Power Carrier

Corpus Grineer Infested

Power Carrier
General
Introduced	Update 14.5
Mission	Excavation
Type	Ranged
Miscellaneous
Mod Drops
Other Drops	Power Cell 100%

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, 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		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Grineer Forest	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Grakata Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Cloned Flesh	650
	+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	++ +++ - -
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1
	Spawn Level	15

Hellion Power Carrier	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Grineer Settlement	Codex Scans	5
	Weapon	Grakata Lato Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Cloned Flesh	100
	+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	++ +++ - -
	Affinity	250
	Base Level	1

Corpus Power Carrier	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Corpus Ice Planet Corpus Outpost	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Dera Prova	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Flesh	650
	+ ++ ++ - -
	Shield	150
	++ ++ +++ - -
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1
	Spawn Level	15

Corpus Power Carrier (Orb Vallis)	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Update 24.0
	Tileset	Orb Vallis	Codex Scans	5
	Weapon	Dera Prova	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Flesh	650
	+ ++ ++ - -
	Shield	150
	++ ++ +++ - -
	Base Level	1

Mutalist Osprey Carrier	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Corpus Ice Planet Corpus Outpost Grineer Forest Grineer Settlement	Codex Scans	10
	Weapon		Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Infested Flesh	200
	++ ++ ++ ‐‐
	Affinity	100
	Base Level	1

Nightwatch Carrier	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset		Codex Scans	?
	Weapon		Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Cloned Flesh	650
	+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	++ +++ - -
	Base Level	1

Bugs

• Mutalist Osprey Carrier can still attack while being stunned, blinded or sleeping.

Patch History

Update 14.5

• Introduced along with Operation: Cryotic Front.

See also

• Excavation