Jormungandr

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The Jormungandr is the Capital Ship of the Swarm. As with the Wormship this is one of the largest and most powerful ships for its class, owing to its massive size and the tail feature they share. Unlike the former however, it's a living ship and has built in 180° targeting. Despite being able to mount twelve titan drives it has unremarkable speed due to its great weight. Jormungandr is currently the only ship able to mount two Death Rays. In Event Horizon Frontier the weapon slots are changed from L/S to omni, allowing it to equip any weapon type. At 50 slots, it has the biggest single weapon slot in the game, although other Capital Ships such as Megalodon have more in total.

The Jormungandr creates several small tail segments behind the ship when it enters the battlefield, with each segment adding ~10% to all resistances. When the Jormungandr's tail is fully intact, the head has full 100% resistance to all damage types except the special no-type damage, making them invulnerable to head-on attacks. This feature was previously implemented with an unremovable worm tail module which can be seen in the AI builds below, but it has since changed to be innate.

## Player use

The AI won't target the tail directly which allows ignoring most damage provided your foe isn't using an area of effect weapon. Ideally this should be armed with dual Death Rays. Small Repair Beams for healing or Plasma Throwers to destroy bases have situational usage.

Players may find the Jormungandr more difficult to fly than other ships. It cannot easily spin in place as without forward momentum the head only has about 90 degrees of movement to each side from center. Beyond that, the tail will start wrapping around the head at a limited bend radius, and the turn rate will slow down drastically. If attempting to make a sharp turn for too long, the tail segments will become bugged, further turn commands will not register, and the ship can visually "pop" in and out of existence as the tail segments attempt to correct their position (this can sometimes be seen with enemy Jormungandr as well). You will need to make longer wider turns, which takes some getting used to.

## Strategy

As all variants have passive health regen, slowly chipping away is not an option. Weapons with AoE effects are best to destroy multiple tail segments at once, and this ship is thus best countered by missiles or the Holy Cannon. Due to the 180° targeting extreme caution should be taken while approaching and ideally attacks should be performed from behind the head.

* **Non-veterans**  are rather slow, have limited range and health although a few drones to protect up close. Easy to safely destroy at range.
* **Veterans** have around triple the health of the previous tier and upgraded drones. Furthermore the Laser is replaced with the Tartarus's AI-only no-type Heavy Vampiric Ray M2. As with before these are best dealt with at range, the Vampiric Ray being very dangerous and capable of quickly healing the ship too.
* **Double Veterans** have around 70% more hp than the previous tier and also use 24 instead of 6 drones, and gain a Heavy Antimatter Bomb M2, Black Hole Generator, HLBM2 and Heavy Acid Missiles. At this point getting in range is asking for trouble.

## Additional information

* The Jormungandr can be encountered as a lone boss at rescue beacons, defeating it grants the player several stars, alien artifacts, and some other common loot such as Credits, and equipment.
* If the Jormungandr is recalled after losing its tail, a new one will grow back when it is redeployed.
* The tail's hp scales with its level and the armor on the main body.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* It is named before the Jörmungandr in Norse Mythology, and is based on it. The Jörmungandr is a serpent that is said to encircle Midgard with its enormously long body, similar on how Jormungandr is the largest ship in-game based on model and design. (Harbour is the largest ship in-game in terms of ship slots)
* It is formerly named Wormship, similar to its battleship variant.