Tactical:



In my personal opinion tactical is the less useful of the others

Findable equivalent: Suki Sissoko (Stupid hard to get and incredibly useful but you can emulate her powers)

Doom Cannon (BOOM): Hits a single enemy and does Massive Damage™ based on the tier of your ship and it's specialties (harder hitting ships tier 5 and such will hit harder)

Dimentional flashbang: This works well with incisor beam and commando prestige class actually VERY well so keep that in mind.

Fire at will!: has the capacity to be quite useful with the doom canon but, in normal combat expect slight damage and nothing much else.

Into the Fray Boosts damage useful with doom cannon and a good thing to use with medatation boosts

Bridge Shot: i found this ability to do less damage than it says on the tin why? i don't know. Possibly the tendency for the enemy to resist Weapons Disruption.

Science:



In my personal opinion a good pick for high difficulties.

Findable equivalent: Inneborg Xiao (but you can emulate her powers)

Epic: Matter restoration:
Massive healing for everyone super useful overall!

Warp atomic structure: Super useful if you have an engineering officer with disintegrate hull i found myself not needing it so much after finding the beam attack with panic to crew aswell but it does do a little bit more damage than standard attacks something you might want to think about in a sticky situation.

Ablative Field:
The thing about this ability that makes it not just a cut rate protective field is extra resistance 35% compaired to just a normal protective field useful if you know one of your ships is going to take a real beating.

Siphon Dark matter Good for minor healing and crew panic overall it's just useful in certain situations.

Bend spacetime
Mostly useful in keeping one ship alive for quite a while even with low health.

Engineering



In my opinion deeply tied with science lucas scienceman.

Findable equivalent: Zulf Madox the man who you always find! (Unless you don't come prepared at New Terra, but you can emulate his powers)

Drone swarm Incredible attack that hits everything and causes high damage in the form of a status effect.

Broadside salvo useful it does insane amounts of damage to chruul with a hull breach or without

Quick tune up In my opinion this is the last resort no healing tools left kinda thing but can be useful

Repair drone overdrive: in my opinion marginally useful if you want extra ship powers or lots of healing but, the ship comes with a stock drone heal that seems more useful but in dire need it can save ships from critical state and keep healing them.

You will have to pick between Corbain Lau (Strategist), Lucas Beaumont (Physicist) and Isolde Freehold (Mechanic). The selection dialogue won't tell you their Epic powers. But never fear, this guide will tell you! Corbain Lau can unlock Doom Cannon. Lucas Beaumont can unlock Matter Reconstruction. Isolde Freehold can unlock Drone Swarm. See below for a description of each Epic power in detail.

If this is your first time playing, you will probably want Isolde Freehold, but choosing a different officer won't kill you.... or will it?

You can still pick Corbain Lau, Lucas Beaumont, or Isolde Freehold, but you can now choose to hit the button at the bottom that says "Select from expanded officer list." This will let you build a customized officer. If you decide you want one of the presets, you can always go back to them.

1. Choose your starting officer character
This step is purely aesthetic. Characters with the gold ring have bios. The other characters do not.

2. Choose your officer's class
Please see the sections below for a description of each class. You will get to pick a second officer soon, so you don't need to worry about choosing between two options that look equally good.

3. Choose your officer's unlockable epic power
Depending on which class you picked, you will have 5 options. See the section below for details. If you don't plan to use the epic power anyway, this step is fairly irrelevant.

4. Finalize your officer
Look over this page to make sure you have everything correct, then hit the confirm button.

All Epic powers can only be used once per mission. They can be unlocked once the officer reaches Level 7.

Fade To Black Gives all allies +50 Evasion and +75% Damage until each ship attacks an enemy. Works well with Strategists who take the Counselor path and use Meditation Boost.

Doom Cannon Deals 500% Damage to one enemy, but inflicts Ship Disable (100%) and Engines Down (100%) on the user. If you have a good resistance to those effects, it isn't much of a problem, so it is best used by Operatives. Otherwise, it is best used as a finisher.

Nuclear Strike Deals 350% Damage to all enemies. Inflicts Vulnerable (100%) on enemies and Vulnerable (50%) on allies. Combos well with Triple Shot.

