Is Drea ever used competitively? With synced turret coming out I was hoping to fly her in a tournament. I was thinking something like this:

Talonbane Cobra:

Predator, Vakasi, EU, VT, pulse ray shield, inertial dampeners (35)

Drea Renthal:

Synched Turret, Shield upgrade, BTL-A4, R4-B11 (33)

2 Black sun soldiers:

VT and Black Market Spliced Tools. (16×2)

100 pts

I know my team doesn't have out stress, but I play against a lot of people who use PTL a lot

Drea Renthal is not terrible. However, putting the title on her is terrible! If you plan on using her ability, she will get to shoot once, maybe twice all game. She needs that 360 arc to even give her a chance to get shots on positional enemies.

Despite the fact that Synced Turret 'seems' to have synergy with her, I'm not sure its the best turret for her. If you find stress is prevalent in your meta, I think Ion Turret is actually more potent, since it makes self-stressing doubly risky.

I've been using Talonbane a bit on VASSAL with the new Vaksai title, and I think Intensity is going to be the absolute best EPT for him. His problem is not dealing damage, or even getting into range 1, but surviving! Being able to get an evade token will be huge for him. Also glitterstim. Talonbane should have this card stapled to him! Its an absolute must, imho. Lastly, there is no reason not to take Thread Tracers on a Vaksai equipped Khiraxz. Its free (unless there's a better missile you had in mind, of course). It can also help power-up your team!

Here's my suggestion on how to improve this list:

Talonbane w/ Intensity, Vaksai, EU, VT, autothrusters, glitterstim & thread tracers = 35

Drea w/ Ion Turret & R4-B11 = 30

Binyare pirate w/ slicer tools = 13

78

That is THE Talonbane build, imho. Very flexible and moderately resilient! His firepower doesn't really suffer neither, since its relatively easy to set up focus + TL (or glitter + TL) when you get into Range 1. However, if you don't have Intensity (its not even out yet!) then predator is an okay substitute, although for 1 point more.

You have 22 points left over. Here are a few options that I think would round the squad out nicely:

--Spice Runner w/ dorsal turret & operations specialist = 22

Being able to generate free focus tokens is amazing. A nice bonus for Talonbane w/ intensity too. If you really prefer the Synched Turret, you can easily go with that on both Drea and the Hawk and still be 100 points.

--Cartel Marauder w/ vaksai, thread tracers, guidance chips and 2 of: vectored thrusters/pulsed ray shield/glitterstim = 22

A cheap ship that will provide more effective firepower than another z-95.

Regardless of what you choose as the last ship, its usually a very good idea to fire the thread tracers the first turn of shooting if Talonbane is at range 3. The possibility of giving all of your ships a TL to start off the battle will be immensely helpful for you.

That is awesome! Thank you so much. These are great suggestions