Research Skills
These skills allow you to deploy more of the respective object they reference. Each cost 50 skill points per level.
Drone Research
Drone Research is a skill that allows more permanent drones to be deployed at a time and gives +10% energy, shields, and range for temporary drones per level. This skill costs 50 skill points per level. It should be noted that the effect of the skill on temporary drone stacks on top of both the Drone Master (Engineer Sub-Skill) and any drone augmenter bonuses (Ships Mastery and Ops augs).
| Location | Level | Requirements | Notes |
| Free Market | 1 | Orb Drone | |
| Absolution | 2 | Qafir Drone+ | |
| Rumble 3 | 3 | Qafir Drone+ x 2 | 27m credits |
| Bonnet | 4 | Ancient Defense (Drone) | Trained at Hidden "Bonnet Hideout" base |
| Iq' Bana | 5 | Ancient Defense x 2 | Trained at Hidden "Qokuji Qa'ik" base |
Slave Research
Slave Research is a skill that allows more slaves to be deployed at a time. This skill costs 50 skill points per level.
| Location | Level | Requirements | Notes |
| Rumble 2 | 3 | Luscious West x 2 | 6 total |
| Rumble Mumble | 5 | Luscious West x 4 | 8 total - 14 complete |
Station Research
Station Research is a skill that allows more stations to be deployed at a time. Each level in this skill increases the number of base slots by 2. This skill costs 50 skill points per level.
| Location | Level | Requirements | Notes |
| Hyper | 1 | Adonis Crest | |
| Bipolar | 2 | Argonaut Crest | |
| Prism | 3 | Ambrosia Crest | |
| XYZ | 4 | Andaman Crest | Trained at Hidden base |
| Emphatic Biology | 5 | Achilles Crest |
