Halcyon Carrier

Advent Halcyon Carrier Cost: 3000 400 250 Build Time: 75 seconds. Uses: 50 supply.   Hull: 2075 +85 per level Armor: 3.5 +0.35 per level Shields: 1600 +175 per level Antimatter: 270 +30 per level     Bombing Damage: 37 Telekenetic Push Adept Drone Anima Amplify Energy Aura Anima Tempest Able to support vast numbers of drone strike craft, this powerful warship strongly supports friendly fleets. Shortcut: (R)

The Halcyon Carrier is an Advent Capital Ship designated for drone strikecraft production and deployment.

Description

Responsible for remotely piloting groups of the Drone fighters, Drone Anima are valued crewmembers aboard all Advent capital ships. The most veteran of this caste are reserved for positions aboard Halcyon Carriers; leveraging the piloting skill of these elite Psintegrat allows the ship to host a veritable swarm of strike craft. Halcyon Carriers employ a number of systems to augment the combat effectiveness of their own fighter wings, as well as those of allies.

Tactics

The Halcyon is extremely versatile and useful to almost any type of fleet imaginable. Almost any Advent fleet will greatly benefit from the inclusion of a Halcyon, particularly one with maxed out (or close to maxed out) Amplify Energy Aura. Due to the entirely energy-reliant nature of the Advent's fleets, the Halcyon can benefit any vessel or combination of vessels, but it is probably most helpful when it is combined with large numbers of Illuminators, light carriers, and/or Destra Crusaders.

Telekinetic Push, pushes strike craft away from your ships, damaging and temporarily stunning them. If the Halcyon or its allies are swarmed by enemy strike craft, this ability keeps them from getting too close. Early on, though, this isn't very likely to happen - it becomes important in the late game, however.

The Halcyon's second ability, Adept Drone Anima, passively gives the carrier extra squadrons, increasing the number of strike craft it can deploy.

The third ability is known as Amplify Energy Aura. The aura allows all your energy-using ships, with the exception of fighters and bombers, to fire more shots in a shorter time interval. This ability is useful for any fleet and a must-have for larger fleets. All Advent military units use energy-based weapons, but only some TEC and Vasari units do, so this ability is not very useful when supporting allies.

The Halcyon's "Ultimate" ability is Anima Tempest. For a brief period of time, 60 additional drones are deployed to your squadrons of bombers and fighters, splitting themselves up equally. They won't benefit directly from Adept Drone Anima however it will rapidly refill depleated squadrons as only the excess units are lost and Amplify Energy Aura will still reduce their cooldowns.

Ship Type:	Capital
Primary Role:	Squadron Support
Shield Power:	Very High
Hull Points:	High
Armor Level:	Medium
Armor Type:	Capital
Antimatter:	Medium
Weapons (Side):	4x Heavy Beam Cannons (Starboard / Port) / 2 x Pulse Laser Batteries (Starboard / Port) / Ship-to-Surface Kinetic Bolts
Squadrons Supported:	2 +1 per 2 level ups. Maximum: 6
Crew Complement:	2,270

Telekinetic Push	Adept Drone Anima	Amplify Energy Aura	Anima Tempest	Ability Management
Attack	Stop	Move	Tactics Management	Squadron Management