Hangar - Tachyon Drones

Tachyon Drones are a type of KDF Hangar Pet. They are obtained and unlocked with the purchase of any Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier:

• Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier
• Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit
• Fleet Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit

They can be equipped on any vessel capable of launching hangar pets. Slotted hangar pets will add a launch ability: Launch Tachyon Drones.

Hangar overview

	Name	Squad	Energy type	Projectile	Abilities
	Tachyon Drones	2/4		N/A	Cycling Tachyon Beam • no shields
	Advanced Tachyon Drones	2/4		N/A	Cycling Tachyon Beam • Deflector Shields
	Elite Tachyon Drones	2/4	Tetryon	N/A	Cycling Tachyon Beam • Deflector Shields

Two wings of standard-issue (rare) Tachyon Drones come pre-loaded as part of the standard equipment of the following vessels:

• Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier
• Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit and its Fleet variant, the Fleet Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit

Pets

Hangar - Tachyon Drones

Rare Hangar Bay

Character Bind On Pickup

Drone gear:
* Cycling Tachyon Beam

Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers

Launch Tachyon Drones

Launches two Tachyon Drones

Launches 2 level __ Tachyon Drone:

-___ All Shields per sec per drone.

1 min 20 sec recharge

Value: 0

- UNLOCK: Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier, Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit, Fleet Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit

- AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar section of the Requisition Starship Equipment vendor found on most hubs for 25,355 .

Capabilities

• Capacity: Launches 2 at a time, and can support up to 4 per hangar.
• Base cooldown: 1 min 20 sec recharge

Hangar - Advanced Tachyon Drones

Very Rare Hangar Bay

Bind On Pickup

Drone gear:
* Cycling Tachyon Beam
* Deflector Shields

Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers

Launch Advanced Tachyon Drones

Launches 2 Tachyon Drones

Launches 2 level __ Tachyon Drones:

-100 All Shields per second per drone.

Value: 30,250

- UNLOCK: Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier, Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit, Fleet Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit

- AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar Pets section of the Dilithium Store for 30,250 . The cost can be lowered to 25,712 provided the player has access to a Fleet Dilithium Mine with all Fleet Project Dilithium Discounts unlocked.

Capabilities

• Capacity: Launches 2 at a time, and can support up to 4 per hangar.
• Base cooldown: 1 min 20 sec recharge

Hangar - Elite Tachyon Drones

Ultra Rare Hangar Bay

Bind On Pickup

Drone gear:
* Cycling Tachyon Beam
* Tetryon Turret
* Deflector Shields

Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers

Launch Elite Tachyon Drones

Launches 2 Tachyon Drones

Launches 2 level __ Tachyon Drones:

-100 All Shields per second per drone.

Value:

- UNLOCK: Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier, Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit, Fleet Orion Corsair Flight Deck Carrier Retrofit

- AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar Pets section of the Fleet Space Supplies officer onboard a Fleet Starbase with a Tier V Communications Array for 45,000 and 100,000 . The Dilithium cost can be lowered to 38,250 provided the player has access to a Fleet Dilithium Mine with all Fleet Project Dilithium Discounts unlocked.

Capabilities

• Capacity: Launches 2 at a time, and can support up to 4 per hangar.
• Base cooldown: 1 min 20 sec recharge

• Weapons:
  • [Tetryon Turret]

Playable version

No playable version of the Tachyon Drones currently exists in-game.

Modifiers

Hangar pet performance may be affected by various factors (unless stated otherwise), all listed below.

• Innate
  • All Hangar pets are immune to warp core breaches and have a unique version of the Strategist specialization ability "Layered Defense", known as "Layered Defenses III", which makes them immune to a single torpedo hit every 30 seconds.
  • Starships with Hangar Bays by default can use Carrier commands, a set of four abilities that issue orders to your Hangar pets.

• Subsystem
  • Auxiliary Power level will determine the recharge rate before a Hangar pet can be launched again; if Auxiliary subsystem is knocked offline, the Hangar will not operate.

• Skill Tree
  • Drain Expertise (Improves Energy & Shield Drain / Resistance to Same)
  • Skill Nodes
    • Coordination Protocols: +20% Hull Capacity and Shield Capacity for Hangar pets.
    • Defensive Coordination: +20% Defense and Damage Resistance Rating for Hangar pets.
    • Offensive Coordination: +20% Accuracy and Base Damage for Hangar pets.
  • Unlocks
    • 5 points in Engineering track: Hangar Health: Hangar pets have an additional 10% Maximum Hull Capacity.
    • 5 points in Tactical track: Hangar Weaponry: Hangar pets deal an additional 10% Damage from all sources.

