Dartian Garbage Ship

## Description

Dartian Garbage Ship is an NPR ship belonging to the Dartians. Dartian Garbage Ships are large, spire-shaped ships with heavy armor plating and a brass coloration. They feature a small forward cockpit, a large flared rear engine cluster, and a large central storage compartment with thick sheet metal plating, covered with etching and seams.

## Combat and Strategy

All associated items can be found on the Dartians page.

Dartian Garbage Ships are massive, highly shielded ships that can take early players quite a while to destroy.

For Utilities, Dartian Garbage Ships have a limited selection: The Dartian Detonator, being the most relevant in combat, is capable of destroying nearby guided weapons if the garbage ship is alerted to enemies. Otherwise, they are likely to simply have a Dartian Mining Laser or a Dartian Tractor Beam as a utility, and while the latter can be dangerous, it is usually a non-threat unless the target is of high mass due to the nature of the radiation damage effect.

For Primary Weapons, garbage ships possess multiple variants of the Dartian Pulse Laser, which can inflict fair amounts of Radiation Damage Status Effect on high-mass ships, though these are easy to avoid. Alternatively, garbage ships can have the Dartian Scatter Cannon, which can be relentlessly fired, chipping away at a target's health and preventing shield regeneration. Due to its low turning speed, it is unlikely that primary weapons pose a threat to the player in combat.

Garbage ships have access to several Secondary Weapons, the most notable being the Dartian Smart Torpedo and Dartian Torpedo, which both deal Explosive damage and applying radiation effects. Garbage ships also have access to highly maneuverable Dartian Radioactive Spheres and Dartian Repulsion Spheres, the former of which is difficult to avoid and deals heavy radiation damage, while the latter is just as challenging to avoid, but only knocks the target back.

Garbage ships also have access to Dartian Mines, which can deal long radiation effect times on unaware targets.

Garbage ships have access to Dartian Mining Laser Turrets, which can be used in tandem with many active Augmentations, namely the Dartian Probe Constructor, to create swarms of Dartian Probes. It is critical for the player to take down probes as they are summoned to prevent being whittled down.

Garbage ships have a plethora of Large Weapons at their disposal, the most dangerous being the Nuclear Waste Container, functioning similarly to a radiation-AOE version of the Thunderbomb. Players should flee and wait for the container to go away if they notice a garbage ship deploy a container. Garbage ships also have both variants of torpedo arrays, such as the Dartian Smart Array, which can be avoided via speed, Shield Bubble, Hard Light Barriers, or other projectile-destroying means.

Note that due to using the Dartian Recharger, Dartian Garbage Ships have a massive shield capacity in exchange for a massive recharge delay and a middling radiation damage depletion effect. This means that lots of rapid hits will prevent garbage ships' shields from recharging and mitigating damage.

Overall, Dartian Garbage Ships suffer from low speed, low regeneration, and low defenses outside of their shield multiplier- allowing players to slowly cut them down via range, long damage-over-time effects, and/or consistent relentless chip damage. Note that weapons such as the EMP Blast can be risky due to nuclear waste containers and mines, but has a high reward in allowing the player to disable the garbage ship.

## Notes

* More info about the respective NPR in general can be found on the Dartians page and the Dartians category page.
* Dartian Garbage Ships are initially neutral to enemies, not attacking until they are provoked.