AI War:Neinzul Youngling Nanoswarm

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Actually composed of billions of microscopic organisms, this "ship" has no conventional weapons and attacks by ramming targets and exploding. This explosion damages the target and some nearby ships. More importantly, the now-liberated microscopic organisms will work together to take over the damaged vessels. They are unable to do further damage to the ship after the explosion, but can reclaim it once it is sufficiently weakened. Youngling ships are all exceedingly inexpensive and fast, with a very short life span (health automatically drains when not in transports or other forms of storage).

Base Stats

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Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
Energy Bomb	Close-Combat	Sniper Shots Minor Electric Ammo Tractor Beams Reclamation Mines Repair

Mark	Ship Cap	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Abilities
I	98	1,600 x4	0	0 sec	47,600	0	300	Inf	0 dmg/sec	0 dmg/sec	Engine Damage 10 Reclaims Enemy Ships Self Attrition Time 04:00 Self Attrition Only When Not Low-Power Target Seek Range 2,000 Armor Piercing 999,999 Armor Damage 100 Attack Paralyzes x3
II	88	3,200 x6	0	0 sec	95,200	0	300	Inf	0 dmg/sec	0 dmg/sec	Engine Damage 20 Reclaims Enemy Ships Self Attrition Time 04:00 Self Attrition Only When Not Low-Power Target Seek Range 2,000 Armor Piercing 999,999 Armor Damage 200 Attack Paralyzes x6
III	78	4,800 x8	0	0 sec	142,800	0	300	Inf	0 dmg/sec	0 dmg/sec	Engine Damage 30 Reclaims Enemy Ships Self Attrition Time 04:00 Self Attrition Only When Not Low-Power Target Seek Range 2,000 Armor Piercing 999,999 Armor Damage 300 Attack Paralyzes x9
IV	68	6,400 x10	0	0 sec	190,400	0	300	Inf	0 dmg/sec	0 dmg/sec	Engine Damage 40 Reclaims Enemy Ships Self Attrition Time 04:00 Self Attrition Only When Not Low-Power Target Seek Range 2,000 Armor Piercing 999,999 Armor Damage 400 Attack Paralyzes x12
V	49	8,000 x12	0	0 sec	238,000	0	300	Inf	0 dmg/sec	0 dmg/sec	Engine Damage 50 Reclaims Enemy Ships Self Attrition Time 04:00 Self Attrition Only When Not Low-Power Target Seek Range 2,000 Armor Piercing 999,999 Armor Damage 500 Attack Paralyzes x15

Mark	Knowledge	Metal Cost	Crystal Cost	Total Cost	Energy Cost	Build Time	Cap Metal Cost	Cap Crystal Cost	Cap Total Cost	Cap Energy Cost	Ship Cap Build Time
I	--	20	20	40	10	00:00:01	1,960	1,960	3,920	980	00:01:38
II	2,500	40	40	80	20	00:00:01	3,520	3,520	7,040	1,760	00:01:28
III	6,000	80	80	160	20	00:00:01	6,240	6,240	12,480	1,560	00:01:18
IV	Adv Fac	120	120	240	20	00:00:01	8,160	8,160	16,320	1,360	00:01:08
V	Core Fab	160	160	320	20	00:00:02	7,840	7,840	15,680	980	00:01:38

How to use in your fleet

Neinzul Youngling Nanoswarm are the ultimate in support craft: they reclaim, paralyse, and even sacrifice themselves just to clear up your battlefield view. Uses are similar to the Zenith Auto Bomb, in that having a local production source will help you immensely in combat. More so, since Neinzuls degenerate health constantly.

They are cheap enough to delete and produce at a moment's notice, so one should consider stationing a set of Space Docks on bordering planets to act as a super-EMP silo. If you unlock this early, seriously consider upgrading to mark-IVs (and Neinzul Enclave Starship-IVs) to provide one of the ultimate fleet-ship countermeasures. With the improved reclamation power (see Parasites for details) and long paralysis, one may never need to build Triangle-ships again.

NB: The fabricator version requires some micro and a warp-gate to extend its reach beyond a few planets. It may be better to can construct Logistics Command Station highways (throw in some Zenith Spacetime Manipulators if required) from the fabricator to where they're needed.

NB: This is the one Neinzul where you don't need Regen Chamber at all, since a Nanoswarm at 1% health will do just as well as a full health one as long as it survives until impact.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

As the AI rarely have the Clusters to support Neinzuls normally, you'll like only see these with/after an attack wave. Nanoswarm attacks are completely irrelevant by themselves, so turn on schizophrenic waves to give the AI something to play with. One might not notice them until the later stages of the game, as these become exponentially more dangerous with increasing marks (both reclaim potential and paralysis). As with all ships using melee range, Gravitational Turrets are the answer. Otherwise, you'll have to weather the brief stun-effect.

Side note: All Spire fleet-ships are effectively hard-counters, being immune to reclamation and paralysis.

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