Queen
Unit
Race	Zerg
Affiliation	Zerg Swarm
Campaign	Wings of Liberty
Base unit	Queen
Role	Metamorph
Armament	Talons Acid spines
Properties
Maximum energy	0
Movement
Speed	2.5
Collision radius	0.875
Protection
Hit points	3000 (4000 on brutal difficulty)
Armor	1
Type	Biological Heroic
Talons
Damage	25 (+25 vs mechanical)
Targets	Ground
Cooldown	1.5
Range	6
Acid spines
Damage	9
Targets	Air
Cooldown	1
Range	7

A particularly powerful queen (bigger than an ultralisk) defended the Char nydus network beneath the surface of Char. She guarded nests of cocoons in the chambers.^[1]

BiographyEdit

Main article: Belly of the Beast

Jim Raynor led an expedition to the tunnels, in order to plant explosives into key points and destroy the nydus network on Char. At the last key point, they encountered this queen and were forced to kill her, being too dangerous and powerful to be left alone with the seismic charges.^[1]

Game UnitEdit

When this queen appears, its hit points appear in a boss bar. It constantly uses Deep Tunnel to transport itself around the map, enabling it to pop eggs for a time until the player's heroes can catch it.

AbilitiesEdit

Burrow
Acquisition Minerals 100 Gas 100 Evolution time 100 Evolved at Hatchery/Lair/Hive Requires Lair Hatchery (HotS only) Hotkey B	Usage Activation/ Build Time 2 seconds to burrow, 1 second to unburrow Hotkey R
Notes
Many zerg ground units may burrow, become invisible and may be revealed primarily by detectors, and may not move or attack. Exceptions are the roach, who may move while burrowed, the infestor, who may move and cast Infested Terran,[2] and the baneling which can detonate while burrowed. Some units can unburrow via autocast, causing them to emerge and attack when an enemy moves into range. The ability is not smartcast.
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Deep Tunnel Usage Hotkey D Notes The unit tunnels deep underground and surfaces at any target. Edit

Psionic Shockwave Usage Hotkey V Notes Releases a burst of psionic energy radiating outward from the queen, knocking away all units and also inflicts the knockdown condition, stunning enemy units. This ability is only used toward the end of the battle.

• Pop Eggs (pops a cocoon, releasing either three infested colonists, one colonist and one zergling or one infested marine).

Defunct AbilityEdit

The queen has the basic Transfusion ability, but without energy cannot activate it.

NotesEdit

This version of the queen is not a separate unit in the map editor; it is instead simply a modification of the queen in the mission "Belly of the Beast".

This version of the queen, if made playable via the map editor, cannot use its Pop Eggs or Shockwave abilities; they do not appear on the command card. It also cannot use Transfusion as it has no energy meter.

ReferencesEdit