• Personal Space Traits
  • Holographic Mirage Decoys: Hangar pets are invulnerable until 2 secs after damage is first negated
  • Wing Commander: +100% Rank Up XP for all Hangar pets

• Starship Trait
  • Coordinated Assault: Beam: Overload and Cannon: Rapid Fire apply to your Hangar pets.
  • Dampen Energy Signatures: Activating Intel bridge officer abilities or Mask Energy Signature gives +Dmg, +Stealth, -Threat, +Defense Rating to Hangar pets.
  • Dominion Coordination: Buffs Hangar pet damage after activating Beam: Overload, Cannon: Rapid Fire or Energy Weapons - Surgical Strikes.
  • Fiery Entrance: Activating Narrow Sensor Bands and launching Hangar pets causes Fire damage and confuses within 3km.
  • Gre'thor's Fire: Launching Hangar pets adds Fire damage to weapons.
  • Hivebearer: When launching a Hangar pet or when a Hangar pet dies: Spawns a Hur'q Swarmer for 30 seconds (max 8 Swarmers at a time).
  • Improved Tachyon Beam: Tachyon Beam also regenerates shields of allies within 10km.
  • Insult to Injury: Activating either an Intel bridge officer ability or Tractor Beam, will give Hangar pets access to Torpedo: Transport Warhead I.
  • Radiant Nanite Cloud: Causes all bridge officer and captain ability hull heals to heal for an additional 50% over 4 seconds in a 3 km radius.
  • Reactive Repair Nanites: Hull Heals also heal Hangar pets within 5km of the target for 33% of healing caused.
  • Relaunch and Repair: Carrier pet launch buffs regen, reduced captain ability recharge times.
  • Scramble Fighters: Instant Hull Heal; a short duration buff that renders them immune to all damage, and a boost to damage dealt.
  • Superior Area Denial: Grants Beams: Fire at Will I and Cannon: Scatter Volley I to Hangar pets when activating those abilities.
  • Unified Engineering: Activating any Command bridge officer ability or Auxiliary to Structural will grant your team and Hangar pets a buff to hull capacity, regeneration, flight speed, and turn rate for a short duration.
  • Voth Carrier Synergies: Grant Aceton Mode for Hangar pets on use of Tac abilities, grant Immunity shield on use of Eng abilities.

• Starship Mastery (Carriers, Flight Deck Carriers, Flight Deck Raptors)
  • Quick Deployment: 20% recharge time reduction to launching Carrier pet crafts; +50% Rank Up XP for all Hangar Pets.

• Duty Officers
  • Flight Deck Officer: Reduces the time to recharge Hangar Bay abilities after use.
  • Flight Deck Officer: Increases the accuracy of any carrier pet launched from your Hangar bays while they are in Intercept mode.
  • Flight Deck Officer: Increases the damage of any carrier pet launched from your Hangar bays while they are in Escort mode.

• Bridge Officer abilities
  • Following abilities grant either a direct damage increase to Hangar pets or indirect through target's resistance debuff:
    • Attack Pattern Beta
    • Attack Pattern Omega: In combination with Conn Officer DOff which applies a team wide effect.
    • Focused Assault
    • Endothermic Inhibitor Beam
    • Structural Integrity Collapse
    • Destabilizing Resonance Beam
    • Concentrate Firepower: Torpedoes will deal extra damage, get free Torpedo: High Yield I and get their torpedo cooldowns reset.
    • Overwhelm Emitters: Attacking a target under the effect of this ability will heal the shields of Hangar pets.

• Gear
  • Console - Universal - Swarmer Matrix: +30% Turn Speed, Flight Speed, and Damage for your Hangar pets and Targetable Torpedoes.
  • Enhanced Carrier Synergy (3-piece set bonus from the Ancient Obelisk Technology Set): Activating any Emergency Power ability causes Hangar pets to activate a weaker version of the same power.
  • High-Energy Communications Network (active ability): +1 Rank to all your Hangar pets
  • 3-part and 4-part set bonus from the Iconian Resistance Starship Technologies set: Damage increase and additional effects to team.
  • weapon proc: Disruptor, Corrosive Plasma or Coalition Disruptor: chance to lower the target's damage resistance so pets can deal higher damage.