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Starship traits are unlockable by advancing through the Starship Mastery tiers of different Tier 6 starships, by advancing through a Captain Specialization, opening a Trait Pack, playing a mission or doing Delta/Temporal recruit tasks.

By default, each player has four trait slots available; 1 extra slot is purchasable at the Fleet Research Lab. Starships which have been upgraded using an Experimental Ship Upgrade Token also receive an additional slot; however use of this slot is limited to upgraded ships only. Like all other traits, starship traits can be reassigned in-game anywhere within social hubs or in sector space.

Traits are unlocked per character, with the exception of the level 6 mastery traits unlocked on Legendary starships which are account unlocks. Some Legendary Starships will also unlock multiple traits at level 5.


As of Oct 2023 -Max 7 Star-ship Trait Slots

Default - 4 trait slots (4/7 max)

Fleet Research Lab - Purchase 1 additional slot (5/7 max including previous)

6-X - Gain one additional trait slot using Experimental Ship Upgrade Token (6/7 max including previous)

6-X2 -Gain one additional trait slot using Experimental Ship Upgrade Token (7/7 max including previous)

Obtained from: Starships[ | ]

Faction specific ship + unlock[ | ]

This section contains traits that first need to be obtained through a faction-specific starship, before being account unlocked, or available to other factions via Dilithium Store unlock.

Name Icon Obtained from Description
Ablative Field Projector Ablative Field Projector icon
  • Your shield healing bridge officer abilities provide a small amount of Temporary Hit Points on the target. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Active: Temporal Surge Active - Temporal Surge icon
  • Activating Temporal Surge briefly makes your ship untargetable, flies faster, handles better, and grants 100% Critical Chance for a short duration. This ability has a long recharge time and starts on cooldown. Activating an Intelligence Bridge Officer Ability or spending time cloaked or in Dark Mode reduces the recharge time slightly. This ability has a minimum time before it can be used again, and the untargetability effect has -an 80% duration in PVP.
Advanced Firing Solutions Advanced Firing Solutions icon
  • While this trait is slotted, each time a cannon weapon is fired your starship will gain a small amount of bonus turn rate and accuracy for a short time. This bonus stacks up to 10 times.
Assault Formation Theta Assault Formation Theta icon
  • Attack Pattern Omega, Decloaking grants Torpedo High Yield, Weapon Crit Severity, Turn Rate
Battle Ready Battle Ready icon
  • Each time you use an Engineering or Intelligence Bridge Officer ability you gain a Defense and Damage Resistance Rating buff for a short time. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Best Hope of the Empire Best Hope of the Empire icon
  • +Damage, Temp HP when using Beam: Overload or Lance Abilities.
By The Book By The Book icon
  • Activating Bridge Officer Abilities that create Anomalies, or any Temporal Bridge Officer Ability, will extend the duration of all of your active Bridge Officer Anomalies by 2 seconds. This cannot extend any Anomaly's duration beyond double its original value.
Calculated Broadside Calculated Broadside icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating a Beam: Fire at Will or an Intel Bridge Officer Ability improves both Beam Damage and all Damage Resistance Rating in the side arcs. If Threatening Stance is activated, the Damage Resistance bonus is doubled; if not, aggro generated by attacks is massively reduced.
Continuing Mission Continuing Mission icon
Cultural Conquest Cultural Conquest icon
  • Activating a Weapon Firing Mode improves Damage dealt for a moderate duration. Dealing Weapon Damage to a Foe that has afflicted you with a Control, Debuff, or DoT effect removes one such effect and improves the increased Damage to double the base value. Removing negative effects has a 1.5 second cooldown per Foe in PVP.
One must truly immerse one's self in the culture of one's enemies. It is not enough simply to overwhelm through superior firepower, for that only brings physical victory, and only then to battles that were already won. True brilliance, true victory, comes from taking your enemies' spirit into yourself, growing from it, and using your gestalt superiority to crush them. Take what you can from them, and show them that their best selves aren't the tenth part of what you are. In the doing of this, the display of it, they can be brought to heel in not just one battle, but all the battles to come.
Damn the Torpedoes Damn the Torpedoes icon
  • While this trait is slotted, keeping your ship's Throttle above 50% will grant additional Damage Resistance Rating against all projectile weapons, and will periodically destroy the nearest Mine or Targetable Torpedo.
Deadly Appearances Deadly Appearances icon
  • Decloaking and Attack Pattern Omega grants Shield Pen, Weapon Haste
Designated Target Designated Target icon
  • While this trait is slotted, and you kill a target affected by your Focused Assault ability allies within 5km of the defeated target will gain a moderate hull heal and damage boost.
Desperate Repairs Desperate Repairs icon
  • Each time your starship is critically hit, you receive a desperation counter. Immediately upon receiving a third Desperation counter you will receive a large hull and shield heal and will be unable to gain Desperation counters for a while. The heal will only trigger if you are below 75% of your Maximum Hull.
Directional Bias Directional Bias icon
  • When damaged from the forward 180' arc, the energy will be redirected into the deflector dish, manifesting as increased Damage for Exotic Damage Bridge Officer Abilities. The stacks built up from incoming damage are expended and reset when activating your next Exotic Damage Bridge Officer Ability. When damaged from the reward 180' arc, a portion of the expended structural integrity field is reabsorbed as power that is spent on passive Hull Regeneration, or can be spent to increase the Healing from Bridge Officer Abilities. All built up bonuses are expended and reset when activating your next Hull Healing Bridge Officer Ability.
Efficient Demolition Efficient Demolition icon
  • Subsystem Power from Defeating Foes.
Emitter Synergy Emitter Synergy icon
  • Each time you use a Tactical or Intelligence Bridge Officer ability you gain a small bonus to both Exotic Damage and Shield Healing. This bonus stacks up to 3 times.
Energy Overdrive Energy Overdrive icon
  • Movement and Beam Damage from Beam Firing Modes
Enhanced Cloaking Integration Enhanced Cloaking Integration icon
  • Buffs when entering/exiting cloak.
Extensively Modified Warp Core Extensively Modified Warp Core icon
Field-Modified Overload Support Field-Modified Overload Support icon
Formation Flying Formation Flying icon
  • Summon a pair of Synth Destroyers when activating any distress call.
Good Day to Die Good Day to Die icon
  • Incoming Damage causes +Damage, +Incoming Healing
Greater Than The Sum Greater Than The Sum icon
  • Activating Emergency Power to Auxiliary, or any Command Bridge Officer Ability, will provide a bonus to yourself and allies within 5km which increases All Subsystem Power, Hull Regeneration, and Shield Regeneration for 10 seconds. The effectiveness of this increase scales up with the number of allies affected, up to a max of 10 (including self). This effect may only be triggered once every 10 seconds.
Heard I Needed Help Heard I Needed Help icon
Heart of Sol Heart of Sol icon

Faction Federation Federation characters owning:

Attack Pattern Beta or any Temporal Operative BOff Ability:

  • 10% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 20 sec
  • +5% Bonus Phaser Damage for 20 sec
Improved Lock Trajectory Improved Lock Trajectory icon
  • While this trait is slotted, the recharge time of Lock Trajectory is reduced to zero, allowing the ability to be immediately re-engaged after it is turned off.
In addition to this benefit, you will gain a reduction to the recharge times on Pilot Abilities, Cannon: Rapid Fire, and Cannon: Scatter Volley, whenever you deal Energy Weapon damage to a foe that is within your forward 90' firing arc. (max once per 5 sec)
Improved Polarize Hull Improved Polarize Hull icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Polarize Hull will periodically remove movement impairing effects as well as damage over time and hazard effects for the duration of the ability.
Improved Weaponized Emitters Improved Weaponized Emitters icon
  • While this trait is slotted your Aceton Beam and Overwhelm Emitters abilities cause radiation damage over time to enemies within 3km of the target.
Insult to Injury Insult to Injury icon
Legacy of Qo'noS Legacy of Qo'noS icon

Faction Klingon KDF characters owning:

Attack Pattern Beta or any Temporal Operative BOff Ability:

  • 10% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 20 sec
  • +5% Bonus Disruptor Damage for 20 sec
Lost in Time Lost in Time icon
  • +HP, -Cooldowns when reduced to low hull
Make it So Make it So icon
Numerical Superiority Numerical Superiority icon
  • While this trait is slotted, you gain a damage bonus that increases as more allies target your targeted foe, including yourself. This includes pets like Saucer Separation or Multi-Vector pets, but not Hangar pets.
One Big Happy Fleet One Big Happy Fleet icon
  • The first damage your ship deals during combat will force that foe's shields offline for a moderate duration, allowing opportunity for a devastating initial volley. Thereafter, you will gain an increasing amount of Shield Penetration for Energy Weapons as long as you remain in Combat. This benefit resets when you leave combat.
Over-Powered and Over-Gunned Over-Powered and Over-Gunned icon
Persistence of the Founders Persistence of the Founders icon

Faction Dominion Dominion characters owning:

Attack Pattern Beta or any Temporal Operative BOff Ability:

  • 10% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 20 sec
  • +5% Bonus Polaron Damage for 20 sec
Piercing Projectiles Piercing Projectiles icon

Projectile Firing Modes grant Hull and Shield Penetration skill bonuses.

