Bird of Prey is a Ship Achievement for the Stealth Cruiser.
"Destroy a ship at full health during a single cloak in the Stealth Cruiser."
To earn this achievement, your cloak must start before you do any hull damage; and you must stay cloaked until the battle is over and the after-battle text pops up. Upgraded cloaking makes this easier. Anti-Ship drones can also help.
In sector 1 on Easy difficulty, Auto-scouts and Auto-surveyors only have 5 hull. If you find one without shields, you can get the achievement just with the starting weapons on Stealth A and no upgrades. Fire the Dual Lasers and then cloak, so that they don't reduce your cloak time. Line up the Mini Beam carefully so that it hits three rooms.
If you already have Stealth B, you can easily get this achievement with level 3 cloaking. You need to wait about 12 seconds, so let the enemy hit you with their first volley, wait a bit, then cloak before they fire again. Providing you start your Glaive Beam in the enemy shields room, it will destroy most enemies in sectors 1 and 2.
Trivia[]
- This achievement is a reference to the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, a class of starship equipped with a cloaking device, which was featured in several Star Trek movies and television series. It may refer more directly to a specific Bird-of-Prey that appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, which had the unique ability to fire photon torpedoes while it was cloaked.