Franklin and Franklin-A

The Franklin tends to be a workhorse for you. It does one thing, and one thing only, but it does it quite well. It kills Swarm. The higher its level, the higher the swarm you can kill.

Sourcing Franklin Blueprints

To source blueprints, you will need to complete the Saturday events during the battle pass, which will allow you to source 10% of them each time. Or, of course, you can always pull out your credit card.

To upgrade it, you need parts that are farmed off swarm vessels. Swarm vessels can be found in the following systems:

Level	System
15	Andvaris, Kohva
16	Omtose, Caldik
17	Altamid
18	Herias
19	Ezani
20	Beta Vordunn
22	Klaiz
24	Lahrel, Er’Yozun
26	Sayo, Alpha Horunia
28	Redmond, Ortek
30	Fontaine, Von
32	Adelphi, Fyrsta
35	Vesali
37	Araxia, Iusum, Estar
39	Kiju, Uyik, Vahok
41	Siieqa, Huik
43	Miset, Nobeau
44	Begekou
45	Vugef
46	Hobu
47	Hedex
48	Widis
49	Raxo
50	Beilum

Once you get to higher levels, the Franklin no longer will be enough for you. You will need a Franklin-A, which at tier 1 is stronger than a max tier Franklin.

Sourcing the Franklin-A

To get the Franklin-A, you must have Shipyard Level 35. To get the blueprints for it, you must either scrap a Franklin, or pay for it. When you scrap a Franklin (requires Scrapyard 35), the amount of Blueprints you get for Franklin-A is based on ship level, not on the tier. So you must spend XP or kill hostiles with it to get it to the correct level. Do not waste any modulators on components for the last tier you’re planning on scrapping it at, as they are not necessary for the scrap.

Franklin Level	Blueprints from Scrapping
1-25	0
26-30	25
31-35	50
36-40	150
41-45	200 (Full Franklin-A)

Conversely, because it takes about 5 million modulators to upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 8, and then another 10 million to go from Tier 8-Tier 9, many people only upgrade their Franklin to Tier 8 and then pay 20 real money for the last 50 blueprints needed.

Full Unlock:

Swarm Biomineral Refinery

I am looking for the biominerals by ops level. If you have it, please send it to me through Discord/FB/Twitter. Thanks so much! 🙂

Ops	Parsteel	Parsteel Tokens	Tritatium	Tritanium Tokens	Dilithium	Dilithium Tokens

Swarm Biotic Refinery

OPS	Parsteel	Parsteel Tokens	Tritanium	Tritanium Tokens	Dilithium	Dilithium Tokens
35/36	17 million	30 million	2.8 million	4 million	0.67 million	1 million
37/38	28	52	4.3	7	1	1
39/40	41	76	5.8	10	1.6	2
41/42	100	192	11	20	3.6	5
43	160	302	20	34	6.6	11
44	210	384	30	55	8.6	14
45	400	740	47	84	11	18
46	500	922	63	115	13	23
47	730	1 billion	85	156	18	31
48	1.6 billion	1	110	202	28	50
49	1.1	2	160	288	35	65
50	1.5	2	210	384	42	77

Once you’ve got a Franklin-A, you no longer need the original modulators. In your refiniery, you will have this option now. You can however farm them and use them to get more Mark II parts for the Franklin-A.

Frequency Modulators to Frequency Modulators Mark II Converter

Ops	Mark II Received	1 Chest	2 Chests	3 Chests
35-36	64	70k	200k	1m
37-38	130	110k	300k	1.5m
39-40	380	200k	570k	2.9m
41-42	950	300k	860k	4.3m
43	2,100	400k	1.1m	5.7m
44	4,500	500k	1.4m	7.1m
45	8,100	600k	1.7m	8.6m
46	15,000	700k	2m	10m
47	27,000	800k	2.3m	11m
48	47,000	900k	2.6m	13m
49	83,000	1m	2.9m	14m
50	150,000	1.2m	3.4m	17m

Swarm Dailies

As your level increases, you need to kill progressively more and bigger swarm hostiles. This is the list by level as far as I have it.

Ops Level	Daily 1	Daily 2	Daily 3	Daily 4	Daily 5
15	20×15	5×16
16-17	20×15	5×17
18-19	40×15	20×18	8×19
20-21	50×15	20×20	8×22
22-23	50×15	20×22	10×24
24-25	50×15	20×24	10×26
26-27	50×15	20×26	8×28
28-29	50×15	20×28	10×30
30-31	50×15	20×30	10×32
32-33	50×15	20×32	25×32
34-35	50×15	25×32	35×32
36-37	50×15	30×32	50×32	25×35	20×37
38-39	50×15	40×32	65×32	25×35	20×39
40-41	50×15	40×32	65×32	25×35	20×40
42-43	50×15	40×32	65×32	25×35	20×43
44-45	50×15	40×32	65×32	25×35	20×45?
46-47	50×15	40×32	65×32	25×35	20×47
48-49
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