Drone Deployment

Drone Deployment allows you to place Drones. Temporary drones have a limit of 3 drones deployed at once, but Drone Mastery allows you 6 when maxed. DD cost 4 skill points per level and the drones also recieve +150 shields per level.

For Universe-specific skill training locations, please visit this thread.

Permanent Drone Slots

You gain two permanent drone slots for each level in Drone Deployment and Drone Research. Each permanent drone takes a number of those slots based on its tech level, based on the table below.

Slots=((Drone Deployment + Drone Research) x 2).

Tech Level	Drone slots
0-5	2
6-8	3
9-11	4
12-13	5
14-15	6
16-17	7
18-19	8
20	9

Where to Train

Location	Base Name	Level	Requirements	Notes
Sol	Earthforce Frontier Station, Earth Central	3	None
Prism		12	Solar Cleansings	Drop from AIs in Absolution
Steppes		16	Quu Drone	Quu requires 560 hull space each.
Ruby Steppes		20	Qafir Drone	Requires a ship with 7500 free hull space.
Lyceum		21	Several Olympus Uber Kills (Mission-Based)	Requires level 1000