Skill: Starship Power Insulators


 *  Note: This skill was replaced by .

Starship Power Insulators is a Tier 2 Science skill available to all Starfleet and KDF Lieutenant Commanders. Each increment of this skill costs 1,500 Skill Points.

Details
This skill grants resistance to enemy attacks which attempt to drain your shields or power from subsystems. For example, attacks from Tachyon Beam will drain less energy from your shields, and attacks from Energy Siphon will drain less power from your ship subsystem power levels. Similarly, this skill can reduce the subsystem power drain when an enemy targets subsystems (for example using the ability Target Shields Subsystems with their beam weapons), however, it will not affect the subsystem disable chance nor the disable duration which those attacks can apply.

This is primarily a PvP oriented skill, but can be situationally useful in PvE: even just having three points into the skill can considerably reduce the effectiveness of Borg Shield Neutralizers.

Abilities Affected
All power drain abilities when incoming from an enemy. is also affected by this skill.