This article explains how to use the ‘hostile hunt ‘Voyager Bioship’ mode in the FastTrek Bot for Star Trek® Fleet Command.
Background
The USS Voyager was introduced during the Voyager arc mid-2023 and has two special ship abilities: Advanced Sensors and Astrometrics Scan. Within STFC the Advanced Sensors ability is used to expose special “Species 8472 Bioship” hostiles in the various Delta Quadrant systems. You can also use it for Assimilated FKR hostiles in the Borg Delta Quadrant systems. These drop tons of Faction messages, making them a great alternative to hunting Faction Scouts.
The “Advanced Sensors” ability has a cooldown of 60 seconds. Even though Species 8472 Bioship hostiles follow and attack, like hostile faction hunters, this makes it quite a pain to do this task, especially if you’ve left it for a while and have several if not tens of thousands of Deuterium Canisters available. You don’t need to actively target and chase them, but it’s still a lengthy task (25 hostiles in about 20-25 minutes).
With the FastTrek bot for STFC you can easily automate this USS Voyager Species 8472 Bioship Hunt with a few clicks and save time.
How to start Species 8472 Bioship hunt in FastTrek
- First, crew the USS Voyager and send it to the target system. Do remember to take Neelix to reduce the Advanced Sensors ship ability activation cost, if you have him unlocked!
- Select the corresponding ship’s tab in FastTrek.
- Select the “Voyager Bioship” option and click Start. You can hit Start as soon as your ship is in warp.
As soon as the Voyager reaches the target system, FastTrek will begin to activate its Advanced Sensors ability. It will continue to discover Species 8472 Bioships once a minute, so you don’t have to. It will do this until one of the recall conditions is met, or when the ship is destroyed. Or of course if you run out of Deuterium Canisters.
Due to current limitations you may want to keep an eye on it and stop the bot before it is destroyed: We wouldn’t want to waste the last activation. Please just bear that in mind.
When the ship is recalled to station or destroyed, FastTrek will automatically trigger its repair and request alliance help. If a ship is currently repairing, it will attempt to speed up that repair, too. It will utilise the free speedups that you have available and make as much use of the final free 5 minutes as possible. It will not spend Latinum for repairs.
If you have configured this Species 8472 Bioship hunt to repeat, FastTrek will automatically use speedups to repair the USS Voyager in the same manner. FastTrek will then send it back to the target system for another round of Species 8472 Bioship bashing.
For Recall and Repeat options, please see Hostile Hunt.
