A harsh lesson in dealing with the Advent - focus fire can kill you. The Advent have a whole set of abilities that deal damage back to enemies.

I don't know if I like the Advent. I tend to play as TEC. The consensus seems to be that the Advent are slightly more powerful than the other races at this stage but I think it's too early to say really. I think Advent ships are more lethal man to man in the hands of equally skilled opponents. But TEC players should have more units because of their economic advantages.