The ECS Horizon is a grade 3 Common Survey ship for Independent players in Star Trek Fleet Command, and its whole job is mining dilithium. The ship ability raises your dilithium mining rate as the vessel levels up, so it earns its keep parked on a node rather than in a fight. You unlock the build at Shipyard level 26. For an early ship, it is a dependable second dilithium hauler that carries you well into the mid-game.
To build it you need 40 Horizon blueprints and the Unlock Horizon research. This guide covers both, plus the Dilithium Mining Laser ability, stats, tier-by-tier costs, dilithium crews, scrap rewards and how the Horizon compares with the U.S.S. Antares.
How to get the ECS Horizon
The Horizon is built at your Shipyard, not bought as a hull. You need 40 blueprints and the “Unlock Horizon” research before the build becomes available, and your Shipyard has to be at level 26. The build itself costs 800,000 Tritanium and 28,000 Dilithium, and it takes 10 days and 5 hours to finish. Blueprint offers rotate over time, so plan around the build requirement rather than one fixed source.
ECS Horizon ability
The ship ability is Dilithium Mining Laser, and it increases the mining rate of dilithium. It starts at 15% at ship level 1 and climbs to 200% at level 45, so the higher you level the hull, the faster it strips a dilithium node. Ship abilities are always active, which means the bonus applies the moment the Horizon latches onto a node with no button to press. Because the bonus is tied to ship level, leveling the Horizon matters more than tiering it if raw mining speed is your goal.
| Ship level | Dilithium mining rate bonus |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15% |
| 10 | 25% |
| 22 | 58% |
| 25 | 70% |
| 40 | 145% |
| 45 | 200% |
The last five levels add the most: the bonus jumps from 145% at level 40 to 200% at level 45. See the Dilithium guide for where to mine it.
ECS Horizon active ability
The Horizon also has a player-triggered ability called Automated Defenses. It increases the combat effectiveness of the mining ship while it is attached to a mining node, which gives an otherwise defenseless survey some teeth against players who try to knock it off dilithium. You turn it on while mining; it is meant to make the ship costly to attack rather than to send it hunting.
Werte und Stufen
Base values are shown below; research, buffs, and officers raise them in play. The Horizon has nine tiers, and these three rows anchor the low, middle, and top of that range.
| Ebene | Warp (speed / range) | Impulse | Cargo (protected) | Shield HP | Hull HP | Health (displayed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.1 / 22 | 75 | 105,000 (1,750) | 4,410 | 4,410 | 4,410 |
| 5 | 2.5 / 27 | 75 | 158,020 (1,945) | 12,600 | 4,410 | 8,505 |
| 9 | 3.0 / 40 | 75 | 280,000 (2,500) | 35,970 | 4,410 | 20,190 |
The cargo hold is the number that matters for a miner: it grows from 105,000 at tier 1 to 280,000 at tier 9, with a small slice of that held as protected cargo that survives an attack. The hull HP stays flat while the shield does the scaling, so most of the Horizon’s survivability rides on its shield. Base mining speed rises from 6.5 at tier 1 to 8.75 at tier 5 and 15.5 at tier 9.
Waffen und Feuermuster
Warm-up is the round a weapon first fires, and cool-down is how many rounds pass between shots after that. The Horizon carries a single energy weapon, its Phaser Turret, so it is not built to trade blows with a warship.
| Waffe | Typ | Shots | Warm-up | Cool-down | Damage | Crit chance | Crit damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phaser-Geschützturm | Energie | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7,125–8,708 | 10% | 150% |
Crew-Slots und Offiziersbonus
The Horizon opens more officer seats as it levels, topping out at five.
| Ship level | Officer slots |
|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 30 | 4 |
| 45 | 5 |
On top of the seats, the ship adds a bonus to the attack, defense, and health of the officers you crew on it. The three stats step up on an identical ladder, so one column covers all three. The bonus climbs as the summed officer stats on the bridge rise.
| Officer stat total | Bonus (attack / defense / health) |
|---|---|
| 100 | 30% |
| 200 | 60% |
| 325 | 90% |
| 450 | 120% |
| 600 | 150% |
| 800 | 180% |
| 1,100 | 210% |
| 1,500 | 240% |
| 2,000 | 270% |
| 3,000 | 300% |
ECS Horizon refits
The Horizon has one refit tied to its active ability.
| Nachrüstung | Was es bewirkt |
|---|---|
| Horizon Auto Defense | Unlocks the Automated Defenses ability for the Horizon. While Automated Defenses is active, the survey gains a large boost to its combat power against players while it is on a mining node. Costs 120 shards to unlock. |
Crew for the ECS Horizon
Because the Horizon is a dedicated dilithium miner, the bridge you want is a mining bridge: officers that raise mining speed and add protected cargo so an attacker walks away with less of your haul. If you lean on Automated Defenses to hold a contested node, defensive officers that improve survivability start to matter too, but the default build is pure mining. Officer picks shift with the meta, so check the current Officer Tier List for the mining crews players are running now.
