A Caitian Aspero Support Carrier with deployed Shikaris support frigates and Stalker fighter squadrons
Caitian Support Frigates are a type of Hangar Pet for Starfleet characters and their allies, including Federation-aligned Romulan Republic and Dominion characters.
They are obtained and unlocked with the purchase of either Support Carrier:
Caitian Support Frigates are exclusive to any full Carrier - any vessel with two hangar bays. Slotted hangar pets will add a launch ability: 
Launch Caitian Support Frigate.
Hangar overview[]
A line of frigate pets were developed by the Caitians to aid the Aspero-class in its role as a support carrier. Traditionally, the Shikaris-class escort is a equipped with a powerful "railgun" experimental weapon used in tandem with its railgun destabilizer. The support frigate variant of the Shikaris is sturdy in its own right, featuring substantial defensive armaments and a wide variety of abilities.
One wing of standard-issue (rare) Caitian Support Frigates come pre-loaded as part of the standard equipment of the following vessels:
Caitian Aspero Support Carrier and its Fleet variant, the Fleet Caitian Atrox Carrier (T6)
Pets[]
Hangar - Caitian Support Frigate
Rare Hangar Bay
Character Bind On Pickup
Any Full Carrier
Caitian Support Frigate Equipment and Abilities:* 2x Tetryon Beam Arrays (Fore)
* 1x Photon Torpedo (Fore)
* 1x 360 Tetryon Beam Array (Aft)
* Scattering Field II
* Beams: Fire at Will I
* Polarize Hull II
* Viral Matrix I
* Transfer Shield Strength I
Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers
Launch Caitian Support Frigate
Launch Caitian Support Frigate
- Launches a level __ Caitian Support Frigate. Each hangar supports 2 deployed frigates at any given time.
- 40 sec recharge
Value: 0 
- UNLOCK: Caitian Aspero Support Carrier, Fleet Caitian Atrox Carrier (T6)
- RESTRICTION:
Any Full Carrier
- - AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar section of the Requisition Starship Equipment vendor found on most hubs for 25,355 .
Capabilities[]
- Capacity: Launches 1 at a time, and can support up to 2 per hangar.
- Base cooldown: 40 sec recharge
- Weapons:
- Fore:
- Aft:
Hangar - Advanced Caitian Support Frigate
Very Rare Hangar Bay
Character Bind On Pickup
Any Full Carrier
Advanced Caitian Support Frigate Equipment and Abilities:* 2x Tetryon Beam Arrays (Fore)
* 1x Photon Torpedo (Fore)
* 1x 360 Tetryon Beam Array (Aft)
* Scattering Field II
* Beams: Fire at Will I
* Polarize Hull II
* Viral Matrix I
* Transfer Shield Strength I
* Hazard Emitters I
* Suppression Barrage III
Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers
Launch Advanced Caitian Support Frigate
Launch Advanced Caitian Support Frigate
- Launches a level __ Advanced Caitian Support Frigate. Each hangar supports 2 deployed frigates at any given time.
- 40 sec recharge
Value: 0
- UNLOCK: Caitian Aspero Support Carrier, Fleet Caitian Atrox Carrier (T6)
- RESTRICTION:
Any Full Carrier
- - AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar Pets section of the Dilithium Store for 30,250
. The cost can be lowered to 25,712 provided the player has access to a Fleet Dilithium Mine with all Fleet Project Dilithium Discounts unlocked.
Capabilities[]
- Capacity: Launches 1 at a time, and can support up to 2 per hangar.
- Base cooldown: 40 sec recharge
- Weapons:
- Fore:
- Aft:
Hangar - Elite Caitian Support Frigate
Ultra Rare Hangar Bay
Character Bind On Pickup
Any Full Carrier
Elite Caitian Support Frigate Equipment and Abilities:* 2x Tetryon Beam Array (Fore)
* 1x Tetryon Dual Beam Bank (Fore)
* 1x Photon Torpedo (Fore)
* 1x 360 Tetryon Beam Array (Aft)
* Scattering Field II
* Beams: Fire at Will I
* Polarize Hull II
* Viral Matrix I
* Transfer Shield Strength I
* Hazard Emitters II
* Suppression Barrage III
* Sensor Scan I
Values do not reflect skills or other modifiers
Launch Elite Caitian Support Frigate
- Launches one Level __ Elite Caitian Support Frigate. Each hangar supports 2 deployed frigates at any given time.