Aurora's Vengeful Aura Boosts damage for the next attack. The amount depends on how many times the ship gets hit. (35% for 0 hits, 50% for 1 hit, 75% for 2 hits, 100% for 3 hits.)

Bait And Switch Inflicts Entranced (100%) on one enemy. Also enables The Bomb. Entranced stuns the ship for 5 rounds, like Ship Disable, only longer and without the added resistance. The Bomb does 50% Damage against normal targets and 250% Damage agains Entranced Targets. This power has the unique ability to stun any boss.

Bremachandra's Maneuver Deals 300% Damage to all enemies. Exploits Engines Down, making it a great combo for Strafing Run. Reduces the user's damage by 50% for the remainder of the battle. Good for finishing off boss escorts or when the user will be mostly tanking afterward.

Dimensional Warhead Boosts threat by 800 when used. Inflicts an effect that boosts threat by 250 more and decreases damage resistance by 30%. Enables the Launch Dimensional Warhead power and the Power Dimensional Warhead power. Power Dimensional Warhead can be used to boost the damage of the launch from 250% to 500%, 750%, or 1000%, depending on how many times it is used. Launch Dimensional Warhead does the appropriate amount of damage to one enemy and exploits Crew Panic. It removes the Yabling's Parasitic Lash effect, the Voraash's Drain effect, Ship Disabled, and the Entranced effect (from Bait And Switch) from the target. It also removes the initial effect from the user. This power is good for drawing fire when tanking, so it is best used by Inventors.

Drone Swarm Does 150% Damage to all enemies and inflicts Drone Swarm for an additional 126% damage for each of 4 rounds. Removes buffs and the Entranced effect from the target.

Emp Overcharge Deals 50% Damage to all enemies, inflicts Ship Disable (95%) on all enemies, and inflicts Ship Disable (25%) on the user. Good for stopping attacks by fleets that do not resist Ship Disable.

Brace For Impact Prevents you from taking damage until you use the now-enabled ram attack. Also prevents you from using attack powers during that time. You will have to wait an extra turn before doing anything after bracing. The ram attack deals 400% Damage to one enemy and exploits Ship Disable. It also removes all the same effects that the Dimensional Warhead does. You can cancel the effect and forego the ram attack if you wish.

Causality Violation Removes all debuffs and adds +75% resistance to all standard status effects. Does not cost a turn to cast. This is good for removing DoT debuffs before they deal much damage.

Kistler's Ague Doubles the duration of the six standard debuffs on the enemy fleet. All but Hull Breach can be exploited for extra damage for the three rounds before they revert to the normal effects. Hull Breach does extra damage if you don't exploit it, Sensors Offline decreases aim by an extra 20, and Engines Down decreases speed by an extra 10. Use after Singularity to get the most effect.

Matter Reconstruction Heals the fleet for 1000% Damage and removes all debuffs. This can put your fleet back at full strength.

McKean's Hook, Line, and Sinker Forces the target to deal 200% Damage to itself on its next turn. Good for damaging large Tactical vessels (especially if they are Enraged).

Singularity Does 300% Damage to all enemies. Inflicts Singularity (100%) and the six standard effects (75% each). Singularity does 117% damage for each of the next 3 rounds.

Speaking from experience your goals are gonna be this (in order):

1: Officer academy QUICKLY
2: Build your third ship QUICKLY
3: Destroy all chruul portals and evacuate far away/useless colony's or mines
4: GET TIER 2 AND TIER 3 AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND RESEARCH EVERYTHING EVER (but only in commander and above then you can put that off for the most part)
5: Clear as many rooms as you can (you will need at least 8 or so for everything)
6: Get Pirates killed and on your side (pick a clan and attack them once)
7: get some extra officers if you can

When you kill a chruul portal it will be replaced in 20/10 or so days (don't quote me on that) Your mission is to make sure you have as many mineral mines as you can keep track of because when you set those up with upgrades and drones all you'll need to do is make sure they don't get completely destroyed.

When you see dark matter mines try and throw those away since they aren't very useful but sometimes you might need about 3 or 4 (dark matter everywhere man)

Fuel mines are not so useful when you build the halcyon fuel plant but, it is pretty good to have when fuel plants aren't something you have room for.

