“This new ability will be available in the store and from the Bajoran faction. This ability can be applied to G3 and G4 Faction Surveyors and requires a new currency, Orb Splinters. When the Automated Defenses ability is active, the survey will have drastically increased combat power while on a mining node.”
Star Trek Fleet Command: Patch notes (11 Oct 2022)
Ship Better Have My Money
As a game, Star Trek Fleet Command has a lot going for it. There is a lot to do in the game, regardless of what kind of gamer you are: casual to hardcore or somewhere in between. One thing all players of the game run into is the sad fact that your survey ships are wet paper bags full of treasure for your enemies. What if you could turn those wet paper bags into something a little more … formidable?
Automated Defenses. The answer is Automated Defenses.
Your survey ships bring in your resources, your gold-plated latinum, everything a thriving and operational space station needs. If they are easy pickings for the enemy, they are going to not only bring in less resources, they are going to cost you money instead! Where’s the profit in that? Here’s how you can defend your investments and keep your station busy with important things like holodeck trips to Risa, or poker night.
- Upgrade your Ops to level 35.
- You will need to get your Operations upgrade to 35 in order to access the quests “Doctor, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “One Man’s Villain” from the Holodeck
- Complete Step 5 of either of the above mentioned quest chains to unlock the Bajoran Faction, where you can purchase Orb Splinters and the Auto Defense refit for your Faction mining ships – the Antares, the K’Vort and the Valkis. Refit the Automated Defenses shard to the ship of your choice!
- To use, activate from the ship’s console command. It will cost you Orb Splinters per activation. Each activation lasts an hour (or until the ship is destroyed).
- Activating the Automated Defenses (which are ironically, not automated) stops your ship’s officers abilities completely, but gives your ship a 5000% damage boost, 3 extra attacks per round, and stops the attacking ship from taking any actions for 8 rounds of combat.
There you go! Give your G3 and G4 miners a fighting chance and maximize their survival. At last you can mine without fear!