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 | |
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Tachyon Drones | 2/4 | N/A | Cycling Tachyon Beam • no shields | |
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Advanced Tachyon Drones | 2/4 | N/A | Cycling Tachyon Beam • Deflector Shields | |
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Elite Tachyon Drones | 2/4 |  Tetryon
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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:
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.
- Following abilities grant either a direct damage increase to Hangar pets or indirect through target's resistance debuff:
- 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.
