Mrkz81

Advent have recieved an in-culture buff that reduces the chance for phase missiles to bypass shields. 20% chance reduction, I believe?

This may be what you're experiencing.

Well... I did find something awhile back before the Vasari were introduced (even before the Advent were as well), though I am not sure if it anything... I am speculating on the off chance that what I did find was a hint.

We know that the Vasari Loyalists have a separate "Returning Armada" research tech; the Vasari Loyalists have "Dark Fleet Beacon" while the Vasari Rebels have the normal "Returning Armada." The funny thing is that, during development, the Vasari Loyalists had something different - "Vorastra Dark Fleet." Back then, once this ability was researched, free ships warped into the gravity well that held your Vorastra Titan. Big deal, right? Here is the funny thing (and I hope that I can explain this properly, as it deals with the string file) - the IDS for "Returning Armada" is "IDS_ABILITY_FLEETBEACON_NAME." For Dark Fleet, it is "IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_ABILITYACCESS_DARKFLEET_NAME." Now, what is the IDS of the now scrapped "Vorastra Dark Fleet" tech? It is IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_CHARYBDIS_DARK_FLEET_NAME.

Charybdis comes from Greek Mythology. It refers to a whirlpool that was thought to be a monster. If this "Charybdis" does deal with what is chasing the Vasari, then I have an idea as to what is happening. Whirlpools are natural phenomena that can have devastating results on (smaller) ships. Mayhaps a catastrophic natural disaster started to appear in the middle of Vasari space?

What I do find funny is that the developers never bothered to remove this from the string file. Maybe they left it there for us to find, but I figure that they either forgot about it or were too lazy.

If you want to check this out, simply copy the English.str file, paste, and call it "fileName.txt." You can then open it with notepad and search for IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_CHARYBDIS_DARK_FLEET_NAME .

I could be wrong but I think Charybdis is the original name of the new Vasari Capitalship.

You can get capital ships from Dark Armada as a Vasari Loyalist.

Charybdis was the original name for the Vorastra.  The research was probably just never changed from it's codename.

how do you make the Vasari Loyalist titan your homeworld?

You upgrade it in the empire tree.

Speaking of the Enemy of the Vasari, take a look at the Vasari research victory tech.

Yes i know that but should it say the the titan is the capital just like the planet, cause mine doesn't say anything.

is it supposed to say it on the titan's info card?

Charybdis is a massive whirlpool that sucks everything up into its maw.

Not quite true, the legend states Charybdis swallowed water along with anything in the area three times a day and spat it back out. 

The Vasari "Charybdis" experiment created a whirlpool that sucked in ships and structures and spat it back out and those who survived the process went mad.  The Dark fleet fought the crazed Vasari and Charybdis only to get sucked in and joined the mad fleet in chasing the Vasari survivors and also bringing Charybdis with them.

Charybdis is original codename for Vorastra Titan, Yottsu. If you check the concept art on the Ignus Dei´s Deviant Art page, you can clearly see it there. The original research/ability, which summoned the ships to the Titan for free, was called Vorastra Dark Fleet, its actually still listed in the game, as one of those 6 subfaction specific techs on the race selection screen...

EDIT: Too late, nevermind