Sins II Ship Series: The Advent Radiance Battleship

Welcome to our first look at the Advent in our ongoing Ship Series. We start off with the Radiance-class battleship - the ultimate tank of the Advent’s standard arsenal. The Radiance is bristling with weapons starting with its high pierce heavy beam cannons and plasma cannons, all the way to its more than 10 laser cannons. As if this weren’t enough, the Radiance integrates Psintegrats to power its psionic special ability that force enemies to focus fire on it. Rounding out this powerful ship is an Anima hangar that can support up to two squadrons of drones.

Armament

• 2 x Heavy Beam Cannons (forward)

• 1 x Heavy Plasma Cannon Turret (Sync’d)

• 2 x Medium Plasma Cannon Turrets

• 14 x Light Laser Cannon Turrets

• Support for 1-2 Squadrons of Anima Drones

Radiance Abilities

• Detonate Antimatter: Destabilizes the antimatter reserves on the target, causing a portion of it to combust and deal damage over time. The target’s antimatter-fueled abilities are also disabled for this time period.

• Animosity: Hostility is projected at the targeted enemy units, forcing them to attack the Radiance, while cowering them into dealing less damage to it and receiving more damage from it.

• Energy Absorptive Armor (Passive): Special armor converts part of attacks against the Radiance into a scaling damage bonus for a short duration. Increases with PSI power.

• Cleansing Brilliance: Fires a devastating beam of light at the targeted enemy unit, which spreads to other enemies within its radius. All enemies are dealt immense damage over a short duration.

Offensive Upgrade Options

• Plasma Agitator: Rotating magnetic fields are used to agitate plasma into a higher energy state prior to firing. This increases the damage of plasma weapons and the PBC.

• Vex Amplifier: Adds a PsiTech emitter which is powered by the hatred and rage of the crew, improving weapon rate of fire. Affected by PSI power.

• Energy Accelerator: Advanced field control technology is used to contain and accelerate the bolts and beams of all energy weapons, enhancing range and damage.

Defensive Upgrade Options

• PsiKinetic Plating: The Radiance’s PsiTech armor is hardened by telekinetic fields, improving armor strength. Enhanced by PSI power.

• Synchronous Shield: Secondary shield generators can be brought into alignment to generate positive harmonic frequencies, increasing shield points and shield burst magnitude.

Utility Upgrade Options

• Psintegrat Choir: Deploys a choir of the Unity’s faithful onto the ship to increase PSI power.

• Guiding Mentor: Grants a bonus to experience to friendly ships that are lower in level within the same gravity well.

• Harmony Circuit: Adds a special PsiTech circuit to the ship’s systems, increasing PSI power. Can be activated to increase the PSI power of a targeted friendly ship.

• Psionic Dynamo: Integrates a psionic power booster into the ship. Each time the Radiance uses an ability, the crew gains a stacking bonus to PSI power for a moderate duration.

• Essence Reservoir: This PsiTech device uses the grace of the purified Unity to capture the souls from the crew of nearby friendly ships when they are destroyed, granting a stacking bonus to PSI power.

• Brilliance Array: An advanced PsiTech device that channels the mental energy of the crew into the power systems of nearby allied vessels. Increases antimatter regeneration for all nearby ships based on the PSI power of the ship this item is fitted to.