Disciple Vessel
From Sins of a Solar Empire
 Advent
Disciple Vessel
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Armed with a single forward pulse laser, the Disciple Vessel may at first seem underpowered, but that is deceptive. Shedding extra crew compartments and relying on total integration of the ship‘s crew into its systems, the Disciple is agile and deadly. Once further trained and equipped, the Disciple Vessel submits itself to becoming an important battery of antimatter for the more powerful of the Unity‘s vessels, while at the same time denying antimatter to the enemy. The Disciple is crewed by expendable low-level Advent acolytes who have demonstrated their personal submission to the Unity, but have no particular psionic talents.
Extracted from the game manual.
The Disciple provides the backbone of any early Advent fleet. Light, fast and cheap, it is also the weakest both offensively and defensively of all of the starting frigates. However, its low supply and resource consumption means that it can make up for this in numbers, providing relatively expendable firepower and ability suppression. As with all light combat frigates, they gain the ability to inhibit enemy antimatter use. In their case it is direct, stealing it from enemy ships and giving it to friendly ships. While this is very useful for keeping friendly support ships going, it can take longer to disable the support abilities of another fleet than the other light combat frigates.
[edit] Development
Patch 1.03 fixed the Transfer Antimatter ability so that Disciple Vessels don't target their own when it was used. Additionally, Transfer Antimatter now only targets friendlies in need of it.
| Ship Type: | Frigates |
|---|---|
| Primary Role: | Combat |
| Shield Power: | Low |
| Hull Points: | Very Low |
| Armor Level: | Low |
| Armor Type: | Medium |
| Antimatter: | Very Low |
| Weapons: | Forward Heavy Pulse Laser |
| Compliment: | 75 |
 Steal Antimatter | Transfer Antimatter | | | |
 Attack |  Stop |  Move |  Tactics Management | |
