Hey you.
Yes, you!
I know how you Tri-tach operatives rush to that blasted Automated Ships skill and completely forget about every single [redacted] ship but the Radiant and shove an Alpha core in it faster than it takes an Enforcer with a Faulty Power Grid to overload!
Well
Sonny, I'm here to tell you that sometimes,
sometimes the best options do not revolve around building your whole fleet back togheder to better synegize with that
Drone battleship!
No! There are smaller, smarter ways to solve your problems, and we're going to start this lenghty discussion with the Glimmer drone frigade, the most annoying little chestnut in the sector!
Assault Variant, must go fasterDo frigades and phase frigades annoy the everliving Ludd out of you? Don't you wish there was something that behaved
exactly like a frigade does to a capital ships,
but to frigades themselves?
With a recovery chance upon destruction higher than the chance of being
helped without your consent by a Pirate Armada the moment you're dragging a mothballed XIV Legion back to the Core and a trusty, almost clean Gamma Core salvaged from an Officer's toilet; this nasty, tenacious little chestnut of a drone will rush into the enemy at the incredible speed of
276 space units per second and will keep fighting its unfortunate victim until it's either dead, out of targets or simply too tired to keep on going after its respectable 202 seconds of peak performance time runs out!
What's that, has the enemy thought it would be a good idea to deply an itty bitty Afflictor Phase frigade to hunt your gentle, soft backsides of your Legions? Just unleash this scourge of a squirrel filled up with all the Recreational Drugs in your cargo holdson its trail and that cowardly phase-abuser will not even be able to get away from it!
Support Variant, the goodest o bois!Do your targets keep getting away? Have you become so enamored with the thought of being able to make some tea by the time your capitals have made it to the frontline that you just
happened to forget you do not have any meaningful way of immobilizing the enemy fast enough to kill it before it kites you around the entire map for 5 minutes? Well would you look at what I have here. This special version of the Glimmer has gotten its Gamma Core from a Pirate Microwave that saw way too many Harvested Organs during its life and now only has one mission in life, to fry everything that sits in front of it with an Ion Beam and two Salamander MRMs long enough for
anything else in your fleet to reach and take care of it!
Does that not sound like the absolute best of friendly, ever reliable frigades? You could even send it on its way into battle and be sure that -thanks to its Unstable Injector and twin PD laser- the enemy will just be wasting however many minutes of their lives pointlessly chasing this one frigade while the rest of their forces are getting smoked faster than Organics when you have a Cryosleeper near your colonies!
What do you say now, commander? No fancy cores, no need for it to be pristine and no need to even care for it in battle. Doesen't this very special chestnut feel like part of your fleet already?