Black Hole Fortress? POSSIBLE SPOILERS

[Brainiac4]

Zogu said:
The Damocles ship has an "Anti-Graviton Shunt" already installed onboard, so you don't need to worry finding this item before going to the black hole. It also has some powerful weapons (Cobalt Torpedoes), which are necessary for destroying Primordius' fortress. But you'd better transfer your best hardware from your current ship to the Damocles, especially if you own a powerful shield, a cloaker, good thrusters, and a "Sardion Optimizer".

The Damocles comes equipped with a Temporal Flux Shield, which is the best in the game. So no need to upgrade. If you have the Cloak, though, that's totally worth transferring, as Nihilix pointed out.

[Zogu]

The Damocles comes equipped with a Temporal Flux Shield, which is the best in the game. So no need to upgrade.

Yeah that's true , I just realized that in my latest game.

By the way, are the Cobalt Torpedoes THAT powerful in "standard" combat situations? I tried to use them against the largest Tchorak rock (Mother Vent) but it didn't seem that good.

PS: I think that against the Tchorak, the best weapon combination is a short range point defense weapon (for instance, the good old Neptunium Railgun) + any good attack weapon. The point defense weapon if very effective against the "guided meteorites" burped by the Tchorak.

[Shadowcat]

The Neptunium Railgun is good, but personally I like a permanent barrier blocking my ships from harm while I hammer them with long-range missiles

[rocky8311]

It seems like every time I find the Damocles, I have a cloak. I just cloak my ship, send it on in to dock. It inevitably collides with a rotating drone, but has never destroyed me. Then Damocles just slowly and ponderously takes care of the drones, which strangely do not attack.

Or maybe they never attack...I've actually never encountered them without having the Cloak....

[Shadowcat]

They attack, but their weapons are permanently facing outwards.

[Puke]

and their weapons are very short range, so you can just stand off a little ways and pick them off.

[James Sterrett]

Another option - use the Zorg fighter to warp into the Damocles and capture it.