Bridge officer ability

[edit] Overview

Bridge officers have a wide range of abilities they can use, starting at rank I and continuing to a possible rank III. Their abilities follow a system of rarity. Most of the Bridge Officer abilities are common and are trained from basic candidates or from the Bridge Officer Trainer. Other abilities are only obtained from uncommon, rare or very rare Bridge Officers. These are given through the “New Officer” mission, or can be bought from the Exchange.

Your Captain can also teach your own bridge officers abilities. The abilities they can teach depend solely on which personal skills you picked for yourself. An example would be the personal skill Starship Energy Weapons; when this is skill is learned to six levels, it enables you to train your Tactical Bridge Officers to use the Commander rank space ability Cannon: Rapid Fire III. For a list of the skills that teach Bridge Officers advanced abilities, see List of skills trainable by captain.

[edit] Color Key

In the tables below, the background colour of the table cell showing the rank of the ability is specifically colored to indicate where the skill normally comes from. These colors are as follows:

Green: Abilities obtainable from the Bridge Officer Trainer
Blue: Abilities that are obtainable only from Captain training
Purple: Abilities that are learned from uncommon, rare, or very rare Bridge Officers
Gray: Abilities that are generally unavailable through the above means. They may be innate to a ship, available to a captain either as a player ability or kit, or something else. The ability can be obtained from a kit unless there is a footnote included.

Note: The table below prioritizes abilities by Bridge Officer Trainer, then trainable by captain, and then available from non-common bridge officers. There is some overlap however (i.e. some non-common bridge officers have abilities that are also trainable by captain). In addition, some abilities are not available by any known means: Dispersal Pattern Alpha III, Auxiliary to Battery III, and Auxiliary to Dampeners III.

[edit] Abbreviations

Some of the descriptions below and also in the ability articles use common MMORPG abbreviations, these are:

AoE: Stands for Area-of-Effect. See main article: AoE.
DoT: Damage-over-Time. See main article: DoT
HoT: Heal-over-Time. Same as DoT, however implies heals rather than damage.
Buff: See main article: Buff
Debuff: See main article: Debuff

[edit] Ground Abilities

[edit] Engineering

Ability Name							Short Game Description
Chroniton Mine Barrier	I	II	III				Creates Mines
Quick Fix	I	II	III				Damage Buff and Cures Mechanical Debuffs. Repairs Fabrications
Shield Recharge	I	II	III				Shield Heal
Weapons Malfunction	I	II	III				Disable Weapons
Reroute Power to Shields		I	II	III			Shield Heal and Damage Resistance Buff
Shield Generator Fabrication		I	II	III			Area Shield Damage Reduction and Minor Regeneration
Turret Fabrication		I	II	III			Create Energy Turret
Cover Shield			I	II	III ^[1]		Create Cover Shield
Equipment Diagnostics			I	II	III		Cure Mechanical Debuffs and Applies Resistance Buff
Medical Generator Fabrication			I	II	III		Area Damage Resistance and Minor Heal
Quantum Mortar Fabrication			I	II	III		Create Quantum Mortar
Combat Supply				I	II	III	Create Combat Devices
Fuse Armor				I	II	III	Scaling Movement Debuff
Support Drone Fabrication				I	II ^[1]	III ^[1]	Create Support Drone

[edit] Science

Ability Name							Short Game Description
Electro-Gravitic Field	I	II	III				AoE Root or Slow
Tachyon Harmonic	I	II	III				Cone AoE Shield Damage
Hypospray - Dylovene	I	II	III				Cures Toxic Debuffs and Buffs Physical
Medical Tricorder	I	II	III				Heal
Sonic Pulse		I	II	III			PBAoE Damage, Slow, Interrupt and Knocback
Stasis Field		I	II	III			Fragile Hold
Tricorder Scan		I	II	III			Damage Resistance and Stealth Debuff
Vascular Regenerator		I	II	III			HoT and Cure Bleed
Hyperonic Radiation			I	II	III		AoE Radiation DoT
Hypospray - Melorazine			I	II	III		Cures Mental Debuffs and Buffs Energy Resistance
Neural Neutralizer			I	II	III ^[2]		PBAoE Placate
Anesthizine Gas				I	II	III	AoE Fragile Hold and Slow
Dampening Field				I	II ^[2]	III ^[2]	Targeted AoE Damage Debuff
Nanite Health Monitor				I	II	III	AoE Reactive Heal

[edit] Tactical

Ability Name							Short Game Description
Battle Strategies	I	II	III				Weapon Upgrade - Damage Resistance and Stealth Debuff
Draw Fire	I	II	III				Self Threat Generation and Fake Expose, Foe Damage Debuff
Photon Grenade	I	II	III				AoE damage and knockback
Sweeping Strikes	I	II	III				Multiple Opponent Martial Arts Strikes
Smoke Grenade		I	II	III			Debuff Enemy Perception, Buff Ally Stealth
Suppressing Fire		I	II	III			Weapon Upgrade: Target Slow and Damage Debuff
Target Optics		I	II	III			Offense and Perception Buff
Lunge		I	II	III			Close and Attack
Overwatch			I	II	III		PBAoE Damage Resist Aura
Fire on my Mark			I	II	III ^[3]		Damage Resistance and Stealth Debuff
Plasma Grenade			I	II	III		AoE Damage and DoT
Stealth Module			I	II	III		Stealth Buff
Ambush				I	II	III	Single Attack Damage Buff
Motion Accelerator				I	II	III	Speed and Physical Damage Buff with Control Immunity
Stun Grenade				I	II	III	AoE Damage and Hold

[edit] Space Abilities

Bridge officer space abilities can only be used if the officer is of appropriate rank and is sitting at an appropriately ranked station. Even an Engineer of the rank Commander can only use Ensign/Bekk and Lieutenant abilities when he or she is assigned to a Lieutenant Engineering station on your ship. This is why obtaining new ships becomes so important, as higher tier ships generally offer more Bridge Officer stations of higher rank, which in turn gives you access to more abilities in space.