Pride of Mol'Rihan Pride of Mol'Rihan icon

Faction Romulan Republic Romulan Republic characters owning:

Attack Pattern Beta or any Temporal Operative BOff Ability:

  • 10% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 20 sec
  • +5% Bonus Plasma Damage for 20 sec
Radiant Nanite Cloud Radiant Nanite Cloud icon
  • Causes all bridge officer and captain ability hull heals to heal for an additional 50% over 4 seconds in a 3 km radius.
Rapid-Emitting Armaments Rapid-Emitting Armaments icon
  • Tractor Beam Launches Torpedoes, Bonus Torpedo Damage
Reactive Reconstruction Reactive Reconstruction icon
  • When your health drops below 50%, this trait heals you and all teammates for a significant amount, and then significantly increases your outgoing healing. This ability will then go on cooldown for the next few minutes before becoming usable again.
Retaliation Retaliation icon
  • While this trait is slotted, and you suffer a critical hit you will gain a boost to your weapon damage and critical hit chance. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Reverberant Shielding Reverberant Shielding icon
  • Activating any rank of Feedback Pulse will trigger the effects of Reverse Shield Polarity, while activating any rank of Reverse Shield Polarity will trigger the effects of Feedback Pulse. Each triggered effect will be as effective as the opposite Bridge Officer Ability of the same rank. These triggered effects both last 15 seconds, and do not cause additional triggers of their own. They also do not cause any external cooldowns, nor have lockouts of their own.
Risk Is Our Business Risk Is Our Business icon
  • Activating a Captain Ability will grant you a stacking amount of Temporary Hitpoints per Foe within 5km. Additionally, if "Threatening Stance" is active, this will also generate a large amount of Threat toward nearby foes, further encouraging them to attack your vessel. Both of these effects only affect up to the 10 nearest foes.
Scientific Bulwark Scientific Bulwark icon
  • Activating any Bridge Officer Ability which increases Damage Resistance Rating will also provide a boost to your Control Expertise, Drain Expertise, and Exotic Particle Generator skills. This bonus lasts 15 seconds, and may be stacked up to 5 times.
Shall We Not Revenge Shall We Not Revenge icon
  • Activating any Hull Healing Bridge Officer Ability or Intelligence Bridge Officer Ability will cause you to begin reflecting incoming damage from Energy Weapons back at your attackers as Disruptor Damage. While this reflect mode is active, additional activations of this trait will increase the percentage of reflected damage, instead of extending its duration. Damage Reflection may only be triggered 5 times every second, and will not attempt to reflect small sources or damage, or damage-over-time effects.
She's a Predator She's a Predator icon
  • Attack Patterns grant Ambush, Heal Hull, recharge Cloak
Shield Overload Shield Overload icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Emergency Power to Shields will also apply a massive boost to Damage Resistance and Shield Hardness. However, the effectiveness of this boost will drop off overtime.
Smooth Landing Smooth Landing icon
Specialist Knowledge Specialist Knowledge icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating any Intel or Command Bridge Officer Specialist ability will reduce the recharge time of all Engineering Bridge Officer abilities.
Synthetic Good Fortune Synthetic Good Fortune icon
  • Pilot and Control Abilities grant Control Expertise and Crit Chance
Temporal Anchor Temporal Anchor icon
  • Gravity Wells you create anchor enemies in time as well as space, preventing temporal travel as well as interfering with the electron tunneling required for basic electronics. This gives the Gravity Well a distinctive appearance, additional Radiation damage, and a chance per tick to add cooldown to foe abilities.
(This only affects Bridge Officer Ability recharge times when used against Players, instead of all abilities)
Terran Goodbye Terran Goodbye icon
  • Defeated foes grant crit chance, accuracy.
That's a Big Ship That's a Big Ship icon
  • Captain & Engineering abilities grant +Hull, +Res
The Best Diplomat The Best Diplomat icon
Time of Need Time of Need icon
  • Game Description: +Incoming Healing, +Res when healed
Transcranial Sensor Link Transcranial Sensor Link icon
  • Defeated enemies larger than frigates leave behind debris that can be analyzed by advanced sensors after moving close to them. Each cloud of debris analyzed adds a stacking bonus to Shield Penetration which lasts until map move. Debris is gradually tractored toward your ship.
Universal Designs Universal Designs icon
  • Crit Buffs from Universal Consoles.
Vanguard Specialists Vanguard Specialists icon
  • Reduced Recharge and Extend Durations for Specialist Weapon Modes
Vent Metreon Laced Plasma Vent Metreon Laced Plasma icon
  • While this trait is slotted, Eject Warp Plasma will have its duration reduced from 30 seconds to 15 seconds, but each plasma cloud will explode in a 1km AoE dealing shield-penetrating Plasma damage.
Warp Shadow Decoy Warp Shadow Decoy icon
  • Cloaking will cause a Warp Shadow to appear near your location, causing enemy NPCs to attack your decoy instead of attacking you. This effect cannot trigger more often than once every thirty seconds.
Weaponized Time Crystals Weaponized Time Crystals icon
  • Activating Weapon Firing Modes adds Chroniton distortions to the weapon attacks, applying a stacking Antiproton damage over time effect on the enemy ship. These distortions accumulate almost indefinitely, eventually tearing the ship's temporal reference field apart.
Weapons Hot, Deflectors to Full Weapons Hot, Deflectors to Full icon
  • While this trait is slotted, whenever you activate Emergency Power to Shields, you will gain a boost to Weapon Haste that scales with your Shield Power and a temporary Secondary Shielding that lasts for several seconds.

Faction specific ship + trait pack[ | ]

The following Starship Traits were originally only available faction-specific through a Zen Store Starship. The other factions can now obtain them through a Trait Pack, that may be found in Lock Boxes.

Name Icon Obtained from Description
Black Alert Black Alert icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is active, activating Beam: Overload, Cannon: Rapid Fire, or any Intelligence Bridge Officer Ability will allow temporally-displaced duplicates of your ship to appear near any foes that you damage over the next several seconds. Each of these duplicates will fire Torpedo Spreads at the damaged foe and other nearby targets. This trait may only activate once every 25 sec.
Catastrophic Overload Catastrophic Overload icon
  • Faction Klingon D9 Dreadnought Battlecruiser
  • Faction Federation [Starship Trait: Catastrophic Overload / Layered Shielding (Federation)]
  • Faction Romulan Republic [Starship Trait: SIF Shunt / Catastrophic Overload (Romulan)]
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted activating Jam Sensors will cause it to deal a high electrical damage and disable targets in a large area of effect when it expires
Ceaseless Momentum Ceaseless Momentum icon
  • Firing any torpedo will grant you a significant boost to Kinetic Damage and Kinetic Damage Resistance for a short duration. This stacks up to five times.
Down But Not Out Down But Not Out icon
  • After achieving level 5 in your Kelvin Timeline Heavy Command Cruiser T6's Starship Mastery, you will unlock the Down But Not Out starship trait. While this trait is slotted, and as your ship takes damage, you are able to reroute power from damaged systems to increase the maximum power potential of all of your subsystems, allowing a higher cap on your potential performance.
Exitus Acta Probat Exitus Acta Probat icon
Highly Specialized Highly Specialized icon
  • Game Description: Make the most of your bridge officer specialists! Each time one of their abilities is activated, it will cause all other specialist bridge officer abilities to recharge more quickly, allowing them all to be used more frequently. In addition, you will gain a boost to Starship Hull Repair, Starship Weapon Specialization and Starship Particle Generators skills. This skill buff stacks up to 5 times.
Honored Dead Honored Dead icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is active, any damage received during combat will be added to the defensive capabilities of your vessel, resulting in stacking benefits to Damage Resistance and passive Hull Regeneration as certain damage thresholds are met or exceeded. Once you reach maximum stacks of this, additional damage will instead grant a small amount of Temporary Hit Points at each threshold. Stacks diminish outside of combat unless cloaked.
Layered Shielding Layered Shielding icon
  • Faction Romulan Republic Thrai Dreadnought Warbird
  • Faction Federation [Starship Trait: Catastrophic Overload / Layered Shielding (Federation)]
  • Faction Klingon [Starship Trait: SIF Shunt / Layered Shielding (Klingon)]
Overwhelming Force Overwhelming Force icon
Polarized Lattice-Optimized Tritanium Armor Polarized Lattice-Optimized Tritanium Armor icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted when you take more than 20% of your health in 5 seconds as damage, gain Polarized Lattice-optimized Tritanium Armor for 15 seconds. (Max once per 45 Seconds).
Preferential Targeting Preferential Targeting icon
Reciprocity Reciprocity icon
  • Game Description: When an enemy misses you in combat you have all of your Tactical and Intelligence bridge officer ability recharge times reduced slightly. This reduction can happen every few seconds and it cannot reduce an ability's recharge time below its group cooldown.
SIF Shunt SIF Shunt icon
  • Faction Federation Prototype Dreadnought Cruiser
  • Faction Klingon [Starship Trait: SIF Shunt / Layered Shielding (Klingon)]
  • Faction Romulan Republic [Starship Trait: SIF Shunt / Catastrophic Overload (Romulan)]
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, activating any hull healing ability on yourself, while at full hull strength, will provide a boost to all power levels for a short time. This effect stacks 3 times.


