Just had a few ideas for the upcoming seasonal

Passive effects:
Troop carriers expose themselves during this rapid expansion, making them avalible to those ranked 9999 and down
Succesfull colonizations may trigger the bountiful harvist effect, causing all production to increase by 10% for 1 week
Invasions only succeed up to 75% of the time

Elites

Zenitha, TO Freighter
Rank 900 hauler
share range 750-9000
While the sarkonis leads the harvest into new areas the Zenitha takes the vanguard transporting supplies and defences to help consolidate the outsiders controll in captured territory.

Elite 5

300,000 sheilds
200,000 hull

Abilities:
beta wave weakness, Improved mind influence also debuffs defence by 50%
Predictive defences: may sometimes boost defence by 100% when being attacked (this effect stacks)
Ablative sheilds: Sheilds cannot be damaged unless under the effect of 3 focused disruptions

Focused disruption (activated ability) ships focus their weapons on a single point allowing the sheild to be damaged, lasts 1 hour. (when used debuffs the user with -100% Zenithar sheild attack for 1 hour) Basicly you need at least 3 pilots online to peirce the sheild and a 4th/5th to take out the shield.


Attack: 5000

Defense: 50000

Cloak: 1,000

Drops:
Zenitha Transport bay 20% - ship mod
Size: 50, cloak 100, defence 200
Limit 2 per ship
Passive Ability: when both are installed colonization costs are reduced by 10%

Zenitha Headquaters upgrade 40% - Upgrades a sarkonis headquaters to a zenithar headquaters adding 1 artifact, 2 research 1 mining for a total of Size: 1 Research: 3 mining: 1 Artifact: 1 population: 500, defence +10%

Zenitha Extractor 40%- Allows the extraction of certian special structures (ulrudi, zane and raix chain structures)

Veret, Crimson raider Rank 750
The veret is an notorious oppitunist and has been using the chaos caused by the to expansion to raid the arms repositories on goverment controlled planets.

Elite 5 slots : 550-6000

250,000 hull
Forward cannons: 100,000 health
250,000 sheilds

Abilities:
Lighting raid-
May strike at a player owned planet, reducing its defence attack and cloak by 50% for one day

Levy goods
May raid a player owned planet, reducing production by 50% for one week

KERPLOWIE!!!!
May fire forward cannons, instantly doing damage equal to 95% of player max hull health directly to player hull

suggestable: Improved mind influence also reduces defence by 25%
defence: 13000
attack 24000

drops

Crimson Dropships 20%
Size 50, invasion attack 300, limit 2 per ship
Passive effect: reduces invasion cost by 5% if both are installed.

Crimson omnipod upgrade 40%: Upgrades a sarkonis omnipod to a crimson omnipod, increasing artifact by 1 and attack by 10%

Crimson Disrupter 40% chance: Reduces a enemy planets attack by 15% for 2 hours

+1

I like these suggestions. All of these suggestions. Which for a post of this sort ... is a first.

A most hearty +1 for you Anti-mining cat.

Ok... fully truthful ya got me on this: The size of the colonization bonus modules is one minor gripe, and I would think being an SSB you'd have the same issue with them. 50 decks would make them the largest module gained from an NPC(almost twice the size) or mission in the game. With the runner up being the Titan Proxy's at 40 decks.

I'm curious as to how IMI will interact with Ablative Shield. It's not an ability that is "used" persay but...
if AS can't be canceled by IMI thou, I'd say it's a bit harsh on the smaller legions.

It's going to be management nightmare in any case, but I like that. Proper team work, coordination and oversight in a legion is always welcome.

The only detail you are missing is the share range of Zenitha and the rank(thus damage cap) of Veret. And does Veret have no abilities? bit boring for a 5 man largeish elite. Maybe it should generate some negative planet effects, that'd certainly be new.

Anyway, overall I'd say those are very interesting and nice ideas.

edited it to include possible veret abilities and added the missing ranks and ranges

Im against ablative sheid being mind influenceable tbh, would rather people have to co-ordinate strikes

how about some seasonal elites that us only 150-500 can kill?? we like good drops to

I believe this is more than reasonable. After all the Bane event has given the player base a rank board weapon module. How many people are between rank 2018 and rank 2000 again?

maybe but then the drops would have to be worse than that of the higher rank version

Heck it could be an NPC that is Fab Plant style and allows darn near the entire playerbase to join in. Everybody can get a chance at the drop. If it was a planet structure it would be ok.

If it were a module though it may be claimed as an unfair advantage by those at the lower end of the player base rank wise who were unlucky enough to miss out on the drop due to lack of active NPCers in their legion.

what if the elite gave an option to alert peticks? I know he would like that!

in absence of any usefull comments or anything not catagoriesed under mindless drivel kindly piss off troll

Either you like the suggestion and be supportive or you dont and be constructive in your critisism, dont try and mess up the entire suggestion for others