Caustic

"The Caustic was developed by Spectre R&D to create a hull specializing in opening up enemy weak spots for the rest of the fleet to capitalize on. This makes it invaluable when facing high health and defensive enemies."

General
The Caustic is a specialist with a battlecruiser firing arc, designed to amplify the fleet's damage output via its Debilitate debuff. Apart from weapon slots, it also has a limited number of hangar weapon slots which can be used to launch squadrons at enemies.

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

Advantages
The Caustic is more durable than most non-flagship Spectre Hulls, second to only the Switch, making it difficult to take down. It is also quite agile, with only Breaker being more manueverable.

It has the largest effective range band (6,000 m) apart from the flagship hulls, improving its versatility and able to contribute in almost every combat scenario. This is not to mention that the hangar weapon slots are not subject to this limitation, enabling it to fight back even when its regular weapons are outranged by ships such as the Arc and Deadeye.

Although it is somewhat lacking in weapon slots, and as such, deals less raw damage than Breaker (which also has dual firing arcs), it can make up for it with its hangar weapon slots. Moreover, its Combat Acumen overdrive is quite easy to accumulate, and when maxed out, can increase its damage output by 100%, easily out-damaging even the Arc.

Perhaps its most potent ability is its Prime Shift which eliminates the charge time of its equipped weapons. Combined with its bonus to Overcharge duration, it is only natural that the Rush Beam is best suited to this ship.

Its Prime Shift Active ability shoots a trio of beams like a supercharged version of the Omega Beam, clearing out masses of spawned ships by itself.

Disadvantages
Since most Caustics are equipped with Rush Beams, it is vulnerable to Weapon Disruption, resetting the beam (and Overcharge) every time it is hit by the debuff. The Inferno Squadron is especially devastating as it continuously applies the debuff.

Skins

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

Trivia

 * Caustics obtain a hangar slot at Mk3, which makes them the second non-carrier / non-dreadnought to have the hangar weapon slot since the Legion Battleship and the first ship that can actually put it to good use.