Ability: Boarding Party

Overview
Boarding Party is an Engineering bridge officer ability. Up to three Boarding Party shuttles are launched at the enemy ship. Assuming the shuttles aren't destroyed, a general Boarding Party debuff is applied.

Basic Information

 * Profession: Engineering
 * Locale: Space
 * Game Description: Boarding Party launches up to three assault shuttles at the target. If they arrive safely, they can disable the ships subsystems, and increase the recharge time of enemy Bridge Officers abilities.

Detailed Information

 * Target: Foe
 * Range: 10 km
 * Activation time: 1 sec
 * Duration: 1 sec / shuttle
 * Modified by:
 * Skills
 * None
 * Stats
 * None
 * Duty Officer
 * Reduce the time to for all hangar bays and Boarding Party abilities after use
 * Uras'Kalan (Dominion Lock Box)
 * Chance for Boarding Party Shuttles to come equipped with a Point Defense Turret
 * Chance to double the number of shuttles launched with Boarding Parties
 * Starship Trait
 * - No longer launches Shuttles and instead instantly applies the effects to the targeted Foe. Recharge time of Boarding Party reduced from 60sec to 40sec.
 * Trained by:
 * Bridge Officer Trainer (Rank I, Rank II)
 * Requires 12 Tactical Skills (Rank III)
 * Non-common Bridge Officer Candidates (Rank III)
 * Requires 12 Tactical Skills (Rank III)
 * Non-common Bridge Officer Candidates (Rank III)

Counter-Tactics

 * Ability: Tactical Team (removes boarding parties and debuffs)
 * Ability: Engineering Team (restores disabled subsystems)
 * Ability: Transfer Shield Strength (chance to remove hostile boarding parties when a is on active duty)

Notes/References

 * The appearance of the boarding party vessels and the damage type dealt by their point defense systems (when applicable) depend on the player's faction:
 * Federation characters use Type-8 Shuttlecraft that deal Phaser damage.
 * Klingon Empire characters use Toron Shuttles that deal Disruptor damage.
 * Romulan Republic characters use Tiercel Shuttles that deal Plasma damage.
 * Dominion characters use Jem'Hadar Fighters that deal Polaron damage.
 * Borg vessels using this ability use transporters instead of shuttlecraft.