SpaceBourne 2 – Swarm Ascension Expansion Now Available

Swarm Expansion Pack – Feature Overview

The Swarm Expansion Pack significantly expands drone-based gameplay with new ship classes, deeper customization, and advanced tactical control. This update is focused on giving players more strategic freedom, stronger identity for swarm builds, and a clearer, more powerful management experience.

New Swarm Content

• 3 new Swarm types, each with distinct combat roles and behaviors

• 4 new Swarm drone ships, designed to support different tactical playstyles

New Ship Class

• A brand-new Hybrid Swarm Drone Ships

  • Large in scale, yet retaining many fighter-class characteristics

  • Fully explorable interior

  • Planet-landing capable

  • Designed to bridge the gap between capital ships and fighters

Customization & Progression

• New Swarm-specific components

• New Swarm skills and progression paths

• New stats that directly affect swarm behavior and efficiency

• New ship perks tailored for swarm-focused builds

• New visual skins for ships and swarm units

Swarm Management & Tactics

• A completely redesigned Swarm Manager interface

  • Clearer control over swarm composition and priorities

• A new Swarm Tactics System

  • Allows players to define behavior profiles such as defensive, aggressive, or free-form tactics

  • Enables deeper strategic decision-making during combat

Mothership & Carrier Changes

• Motherships can now deploy Swarm drones

• Legacy Combat Drones are now exclusive to Fighter-class ships

• Swarm capacity rules:

  • Motherships:

    • Up to 100 Swarm drones

    • Can be increased up to 250 through pilot skills.

  • Swarm Carriers:

    • Can deploy up to 5,000 Swarm drones, enabling true large-scale engagements

Audio Improvements

Several AI-generated voice lines have been replaced or refined.

All dialogue for one of the main characters, Molyax, has been fully re-recorded by professional voice actors for improved immersion and consistency.

This expansion is designed to push battles beyond individual ships, introducing formation-based combat, mass coordination, and strategic drone warfare on a completely new scale.

Additional Notes & Current Limitations

• At the moment, Swarm ships can use usable modules, but cannot perform pod-catching actions. We are exploring the addition of a dedicated Misc Swarm Drone class for this role. If this approach proves unsuitable, pod-catching capability may be enabled directly for Swarm ships in a future update.