Automated Personnel Unit
Tech · Chaos Tech
First developed by the Federation following escalating border conflicts, the Automated Personnel Unit was originally designed for autonomous patrol vessels tasked with defending remote sectors where full crews were impractical to deploy. Early APU systems coordinated shipboard weapons, targeting analysis, and emergency response functions entirely through adaptive tactical algorithms, allowing skeleton crews to respond to threats with remarkable efficiency. While Starfleet ultimately rejected the widespread use of fully autonomous combat vessels, the underlying technology proved invaluable, and was quickly adopted by the very factions the APU was designed to keep at bay. Modern APUs have been re-engineered to operate alongside experienced crews rather than replace them, serving as an integrated combat support network that enhances targeting precision, weapons synchronization, and real-time tactical coordination during high-intensity engagements. On advanced starships, APUs provide captains and tactical officers with machine-speed battlefield analysis while preserving strategic command oversight.
- Released in
- M91 · Star Fleet Academy Pt2 (from game ids)
- Type
- Chaos Tech
- Rarity
- Epic
- Subtype
- Hostiles
- Tiers
- 3
- Shards to unlock
- 200
- Removal cost
- 13.5K Forbidden Tech Fusion Rods