
Gas	100
Psi	2
Build time	30
Produced from	Nexus
Requires	Cybernetics core
Hotkey	M
Movement
Speed	1.875
Collision radius	0.8[3]
Protection
Shields	60
Hit points	130
Armor	1
Type	Air Mechanical Psionic
Armor type	Armored
Repulsor Cannon
Damage	8
Targets	Ground
Cooldown	0.85
Range	5
Upgrade/level	+1
Function
Upgrades to	Mothership
Miscellaneous
Notes	A player may only have 1 mothership core at a time.

The mothership core is a protoss unit built from the nexus. It provides support abilities and only one core can be built per player.

Overview

Motherships are costly and time-consuming to produce. As a result, the protoss have begun constructing them in two stages, with the mothership core being the first step. The core itself is used as a defensive and support weapon until a mothership can be completed.^[4]

Game Unit

The mothership core is available to players very early in the game and it is highly recommended that they build one in this stage.^[5]

The mothership core was created to solve the problem of multiplayer protoss vs. protoss games, said games rarely going to mid-late game due to the warp-in abilities negating the defender's advantage. Its Photon Overcharge ability is a counter to this,^[6] along with countering zerg rush techniques.^[7] It is also intended that its Recall abilities will allow protoss players to be more aggressive.^[8]

Its unit portrait is the same as that of the standard mothership. It also speaks with a female voice.

Abilities

Time Warp
The mothership core creates a temporal field that slows all ground units’ movement speed within a 3.5 radius by 50%. This ability costs 75 energy to cast and has a range of 9.^[2]

Development

Main article: Mothership core/Development

References