This could hint at the fact that the Vulture's graphics may have originally belonged to the Merc Biker. A closer look into the data files reveals that a Vulture wireframe is near the Cargo Ship's, Raider's, and Merc Biker's wireframes. This name was later included in Warcraft 3. A character named Grom was intended to be a Merc Biker hero, but didn't make the cut. The Merc Biker is a mysterious units of which little is known. What currently remains in the game is an empty unit with an alternate sprite of the Scout using the Raider's wireframe. It's also notably bigger than the Valkyrie as well.
grp was altered and turned into the Terran Valkyrie for StarCraft: Brood War. Two hero Raiders, Boskk, another Star Wars reference, and Peter had been created for this unit. This unit is safe to place and use.Īn Independent unit of unclear purpose. What currently remains in the game is an empty unit with an alternate sprite of the Scout using the Cargo Ship's wireframe. The developers made the Independents use the remaining obsolete versions instead. It's possible that this unit was the Terran's Battlecruiser, until they made a more powerful version. The Cargo Ship is rumored to be the original Battlecruiser. One hero named Sally was intended to be for the Cargo Ship. There was one Gunship hero unit known as Greedo, which is a reference to the Star Wars character. After that, the Gunship became only used by the cut race "Independents" as they used the old outdated Terran technology. However, it was found that the Wraith could deal out a similar amount of damage to capital ships while evading most defensive battery attacks. Small, dynamic, high-speed fighters such as the Wraith were developed instead. Gunships were once Terran vessels meant to be used in conjunction with capital ships, such as the Battlecruiser. The graphics for these can be found in the Starcraft Prototype. They appear as an oddly static version of the Protoss Scout, all the other unused units listed here will crash the game. Only the Cargo ship, the Raider, and the Independent Starport can be placed in the game. It can be used by an AI opponent, but the game will crash if it is assigned as the Player's primary race, likely due to missing assets. This is probably the most concrete evidence supporting the fact there was originally a fourth race in development. The Civilian is also listed in the Independent category, hinting that he also may have once been an Independent Unit before he was turned into a Terran Hero.Īlso, if one opens any map or creates a new map in SCMDraft 2 (an unofficial StarCraft map editor), when looking at the options for players 'Independent' is listed there in the Race selection for every player. The actual Independent Advisor was recycled for the Terran Science Vessel. While this portrait is assigned to some of the Independent buildings, the portrait value points to the Marine and thus displays the Marine. They even have their own Advisor listed in the game: "NAdvisor". It's possible that it only showed up in the campaign and/or custom maps. These suggest that there was a fourth race in development, which may not have even been able to be controlled by the player. Hidden inside the game files are many units that are all listed as "Independent Buildings", "Independent Units", or "Independent Heroes". Although she exists as a unit, she uses the Corsair's sprites but is much weaker and has a Dark Templar unit's wireframe. Raszagal is probably the most incomplete unit. Like Tassadar, Aldaris has an attack but unlike Tassadar he has no abilities and lacks voice-overs. Tassadar and Aldaris share stats so if one is modified the other is affected as well. This illusion can easily be seen if the player selects them before the mission ends). In said mission, Tassadar's unit is used instead but through some clever use of triggers, it's made to look like it's actually Aldaris (this is actually used for a number of "non-existant heroes" in Brood War, such as Raszagal. However, his actual unit goes unused, even in the Brood War mission "The Insurgent". Please fix this.Īldaris was originally intended to be a unit. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures. 5 Unused Fourth Race Units (Independents).2.2 "terran\terran10" (Operation: Silent Scream).2.1 "terran\terran7" (Biting the Bullet).
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