From Star Trek Online
The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “The Sword of the Kuvah’Magh“ by krwolcott.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: The Regulus System is under attack by Klingon forces, and our relief shipment to the Hromi Sector is in jeopardy. Starfleet is mobilizing to drive the Klingons back. You will assist the convoy escorts and protect the relief freighters.

This mission also won “Best Overall Mission” during the recent Foundry Authors Academy Spotlight Competition.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

Officer testimonials about this mission:

“Good fun. Enemies finely balanced. Good costume design, map design was good. Plot was perfect.” – @pandaberry94

“Brilliant mission and story” – @crash77a

“Short, sweet, with better use of fighters than the official episodes, and unexpectedly hilarious.” – @Odelagga

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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From Startrekonline.com
This week’s spotlighted mission is “Silent Night“ by NX-89.

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: A suspected traitor and a Reman assault on Rura Penthe lead to an even greater mystery where you’re never sure who’s telling you the truth.

Go to The Great Hall in Qo’nos First City and talk to the House of Kriton Political Aide to begin.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

Warrior testimonials about this mission:

“Great story line – really enjoyed. Thanks!” – @frankhs30

“Great mission! I really hope it becomes an official KDF mission.” – @NeilCell

“Very nice, balance of space and ground combat. Good story as well.” – @Odelagga

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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From Star Trek Online:

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Repairing Utopia Planitia“ by bruckner.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: Utopia Planitia is having communication problems. The recent Klingon raid on the Mars ship yards have left the area heavily in need of repairs. Assist the third fleet there in getting things back in order and find out why communications from there are having so much trouble getting back to Starfleet.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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This week’s spotlighted mission is “Shipwrecked!“ by Gregg247 .

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary:
A small, frozen, seemingly unexceptional planet near the H’atoria system is the key to a nearly endless supply of energy. The Klingon Empire, desperately in need of resources for their ongoing war efforts, has assigned you to assist General Q’Marco on a detailed geological survey expedition. When a trio of Romulan ships shows up, looking for a fight, you find yourself trapped in a frigid, barren wasteland, with nothing but your skills, your bravery, and your Honor.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Order of Hov’lw“ by SBCouto.

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: The Empire has gotten wind of a growing cult within the slums of Qo’noS – The Order of Hov’lw (Star of Blood). You are asked to join the cult, find its purpose and then destroy it all.

This is the first episode in a 7-part series.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

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The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Depths of Nukara Prime“ by P_Sutherland. A KDF version of the same mission, “Bowels of Nukara Prime“, is also being featured.

Faction: Federation/ Klingon
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: Civilian traffic in the Eta Eridani neutral zone has been caught in the violent clashes with the Tholian Assembly in the Nukara system.

When the crew of a freighter are forced to abandon ship, their only choice for survival means entering Nukara Prime’s atmoshphere. Would you expect someone to survive in a Class Y environment?

“Depths of Nukara Prime” is also the mission that won Foundry Challenge #6!

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation or Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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This week’s spotlighted mission is “The Infinitesimal Frontier“ by dixonium.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: As a mysterious contagion sweeps through the ranks of the Federation Council, a high-ranking Starfleet official lies dying, his mind under siege. The doctors of the Asclepius Institute develop a daring, if utterly unconventional, plan. It now falls to a brave captain to push the limits of Federation science in an effort to repel a terrifying new foe.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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This week’s spotlighted mission is “Storm Clouds“ by drkfrontiers.

Faction: Klingon Level Requirement: 31+ Mission Summary: Set amid the tumultuous intrigues of a dissident group known as the “Triumvirate,” seeking to bring an end to Chancellor J’mpok’s reign, a ruthless adversary has arisen from the ashes of Romulus.

Hesiod Severus is unforgiving in his loathing of the United Federation of Planets, and the Klingon Empire alike.

Vowing to restore the Romulan Star Empire to greater glory, Hesiod will stop at nothing to uncover the mysteries of the “Totality,”an ancient creature whose destructive power he will unleash to give birth to a new empire.

“Storm Clouds” is the first episode of the epic 5-mission series, “A Crucible of Battle War”. Episodes 2-5 are also available to play in-game. The player-created trailer for this series can also be viewed here.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

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The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Spectres, Episode Six“ by HippieJohn.

Faction: Federation Level Requirement: 16+ Mission Summary: The U.S.S. Rueben James, NCC-1707, was lost 145 years ago in 2265 in the Sherman System in an engagement with Klingon Forces. Could one of the first major Starfleet losses during the early days of space exploration be your fault? And will a daring mission to the past with your crew be the only way to set the timeline right?

This mission was also the winning mission from Foundry Challenge #5!

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

Link to the forum post

The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Vulture Wheel“ by Darren_Kitlor.

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: Against the backdrop of a Gorn revolution, a Lethean doctor stands accused of murder on a corrupt Klingon border world. Exonerate her and bring order to the region…

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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This week’s spotlighted mission is “A Klingon Honor Carol” by soriedem.

