Ability

Zero Company Extended Storage

Astromech passive: every limited-use Utility Item gets one more use.

Retail-reported

Confidence: Strongly supported
Verified: 1 September 2026
Version: Pre-release evidence, plus retail launch-build ability cards (August 2026)

What it does

All Utility Items that have limited uses can be used +1 additional time. It has no Focus Tree row.

Belongs to: Astromechs
Cost: Free — no cost
Ultimate: No
Tags: sustain

Focus Tree

This ability has no Focus Tree row

This one cannot be upgraded. Every Specialization has one passive that is fixed at the value above — the Heavy has two — which is why a class with four abilities shows three rows in the Focus Tree. No Focus Points make it better.

Build value

Why it matters when you are planning a squad

This is the mechanism behind the observation that made astromechs interesting in the first place: a previewer saw one carrying three Utilities with two uses each, and this is why the second use exists. Combined with the class's three Utility slots it means a droid brings roughly twice the consumable output of any other Operator — which is the whole compensation for carrying no weapon. It costs nothing and cannot be improved, so it is a reason to give the astromech the squad's most valuable limited-use item rather than a reason to spend Focus Points.

Astromechs's other abilities

Sources

All Star Wars Zero Company Focus Trees and Skills
Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 1 September 2026
Supports: Every Focus Tree in one index, with a per-tier table for each ability. Jedi Padawan — Shockwave (Ultimate) "Drive the Force outward in a focused burst, dealing Force Damage and Pushing nearby enemies back. Costs 6 Advantage", six tiers of "18 Base DMG; Area Effect 5.0m" rising to "30 Base DMG; Area Effect 5.0m; Gain Harmony for each enemy hit"; Push (Standard) "Forcefully Pushes an enemy in the chosen direction, dealing Force Damage. +4 Impact damage for each object struck. Costs 1 AP", six tiers of 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, "18 Base DMG; also Disorients"; Nobel Stance (Final Action) "Increase Deflection by defending in place against Blaster Attacks... Increases Deflection Chance by +10% for each AP used", Cannot Upgrade; Padawan Training (Passive) five tiers "+30% Deflection Chance", "Movement +1.0m", "+10% Melee Critical Chance", "Equip a second Meditation", "Equip a third Meditation"; Move With The Force (Passive) "Tel-Rea can execute Vertical Jumps without climbing or using a ladder", Cannot Upgrade; and the fixed Talent Strong with the Force at five tiers, 2 stacks of Harmony rising to 6. Mandalorian Warrior — ElectroWeb Surge (Ultimate) "Costs 4 Advantage", six tiers 12 to 18 Base DMG; ElectroWeb Dart (Standard) "Costs 2 Advantage", six tiers of Effective Range 14.0m rising to 24.0m; Ruthless (Passive) five tiers "+2 Critical Damage" to "+6 Critical Damage"; Mandalorian Armor Training (Passive) "Cly gains base defense of 3 and a Jetpack, allowing her to execute free vertical transitions", Cannot Upgrade; and the fixed Talent Combat Jump at four tiers, "Jump up to 14m", 17m, 20m, "Jump up to 23m; inflicts 4 stacks of Burning". Astromech — Coordinated Support (Ultimate) "Grant all Operators 1 AP (Operators cannot have more than 3 AP)", six tiers costing 10 Advantage falling to 6 and granting 2 AP at tier 6; Enhanced Scanners (Standard) "All effected enemies are Scanned, negating all Defense and making those enemies easier to hit. Costs 1 AP", six tiers of Effective Range 14.0m to 24.0m with "Each target has a chance to be made Vulnerable" at tier 6; five passives marked Cannot Upgrade — Extended Storage and Storage Optimization both "All Utility Items that have limited uses can be used +1 additional time", Improved Motors "+1.0m Movement", Hardened Frame "+2 Defense", Built-in Thrusters "jump vertically without restrictions"; and the fixed Talent Built-In Comlink at three tiers, "+1 AP; 1 per turn", "2 per turn", "Unlimited". The eight standard Specialization tables reproduce the per-class guides already registered above. No Focus Point cost is given for any node. Bylined Hack The Minotaur
I played Star Wars Zero Company — my honest thoughts
EckhartsLadder · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 11 August 2026
Supports: 3:18–12:36 — no hunker-down action, so a spare AP goes to Overwatch; astromechs carrying three utilities and extra uses of each; Trick able to negate some injuries along an upgrade path; twelve galaxy zones; super battle droids telegraphing a rocket one turn ahead; many of the 150+ planets being text-only

Costs, and why most are blank

A cost is recorded here only where a source states one. Most abilities have been named without one, and an inferred number would be indistinguishable from a measured one on the page — so the field says “not published” instead.

Every named ability

Build around it

The Squad Builder knows which abilities compete for the shared Advantage pool, and says so before you commit a slot to two that do.

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Editor’s note

Added 2026-09-01, and it retires half of an unknown the astromech class record has carried since 2026-08-19: whether two uses per Utility was a property of the droid, of those particular Utilities, or of that difficulty. It is a property of the droid. See `storage-optimization`, which the same source prints with the same sentence. Whether that is a genuine stacking pair or one row printed twice is the largest open question in this pass, and both records carry it.