  • When using hull healing abilities at 100% Hit Points:
    • When at 100% Hull Strength:
    • Self: +3.3 All Power Levels for 15 sec.
    • (Stacks up to 3 times)
Standoff Standoff icon
  • Game Description: Your boldness will pay off with this trait, as firing upon the forward 90-degree arc of an opponent allows your weapons to deal more damage than usual. Additionally, your weapons gain the ability to knock your foes' weapons offline briefly, once every several seconds, so long as you continue firing on their forward arc.
Superior Area Denial Superior Area Denial icon
  • Activating Beams: Fire at Will or Cannons: Scatter Volley causes your weapons to debuff foe's armor resistance for a short duration, as well as activating Fire at Will: I and Cannons: Scatter Volley I on your hangar pets.
Tactical Retreat Tactical Retreat icon
  • Faction Romulan Republic Faeht Intel Warbird
  • Faction Federation [Starship Trait Unlock - Overwhelming Force / Tactical Retreat (Federation)]
  • Faction Klingon [Starship Trait Unlock - Reciprocity / Tactical Retreat (Klingon)]
  • Game Description: Gain a large defense and flight speed buff for a short time after being knocked below 25% hull strength. You also become untargetable for 2 seconds and have all enemy threat reduced to zero. Tactical Retreat can be triggered once every 60 seconds.
Target Rich Environment Target Rich Environment icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted, activating Beam: Fire at Will or Cannon: Scatter Volley will provide a small boost to weapon damage, per weapon activation, for a short time as long as these attack modes are active. This bonus stacks up to 20 times.
Terran Machinations Terran Machinations icon
  • When activating Attack Pattern Bridge Officer Abilities: +30% Exotic Damage for 15 sec
    When activating Control Bridge Officer Abilities: 10% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 15 sec
The Ruin of Our Enemies The Ruin of Our Enemies icon
  • +Dmg and recharge on defeating foes.
Vulcan Hello Vulcan Hello icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is active, your Weapons gain a Shield and Armor Penetration bonus, and Weapon Power Drain from energy weapon activation is reduced for a brief duration when you first enter Combat.

Cross-faction starships[ | ]

Name Icon Obtained from Description
1.21 Terrawatts 1.21 Terrawatts icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, suffering Electrical or Radiation damage will grant a reduction to the cooldown timers of your Captain abilities. This may only trigger once every several seconds.
Adaptive Hull Plating Adaptive Hull Plating icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating any Hull Healing or Command Bridge Officer Ability will boost your maximum hull hit points for a short time. This effect stacks up to 3 times.
Advantageous Positioning Advantageous Positioning icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, you ignore a portion of your target's Damage Resistance rating with your weapons while attacking your target's rear arc.
All Hands on Deck All Hands on Deck icon
  • Activating a Tactical or Command Bridge Officer ability will reduce the recharge time of Science Bridge Officer abilities and Captain abilities. Science bridge officer ability recharge time reduced by 10% and captain ability recharge time reduced by 5%, this may only occur once every 5 seconds.
Assimilated Power Conduits Assimilated Power Conduits icon
  • Game Description: Activating Emergency Power to Auxiliary will grant a boost to Exotic Damage Critical Chance and Exotic Damage Critical Severity for a short time:
Automated Aggression Automated Aggression icon
  • Game Description: When activating Tactical or Miracle Worker Bridge Officer Abilities, launch a Protomatter Barrage projectile at nearest foe. Each projectile deals Kinetic and Radiation damage, and has a 25% chance of causing a brief Radiation hazard cloud at the point of impact.


Automated Shield Alignment Automated Shield Alignment icon
  • 0-15% Bonus All Damage for missing shields & heal 25% of shields on defeats.
Backup Shield Batteries Backup Shield Batteries icon
  • Activating any Shield Drain or Energy Drain Bridge Officer ability will add a Charge to your starship, up to a maximum of once per 15 seconds. Whenever a Shield Facing is depleted, it will immediately be restored to full capacity, and consume one Charge. Each Charge has no maximum duration, but only four Charges may be stored.
Badlands Tactics Badlands Tactics icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted and you are within 3km of an anomaly or Plasma Storm you control, you gain a moderate boost to stealth, defense and flanking damage.
Bio-Link Bio-Link icon
Built to Last Built to Last icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted, activating a Hull Healing Bridge Officer ability will apply a weapon power cost reduction and a hull regeneration buff. The hull regeneration buff's effectiveness will increase when trigged at low hull strength.
Calm Before the Storm Calm Before the Storm icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted you will gain a Calm counter every 2 seconds while in combat. Exiting combat will clear all stacks of Calm. Once you have 10 counters you will gain the Storm buff. While under the effects of Storm, you will gain a large boost to your damage for a short time.
Charged Particle Reaction Charged Particle Reaction icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Charged Particle Burst will cause a secondary, less potent version of Charged Particle Burst to be emitted from each target hit by this ability, causing a chain reaction.
Checkmate Checkmate icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating a control Bridge Officer ability will provide a boost to your Exotic Damage and Projectile Weapon damage for a short time.
Cold-Hearted Cold-Hearted icon
  • Game Description: Activating Auxiliary Power to Emergency Battery or any Pilot Bridge Officer Ability will cause your energy weapons to afflict foes with a debuff which Slows, Drains Power, and reduces Damage Resistance Rating.
Collect and Consume Collect and Consume icon
  • Game Description: Activating any Subsystem Drain or Shield Drain Bridge Officer Ability applies an instant Pull to all foes within 5km, dragging them a bit closer to you. After this Pull is done, all Foes within 2.5km will suffer a small amount of Radiation Damage. A portion of the damage dealt by this trait will be returned to you as a Hull Heal.
Commanded Singularities Commanded Singularities icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating any Command or Singularity ability will summon a micro singularity at your current target for several seconds, dealing kinetic damage and pulling foes inwards. If you do not have a foe targeted, it will instead appear 5km in front of you. This can only occur once per several seconds.
Controlled Aggression Controlled Aggression icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating a Universal Console or Temporal Operative Bridge Officer Ability grants a bonus to your Control Expertise skill based on your current amount of Exotic Particle Generators skill. Minimum bonus 10, maximum bonus 60. Subsequent activations will refresh this buff's duration.
Coordinated Assault Coordinated Assault icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted and you activate Beam: Overload I, II or III you will allow your Hangar pets to use Beam: Overload I. Using Cannon: Rapid Fire I, II or III will allow your pets to use Cannon: Rapid Fire I.
Council of Thought Council of Thought icon
  • Game Description: Benefit from the awareness offered by having coordinated allies nearby, gaining Defense and Damage Resistance for each ally within 10km. Hangar Pets contribute to the nearby ally count, but Mines, Turrets or Targetable Torpedoes do not.
Crescent Wave Discharge Crescent Wave Discharge icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, activating Beam: Overload or any Pilot ability generates a Crescent Wave Counter for 2 minutes. After obtaining 3 counters you will fire a devastating Crescent Wave blast at your target, dealing extreme disruptor damage and reducing their damage resistance.
Cryonic Siphon Cryonic Siphon icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, Cryonic Siphon will drastically reduce the target's shield hardness and damage resistance while Energy Siphon is active on its target.
Dampen Energy Signatures Dampen Energy Signatures icon
  • Game Description: +Stealth, +Dmg, -Threat for Hangar Pets after activating Intel Bridge Officer Abilities or Mask Energy Signature
Delphic Phasing Delphic Phasing icon
  • While this trait is slotted, you will gain a stack of Partial Delphic Phasing each time you score a critical hit. You may only generate 1 stack every 2 seconds. Each stack of Partial Delphic Phasing provides an increase to All Energy Damage resistance rating and lasts for a short duration. At 10 stacks of Delphic Phasing, you become immune to Energy Damage for a short time. After this effect wears off, you will be unable to generate stacks of Delphic Phasing for a period of time.
Delphic Shockwave Delphic Shockwave icon
  • While this trait is slotted, your Photonic Shockwave Science Bridge Officer ability will leave behind a localized anomaly that mimics the effects of the Delphic Expanse. Enemies that enter this hazard will suffer radiation damage over time and have their damage resistance reduced.
Devious Rerouting Devious Rerouting icon
  • While this trait is slotted, you will automatically gain a significant boost to maximum Hull Capacity whenever your average Shield Capacity drops below 25%. The amount of Hull Capacity gained will scale with your Starship Exotic Particle Generator skill (up to a max of 500)
Digital Compilation Digital Compilation icon
  • While this trait is slotted, whenever an enemy of Frigate rank or higher is defeated after receiving [Exotic Damage] from you, they will be transformed into a Digitizer Probe which will chase nearby enemies, dealing Plasma Damage to any that they are near.
    You may have up to 5 Digitizer Probes active at a time from this Trait. Enemies digitized by this Trait will not Warp Core Breach.


