Power Carriers are special units found only on Excavation and Defection missions. These units are mostly identical to their standard base units, though they feature greatly improved health, and visibly carry 
Power Cells on their backs. Killing these units will make them drop the Power Cells they carry, allowing Tenno to recover them for use in powering their Excavation machines or Med Towers. The Grineer version are based off Lancers, the Corpus version are based off Crewmen, and the Infested ones are based off Mutalist Ospreys.
Notes[]
- They don't serve any purpose to their respective faction, as they don't seem to require anything to be powered.
- A Hellion variant first appeared in the Shifting Sands Tactical Alert, and can currently be found on Excavation missions on Mars. Apart from its ability to use its jetpack and fire missile barrages, this variant also uses a
Lato instead of the standard Grakata when airborne. Unlike normal Hellions, the Hellion Power Carrier prefers to use its Lato when attacking, and will rarely use its missile launchers. - Unlike their regular counterparts, Mutalist Osprey Carriers cannot use charge attacks, they fire infested spores instead, like Attack Mutalists.
- Power Carriers are affected by loot while alive ( Ivara's Prowl), loot corpse ( Nekros's Desecrate and Chesa Kubrow's Retrieve), loot while petrified ( Atlas's Ore Gaze), and loot on death ( Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm, Khora's Pilfering Strangledome, and Wukong's Monkey Luck passive) in order to gain more than one Power Cell from the enemy.
- The Mutalist Osprey Carrier was buffed in Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08), allowing the enemy to aggressively rush the excavator and now has the ability to fire it's weapon in bursts. One of these power carriers can destroy an excavator in just a few shots if left unchecked. The only way they stop firing is if they are captured in Bastille as well, otherwise they will fire at players and the excavators even if blinded. Also immune to Slash procs.
Variants
| Grineer Power Carrier | General | Drop | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Ammo Drum 0.7587% Reach 0.7587% Endo 0.7587% Fury 0.2211% No Return 0.2211% Reaping Spiral 0.2211% Endo 0.0603% | |
| Tileset | Grineer Forest | |||
| Weapon |  Grakata Sheev
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| Codex Scans | 20 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Cloned Flesh | 650 | |||
 +  +  +++  ‐  ‐‐
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| Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
 ++  +++ -  -
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| Affinity | 50 | |||
| Base Level | 1 | |||
| Spawn Level | 15 | |||
| Hellion Power Carrier | General | Drop | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Ammo Drum 0.7587% Reach 0.7587% Endo 0.7587% Fury 0.2211% No Return 0.2211% Reaping Spiral 0.2211% Endo 0.0603% | |
| Tileset | Grineer Settlement | |||
| Weapon | Grakata Lato Sheev
| |||
| Codex Scans | 5 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
| + + +++ ‐ ‐‐
| ||||
| Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
| ++ +++ - -
| ||||
| Affinity | 250 | |||
| Base Level | 1 | |||
| Corpus Power Carrier | General | Drop | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Ammo Drum 0.7587% Reach 0.7587% Endo 0.7587% Fury 0.2211% No Return 0.2211% Reaping Spiral 0.2211% Endo 0.0603% | |
| Tileset | Corpus Ice Planet Corpus Outpost | |||
| Weapon |  Dera Prova
| |||
| Codex Scans | 20 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Flesh | 650 | |||
+  ++ ++ - -
| ||||
| Shield | 150 | |||
++  ++  +++ -  -
| ||||
| Affinity | 50 | |||
| Base Level | 1 | |||
| Spawn Level | 15 | |||
| Corpus Power Carrier (Orb Vallis) | General | Drop | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Introduced | Update 24.0 (2018-11-08) | Mod Drops: Metal Fiber 1.7235% Pistol Gambit 1.7235% No Return 0.427% Chilling Grasp 0.233% Fury 0.233% Infected Clip 0.233% Shotgun Savvy 0.233% Guardian Derision 0.0485% Jagged Edge 0.0485% Rapid Resilience 0.0485% Vital Sense 0.0485% | |
| Tileset | Orb Vallis | |||
| Weapon | Dera Prova
| |||
| Codex Scans | 5 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Flesh | 650 | |||
| + ++ ++ - -
| ||||
| Shield | 150 | |||
| ++ ++ +++ - -
| ||||
| Base Level | 1 | |||
| Mutalist Osprey Carrier | General | Drop | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Ammo Drum 0.7587% Reach 0.7587% Endo 0.7587% Fury 0.2211% No Return 0.2211% Reaping Spiral 0.2211% Endo 0.0603% | |
| Tileset | Corpus Ice Planet Corpus Outpost Grineer Forest Grineer Settlement | |||
| Weapon | ||||
| Codex Scans | 10 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Infested Flesh | 200 | |||
| ++ ++ ++ ‐‐
| ||||
| Affinity | 100 | |||
| Base Level | 1 | |||
Bugs[]
- Mutalist Osprey Carrier can still attack while being stunned, blinded or sleeping.
Patch History[]
Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)
- Introduced along with Operation: Cryotic Front.
See also[]
 Corpus
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