This falls in line with the first one because you will need all the minerals you can think of now let me guide you through what you NEED to get. the ones that are more useful in this stage i will bolden

Officer academy
Tier 2 ships
Repair bay
Trithium reactor
Foundry

You will indeed need to balance what you do with clearing these rooms but, once you are done you are done and don't need to keep going but it will be useful to keep going if you want lots of fuel plants.

Fight the pirates who argue over who is the best replacement for admirax and you will get a map then fight whoever you think should be admirax he will then talk with you and ask that you meet his main fleet then talk with him.

There are six main classes (grouped into three types) and three unlockable subclasses. Each main class provides 4 unlockable space powers, 7 unlockable ground powers, a proficiency, and a weakness. Every officer will start with three ground powers already unlocked. The weakness gives the officer's ship a -50% resistance to the status effect. The proficiency gives the officer's ship a +50% resistance to the status effect. It also gives the officer an increased chance to inflict the status effect when using an appropriate attack. It starts at +10%, then goes up an additional +10% every three levels.

If you are willing to forego the unlockable subclass, you can get the basic versions of the other space powers available to your type. For instance, Biologists can learn Bend Spacetime if they don't become Counselors. Choosing the extra powers will prevent the officer from taking the subclass.

Each time you level up an officer, the officer will get 1 or 2 skill points, along with some small stat increases. Even levels give 1 skill point and odd levels give 2. You can only reach Level 15, so that gives a total of 21 skill points to use. Keep this in mind when selecting skills. Sometimes you may decide that you would rather have the high-end skills from the main tree instead of the training skills or the epic power.

Cadets don't level up, so you'll need to do tasks at the Cadet Barracks to increase their usefullness. (Unless you are just trying to get those "Greenshirts lost in battle" achievements.) There is one exception...

NOTE: When more than one number is listed below, each number corresponds to the corresponding tier of the power. (E.g. 100% / 115% / 140% for Backstab Maneuver means that Backstab Maneuver I does 100% of base damage, Backstab Maneuver II does 115% of base damage, etc.)

Operatives can become Commandos. In ground combat, they focus on doing lots of damage. In space, they can disable multiple enemies or take a risk for more damage. Using Cloak, then Weapons Supercharge, then Suicide Run can do heaps of damage without making you too vulnerable.

Proficiency: Engines Down
Weakness: Hull Breach

Weapons Supercharge is a two-edged sword. It provides +150%, 174%, or 200% damage, -50% damage resistance, and +100% threat for 1.33 rounds. The penalties usually outway the benefits unless you have complemetary powers like Into The Fray, Cloak, or Bend Spacetime.

Reckless provides +25%, 30%, or 35% damage, -25% aim, and -10%, 15%, or 20% damage resistance for 3 rounds. Stealth provides +25%, 30%, or 35% evasion and -25, 30, or 35 threat for 3 rounds.

Strategists can become Counselors. In ground combat, they are good at shifting the hit-miss ratio in your favor. In space, they can boost your damage output or drop the damage coming from your enemies. They can also boost their group's XP gain at Level 4 if you so choose.

Proficiency: Weapons Disruption
Weakness: Crew Panic (Can be mitigated with Faultless Systems.)

Fire At Will removes the Voraash's Drain effect and the Yabling's Parasitic Lash effect from the target. The Fire At Will effect provides -50% minimum damage and +75%, 100%, or 125% maximum damage for 1.33 rounds, making the power a bit of a gamble. Into The Fray is a very useful power, once you find out what it does. Inspired provides +25%, 35%, or 45% damage and +25, 35, or 45 aim for 3 rounds.

Targeting Assistance provides +25%, 30%, or 35% damage and +25%, 30%, or 35% aim for 2 rounds.

Inventors can become Chaos Theorists. They excell at AoE DoT's and damage resistance. Mine Toss is best used with Targeting Assistance or a confused enemy. Inventors are extremely good at tanking, both in space and on the ground.

Proficiency: Vulnerable
Weakness: Engines Down

Reinforce Hull provides +20%, 30%, or 40% damage resistance for 5 rounds. Supercharge Polarity provides +15%, 25%, or 35% damage resistance and +100%, 150%, or 200% threat to the user for 4 rounds. It also deals 30% damage to all enemies for each of 2, 3, or 4 rounds.

