Ajax

"Ajax is designed for mid range engagements. Stalwart defenses enable this powerhouse to defend its allies while its ability to deal area damage makes it adept at controlling space in combat."

General
The Ajax is a titan modeled after the cruiser class. Its defining feature is its ability to tank, both for itself and nearby friendly ships.

Like other Tier 8 Altairian ships, the Ajax can recharge its shields even after being fully depleted.

Advantages
The Ajax is an incredible tank. Not only does it have up to 5 shield slots, increasing its shield capacity, but its Fortify overdrive also gives the ship a window of invulnerability against most damage types every time it takes some amount of shield damage, which counters the Operator's massive burst damage. Even when its shields are fully depleted, it can continuously regenerate them, allowing the Ajax to tank until it has no health remaining.

Its Savior overdrive enables it to support the fleet by automatically tanking for them whenever they lose their defenses, without the need to physically block the incoming projectiles.

This ship has a built-in AoE Radius bonus, which synergizes well with the Cascade Missile.

The Ajax applies a small amount of Phase Hacking and does extra damage to screens, thus improving its effectiveness against the Pharmakon faction.

Recently, during the Tier 9 season, the Ajax’s Savior overdrive has been used in conjunction with the Spawners equipped to the Switch. The overdrive replenishes whenever a nearby spawned ship loses shields, making it effectively a continuous overdrive if used correctly. Due to the 100% Shield defence value obtained when Savior is active, the Ajax only takes damage to its shields, which quickly regenerate, mitigating or even totally preventing damage to the fleet.

Disadvantages
The Ajax is relatively slow as a Tier 8 ship, making it vulnerable to kiting tactics. This is made worse by the fact that Fortify applies a speed penalty to the ship, meaning that ships can whittle down the Ajax simply by dealing enough damage to constantly activate the overdrive.

Weapons that deal Blight Damage or Void Damage can damage the Ajax even when Fortify is active, so they are able to reliably defeat it.

While both Savior provides the ship with 100% defense, meaning that the ship does not take health damage, this can be negated by shield bypass, greatly degrading the Ajax's ability to tank.

Skins

 * Chrome
 * Sunset
 * Toxic
 * Cipher
 * Oni

Trivia

 * The Ajax is the third Tier 8 ship, and the first Altairian Tier 8 ship.
 * The Ajax originally suffered from a bug in which its Fortify overdrive granted resistance to all damage to its shields (including Blight and Void). This was fixed in the late December 2019 update, which also changed the Fortify overdrive to provide hull resistance instead of shield resistance.
 * All player ships had their Resurgence values modified as a result of the late February 2020 update.
 * The Ajax received a shield damage bonuses during the late February 2020 update in order to counter the buffs to the Pharmakon faction introduced in the same update.