Portable Transwarp Beaming Device is an Epic Chaos Tech in Star Trek Fleet Command, and it is built for PvP offense on one ship: the U.S.S. Vengeance. Its headline effect increases Apex Shred at the start of a round when your opponent is carrying Hull Breach, and it stacks Apex Barrier and Crit Chance on top of that. If you fly the Vengeance in player combat, this piece sharpens the way it hits.
What Portable Transwarp Beaming Device does
The piece carries three buffs, and all of them fire only when you command the U.S.S. Vengeance in PvP. The one to watch is the Apex Shred boost: at the start of a round, if your opponent has Hull Breach on them, your Apex Shred jumps for one round. It opens at 3% and climbs to 25% once the piece is maxed. The other two are always-on in PvP on that hull, raising your Apex Barrier and your Crit Chance as you level the piece up.
| Buff | Unlocks at tier | Unlock value | Max value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apex Shred on round start if opponent has Hull Breach (Vengeance, PvP) | 1 | 3% | 25% |
| Apex Barrier in PvP (Vengeance; inactive if Tal is on the bridge) | 1 | 300 | 32,000 |
| Crit Chance in PvP (Vengeance) | 2 | 0.3% | 20% |
In play, the Apex Shred spike lets the Vengeance chew through enemy mitigation right when a fight opens, while the Apex Barrier and Crit Chance buffs make the ship both harder to punch and more likely to land heavy hits. One caveat sits in the data: the Apex Barrier buff does not apply while Tal is assigned to the bridge, so watch your crew if you run him.
How to get Portable Transwarp Beaming Device
This piece lives in the Chaos Tech system, so it uses that system’s currencies rather than the standard Forbidden Tech ones. You open a Chaos Tech slot (or pull a piece off a ship) with Chaos Tech Fusion Rods, which come from the Continuum refinery or the store. The device itself is assembled from Chaos Tech materials you exchange in the Continuum refinery. When you pick up excess Chaos Tech shards, they convert into Chaos Tech Fragments, and those Fragments exchange into the materials you need in that same refinery.
Upgrading Portable Transwarp Beaming Device
Two tracks move the piece forward. Tiers raise the level cap and switch on the later buff: Crit Chance stays dormant until you reach tier 2. Levels then scale every active buff toward its max value. The device tops out at tier 12 and level 60.
| Ebene | Level cap | Kosten |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Starting tier, no cost |
| 7 | 35 | 53,000 Chaos Tech Tier-Up Catalyst |
| 12 | 60 | 64,000 Chaos Tech Tier-Up Catalyst |
Reaching max tier costs 544,000 Chaos Tech Tier-Up Catalyst in total. Leveling all the way from 2 to 60 runs 315,500 Chaos Tech Reactor and 730,100 Chaosmatter, both of which you earn by defeating Assimilated El-Aurian hostiles and exchanging their loot in the Continuum refinery.
Best ships and uses for Portable Transwarp Beaming Device
There is one home for this piece, and the data makes it plain: the U.S.S. Vengeance. Every buff is gated to that ship and to PvP, so it does nothing on a miner, nothing on a hostile grinder, and nothing in Armadas. If the Vengeance is part of your PvP rotation, the device turns it into a sharper attacker, best against opponents you can hit with Hull Breach so the round-start Apex Shred spike triggers. One crew note carries over from the buff text: keep Tal off the bridge if you want the Apex Barrier bonus, since it switches off while he is assigned.
Portable Transwarp Beaming Device in Star Trek
This one has real screen roots. Transwarp beaming, the science of beaming a person onto a ship traveling at warp, was worked out by Montgomery Scott, and in the 2009 Star Trek film an older Spock hands young Scotty the equation that makes it possible. The U.S.S. Vengeance comes from Star Trek Into Darkness: a black dreadnought built in secret under Admiral Marcus, larger and faster than the Enterprise and designed for war rather than exploration. The game ties the two together, embedding Scott’s transwarp beaming work into the Vengeance’s warp drive so the ship can outrun and outreach a normal vessel. The story frames it as a predator with nowhere in the galaxy beyond its reach.
Is Portable Transwarp Beaming Device worth it?
It depends entirely on whether you fly the U.S.S. Vengeance in PvP. For a Vengeance combat player, an Epic piece that raises Apex Shred, Apex Barrier, and Crit Chance all on that hull is a strong pickup, and worth leveling high. For everyone else it is dead weight, since none of the buffs apply off that ship or outside player combat. Chase it if the Vengeance is a real part of your war fleet, and skip it if it is not.