Ghost Pepper Bomb does 66%, 105%, or 150% damage for each of 3 rounds. It does not remove Blinded when used, so those numbers can be twice as high. Grey Goo does 33%, 57%, or 99% damage for each of 3 rounds. NanoRepairs heals 210%, 240%, or 270% damage for each of 2 rounds and removes debuffs when first used. NanoShield provides +15%, 20%, or 25% damage resistance for 3 rounds. Personal Magnetism provides +25%, 30%, or 35% damage resistance and +100, 150, or 200 threat for 4 rounds.

Mechanics can become Commandos. In ground combat, they excell at slowing down the enemies and making them take more damage. In space combat, they have extra healing powers and hard-hitting attacks.

Proficiency: Hull Breach
Weakness: Sensors Offline

Broadside Salvo and Ramming Speed remove the Voraash's Drain effect and the Yabling's Parasitic Lash effect from the target. Ramming Speed is good for getting Overkills. Quick Tune-Up provides 117%, 133%, or 150% healing for each of 3 rounds. Repair Drone Overdrive provides 75%, 87.5%, or 100% healing for each of 4 rounds.

Biologists can become Counselors. In ground combat, they are all about buffs. Their specialty is exploiting bleeding enemies to heal their allies. Their Battle Stims would be worth a fortune on the black market if they didn't have the chance of backfiring. (But you should still use the stims.) In space, they can hit hard or heal a lot of damage. They can also get extra Dark Matter from combat at Level 7, if you so choose.

Proficiency: Sensors Offline
Weakness: Weapons Disruption (Can be mitigated with Advanced Biocrystallization.)

Nano Restoration Field and Spin Maneuver each have a warmup of 2 rounds. Nano Restoration Field can only be used twice per mission; however, the last upgrade enables an extra use. Nano Restoration Field provides an additional 150%, 162.5%, or 175% healing for each of 4 rounds.

Battle Stims provide +75%, 100%, or 125% speed for each of 2, 2, or 4 rounds. Transfusion provides 66%, 99%, or 132% healing to allies for each of 3 rounds, or the same amount of damage to the enemy. Both Invasive Surgery and Transfusion remove debuffs on the user.

Physicists can become Chaos Theorists. They are good at inflicting ground combat status effects,
but they can't exploit any. In space, they can protect or speed up an ally. If you are willing to dedicate one to the task, you can achieve tremendous speed on one ship by having an officer with Bend Spacetime III and one with Bend Spacetime II. If you aren't that fanatical, you can get similar effects with III + I or II + I. This is one of the ways to make Weapons Supercharge more useful.

Proficiency: Crew Panic
Weakness: Vulnerable

Warp Atomic Structure removes the Voraash's Drain effect and the Yabling's Parasitic Lash effect from the target. Ablative Field provides +35%, 42.5%, or 50% damage resistance for 3 rounds.
Dark Matter Extraction does 100%, 125%, or 150% healing to self for each of 4 rounds and the same amount of damage to the target. Quicken increases speed by 90%, 110%, or 150% for 1.33 rounds.

Delayed Recovery does 120%, 150%, or 180% healing for each of 3 rounds. Both Delayed Recovery and Emergency Meds remove debuffs on the target and have three uses per battle.

Chaos Theorists get an aquamarine uniform and the most varied set of powers. Force Targeting lets you force an enemy to immediately use a power of your choice. This is most useful when you want to prevent them from performing a specific action. For instance, you can force the enemy to waste a healing power on a fully healthy enemy, or you can use a basic power instead of Regurgitate. Reflective Shield causes 50% of the damage taken by the ship to also be inflicted on the attacker. It lasts 4 rounds. It is useful when fighting bosses. Dimensional Inversion increases Revenge by 50. That results in the increased damage proportional to damage taken. This is useful for those who are using Weapons Supercharge and expect to be spending a lot of time in Critical Condition. Dark Matter Storm does 105% damage to all enemies for each of two rounds, and heals the user for the same 105% damage for two rounds. You do not get three times the healing. This power also has a warmup of 2 rounds and an additional half turn of recovery.

