Ancient Reaper/NPC

General
The Ancient Reaper is a more powerful variant of the Alien Reaper introduced in the event AXIS. This ship is considerably slower than its regular counterpart and has much lower Stasis Resist.

Ancient Reapers have the ability to summon additional Alien Reapers that support the fleet during combat and carry limited Plasma weaponry.

A variant, the Blitz Reaper, maintains a set number of Alien Reapers and travels much faster than the normal Ancient Reaper, but has significantly less range.

Strategy
The Ancient Reaper is a priority target because it can spawn more enemies for you to fight. Take this ship out before the enemy overwhelms you with numbers. Battleships are extremely useful here as they can fire at both the Ancient Reaper and an Alien Reaper that is on the opposite side of the battleship.

Note that the Blitz Reaper will spawn Alien Reapers immediately after you drop their numbers below a certain level. Therefore, there is no point in attacking the Alien Reapers until the Blitz Reaper itself is destroyed.

Compared to the Alien Reapers, this ship does not actually do that much damage on average, and is therefore very weak on its own. Use cruisers to absorb incoming fire while your battleships and carrier wreak havoc.

Trivia

 * The Ancient Reaper's top section folds up like how a folded paper unfolds when it spawns an Alien Reaper.
 * Many players complained about the sheer firepower and damage dealt by the Ancient Reaper's Tracer Missiles when it was first released during the AXIS event preview.
 * The Ancient Blitz Reaper is the Elite Ancient Reaper mentioned in the calendar.
 * The Ancient Blitz Reaper has an astonishingly large speed, which shocked a lot of players as to how something so big was able to travel so quickly.
 * A bug in Resource Supply Run Fleets exposed the firing arc of this ship to occupy the full 360 degree angle.
 * The Ancient Reaper in Tier 6 NPC targets could originally be mind-controlled by the Switch's Prime Shift Active overdrive, but that was fixed in the late August 2020 downtime.