Atheon
Advanced Ship
This ship is an Advanced ship. It is a powerful, semi-limited ship that stands out among others of its class and may require special build materials or quests.
The Atheon is an Advanced Cruiser with five of its own custom turrets.
Description
The Atheon is a small Cruiser with balanced firepower against both Shields and Hull. It is a very detailed ship with a developed shape and decorative trails.
Appearance
The Atheon has a very simple interior; you enter through an oval cockpit containing the pilot seat.
Advantages
- Great maneuverability.
- No blind spots.
- Classed as a Cruiser while having Battleship/Dreadnought DPS
- Slightly higher health, DPS, and turret count than the Zhen, an advanced battlecruiser.
- Very good spinal damage against shields.
- Great for swarming large ships with many blind spots, like the Subjugator.
- Turrets have high range considering the ship's class.
- Perfect for Alien hunting due to the shield breaking spinals and hull breaking turrets.
- Amazing shield breaking power for a Cruiser.
Disadvantages
- Very expensive for its class.
- Turrets often miss when fired against small, moving targets.
- Difficult to fire all turrets at once unless facing the target head-on.
- Small cargo hold, disabling the ability to loot large wrecks.
- Can usually be destroyed by precision turrets with ease.
- Weak to heavy AA fire from ships such as the Ampharos and Tempest
Strategy
- Quickly overwhelm the enemy when used in swarms, and target the blind spots of larger or more inaccurate ships.
- Because of the rarity of this ship it can be used to lure people out of their base during war.
- Be cautious around ships with precision turrets, they can easily kill you.
- Use this in swarms to completely annihilate shield tanks.
- Use the lack of popularity to your advantage, and easily destroy ships like Battleships and Dreadnoughts piloted by newer players.
Version History
- Added in version .66b
- Advanced turrets replaced with equivalent custom turrets in version .66b.
- Received 2 more Pulse Cannons in version .69a2.
- Made available with every other advanced ship (except Osiris) for a month in version .69e.
- Price increased to 300k credits in version .69e.
- Put back on sale for a third time in (unknown version please add).
- Gained 300 shield, 200 hull and 2 Medium Phasers, as well as a small speed nerf in (unknown version please add).
- Shield 1650 ----> 1450 Hull 1450 ----> 1350 Speed 168 ----> 180 Custom Drift 100% -> 60.000001% .75a20
- Drift 60.000001% -> 70% .75a20 Yname had a change in heart
Trivia
- The first ship to be part of the monthly advanced ship rotations. Available from September 1st, 2019 to September 27th, 2019.
- Obtained through a quest in the Sales Floor of the Mega Base
- Materials can all be obtained through quests located in the Mega Base
- In order to obtain the Armored Platings, you must talk to Smith and accept his Iron Forge quest TWICE. This will give you 6 platings total.
- First and only advanced cruiser in the game, as well as the most expensive cruiser.
- Reappeared again in the month of January, 2020.
- First ship to be repeated in the monthly ship rotations.