Skill: Impulse Expertise

Impulse Expertise

Lieutenant Commander

This skill increases the Speed and Turn Rate of your starship. While each Starship has its own base value for each of these. each point of Impulse Expertise skill always provides a bonus of 0.4% to those base values.

Your base speed and turn values are determined by a combination of your ship's impulse modifier, your level, engine power, and the quality of your equipped impulse engines.

Shuttles and other Small Craft gain a smaller benefit from this skill. which changes with level.

• +50 Impulse Expertise - Total Speed and Turn Rate Bonus = +20%
• +35 Impulse Expertise - Total Speed and Turn Rate Bonus = +34%(Improved)
• +15 Impulse Expertise - Total Speed and Turn Rate Bonus = +40%(Advanced)

Overview

Impulse Expertise is a Lt. Commander Engineering skill that is available to all Lieutenant Commanders. There are three total skills in this chain, each costing 1 Space Point to purchase.

Abilities Affected

Impulse Engine [Turn] and [Spd] Mods

• Attack Pattern Omega = +40% Flight Speed & +40% Flight Turn Rate strength for 5 sec (Rank III)
• Pilot Team +100%-160% Flight Speed & Turn Rate for 10 sec
• Auxiliary to Dampers = +50% Flight Speed & 100% Turn Rate for 15 sec
• Evasive Maneuvers = +400% Flight Speed +400% Turn Rate for 8 sec (Rank III)

Modifiers

Trait

• Advanced Firing Solutions = +1 Flight Turn Rate (Stacks 10 times)
• Deft Cannoneer =+1 Flight Turn Rate for 20 sec (Stacks 3 times)

• Helmsman = +10% Turn Rate
• Momentum = +2.5% Flight Speed & +2.5% Turn Rate (Stacks 4 times)
• Strategic Maneuvering = 10% Flight Speed & +3 Turn Rate
• Advanced Engines = +25% Flight Speed & +25% Flight Turn Rate
• Fulcrum Shift = +25% Flight Speed & +25% Flight Turn Rate
• Captain Specialization/Pilot skills Maximum of 40% (When using Pilot Specialization as Primary) Flight Speed & Flight Turn Rate
• Fleet Tactician =+125% Flight Speed & +125% Flight Turn Rate

Set-Bonus

• Enhanced Maneuvering Systems = +2 Flight Turn Rate
• Starfleet Maneuvering Protocol = +3 Flight Turn Rate
• Flagship Modifications = +3 Flight Turn Rate

• Tholian Synergistic Technologies = 12% Turn Rate
• Speed Tweaks = +15% Flight Speed
• Integrated Enhanced RCS Module = 30% Flight Turn Rate
• Herald Tactics = +33% Flight Turn Rate
• Experimental Alloy Plating = +35% Flight Turn Rate.
• Expedited Delivery = +35% Flight Turn Rate
• Temporal Inversion Field = +50% Flight Speed & +100% Turn Rate

Console

Direct Skill increase

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  Console - Universal - Interphase Quantum Distributor =17.2 Starship Impulse Expertise
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  Omega Force Shield Array = +5 Flight Speed & +30% Flight Turn Rate for 5 sec
• Emergency Power to Engines = +40-70 Flight Speed & +2-4 Flight Turn Rate for 30 sec
• Impulse Burst = +171.2 Flight Speed

Flight and/or Turn increase

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  Console - Universal - Molecular Phase Inversion Field =+25% Flight Speed & +10 Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Assault Mode Relays = +53.2% Flight Speed & +35.5% Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Dominion Coordination Protocol = +40% Flight Speed & +40% Flight Turn Rate for 15 sec
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  Console - Engineering - Polaric Modulator = +11.2% Flight Speed
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  Console - Universal - Flagship Tactical Computer = 50% Flight Speed & +50% Turn Rate Strength for 15 sec
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  Console - Universal - Tactical Maneuvering Matrix = +15% Flight Speed & +15% Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Fluidic Phase Decoupler = =* +300% Flight Speed & 300% Flight Turn Rate for 6 sec

Flight Turn Rate Only

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  Console - Universal - Chroniton Fragmentation Warhead Launcher 15% Flight Turn Rate
• , Advanced Engineering Armor Consoles Advanced Engineering Armor Consoles [+Turn] = +25% Turn Rate (at Epic)
• Advanced Engineering RCS Consoles [+Turn] = +25% Flight Turn Rate (at Epic)
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  Console - Engineering - Conductive RCS Accelerator [+Turn] = +100% Flight Turn Rate (at Epic)
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  Console - Science - Exotic Particle Field Exciter [+Turn] = +50% Flight Turn Rate (at Epic)
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  Console - Tachyokinetic Converter = +22.9% Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Temporal Rift Stabilizer = +15% Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Hydrodynamics Compensator = +23.1% Flight Turn Rate
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  Console - Universal - Particle Conversion Matrix = +20% Flight Turn Rate

Impulse Only

• Thrill-seeker = +15% Flight and Full Impulse Speed
• Subspace Amplified Thrusters (Delta rep 3 pc)= +20% Flight Speed , +20% Flight Turn Rate
• Experimental Weaponry = 10% Impulse Speed
• Tactical Mode (Dyson Science Destroyer) = +10% Impulse Speed

Notes

While not listed in any particular order the above affect Turn,speed or both.