Titans and superweapons — Veil of Steel

At the end of every build chain stands one machine nothing else replaces — and one building that does something different for every faction.

Titans — what stands at the end of the chain

Every faction has a second tier behind the experimental works: its own faction-exclusive building that requires the tech center and the experimental works at once. That makes it the most expensive build gate in the game, and what rolls out of it carries the top armour tier 25 and more structure than any other unit. Only the Aegis Order has two titans — one on the ground and a flying fortress. A titan still replaces no army: it is slow, it costs as much as several tanks, and left alone it rarely lasts long.

Faction	Titan	Hull + shield	Cost	What sets it apart
The Steel Union	Blast Furnace	2060	520 Fe · 290 Cu · 340 Ti	Melts wrecks into heavy tanks
The Scrap Legion	Carcass	2500	480 Fe · 270 Cu · 315 Ti	Launches drones from its hull
The Aegis Order	Titan	750 + 886	480 Fe · 270 Cu · 315 Ti	Two continuous beams plus anti-air
The Aegis Order	Castellum	420 + 640	535 Fe · 315 Cu · 360 Ti	Flying fortress, fires straight down
The Collective	Hydra	1800	1965 K	Breaks apart into fighting segments
The Blight	Moloch Brood	2472	1960 K	Hardens as soon as it stands still
The Orbitals	Landing Fortress	1800	460 Fe · 255 Cu · 325 Ti	Breaks apart into fighting segments

Every titan does something nobody else can

They are not the same machine in five paint jobs. The Steel Union blast furnace melts down wrecks around it and casts heavy tanks on the spot — a rolling factory at the front. The Scrap Legion carcass is a mobile drone carrier and the longest-reaching of the machines; its own gun stays deliberately weak in exchange. The Collective hydra falls apart on death into segments that keep fighting — the enemy has to kill it twice; its turrets sit one behind the other, so it turns broadside to the foe in combat. The Bloom moloch spawn hardens as soon as it stands still and then takes noticeably less damage. The Aegis Order titan carries two continuous laser beams plus anti-air — the answer to exactly that Scrap Legion carrier.

The missile silo — one building, five effects

All five factions build the same register entry, and it does something different for each. The Steel Union fires a missile onto a point, the Scrap Legion a swarm of kamikaze drones — the only one that can be intercepted, and anti-air is the answer to it. The Aegis Order aims with two clicks: start and end of a line that an orbital beam travels down; anyone who runs sideways out of the swath before the front reaches them escapes. The Collective reactivator deals no damage at all — it raises the wrecks around it as your own units, foreign ones and your own alike. The Bloom maw gate tears the ground open and spits out larvae that keep feeding for a while: clear them away and you take less damage. Only one silo may exist at a time.

Faction	Name	Effect	Radius or length	Damage
The Steel Union	Missile Silo	Missile onto a point	150 px	260
The Scrap Legion	Raketensilo	Drone swarm, interceptable	240 px	14 × 90
The Aegis Order	Raketensilo	Beam along a line	480 × 84 px	260
The Collective	Raketensilo	Wrecks rise as your own units	200 px	no damage
The Blight	Raketensilo	Larvae break out of the ground	320 px	24 larvae, 10 s

Charge, warning and the lobby

After completion and after every launch the silo recharges for about 4 minutes. The charge rate depends on power: with a deficit the bar keeps counting more slowly instead of stopping outright. Launch and impact are announced to ALL players, not just the target — the target position stays secret, and between the two lies a visible warning, for the missile the 7 seconds of flight time. The impact does not ask who owns what: your own units inside the radius die too, and a badly placed marker costs you your own army. Whether superweapons exist at all is a lobby setting — switched off, the silo cannot be built, and that is enforced on the server, not merely hidden in the build menu.