One of three playable races in the game Starcraft by Blizzard Entertainment. They're the opposites of the scale compared to the Zerg. The Protoss are a stoic, psionically enhanced species which represent what we would know as the pinnacle of evolution. They are few in number, but each unit is incredibly powerful. One of the favorite units of Protoss enthousiasts is the Archon.

"Protoss" means "The Firstborn". In the storyline behind the game, they are the first creation of the Xel'Naga, a most likely extinct species which was obsessed with creating the ultimate lifeform.

The Protoss represent the purity of form. The Zerg represent the purity of essence.

From the Starcraft gaming community, similar to "Zerged".
Protossed is being just stream-rolled by a blatantly overpowered race, or imbalance in the game.

Means first born in Greek

Also a cool race in Starcraft

a very good race in the game Starcraft.

One of the playable races in Starcraft: Brood War and Starcraft 2.

Protoss units are the strongest of all races, but are the most expensive so they often get outnumbered.

Due to the ease of controlling less units, having stronger units, the versatility of photon cannons, and building warping, Protoss is considered as the "noob-friendly" race and it's the most overplayed race in online Starcraft.

Yet in competitive level Starcraft, Protoss is considered as the weakest race since with greater multitasking and tactics involved amongst competitive Starcraft, Zerg and Terran players trump Protoss ones.

The StarCraft race used by pussies who can't win with Terrans.

SHIELDS ARE FOR WIMPS!

A noob who through luck and unfair advantages manages to acheive higher than their means. This person usually has an unhealthy ego and dislikes it when you point out their lack of genuine talent and/or skill. Originates from a person who abuses the overpowered Protoss race for cheap wins in the computer game Starcraft II

Facts:
An air/space unit in the PC game 'Starcraft' that is used by the Protoss military forces. It is a slow moving behemoth of a captial ship that, instead of attacking with its own weapons, launches small robotic strike-craft called interceptors that it manufacturers in an internal factory. Used by many Protoss commanders to dominate far away planets. The carrier is now in-famous as a rushing weapon most commonly deployed by 'newbs' on Blizzards online competition arena Battlenet (see Carrier Rush).

Opinion:
I've always liked the carrier as a support unit. I admit to summoning them in masse' during the early days of my Battlenet career to attain cheap and tasteless victories, but I do not have shame using them as they were intented to be used.

Rumors:
"In Ressurection IV, a Protoss ship that may be a carrier is seen firing an immensely powerful beam from its underside as a planetary bombardment weapon, burning the surface of Braxis. A Protoss vessel, possibly a Carrier, was also seen in the introduction cinematic for the original Starcraft game, obliterating a Terran salvage vessel with a similar weapon.

While such bombardments were used against Chau Sara, Mar Sara and Antiga Prime, it's not clear if Carriers fired upon those planets as well.

Rumors indicate that the weapon fired used by the carriers on those instances was planned to be included in the game as a counterpart to the Terran Battlecruiser's Yamato Cannon, but later, this idea was scrapped due to the power given to the Protoss in the form of Psionic Storm."

-Source For Rumor- 'Wikipedia.com'

One who uses intricate pictures, and not words, to communicate.