Sovereign Carrier

"The Sovereign Carrier is the peak of Altairian design. It has a more combat oriented design with its regenerative shields, as well as the ability to swap Overdrive Generators to adapt to a well prepared commander."

General
The Sovereign Carrier is the Altairian Carrier, and the first Tier 7 Carrier as well.

Advantages
The Sovereign Carrier has a significant boost to shield energy, and by default is able to recharge its shields through out combat, making its survivability much higher than previous carriers. The recharge rate can be further augmented with Deflector Shell or Regeneration Converter, increasing its durability even further.

It is also able to equip hangar weapons with tremendous range, but its true strength lies in its equippable overdrive generators (namely the Enguard Overdrive Generator and the Riposte Overdrive Generator), granting powerful bonuses to both itself and the fleet.

As an Altairian ship, it deals bonus damage against the Pharmakon faction.

Disadvantages
The Sovereign is unable to equip any other support fields, especially the Agility Field Generator, Phase Shifter Generator and etc which are meant for the Paladin Carrier. Since the overdrive generators only generate a support field when active, this makes the ships unable to passively generate any support field.

If equipped with squadrons, Suppressors and Tyrants, with their squadron damage boost, will effectively make short work of its squadrons, rendering the carrier defenseless against any fleets with those ships inside.

Like all carriers, it is slow, and has limited mobility, making it somewhat of a liability in combat even with the benefits it offers. It is especially weak to the Phoenix Frigate which deals extra damage to carriers and shields.

Trivia

 * The Sovereign Carrier is the first Tier 7 Carrier.
 * The Sovereign Carrier was the first carrier to utilize an Overdrive Generator, which combines both the support field and Overdrive systems together.
 * The sprites for this ship were released 1 month early in the May 2018 Update.
 * On December 25 of 2018, players were given the Sovereign Carrier as a gift from KIXEYE.
 * Along with other T7A Herald ships before the Renascence Battlecruiser, this ship has received complete resistance to Alien Nebula and Plasma Nebula in the early April 2019 update.
 * 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.