Glory Device

Overview

The Glory Device is a hull specific self-destruct feature of the D19b Nefarious Class Destroyer and the Saber Class Frigate. Although both of these hull models belong exclusively to the Fascist fleets, the device can be triggered by any race in possession of a ship equipped with the device.

Conditions

There are two principle activation triggers for the Glory Device:

• Manual Trigger
  • By setting the friendly code of the ship to "pop" the glory device will be activated. The ship does not need fuel, however it will fail to trigger if it is destroyed by a mine hit or an ion storm.
• Cloak Detection Trigger
  • By setting the friendly code of the ship to "trg" the glory device will activate if certain criteria are met:
    • The Glory Device ship and a cloaked enemy ship are present, the Glory Device ship has it's mission set to KILL and has at least 1kt of fuel.
    • The Glory Device ship and a cloaked enemy ship are present and the Glory Device ship has the primary enemy set to that of the cloaked ship (no fuel requirements).

Actions

When triggered, the devices detonates the ship and causes 1 mine hit worth of damage to all ships at the location AFTER the movement phase. Fascist ships, along with ships belonging to the player who owns the Glory Device ship take only 20% (or 10% if a Saber detonates) of a mine hit worth of damage.

When a glory device is triggered over an enemy planet the following additional damage will be done:

• 40% of all colonists will be killed. Lizard and Crystalline colonists are immune.
• 40% of all natives will also be killed. Siliconoid, Reptilian, and Bovinoid natives are immune.
• 25% of all planetary structures will be destroyed

Lastly, the glory device can be used to rid a planet of Amorphous natives, converting them into supplies.

Addons

Stellar Cartography

Any non-Robotic ships that get hit by a glory device while in radiation will immediately take a loss in crew and colonists equal to the radiation due to the sudden hull breach.

References

Glory Device from Donovan's Super Site