The Pteran is a Gorn Hunting Pack hostile in Star Trek Fleet Command, found at levels 40 through 70 in Gorn space, from Pentasto at warp 70 out to Rioha at warp 1495. It spawns only as an Explorer, and every kill pays Volatile Isomatter and Apex Isomatter. One rule decides the fight before it starts: the Pteran can only take Isolytic Damage. Bring a Battleship that deals it.<\/p>\n
The Pteran only appears as an Explorer, so a Battleship holds the class advantage at every level. There is nothing to swap as you climb; the same counter works at level 40 and at level 70.<\/p>\n
Class advantage is the smaller half of the problem. The Pteran carries an Isolytic Vulnerability: it can only take Isolytic Damage, it cannot be targeted by the Borg Cube Cutting Beam, and ship abilities are always active during the fight. If your ship has no isolytic output, the Pteran’s health bar does not move, no matter how hard you hit.<\/p>\n
Its own ability, Isolytic Maul, raises its Isolytic Damage by 100% and all of its Piercing stats by 500%, always active. Piercing cuts past your defense stat, so a build that plans to absorb hits bleeds faster than expected. Favor damage over durability and end the fight quickly.<\/p>\n
The level curve deserves respect as well. Total strength runs from about 5.8 million at level 40 to 188 million at level 56 and past 5.4 billion at level 70. When a kill gets shaky, drop a level rather than pushing; a clean kill two levels down beats a coin flip for slightly better drops.<\/p>\n
For crew, run a captain that boosts weapon damage against hostiles and fill the other seats with Offiziere<\/a> that add damage or cut incoming hits. This is a level 40+ target, well past cadet crews, so field your best hostile hunters and check the officer tier list<\/a> for current picks. Treat any specific lineup as a snapshot; crews shift with the meta.<\/p>\n The Pteran roams fourteen systems, one spawn level per system, and the warp requirement climbs from 70 at the bottom of the range to 1495 at the top. Pentasto, Heloderma and Daboia cover levels 40 to 46 for ships with modest warp, the mid band sits in Malaco, Varanus and Temminck at warp 185 to 355, and the endgame spawns in Pteros and Rioha both need warp 1495. The game Daten<\/a> also lists Pteran records at levels 48, 50, 52, 55, 58, 62 and 64 with no home system, so you will not meet those levels while roaming the map. For the levels you can hunt, fly to the system that matches your target; every Pteran there is that level, so there is no searching inside the system.<\/p>\n Pteran kills pay the same two materials at every level, in stacks that grow with the level of the kill. Volatile Isomatter arrives in bulk, from 10 per kill at level 40 up to 10,000 at level 70, while Apex Isomatter stays scarce at 5 to 50 per kill. Ship XP climbs too, from about 1,500 at the bottom of the range to nearly 39,000 at level 70, so a high-level Pteran grind levels your ship while it fills your isomatter stores. Both drops appear across the whole range, which keeps the choice simple: farm the highest level you can clear reliably.<\/p>\n Stats climb steeply with level. The rows below anchor the bottom, middle and top of the range rather than listing every step.<\/p>\n<\/span>Where to find the Pteran<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n \nEbene<\/th>\n Warp<\/th>\n Systeme<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n 40<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n Pentasto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 43<\/td>\n 75<\/td>\n Heloderma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 46<\/td>\n 120<\/td>\n Daboia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 49<\/td>\n 160<\/td>\n Dendroa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 51<\/td>\n 185<\/td>\n Malaco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 53<\/td>\n 255<\/td>\n Varanus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 56<\/td>\n 355<\/td>\n Temminck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 60<\/td>\n 500<\/td>\n Cirriped<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 61<\/td>\n 900<\/td>\n Trias<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 63<\/td>\n 1100<\/td>\n Juras<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 65<\/td>\n 1250<\/td>\n Cretac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 66<\/td>\n 1300<\/td>\n Ophio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 68<\/td>\n 1495<\/td>\n Pteros<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 70<\/td>\n 1495<\/td>\n Rioha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/span>Rewards and what it drops<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n \nAblegen<\/th>\n What it is<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Volatile Isomatter<\/td>\n The volume material from Gorn Hunting Pack hostiles, in stacks of 10 to 10,000 per kill depending on level.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Apex Isomatter<\/td>\n The scarcer companion material, in small stacks of 5 to 50 per kill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/span>Pteran stats<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n \nEbene<\/th>\n Total strength<\/th>\n Hull HP<\/th>\n Shield HP<\/th>\n Angriff<\/th>\n Verteidigung<\/th>\n Ship XP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n 40<\/td>\n 5,835,470<\/td>\n 2,201,553<\/td>\n 1,321,318<\/td>\n 3,613,350<\/td>\n 460,685<\/td>\n 1,502<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 56<\/td>\n 187,946,457<\/td>\n 79,494,694<\/td>\n 55,879,600<\/td>\n 100,330,035<\/td>\n 19,929,275<\/td>\n 8,007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 70<\/td>\n 5,443,619,135<\/td>\n 1,809,310,566<\/td>\n 775,698,164<\/td>\n 3,109,180,705<\/td>\n 1,041,934,065<\/td>\n 38,720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/span>The Gorn in Star Trek<\/span><\/h2>\n