The discovery is quite a weak warship, but has a quite useful ability. So while you should not be using it primarily to fight hostiles or other players, it is incredibly useful in getting itself and your other ships where you need to go. Out of the box, it can teleport itself anywhere within its warp range. After that, you need a research that's about two-thirds up the Galaxy Tree.
Summoning Research will allow you to summon other ships to the Discovery's location. So you can instantly teleport the Discovery, then summon other ships to it. Maybe you're late to a territory defense, or don't have enough time to make it to an armada, or just want to get your Stella to outlaw space quicker as you're farming your security codes.
One warning with summoning, it will cost a token to summon in token space, so do not send it there and then try to summon Vi'dar or a miner, it will waste two tokens.
Even more important than its ability to summon and teleport is its refinery. You will get officer shards, speedups, and parts to upgrade the Discovery. The more you upgrade the Discovery, the better the refinery gets. This is the best place in the game to get speedups, so this ship should not be ignored.
In order to get the Discovery Refinery tokens, you need to complete this event. It runs every Sunday and is very quick to complete when you use a Discovery as the bonuses basically make each kill worth five times as much. This then only takes a couple minutes. You can, of course, complete it with any ship. Just go to the right systems.
| Systems | Ship Levels |
|---|---|
| Babishta, Izanami, Tenzen-1029 | 21/23/25 |
| Cada-X, Risette | 25/27/29 |
| Discovery Tier | 1/2/3 Chest Cost | Minor Commendations | 1 day Speedups | 3 Hour Speedups | 1 Hour Speedups | Discovery Recruit Tokens | Spore Drive Components |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unbuilt | 24/60/120 | 34/30/25/23/20 | - | 4/4/3 | 8/7 | 27/24/20/18/16 | 23/17/13/11/9 |
| 1 | 24/60/120 | 34/30/25/23/20 | - | 4/4/3 | 8/7 | 27/24/20/18/16 | 23/17/13/11/9 |
| 2 | 24/60/120 | 36/32/27/24/21 | - | 4/4/3 | 9/8 | 29/25/21/19/17 | 25/18/14/12/10 |
| 3 | 24/60/120 | 39/34/28/26/23 | - | 5/4/4 | 10/9 | 31/27/23/20/18 | 27/19/16/12/11 |
| 4 | 24/60/120 | 41/36/30/27/24 | - | 5/5/4 | 10/9 | 33/29/24/22/19 | 29/21/17/13/12 |
| 5 | 24/60/120 | 43/38/32/29/25 | - | 6/5/4 | 12/10 | 35/30/25/23/20 | 31/22/18/14/13 |
| 6 | 24/60/120 | 46/40/33/30/27 | - | 6/5/4 | 12/11 | 36/32/27/24/21 | 33/24/19/15/13 |
| 7 | 24/60/120 | 48/42/35/32/28 | - | 7/6/5 | 13/12 | 38/33/28/25/22 | 35/25/20/16/14 |
| 8 | 24/60/120 | 52/45/38/35/31 | - | 8/7/6 | 15/13 | 42/36/31/28/25 | 39/28/23/18/16 |
| 9 | 24/60/120 | 57/49/42/38/33 | 4 | 9/7/6 | 17/15 | 46/40/33/30/27 | 42/30/24/19/17 |
Gain 50% more Officer shards in each Discovery Recruit Chest and add Lorca to the pool of officers.