Got into Starsector after a long hiatus and figured to drop kudos to some favorite faction mods.
Now, I can't help myself.. I always go for Interstellar Imperium.
But these diable guys vs II? Holy smoly, it's a spectacle of definitely-not-gundams/macross jets, missiles and artillery fire. Currentlyt fighting an all out of war with these guys. Zephyr might be OP yeah, but luckily AI doesn't employ those too often.
Still, with my ragtag fleet of mostly imperium with few vanilla ships and variety of weapons, to win against these guys I need to take break from constant sledge cannon barrage to check fronts, issue new orders and whatnot to keep a steady fortress of Imperial space steel to return fire.
Not to mention the ship designs scream of ye space animes. At one point I swore Diable Avionics was straight ripped from existing anime, but after much googling.. Yep, it's just space anime inspired faction that took a lot of great tropes and made an interesting faction.
Soon gonna have those fancy DA tech in my personal fleet as exploring yielded good deal of DA tech!