Borealis
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 Borealis is an extremely powerful Advanced Carrier.
Description
The Borealis is an Advanced Carrier which carries 12 Blitzes, fighters which are coincidentally also counterparts to the fighters carried aboard the Stormbringer, the Typhoons.
This ship has enormous firepower from its Fighters, making it useful for Sieges and Fleet battles.
Appearance
The Borealis has a rather industrial look and has a mostly greyscale colour scheme with splashes of orange here and there. The ship has a very long profile and its dorsal side is littered with various grey, white and orange armour plates, along with many turrets. There are 6 fighter bays on the Borealis, one per fighter, and each bay opens up to both the port and starboard surfaces of the ship. On its ventral side, towards the front of the ship, is a large vertical fin-like protrusion which hosts one turret on both its port and starboard sides each, a feature similar to a hydrofoil-like fin underneath its counterpart. The interior of the Borealis is taken up almost entirely by the fighter bay. What few decorations exist are limited to the pilot seat room, which has a large Yellow orb and a throne-like pilot's seat with a simple control board.
Advantages
- Armed with a decent arsenal of Turrets.
- One of the highest DPS carriers in the game with fighters, standing at a monstrous 1310 DPS combined, rivaling that of Retro Nyx and Kapisi.
- Large health pool of 27,000 Shields and 22,500 Hull.
- Has the ability to support itself without its fighters.
Disadvantages
- No Spinals.
- Extremely slow.
- Large and easy to hit, especially from underneath or behind it.
- Struggles with line of sight on its turrets if you are below your target.
- Extremely expensive due to it being an Advanced Ship especially as a Carrier.
Strategy
- Do not use this ship alone. If you do so, travel with a heavy escort that you can trust.
- Target AA ships like the Hyron or Ampharos so your fighters don't die.
- Never go alone if you do not have fighters.
- It can be used as a support Carrier in sieges by carrying Fighters to distract enemy Starbases, as well as providing great support from its large fighter swarm.
- Watch out for fleets of Dreadnoughts that have the aim of defeating you.
- Try not to engage when you don't have fighters. This ship is only extremely powerful when paired with its fighters.
- Go to the bottom of the map, right at the border and release the fighters from below your enemy. Do this because majority of your turrets are on top of the ship so you can fire on anyone who attempts to attack you.
- Warp in, release all your fighters and then warp out as soon as you can to your nearest or strongest Starbase if you don't want to risk your ship.
Version History
- One of the ships to receive an event remodel during the Halloween Event 2018. The remodel is known as the Skeletal Ghostealis.
- Shields reduced from 12000 to 9000, 4 Light Gatling Lasers and 2 Medium Cannons replaced with 2 Heavy Flak Cannons and 7 Quantum Cannons, Blitz spawns reduced from 16 to 6, re-classified as an Advanced Ship and received a remodel in version .69e
- Got stripped of its Advanced Ship class, and put back on the build menu, shields increased from 9000 to 12000 and 7 Quantum Cannons changed to 7 Heavy Flak Cannons in version .69f, which caused a very massive price increase.
- Received a total turret loadout overhaul, lost 1200m³ of Cargo Hold Space and price was massively reduced so it is somewhat feasible to get in version .72d.
- 3 Medium Cannons replaced with 3 Quad Advanced Cannons in version .72d.
- Shields reduced from 12000 to 11000 in version .73a3.
- Fighter teleport fixed in version .73b8.
- Reclassified to an Advanced Ship again in version .73a37.
Trivia
- Has a reskin variant; The Skeletal Ghostealis.
- The only ship that was reclassified as an Advanced Ship 2 times.
- Used to be based on a ship of the same name from Starpoint Gemini Warlords.
- The current model has a very similar style to the Hyperion's original model.
- The vertical front part looks similar to Ampharos' lower part.