Dimensional Modulation Dimensional Modulation icon
  • To self, max once per 10 sec: +3 - 30% Bonus All Damage (based on number of targets) with Starship Weapons for 10 sec.


Directed Energy Flux Directed Energy Flux icon


Dominion Coordination Dominion Coordination icon
Electrified Anomalies Electrified Anomalies icon
  • Your BOff anomalies deal electrical damage & grant power boosts
Emergency Response Emergency Response icon
  • When you suffer damage at low health you have all of your Hull and Shield Heal bridge officer ability recharge times reduced slightly. This reduction can happen every few seconds and it cannot reduce an ability's recharge time below its group cooldown.
Emergency Response Teams Emergency Response Teams icon
  • While slotted, when any shield facing becomes depleted, you gain a significant amount of Secondary Shields for ~30 seconds. While the Secondary Shielding remains, activating any Science or Intel abilities heal your hull and shields.
Emergency Weapon Cycle Emergency Weapon Cycle icon
  • While this starship trait is active, using Emergency Power to Weapons will also reduce weapon power cost and increase your weapon fire rate moderately.
Energy Monopoly Energy Monopoly icon
  • Using Aceton Beam or Overwhelm Regulators causes you to drain power from your target into your own sub-systems for a short time.
Energy Web Energy Web icon
Enhanced Nanite Regeneration Enhanced Nanite Regeneration icon
  • 25-125% of Maximum Hull regenerated per minute when captain or bridge officer heal is used on self.
Enhanced Power Condensers Enhanced Power Condensers icon
  • Using Power Siphon or Tachyon Beam will provide you with a boost to maximum power levels and provide a boost to maximum shield hit points for a short time. Enhanced Power Condensers can be triggered once every 30 seconds.
Entwined Tactical Matrices Entwined Tactical Matrices icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Beams: Fire at Will or Cannons: Scatter Volley causes your next torpedo attack to be a Torpedo Spread. Activating Torpedo Spread causes you to gain Beams: Fire at Will and Cannons: Scatter Volley for a short duration.
Evasion Specialist Evasion Specialist icon
  • Upon activation of Emergency Power to Engines, or any Pilot Bridge Officer Ability, gain Shield Hardness and Shield Regeneration for 5sec (once per 15sec max).
Exotic Modulation Exotic Modulation icon
Exotic Particle Shielding Exotic Particle Shielding icon
Explosive Polarity Shift Explosive Polarity Shift icon
  • While this trait is slotted Reverse Shield Polarity will absorb incoming damage and convert it into a kinetic blast upon expiration.
Fiery Entrance Fiery Entrance icon
Frontal Assault Frontal Assault icon
  • Game Description: When this starship trait is slotted, activation Cannon abilities will provide a boost to your frontal shield hardness and regeneration rate for a short time.
Go for the Kill Go for the Kill icon
  • While this trait is equipped, landing a critical hit while Cannon: Rapid Fire is active will extend its duration by a small amount. This can occur once every few seconds.
Gravitic Entanglement Gravitic Entanglement icon
  • While under the effects of Beam: Fire at Will or Cannon: Scatter Volley, foes hit by your Energy Weapons will attract one another at random. The gravitic attraction will target a Foe far away if possible. If the only valid targets are in close proximity, the gravitational resonance will cause a small kinetic explosion instead of pulling the ships toward one another. If an enemy ship causes one of these explosions, it cannot do so again for several seconds.
Gre'thor's Fire Gre'thor's Fire icon
  • Launching hangar pets gives your weapons additional fire damage that scales with your enemy's missing hitpoints.
Greedy Emitters Greedy Emitters icon
  • Game Description: Using the Energy Siphon, Tachyon Beam, or Tyken's Rift Science Bridge Officer Abilities gives a buff which grants immunity to energy drain, reduces energy weapons power usage, and increases your subsystem power levels for 10 seconds. This buff may be triggered once every 30 seconds.
Harasser Mines Harasser Mines icon
  • While this trait is slotted and either Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire at Will is active, your directed energy weapons will trigger a Chroniton Mine to appear within 1.5km of each target affected by the initial activation of either Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire at Will. This can occur once every 20 seconds.
Harrying Maneuvers Harrying Maneuvers icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Emergency Power to Engines or Pilot Abilities grant Accuracy, Penetration, and SS Offline Proc.
Heavy Tachyon Mine Heavy Tachyon Mine icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Beam: Overload, Beam: Fire at Will, Cannon: Rapid Fire, Cannon: Scatter Volley or any Subsystem Targeting ability will cause your starship to deploy a Heavy Tachyon Mine behind your ship. This large mine is easier for your enemies to see than smaller mines, but it has a larger tracking distance and a larger area of effect. Upon impact, this mine will cause high kinetic damage(with 100% shield penetration) in a 3km area and will leave behind a Tachyon Particle Hazard that will heavily damage shields to any foe that remains within it. Unlike normal mine explosions, the Heavy Tachyon Mine's explosion will not harm the starship that deploys it. Additionally, if the Mine is destroyed by an enemy, it will still explode causing damage as normal. Edit: built-in Subsystem Targetings do not trigger that Trait, only those that come with Tactical Bridge Offiicers.
History Will Remember History Will Remember icon
  • Game Description: Prolonged conflicts become more desperate - and more heroic - as time wears on, and only those ships and crews with the fortitude to withstand such onslaughts are remembered in the annals of history. With this trait slotted, each Foe that damages you will grant you a stack of History Will Remember, which imparts increased weapon damage, hull capacity, and hull regeneration. Each foe only counts for a single stack, no matter how many times they damage you. Each stack will last until you leave the map, and you may have up to 30 stacks maximum. Stacks may only be gained a maximum of once per second.
Hit and Run Hit and Run icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, Evasive Maneuvers will provide +75 All Damage resistance rating buff. When Evasive Maneuvers expires, you'll receive +20% Bonus All Damage and +30% Critical Damage buff for 8 seconds (35 second cooldown).


