Armada 1 Rift Creator

The Rift Creator is a special weapon of the game Star Trek: Armada. It can be considered a weapon of mass destruction, as it inflicts considerable damage on a large area of the map. It is effective within a certain radius of the casting ship, which is destroyed as well (suicide). It looks like this:

An active Corbomite Reflector has no effect on this special weapon. The Shield Remodulation on the other hand, does protect from it, as well as the Phase Cloak. As the latter does have a bit longer duration than its animation, to early decloaking can become a lethal mistake. This weapon is not researched in the conventional sense but is automatically present, when building a Phoenix class ship. The resource cost is accordingly that of a Phoenix ship.

When this weapon is used, all involved players will be notified of the event. This weapon does not need any special weapon energy, making it exploitable by the Free Phoenix move.