Blackguard Cruiser

"Marauder converted Altairian designs, retains the Firestorm Overdrive and adds new tech, Resurgence, which restores a portion of damage taken upon victory in Fleet PvP combat."

General
The Blackguard Cruiser is a modified version of the Bastion Cruiser utilized by the Marauders. It features the Bastion's Counter-chain abilities as well as the Firestorm Overdrive, but instead of having Alien and Plasma Resistance, has Resurgence and Void resistance.

Advantages
Like the Bastion, the Blackguard is able to absorb a lot of damage. It retains its Firestorm Overdrive, which enables it to deal high amounts of DPS when its shields drop, and counter chain abilities, which reduces the effectiveness of chaining weapons. It also boosts the range of Cannon weapons such as Disintegrator Cannon and Epsilon ECHO Cannon and thus can make it harder to kite by battleship fleets.

The Blackguard, being a Marauder Hull, has resistance to void weapons, and can thus resist damage from weapons like the Void Redeemer Missile or Void Eclipse Driver.

Disadvantages
The Blackguard does not have a blueprint, and can only be built via the fragment system. The number of hulls a player can have depends on how many fragments that he has collected.

Without resistance to the other damage types, a Blackguard Cruiser can be easily destroyed by any of the other faction ships.

Trivia

 * The Blackguard is the first of the T7 Marauder Hulls.
 * The Blackguard Cruiser, being the PvP variant of the Bastion, has the same design as the Bastion Cruiser with a different colour scheme.
 * A blueprint for the Blackguard Cruiser exists, despite it only being available through the fragment system.
 * At the start of the 19th Alliance War, all players were gifted a fleet of 5 Blackguard Cruisers.
 * All player ships had their Resurgence values modified as a result of the late February 2020 update.
 * The repair time of all Tier 7 ships apart from dreadnoughts has been standardized to a flat 2 hours (similar to existing Tier 8 ships) in the late September 2020 update.