Ark Defender Faction Boss: Sarien Alliance Skeleton I liked making Sarien Alliance ships, they all got to reuse existing designs since larger Sarien Alliance ships tend to be smaller ones (or pieces of smaller ones) welded together.

Ark Defender Faction: Hal'Goph The Hal’Goph are the disciples of Go'Phwo'Ley the Creeping Oblivion, an elder being. They use techno-organic ships, a fusion of flesh and metal at the atomic level. Their weapons and propulsion rely on erasing space-time to, perhaps obvious, damaging effects for the former and by creating a ‘vacuum’ that drags the ship forward as reality tries to repair itself for the latter.

Ark Defender Faction Boss: Hangarian Boarding Party The Hangarian boarding party boss is the most unique of the boss encounters (and has taken the most development time to actually implement, lots of writing).

Ark Defender Faction Boss: Haunted Nebula Both of the Ancient Echo bosses are based around obscuring danger and requiring a sharp eye to pick it out and intercept it.

Ark Defender Faction Boss: Imperium Dreadnought The Imperium used to field a variety of dreadnoughts. But with the loss of much of their manufacturing capacity the other variants with specialized munitions fell out use to be replaced with the beam based dreadnought with its slightly easier maintenance requirements.

Ark Defender Faction Boss: Arsonian Sovereign Class The Arsonian beam weapon got its own shader so it looks more particle-y. While sometimes referred to separately, the Kumarei Shipyards are in fact Arsonian as well, just a cross faction corporation with too much power and a vested interest in keeping them fighting.