- 40 sec recharge
Value: 0
- UNLOCK: Caitian Aspero Support Carrier, Fleet Caitian Atrox Carrier (T6)
- RESTRICTION:
Any Full Carrier
- - AVAILABLE: Once unlocked, this pet becomes available for purchase from the Hangar Pets section of the Fleet Space Supplies officer onboard a Fleet Starbase with a Tier V Communications Array for 45,000 and 100,000
. The Dilithium cost can be lowered to 38,250 provided the player has access to a Fleet Dilithium Mine with all Fleet Project Dilithium Discounts unlocked.
Capabilities[]
- Capacity: Launches 1 at a time, and can support up to 2 per hangar.
- Base cooldown: 40 sec recharge
- Weapons:
- Fore:
- Aft:
Playable version[]
A Caitian Shikaris Escort.
A playable version of this hangar pet, the Caitian Shikaris Escort, is available for Starfleet-aligned players.
Modifiers[]
Hangar pet performance may be affected by various factors (unless stated otherwise), all listed below.
- Innate
- All Hangar pets are immune to warp core breaches and have a unique version of the Strategist specialization ability "Layered Defense", known as "Layered Defenses III", which makes them immune to a single torpedo hit every 30 seconds.
- Starships with Hangar Bays by default can use Carrier commands, a set of four abilities that issue orders to your Hangar pets.
- Subsystem
- Auxiliary Power level will determine the recharge rate before a Hangar pet can be launched again; if Auxiliary subsystem is knocked offline, the Hangar will not operate.
- Skill Tree
- Skill Nodes
Coordination Protocols: +20% Hull Capacity and Shield Capacity for Hangar pets.
Defensive Coordination: +20% Defense and Damage Resistance Rating for Hangar pets.
Offensive Coordination: +20% Accuracy and Base Damage for Hangar pets.
- Unlocks
5 points in Engineering track: Hangar Health: Hangar pets have an additional 10% Maximum Hull Capacity.
5 points in Tactical track: Hangar Weaponry: Hangar pets deal an additional 10% Damage from all sources.
- Skill Nodes
- Personal Space Traits
Holographic Mirage Decoys: Hangar pets are invulnerable until 2 secs after the damage is first negated
Wing Commander: +100% Rank Up XP for all Hangar pets
Independent Wingmate: The first Hangar pet launched permanently gains: +200% Bonus Damage and +200 Damage Resistance Rating
- Starship Trait
Coordinated Assault: Beam: Overload and Cannon: Rapid Fire apply to your Hangar pets.
Dampen Energy Signatures: Activating Intel bridge officer abilities or Mask Energy Signature gives +Dmg, +Stealth, -Threat, +Defense Rating to Hangar pets.
Dominion Coordination: Buffs Hangar pet damage after activating Beam: Overload, Cannon: Rapid Fire or Energy Weapons - Surgical Strikes.
Fiery Entrance: Activating Narrow Sensor Bands and launching Hangar pets causes Fire damage and confuses within 3km.
Gre'thor's Fire: Launching Hangar pets adds Fire damage to weapons.
Hivebearer: When launching a Hangar pet or when a Hangar pet dies: Spawns a Hur'q Swarmer for 30 seconds (max 8 Swarmers at a time).
Improved Tachyon Beam: Tachyon Beam also regenerates shields of allies within 10km.
Insult to Injury: Activating either an Intel bridge officer ability or Tractor Beam, will give Hangar pets access to Torpedo: Transport Warhead I.
Radiant Nanite Cloud: Causes all bridge officer and captain ability hull heals to heal for an additional 50% over 4 seconds in a 3 km radius.
Reactive Repair Nanites: Hull Heals also heal Hangar pets within 5km of the target for 33% of healing caused.
Relaunch and Repair: Carrier pet launch buffs regen, reduced captain ability recharge times.
Scramble Fighters: Instant Hull Heal; a short duration buff that renders them immune to all damage, and a boost to damage dealt.
Superior Area Denial: Grants Beams: Fire at Will I and Cannon: Scatter Volley I to Hangar pets when activating those abilities.
Target That Explosion: 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 (this can include Hangar pets).
Team Synergy: Activation of Engineering Team, Science Team and Tactical Team will apply a lesser version of these abilities on self and nearby allies within 10km (inlcuding Hangar pets).
Unified Engineering: Activating any Command bridge officer ability or Auxiliary to Structural will grant your team and Hangar pets a buff to hull capacity, regeneration, flight speed, and turn rate for a short duration.
Voth Carrier Synergies: Grant Aceton Mode for Hangar pets on use of Tac abilities, grant Immunity shield on use of Eng abilities.
