It's not the ability that is broken, it's the fact that level 6 and higher AI Akkans spam it in groups. A lone Akkan can only use it for 1/3 of the time, and only if you let it regenerate antimatter (you should fokus on killing the buggers anyways because of them annoying ion bolts). The AIs I go against often have four to five Akkans, so if their level rises beyond 6 they turn into a major pain with the way the AI handels fleet now.
The ability itself isn't faulty, though. The AI has to relearn proper fleet management and pick up that the ability should be used for escaping only (you can use it for so much more, but I doubt the AI would be able to learn that).
This was my situation against a cruel AI yesterday. To make progress in that battle, I had to micromanage my two capital ships with the ability that disables abilities (the one that looks like a shoe) on the enemy's 4 Akkans, and then focus fire them respectively. It still took 4 cycles of Armistice to take them all out, as they had the Loyalist titan with them as well protecting them.
A significant cooldown increase or a decrease in duration is definitely needed, along with some AI code limiting the use of this ability to particular situations. AIs using this ability do not make the game challenging, they just make it annoying.