Commandos get a brown uniform and the only prestige power that can be upgraded. Guard Ally causes the ally to be Guarded for 3 rounds. This prevents the Guarded ship from taking damage. Combine with Dimensional Inversion to get high power from Critical Condition. The Focus Fire powers are more complicated than normal powers. The Rev Up power enables the other powers. The Rev Down power re-enables your normal powers after using Focus Fire. Focus Fire only has 1/3 of the recovery time, not the 1/2 it claims. For the base power, that means getting all 3 attacks off in one turn's amount of time. The upgrades have 5 or 6 attacks before you have to Rev Down. Since revving up and down costs one turn for each action, the base power isn't very useful unless you can finish off the enemy before needing to reload, or you use Weapons Supercharge after Rev Up but before Focus Fire. The upgraded versions can hold their own, but the last upgrade may not be worth the skill point unless you use this power a lot.

Counselors get a purple uniform and the most straightforward set of powers. All four Auras have no warmup, no cooldown, no recovery, and +3 threat. (Which means you can get ridiculous threat if you can stand the animations. Or if you turn them off.) They last 3 rounds, or until you cast a different Aura, whichever comes sooner. Meditation Boost provides +20% Aim and +10 Evasion to your fleet. This is worth grabbing even if you don't get the others. Subtle Encouragement provides +25% resistance to the seven basic status effects. Microagressions decreases the enemy fleet's damage output by 15%. Psych Up increases your fleet's damage output by 15%.

Basic cheats:
First go into settings gameplay then dev mode then close that and press ` and please reevaluate your life if you do this man...

GenerateOfficer("officer name", GetFaction("terran"))
CreditResource('crew', 999999)
CreditResource('materials', 999999)
CreditResource('dark_matter', 999999)
CreditResource('fuel', 999999)
CreditResource('drones', 999999)

Knowledge is power
do the tutorial and you got it.


The Sacrificial Lamb
you have to- to... lose a green shirt! :(((( i still remember the artificially generated name of my first dead one it was... uhh.... UHH......


Acceptable Losses
Lose 10 green shirts in combat Makes sense.


Collateral Damage
Lose 25 green shirts ok ok you can do that pretty easy.


Valar Morghulis
Lose 50 green shirts? why?? do you devs just hate them or something? and if you do hate them why not figure something out?


Damnit, Jim. I'm a Doctor, Not An Undertaker!
Kill 100 Green shirts just execute them! Hey devs hey devs you hear that? its the sound of achievement hunters crying!


Blanket Fort Baron
Build a single base room #officeracademyftw!


City Planner
Build 3 rooms easy!


King of the Castle
Build 10 rooms ez gg ez ez xd


And Caesar Wept
Build 20 base rooms np np xd xp


Savvy
Research 5 techz EZ GG BOYZ


Erudite
Research_technolog- i mean research 10 tech pretty easy.


Technological giant
Research 20 technologies not TOO hard to get but you could miss it in a speed run or something but if you were doing that you probably already had this?


Chruul to be Kind
Destroy 10 chruul ships rekt xd xd


Goodbye, Chruul World
Destroy 25 Chuurl ships. yeah ya know?


Chruul and Unusual
Destroy 100 chruul ships.. HAHA TAKE THAT YOU STUPID NOT MY REAL ENEMY BEING CONTROLLED SUCKERS!!!!


Bandit Hunter
Destroy 10 Pirate ships wait a minute that didn't have a funny title...


Taking Back The Skies
Destroy 25 Pirate ships oh jeez i'm so tired man but i must *YAWN* go on


The Flying Dutchman
Destroy 100 Pirate ships. these guys aren't our enemy for like 2/3s of the game how did i kill so many?


Growth Industry
Recruit 10 officers thats pretty difficult but you'll do it!


Beam Us Up, Ensign
Have an officer reach level 2... PRETTY HARD AM I RIGHT xDDD


Go To Warp, Lieutenent
Have an officer reach Level 5 PRETTY HARD AM I- *snores*


Make it so, Number one
Have an officer reach level 10 not hard unless you play games for like 1 hour then quit werido.


All Hail Your Reptillian Overlord
Make an ally of the Yabblings, All you are base is belong to us killian.


Crocodile Hunter
Make a enemy of da yabblings... lets face it a destroyed damage useless battered old reminet of a federation could still squash even the strongest of enemy empires.


