Evidenced before launch

Droid Dismantler + Tel-Rea Vokoss

A Utility slot that tops up the one resource only the Jedi Padawan uses.

Confirmed

Confidence: Confirmed
Verified: 10 September 2026
Version: Retail 1.1, 9 September 2026 — official patch notes

What it needs

In the squad: Tel-Rea Vokoss · A Droid Dismantler in someone's Utility slot · Droids to kill
The builder checks: Tel-Rea in the squad and a Droid Dismantler carried by any Operator. Whether the Harmony reaches her when somebody else holds the item is unpublished — the finding is a prompt to check, not a promise.

Mechanism

Why it works

Harmony is the Jedi Padawan's resource and nothing else in the game uses it. Strong with the Force, her fixed Talent, opens a turn with 2 stacks at its first rank and 6 at its fifth.

Each stack is worth roughly 4 damage on a Lightsaber Strike and 4% deflection under Noble Stance, which is what makes her turn scale with how many she is holding rather than with how many Action Points she has.

Until Patch 1.1 the only published way past that opening six was Shockwave's sixth tier — the last node of her Ultimate's ladder, which grants Harmony for every enemy the area push hits. That is the most expensive purchase in her tree, so her ceiling was a late-campaign problem.

The patch names a second source in the course of narrowing it: the Droid Dismantler grants Harmony on a Droid death. It occupies a Utility slot rather than a Focus ladder, so it arrives whenever the item does.

The restriction is the shape of the pairing. Droids only — which is the same divide the Ion Blaster and the Droid Popper sit on, so a squad already equipped for Separatists is the squad this pays. Against Outlaws it is a dead slot and she is back on her opening six.

Cost

What it gives up

A Utility slot, and slots are scarce — an Operator starts a campaign with one and reaches three at most. It is also a slot spent on something that pays a different Operator, which is unusual enough to be worth saying twice: the carrier gets a weapon whose statistics nobody has published, and Tel-Rea gets the resource. Against a mission with no droids in it, both halves are wasted.

Open questions

Points the shipped game has not yet answered for us, or that need a controlled comparison to state as fact — recorded rather than guessed at.

How much Harmony a Droid death grants. The patch note names the trigger and prints no figure, so this is a route rather than a rate.
Whether the Droid has to be killed by the Dismantler, or whether any Droid death anywhere on the map pays. EA's wording is 'on Droid deaths' and does not say who caused them.
Whether the Harmony reaches Tel-Rea when another Operator carries the item, or only its holder. Harmony is described nowhere as a shared pool, and only one Operator on the roster can spend it.
Whether Harmony has a ceiling above the six Strong with the Force grants. Nothing states one, and without it there is no way to tell whether this stacks with Shockwave's sixth tier or overlaps it.
Everything else about the Dismantler — damage, cost, range, charges. A patch note corrects a behaviour and describes no item.

Sources

STAR WARS Zero Company — Patch 1.1 Notes
Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 10 September 2026
Supports: Published 9 September 2026, the first post-launch patch. **Every item below is listed by EA under bug fixes**, which is what makes each one a statement about 1.0 as well as about 1.1. Secondary Specializations: their passive Cross Trainings "now correctly enter the selection pool at Relationship +8", and Secondary Specializations "now count for Specialization-specific Operation requirements and results". Chance-to-Hit: attacks displayed at 100% "can no longer erroneously miss". Scattergun: Tiers II, III and IV "no longer incorrectly use Tier I values". Droid Dismantler: Harmony "is granted only on Droid deaths, not on every enemy death". Tel-Rea: the Ranged Damage Cross Training bonus "is now applied once rather than twice" to her Force attacks, and Critical Damage bonuses "now correctly apply" to them. DC-17m Anti-Armor: it "can now critically hit" and "receives damage bonuses that apply to grenades". Ion Blasters "no longer double Critical Damage". Sweeping Salvo: "enemies outside the targeting cone are no longer hit". A Life of Labor II "can no longer infinitely accumulate bonuses when purchased repeatedly". Immovable: the status "now provides its intended bonuses". Overwatch: multiple cone and line-of-sight fixes, "including attacks through solid objects and triggers outside the targeting cone". **Checked for and absent**: any figure for anything. The notes name behaviour and never a value — no Scattergun tier statistics, no Harmony amount, no DC-17m damage, no figure for what Immovable now provides.

Where this came from

The pairing itself comes from the sources below rather than being inferred here. The mechanism, the cost and the unknowns are this site's work, and the advice changes if any of the values behind it change.

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Editor’s note

Added 2026-09-10, and it is the only record here whose entire evidence is a bug fix. EA narrowed the Droid Dismantler's Harmony to Droid deaths, which incidentally establishes that it grants Harmony at all — a fact no guide, catalogue or preview had ever mentioned. It matters more than its size because of what it corrects on this site. Two records have stated since 2026-09-01 that Shockwave's sixth tier is the only route past Tel-Rea's Harmony ceiling. That was true of everything published at the time and false of the shipped game, and it is now false in a smaller way: there is a second route, it costs a Utility slot, and it only works against droids. The rule fires on the squad rather than on her slot, and the reason is in `requires`. Nothing says whether the carrier or the Padawan gains the Harmony. Checking the squad over-reports if it is the carrier; checking her slot under-reports if it is not — and the first failure produces a finding that tells a reader to look, where the second produces silence. A synergy panel that says nothing is indistinguishable from one that found nothing. Single-source and `confirmed`, which is rare here and correct: the source is the developer describing their own game.