Missions

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Missions

There are several different types of missions that can be played in star trek online, they can be divided up into the following catagories.

Tutorial

The tutorial will teach you the basics of ground and space movement and combat and finishes with you destroying a borg cube and sphere.

Patrols

Patrols are standard missions without a huge storyline, they are usually just fly into a sector and shoot the ships that are there, but there are exceptions.

In a Patrol you can have up to 5 players working together, patrol missions can not be shared.

Episodes

Episodes are multipart missions that have a storyline to go with them.

The player limit on episodes is 5 players, Episode missions can be shared to players in the same sector and instance number who are within 0.1 lightyears range.

Exploration

There are a few different types of Exploration missions, which type of mission you get is totally random and does not depend on which sector you are in, its possible to skip or save up certain missions and do other ones instead. There is a 30 minuite cooldown from when you turn in an explore mission to when you can next accept an explore mission in the same sector.

Defend the Sector

Defend the Sector missions are combat missions where you have to kill a certain amount of enemy squadrons. You do them by finding an enemy contact in Sector Space and flying close to it to start a Deep Space Encounter.

Fleet Action

In Fleet actions you will work together with up to 19 other players to complete an objective in a single system.

Raidisodes

Raidisodes are 5 man missions that will be more difficult than the other types of missions and will take up to 2 hours to complete.