The Valkis is a Rare grade 3 Romulan Survey ship, built to pull ore out of asteroid fields faster than a standard miner. Its Ore Mining Laser raises your ore mining rate, and a refit-unlocked defense ability lets it fight back when a rival attacks it on a node. It unlocks at Shipyard level 30. If you mine ore and want more of it per run without moving up a grade, the Valkis earns its slot.
How to get the Valkis
The Valkis needs 100 blueprints and a Shipyard at level 30 before you can build it. Once those are in place, the build cost is 2,500 3★ Common Refined Crystal, 7,150,000 Tritanium, 117,000 Dilithium, and 625 3★ Common Refined Gas, with a build time of 21 days. Stockpile the Tritanium early, since that figure is the part most players have to farm toward.
Valkis ability
The Valkis ship ability is the Ore Mining Laser, and it increases your ore mining rate by 70% at ship level 1, climbing to 250% at level 45. Ship abilities are always active, so this bonus applies the whole time the Valkis is parked on an ore node. The more you level the ship, the more ore you bank per mining trip, which is the entire reason to fly a dedicated ore miner instead of a general survey hull.
Valkis active ability
The Valkis also has Automated Defenses, a player-triggered ability rather than an always-on one. When it is active and the ship is attached to a mining node, the Valkis gains a large boost to its combat power, so an attacker looking for an easy kill runs into a survey ship that hits back. You unlock Automated Defenses through the ship’s refit, covered below, and you switch it on when you expect trouble at a contested node.
Stats and tiers
Base values from the current game data; research, buffs and officers raise them in play.
| Tier | Warp (speed / range) | Impulse | Cargo (protected) | Shield HP | Hull HP | Health (displayed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 2.1 / 30 | 75 | 262,500 (3,000) | 6,190 | 8,470 | 7,330 |
| Tier 5 | 3.2 / 40 | 75 | 412,560 (3,520) | 17,680 | 8,470 | 13,075 |
| Tier 9 | 4.5 / 70 | 75 | 750,000 (5,000) | 50,490 | 8,470 | 29,480 |
Cargo grows from 262,500 to 750,000 across tiers, and protected cargo rises to 5,000, so more of your haul survives if the ship is destroyed on a node. Shield HP scales hard while hull HP stays flat, which is normal for a survey hull that leans on shields rather than armor.
Weapons and firing pattern
Warm-up is the round a weapon first fires, and cool-down is the number of rounds between shots after that. The Valkis carries a single energy weapon, so it is not built to trade blows with combat ships.
| Weapon | Type | Shots | Warm-up | Cool-down | Damage | Crit chance | Crit damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Energy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9,043–11,053 | 10% | 150% |
Crew slots and officer bonus
The Valkis opens officer slots as it levels, from one slot at level 5 up to seven at level 45.
| Ship level | Officer slots |
|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 30 | 4 |
| 35 | 5 |
| 40 | 6 |
| 45 | 7 |
The ship also boosts your officers’ stats as it climbs an officer-bonus ladder. Attack, defense and health all use the same values, so the numbers below apply to each of the three.
| Amount | Bonus |
|---|---|
| 200 | 30% |
| 400 | 60% |
| 650 | 90% |
| 900 | 120% |
| 1,200 | 150% |
| 1,600 | 180% |
| 2,200 | 210% |
| 3,000 | 240% |
| 4,000 | 270% |
| 6,000 | 300% |
Valkis refits
The Valkis has one refit, and it changes how the ship holds up in a fight.
| Refit | What it does |
|---|---|
| Valkis Auto Defense | Unlocks the Automated Defenses ability for 120 shards. With Automated Defenses active, the survey gains a large jump in combat power against players while it is on a mining node. |
This refit turns the Valkis from a soft target into a node an attacker has to work for. The ship also has a research project, Automated Defenses (Valkis), whose values scale with your research levels.
Crew for the Valkis
The Valkis is a miner first, so the bridge should back up mining and survival rather than damage. Officers that raise mining speed or protected cargo get the most out of the Ore Mining Laser, and if you plan to sit on contested ore, pair those with officers that improve the ship’s defenses so Automated Defenses has something to build on. Rather than name a lineup that shifts with each update, check the current picks on our Officer Tier List. Crews change with the meta, so treat any single crew as a starting point.
The Valkis in Star Trek
The Valkis is a game-original design with no screen appearance in Star Trek, so its story comes from the game itself. In Star Trek Fleet Command, Romulan engineers borrowed heavily from rival Federation freighters to build their own line of survey ships, and the Valkis is one result. That origin fits the Romulans as the game writes them: pragmatic and happy to copy a good idea from an enemy to keep resources flowing. It reads as a working freighter with a Romulan badge rather than a front-line warship.
Is the Valkis worth it?
For a grade 3 ore miner, the Valkis does its job well, with a mining bonus that grows as you level, solid protected cargo, and a defense trick that punishes lazy attackers. It fits players who mine ore regularly and want more per run without jumping up a ship grade. It stays scrappable from Operations level 41, so once you outgrow it you can feed it back into your next build. If ore is on your shopping list, it is an easy yes.