Tetracyanate 622 is a Common Forbidden Tech that speeds up how fast your ship mines. Slot it and it raises your General Mining Rate, and once you tier it up it also shields more of your cargo from raiders. It is a starter-grade mining piece: cheap to chase, useful on any dedicated miner, and a sensible first Forbidden Tech to level while you save fragments for rarer pieces.
What Tetracyanate 622 does
Tetracyanate 622 carries two buffs. The first is active the moment you unlock the piece and increases your General Mining Rate. It starts at 5% and climbs to 75% when the item reaches its top tier and level. The second buff switches on once you tier the piece up, and it increases the share of your cargo that stays protected if a raider hits you while you mine.
| Buff | Unlocks at tier | Unlock value | Max value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increases Mining Rate | Stufe 1 | 5% | 75% |
| Increases Protected Cargo | Stufe 2 | 10% | 100% |
In practice the mining buff means faster fills on gas, ore, and crystal, so each mining node clears sooner and you spend less time parked. The protected cargo buff means a raider who cracks your miner walks away with less of your haul, which matters most when you carry a full hold back toward your station.
How to get Tetracyanate 622
Tetracyanate 622 is a Common Forbidden Tech, so you unlock it with Common Forbidden Fragments in the Forbidden Tech refinery. You earn those fragments through Q’s Trials and from special rewards, then the refinery converts them into the piece once you have enough. Fusion Rods are a separate currency in this system: they open Forbidden Tech slots on a ship and remove an installed piece if you want to move it later, and you gather more from the refinery and the store.
Upgrading Tetracyanate 622
Two tracks raise Tetracyanate 622. Tiering up spends Forbidden Tech Reactors and Tier-Up Catalysts, and each tier lifts the level cap and can switch on a new buff. This piece caps at tier 4 and level 20. Leveling up spends Reactors and Forbidden Tech Protomatter, and levels are what scale each buff toward its maximum. Reactors themselves carry the upgrade attempt, so you spend them on both tracks. If an upgrade is not guaranteed, Probability Devices raise the odds of the attempt landing, so keep a few on hand before you push a costly tier or level.
| Ebene | Level cap | Kosten |
|---|---|---|
| Stufe 1 | 5 | Starting tier |
| Stufe 3 | 15 | 32 Reactor, 450 Tier-Up Catalyst |
| Stufe 4 | 20 | 32 Reactor, 500 Tier-Up Catalyst |
Reaching tier 4 costs 96 Forbidden Tech Reactor and 2,250 Forbidden Tech Tier-Up Catalyst in total. Taking the piece from level 2 to level 20 costs 576 Forbidden Tech Reactor and 13,230 Forbidden Tech Protomatter.
Best ships and uses for Tetracyanate 622
Both buffs serve mining, so Tetracyanate 622 belongs on a dedicated mining ship rather than a combat hull. Put it on whichever miner you run the most, since the faster you fill a node the sooner you free that ship for the next run. The protected cargo buff pairs well with the habit of routing a heavy load through safer systems, so you lose less if someone jumps you on the way home. It gives nothing to hostile grinding, armadas, or PvP, so keep it off those ships and save their slots for combat pieces.
Tetracyanate 622 in Star Trek
Tetracyanate 622 is a game concept rather than something from the shows or films. Star Trek Fleet Command frames it as a rare mineral with unusual energy properties, prized by the Ferengi as a commodity and rumored to feed experimental energy and weapons research. That fits the game’s Forbidden Tech theme, where dangerous and half-understood technology gets scavenged and bolted onto ships. Read the name as flavor for a mining buff rather than a callback to a specific episode.
Is Tetracyanate 622 worth it?
As a Common piece, Tetracyanate 622 will not define your fleet, but it is worth chasing early. It is cheap in fragments, its mining buff helps any miner, and the protected cargo buff softens the sting of getting raided. Level it while you learn how the Forbidden Tech system works, then let rarer mining pieces take over once you can afford them.