HERC

The HERC is a terran frontline infantry unit.

Overview[]

The HERC is equipped with a welding gun and a grapple line. They are specialized to take on waves of light units, and are immune to acidic explosions. Many HERCs were ex-asteroid miners conscripted into service.^[1]

History[]

End War[]

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

HERCs were present at the Kel-Morian Combine colony overseen by Guildmaster Debra Greene. However, the colony was overrun by the zerg, and multiple HERCs were infested. When allied commanders arrived to evacuate the colony, infested HERCs were sent against their forces, both on the ground and in militarized transports.^[2]

In the alternate timeline where Tychus Findlay survived the opening stages of the End War, the elite HERC Rob Boswell took part in battles across the sector against Amon's Forces.^[3]

Jarban Minor[]

HERCs accompanied the Umojan Protectorate expedition to Jarban Minor. However, the expedition was quickly overrun by the zerg, and most of the researchers were infested. A group of HERCs and War Pigs held out however, and when Agent Nova Terra and her Terran Dominion forces arrived on Jarban Minor they aided her in retrieving terrazine from the planet in exchange for a way off of the planet.^[4]

Game Unit[]

Nova Covert Ops[]

HERCs are a campaign only unit in Nova Covert Ops in the mission Night Terrors. They are immune to the acidic explosions of the volatile infested, and serve as a frontline defender against the waves of infested colonists and infested marines sent at the player. They are built from the HERC compound.

Co-op Missions[]

Tychus has the ability deploy the elite outlaw HERC Cannonball in Co-op Missions.

HERCs appear on the Miner Evacuation map as part of the infested. These HERCs are identical to regular HERCs, except with a neural parasite attached to their model. Multiple HERCs can be spawned from various militarized transports that will attack the evacuating ships.

A HERC is a possible gift that can be gained during the "Gift Exchange" mutator.^[6]

Abilities[]

Development[]

Quotations[]

See: StarCraft II HERC quotations

Known HERCs[]

• Rob Boswell

Notes[]

Data in the Galaxy Map Editor refers to the HERC as the "Commando" and the "Jumper."

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

Terran Occupations v • e
Civilian Archaeologist Criminal Engineers and technicians Medical personnel Miners and prospectors Pilot Politician Port grub Reporter Salvager Scientist SCV Military Firebat Ghost HERC Laborer Light infantry Marauder Marine Medic Mercenary Niner Outrider PIG Ranger Reaper Ripper Shadowguard Spectre Trooper Wrangler