SK Vessel (Shield Killer)
The SK is an anti-shield specialist — a combat vessel built to defeat high-defense targets that would survive conventional fleet assault. SK weapons generate resonance charges that interact destructively with shield generator arrays, bypassing conventional armor damage calculations and applying direct damage to the shield subsystem.
Against unshielded targets, SK ships perform as standard low-attack combat vessels. Their value is exclusively against shielded Cruisers, Battleships, fortified planetary defenses, and shield-supported structures. A fleet with a strong SK contingent can defeat an equal-cost fleet of high-defense vessels that would otherwise hold indefinitely.
Stats
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Attack vs. shielded targets | 45 |
| Attack vs. unshielded targets | 8 |
| Defense | 12 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Cargo | 0 |
| Metal cost | 75 |
| Crystal cost | 30 |
| Deuterium cost | 12 |
| Special | +460% attack vs. shielded targets |
Visual Aesthetic
SK vessels have the most distinctive silhouette of any combat class: a wide forward emitter array shaped like a flattened hemisphere, mounted on a narrow reinforced neck. The emitter is the ship — the rest is support structure. They fire in pulses rather than continuous beams, and each discharge produces a brief visible resonance wave visible to any ship in the target system.
UI Tooltip
Shield-killer. Devastating against high-defense and shielded targets. Weak against unshielded opponents — use in mixed fleets.