Drones and Fighters

Ships with a drone bay get a Drone tab on the fitting page; carriers and other ships with fighter tubes get a Fighter tab instead. Tap the + button to add an entry, then set the quantity on the row. The clear button empties the whole bay.

Drone space is limited by two things: the volume of the drone bay and the bandwidth, which caps how many drones can be in space at once. Toggle a row’s state to mark drones as active (in space, contributing DPS) or stowed in the bay.

The Fighter tab header tracks light, support, and heavy squadrons against the hull’s per-category tube limits, plus the total tube count — counters turn red when you exceed a limit. Fighters are always counted as active.

See Attributes and Statistics for how drone and fighter damage appears in the offense numbers.