AGIMUS is an Epic Forbidden Tech in Star Trek Fleet Command, built for one job: killing hostiles faster and getting paid more for it. Its headline buff raises Armor Piercing, Shield Piercing, and Accuracy against hostiles from 150% at unlock to 1,200% at max, and later tiers add reward, critical damage, and Isolytic bonuses on top. If you grind hostiles every day, and every player does, AGIMUS is one of the best pieces you can slot.
What AGIMUS does
AGIMUS carries four buffs, and they all point at hostiles. The piercing and accuracy buff is active from tier 1 and does the heavy lifting: it pushes your damage through the defenses of higher-level hostiles that would otherwise shrug off your shots. The other three buffs switch on as you tier the piece up.
| Buff | Unlocks at tier | Unlock value | Max value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increases Armor Piercing, Shield Piercing, and Accuracy against hostiles | 1 | 150% | 1,200% |
| Increases hostile and Outpost rewards | 3 | 10% | 36% |
| Increases Critical Damage against hostiles | 6 | 40% | 120% |
| Increases Isolytic Damage against hostiles | 8 | 5% | 20% |
Values are current as of the latest game data and scale with the item’s level between those two endpoints. In practice the combination means faster kills and a bigger payout per kill, so the piece improves your daily grind twice over.
How to get AGIMUS
Forbidden Tech is unlocked through the Forbidden Tech refinery. As an Epic piece, AGIMUS needs Epic Forbidden Fragments, which come from Q’s Trials and special event rewards. You will also want Fusion Rods, which unlock Forbidden Tech slots on your ships and let you remove a piece from a ship later. The Syndicate loyalty track is a confirmed source of AGIMUS Shards as well, arriving at Syndicate level 36.
Upgrading AGIMUS
Forbidden Tech has two upgrade paths. Tiering up with Forbidden Tech Tier-Up Catalysts raises the level cap and switches on the later buffs at tiers 3, 6, and 8. Leveling up with Forbidden Tech Protomatter scales the buff values toward their maximums. Upgrades are attempts rather than guaranteed purchases: they consume Forbidden Tech Reactors, and Probability Devices can raise the odds of success.
| Tier | Level cap | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Starting tier |
| 7 | 35 | 32 Reactors, 9,900 Tier-Up Catalysts |
| 12 | 60 | 32 Reactors, 11,500 Tier-Up Catalysts |
Reaching tier 12 costs 352 Reactors and 161,550 Tier-Up Catalysts in total. Taking the piece from level 2 to its level 60 cap costs another 1,856 Reactors and 1,305,350 Protomatter. Catalysts and Protomatter come from the Forbidden Tech refinery, Q’s Trials, and the store; Reactors come from Daily Goals and the store. The tier 3 and tier 6 unlocks are the milestones worth pushing for early, since each one adds a whole new buff rather than a bigger number on an existing one.
Best ships and uses for AGIMUS
Slot AGIMUS on the ship you grind hostiles with. Every one of its buffs reads “against hostiles,” so it does nothing in PvP, armadas, or mining. On a dedicated grinder the piercing buff lets you punch above your ship’s weight against tougher targets, the reward buff pays out on every kill and Outpost hit, and at high tiers the Isolytic bonus stacks with an Isolytic-focused setup. Pair it with your usual hostile crew and work through the toughest targets you can one-shot; our hostile guide covers where to hunt at each level.
AGIMUS in Star Trek
AGIMUS comes from Star Trek: Lower Decks, where the smooth-voiced evil computer manipulated an entire planet into a century of war before Starfleet locked it away. It ends up in the Daystrom Institute’s Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage annex, a shelf of talkative doomsday machines that became a running joke in the series. Boimler and Mariner haul AGIMUS across a desert planet while it cheerfully tries to talk them into plugging it in, and it later plays a surprisingly sympathetic role in the exocomp Peanut Hamper’s redemption arc. The game classifies it as a Priority 1 security threat, which is fair.
Is AGIMUS worth it?
Yes. Hostile grinding is the most universal activity in the game, and AGIMUS improves both the speed and the payout of every kill. It is a top priority among Epic Forbidden Tech for any player who can start unlocking it, and the tier 3 reward buff means it starts paying for its own upgrade materials early. Push it to tier 6 for the critical damage spike, then take it further as materials allow.