Hivebearer Hivebearer icon
  • Game Description: When you launch a hangar pets or hangar pet dies: Spawns a swarmer for 30 seconds
    (Maximum 8 swarmers at a time).
Improved Brace for Impact Improved Brace for Impact icon
  • Game Description: Activating Brace for Impact grants you a very large amount of Temporary Hit Points for a short period of time.
Improved Feedback Pulse Improved Feedback Pulse icon
  • Game Description: While slotted, Feedback Pulse will deal additional damage. Each time you are hit while Feedback Pulse is active you will gain a buff that boosts your Critical Hit Chance and Critical Severity. This buff stacks up to 10 times.
Improved Gravity Well Improved Gravity Well icon
  • Your Gravity Well anomalies last twice as long, and recharge much faster. Additionally, the primary foe targeted by your Gravity Well activation will have their damage resistance rating reduced for the duration of the anomaly.
Improved Photonic Officer Improved Photonic Officer icon
  • While this trait is slotted, the duration of Photonic Officer is increased. In addition, while Photonic Officer is active, you will gain a significant boost to your Exotic Damage and Outgoing Healing.
Improved Tachyon Beam Improved Tachyon Beam icon
  • Tachyon Beam Regenerates Ally Shields.
Ingenious Tenacity Ingenious Tenacity icon
  • Activating any Specialist Bridge Officer Ability (Intel, Command, Pilot, Temporal Operative, Miracle Worker) will briefly grant your starship the ability to redirect incoming damage from Energy Weapons into Shield Restoration. A portion of all Energy Damage recieved during this time will be translated into Shield Restoration for the shield facing which the enemy weapon impacted.
Triggering this effect multiple times before it expires will refresh the effect's duration, rather than increasing the amount of shield restoration.
Insidious Tactics Insidious Tactics icon
Interlaced Emitters Interlaced Emitters icon
  • Activating any Bridge Officer abilities that restore shields will also briefly apply an effect that automatically redistributes the target's shields, provides shield hardness, and renders shields immune to drain effects. This effect may not be reapplied to a target until it has worn off.
Into the Fray Into the Fray icon
  • +Crit Chance as shield facings damaged, +Crit Sev when Surrounded.
Intruder Discouragement Intruder Discouragement icon
  • Crit chance buff on entering combat, crits grant all damage resistance and hull regeneration.
Invasive Maneuvers Invasive Maneuvers icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, your evasive maneuvers will be upgraded using Elachi technologies. When you activate it, you will perform an invasive scan on the nearby foes, disabling vulnerable bridge stations for a short duration, before phasing into Mycelial Space for a short duration.
Invincible Invincible icon
  • Game Description: When reduced to very low hull percent, your ship becomes undefeatable for a short amount of time. During this window all incoming hull and shield heals receive a large boosts. May activate once per two minutes.
It's Another Enterprise It's Another Enterprise icon
  • Your Fleet ability summons help.
Jubilant Cadence Jubilant Cadence icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is active, defeating enemies or healing allies will grant you one stack of Jubilant Cadence a maximum of once every 4 seconds, which last until you leave combat or are defeated. After reaching 5 stacks, you and your teammates will receive a large boost to speed and turn rate, while also having all bridge officer ability recharge timers reduced.
Kemocite Overload Kemocite Overload icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, your first hit with Beam: Overload will cause a 2km radius explosion that deals radiation damage and reduces the damage resistance of affected foes.
Kick Them While They're Down Kick Them While They're Down icon
  • Game Description: Activating any foe-targeted Control Bridge Officer Ability on an enemy that is affected by a Control effect will grant you +5% to Critical Chance for 15 seconds. This effect can stack five times.
Lash of the Chain Lash of the Chain icon
  • While this trait is slotted, using Cannon: Rapid Fire or Cannon: Scatter Volley negates the shared 15 second cooldown time of those abilities. This effect can occur once every 45 seconds.
Leisurely Pace Leisurely Pace icon
  • While at or below 25% Throttle, gain a stacking bonus to Exotic Particle Generators and Control Expertise once every 5 seconds (4 stacks max). Once you have at least one stack, activating any Control Bridge Officer Ability will cause up to 5 foes within 5km to suffer a Debuff to their Flight Speed and All Outgoing Damage for 5 seconds. The severity of this debuff is increased by additional stacks of this trait's buff, gained by remaining at Low Throttle. This effect may only be triggered once per 5 seconds. All stacks are lost shortly after being above 25% Throttle, and must be regained over time.
Load Viral Torpedo Load Viral Torpedo icon
  • Engineering, Science, Tactical and Intelligence Team now load a Viral Torpedo. This causes your next Torpedo attack to disable your target(s) for a short period of time. This can occur once every 20 seconds.
Maintained to Regulation Maintained to Regulation icon
  • Captain abilities cleanse one debuff and buff boff ability recharge speed.
Majority - Minority Majority - Minority icon
  • Game Description: While this Trait is active, the number of Allies and Foes within 10km of you will be counted. Depending upon whether you are in the Minority (Foes outnumber Allies) or the Majority (Allies equal or outnumber Foes), you gain different combat benefits. Majority = Increased Damage Resistance, Shield Hardness, and Hull Regeneration. Minority = Increased Damage Output, and Flight Speed.
Maw of Gre'thor Maw of Gre'thor icon
  • Going at full throttle while in combat will shoot giant bursts of flame behind your ship, dealing fire damage both initially and over time to all foes affected.
Nullifier Warheads Nullifier Warheads icon
  • Game Description: When you use a torpedo firing mode: Spawns eight Nullifiers around your ship.
Obedience is Victory Obedience is Victory icon
  • Game Description: Activation of Team Abilities will summon a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship to assist for 20 sec (Activations refresh duration).
Omega Bond Omega Bond icon
Out of Time Out of Time icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, traveling above 88 Impulse Speed will cause you to gain stacks of "Out of Time" while suffering minor cold damage each second. When you then drop below 88 Impulse Speed, all stacks of "Out of Time" are removed and a scaling bonus to your Bridge Officer Recharge times is applied based on the number of stacks obtained (25 max stacks).
Painful Memories Painful Memories icon
  • Game Description: Activating Engineering bridge officer abilities causes -50% Flight Speed, and Electrical Damage for 10 sec to affected foes.
Particle Feedback Loop Particle Feedback Loop icon
  • Game Description: Using an Exotic Damage Bridge Officer ability will provide a bonus to the Hull Penetration skill. This bonus stacks up to 3 times.
Partners In Arms Partners In Arms icon
  • While the Partners in Arms starship trait is active your ally targeted heals and buffs now provide you with a boost to all damage for a short time. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Peak Efficiency Peak Efficiency icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted, every few seconds all of your recharging Bridge Officer abilities will have their remaining recharge time reduced by a small amount if your hull strength is at or above 80%.
Photonic Boarding Party Photonic Boarding Party icon
  • Activating any rank of Boarding Party no longer launches Shuttles and instead instantly applies the effects to the targeted Foe. Recharge time of Boarding Party reduced from 60sec to 40sec.
Photonic Diversion Photonic Diversion icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted, activating Jam Targeting Sensors or Evade Target Lock will create a Photonic Decoy at your target's location. This decoy will attack with Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Arrays and Photon Torpedoes and have a constant Feedback Pulse effect.
Potentiality Potentiality icon
  • Game Description: Tap into the potential energies unleashed by alternate timelines created by choices that were not made. For every second you spend in Combat, but not activating Bridge Officer Abilities, you will gain one stack of Potentiality which will increase your damage output for a short time. Activating any Bridge Officer Ability renders you unable to build up Potentiality for several seconds, during which time your existing stacks will be lost.
Precision Multi-Targeting Precision Multi-Targeting icon
  • Activating any Subsystem Targeting ability will additionally grant you Fire at Will I and +100 Accuracy Rating for 10 seconds.
Precision Scrapper Precision Scrapper icon
  • While this trait is slotted, dealing damage to an enemy with Surgical Strikes, Beam Overload, or Tractor Beam will cause a buff to be created for each teammate within 10km of the damaged foe. These buffs will quickly follow their intended target (you or another player on your team), then apply a beneficial effect chosen at random which will last up to 30 seconds. This trait may only trigger a maximum of once every 2 seconds.
Preparedness Preparedness icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, you gain a random buff when you enter combat, for the duration of combat.
Press the Advantage Press the Advantage icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted and you attack an enemy's rear arc, you will reduce their turn rate and grant yourself a brief Tactical and Pilot Bridge Officer Ability recharge time reduction. This buff immediately refreshes each time you land a hit on the enemy's rear arc.
Promise of Ferocity Promise of Ferocity icon
  • Game Description: Activating Pilot or Tactical bridge officer abilities adds +4% bonus Damage with starship weapons (max 5 stacks, one stack per 4 sec) for duration of combat.
Proto Spill Proto Spill icon
  • Game Description: While slotted, activating any Hull Healing or Shield Healing Bridge Officer Ability will cause a Radiation AOE, centered on the healed ally (or self).
    • Radiation Damage to up to 5 nearest foes within 3km of Healed Target (or Self)
    • Max once every 6 sec
Protomatter Capacitor Protomatter Capacitor icon
  • Game Description: Hitting an enemy with Charged Particle Burst, Tachyon Beam or Energy Siphon will provide a stack of Protomatter Charge. Each stack of Protomatter Charge increases the user's Hull and Shield Regeneration. This effect stacks up to 3 times.
Protomatter Precursor Shields Protomatter Precursor Shields icon
  • Forward Arc Immunity from Captain Abilities.
Proximity Alert Proximity Alert icon
  • While this Trait is slotted, the ship will gain a scaling benefit based on the highest rank among nearby foes once every 5 seconds. This benefit will manifest as a bonus to Defense Rating, Physical and Kinetic Damage Resistance and a quick burst of Shield and Hull restoration, while also reducing your outgoing Threat Generation (if Threatening Stance is not active). The value of these benefits is based on having a high-rank enemy within close proximity: Cruiser, Battleship, or Dreadnought.
This benefit only triggers if there is a Cruiser, Battleship, or Dreadnought within range, and only the highest possible benefit will apply. The benefit will only be active while in combat.
Rapid Response Shielding Rapid Response Shielding icon
  • While this trait is slotted, when you decloak or activate Emergency Power to Shields, you will gain a boost to your maximum shield capacity, and to your Drain Expertise and Particle Generators stats.
Reactive Repair Nanites Reactive Repair Nanites icon
  • Game Description: Using a hull heal ability will also heal your hangar pets within 5km of your target for a portion of the healing dealt.
Redirecting Arrays Redirecting Arrays icon
  • Game Description: While Beam Array: Fire at Will is active, any damage that your starship receives will periodically extend its duration. Once per sec while Beam: Fire-at-Will is active, receiving Any Damage grants 0.33 sec Duration to Fire-at-Will (15 sec total duration maximum).
Regroup Regroup icon
  • Game Description: Your Attack Pattern Bridge Officer abilities will reduce the recharge time on Engineering and Temporal Operative Bridge Officer abilities.
Relaunch and Repair Relaunch and Repair icon