- Starship Mastery (Carriers, Flight Deck Carriers, Flight Deck Raptors)
Quick Deployment: 20% recharge time reduction to launching Carrier pet crafts; +50% Rank Up XP for all Hangar Pets.
- Duty Officers
- Flight Deck Officer: Reduces the time to recharge Hangar Bay abilities after use.
- Flight Deck Officer: Increases the accuracy of any carrier pet launched from your Hangar bays while they are in Intercept mode.
- Flight Deck Officer: Increases the damage of any carrier pet launched from your Hangar bays while they are in Escort mode.
- Bridge Officer abilities
- Following abilities grant either a direct damage increase to Hangar pets or indirect through target's resistance debuff:
Attack Pattern Beta
Attack Pattern Omega: In combination with Conn Officer DOff which applies a team wide effect.
Focused Assault
Endothermic Inhibitor Beam
Structural Integrity Collapse
Destabilizing Resonance Beam
Concentrate Firepower: Torpedoes will deal extra damage, get free Torpedo: High Yield I and get their torpedo cooldowns reset.
Overwhelm Emitters: Attacking a target under the effect of this ability will heal the shields of Hangar pets.
- Following abilities grant either a direct damage increase to Hangar pets or indirect through target's resistance debuff:
- Gear
High-Energy Communications Network (active ability): +1 Rank to all your Hangar pets
Sensor Suspension Burst (active ability): Team-Wide Placate and Critical Hit Buff for Pets, Reset Hangar Bay Recharge Time
Console - Universal - Swarmer Matrix: +30% Turn Speed, Flight Speed, and Damage for your Hangar pets and Targetable Torpedoes.- Enhanced Carrier Synergy (3-piece set bonus from the Ancient Obelisk Technology Set): Activating any Emergency Power ability causes Hangar pets to activate a weaker version of the same power.
- 3-part and 4-part set bonus from the Iconian Resistance Starship Technologies set: Damage increase and additional effects to team.
- weapon proc: Disruptor, Corrosive Plasma or Coalition Disruptor: chance to lower the target's damage resistance so pets can deal higher damage.
Notes[]
- While the overall design of the support frigates is shared between the various craft, each variant uses their faction's traditional weapon types - Tetryon (with Photon torpedoes) for the Caitians, Plasma (with Plasma torpedoes) for the Romulans, Disruptors (with Photon torpedoes) for the Klingons, and Polaron (with Photon torpedoes) for the Jem’Hadar. Both Klingon and Romulan variants employ cloaking devices.
See also[]
- Hangar - Ning'tao Support Frigate, the Klingon Defense Force version of this pet
- Hangar - Malem Support Frigate, the Romulan Republic version of this pet
- Hangar - Jem'Hadar Support Frigate, the Dominion version of this pet
Hangar Pets
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 Romulan Republic
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 - These hangar pets are restricted to Romulan Republic-exclusive ships.
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| Rarity | Shuttles | Fighters | Drones | Frigates |
| Rare | • Kaleh • Kelvin Timeline Scorpion • Scorpion - Scorpion Squadron • Snakehead Squadron • Suliban Veil |
• Craeul • Malem Support • Romulan Drone Ship | ||
| Very Rare | • Adv. Kaleh • Adv. Kelvin Timeline Scorpion • Adv. Scorpion • Adv. Snakehead Squadron • Adv. Suliban Veil |
• Adv. Craeul • Adv. Malem Support • Advanced Romulan Drone Ship | ||
| Ultra Rare | • Elite Kaleh • Elite Kelvin Timeline Scorpion • Elite Scorpion - Elite Scorpion Squadron • Elite Snakehead Squadron • Elite Suliban Veil |
• Elite Craeul • Elite Malem Support • Elite Romulan Drone Ship | ||
 Dominion
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 - All Dominion hangar pets are Cross-Faction.
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| Rarity | Shuttles | Fighters | Drones | Frigates |
| Rare | • Jem'Hadar - Jem’Hadar Squadron |
• Jem'Hadar Attack Ship • Jem'Hadar Support • Jem'Hadar Vanguard Gunboats | ||
| Very Rare | • Adv. Jem'Hadar - Adv. Jem'Hadar Squadron |
• Adv. Jem'Hadar Attack Ship • Adv. Jem'Hadar Support • Adv. Jem'Hadar Vanguard Gunboats | ||
| Ultra Rare | • Elite Jem'Hadar - Elite Jem'Hadar Squadron |
• Elite Jem'Hadar Attack Ship • Elite Jem'Hadar Support • Elite Jem'Hadar Vanguard Gunboats | ||
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