EMP Emitter

Up to date for latest version, 0.97a.

EMP Emitter
Special Ship System
Technical data
Range (su)	500
Flux per second	1
% base flux per use	20
Charge up duration (sec)	0.5
Duration (sec)	4
Charge down duration (sec)	0.5
Cooldown (sec)	3
Prevents weapon firing during use	Yes
Game data
ID	emp

	Generates lightning arcs that quickly knock out enemy missiles, weapons, and engines within range. Mostly negated by shields.
–In-game description

	Activates an EMP generator. Nearby missiles, fighters, weapon emplacements and engines of enemy ships are all targeted and can be disabled in short order. Unfortunately, on-board weapon systems must be shut down to provide power for this device. The EMP pulses are also not very effective against enemy shields.
–Full Codex description

Availability

This ship system is known to be used on the following ships:

• Omen
• Shade

Notes

• Has 0.5 seconds windup, 4 second duration, 0.5 second wind-down, 3 seconds cooldown.
• Costs 20% of ship's base flux to activate and generates 1 flux/second while active. Can be used with shield up, but cannot be used in phase space.
• Fires energy/EMP bolts randomly at missiles, fighters and ships within 500 su range. Fire rate is about 5/second.
• Bolts deal 100 energy damage and 500 EMP damage. Against ships they will always target weapons or engines. They cannot pass through nor arc through shields.
• Disables weapons on the ship while active.

Against unshielded ships and fighters, the EMP effect is terrifyingly effective - it will instantly shut down fighter engines leaving them floating helplessly in space, and in case of ships it will knock out most weapons and engines in seconds.

The EMP emitter also deals surprising amount of energy damage, being roughly equal to the Pulse Laser(with cooldown included) This still makes it decent against shielded fighters(although the random hit nature becomes a problem, as the damage will be spread between several different craft) and gives it a limited ability to overpower frigate shields. It's poor at damaging armor/hull as the damage will be distributed all over the ship.

Tips and Strategies

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Changelog

Patch 0.8a: EMP ship system energy damage increased to 100 (from 25)