Bleak
The Wasp is a Miner-class ship and is one of the starter ships for Galaxy.
Description
The Bleak is a Pirate Boss that spawns during Pirate Raids. It is one of the strongest naturally spawning ships in the game, along with the Eradicator.
Appearance
The Bleak has similar design elements to that of the Nautilus and the Zillavik, with floating turrets and neon stripes around it. However, it is primarily red in color, and is much, much larger than either of them.
Advantages
- Very fast.
- Small, making it hard to target.
- It's free.
- It can somewhat defend itself, capable of soloing a Nighthawk, with a competent pilot.
- Great distractor / AI baiting ship due to being free.
Disadvantages
- Very slow mining speed, slowest of almost every other Miners, only miners that have no turrets/have non-mining laser turrets have the slowest mining speed (at 0).
- Low Hull and Shield health.
- Tiny Ore Hold. (Can only hold 250 Ore.)
- Often targeted by Aliens, like many other Miners.
- Very small explosion value of only 3.
- Even if it can somewhat defend itself, Mining Lasers are shield-based, meaning that it can't deal with ships that have low to high amounts of Hull, not to mention the turret DPS of only 4.
Strategy
- Do NOT attempt to 1v1 it. You will die a very painful death.
- It prioritizes targeting the base that it spawns next to, but can also lock on to ships, and once it does, it kills in seconds. Do not spawn anything expensive near it.
- Use Battleship-Class ships or under to avoid a large loss if you get targeted, but also to deal a lot of damage
- Attack the bottom, as it has no armament there[citation needed].
Version History
- Received a remodel in version .56b.
- Warp Drive added in version .61h1?
- Received a trail and a remodel in version .66b.
Trivia
- Along with the Wyrm, it is automatically given to any new player.
- Commonly used to attempt to glitch ships such as Battleships and Dreadnoughts. This is bannable as stated in the Galaxy Rules.
- Occasionally used to block the Spinals of larger ships during sieges, due to its status as a free ship allowing it to be destroyed at no cost, though is fairly hard.
- Smallest Miner currently in Galaxy.
- Brings in about 312 Credits without any Loyalty per run, but can earn up to 562 Credits.
- This ship has eight limited variants, in the form of the Coal Wasp, the Festive Wasp, the Prototype X-3, the Blue Torp Wasp, the Patriotic Wasp, the 3D Printed Wasp, the Waspinator, and finally the Wasp?
- It is used in the mining tutorial of the game.
- The Wasp was originally called a Mining Frigate in Pre-Alpha.
- One of only two free and continuously available ships in the game, the other being the Wyrm.
- Lowest health out of all non-limited ships, excluding Fighters.
- The Wasp has been made into a meme in the Galaxy community as "The best ship" because of how low levelled it is.
- Technically it is the best ship, due to the fact that it’s free but can deal damage. You can infinitely damage people with wasps. However, this isn’t correct normally, because it has extremely low DPS and health, so Wasp spamming is very impractical for destroying anything.
- The Wasp can get into the Mega Base, through the docks by fitting through. This is the same with other smaller ships.
- Had a unique reskin for the Easter event 2022 along with the Wyrm.
Old Wasp model