Artillery Beam

Overview[]

Pre-installed system available only on Federation A and Federation B.
When fully charged, automatically fires a fast moving beam that pierces regular shields:
- Does 1 hull/system damage per room it hits.
- Has 10% chance to start a fire in each tile it passes.
- Deals 1 damage to Zoltan Shield per each of the 2 ticks.
- The beam swipe cannot be controlled.
- Does not disrupt cloaking.
Charge time and interactions:
- Powering off drains charge quickly, whereas Hacking disruption reduces the charge progress only by 4-7-10 seconds.
- The system does not have a console and, hence, cannot be manned to reduce the charge time.
- Weapon Pre-igniter augmentation does not charge it.
- Automated Re-loaders augmentations work.
- A crewmember manning Weapon Control system gains 1 experience point when Artillery Beam fires.
In events:
- The Artillery Beam is unaffected when the Weapon Control system is malfunctioning (1, 2, 3, 4).
- Can be used as a blue option equivalent of a beam weapon in Crushed pirate event.
Upgrading means faster charge rate.
- Fully powered level 4 Artillery Beam is capable of firing before the enemy enters cloak (potentially damaging or even cancelling it).