Player ships

Base specification

Controls and abilities

• Shard Rails (LMB / right trigger): 3 shards per burst, 50ms apart; repeat every 400ms. 11 damage and 2.4 energy per shard, 40m range. Pierces 3 enemies; every impact explodes and sheds 3 homing splinters. Hits refresh 4s conductivity. All lightning abilities detonate retained marks, sharing a 1.2s cooldown per enemy.
• Arc Lightning (Hold Right click / left trigger): Charge 200-1000ms, then release. 40-140 initial damage; up to 7 unique enemies, 80% damage per subsequent jump. 42m aimed reach; jumps 8m, or 13m from conductive enemies. 8 energy minimum, 32 energy/s while charging; passive recharge pauses until release. Movement and primary fire remain available.
• Event Horizon (Space / gamepad X): 30 energy; 25s recharge. Launches a drifting black hole that absorbs projectiles, captures nearby enemies and grows before collapsing. Bosses resist capture.

Attack reference

Lore

Garmo began as a survey craft built to seed conductive crystals across electrically violent debris fields. Its wide forked prow accelerates crystal slivers while its armor stores the charge collected between passes.

Hunter crews turned that equipment into a mobile lightning network. Embedded shards connect hostile formations, and a planted Storm Anchor gives the discharge a second point of entry. Garmo survives by choosing its approach and leaving before the enemy can concentrate its fire.

Base specification

Controls and abilities

• Energy Lance (LMB / right trigger): 7 damage every 140 ms; 36 m range; 3.5 energy per shot.
• Holy Bolt (Right click / left trigger): Explosive homing pair; 30 energy; 28 damage per bolt; 5 m blast radius; 44 m range.
• Wrath of Sera (Space / gamepad X): 35 s recharge; 3 s flight. Deals 100 damage to active enemies and 20 to living pilots.
• Healing Arc (Hold Shift / E / gamepad A): No cooldown. Restores 20 shield/s, consumes 34 energy/s; 10 energy required to start. Aim at an ally within 20 m. Allies take priority; aim more than twice as close to your own ship to self-heal, or self-heal when no living ally is in range. Full allies remain selectable. Base healing restores shields only. Healing Relay and Grand Relay add unlimited-range jumps; Hull Restoration repairs hull after shields fill.

Attack reference

Lore

The Jivadin was commissioned by Seraphina’s Justicar Wing (SJW), a military order devoted to the goddess Seraphina. Its engineers held that righteous service meant bringing the wounded home, even when every tactical calculation demanded retreat. They built the first hulls to shield evacuation transports, projecting protective arcs across civilian ships while enemy fire hammered their own armor.

After repeated relief convoys were ambushed, the order armed its rescue craft with energy lances, Holy Bolts, and the devastating Wrath of Sera. Jivadin crews still enter battle under a simple vow: abandon no vessel that can be saved. Their faith demands mercy toward the vulnerable and righteous fury toward those who prey upon them.

Base specification

Controls and abilities

• Twin Rotary Cannons (LMB / right trigger): 2.52 damage every 33 ms; 24 m range; 1 energy per shot.
• Photon Torpedoes (Automatic / shop upgrade): Fires every 4s after 2s startup. Seeks the farthest air or ground enemy at 24-64m and explodes on first contact. 6m spherical blast: 60 damage within 2m, falling to 30 at the edge. No friendly fire or energy cost. 1,200 CR.
• Coup de Grâce (Passive / shop upgrade): Successful damage executes surviving enemies below 15% hull, including bosses. Covers every weapon and ability, Photon Torpedoes and explosive scenery you trigger. Adds a red-and-gold finishing slash over the normal death effect. Execution damage grants no shield restoration. 1,500 CR.
• Flame Jet (Hold Right click / left trigger): 16.8m cone, 63 damage/s per target, 36 energy/s. Regeneration pauses while held; release to recharge. Air and ground targets; 2s continuous enemy contact ignites for 15 damage/s, lingering 3s after contact.
• Gravitic Armor (Press Shift / E / gamepad A): 35 energy, 4s active, 18s cooldown. Draws shots within 10m; 80% reduction. Stores 400 incoming damage. Releases up to 200 damage in a 6-18m fiery blast. Restores shields once on release, equal to 20% of actual enemy damage dealt, capped at maximum shields.
• Warp Displacement (Space / gamepad X): 30 energy, 10s cooldown. Charge for 300ms while moving and firing, then teleport to the locked cursor destination. 40 damage in 7m at each endpoint. Carries active Gravitic Armor and its timer.

Attack reference

Lore

Built to escort relief ships through concentrated fire, Michen combines thick armor with gravitic collectors that turn incoming impacts into a stored shockwave.

Its displacement drive folds a short corridor through space. Crews gather a barrage on their plating, then warp into an enemy formation before the field releases.

Base specification

Controls and abilities

• Twin Machine Guns (LMB / right trigger): 6.6 damage every 63 ms; 32 m range; 2.2 energy per shot.
• Rocket Salvo (Right click / left trigger): 2 simultaneous homing air missiles in solo weapon builds; Expanded Salvo Rack increases this to 4. Standard loadouts start with 3. 60 energy per volley. Seeking begins after the launch fan. 23.94 damage, 6m air-only blast. Travel beyond the cursor for up to 8s within the battlefield. Ground Missile Rack adds 2 ground missiles that seek hostile ground units after descending, with cyan exhaust and the same surface-specific blast. Full damage within 2m, falling to 50% at the edge. Salvo Calibration affects both; volley cost stays the same.
• Vector Burst (Space / gamepad X): 10 energy. Contact immunity during the dash; crossing an enemy reduces total cooldown by 30%, once per dash. 2.8x movement for 0.4 s; 4 s recharge. Firing stays available; stationary pale-gold silhouettes fade behind the dash. On activation, 2 homing missiles in solo weapon builds, or 5 with Expanded Seeker Rack; standard loadouts start with 4. 18 damage each, 32m acquisition, 22m/s, 3 s lifetime. 3m impact blast, full damage within 1m falling to 50% at the edge.
• Twin Lasers (Shop conversion / press Press Shift / E): 1,000 CR, installed for this run. Replaces Auto Turret with two continuous amber-white beams tracking the same enemy. 44m range, 76.8 combined damage/s. Turret Calibration carries over. Costs 50 energy once, lasts 10s, then 6s cooldown; normal recharge while active. Beams stop at cover.
• Crossfire Auto Turret (Press Shift / E / gamepad A): Costs 50 energy once, lasts 10s with normal recharge. Automatically targets the nearest enemy within 32m, including ground targets; 8 damage every 125ms. 6s cooldown after expiry.

Attack reference

Lore

Ratajack hulls first served as convoy outriders, racing between distant cargo vessels whenever a warning signal broke the silence. Their designers stripped away weight to keep the guns moving, accepting thin armor in exchange for fast engines, rapid target changes, and an almost uninterrupted stream of fire. The design rewarded crews who could read an ambush before the first missile reached the transports.

Years of escort duty changed the assignment. Commanders began sending Ratajacks ahead of the convoy to break hostile formations before they could organize an attack. Rocket salvos gave those crews an opening punch; an automatic Crossfire turret let them hold a firing lane while maneuvering. The Vector Burst emerged from the same practical demand: cross dangerous space quickly, keep shooting, and leave the enemy no quiet moment to recover.