Buckler

"The Buckler is a Liberatus hull commandeered and repurposed by Spectre R&D. It retains its ability to shrug off large amounts of damage, and Spectre has given it the ability to help shield allies from enemy damage by transferring the damage via its Damage Allocation field.."

General
The Buckler is an advanced Titan-class ship originally designed by Liberatus and modified by Spectre. When in Prime Shift, apart from using the Aegis Field to protect vulnerable allies, it can also release a barrage of missiles against enemy targets.

Like other Tier 9 Spectre ships, the Buckler can recharge its shields even after being fully depleted.

Advantages
This ship is essentially a better Switch, with greater durability and no minimum effective range. This ship is highly defense-oriented, gaining increased resistance and defense, as well as the ability to directly protect allies while in Prime Shift, much like the Ajax in Tier 8.

Similar to the Switch, it has the ability to field spawned ships which can be used to distract enemies or act as meat shields.

While it has two fewer weapon slots than the Switch, it makes up by having a Prime Shift weapon that deals damage to enemies.

Disadvantages
The Buckler's Aegis Field can cause it to take unnecessary damage in PvE when spawned ships (which are usually disposable) are in range.

It lacks the crowd-control element of the Switch, and thus may face difficulties when swarmed by a massive amount of Pikes, as is the case when facing multiple enemy Broadsiders.

Skins

 * Apoidea
 * Flare
 * Gamma
 * Zenith
 * Lustre
 * Ocherous
 * Forge
 * Antares
 * Redback
 * Acid
 * Junker
 * Midas