Operator

"The Operator is designed for close range engagements. High speeds allow it to incessantly pursure its targets and upon exiting Phase it's able to deal massive burst damage."

General
The Operator is a fighter modeled after the cutter class. Though it has very short range, enemies caught within its firing arc are quickly destroyed by its Rupture overdrive.

Advantages
Like other Tier 8 ships, the Operator 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 the Valrayvn, it has increased maximum mass and reduced unladen mass, allowing it to field more equipment.

Upon exiting Phase State, it fires a burst of projectiles that have a huge damage bonus. The damage inflicted is capable of one-shotting many enemy ships, especially when the Nova Driver is used (though the weapon has an extremely narrow range band on this ship).

It has a passive Ablative Suppression effect which, on hit, reduces the ability of enemy Umbra ships to regenerate their Ablative Armor.

Disadvantages
The Operator is somewhat slower than the Valrayvn when not in Phase State. As a result, you must rely on Phase State to get in range in order to defeat them.

Moreover, its range is capped at a measly 3 km. This means that Rangers can easily get a few shots off before this ship can even start to deal damage. If not flown properly, Operators may be prematurely forced out of Phase State and become sitting ducks.

Its damage output heavily relies on its Rupture overdrive, which only activates upon exiting Phase State. Without it, its damage output is actually worse compared to Rangers, which have two firing arcs compared to the one the Operator and other Fighters have. Operators can thus be defeated by preventing them from entering Phase State, such as via the Renascence Battlecruiser's Feedback Loop or through sheer damage.

Skins

 * Chrome
 * Sunset
 * Toxic
 * Cipher
 * Oni

Trivia

 * The Operator is the second Tier 8 ship, and the first Pharmakon Tier 8 ship.
 * All player ships had their Resurgence values modified as a result of the late February 2020 update.
 * Two prefitted Operators were gifted to players on 20 Dec 2020 as a Christmas gift.
 * A unshielded variant of the Operator, instead of being outfitted with conventional weapons, was armed with the Omega's Plasma Beam weapon (Front, 180 deg), was seen in some of the trigger NPC Envoy targets. The beams would flicker on and off, dealing significant DoT to ships caught in it, but other than that, it could be destroyed relatively easily as it remained stationary and did not hunt down and chase targets.