Power

Power is the family of base stats that drive every activity in the game. Every weapon, mining laser, salvage harpoon, and drone shot is scaled by a Power value. This page is the canonical reference for what Power is, what kinds exist, and what feeds each one.

For how a Power value becomes per-shot damage, see Damage and mitigation. For the drone-specific math (shared pool, per-drone stat inheritance), see Damage and mitigation § Drones.

The five PowerStats

The game tracks five separate Power values on every unit. They are stored independently and used by different systems.

Stat	Used by	Notes
Power	nothing directly — it mirrors into CombatPower, MiningPower, and SalvagePower automatically (see below)	The "Base Power" concept. A hull's natural Power, plus reactor / aspect / skill contributions, all feed all three activity Power stats simultaneously.
CombatPower	every combat turret's per-shot attack-power formula	Combat turrets, missile launchers, railguns — all draw from this pool.
MiningPower	every mining turret's per-shot attack-power formula	Surface mining lasers, core mining drillers.
SalvagePower	every salvage turret's per-shot attack-power formula	Salvage lasers, salvage harpoons.
DronePower	the shared pool every drone shot draws from, on top of the matching activity Power	A separate stat carried mostly by drone bay items; it joins every class pool the bay's drones fire into. See Damage and mitigation § Drones.

Base Power mirrors into all three activity stats

Anything that adds Power (the unprefixed base stat) adds the same amount to CombatPower, MiningPower, AND SalvagePower at once. This is the mechanic behind a "Base Power" buff helping every activity at once:

• A hull's natural Power line on the ship → contributes to all three.
• A reactor module that lists Power → contributes to all three.
• An aspect or skill node that grants Power → contributes to all three.

Items that list a class-specific stat (e.g. a Surface Mining Laser with +1,500 MiningPower) contribute only to that class — they do not mirror into the other two.

What feeds each PowerStat

Stat	Contributors
Power	Hull's natural Power line; reactor module's Power; aspects / skills / crew bonuses that list Power.
CombatPower	Anything that adds Power (mirror) + equipped combat turrets' Power lines + modules/aspects/skills/crew that list CombatPower specifically.
MiningPower	Anything that adds Power (mirror) + equipped mining turrets' Power lines + modules/aspects/skills/crew that list MiningPower specifically.
SalvagePower	Anything that adds Power (mirror) + equipped salvage turrets' Power lines + modules/aspects/skills/crew that list SalvagePower specifically.
DronePower	Rolled stat line on equipment, most commonly on drone bay items. Does not inherit the Base Power mirror.

DronePower vs. the bay's displayed "Drone Power" figure

These are two separate numbers and easy to confuse:

• DronePower (the stat) — an actual rolled stat line on the bay item. It feeds the shared pool every drone shot draws from. This is what counts in damage math.
• The bay's "Drone Power" tooltip readout — purely cosmetic. Computed as per-drone turret rating × slot count, it tells you how strong each loaded drone's onboard turret is, nothing more. It is not added to any aggregate PowerStat.

A Medium Drone Bay might display "Drone Power 6,000" on its tooltip (= 3,000 per-drone × 2 slots) and also separately carry a +2,000 DronePower rolled stat line. Those are independent values; only the +2,000 enters the damage formula.

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Example 1: Salvage & Combat modules don't mix

Ship Base Power: 10,000

Installed Salvage Equipment: +1,000 SalvagePower

Installed Combat Turret: +1,000 CombatPower

Resulting stats

• SalvagePower: 11,000 (10,000 Base mirror + 1,000 salvage)
• CombatPower: 11,000 (10,000 Base mirror + 1,000 combat)

The Base Power mirror lifts both stats at once, but the per-class additions stay class-specific.

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Example 2: Mining ship with a drone bay

Ship Type: Mining Ship — slots: 2× Surface Turrets, 1× Medium Drone Bay Hull's Base Power: 10,000

Module	Stat line	Activity
1× Medium Drone Bay	+2,000 DronePower	feeds the drone pool (any class the bay's drones use)
1× Surface Mining Laser	+1,500 MiningPower	ship's mining turrets
1× Surface Autocannon	+1,500 CombatPower	ship's combat turrets

Resulting ship-side PowerStats

• MiningPower = 10,000 (Base mirror) + 1,500 (mining laser) = 11,500 — feeds the ship's own mining laser
• CombatPower = 10,000 (Base mirror) + 1,500 (autocannon) = 11,500 — feeds the autocannon
• SalvagePower = 10,000 (Base mirror) = 10,000 — no salvage gear, but the Base mirror still applies
• DronePower = 2,000 (bay roll) = 2,000 — joins the drone pool for every class the bay's drones fire into

If you change one drone to Core Mining

When that drone fires, the shared mining pool it draws from is:

ship.MiningPower (11,500) + ship.DronePower (2,000) + Σ all drones' own MiningPower = pool

That pool is then divided by the ship-wide miningEquivalentTurrets, the stacking penalty is applied, and the drone's own turret rating decides its slice — see Damage and mitigation § Drones for the full formula and worked example. The 11,500 + 2,000 = 13,500 figure you see in tooltips is the pool's ship-side contribution, not the per-drone attack power.

The Surface Mining Laser and Surface Autocannon do not contribute to drone shots — only the ship's MiningPower (which they already inflate), the ship's DronePower, and the drones' own stats reach the drone pool.

See also

• Damage and mitigation — how a PowerStat becomes per-shot damage (§1), per-shot variance and crits (§2), and how the target mitigates it (§3).
• Damage and mitigation § Drones — drone shared-pool formula, per-stat inheritance, hardpoint sizing, worked example with charts.
• Drones — drone types, behaviour, bay sizes, skills, aspects.