Carrier pet launch buffs regen, reduced captain ability recharge times.

Repair Mode Repair Mode icon
  • While this Starship Trait is slotted, and you suffer more than 10% of your hit points in a 3 second period, you will gain 1 Repair Mode Counter. Upon receiving your 3rd Repair Mode Counter, you will immediately become disabled, gain a very high increase to damage resistance, and a large amount of temporary hit points. You’ll also gain a powerful heal over time effect for the duration of Repair Mode.
Repulsive Repulsive icon
  • Game Description: Activating any Engineering or Command Bridge Officer Ability will cause your ship to initiate a massive repel wave targeting the nearest enemy starship within 3km. This causes some Physical Damage (ignores shields) and will push that foe and up to 2 other nearby enemy ships a good distance away from your vessel. Once triggered, there is a 10 second lockout. If there are no valid foes within 3km, it will not trigger the lockout.
Restorative Support Restorative Support icon
  • Game Description: When activating a hull heal, summon Support Probe for 10 sec
    • To healed target: +____ Hit Points per sec
    • To 3 nearest foes within 5km: -____ Shields per sec
    • Can be summoned once per 30 sec
Reverberation Reverberation icon
  • Game Description: Dealing damage to any foe with a Projectile weapon will grant you a Reverberation Charge at a maximum rate of 1 per second. Each Reverberation Charge grants a stacking 10% chance to knock your opponents' shields offline for 5sec when using Projectile weapons. On a successful deactivation, all charges are consumed and you are locked out of building up charges for several seconds.
Rhythmic Rumble Rhythmic Rumble icon

When activating Auxiliary Power to the Inertial Dampeners or any Pilot Bridge Officer Ability, you will gain a reduction to weapon power cost and a boost to damage resistance that scales with your current flight speed.

S.I.F. Burst S.I.F. Burst icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, activating any Hull Healing Bridge Officer Ability will cause enemies within 3km to suffer radiation damage over time.
Scavenger Beam Scavenger Beam icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, Tractor Beam will deal increased damage. Additionally, Tractor Beam will heal the caster overtime.
Secret Mission Secret Mission icon
  • Every several seconds in combat, you will receive a secret mission to take out a nearby enemy. When that foe gets out of range or is defeated, you will acquire a new marked foe as your new secret mission. The marked foe is less resistant to you, and when they are defeated, a swarm of Section 31 Attack Drones will spawn to hunt down other targets.
Self-Replicating Hull Self-Replicating Hull icon
Slippery Target Slippery Target icon
Sniper (starship) Sniper (starship) icon
  • Long-range Torpedo Damage increase.
Special Delivery Special Delivery icon

Activating any Pilot Bridge Officer Ability, or using a Pilot Maneuver, will cause a series of Photon Mines to be released behind your ship. This may not trigger more than once every 2 seconds.

Spoils of the Victor Spoils of the Victor icon
  • While this trait is slotted, defeating an enemy will grant you a hull and shield heal over time. This heal may be triggered once every 20 seconds.
Spore-Infused Anomalies Spore-Infused Anomalies icon
  • Science and Intel abilities cause your anomalies to deal damage.
Stay At Your Posts Stay At Your Posts icon
  • Game Description: Activating an Engineering or Miracle Worker Bridge Officer ability will reduce the recharge time of Tactical Bridge Officer abilities. The amount of cooldown reduction is increased if you are currently below half of your maximum hull capacity. This may only occur once every few seconds.
Stay on Target Stay on Target icon
  • Game Description: Keeping your current target in your forward 90 degree arc causes your ship to autofire a microtorpedo every 4 seconds.
Streak Breaker Streak Breaker icon
  • Game Description: : While Streak Breaker is slotted, you will gain a Streak Breaker Counter each time you miss an enemy. After receiving 5 Streak Breaker Counters, you’ll gain the Streak Breaker Buff which will provide a boost to Accuracy, Critical Hit Chance and Defense for a short time. Once you gain the Streak Breaker Buff, you will be locked out from building any Streak Breaker Counters for awhile.
Strike from Shadows Strike from Shadows icon
  • While this trait is slotted, attacking a foe that does not have you targeted will placate them for a short duration, and you will gain a significant boost to Weapon Damage and Critical Hit Chance, in addition to a decrease to your outgoing threat generation. Additional attacks on any foe who does not have you targeted will refresh the duration of these buffs. You cannot placate the same enemy more than once per 60 seconds this way.
Structural Integrity Overcharge Structural Integrity Overcharge icon
  • Game Description: Bonus Hull Regeneration based on how high you set your base (unmodified) engine power.
Subspace Reinforcements Subspace Reinforcements icon
  • Game Description: While This Starship Trait Is Slotted, And You Suffer More Than 15% Of Your Hit Points In Damage Within A 3 Second Period, You Will Summon An Elachi Support Craft To Aid You. This Support Craft Is Equipped With Limited Weaponry, But Can Provide Support Through Healing.
Subspatial Warheads Subspatial Warheads icon
  • Game Description: While slotted, damage caused by your Torpedo: High Yield Torpedoes and Torpedo: Transport Warhead will cause an Isolytic Tear to form near the damaged target. This anomaly will chase down the nearest foe, causing physical damage and draining engine subsystem power to any enemies it encounters.
Subsystem Redundancies Subsystem Redundancies icon
  • Game Description: While Subsystem Redundancies is slotted, activating and firing Beam: Overload I, II or III or a Spinal Lance or Javelin ability will trigger a shield heal, a shield hardness buff and will restore offline shields.
Subwarp Sheath Subwarp Sheath icon
  • Game Description: This trait increases your armor penetration by a throttle-based scaling value of 0-15.
Super Charged Weapons Super Charged Weapons icon
  • Game Description: Firing a torpedo will provide a stack of the Super Charged buff. This buff provides a boost to directed energy weapons, increasing their damage, critical hit chance and critical severity for a short time. This buff stacks up to 3 times.


