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

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 and thus losing bonuses in the universal consoles but it presents as a very solid budget option.

This does make them the best of the linked weapons but there's a myriad of other choices. Note that these all proc based and will rely on that proc to see benefits.

• Pulsed Phaser Weapons have a proc which reduces target DRR by 10 and increases self DRR by 10

• Advanced Phaser weapons come only in beam flavor but it can be used if converting the ship to BO or FAW setups.

• Covert Phasers can help reduce threat output

• Agony Phasers can apply a dot, which can help trigger atrophied defenses from temporal for support builds (or just builds running temporal)

Additionally, I've continued to elect not to run the Discovery Phaser Wide Angle Dual Heavy Beam Bank. Even with the bug, it doesn't seem to perform better than putting another fore cannon. This also means theres very little change to the boff seating.

Experimental Weapon

The Soliton Wave Impeller is one of the best performing experimental weapon available to us. While its not the best, it is very high, especially when pushing engine power as high up as I have here. Use the replacement of you're liking here if you don't have it or want something less flashy (it makes a huge blue ball).

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

The current meta is to run unconventional systems. I do it because the ships seating in the configuration I have it in now lends itself to it, rather than attempting to force it like I have with the Lexington. This is mostly so that I can get access to the 3rd tactical seat for distributed targeting 3 while maintaining CRF2 and Recursive 3. EPH and I agree that slotting for unconventional systems on every single ship is not always the best choice, and you can see that same decision where the seating just doesn't support it over on the Saber where no unconventional system procs are used even through the character has some very good consoles (DPRM and D.O.M.I.N.O.).

As well, there are some lobi consoles such as the Altamid Modified Swarm Processor and Bioneural Infusion Circuits which could fill in the gaps should you be missing some of the pieces.

After running the Tachyon Net Drones for a while on my Support I am slowly integrating it into most other builds. Having a console with a huge -DRR debuff to things within a 3km radius of the target and having shields shut down on a critical hit is a huge buff.

Budget Tweaks:

• Dynamic Power Redistributor Module - I personally put this under a durability console on this ship since this does fill the role of the durability solution on this ship, as it feels like its made of tinfoil. Obvious best replacements would be the Protomatter Field Projector from the Event Lukari Ho'kuun. Should this be unacquirable the next option would be the Reiterative Structural Capacitor. This is from a previous event, and was available in the Phoenix store for a time before being placed into the Mudds Market for an exorbitant price not fitting its utility. Final option to put here would be Shared Processing Integration which provides a fraction of the healing potential but doesn't come at the extreme cost of the other options.

• Point Defense Bombardment Warhead - This is only here for the 2pc. If you don't have it the Quantum Phaser Convertor is an easy slot.

• Weaponized Helical Torsion - This is here fore the +15% Phaser damage and +15% Critical Severity. In lieu of having this the most appropriate console would be the Reinforced Armaments to fill the Trilithium set.

• D.O.M.I.N.O. - The M6 is the most direct replacement but another +phaser or +damage console would also be good, like a bellum console.

Meta-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.

Budget Tweaks:

For budget players who want to save some EC, there's a few standard traits that could be used:

• Bulkhead Technician - Innate trait - this provides +10% Maximum Hull capacity and can be used as a stand in for durability consoles

• Living Hull - Episode Reward from "Surface Tension" - +15% hull regen in combat is equivalent to 3 stacks of repair crews

• Redacted Armor Plating - Episode Reward from “The Renegade's Regret” - +30 all DRR when hit from behind or sides

• Regenerative Control Synergy - Episode Reward from “Of Signs and Portents” - Grants +45% hull regen when using a control power for 10 seconds

If your after more damage instead of durability:

• Point Blank Shot - Episode Reward from House Pegh - scaling damage based on distance to target from 2km to 6km.

• Operative - Innate Trait - +1% CrtH +2% CrtD, this isn't spectacular but if you lack any offensive traits you can use it.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

Outside of the standard Universal Designs / Immolating Phaser lance there's not much to improve here. Obvious traits like Promise of Ferocity would be worth slotting, with Superior Area Denial being an option for the debuff (albeit SAD does lack the hanger upgrade aspect on this particular ship and would lose most of that traits utility).

Budget Tweaks:

Defensive Traits:

• The Best Defense - +25% Healing when using APB, APO, and APD - not hugely relevant on a build which heals via regen or incoming classes healing (protomatter consoles) but its free from the episode "House Pegh".

• Going the Extra Mile - +Hull cap and +healing - free from completing Miracle Worker Specialization

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.

Moving outside of temporal escorts we get:

• Vor'ral Support Battlecruiser - Temporal battlecruiser with access to plent 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.