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Hi Space Friends. We'd like to introduce 3 new Serpentis Capitals that will be released with 118.6. There will be available first in the Shadow of the Serpentis event, and later in LP stores. More details about this will be released in a dev blog soon!

Dreadnought: Vehement

Reacting to the rise of capsuleer capital fleets, the Serpentis Corporation requested that the Angel Cartel’s naval architects design a dreadnought class capital ship. This was done using the Moros hull as the basis for a formidable mobile weapons platform. After receiving the prototype, capital ship engineers from the Cartel’s Guardian Angels division maximized the damage potential of the design. For good measure, the Guardian Angels combined this with advanced Serpentis stasis webification technology.

Gallente Dreadnought bonuses (per skill level):
5% bonus to Capital Hybrid Turret rate of fire
Minmatar Dreadnought bonuses (per skill level):
10% bonus to Stasis Webifier effectiveness
Role Bonus:
Can fit Siege Modules
37.5% bonus to Capital Hybrid Turret damage
5x penalty to Entosis Link cycle time

Slot layout: 5H, 6M, 7L; 3 turrets
3 Rig Slots, 350 Calibration
Fittings: 725,000 PWG, 825 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 130,000 / 156,000 / 182,000
Base shield resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 0 / 20 / 40 / 50
Base armor resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 50 / 35 / 35 / 10
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second) : 57,800 / 4,000 / 14.45
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 80 / 0.038 / 1,250,000,000 / 1.5 / 65.85s
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 105km / 80 / 7
Sensor strength: 60 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 12,000
Cargo capacity: 2,550
Fleet hangar capacity: 10,000
Ship maintenance bay capacity: 1,000,000



Supercarrier: Vendetta

“The Federation still thinks it can play games with the future of the human species. Just as it played games with the life’s work of my father.
I will show them how the game is really played. They destroyed a man who would have revolutionized the science and application of neural boosters.
I will destroy them by showing them just how powerful that science can be. There will be no peace and no let up. I swear vendetta, in the name and for the memory of Igil Sarpati.”
- V. Salvador Sarpati, interviewed by Alton Haveri of the Scope

Gallente Carrier bonuses (per skill level):
10% bonus to Fighter damage
5% bonus to Fighter Hitpoints
3+ bonus to ship warp core strength
Minmatar Carrier bonuses (per skill level):
5% bonus to Fighter velocity
10% bonus to Stasis Webification Burst Projector effectivness
3+ bonus to ship warp core strength
Role Bonus:
Can fit Networked Sensor Array
Can fit Burst Projectors
Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously
Can launch Light, Support and Heavy Fighters
Can lock at extended ranges
400% bonus to Armor Plates and Shield Extenders
50% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener Resistance
50% bonus to Stasis effect resistances
50% increase to Remote Electronic Assistance impedance
5x penalty to Entosis Link cycle time

Slot layout: 7H, 5M, 7L
3 Rig Slots, 350 Calibration
Fittings: 907,500 PWG, 880 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 360,000 / 705,000 / 420,000
Base shield resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 0 / 20 / 40 / 50
Base armor resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 50 / 35 / 35 / 10
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second) : 85,900 / 5,080 / 16
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 85 / 0.031 / 1,600,000,000 / 1.5 / 68.76s
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 4,600km / 65 / 14
Sensor strength: 210 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 20,300
Cargo capacity: 1,750
Fleet hangar capacity: 50,000
Ship maintenance bay capacity: 2,500,000
Fighter hangar capacity: 110,000
Fighter squadron launch tubes: 5
Squadron limits (Light, Support, Heavy): 3, 2, 3



Titan: Vanquisher

“The Molyneux hijack showed me that capsuleers will do extraordinary things when there’s blood in the water. For a while there, I wasn’t sure we’d get away.
Not because of the Feds. No, they were a joke. But the eggers nearly got me. The amusing thing is that they fought one another as much as they tried to catch me.
Some of them even helped out. You know, the trail of destruction we left in our wake was almost entirely due to them. I think it would be amusing to give them some more toys, don’t you?”
- V. Salvador Sarpati, interviewed by Alton Haveri of the Scope.

Gallente Titan bonuses (per skill level):
5% bonus to Capital Hybrid Turret rate of fire
6+ bonus to ship warp core strength
Minmatar Titan bonuses (per skill level):
10% bonus to Stasis Webifier effectivness
6+ bonus to ship warp core strength
Role Bonus:
Can fit doomsday devices
Can fit Jump Portal Generator
Can fit Clone Vat Bay
Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously
1000% bonus to Capital Hybrid Turret damage
500% bonus to Armor Plates and Shield Extenders
80% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener Resistance
80% bonus to Stasis effect resistances
80% increase to Remote Electronic Assistance impedance
5x penalty to Entosis Link cycle time

Slot layout: 8H, 6M, 8L; 6 turrets
3 Rig Slots, 350 Calibration
Fittings: 1,155,000 PWG, 1,045 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 405,000 / 900,000 / 615,000
Base shield resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 0 / 20 / 40 / 50
Base armor resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 50 / 35 / 35 / 10
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second) : 138,000 / 7,300 / 18.9
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 75 / 0.032 / 2,100,000,000 / 1.37 / 93.16s
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 250km /...

Finally big isk sink, Thank you CCP!

no Carrier ? with web boni to fighter?

Are these gonna be seeded onto SISI to test?

I'm really not sure how I feel about a web bonus on a capital ship. It's either going to be *horribly OP* as things get webbed down to almost nothing, or almost useless (probably due to module range), with very little swing in between.

The Vindicator is already a prime example of how powerful something like this can be against smaller targets, and now with HAW fit dreads I'm more than a little scared of what this is going to do to capital/sub-cap engagements.

Also has this been run past the Wormhole crowd? That's the main place I can see something like this getting a lot of use, especially with the combination of webs and super-powered Cap guns on a ship that, at least for now, is likely to only be deployed in small numbers.

No one cares about WHs and balancing a ship around WH use is dumb

can u explain why all of those have 400 cal points as opposed to the usual 350 for faction stuff?

For the Vendetta, a bonus to Dromi effectiveness would be more desirable than the bonus to the web burst. I can't foresee the web burst being used much because then you're stuck with a 5 minute weapon timer. Five minutes of no refitting would be an absolute death sentence if you run into trouble in such a rare ship, so it simply won't ever be used.

A bonus to Dromi effectiveness wouldn't be overpowered because you can just shoot and kill the Dromis.

Balancing a ship around any single part of the game with no consideration to the others is generally a poor decision. You have to take multiple situations and use-cases into consideration, that's why it's called "balance".

I'm not saying that I think these ships are going to be imbalanced in Wormholes, just that I think they're going to have a far bigger impact there than in Null or Low and that WHs should be given serious consideration when balancing these ships.

Boo at the Vendetta's extra highslot instead of extra lowslot

Yay for adding them to the LP store though. Any hints as to what you guys are aiming for in LP cost?