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The Protoss Conclave - Units and Stuctures

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Arbiter Tribunal

The ominous Arbiter Tribunal is designed by the exalted Protoss Judicator caste to provide a space-time anchor so that Arbiter-class spacecraft orbiting their homeworld Aiur may warp through remote Stargates to assist their brethren in combat. The Arbiter Tribunal is fairly expensive building designed to facilitate the use of a very expensive spacecraft, so you must have a great deal of available and incoming resources before establishing this structure.

Hit/Shield Points 500/500
Time to Build 60
Cost 200m 150g
Requires Templar Archives, Stargate
Special Options   Develop Recall 150m 150g Time 120
  Develop Stasis Field 150m 150g Time 100
  Develop Khaydarin Core 150m 150g Time 166

Though the primary function of the Arbiter is to provide a localized cloaking field for all friendly forces within its sphere of influence, you may research two important secondary abilities at your Tribunal. Both the Recall and Stasis Field abilities are remarkably effective, and researching the Khaydarin Core will provide for your Arbiters an additional 50 points of energy with which to use them. Since Arbiters take a long while to warp in, Cost a small fortune, and demand a huge complement of defenders under their cloaking field, don't even consider building the Arbiter Tribunal until near to the conclusion of a particular battle after you've expanded your base as far as possible.