Author: Plaus
Description: Design: MasterThe logistics are nothing impressive. The difficult part was the innovative capacitor loading mechanism. It took a combination from a lot of different techs people developed over the years to create this. In particular I got inspired to try after Maximus recently made an ion capacitor of his own. The contribution from my ship is a sophisticated system to load the capacitor and keep it loaded, while the core is firing at the enemy, without needing to leave direct control at any point. If you want to learn how ion capacitors work, then check out the guide I made: <https://cosmoteer.wiki.gg/wiki/Guides_Hub/Ion_Capacitors>
Piloting: HardThe usual cruiser piloting, but you also need to learn how to charge the capacitor and clip the core.
Usage (Screenshots on the excelsior discord)
The screenshot is actually from a different ship, but Im too lazy to make a new one and the layout is basically the same.
I recommend playing very zoomed in to charge the capacitor, set your pip to always show your own ship and zoom out in pip. That way you can charge easily and still see your surroundings.
- Charging the capacitor: Use manual weapons control and put the cursor into the cyan region, so that the core (green) gets focused into the capacitor and the blue prism is pointing to the left, but not down.
- Charging a second stage pulse: Move the cursor from the cyan region down a bit, so that the blue prism points down and left. Keep it that way, until the first change completely discharged into the second stage and move the cursor back into the cyan region afterwards, to continue charging the first stage.
- To use your core to attack, while keeping the capacitor charged, simply toggle manual weapons control off.
- Discharging the capacitor: Select the trigger prisms (hotkey 2) and cancel its target.
Cost: 1489225₡
Crew: 164
Popularity: 0
Submitted by: plaus#0
Uploaded: Jul 29, 2026
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