AI War:Attractor Drone

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Very long range electrical attack. Protects nearby allied ships by reducing the power of incoming lasers to 1/4 their normal power.

Base Stats

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Ship Cap	Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
196	Energy Burst	Swarmer		2.4 Artillery, 2.4 Neutron, 2.4 Ultra-Light, 2.4 Refractive

Mark	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Abilities
I	5,600	13,000	10 sec	26,600	600	72	100	560 dmg/sec	109,760 dmg/sec	Absorbs EMPs Reduces Power Of Nearby Incoming Lasers
II	11,200	13,000	10 sec	53,000	1,200	72	100	1,120 dmg/sec	219,520 dmg/sec	Absorbs EMPs Reduces Power Of Nearby Incoming Lasers
III	16,800	13,000	10 sec	79,800	1,800	72	100	1,680 dmg/sec	329,280 dmg/sec	Absorbs EMPs Reduces Power Of Nearby Incoming Lasers
IV	22,400	13,000	10 sec	106,000	2,400	72	100	2,240 dmg/sec	439,040 dmg/sec	Absorbs EMPs Reduces Power Of Nearby Incoming Lasers

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	--	100	200	300	24	00:00:02	19,600	39,200	58,800	4,704	00:06:32
II	2,500	200	400	600	50	00:00:04	39,200	78,400	117,600	9,800	00:13:04
III	6,000	400	800	1,200	50	00:00:07	78,400	156,800	235,200	9,800	00:22:52
IV	Adv Fac	600	1,200	1,800	50	00:00:10	117,600	235,200	352,800	9,800	00:32:40

Note: Deflector does not have a Mark V version.

How to use in your fleet

Deflector Drones are brittle, longe-range artillery with mediocre damage bonuses against rarer hulls. Their weak health due to being swarmers will lead to consistent losses against most fleet ships, so it is best to simply add these to your fleet as a buffer and force-multiplier. Their long range usually lets them whittle down most enemies before they engage your higher health fleet ball.

Aside from obvious reductions against Laser Gatlings and Laser Guardians, its laser-reduction and long-range properties is also apparently designed to defend against the normal raiding ships: Raiders, Raptors, Space Planes, and Raid Starships. Players against a raiding AI can purposefully unlock these for a much easier time.

In a default game, the coverage really helps in direct combat with Laser Guardians but is otherwise very situational - Raid Starships are fortunately rare and counterable via Gravity Turrets. Although not a bad ship overall, there are more obvious initial unlocks for a player who isn't looking to micro a portion of their fleet.

The only other thing of note is that they are EMP-immune. With the hull-bonus and damage-reduction, half-a-cap will one-shot an intruding EMP Guardian of equivalent mark, so you probably won't go wrong intercepting one.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

A stand-alone AI wave consisting of these ships aren't particularly dangerous - MLRS Turrets, Flak Turrets and even Missile Frigates will win an engagement. Of note is that they reduce the damage of laser turrets - a player-staple in Fallen Spire games and the Laser Turret, which is your general anti-starship turret. Defending drones will also reduce the effectiveness of player raids against its neighbour, so be a little more picky about your target or simply lure them away.

NB: Riot-control lasers do little enough damage that the deflection is irrelevant.

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