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Dark Templar (SC1)
Race Protoss
Vitals
Shield 40
HP 80
Production
Minerals 125
Gas 100
Build time 50
Psi 2
Produced by Gateway
Requires Templar Archives (SC1)
Hotkey K
Combat
Modifiers Small, Biological
Defense 1
Movement Normal
Attack Modified Warp Blade

The Dark Templar is a powerful ground unit that is permanently cloaked, even when attacking.

Contents

Lore

Dark Templar Portrait
The dark templar are powerful psionic warriors whose forebears were exiled from the protoss homeworld of Aiur over a thousand years ago. The protoss who would eventually become the dark templar were banished for their refusal to join the emerging Khala, the communal mind link shared by all protoss, and the accompanying caste system enforced by the ruling Conclave of the protoss, believing that their individual identities would be erased to further the suffocating rule of the Conclave. They even went so far as to sever the long nerve tendrils that characterize the protoss. This act symbolically and literally cut them off from the primal chord of their race. The Conclave saw these rogues as a threat to the new order and charged the Templar caste with hunting and destroying them.

The templar, led by the idealistic warrior Adun, could not bring themselves to slay fellow protoss and thus hid them. The Conclave's fears appeared justified when Aiur was lashed by a wave of violent psionic storms unleashed by the undisciplined minds of the rebels. The Conclave was not willing to punish the templar openly for their disobedience because doing so would reveal the existence of the rebels. Instead, the dissident protoss were loaded aboard an ancient but functional Xel'Naga vessel and launched into space.

The exiled protoss wandered far before eventually making a new home on the twilight world of Shakuras. They developed a solitary and independent culture, with individuals often widely scattered across space in their own ships, exploring and contemplating the mysteries of the universe. Over time these dark templar have learned to wield a very different kind of psionic strength than that of the Khala: the energies of the Void, the dark spaces between worlds.

The dark templar are most renowned for their ability to bend light around their bodies to become invisible at will, and a true master of the Void can achieve much greater feats than this. Armed with their potent warp blades, the dark templar are deadly and relentless foes, capable of crippling conventional forces with their devastating strikes.

Though severed from their homeworld and feared by their own brethren for many centuries, the dark templar never abandoned their love of Aiur. In recent times they were reunited with the protoss of their homeworld when the heroes Tassadar and Zeratul joined forces to fight the zerg Overmind. The Overmind was defeated, but the planet Aiur was ravaged in the process and so badly overrun by zerg that the survivors retreated to Shakuras. Now the protoss who were once exiled find themselves playing host to refugees from their old home.

Weapons

Modified Warp Blade (SC1)

Abilities

Permanent Cloak (SC1) Dark Archon Meld

Upgrades

Ground Weapons (SC1) [edit]
  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Minerals minerals.gif 100 minerals.gif 150 minerals.gif 200
Gas gas.gif 100 gas.gif 150 gas.gif 200
Time buildtime.gif ? buildtime.gif ? buildtime.gif ?
Researched at Forge
Affects Archon (SC1), Dark Templar (SC1), Dragoon, Zealot (SC1)
Increases attack damage for Protoss ground units.
Ground Armor (SC1) [edit]
  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Minerals minerals.gif 100 minerals.gif 175 minerals.gif 250
Gas gas.gif 100 gas.gif 175 gas.gif 250
Time buildtime.gif ? buildtime.gif ? buildtime.gif ?
Researched at Forge
Affects Archon (SC1), Dark Archon, Dark Templar (SC1), Dragoon, High Templar (SC1), Probe (SC1), Reaver, Zealot (SC1)
Increases armor defense for Protoss ground units.
Plasma Shields (SC1) [edit]
  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Minerals minerals.gif 200 minerals.gif 300 minerals.gif 400
Gas gas.gif 200 gas.gif 300 gas.gif 400
Time buildtime.gif 75 buildtime.gif 90 buildtime.gif 105
Researched at Forge
Affects All Protoss Units and Buildings
Increases shield regeneration rate for all Protoss units and buildings.


StarCraft 2

The Dark Templar's StarCraft 2 model
Statistic wise the Dark Templar has not changed much. As far as gameplay is concerned it is still pretty much the same unit and it's role remains unchanged. It should be pointed out that the Starcraft 2 Dark Templar model was a topic of many disputes that the final result was a pool made by Blizzard.

From January 8 to February 5, 2009, Blizzard held a poll in which the fans voted on whether to have the Lenassa tribe, the Zer'atai tribe, or both tribes randomly, appear in multiplayer matches. The poll resulted in both tribes appearing randomly when a Dark Templar is built.


 
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