Medusa Destroyer

"A long range artillery Umbra ship. Its Gorgon Gaze can instantly disrupt enemy walls to creating openings for itself and other ships in the fleet to cause massive damage."

General
The Medusa Destroyer is the Umbra Destroyer, designed for siege warfare. Its Gorgon Gaze causes its weapons to disable walls generated by the Altairian Pylon Emitter.

Advantages
Possessing increased module damage, like its Altairian counterpart the Inquisitor Destroyer, the Medusa is designed to bombard slow moving or stationary targets from afar, out of range of most other ship weapons.

Its Gorgon Gaze overdrive allows its weapons (provided they are a driver weapon) to disable walls for a short period of time, thus allowing them to target vulnerable modules behind the walls.

As a Umbra hull, it deals additional damage to Altairian ships.

Disadvantages
Like all destroyers, With a slow turning speed, narrow firing arc and only one ablative armor slot, blitz attacks can overpower a Medusa Destroyer fleet if a pincer approach is adopted. It is equally vulnerable to squadrons as well. Use cruisers to protect the relatively fragile destroyers from incoming attack or decoy incoming fire away.

Trivia

 * The Medusa Destroyer's significantly lower build and upgrade times represent the first of KIXEYE's efforts to reduce waiting times across the board during the transition to 2019.
 * This ship originally had no shield bypass, which has been fixed during the update of October 2018.
 * Medusa Destroyer's design resemble that of a Scythe Destroyer.
 * As part of the early April 2019 update, this ship has received resistance to Alien Nebula.
 * 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.