Drone companions guide all 8 wingmen

The 8 drone companions

Restorative support

Aegis Medic

Heals your ship during combat.

10 sCD 10 s

Damage & speed surge

Catalytic Booster

Doubles your damage and speeds up your fire rate.

10 sCD 25 s

Vanguard shield

Ironclad Tank

Flies in front of your ship and absorbs every incoming hit.

10 sCD 20 s

Quantum fabricator

Graviton

Materializes a power orb right in your flight path.

InstantCD 30 s

Weapon replicator

Echo Mimic

Fires alongside you, copying your ship's weapon.

10 sCD 10 s

Sub-zero aura

Cryo Stasis

Freezes everything on the screen for five seconds.

5 sCD 15 s

Homing missile hive

Swarm Fabricator

Builds salvos of homing micro-missiles and fires them at elite targets.

AutomaticCD 12 s

Tactical void launcher

Chrono Conduit

Automatically fires a full-power Kikoken or Chain Zap every 20 seconds, for free.

AutomaticCD 20 s

How drones work

• Two wing slots. You can equip drones on the left and right wings, so you can pair two abilities.
• Abilities on a timer. Each drone activates, runs for its active time, then goes on cooldown. Some, like the Swarm Fabricator and Chrono Conduit, trigger on their own.
• Salvage is banked after a run. The parts you collect during a run are added to your stash when the run ends.
• Permanent. Once you've crafted a drone, you keep it. This is separate from the temporary Swarm power, which only lasts a few seconds.

How to craft a drone

Every drone uses the same recipe of five parts. The rarer the part, the fewer you need. Higher-tier parts come from tougher enemies, and Singularity Power Cells are guaranteed from boss defeats.

Nanite Hull PlatingCommonAsteroids and squadsx20 per drone

Ion Thruster CoreUncommonInterceptors and cruisersx10 per drone

Targeting AI ProcessorRareSquad leaders and mini-bossesx5 per drone

Dark Matter ConduitEpicRare enemy dropsx3 per drone

Singularity Power CellLegendaryGuaranteed boss defeatsx2 per drone

Looking for the temporary power-ups? See the powers guide.