Superweapon Ingenuity Superweapon Ingenuity icon
  • Game Description: While slotted, the duration of Beam: Overload is increased 5 seconds (from 10 to 15).
Supremacy Supremacy icon
  • While this starship trait is slotted, activating Beam: Fire at Will or Cannon: Scatter Volley will provide a small boost to all subsystem power levels per target hit, per weapon activation, for a short time as long as these attack modes are active. This bonus stacks up to 10 times.
Symmetry Symmetry icon
  • Game Description: When using a Shield Heal: Drains Shields from Foes within 3km of the Healed Ally (or Self). Drain is equal to Shield Healing dealt, divided evenly among up to 5 Foes.
Synergistic Restoration Synergistic Restoration icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, any incoming shield healing will cause you to receive a small amount of hull healing over time. This can occur once every 10 seconds.
Synergistic Tactical Systems Synergistic Tactical Systems icon
  • Game Description: Activating Cannon: Rapid Fire, Surgical Strikes and Reroute Reserves to Weapons will provide a large boost to Starship Particle Generator skill and Starship Control Expertise for a short time.
    • +50 Starship Particle Generator for 15 sec
    • +50 Starship Control Expertise for 15 sec
Tachyon Dispersal Tachyon Dispersal icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, Tachyon Beam will significantly reduce the target's shield hardness while channeled. In addition, if Tachyon Beam reaches its full duration it will release a large burst of Tachyon energy that will inflict shield damage over time and reduce the hardness of affected targets within its radius.
Tactical Analysis Tactical Analysis icon
  • While this trait is slotted, activating Tactical Team will provide a boost to hull penetration for a short time. This buff does not stack.
Target That Explosion Target That Explosion icon
  • After activating any Torpedo or Command bridge officer ability, when your next torpedo deals damage:
    • Up to 5 nearby allies launch a torpedo at the target, dealing ____ Kinetic Damage.
Team Synergy Team Synergy icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, activation of Engineering Team, Science Team and Tactical Team will apply a lesser version of these abilities on self and nearby allies.
Tear Open the Gates Tear Open the Gates icon
  • BOff Anomalies Spawn Lost Souls
Temporal Ally Temporal Ally icon
  • Game Description: When Temporal Ally is summoned, become briefly immune to damage. Temporal Ally/(decoy) also fights alongside you for a moderate duration.
Test Them Test Them icon
  • While this trait is slotted, the Damage buff granted by decloaking causes your damage to Mark Foes. Defeating a Marked Foe enables They Are Weak I, II, III, or IV depending on Foe size. They Are Weak is a buff that improves self and allied ships’ Damage and Hull Capacity and lasts until mapmove. Only the largest applies.
Time to Kill Time to Kill icon
  • Game Description: Each Time you use a Science Bridge Officer ability you gain a bonus to All Damage for a short time. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Torpedo Barrage Torpedo Barrage icon
  • Game Description: After using Torpedo: High Yield I, II or III and launching a high yield torpedo, you will receive the effects of Torpedo: High Yield I allowing your next torpedo to benefit from the torpedo upgrade. Torpedo Barrage can be triggered once every 30 seconds.
Totally Lost All Control Totally Lost All Control icon

While your ship is above 80% Shield Capacity, activating a Shield Healing Bridge Officer Ability will redirect a portion of the expended restorative energy and temporarily overclock your starship weapons, granting them a significant boost to both Critical Chance and Critical Severity for a few seconds. This effect can only be triggered once every several seconds.

Trauma Response Trauma Response icon

Wihle this trait is slotted, Shield Healing abilities that you activate will grant additional bonuses. The bonus will differ based on whether the ability was targeting an ally or yourself. Each bonus lasts for 30 seconds, and may be stacked up to 10 times by subsequent activations.

Tricks of the Trade Tricks of the Trade icon
  • Game Description: Activating Auxiliary Power to the Structural Integrity Field or any Miracle Worker Bridge Officer Ability grants: -20% Weapon Power Cost for yourself and allies within 7.5km for 15 sec
Turtle Turtle icon
  • Game Description: While this trait is slotted, you may conserve your energy and move slowly, in order to gain additional Shield Capacity, Shield Hardness, and Turn Rate. These bonuses ramp up the longer you remain at or below 25% Throttle, increasing every 2 seconds.
Unified Engineering Unified Engineering icon
  • Activating any Command Bridge Officer Ability or Auxiliary Power to the Structural Integrity Field will grant your team and hangar pets a buff to hull capacity, regeneration, bridge officer cooldown speed, flight speed, and turn rate for a short duration.
Unstable Anomalies Unstable Anomalies icon
Vaulting Ambition Vaulting Ambition icon
  • While this trait is slotted, your energy weapons gain massive Critical Severity vs foes at low health.
Voth Carrier Synergies Voth Carrier Synergies icon
  • While this trait is slotted, your Engineering Bridge Officer abilities will increase the healing you receive for a short duration, and grant your pets a short duration Immunity Shield, making them immune to all damage up to a certain threshold. Additionally, your Tactical Bridge Officer Abilities will enable increase your outgoing damage for a short duration and enable Aceton Mode on your hangar pets, causing them to drain the power levels of nearby foes, and deal radiation damage to all foes in an area after a short duration.
Waylay Waylay icon
  • Game Description: While this starship trait is slotted, any attacks made on an enemy's rear arc will cause you to restore a small amount of your own shields.
Weapon Emitter Overdrive Weapon Emitter Overdrive icon
  • Game Description: While active, upon activating any Bridge Officer ability that affects Energy Weapons, you will gain a significant buff to your Directed Energy Weapon Critical Hit Chance and Accuracy Rating, but also increase the weapon power they cost to fire.
Weapon System Synergy Weapon System Synergy icon
  • Game Description: Each time a directed energy weapon is activated on your ship, you will shunt a small amount of power to your projectile emitters. This is represented by building up stacks of Weapon System Synergy. Upon reaching 10 stacks, your projectile weapons will become primed and deal additional damage and shield bleedthrough for several seconds. After this expires there is a short lockout window before you can begin building up Weapon System Synergy stacks again.
Weaponized Exotic Particles Weaponized Exotic Particles icon

While this trait is slotted, the starship enjoys a bonus to Exotic Particle Generators while under the effect of Cannon Scatter Volley, Cannon Rapid Fire, Beam Fire at Will, Beam Overload, Torpedo Spread, High Yield Torpedo, Dispersal Pattern Alpha or Dispersal Pattern Beta.

Withering Barrage Withering Barrage icon
  • Game Description: While Withering Barrage trait is equipped, the duration of your Cannon: Scatter Volley is increased.

Obtained from: Reward or Pack only[ | ]

The following Starship Traits are available to Faction FedRomKDF all factions, several of which are earned from the Captain Specialization system.

Name Icon Obtained from Description
Arrest Arrest icon
(after spending 15 Specialization Points)

  • Arrest: -25% Recharge Time on Bridge Officer abilities when current primary target is defeated.
  • Improved Arrest: -30% Recharge Time on Bridge Officer abilities when current primary target is defeated.
Attack Pattern Delta Prime Attack Pattern Delta Prime icon
  • [Starship Trait: Attack Pattern Delta Prime]
(Delta Alliance Duty Officer Pack)
When slotted, this trait improves Attack Pattern Delta so when the target of your Attack Pattern Delta is hit, the target gains bonus Critical Chance and Critical Severity.
Carrier Wave Shield Hacking Carrier Wave Shield Hacking icon
  • [Starship Trait: Carrier Wave Shield Hacking]
(from the Discovery: Emerald Chain Lock Box)
(from the Infinity Lock Box)
Using advanced Artificial Intelligence modeling inspired by the Sphere Data, you can use connections to the enemy ship caused by Tractor Beams or Intel Powers to calculate another ship's shield's modulation frequency. When your ship uses a Tractor Beam or Intel Power on an enemy, it knocks an enemy's shields offline for 5 seconds. You also gain 30% bonus Tractor Beam Damage when this trait is active.
Command Frequency Command Frequency icon
(Basic/Improved/Superior variant)

  • Command Frequency: Fleet Support cooldown reduced by 5 minutes. Removes "Low Health" restriction.
  • Improved Command Frequency: Fleet Support cooldown reduced by 10 minutes. Removes "Low Health" restriction.
  • Superior Command Frequency: Fleet Support cooldown reduced by 10 minutes, and additional level 61 Frigate is summoned. Removes "Low Health" restriction.
Concealed Repairs Concealed Repairs icon
  • [Starship Trait: Concealed Repairs]
Kelvin Divergence Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
When you Cloak or Placate an enemy, Heal and recharge Bridge Officer abilities.
Confederation Furor Confederation Furor icon
  • [Starship Trait: Confederation Furor]
(from the A Safe Galaxy Lock Box)
While this Starship Trait is slotted, defeating Foes adds a small boost to the power to weapon subsystem for a moderate duration, and for the next several seconds activations of Confederation Furor provide an increased boost.
This effect stacks up to 3 times, any additional foes will grant a brief overflow.

