I just found out that the newest episode has a sort of "stealth reward" - a "Control" skin for the Assimilator ship, with all the nanite stuff under the outer hull. It's not a shield. Once you complete the mission, the Assimilator gets a new "Control" ship material. And it IS moving, just like the skins of the nanite blobs.
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Might as well clear this up.
I wonder if the effect also is present on the Tal Shiar vessels.
I have posed the question to Kael.
Are you sure you didn't have it before playing the episode in the same login session? Easy explanation is that it was unlocked for the Assimilator with a recent update, and that maybe you only noticed after playing the mission.
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I checked since I own the Assimilator and the way to obtain the "skin" is special.
It's not ONLY a hull material. To unlock the hull material, you have to change each part of the model in the advanced menu ; that'll grant you the Control's fluidic nanites effect which can be applied with the other hull materials, so it's technically a full model change.
Once you've chosen "Control" for all the parts of the model, the Control hull material finally becomes available.
So for me, it looks more like indeed a secret customization reward that was granted for the owners of this particular ship for fun.