Ability: Emission-Seeking Torpedo

Emission-Seeking Torpedo is a space ability. It is an attack upgrade power that upgrades the player's next torpedo attack to seek cloaked targets and disable its cloak and engines. It is only available on player ships equipped with the [Console - Universal - Ionized Gas Sensor] that comes with the Cruiser Refit, purchasable from any Ship and Shuttle Requisitions officer for 37,500 Dilithium.

This ability merely upgrades the next torpedo attack. The actual effect is activated when firing the upgraded Emission-Seeking Photon Torpedo.

Basic Information

• Profession: None
• Locale: Space
• Game Description: Improves your next Torpedo attack. Activating this ability will upgrade your next Torpedo with gas emission sensors. The modified Torpedo will seek out any cloaked or otherwise masked ships and track them down. If it cannot detect a cloaked target, it will instead lock on to the currently-selected target. Since its targeting is somewhat unconventional, the torpedo will meander around as it slowly narrows in on its target. The impact will typically temporarily disable the targets cloak, and, since it is designed to fly right into the targets impulse engines, will drain the targets engine power and has a chance to take the targets engines offline. Since it requires no target to fire, there is no limited firing arc to launch this modified torpedo. You must have a Torpedo weapon equipped to utilize this ability.

Detailed Information

• Used by:
  • Player
  • Non-Player Character
    • Federation Cruiser
    • Galaxy Class Cruiser
    • Wells Temporal Science Vessel
    • Terran Cruiser
    • Terran Galaxy Class Cruiser
• Target: Self
• System: Torpedoes
• Ability Type: Buff
• Activation: 1 sec
• Range: N/A
• Starts 15 second cooldown on:
  • Torpedo: High Yield
  • Torpedo: Spread
  • Torpedo: Transport Warhead
• Modified by:
  • Skills
    • Drain Expertise
• Trained by:
  • This ability cannot be trained

Ability Ranks

Ability/User Rank	CD	Ability Effects
N/A	1m	Upgrades your next torpedo attack. Seeks out any nearby Cloaked Targets (targets your target, if no Cloaked ships are nearby). Upon reaching the target: Deals damage equivalent to a High Yield Torpedo of the type enhanced. -24 Engine Subsystem Power Disables Cloak for 4 sec 20% chance: Disables Impulse Engines for 4 sec

Restrictions

The console cannot be used with the following projectile weapons.

Projectile Weapon	Source
Spatial Torpedo Launcher (22c.)	Lobi Crystal Consortium
Rapid Fire Missile Launcher	Lobi Crystal Consortium
Kentari Mass-Produced Missile Launcher	Mirrors and Smoke
Hargh'peng Torpedo Launcher	Doomsday Device
Bio-neural Warhead	SuQob Raptor
Thermionic Torpedo Launcher	Tholian Ships
Temporal Disruption Device	Lobi Crystal Consortium
Breen Transphasic Cluster Torpedo	Out in the Cold
Vaadwaur Cluster Torpedo	Revelatons

Gallery

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  Torpedo being fired.

Notes

• A photon torpedo was upgraded to seek a cloaked Bird-of-Prey by following its plasma exhaust trail in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
• The torpedo will switch targets if the original target becomes untargetable or dies.

References

• Perception Part 2: Universal Consoles that boost StealthSight

External links

• Plasma exhaust at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.

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