Supercarrier
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- This article is about the terran ships which brought the terrans to the Koprulu Sector. For the powerful protoss Carriers, see Super Carrier.
The supercarriers were a quartet of Earth-designed faster-than-light transport vessels which carried the ancestors of the Koprulu Sector terrans to the Koprulu Sector.
[edit] Overview
A brilliant young scientist named Doran Routhe made plans to consolidate his power within the United Powers League by creating a colonization project to collect minerals and other resources from outside the solar system. It was very risky, but he had no problem with sending political prisoner lab rats to their potential deaths. Fifty six thousand prisoners were (secretly) prepared for transport, and of these, forty thousand were loaded into four sleeper-ships designated the Reagan, the Argo, the Sarengo, and the Nagglfar and loaded for a one year journey into deep space to Gantris VI, a distant planet. Only the Nagglfar had a navigation system; the other three ships would follow it. The Nagglfar was also equipped with an artificial intelligence called ATLAS.
ATLAS scanned the prisoners en route, and discovered something unusual about them - a relatively high proportion of them had a mutation leading to psionic potential. While currently weak, it would manifest in only a few generations. This information was logged and sent back to Earth. This may explain how the United Powers League came to know of this experiment.
However, the guidance system failed, and the ships traveled at faster-than-light speeds for twenty-eight years, traveling 60,000 light years. Eventually the warp engines failed, and the ships emerged within the Koprulu Sector in a star system which contained a myriad of barren, if habitable, planets. This event would become known as the Long Sleep. The ships thus engaged their emergency systems and headed for the worlds that would become known as Umoja, Tarsonis and Moria.
[edit] References
Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
| Terran Starship Classifications
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| Transports | Cargo |
Barge • Cargo ship — Giant-class • Freighter • Recovery vessel • Space-hauler • System runner |
| Personnel |
Escape pod • Orbital dropship • Orbital spacecraft • Planet hopper • Puddle-jumper • Salvage vessel • Shuttle • Supercarrier • Tour ship • Yacht | |
| Military |
Drop pod • Escape pod • Quantradyne APOD-33 dropship · Assault dropship · Heavy lander · Hercules dropship · Medivac dropship • Grizzly • Hawk • Mammoth-class personnel carrier | |
| Strike Craft | Starfighters | |
| Transforming | ||
| Support Ships |
Exploration vessel • Raven • Science vessel — Elite science vessel · Kang science station • Scoutship • Utility vehicle | |
| Warships | Light |
AH/G-24 Banshee • Destroyer • Gun cutter • Gunship • Frigate — Valkyrie • Class 4 Interceptor • Wanderer |
| Cruisers | ||
| Battlecruisers |
Leviathan-class · Behemoth-class · Starcruiser · Hercules-class · Minotaur-class | |