There Is No Spoon
Make an ally of the blah blah blah turns out the korzan are only minorly telepathic but are very empathetic pretty cool right?

Dissenter
Make a enemy of the Korzan well my dog doesn't like this one and he said that he would crush my skull when its still inside my head... does anyone know why?


Tech Support
Make an ally out of the Collective. man there is a lot of these aren't there these are like really hard to make because i gotta painstakingly just steal these photos and slowly upload them.


Cascade Failure
Make an enemy of the Collective turns out their ships are REALLY rare to see around well atleast in my experience.


Naturally Selected
Make an ally of the Xlar-Yanthu union suprisingly these guys have always been my closest ally always having 100 diplomancy with me...


Survival of the Fittest
Make an enemy of the Xlar-Yanthu...


HR Nighmare
Lose 10 officers in the line of duty... i think i lost like 3 officers TOTAL


Embrace the Suck
Make an ally of the Voraash. FINALLY SOMETHING I CAN HELP WITH! ok so when you encounter a Voraash fleet in federation space engage it but immediatly retreat and a dialog option will appear!


The Importance of Being Wormest
Make an enemy of the Voraash. who can't do this?


Frog John Silver
Make an alliance with the pirate Willa just attack one of the pirate clans and whatever


I'll Be Back
Make an alliance with the pirate Savak just attack one of the pirate clans and whatever


Last of the Xlar Lords
Make an alliance with the pirate Khut just attack one of the pirate clans and whatever


There Will Be No Peace
Don't Ally with any pirate captains



No Place Like Home
Defeat The Chruul At New Terra



Spare the Rod and Spoil the Chruul
Destroy the chruul spawn pit



Admirexecution
Kill the admirax >:)


One Star Ship
Have a ship Reach Rank one.


Two Star Ship
Have a ship Reach Rank two.


Three Star Ship
Have a ship Reach Rank three


Four Star Ship
Have a ship Reach Rank four What a legend


Tier 1 Ship
Build a Tier one ship... but you already have one...?

Goals:

1: Establish further good relations with all factions
2: Build every single drone ever if you want to quit sending ships to all those colonies
3: Tier 4 and 5 ships
4: Recovering legendary officers to use with your fleet

The only part to doing this is the quests they give you always do them eventually and always save their colony's/mines (you can get diplomacy and minerals) it is also suggested you say nicer things to people because they will like you better :)



Build a lot of those :)

Part of building/using these is leveling your officers with simple or important fights with chruurl next is getting them tasty minerals (it will be easier if you restore every building possible)

Legendary officers

With the inclusion of a part of the guide that already goes over these i will give extra tips:

1: Stick around the korzin they will have the quest that leads to suki
2: Search EVERYWHERE for xiao
3: Be careful sometimes these officers can die in simple missions meaning you lose one of the best people around for that.

• Hull When this reaches 0, the ship goes into Critical Condition. When in Critical Condition, any damage whatsoever can destroy the ship. The chance of destruction increases with the amount of damage taken.
  
• Damage This is the base that powers multiply off of. The actual damage range is visible when selecting a target during battle.
  
• Aim This is the chance of hitting your target if the opponent has 0 evasion. Some powers have reduced values.
  
• Evasion Each point of evasion decreases the opposing aim by 1.
  
• Speed Higher values yield more turns in a given space of time.
  
• Critical This is the chance that any given attack does twice as much damage as it otherwise would have.

When an enemy fleet reaches a sector with more than one Terran fleet, it will engage the fleet with the higher total strength rating first. See table above.
Threat is used by enemies to pick their targets. Each ship starts battle with a certain amount of threat, see the table. That number is increased by most powers, but the increase is erased at the end of the battle. When an enemy ship selects a single target (as opposed to when it uses an AoE attack), it picks one at random (Ship A). It then compares the threat on Ship A, multiplied by a random number between 0.75 and 1.25, to the threat on each of the other two ships. If either of the other ships has a higher threat after that test, the enemy has an 80% chance of switching its target selection to the new ship. In practice, this means that tank ships will not receive all attacks, but will absorb most of them. A ship with extremely low threat will get about 1% of single-target attacks, but will still get all of the AoE attacks. Shuttles start with 50 threat.

