The Nova is an Independent grade 5 survey ship in Star Trek Fleet Command, and its whole job is mining. Its Universal Mining Laser raises how fast it pulls 5-star gas, ore, and crystal, so one hull can work every high-tier raw material instead of you keeping a specialist for each. It unlocks at Shipyard level 52. For players deep into 5-star mining, it is a flexible workhorse, not a combat ship.<\/p>\n
The quick facts: the Nova is an Uncommon grade 5 Survey ship, it needs 150 blueprints and a level 52 Shipyard<\/a>, and it caps at Tier 12 and ship level 60. If you are looking for a Federation mining ship instead, the comparison further down covers the U.S.S. Beatty and the other grade 5 specialists.<\/p>\n The Nova needs 150 blueprints and a Shipyard at level 52 before you can build it. The build cost is 72,125,000,000 Tritanium<\/a> and 1,409,375,000 Dilithium, and construction takes 85 days. Where the blueprints come from is not fixed, so plan around the build itself and watch for the ship in whatever store or event cycle offers it while you collect prints. The 85-day build is long, so most players start the Nova as a background project once they reach Shipyard 52 and let it finish while they play. Blueprints tend to arrive in batches, so you will usually gather the 150 prints across several store or event cycles rather than all at once.<\/p>\n The Nova’s ship ability is the Universal Mining Laser. When it mines 5-star crystal, gas, or ore, its mining speed goes up, starting at 150% at ship level 1 and climbing to 600% at level 60. Like all ship abilities, it stays on without you doing anything. The payoff is that a single Nova handles all three 5-star raw materials, so you do not have to build and level a separate miner for each resource line. Mining speed matters most in 5-star systems, where nodes are large and slow to clear, so a higher-tier Nova finishes a haul faster and gets you more runs per session with less time exposed on a node. The bonus only applies to 5-star crystal, gas, and ore; on lower-tier resources the Nova mines at its plain base rate with no ship-ability boost.<\/p>\n These are base values; research, buffs, and officers raise them in play. Base mining speed climbs from 26.5 at tier 1 to 63 at tier 12, which is the number that matters most on a survey hull. Protected cargo also rises, from 20,000 at tier 1 to 57,000 at tier 12; that is the slice of a haul an attacker cannot steal if your Nova is destroyed on a node, so tiering the ship up keeps more of each run safe.<\/p>\n<\/span>How to get the Nova<\/span><\/h2>\n
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