Talent

Zero Company Built-In Comlink Talent

Astromech-only: an integrated comlink that hands Action Points to allies.

Retail-reported

Confidence: Confirmed
Verified: 29 August 2026
Version: Retail 1.0 — launch-week Focus Tree tables

Quick answer

An integrated comlink that provides additional Action Points to allies. Restricted to astromechs — no Custom Operator can select it.

Available to: Astromechs only
Cost: 1 Action Point
First rank: Grants an ally an additional Action Point, once per turn.
Max rank: Unlimited uses per turn, each granting an ally one Action Point.
Tags: ap-support

Build value

What this Talent is actually for

Action Points are the scarcest resource in a turn and this is one of only two confirmed ways to move them around a squad, the other being Hawks' Advantage-priced version. It is worth the most handed to whoever converts a point into the most output — a Gunslinger, where one extra point becomes a Quick Draw chain that may refund itself. It is also why an astromech is a force multiplier rather than a damage dealer: it contributes nothing to the kill count and improves everyone else's.

Focus Tree

Every rank, and what each one changes

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

Retail-reportedRetail 1.0 — launch-week Focus Tree tables

The ladder carries its own evidence, and it is weaker than the Talent’s. EA named these Talents; guide writers read the numbers off the shipped game’s Focus Tree. Nothing here has been reproduced by this site.

Rank	What it does
Rank I	+1 Action Point to an ally, once per turn.
Rank II	Twice per turn.
Rank III	Unlimited uses per turn.

Sources

Star Wars Zero Company Talents Complete List
Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 29 August 2026
Supports: "10 Universal Talents" for custom Operators, one astromech-exclusive Talent and seven authored-Operator Talents, each printed as a four-tier table. A Life of Labor — "Tier 1: +5 Health; +1 Defense", "Tier 2: +5 Health; +1 Defense; +2 Melee Damage", "Tier 3: +5 Health; +1 Defense; +2 Melee Damage; +2 Critical Hit Damage", "Tier 4: +7 Health; +2 Defense; +4 Melee Damage; +4 Critical Hit Damage". Anticipation — "1 use per turn", "2 uses per turn", "3 uses per turn", "3 uses per turn, can also target an ally". Cold Blooded — "1 stack; 1 per combat", "1 stack; 2 per combat", "1 stack; 3 per combat", "2 stacks; 3 per combat". Espionage — "+5 Intel Rewards", +7, +9, +12. Fortitude — "+2 Defense", +3, +4, "+6 Defense; ignore the chance-to-hit penalty for injury". Grit — "1 stack per 1 turn, +2 Max Health", +4, +8, "2 stacks per 1 turn, +12 Max Health". Sabotage — "1 per combat", "2 per combat", "3 per combat", "Unlimited". Taunt — "1 Taunt per turn", then "reduces Damage by 2", by 4, by 6. The Bigger They Are… — "+2 Damage", +3, +4, +6. Thievery — "+150 Credits", +200, +250, +300. Built-In Comlink — "Tier 1: +1 AP; 1 per turn", "Tier 2: +1 AP; 2 per turn", "Tier 3: +1 AP; Unlimited". Status definitions — Evasion: "The next incoming attack on your unit is automatically 'evaded' and misses." Vicious: "Guarantees that your Operator's next Ranged Attack or Melee Attack is a Critical Hit." Invulnerable: "Prevents all incoming damage from the next incoming attack." Bylined Hack The Minotaur, printed update date 2026-08-17 — which predates launch, and is recorded as printed rather than quietly corrected. The tables match two launch-week sources step for step, so this is registered as corroboration and its date is not read as a claim about which build it describes.

Pairings

Specializations it combines with

A Talent is chosen separately from a class, so these are combinations you assemble yourself rather than anything the game groups for you.

Gunslinger
An extra Action Point spent on Quick Draw can refund itself on a kill, which makes the Gunslinger the highest-return recipient in the squad.
Sharpshooter
Zero In costs a full Action Point before any shooting happens; a donated point pays for the set-up so the turn still contains a shot.
Soldier
Brutal Strike and a grenade in the same turn is normally out of reach on Action Points alone.