All tactical ships can use any of the tactical powers that you've unlocked. The tiers listed refer to the hanger that unlocks the power. Harass does not have the +5% Critical and -20% Aim that it did before. (If the game updates to include those, you will see a decrease in aim. That's when you'll know the crit boost is active.) Vulnerable is not removed by Teleport Explosives. Triple Shot has -15% Aim. If your tactical ship has increased Aim, the damage boost is totally worth it.
Munitions Backfire deals 45% damage for each of 3 rounds.
Pulse Mesh deals 30% damage for each of 2 rounds.
Sabotage deals 38% damage for each of 4 rounds.
Targeting Support adds +25% damage output for 4 rounds.

Cauterize Hull removes Hull Breach, the Voraash's Vampire effect, and the Yablings's Parasitic Lash effect.
Adaptive Armor provides 75% healing for each of 3 rounds and +10% damage resistance.
Overwhelm Core deals 90% damage for each of 3 rounds.
Protective Field provides +30% damage resistance for 3 rounds.
Torture deals 150% damage for each of 2 rounds.
Void Spatter deals 90% damage for each of 3 rounds.

Engineering heals remove all debuffs. Instant Repairs is only a good choice when you already have Repair Drones selected, or if you don't want to waste the Repair Drones.
Brace adds +50% damage resistance, +100% threat for 3 rounds.

Each new hanger unlocks the next ship in each line. Higher tier ships have increased Hull, Damage, Threat, Strength Rating and build costs, but no other change. The Proportional Damage listed gives an easy means of comparison. The actual ranges are given below with the hull values.

Marksmen are the offensive line of tactical ships.

Rogues are the defensive line of tactical ships.

Acolytes are the damage-oriented science ships.

Disciples are the support science ships.

Knights are the slowest ships in the Terran fleet, but they have the evasion of an Acolyte and similar damage to a Rogue. If you decide not to include a Tactical ship in your main fleet, you want one of these.

Warders offer decent speed and the strongest hull available. They are good for support and tank roles. Since they have better resistances to Hull Breach and Vulnerable than Knights, they are also good for officers with Death From Above, Ramming Speed, and/or Broadside Salvo.

Tier 2 Ship
Build a tier 2 ship.


Tier 3 Ship
Build a tier 3 ship.


Tier 4 Ship
Build a tier 4 ship.


Tier 5 Ship
Build a tier 5 ship.


(Spoilers ahead!)


My Other Ship is a Pegasus
Killed the Chruul Chimera.


Laying Waste
Killed the Chruul Desolator.


Delivering the Crushing Blow
Killed the Chruul Crusher.


Ma-Ma-Ma-Monster Kill!
Killed the Chruul Behemoth.


Terminal Killocity
Killed the Chruul Marauder.


Chruuling the Herd
Killed the Mothership.


You Had One Job.
During the tutorial you will have the option of well uhh ya know


Bebt Inheritance
Why on earth are we liable for that loan i mean seriously? we are the only contact? we don't represent the federation anymore not to mention you can't bill a different planet for one planets loan!

O'Briens Conservation Society
Successfully Cloned a irish space person? wait how can irish names still exist by the time we reach the stars our entire civilazation will have melded destroying and chance of this name existing or the writers were watching that one family guy episode or whatever.

Help! Help! We're Being Repressed!
Rescue 5 colonies from a Chuurl fleet. lol u guyz hav shutlz right? to go 2 ur homz? y no use dem for give us money?


All in a Day's Work
Rescue 15 colonies from a Chruul fleet. Hey shouldn't we put in place some kind of defense system that like damages the enemy fleet while they bombard?


Savior of the Stars
Save 30 colonies from those dirty reds! Hey can't we set up a natural convoy with like a normal ship? not have to build a drone that can be destroyed and magically reapears.


Restored Balance
Successfully beat the game on Cadet difficulty.


Boldly Went
Successfully beat the game on Lieutenant difficulty.


Knows Where Their Towel Is
Successfully beat the game on Commander difficulty. COMMANDER WE ARE UNDER HEAVY FIRE CALL IN A AIR STRIKE
you mean a space strike right? >:(


Galaxy Guardian
Successfully beat the game on Captain difficulty.