A safe galaxy, is a human galaxy.
Critical Systems Critical Systems icon
(Normal/Improved variant)

  • Critical Systems: +2% Critical Chance and +10% Critical Severity for 10 sec after using an Emergency Power bridge officer ability.
  • Improved Critical Systems: +3% Critical Chance and +15% Critical Severity for 15 sec after using an Emergency Power bridge officer ability.
Demolition Teams Demolition Teams icon
(after spending 15 Specialization Points)

  • Demolition Teams: Every 4 sec, applies a Demolition Team debuff. Once 3 debuffs applied, deals X Kinetic damage. 8 sec cooldown after detonation.
  • Improved Demolition Teams: Every 2 sec, applies a Demolition Team debuff. Once 3 debuffs applied, deals X Kinetic damage. 8 sec cooldown after detonation.
Directed Dilithium Burn Directed Dilithium Burn icon
  • [Starship Trait: Directed Dilithium Burn]
(from the Discovery: Emerald Chain Lock Box)
(from the Infinity Lock Box)
You have been trained to align your ship's scanning frequencies to trigger an additional "Miniature Burn Event" upon your enemy's destruction. Any time an enemy ship is destroyed, there is a 15% chance it creates a second, larger Dilithium explosion at the site of destruction. This explosion damages any nearby enemies with Kinetic Damage, but also allows your allies to be immune to that damage.
Going the Extra Mile Going the Extra Mile icon
(Basic/Improved/Superior variant)

  • Going the Extra Mile: +10% increased Shield and Hull Healing. If healed target is at or above 90% Hull: +10% Maximum Hit Points for 20 sec
  • Improved Going the Extra Mile: +15% increased Shield and Hull Healing. If healed target is at or above 90% Hull: +15% Maximum Hit Points for 20 sec
  • Superior Going the Extra Mile: +20% increased Shield and Hull Healing. If healed target is at or above 90% Hull: +20% Maximum Hit Points for 20 sec
Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct icon
(Basic/Improved variant)

  • Hunter's Instinct: For 10 sec after a kill, Cloaking will briefly Placate Foes
Weapon attacks during the Ambush effect awarded by leaving Cloak reduce Foe Damage Resistance by 10% for 15 sec
  • Improved Hunter's Instinct: For 10 sec after a kill, Cloaking will briefly Placate Foes
Weapon attacks during the Ambush effect awarded by leaving Cloak reduce Foe Damage Resistance by 20% for 15 sec
Nano-Infestation Nano-Infestation icon
  • [Starship Trait: Nano-Infestation]
Section 31 Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Activating a Control bridge officers ability deals Physical DoT that spreads from the affected enemy.
Need-to-Know Basis Need-to-Know Basis icon
  • [Starship Trait: Need-to-Know Basis]
Section 31 Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Summons S31 ship after using 10 ensign abilities.
Non-Linear Progression Non-Linear Progression icon
(Basic/Improved/Superior variant)

  • Non-Linear Progression: Removes Power Drain from Reverse. While in reverse, after 5 sec, +9.7 Hull restored and +4.3 Shield Regeneration (per facing) each second.
  • Improved Non-Linear Progression: Also reduces current recharge time of Captain Abilities each second by -0.2 seconds.
  • Superior Non-Linear Progression: Also reduces current recharge time of Captain Abilities each second by -0.33 seconds.
Onboard Dilithium Recrystallizer Onboard Dilithium Recrystallizer icon
  • [Starship Trait: Onboard Dilithium Recrystallizer]
Angel's Wake Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Using an Engineering Ability adds Power to Subsystem with least, Bonus Damage for max Subsystems
One Impossible Thing at a Time One Impossible Thing at a Time icon
  • [Starship Trait: One Impossible Thing at a Time]
Picard Zhat Vash Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Captain abilities reduce recharge for team's Captain abilities.
Parting Gift Parting Gift icon
  • [Starship Trait: Parting Gift]
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
While this trait is slotted, Tractor Beam reduces the target's damage resistance and will leave behind a warhead that detonates after a few seconds, knocking engines offline for a brief period.
Pedal to the Metal Pedal to the Metal icon
(Basic/Improved/Superior variant)

  • Pedal to the Metal: +1% All Damage Bonus per 2 seconds spent at Full Throttle (max 10 stacks).
  • Improved Pedal to the Metal: +2% All Damage Bonus per 2 seconds spent at Full Throttle (max 10 stacks).
  • Superior Pedal to the Metal: +3% All Damage Bonus per 2 seconds spent at Full Throttle (up to +30% max).
Pilfered Power Pilfered Power icon
  • [Starship Trait: Pilfered Power]
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Enemy Weapon and Auxiliary Power Levels are drained to enhance your own power levels. + Weapon Firing Speed.
Point Defense Protocols Point Defense Protocols icon
  • [Starship Trait: Point Defense Protocols]
(Delta Alliance Duty Officer Pack)
Point Defense Protocols channel power from energy weapon enhancements to activate an automated defense turret on your ship. The turret fires at nearby enemies while an energy weapon enhancement is active, dealing proton damage to the nearest target every half second. Automated defense turrets have highly sophisticated targeting systems, and never miss.
Predictive Algorithms Predictive Algorithms icon
(Basic/Improved/Superior variant)

Activating any Weapon Enhancement Ability removes 1 Debuff effect and grants:

  • Predictive Algorithms: +2.5 Accuracy Rating for 30 sec from weapon enhancing abilities (stacks up to 4 times)
  • Improved Predictive Algorithms: +5 Accuracy Rating for 30 sec from weapon enhancing abilities (stacks up to 4 times)
  • Superior Predictive Algorithms: +7.5 Accuracy Rating for 30 sec from weapon enhancing abilities (stacks up to 4 times)
Programmable Matter Enhancements Programmable Matter Enhancements icon
  • [Starship Trait: Programmable Matter Enhancements]
(from the Discovery: Far From Home Lock Box)
(from the Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait from the Infinity Lock Box)
Using non-Specialist Bridge Officer Abilities has a chance to cause an additional buff.
Punch It! Punch It! icon
  • [Starship Trait: Punch It!]
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
When below 50% Hull Strength: Cleanse Crowd Control, Gain Increased Defense and Mobility for a brief period, and knock nearby enemy Subsystems Offline.
Regeneration Cycle Regeneration Cycle icon
  • [Starship Trait: Regeneration Cycle]
Borg Lock Box
Infinity Prize Pack: Starship Trait
Using a Science, an Engineering, and a Tactical Bridge Officer Ability within 5 seconds of each other repairs hull.
Scramble Fighters Scramble Fighters icon
  • [Starship Trait: Scramble Fighters]
(Delta Alliance Duty Officer Pack)
Activating the Launch functionaility on any hangar pet causes all active Hangar Pets that you own to receive an instant Hull Heal, a short duration buff that renders them immune to all damage, and a boost to damage dealt. This take effect even if no new pets are launched.
Sentient Starship Sentient Starship icon Activating a Hull Heal when the Hull is below 90% capacity improves Hull Heals until you leave the current map, stacking up to 20 times. Activating a Shield Heal when a shield facing is below 90% capacity improves Shield Heals until you leave the current map, stacking up to 10 times, and auto-redistributes shield facings for several seconds.
While Starfleet does not attempt to engineer sentient machines, it strives to accommodate and treat well unusual forms of life it encounters. That friendly AI have often come close to negative outcomes, and hostile AI have at times come close to destroying the Federation, means that these proceedings are handled with the utmost care.
Temporal Insight Temporal Insight icon
(Basic/Improved variant)

  • Temporal Insight: Immunity to All Damage for 2 sec (Max once per 45 seconds)
  • Improved Temporal Insight: Immunity to All Damage for 4 sec (Max once per 45 seconds)
The Best Defense The Best Defense icon Attack Patterns grant Hull Healing Buff to Self
Theta Radiation Infused Evasive Maneuvers Theta Radiation Infused Evasive Maneuvers icon Activating Evasive Maneuvers now injects Theta Radiation into the Drive Throttle; sending a shockwave behind your ship which damages enemies. Lingering Theta Radiation continues to inflict damage on enemy ships for a brief duration.
Unconventional Tactics Unconventional Tactics icon
(after spending 15 Specialization Points)

  • Unconventional Tactics: +15% Bonus All Damage for 15 sec after activating Brace for Impact
  • Improved Unconventional Tactics: +20% Bonus All Damage for 15 sec after activating Brace for Impact
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