Tachyon Beam Turret

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Thermal Beam

Tachyon Beam Turret

“	The Tachyon Beam Turret is a fearsome base Energy weapon developed by VEGA to suppress the Miner Rebellion. Beam weapons are not easily escaped.	”
	— In-Game Description

Stats

Tachyon Beam Turret	I	II	III
SPECIFICATIONS
DPS	88	133	204
Mass	385 t	790 t	1,780 t
Range	0-4,700 m
Speed	3,500 m/s
Firing Cycle	C: 2.0 / F: 3.0 / R: 0.6 / N: 15
Traits	Beam
Module XP	12,134 XP	17,181 XP	24,631 XP
BLUEPRINT
Farming Tier	VEGA Tier I	VEGA Tier III	VEGA Tier IV
Pieces	4	5	6
Prerequisites	Thermal Ray Turret III	Graviton Ray Turret II	Graviton Ray Turret V
EQUIP
Time	1h 43m 40s	5h 11m 05s	13h 49m 25s
Mineral Ore	3,323,782	10,439,371	12,916,828
Antimatter	586,550	2,609,843	4,305,608

General

The Tachyon Beam Turret is the base varient of the Thermal Beam, common in medium-level bases due to its firepower.

It fires a sustained golden beam at its target, similar to the ship version.

Strategy and Setup

Advantages

Tachyon Beam Turrets are very potent against blitz attacks. They deal a tremendous amount of damage that cannot be avoided at all, melting through shields and armor alike.

Equipping Focused Apertures can significantly extend their range to protect against blitz fleets on the other side of your base. Conversely, Ion Rechargers are almost useless since many blitz fleets at this level use heavy armor instead of shields.

Disadvantages

Tachyon Beam Turrets have short range making them useless against sniper fleets even with Focused Apertures V.

As a beam weapon, they cannot defend your base from squadrons due to their charge time.

Trivia

The Tachyon Beam Turret was the first VEGA Mining base weapon to be introduced.
The equipping time of all old blueprint items for bases was reduced by half during the May 2020 update.