SR-71

Limited Ship

This ship is a limited ship, and could only be acquired for a limited time or it has since become limited.
You lose it forever once it is destroyed, or otherwise has limited availability on the Limited Build Menu.

The SR-71 is an extremely fast Limited Stealth Dreadnought released during the Fourth of July 2022 event.

Description

The SR-71 is a Stealth Ship heavily armed with Medium Torpedoes, and possesses incredible maneuverability.

This ship excels at diving Ships with it's high alpha and long range, as well as being excellent in Sieging for the same reasons. This ship can easily escape any dangerous situation with it's speed and stealth, with it being invisible on the Minimap.

Appearance

Note that the true color of the SR-71 is not what is depicted at the images and is just the background color of the planet Myriad III. The SR-71 is fully transparent as shown in the trails picture

The SR-71 looks largely similar to its real-life counterpart, the SR-71 "Blackbird," with a thin, tapered fighter jet-like frame, with an antenna on the tip of the nose. Two large turbines are integrated into its wings, with vertical stabilizers rising from the end of each engine. The front of the turbines are capped by inlet spikes, while the rear emits a trail effect, somewhat negating this ship's stealthiness.

The Interior has a small cockpit where the player sits, with two small pilots' seats and a graphic showing an "ICEE" polar bear and a poorly-drawn rubber duck wearing a tophat, button-down shirt, and bowtie.

Advantages

• The Holy grail of spinal firepower compared to all other ships of its class; It packs a serious punch.
• It can cause massive Hull damage and out-range Starbases with the Medium Torpedoes' incredible range of 10000 Studs.
• Incredible maneuverability allows it to be capable of evading even point defense turrets.
• It's invisibility and speed makes it nigh impossible for Spinals to hit you.
• Extremely High Alpha makes it incredible for stealing kills from crippled ships.

Disadvantages

• Lowest health out of all Dreadnoughts.
• Insanely low Shield DPS..
• Medium Torpedoes are somewhat slow, which can make it difficult to lead moving targets.
• Must be good at hitting spinals, as they make up all of the DPS.
• Poor spinal arcs caused by the Torpedoes being far apart from the center.
• Limited classification, high price, and somewhat large frame make it a prime target.

Strategy

• Use hit and run tactics, as the ship has high enough alpha damage from the torpedoes to make this a very viable strategy.
• Even with your incredibly high speed, be wary of ships like the Zeus, Tempest, Loyalist, and Ampharos that are equipped with a heavy armament of point-defense turrets with the accuracy to do significant damage if you get too close to them.
• Extremely effective in Sieges as all of it's weapons can outrange Starbases and the ship can dodge most incoming firepower even at a close distance.
• Do not use this alone. However, if you do; take advantage of your stealth as much as possible to avoid being destroyed.
• Pay attention and check the Minimap often to make sure you're not about to be ambushed. Your relatively low health means you must always avoid damage.
• Use the high firepower on this ship to Dive and chase down vulnerable or isolated Capital Ships.
• If you're hulled, warp out as far as you can in empty space so that Players chasing you cannot tell your location precisely because the SR-71 does not have an icon, then warp to your strongest Starbase and despawn after they give up. Note that this strategy cannot work if an enemy spy is in your faction as they can tell your precise location due to being the same faction.

Quest

The SR-71 can be obtained via the Quest #20220701 Something Special.

Version History

• Added in the Fourth of July 2022 Event in version .75a12.

Trivia

• Based off its real-life counterpart, the SR-71 Blackbird.
• Was made for the admin Rapidofast due to his love of the real life plane.
• The first SR-71 destroyed in-game was ebal_ex's, destroyed from the explosion of IzzymichChooCHoo's Oblivion.
• In real life, the SR-71 was never armed, instead, the armed version was the variant of the SR-71: The YF-12.