Best crews for ECS Horizon
Dilithium
Captain: Domitia
Offizier: One of Eleven
Offizier: T'Pring
This is the crew that matches the ship’s own ability. Domitia’s captain maneuver raises the Dilithium mining rate, stacking with Dilithium Mining Laser, and both One of Eleven and T’Pring raise protected cargo through their officer abilities, so more of the haul survives a raid.
Kristall
Captain: Barot
Offizier: Elea Makinen
Offizier: Raphael DuPont
ECS Horizon-Besatzung für den Kristallabbau.
Gas
Captain: T'Pring
Offizier: K'Bisch
Offizier: Domitia
ECS Horizon Besatzung für Grubengas.
Erze
Captain: Stonn
Offizier: Helvia
Offizier: One of Eleven
ECS Horizon crew for mining ore.
The crystal, gas and ore crews work on the Horizon, but its ship ability only boosts Dilithium, so on those nodes you are relying on the officers alone.
ECS Horizon vs U.S.S. Antares
Both are grade 3 survey ships, and players often weigh one against the other. The Horizon is the Dilithium specialist and the cheaper, earlier build. The U.S.S. Antares is a Rare Federation survey with its own mining-laser ability for a different resource, and it costs a lot more to reach.
| ECS Horizon | U.S.S. Antares | |
|---|---|---|
| Faction and rarity | Independent, Common | Föderation, Rare |
| Blaupausen | 40 | 100 |
| Shipyard level | 26 (plus Unlock Horizon research) | 30 |
| Build cost | 800,000 Tritanium, 28,000 Dilithium | 4,900,000 Tritanium, 171,000 Dilithium, 2,500 3★ Common Refined Crystal, 625 3★ Common Refined Gas |
| Build time | 10d 5h | 21d |
| Scrap from Operations | 30 | 41 |
If Dilithium is what you are short on, the Horizon is the pick. If you need the 3★ resource the Antares targets, build that one instead; the two do not compete for the same nodes.
The ECS Horizon in Star Trek
The Horizon comes straight out of Star Trek: Enterprise. It was a J-class Earth Cargo Service freighter, one of the slow, pre-warp and low-warp haulers that kept early-22nd-century Earth colonies supplied before Starfleet had a real presence in deep space. The ship is best known as the Mayweather family vessel: Travis Mayweather, helmsman of the NX-01 Enterprise, was a “space boomer” who grew up aboard the Horizon, and the episode named for the ship brings him home to it after his father’s death. In the game it keeps that identity as a working freighter repurposed for mining.
The game has other Boomer ships too: the ECS Fortunate und die North Star.
ECS Horizon build cost by tier
Bau- und Reparaturkosten für jede Stufe.
| Ebene | Build cost | Repair cost | Build time | Repair time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stufe 1 | 800.000 Tritan 28.000 Dilithium |
13,384 Tritanium 1,027 Dilithium |
10d 5h | 1h 26m 42s |
| Stufe 2 | 1.601.000 Tritanium 47.750 Dilithium 73 3★ Allgemeines Gas 332 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall 172 3★ Vermessungsteile |
4.665 Tritanium 2.456 Dilithium |
1d 3h | 1h 43m 18s |
| Stufe 3 | 3.180.000 Tritanium 111.750 Dilithium 159 3★ Allgemeines Gas 3 3★ Ungewöhnliches Gas 665 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall 15 3★ Ungewöhnlicher Kristall 317 3★ Vermessungsteile |
9.665 Tritanium 3.873 Dilithium |
2d 6h | 1h 58m 54s |
| Stufe 4 | 5.330.000 Tritanium 237.250 Dilithium 323 3★ Allgemeines Gas 15 3★ Uncommon Gas 1,050 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall 93 3★ Ungewöhnlicher Kristall 510 3★ Vermessungsteile |
19.407 Tritanium 6.396 Dilithium |
3d 18h | 2h 15m 5s |
| Stufe 5 | 9.900.000 Tritanium 466.500 Dilithium 300 3★ Allgemeines Gas 50 3★ Ungewöhnliches Gas 1,300 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall 221 3★ Ungewöhnlicher Kristall 880 3★ Vermessungsteile |
35.679 Tritanium 10.818 Dilithium |
5d 15h | 2h 38m 36s |
| Stufe 6 | 17.700.000 Tritanium 935.000 Dilithium 200 3★ Allgemeines Gas 105 3★ Ungewöhnliches Gas 1 3★ Seltenes Gas 1,325 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall 400 3★ Ungewöhnlicher Kristall 3 3★ Seltener Kristall 1.546 3★ Vermessungsteile |
67.090 Tritanium 19.962 Dilithium |
7d 12h | 2h 56m |
| Stufe 7 | 43.700.000 Tritanium 2.420.000 Dilithium 450 3★ Allgemeines Gas 170 3★ Ungewöhnliches Gas 3 3★ Seltenes Gas 690 3★ Ungewöhnlicher Kristall 17 3★ Seltener Kristall 3,430 3★ Vermessungsteile |
115.445 Tritanium 35.214 Dilithium |
9d 9h | 3h 24m 42s |
| Stufe 8 | 76.500.000 Tritanium 4.350.000 Dilithium 220 3★ Uncommon Gas 11 3★ Rare Gas 1.000 3★ Uncommon Crystal 49 3★ Rare Crystal 6,065 3★ Survey Parts |
201.960 Tritanium 64.950 Dilithium |
12d 4h 30m | 3h 52m 48s |
| Stufe 9 | 122.700.000 Tritanium 7.270.000 Dilithium 120 3★ Ungewöhnliches Gas 24 3★ Rare Gas 825 3★ Uncommon Crystal 98 3★ Seltener Kristall 8,600 3★ Survey Parts |
344.337 Tritanium 124.950 Dilithium |
15d | 4h 26m 12s |
ECS Horizon ship XP needed by level
Erfahrung, die für jedes Level benötigt wird.
