Ability

Zero Company Self Repair

The astromech heals half its own maximum health, spending whatever Action Points it has left.

Retail-reported

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

What it does

Restores 50% of the astromech's maximum health, consuming its remaining Action Points as a final action. It is available every turn. Astromechs cannot be healed by Medpacs, which say so on the item card — "Cannot be used on Droids" — so this is the only way a droid recovers.

Belongs to: Astromechs
Cost: Action Points
Ultimate: No
Tags: sustain, mitigation

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

The strongest heal in the game and the reason a droid can stand where nothing else can. Half a health bar a turn, with a +2 Defense passive under it, means an astromech in the open is not a mistake — it is the plan, and it keeps enemy fire off Operators whose health does not come back. The cost is the honest part: it takes the turn. A droid that heals is a droid that handed out no Action Points, cast no scan and threw no grenade, so the decision is really about whether the squad needs the AP more than the droid needs the health. Play it as a tank that pays for its own healing in tempo, not as a reaction to being hurt.

Astromechs's other abilities

Sources

Star Wars Zero Company: How the Astromech Class Works
allthings.how · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026
Supports: Bylined Kabir Anand, updated 2 September 2026. On the self-heal, verbatim: Self Repair "Consumes all remaining AP to restore 50% of the droid's maximum health." **This is the source that contradicts Mobalytics** on whether spending more AP heals more; both readings are recorded and the disagreement sits on the record. On capacity: an astromech has "all three unlocked" Utility slots, and with both storage passives "one Impact Bomb becomes three throws" — the third independent statement of the three-uses figure, after `retail-questdaily-astromech` and `retail-mobalytics-astromech`. On the class: astromechs are "locked to a single specialization called Astromech". **Checked for and absent**: any mention of Analytics, and any interaction between two astromechs.
Astromechs: How to Play the Strongest Character in Star Wars Zero Company
Mobalytics · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026
Supports: Bylined Mobalytics, "Updated on Sep 7, 2026". Read in a browser; the page returns 403 to an automated fetch, the same retrieval note that travels with `retail-mobalytics-zones`. On capacity, verbatim: "Astromechs get three utility slots and three uses per item, for nine total charges a mission instead of the usual one or two." On the self-heal: "Send the Astromech into the open and it can heal a large portion of its own health every turn, with a minimum of 50% of its max health, up to 100% if you spend all your AP on it", and "the Mech can't heal itself with Medpacs, but they're weaker than its self-heal anyway". On multiple droids: "Running two or more Astromechs stacks everything above. Two Astromechs feeding Action Points into a single fast, mobile Operator like Cly can let that Operator chain attacks well beyond what a normal turn allows, generating enough Advantage from each hit to keep the loop going. As a Gunslinger, she can then stack up immense Onslaught damage, or set up a huge Electro Web team nuke." On the Ultimate: "for 10-6 Advantage (depending on upgrades), it grants extra Action Points to the entire squad, INCLUDING ITSELF, once per fight", producing "somewhere between five and eight extra actions across that turn". On the Talent: "once its ability tree is fully upgraded, the once-per-turn limit on that sharing disappears". Build advice names a Focus Point price no other source prints: "Built-In Comlink 2 (3 is ideal, but 13 Focus Points is a lot)". **One naming error, recorded rather than followed**: "If you unlock the Self Preservation passive you permanently boost a random ally's defense by +1 whenever you're attacked." That effect is Perfect Integration on the ability card `retail-htm-astromech` reproduces, and Self Preservation there grants the droid 1 AP after an Overwatch or Retaliation hit. The card is taken as correct and this sentence as a mix-up.

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

The one record in this file for an ability that **does not appear on the class's own published Focus Tree**. Hack the Minotaur's astromech tables print seven abilities across the class band and Analytics, and Self Repair is not among them; the page was checked for the name specifically. That is not a reason to omit it — a Final Action with no rank ladder has no tree row to appear in, which is exactly what Nobel Stance is on the Jedi Padawan — but it is a reason it is `strongly_supported` rather than `confirmed`. Two guides describe it and they disagree on one thing, so both readings are recorded and neither is smoothed away. Both say 50% of maximum health. One says the ability "consumes all remaining AP to restore 50%"; the other says the droid heals "a minimum of 50% of its max health, up to 100% if you spend all your AP on it". Those cannot both be true: either the heal is a flat half that costs whatever is left, or it scales with the points spent. The flat reading is entered because it is the one stated as a mechanic rather than as advice, and the scaling claim is an unknown on the class record. The Medpac exclusion is the better-evidenced half. It comes from the item card rather than from either guide's prose — "Heals 30% of ally Health. Not on Droids" — and is independently on the Medpac Mk. IV text captured from the Zone Influence table.