Ultimate ability

Zero Company Predictive Analytics

The Analytics Ultimate: Defense for the whole squad for the rest of the turn, +2 rising to +6.

Retail-reported

Confidence: Strongly supported
Verified: 8 September 2026
Version: Pre-release evidence, plus retail launch-build ability cards (August 2026)

What it does

All allies gain Defense for the rest of the turn. The ability card reads "Nothing beats these odds". Five ranks grant +2, +3, +4, +5 and +6 Defense. **No Advantage cost is published for it**, which is unusual for an Ultimate and is the source's omission rather than the ability being free.

Belongs to: Astromechs
Cost: Advantage
Ultimate: Yes — this is the Specialization's signature ability
Tags: mitigation, multi-target, advantage-spender

Focus Tree

Every rank, and what each one changes

Focus Points buy these steps in order. Several change what the ability does rather than making it bigger, so the last row is worth reading before committing to the first.

Retail-reportedRetail 1.0 Analytics tables, August 2026 — five tiers, no costs, one source, class unacknowledged by EA

The ladder carries its own evidence, and it is weaker than the ability’s. EA published what each ability does at its first rank; guide writers read the rest off the shipped game’s Focus Tree. Nothing here has been reproduced by this site, and no source has published what any rank costs.

Rank	What it does
Tier 1	+2 Defense to all allies
Tier 2	+3 Defense to all allies
Tier 3	+4 Defense to all allies
Tier 4	+5 Defense to all allies
Tier 5	+6 Defense to all allies

Build value

Why it matters when you are planning a squad

The only squad-wide defensive Ultimate in the game, and it turns the astromech from a support unit into the reason a squad survives an alpha strike. Defense is flat damage reduction, so +6 across four Operators is worth more against many small hits than against one large one — which makes it the answer to a room full of B1s rather than to a Droideka. It is also the one Ultimate whose timing is obvious: it lasts the rest of the turn, so it is cast before the enemy acts, not after. Against the class's other Ultimate it is a genuine choice rather than an upgrade. Coordinated Support buys the squad actions; this buys the squad turns alive. A droid can afford one of them per fight on a 10-point Advantage pool, so a second astromech is how a squad gets both.

Astromechs's other abilities

Sources

Ultimate Star Wars Zero Company Astromech Build and Class Guide
Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026
Supports: Bylined Hack The Minotaur, "Latest Update: August 31, 2026", with an on-page change log reading "v1.4 – August 31, 2026 – Updated utility items" and "v1.2 – August 27, 2026 – Actively updating build, focus progression, and cross-training". **The Analytics table — the astromech's second Specialization, published here for the first time anywhere this database has found.** "The Astromech's Secondary Specialization called Analytics cannot be changed", and "Secondary Specializations cannot go about [sic] Tier 5 for Focus Tree upgrades". Predictive Analytics (Ultimate) "All allies gain Defense for the rest of the turn. Nothing beats these odds", five tiers +2/+3/+4/+5/+6 Defense. Deep Target Scan (Standard) "Conducts an intensive analysis on an enemy. Scans and Spots the target and removes all Evasion. Costs 1 AP", five tiers of Effective Range 14.0m, 16.0m, 18.0m, 20.0m, 24.0m. Self Preservation (Passive) "When the Astromech is hit by an Overwatch or Retaliation attack it gains 1 AP", Cannot Upgrade. Telemetry (Passive) "Increases Chance-To-Hit by +5% for all Operators on the team", Cannot Upgrade. Perfect Integration (Passive) "When the Astromech is attacked, its data increases a random teammate's Defense by +1 for the rest of combat", Cannot Upgrade. **No Advantage cost is printed for Predictive Analytics.** The primary Astromech table reproduces `retail-htm-focus-trees` and is not re-entered from here, with one exception that matters: this page explains the two storage passives as ranks of one four-tier line rather than as two rows — "Tier 1 adds one extra use to all Utility Items the Astromech is carrying. Tier 2 adds 1 meter of movement. Tier 3 adds 2 Defense. Tier 4 adds another extra use to all Utility Items, stacking with the tier 1 bonus for a total of two additional uses per item." The Storage Optimization card itself reads "This effect stacks with Extended Range", the same proofreading error as on the Focus Tree index. On capacity: "Unlike operators, your Astromech has three slots for utilities and cannot increase the number to four." On Medpacs, in the recommended-Utility table: "Heals 30% of ally Health. Not on Droids." On squad legality: "EA confirmed that all three remaining squad slots can be filled with Astromechs on non-story missions, since only Hawks is required." On chassis: the R2, R3 and R4 series and the BR-1, "a new droid design created specifically for Zero Company by Bit Reactor". **Checked for and absent**: any ability called Self Repair, and any Focus Point cost for any node.

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.

Open the Squad Builder

Editor’s note

Five ranks rather than six, and that is the shape of a secondary Specialization rather than a gap: the same guide states that "Secondary Specializations cannot go above Tier 5 for Focus Tree upgrades". Every band in this file that belongs to a *primary* has six. The missing Advantage cost is the figure to capture first. Every other Ultimate in this database has one, the guide prints costs for the astromech's primary Ultimate in the table directly above this one, and it prints none here — so this is an omission rather than a statement that the ability is free, and no cost is invented to fill it. A separate guide describes a high-rank version at "8 Advantage, +6 Defense to the whole squad for the rest of the turn, two uses per combat". That is a fourth claim — a cost, a cap and a duration — from a source this database has not registered, and it is left in `unknowns` on the class record as the lead to check rather than entered as three facts.