Stufe 1
Stufe 2: 800
Stufe 3: 1.000
Stufe 4: 1.400
Stufe 5: 1.700
Stufe 2
Stufe 6: 2.400
Stufe 7: 2.900
Stufe 8: 3.900
Stufe 9: 4.600
Stufe 10: 6.000
Stufe 3
Stufe 11: 7.000
Stufe 12: 8.500
Stufe 13: 9.500
Stufe 14: 11.000
Stufe 15: 13.500
Stufe 4
Stufe 16: 15.000
Stufe 17: 17.500
Stufe 18: 19.500
Stufe 19: 23.000
Stufe 20: 25.000
Stufe 5
Stufe 21: 29.000
Stufe 22: 31.500
Stufe 23: 36.000
Stufe 24: 39.000
Stufe 25: 42.000
Stufe 6
Stufe 26: 47.000
Stufe 27: 51.000
Stufe 28: 57.000
Stufe 29: 61.000
Stufe 30: 69.000
Stufe 7
Stufe 31: 72.000
Stufe 32: 81.000
Stufe 33: 86.000
Stufe 34: 95.000
Stufe 35: 100.000
Stufe 8
Stufe 36: 105.000
Stufe 37: 116.000
Stufe 38: 122.000
Stufe 39: 134.000
Stufe 40: 140.000
Stufe 9
Stufe 41: 154.000
Stufe 42: 161.000
Stufe 43: 176.000
Stufe 44: 183.000
Stufe 45: 200.000
Resources to max out a ECS Horizon
Gesamtbaukosten*
- 281,411,000 Tritanium
- 15,866,250 Dilithium
- 1,505 3★ Common Gas
- 683 3★ Uncommon Gas
- 39 3★ Rare Gas
- 4,672 3★ Gewöhnlicher Kristall
- 3,244 3★ Uncommon Crystal
- 167 3★ Rare Crystal
- 21,520 3★ Survey Parts Total
Erfahrung: 2,561,700
*Kosten und Zeit sind nur Basiswerte. Sie sind spielerspezifisch und basieren auf Gebäude und Forschung.
ECS Horizon recycling time & reward
Abwrackprämien auf Stufe 45
Verschrottungszeit*: 10d 12h 54m
Sekunden: 910,440
Belohnungen*:
- 28.181.100 x Tritanium
- 2,381,338 x Dilithium
- 358 x 3★ Uncommon Gas
- 14 x 3★ Rare Gas
- 664 x 3★ Uncommon Crystal
- 25 x 3★ Seltener Kristall
- 51.234 x Schiff Xp
- 2.125 x 3★ Vermessungsteile
Anmerkung:
* Die Trit- und Dil-Belohnungen basieren auf aufgerüsteten Komponenten.
* Die Verschrottungszeit hängt von der Stufe Ihres Schrottplatzes ab.
ECS Horizon video
Unlocking the ECS Horizon | Comparing To Max Envoy + Short Raid!
https://youtu.be/MECyM6sncCg
Is the ECS Horizon worth it?
For a grade 3 Common ship, the Horizon does one thing and does it well: it mines dilithium faster the more you level it, and it holds a big cargo bay to bring the haul home. It is a good pick for anyone who wants a second dedicated dilithium miner in the early-to-mid game, and Automated Defenses gives it a way to sit on a contested node. Once you outgrow it, it becomes scrap fodder from Operations level 30, so it stays useful even at the end of its run.
