K.C.S. Parallel Lines

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

I've set about downgrading this ship to use bog standard weapons. What I was previously using, Discovery Linked weapons, trade the traditional Phaser subsystem offline proc for a passive stat increase. In the case of Sensor Linked this is specifically +5 Starship Defensive Maneuvering and +5 Starship Weapon Amplification. Damage wise this equates to 2% Critical Severity for Weapons. This is not the stunning improvement its often made out to be, and is simply better than relying on a random proc to affect one of 4 subsystems (shields in most cases is what we desire but not always the effect).

Budget wise, generic Antiproton's +20% CrtD passive will be equivalent to a whole ship made of sensor linked weapons. This does come at the cost of swapping to a different flavor; with the move to more unlocked consoles over the last few years this has seen a shift away from consoles with passive damage boosts to a single type to active consoles with a +all damage bonus.

The wise of you will see I've only T6-X this ship, not applying a second set of tokens. This would open up another universal console, which at this budget would basically just be another tactical passive console

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.

Career-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.

Miscellaneous

The most direct comparison will be the Legendary Columbia Temporal Operative Escort, something I've mentioned a few times in this post so far for both Preferential Targeting and the Point Defense Bombardment Warhead. In a very strict sense this is even the better platform for it.

• Other obvious comparisons would be the 4 Temporal Warships from the C-store, the Edison, Chargh, Kholhr, and Jem'hadar vanguard.

• The Klein, Chargh'poH, and Tal'aura Temporal Destroyer would also be a good platform but have some interesting seating choices

• Terran Acheron Dreadnought Carrier - This is a super interesting platform being Cmdr Temporal with 5/2 and 2 hanger bays for the Elite Terran Empire Frigates. I'm really excited to get this with next years campaign event box.

• Atlantis Temporal Destroyer is a straight upgrade, granting the addition of intel Powers. See EPHs build on this ship here

Moving outside of temporal escorts we get:

• Vor'ral Support Battlecruiser - Temporal battlecruiser with access to plenty of tactical seating as well as the battlecruiser mastery package.

• Sphere Builder Denuos Dreadnought Carrier - 4/3 and has two hanger bays with very similar styled boff layout

• Paladin Temporal Battlecruiser - This could potentially work. It also has the battlecruiser package and has tactical seating in spades. You would need to take distributed targeting at a rank lower than 3 but it should be more than capable.

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