Allegience Subverter

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The Allegiance Subverter is a special-purpose weapon which is an alternative to Boarding Parties and the Crew Insurrection intelligence project. It is only available to races which choose the Psychic racial trait.

The Allegiance Subverter is a direct-fire weapon, and if it hits its target, there is a chance for the target to switch over to the side of the ship which fired the subverter. This chance is displayed in the damage field of the weapon's description, so if you see a 60, for instance, that means that if the weapon hits then there is a 60% chance of the target switching sides. If the weapon misses, of course, nothing happens (so the Religious Talisman is a deadly combination with the Allegiance Subverter), and if the weapon hits but the ship does not subvert, nothing happens (so a damage-increasing mount is recommended if you want to improve your chances of success against a single target).

The Allegiance Subverter will work against ships and bases of any size and with any number of Boarding Parties and Security Stations, but it is completely ineffective against targets equipped with a master computer - even if the computer is destroyed or the target also has standard command and control components.

Satellite-mounted allegiance converters make great warp-point defences.