U.S.S. Fermi

Notes

Teryh's skill tree is similar in many aspects but lacks a few features compared to my engineering captains. Because tactical captains get no inherent power management, I've taken points to buff up weapon power. I've also skipped Drain Expertise, mostly because its of no important, and the other being there isn't any case for me to use Drain Scaling powers on her. There is often a case to use Energy Siphon but it doesn't normally find room in bridge officer layouts to make it worthwhile enough to spec into DrainX when the points could instead be spent on EPG or power.

27 vs 26 Point Tactical ultimate

There is some comments floating around about people moving back to the 27 points in the tactical branch for the cooldown reduction on Focused Frenzy. I maintain that this is a negligible effect and and good build should already have and maintain proper cooldown reduction chaining. Therefore the cooldown reduction from Focused Frenzy should be redundant and therefore ignored. Unless you can maintain Frenzy the entire run (in which case all members have agreed to specifically build conditions and timings before hand) this point is wasted in the sense that the extra unlock will at most times be of unimportance, Therefore 1 point can be moved for utility to Science or Engineering .

Hull Restoration vs Hull Capacity

Once again I took a point in hull restoration. While the same argument as in Jayiie's skill tree doesn't quite hold up, as a tactical captain there is a distinct lack of healing innately available to her. As such taking that last point does help in scaling healing things up.

Shield Regeneration

While Teryhs primary goal isn't to tank, this last point in science does get her to the next unlock for +10% max shield capacity. While not a massively important stat, shield regeneration is statically anomaly and adds a huge amount to shield regen in just the first point (more Information on shields can be found here). As such, I have taken the single point. If you want to take the final point of EPG or something else such as power or hull capacity feel free too do so.

Starship Weapons

Notes

The Tachyone Agitator is fairly underwhelming, consider me thoroughly whelmed. This is potentially worse than the default experimental. This comes from the Legendary Bugship so therefore I slotted it since its in the budget but were I to have access to another source....the hexa-cannons are so hard to argue with.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

Like the Von Neuman, this is very meat-and-potatoes.  Not much here thats unexpected. This ship could pull off an uncon system where you use the combination of science seating, universal seating, and temporal seating to force many triggers to reduce consoles; that likely be the next budget bracket.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

A Good Day to Die is a tactical captain only trait, and therefore needs replacement for other professions. Easiest choice here would be EPS Manifold Efficiency for damage or Grace Under Fire for durability for Engineering Captains. Science captains have no direct path of upgrade innately, therefore I would suggest something like Adaptive Offense, Pseudo-Submission, or anything else of your choice.

Budget Tweaks:

For budget players who want to save some EC, there's a few standard traits that could be used:

• Bulkhead Technician - Innate trait - this provides +10% Maximum Hull capacity and can be used as a stand in for durability consoles

• Living Hull - Episode Reward from "Surface Tension" - +15% hull regen in combat is equivalent to 3 stacks of repair crews

• Redacted Armor Plating - Episode Reward from “The Renegade's Regret” - +30 all DRR when hit from behind or sides

• Regenerative Control Synergy - Episode Reward from “Of Signs and Portents” - Grants +45% hull regen when using a control power for 10 seconds

If your after more damage instead of durability:

• Point Blank Shot - Episode Reward from House Pegh - scaling damage based on distance to target from 2km to 6km.

• Operative - Innate Trait - +1% CrtH +2% CrtD, this isn't spectacular but if you lack any offensive traits you can use it.

Miscellaneous

Intel is maybe the most popular ship type as it was the first, therefore there are many many options, any ship with a commander intel seat would be acceptable here. Some noteworthy options within the budget tier:

• (Fleet) Soyuz Intel Heavy Frigate - Super flexible platform, durable, and scalable to other build archetypes.

• (Fleet) Phantom Intel Escort - An OG, this whip would do this wonderfully, but suffers in comparison with a 4/3 weapon layout

• (Fleet) Faeht Intel Warbird - Was going to be my original platform, the Cyclone is just better. The Faeht is really fun to fly though and has the stealth romulan appeal. Low on engineering seating but high on intel and tactical, so would need another form of cooldown (likely passive cooldown).

• (Fleet) Eclipse Intel Cruiser - I really like this ships looks and it's a battlecruiser with intel primary. If you were ok to rock all beams this is what at the start of delta rising had coined a "sniper" (sits on the outside edges and uses high single target damage to knock out targets), on this exact ship. Its just got so much engineering seating.