AI War:Orbital Mass Driver

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Advanced weapon sends projectiles stripped from an iron asteroid to deal heavy damage to starships, guardians, and golems, but cannot fire on other targets.

Base Stats

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Ship Cap	Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
2	Mass Driver	Ultra-Heavy	Dark Matter Ammo, Fusion Cutters, Attack Boosts, Radar Dampening, Attrition, Tractor Beams, Reclamation, Transport, Swallow, Force Fields, Nuclear Explosions, Being Insta-Killed

Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Abilities
1,800,000	123,000	10 sec	1,800,000	2,000	0	Inf	180,000 dmg/sec	360,000 dmg/sec	Absorbs EMPs, Reduces Power Of Nearby Incoming Lasers, Captured On Planet Ownership Change

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
Trader	1,800,000	1,800,000	3,600,000	100	00:30:00	3,600,000	3,600,000	7,200,000	200	01:00:00

How to use in your fleet

Can only be built from the Zenith Traders. Generally worth building on chokepoints, as they contribute a lot of firepower against large, dangerous ships. Note that Hunter/Killers are immune, however.

They suffer only a 25% damage penalty for being under force fields and are fairly fragile, so it may be worth placing them next to your command station. While their range makes it tempting to place them on the edge of the system, unlike sniper turrets their shots are not instant and the extra travel time may not be worth the safety.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

If possible, simply attack with only small fleet ships and blow it up first, the inverse of how you deal with ion cannons. If a world has both an ion cannon and a mass driver, some cloaked raiding is probably in order.

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