The Striker is a type of garenonian vessel featured in the Battleship movie and video game.
In the Game:[]
The Striker is a strong, steady support ship that protects weaker alien ships like the Skimmer while simultaneously firing at targets on land. Its weaponry consists of 4 explosive peg launchers, 2 long-range plasma cannons, and if they control a support square, then the Striker will launch mini-shredder mines at the player on land, creating a minefield the player must avoid.
In the Movie:[]
The Striker appears with blue-cyan colored lights. It was destroyed at sunrise by the USS John Paul Jones after Alex Hopper and Captain Nagata fired at the light-shielding windows on the ship's command bridge with sniper rifles, allowing sunlight to get in and blind the sunlight-sensitive eyes of the Garenonian crew. This allowed the John Paul Jones to fire everything it had at the Striker while the crew was incapacitated, resulting in the ship's destruction.
The Striker was also responsible for the destruction of the John Paul Jones when it fired two shredder drones, right after the human ship blew up the Regent vessel.
The ship's structure consists of a broad, flat hull, a streamlined stabilization tail and an aerodynamic bow, an overall design that gives the warship a distinctive singray-like shape. The two main jump fins are wide and forward-swept, while two other minor fins behind that first pair are swept backward. These two additional wings could be a meant to serve as stabilizers during the leap's initial phase so as to give major stability to the warship's tail, likely allowing for a much more powerful and ranged leap.
Trivia:[]
- The Striker's propulsion system demonstrated the ability to perform extremely long and powerful jumps, as seen when the vessel leaps past a huge island ridge.
- The Striker and the Lurker are the only support ships in the Regent fleet along with the Regent Mothership to be able to launch shredder drones. They are most likely stored and fired from the elongated structure on the rear.