Aurelian Synod
Tempest Sovereign
Capital ship · storm command
- Designation
- C-04
- Classification
- CAPITAL SHIPS
- Affiliation
- Aurelian Synod
- First encounter
- World 9 · Level 130
A double-pointed capital ship hung with two conductor rings. Four conductor banks power everything it fires.
Campaign spoilers: this file reveals specific boss encounters or later campaign content.
ARMAMENT
- 01Artillery turretsFour turrets ripple electrical shells from three recoiling barrels. The blast disrupts your shield.
- 02Lightning lanceThe spinal lance turns to follow you, locks, then fires one beam along its line.
- 03Defense turretsSix point-defence turrets fire light bolts.
- 04Chain lightningThe conductor rings call lightning through its fleet onto a marked ring on your lane.
BEHAVIOUR
- 01Conductor banksEach bank powers part of the ship: the forward banks the artillery, the aft banks the lance; all four the storm field and the rings.
- 02Capital armourWhile above half hull, a VECTOR strike breaches half its hull instead of destroying it.
- 03HangarsLaunches Arc Strikers during the fight.
TACTICAL
Destroy the conductor banks to silence its systems, leave the violet ring, then breach it with VECTOR.
SYSTEMS
- 01Conductor banksFour capacitor towers; each one destroyed takes its systems down.
- 02Lightning lanceThe aimable spinal lance.
- 03Artillery turretsFour turrets with three recoiling barrels each.
- 04Conductor ringsTwo suspended rings that harvest the storm and throw chain lightning.
- 05Storm-command spireThe bridge and its storm antenna.
- 06Egg drivesThree drives with vertical slot plumes.
ORDNANCE
- 01Artillery shellBursts at its fuse point; the blast disrupts shields.
- 02Lightning lanceThe drawn beam is exactly where it hits.
- 03Defense boltA light point-defence bolt.
- 04Chain arcOne hop of the rings' chain lightning.
