Drakken laser drill

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The Drakken laser drill is a large terran structure. It mounts a large turreted beam emitter which may be used for excavations or, if the need arises, as a weapon. Its laser has an energy output of 174 gigawatts.^[1]

History[]

The laser drill was originally designed for excavation projects.^[2]

In 2504, the Moebius Foundation assembled a Drakken on Xil to breach the door of a xel'naga temple and retrieve an alien artifact. The excavation was interrupted when the terrans were wiped out by the Tal'darim.

The Foundation hired Raynor's Raiders to complete the dig. The Tal'darim pressed in on the new interlopers. The appearance of archons and warp prisms prompted Captain Matt Horner to grant Commander Jim Raynor manual control of the laser. This allowed the Drakken to be re-targeted against enemy units.

With the temple's doors destroyed, the Raiders extracted the artifact and departed.^[1]

After the End War, Drakken laser drills were utilized by the miners of Cavir in their illegal mining operations on the world. They used these drills against the zerg in the Battle of Camp Pitcairn.^[3]

	This article or section contains information derived from Co-op Missions, and should not be considered part of the official StarCraft storyline.

During the End War, Amon's forces used a Drakken Laser Drill against the allied commanders.

Game Structure[]

Wings of Liberty[]

The laser drill is a very powerful weapon, capable of killing archons and collossi in less than a second. It is also the only weapon that can destroy the three protoss research objectives on the map. Though it does massive damage in seconds once it begins firing, locking onto a target and firing the initial laser has a delay, and the laser must swing around to fire at units, further delaying its firing.^[1]

Co-op Missions[]

The laser drill is usable by Rory Swann in the Co-op Missions mode of Legacy of the Void.^[4]

At the beginning of every mission, the laser drill begins construction automatically near Swann's command center, and takes five minutes to complete. Once completed, the laser drill can be manually controlled, and will otherwise automatically acquire and attack targets anywhere in the player's sight radius. The laser drill has infinite range and can be upgraded at the player's discretion. If the drill is destroyed, it is replaced with an invincible wreckage that takes two minutes to automatically repair itself.

The laser drill appears as an enemy structure in some mutators with 2000 shields and 1000 HP. Like Swann's drill, it will be replaced with an invincible wreckage when destroyed and automatically repair itself after two minutes.

Abilities[]

Upgrades[]

Development[]

The drill underwent an artistic revision during development, in order to make it look more like hardware and less like a weapon. The artwork was re-textured a few times (construction yellow, to covert-ops black, and then back to construction yellow again with a hint of covert-ops black). There used to be a floor inside the railing which would have had operators maintaining the drill, as well as a seat in front of the monitor bank with an operator behind the keyboard. Time and various other factors eventually phased those features out. The texture on the monitors remained unchanged; they resemble the Windows Blue Screen of Death.^[5]

Heroes of the Storm[]

	The following section contains information from Heroes of the Storm and is not canon to StarCraft continuity

A Drakken laser drill can be summoned by Tychus Findlay in Heroes of the Storm.^[2]

Trivia[]

During the Wings of Liberty Mission on Xil, if one were to zoom in the camera on the structure one can see a classic Microsoft Windows "blue screen of death" on the screens of the laser drill itself.

References[]

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e

Versus Units and Structures Infantry SCV Marine Reaper Marauder Ghost Terrestrial Vehicles MULE Hellion Hellbat (HotS) Siege tank Cyclone (LotV) Thor Widow mine (HotS) Aerospace Vessels Viking Medivac dropship Banshee Raven Battlecruiser Liberator (LotV) Spawned Units MULE Drop pod Nuclear missile Basic Buildings Command center Refinery Supply depot Barracks Engineering bay Automated Defenses Auto-turret Missile turret Point defense drone Repair drone (LotV, removed) Support Buildings Orbital command Planetary fortress Sensor tower Bunker Add-ons Tech lab Reactor Advanced Buildings Ghost academy Factory Armory Starport Fusion core Campaign and Co-op Missions Units and Structures Mercenaries Devil Dogs Hammer Securities Siege Breakers Spartan Company War Pigs Hel's Angels Dusk Wings Jackson's Revenge Dominion Elite Guard Sons of Korhal Prometheus Company Death Head Aegis Guard Field Response Theta Emperor's Shadow Outback Hunter Bulwark Company Shock Division Blackhammer Sky Fury Squadron Night Wolves Winged Nightmare Pride of Augustgrad Valor of Vardona Infantry Dominion laborer Dominion trooper Assault Flame Rocket Elite marine Firebat HERC Marauder commando Medic Rebel Spectre Spec ops ghost Trooper Terrestrial Vehicles Armored personnel carrier Diamondback Goliath Heavy siege tank Hellion/Hellbat ranger Militarized transport Predator Sensor drone Strike goliath Vulture Warhound Aerospace Vessels Asteria wraith Assault galleon Assault drone Covert banshee Deimos viking Griffon Hercules dropship Imperial intercessor Imperial witness Raid liberator Raven Type-II Science vessel Harvester Special ops dropship Sonar drone Sovereign battlecruiser Strike fighter Tac fighter Theia raven Valkyrie Wraith Spawned units A.R.E.S. Bio-mechanical repair drone Mag mine Revitalizer Sabotage drone Basic Buildings Automated refinery Enlistment center Fixers' safehouse Gunslinger's hideout Muscle armory Advanced Buildings Dominion starport HERC compound Medivac platform Merc compound Merc starport Royal academy Shadow ops Add-ons Tech reactor Support Buildings Laser drill Earthsplitter ordnance Hive mind emulator Psi disrupter Nuclear silo Strike fighter platform Supply bunker Automated defenses Devastation turret Gas turret Gun turret Flame turret Ordnance tower Perdition turret Railgun turret Sentry gun Shrike turret Spider mine Cerberus mine Warhound turret Canceled Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e Scrapped Removed Units Anti-air walker Block B Bulwark D-8 charges Genetic knight Guardian Gundam HERC Hercules tank Incinerator Laser drill tank Mine drone Missile launcher Nomad Pillager Predator Prison infantry guard Quantradyne APOD-33 dropship Raider Ranger Red Adder Scavenger Scout Shredder Super crane Targeting drone Valkyrie Zeus battle tank Zeus lander Removed Buildings Drop pod facility Gun platform Listening post Munitions depot Radar tower Star base

List of Terran Weapon Systems v • e

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