Still unverified

The retail game is out. These are the points we have not yet reproduced or measured reliably enough to state as fact — recorded rather than guessed at.

Whether it has a proximity requirement, as the astromech comm link ability does.
Whether it is the same thing as the astromech comm link recorded in the ability database, or a separate Talent that does a similar job.
Whether its ladder really has three steps where every universal Talent has four. One outlet prints three and no other has published a table at all, so this is the least corroborated ladder here and the first to re-check.

Other Talents

Sources

Is Z-COM our new X-COM? Star Wars Zero Company gameplay deep dive
ChristopherOdd · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 11 August 2026
Supports: 2:13–13:51 — Sweeping Salvo at 4 Advantage with three uses per mission; Hawks granting an ally 1 AP for 3 Advantage; Combat Recon granting 1 Advantage per unit scanned; the Grit Talent's stacking invulnerability; Heavy attacks taunting; the droideka ray shield; the Scout's Spotted status; Defense as flat damage reduction
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
Star Wars Zero Company Talents Complete List
Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 29 August 2026
Supports: "10 Universal Talents" for custom Operators, one astromech-exclusive Talent and seven authored-Operator Talents, each printed as a four-tier table. A Life of Labor — "Tier 1: +5 Health; +1 Defense", "Tier 2: +5 Health; +1 Defense; +2 Melee Damage", "Tier 3: +5 Health; +1 Defense; +2 Melee Damage; +2 Critical Hit Damage", "Tier 4: +7 Health; +2 Defense; +4 Melee Damage; +4 Critical Hit Damage". Anticipation — "1 use per turn", "2 uses per turn", "3 uses per turn", "3 uses per turn, can also target an ally". Cold Blooded — "1 stack; 1 per combat", "1 stack; 2 per combat", "1 stack; 3 per combat", "2 stacks; 3 per combat". Espionage — "+5 Intel Rewards", +7, +9, +12. Fortitude — "+2 Defense", +3, +4, "+6 Defense; ignore the chance-to-hit penalty for injury". Grit — "1 stack per 1 turn, +2 Max Health", +4, +8, "2 stacks per 1 turn, +12 Max Health". Sabotage — "1 per combat", "2 per combat", "3 per combat", "Unlimited". Taunt — "1 Taunt per turn", then "reduces Damage by 2", by 4, by 6. The Bigger They Are… — "+2 Damage", +3, +4, +6. Thievery — "+150 Credits", +200, +250, +300. Built-In Comlink — "Tier 1: +1 AP; 1 per turn", "Tier 2: +1 AP; 2 per turn", "Tier 3: +1 AP; Unlimited". Status definitions — Evasion: "The next incoming attack on your unit is automatically 'evaded' and misses." Vicious: "Guarantees that your Operator's next Ranged Attack or Melee Attack is a Critical Hit." Invulnerable: "Prevents all incoming damage from the next incoming attack." Bylined Hack The Minotaur, printed update date 2026-08-17 — which predates launch, and is recorded as printed rather than quietly corrected. The tables match two launch-week sources step for step, so this is registered as corroboration and its date is not read as a claim about which build it describes.

The layer above this one

Talents sit alongside Specializations, not inside them. The Squad Builder models the class half only, so a build that leans on a Talent says so in prose rather than being checked for you.

How the Talent system works

Editor’s note

Relabelled twice. On 2026-08-23 it lost an `official` badge it should never have worn: two hands-on previews and no publisher statement — EA name the astromech class and have said nothing about this Talent. On 2026-08-29 it moved from `preview_reported` to `retail_reported`, because a launch-week table prints its ladder from the shipped build. That ladder is the one on this page to treat with the most caution, and for two reasons rather than one. It rests on a single outlet, where every universal Talent's ladder is corroborated by three. And it has three steps where all ten of those have four — which is either a real difference between an astromech Talent and a Custom Operator's, or one table stopping early. Nothing else published says which, so it is in the unknowns rather than smoothed over.