StarCraft, Blizzard's landmark real-time strategy game from 1998, featured the Protoss carrier as one of its most powerful and expensive air units, a slow capital ship that launched waves of interceptors. When StarCraft: Remastered arrived in 2017, its graphics and audio were updated while the original gameplay was preserved, giving familiar unit sounds a cleaner, sharper HD presentation. The carrier sound has since circulated in gameplay clips, strategy videos and memes, where it works as shorthand for late-game Protoss power and for the nostalgia of classic RTS play.