Difference between revisions of "Item Database:Ships:Heavy Interdictors"

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Despite the similareties in name the Heavy Interdictors have very little in common with interdictors. While the interdictor is a small rather feeble ship that drops a warp bubble on it's enemies and then tries to make good it's escape the Heavy version has one of the strongest tanks in the game but creates the bubble around itself instead. Effectively warp scrambling itself.

While the bubble generator is active the ship cannot recieve any remote repairs, nor can it use a micro warp drive or an afterburner leaving it entirely up to the heavy dictor itself to tank all incoming damage. Because not even the heavy dictor's massive tank can withstand the firepower of a large fleet they are not very popular in large fleet fights but are rather used in smaller roaming gangs.

The heavy interdictor's second role is what truly makes it popular. By loading a script into the bubble generator it can be turned into something similar to a normal warp scrambler to be used on a single, locked target only but with a 28km range and an infinite amount of "scram points". Ifinite points being the linchpin here, it allows for the heavy interdictor to warp scramble supercapitals. Being the only ship that can do so makes them invaluable for any fleet trying to kill one of those.

The bubble generator's bubble effect can only be used in 0.0 but with the script loaded it can also be used in low-sec.