Katana

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The Katana is an agile PvP Battleship that shares a model with the Plagued Warship.

Description

A PvP Battleship, the Katana was made with high Shield and smaller turrets to allow for PvP accuracy. It shares its primary model shape with the Plagued Warship, with a set of four arced arms near the back of the ship and a wide but somewhat flat front that tapers to a somewhat more square point. Its turrets are largely top-mounted with a cannon placed in the middle-front and four gatling cannons spaced around the edges and mid-rear area.

Interior

The Katana's interior is a small undecorated square with a teleporter, a normal chair with a keyboard in front of it, and a strangely drawn and spread-out rectangle.

Advantages

• Fast for a Battleship
• Great Shield-breaker.
• Agile for a battleship.
• High Shield health.
• The Katana's 5 Gatling Cannons can take out small Ships very well.
• The Katana's 2 Triple Heavy Cannons can take out hull-based ships like Marauder and Cutlass.
• Powerful Shield-breaking Spinals that fire in a "shotgun" pattern.

Disadvantages

• Must be facing towards target to fire all Turrets.
• Somewhat low Hull for a battleship.
• Has trouble docking at certain points (Aqueous II and Christmas Mega Base docks A-D)
• Requires Spinal aiming in order to deal effective Shield damage.
• If you fight against a shield-breaker, you will be at a mediocre disadvantage.
• Somewhat low maximum range if you exclude the Spinals.

Strategy

• This ship is great for Pirating. Warp to your target, kill it, and warp back.
• Watch your health when using the Katana because you may need to warp out while still on Shield (~2000).
• Try to use Katana more in a fleet than alone because of its low health.
• If you are fighting against a small ship and you can't hit it with your spinals, do yourself a favor and warp away. Your turrets will take a while to hull the target.
• Try to use this ship together with a Hull-breaker ship, most of the dps from this ship is targeted to the shields.
• Use your spinals, as they skyrocket your combined dps from 80 to 394.7 (not including damage shield boosts or any other damage boosts)(DPS amount has been fixed.)
• Don't take risks during war, especially if your warring a strong faction, as they can easily swarm and kill you.

Version History

• Buffed in .66b, making its shield go from 4000 to 4500 and its two Dual Medium Cannons became two Triple Heavy Cannons.
• Shields reduced to 3500 in version .69a1.
• 2 Triple Heavy Cannons and 1 Light Gatling Cannon changed to 3 Heavy Flak Cannons, 1 Light Gatling Cannon removed and received a remodel in version .69f.
• Top Speed reduced from 100 to 90, Hull increased from 1000 to 2000, 3 Heavy Flak Cannons changed to 2 Triple Heavy Cannons and 1 Light Gatling Cannon, Spinal firing interval reduced from 0.1 to 0 and Spinals received minor firing offset in version .69f.
• Plating no longer has the team color on it .72e1

Trivia

• The old model looks a lot like an undersized Prototype X-2.
• The current model is the old Genesis model.