Hastatus

"The Hastatus acts as an over gunned fighter, specializing in close-quarters combat as well as brutally suppressing hostile entities."

General
The Hastatus is the Liberatus rapier, the first of its kind. Like it’s fighter predecessor it is agile, but has both no range cap and a large health pool. Its scramble overdrive is a direct counter to kiting tactics whilst its scattershot overdrive is a direct counter to clustered targets.

This Liberatus ship is able to regenerate its shields after being depleted.

Strategy
This ship has both the special ability to close the distance extremely quickly and to deal large AoE damage. Use short-range ships such as titans and fighters to fight this ship in case they get inside the minimum range of your rangers.

Scramble
When the Hastatus is in an enemy's firing arc (does not include temporary weapons and squadrons), it gains a large boost to speed and acceleration for a moderate duration.

Scattershot
When the Hastatus goes through a certain number of firing cycles, it activates a weapon that fires a spread of 3 missiles. Upon impact, each missile splits into ten with a 360-deg spread, travelling for 1,750 m at 4,000 m/s, which is repeated once more upon impact, resulting in a fractal pattern that covers a wide area. This overdrive has a cooldown of 4 seconds before the counter can start to reaccumulate.