Solarium Reaper

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The Solarium Reaper is a small ship that is quite fast, although lacks agility. It fires a large frontal pulse that deals immense damage, and two lower damage pulses when it's energy is low. Being a Solarium ship, it is only accessible by the Solarium (yellow) team in the mode Destroy the Mothership.

if you are skilled, this ship is very OP. It lacks in agility so the Lunatic Invader has an advantage over it with higher agility, shield, power and continuous fire.

It's mainly used for hit and run tactics using the high recoil.

Stealing kills is also a tactic that works with the ship.

## Strategy

Strong against: Ships with low shields, slow, bulky ships, and ships with low mass as they will be knocked back by the giant pulse fired by the Solarium reaper.

Weak against: Rammers, as they are able to send the Solarium Reaper flying due to its low mass (unless you run in the same direction, it can be overcome by recoil). Also weak against multiple enemies, as the Solarium Reaper does not have a good fire rate; it cannot fire it's main large damaging pulse at a high rate.

**Playing as the Solarium Reaper**

Avoid battles in dense asteroid fields when possible, as the Solarium Reaper has terrible agility. The Solarium Reaper is somewhat like a Shadow X-3; both have high speed, poor agility, a high damage pulse, and lacking shields. Not only that, the Solarium Reaper almost has the exact same shot pattern as the Shadow X3: 1 high damage pulse with a very slow firing rate and 4 weak lasers. Always lure out opponents to open areas, where you should then fire your main pulse to deal high damage to your opponent, and then use your high speed to retreat and repeat. This ship is best used as a hit and run ship. Another way is to turn off RCS and use the Solarium Reaper's massive recoil from the main pulse to dodge and retreat from opponents. Don't get cocky because you've got a high damaging pulse though; the Solarium Reaper lacks shields when compared to the rest of the ships in the Destroy the Mothership mod. try to get points from killing big lunatic ships such as the Lunatic Battleship and the Lunar Blade,because it has low speed and agility, even though they have the highest shields (non-mothership) in Destroy the Mothership mod but the Mothership has the highest shields with 300k shields. You can sue your pulse to steal kills.

**Against the Solarium Reaper**

The best way to counter the Solarium Reaper is to use rammers as they are able to knock the Solarium Reaper around effortlessly because of its low mass. However, be aware of skilled players as they can utilize the Solarium Reaper's recoil to dodge you. Another way to counter it is to use fast ships with good rate of fire such as the Lunatic Invader to chase and hopefully destroy the Solarium Reaper. But due to the Solarium Reaper's higher speed than the Lunatic Invader, you must take advantage of the Solarium reaper's low agility and outsmart and trap it in an asteroid field. Never use a slow ship with low agility to combat the Solarium Reaper; they will utterly destroy you with their superior speed and dodging skills. Finally, gathering a number of players to trap and destroy the Solarium Reaper is another way, but you must make sure it doesn't escape using its high speed.