Champion of New Terra
Successfully beat the game on Admiral difficulty. oh god i'm finally done jeez man...


Hero of the Stars
Sucessfully beat the game on Grand Admiral difficulty. Yep now you have to do this if you want 100% achiements

Goals:
1: Have as many high level fleets tier 5 as you can muster
2: Use the foundry to increase strength of halcyon 6
3: Level every officer up as high as you can and get a engineering officer for extreme repairs.

It is best to have 3 because when you get to the last boss battle all the people with 100 diplomacy will give you a officer to use with a ship like i usually say minerals need to be gotten in high quantaties

So it turns out the foundry was actually useful ;) and that means you just need to build drones (A LOT) and do everything you can to make it stronger

Leveling officers up is easy just fight bad guys and use levels to increase starting levels
but one sad thing you will need to do is make a officer only for repairing halcyon 6 and nothing else

The motherships sends mutiple fleets to the artifacts but if you play your cards right you can get there faster with the help of a artifact that used to belong to your station you will move faster.

When you get there your officer is not gonna be fast enough to finish finding it so you will fight without that officer and you HAVE to because they will send anotherone and it will get there.

(If you don't want to fight without one officer, send a single-ship fleet with the officer who will do the task. The three-ship fieet will cover, as of a recent update.)

With the help of those tier 5 fleets and alien fleet you can destroy all incoming fleets and get the artifacts then it will be a fight with the mothership.

Don't stay and fight the whole battle retreat when it is the right time. If you don't retreat, bring some of the alien consumables to buff your stats and a bunch of Omega Drones to keep you alive however your cauterize hull is going to be drained pretty quick

Q: What officer should i pick on starter?

A: Almost always engineering for starters unless it is a harder difficulty such as captain or above choose science because he heals people very greatly as his epic


Q: Bucky rogers can't leave halcyon?

A: He can pilot a shuttle and use that to get around but... don't get in fights with it


Q: Shuttle's purpose?

A: Well for the most part nothing they can only do pitiful amounts of damage and survive little to none themselves,
but... but you can use them for officer transport doing something on a planet and being helped by a fleet.
They can also be used to very easily rebuild and upgrade colonies mineral plants and fuel plants not to mention carrying minerals back to Halcyon quickly.
Tier 1 or 2 ships are also good for the same tasks, but sometimes they aren't ideal. See "When is scrapping ships a good idea?" below.

Spoilers ahead:

Q: How do i ally with the Voraash?

A: Quite simple, if you didn't see the answer in the achievements section i can tell you. When the voraash attack one of your facilities you must simply retreat before firing a single shot then go back to them, dialogue will appear
(it is also a easy way to not fight the crazy OP weapons and resistances they have).

Q: When is scrapping ships a good idea?

A: When you need more crew. Old ships are good for your secondary fleets and all the tasks that shuttles are good at (barring Bucky transport), but they have a sizable amount of crew. If you still need the ships for non-combat purposes, build shuttles as replacements. (You will always get enough resources from the scrap job.)

Xlar Sub-species
Norch, Kotoro, Sloggoth, GOR, Trag, Tegida, Kagga

Tegida, and Sloggoth Xlar still exist and are active but it is fairly possible that all of these species are still living in some place

Space event secrets:

Cadets Long lost relative:
This is a bambozle by the chruurl- i mean chruul but you can learn something cool aprently this strange thing can happen:

"Using the Korzan psychic device, your science team is able to isolate the psychic signal that was reaching out to the distressed cadet: an ancient artifact originating from what must have been the same space-faring race that built Halcyon 6 itself!"

Yabbling chruurl- chrrul:
"Your fleet has encountered a fleet of Yabbling-spliced 'Lizard' Chruul who seem to have adopted some of their parent race's characteristics. In their own primitive way, they seem to want to sell you a Chruul organ and inflated prices."

Pretty strange stuff this means that the chrrul can integrate other species so good they can escape the grips of the hive mind controlling them!

Bucky Rogers:
"Bucky Rogers pre-allergic-reaction-to-learning-serum backstory is, in reality, terribly fascinating. He waits patiently for the day that someone might ask him about it. However, because of his green uniform, nobody does." This guy is just a officer like cadet thats it