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The Orion is designed for close range engagements. Shield damage is absorbed and converted into energy to power its mobility and offensive systems, allowing Orion to quickly close in and destroy its enemies.
  — In-Game Description 

General[ | ]

Orion
Orion1
Basic Information
Faction
Altairians
Tier
8A
Class
Specialist
Role
Fighter
Slot Configuration Spaceship
4
1
2
2
1
1
Specifications Notepad
Health
13,750
Unladen Mass
900 t
Maximum Mass
18,000 t
Firing Arc
65.00°
Cargo
3,500,000 t
Ship Speed
900 m/s
Turning Speed
58.0 deg/s
Strafe Speed
680 m/s
Rear Speed
220 m/s
Acceleration
800 m/s2
Sector Speed
600 AU/h
Hull XP
273,067 XP
Modifiers Wrench
Swift I
Effective Range
0-3,000 m
Weapon Mass
-10%
Shield Recharge
+5% energy/s
Recharge Delay
0 s
Screen Damage
+20%
20%
50% Alien
5% Plasma
100% Alien Nebula
100% Plasma Nebula
4
-2.50% for 10 s
Research ShipLabResearch
Blueprint CompleteBlueprint
Available in
(Faction) Deluge Cargo
Pieces
8
Requires
Ship Factory XIII,
Ship Lab XII
Build ShipBuild
Time Time
1d 0h
230,000,000
69,000,000
Craft Crafting
Time Time
0s
230,000,000
69,000,000
Fragments Fragment
900
Repair FleetRepair
Time Time
Fixed 2h 00m

The Orion is a fighter modeled after the cutter class. Though it has very short range, it gains a massive boost to speed whenever it takes a small amount of shield damage, enabling it to get in range very quickly.

Like other Tier 8 Altairian ships, the Orion can recharge its shields even after being fully depleted.

Strategy and Setup[ | ]

Advantages[ | ]

Like other Tier 8 ships, the Orion has greatly increased movement speeds over Tier 7 ships and thus can better dodge incoming shots and rearrange fleet formation. It also has a fixed repair time of 2 hours, regardless of equipment, so it could return back to the fray in a relatively short amount of time.

Compared to its Pharmakon counterpart, the Operator, the Orion has slightly more usable mass, enabling it to field more equipment. Moreover, instead of being dependant on not taking damage for a speed boost (otherwise the Operator would get pulled out of Phase State), the Orion actually becomes faster when it takes damage, making it easier to close the distance, particularly against ships with the Ranger role.

Its Swift overdrive also grants 100% shield defense making it a very efficient NPC farming ship. As long as you keep your shields up, the damage taken is capped to 100-300 health damage every 4 seconds depending on resistances, assuming that the enemy does not have shield bypass.

Moreover, the 100% Plasma resistance granted by Swift is a hard counter to Pharmakon ships as both their Damage Over Time effects and Plasma weapons are unable to make so much as a scratch even when the Orion has been drained of shields.

The Orion applies a small amount of Phase Hacking and does extra damage to screens, thus improving its effectiveness against the Pharmakon faction.

The advent of the Empyreal Burst trigger gave a new use to the Orion as a base siege unit, as its speed and maneuverability can be used to detonate the trigger near a base's center and hit as much of it as possible.

Disadvantages[ | ]

The Orion lacks the burst capability of the Operator, with only a 50% DPS boost for 4 seconds at Mk V, compared to 550% for 2 seconds in the case of the Operator. Even after taking the +40% screen damage bonus into account, it is nowhere near enough to oneshot enemy ships.

As a fighter, the Orion only has a single armor slot, making it extremely vulnerable once its shields are down. Enemies with shield bypass can quickly take out the Orion regardless of shield energy as well.

Upgrading[ | ]

Level II
Orion1
III
Orion2
IV
Orion2
V
Orion3
VI
Orion4
SLOT CONFIGURATION Spaceship
Weapon Slots WeaponSlot 4 4 4 4 5
Shield Slots ShieldSlot 3 3 3 3 3
Resistance Slots ResistanceSlot 0 0 1 1 1
SPECIFICATIONS Notepad
Max. Mass 19,000 t 20,000 t 21,000 t 22,000 t 23,000 t
Cargo 3,750,000 t 4,000,000 t 4,250,000 t 4,500,000 t 9,000,000 t
Sector Speed 600 AU/h 600 AU/h 600 AU/h 600 AU/h 780 AU/h
Hull XP 313,671 XP 360,314 XP 413,892 XP 475,437 XP 546,133 XP
MODIFIERS Wrench
Overdrive Swift I Swift II Swift II Swift III Swift III
Weapon Mass -20% -30% -40% -60% -80%
Shield Mass -0% -30% -35% -45% -60%
Resurgence 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Resists 10% Plasma 20% Plasma 30% Plasma 40% Plasma 50% Plasma
CRAFT Crafting
Time Time 5h 00m 10h 00m 15h 00m 20h 00m 1d 0h
Mineral Ore MineralOre 25,000,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000 125,000,000
Patterns Patterns 20 40 60 140 250


Skins[ | ]

Trivia[ | ]

  • Two Orions were gifted to players on 22 Dec 2020 for Christmas.

Gallery[ | ]



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