Zeus

"The Zeus is designed to push the limits of Altairian technology. It is swift and agile, with combat regenerating shields and enhancing support for Ricochet weapons."

General
The Zeus is an Altairian Specialist Hull designed for swift and deadly assaults, filling in a niche role alongside the Cavalier Cutter and Renascence Battlecruiser.

It passively boosts the effectiveness of weapons that have the Ricochet effect.

Advantages
The Zeus has extremely outstanding maneuverability, having high forward and strafe speeds of 420 m/s. It can also turn extremely quickly with a turning speed of 35 deg/s. It has passive shield regeneration which allows its shields to last considerably longer against sustained attacks.

However, its true strength lies in its Overdrive, which greatly boosts its Ricochet performance and boosts its shield regeneration and defense whenever it takes damage. With Smite active, the Zeus is capable of decimating entire enemy fleets if its ricochet is allowed to take effect on enemy hulls, especially if they are grouped close together.

Having a small hitbox, it is relatively hard for projectiles to strike its hull.

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

Disadvantages
The Zeus' Ricochet abilities can be mitigated by spreading out your ships, preventing the Zeus' shots from bouncing from 1 hull to another.

The Zeus' Ricochet boosters do not apply to weapons that lack innate Ricochet, except for homing weapons (which is a bug).

The Zeus is very durable in terms of shields but somewhat lacks armor, making it vulnerable to shield bypass.

Trivia

 * The Zeus can be thought of as the Frigate of the Altairians, due to its extremely high maneuverability.
 * The Zeus' ricochet boosters currently also apply to homing weapons even though they lack innate Ricochet. This is a bug and may be fixed in the future.
 * All player ships had their Resurgence values modified as a result of the late February 2020 update.
 * At the start of the Retaliation event, a full fleet of pre-fitted Zeuses were given to all players that claimed them between May 7 and May 14 2020.
 * 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.