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: “A Klingon Honor Carol” is loosely based on Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’, but with a Klingon twist. It is narrated by Worf and the player takes the role of a dishonorable Klingon Warrior named Scourge.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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The Spotlight on the Foundry returns this week with a brand-new featured mission. This week’s spotlighted Foundry mission is ”First Cause, Then Effect” by @RogueEnterprise.

Faction: Federation

Level Requirement: Any

Mission Summary: A member of the Federation council on board personal transport has failed to report in after a morale boosting visit to the front lines in the Neutral Zone, along with her Starfleet escorts.

While the ship was lost in a rather strange area of space, killing a Federation dignitary would make an excellent trophy for any Klingon warrior…

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the ”Overview” tab.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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Its a holiday extravaganza! Crazy Chalaskie stops in to join in the fun, We interview STO EP Dan Stahl, we have a review of Slaves and Seduction by our own Kirkfat, as well as his Foundry Essentials. ENJOY!

The Foundry editor is still offline, but the missions published before the season started are back available….but there are issues. Numerous reports are being posted in the forums about NPCs vanishing and breaking the mission storyboards in many cases. Presently players are pointing the finger at npcs despawning after a player moves outside a certain range of them and not reappearing if needed later. This issue will continue to cause problems for many missions. I can personally state that both of my missions currently published are broken and unable to be completed at present because of this.

The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Left to Die” by Tiuz.
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: When there’s no more room in hell, the dead beam back aboard.

Your mission is to find the U.S.S. Romero, a ship that went missing while mapping the Badlands. As the story unfolds, you will learn of its gruesome fate.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), choose the ‘Available’ tab from the top, and then click on the ‘Community Authored’ tab to the left. Once in this menu, click the arrow at the top to bring down the search function and search for “Tiuz”. Once the mission “Left to Die” by Tiuz appears, click on it and press the ‘Hail’ button on the bottom-right of the Mission Journal to accept the mission.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

Link to the forum post

The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Dead Men Tell No Tales“ by Aavarius.
Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: A secret mission in the Kahless Expanse to save the Klingon homeworld from the Federation trickery where one human discovers that apparently it wasn’t a good day to die. Journey to a realm out of time, out of space… and out of your mind!

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), choose the ‘Available’ tab from the top, and then click on the ‘Community Authored’ tab to the left. Once in this menu, click the arrow at the top to bring down the search function and search for “Aavarius”. Once the mission “Dead Men Tell No Tales” by Aavarius appears, click on it and press the ‘Hail’ button on the bottom-right of the Mission Journal to accept the mission.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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As many of you are already aware of, season 7 is upon us, a publish of the code is already on Tribble with builds being updated with new features as time progresses and sometimes bug fixes. There are many things that have been added to Tribble ( you can view them here and here).

• A new NPC Group, Mugatos, this means we might finally be able to have hand to hand melee with reskinning.
• Users in Foundry previews are told they cannot mail items, sell dilithium or any other action that might be interpreted as an exploit.
• Queuing for PvP and PvE events are disabled and messages provided to indicate this.
• Patrols added to the Foundry, this allows authors to have NPCs to wander the map on predetermined path. Note that this is a continual action and cannot be ‘switched’ on or off directly.
• NPC’s can now have their states changed from Visible to Hidden. The effectively means we can now hide NPCs on a map after an objective has been achieved or some other event. Note however this does not include the ability to set an animation on their disappearance so they just face out.
• UI changes have been made, some buttons are more streamlined, text has been changed to clarify some options and the map selection UI now shows a preview of the map itself.
• The ability to export and import costumes has been added. At this moment this option appears to be only account-wide, so it is possible to share costumes between projects, but not between other players. This also only includes costumes and not maps.

Overall there aren’t a large number of changes as there have been in previous season releases. With that said, this does not mean there aren’t more opportunities for things to go spectacularly wrong with the editor and publisher.  For some of us, long experience has led us to dread the coming of a season release. Starting with the infamy of season 4 through season 6 there have been many times when the editor has been offline and missions have been trapped in broken states leading to many taking a massive rating hit. This is the time we need to make an effort to insure this does not happen this time.

We as authors need to take time on Tribble to go forth and create missions, even if they are simple versions of projects we have done before. Regardless of how simple they are, we need to make sure that all the mechanics work as intended, that nothing slips through the cracks. I very much want to be editing and publishing missions within the day of season 7  going live. If we can make sure that everything is as it should be, perhaps my dream can be fulfilled and we don’t wait weeks for the editor to come back to us.

The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “Relics“ by Kirkfat.
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: The Klingon Empire is occupying a planet for unknown reasons. You are sent to investigate why the Klingons are so concerned with a world of insignificant military value.

What you discover will alter your conceptions of the past and the present.

“Relics” is also the mission that won Foundry Challenge #4!

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), choose the ‘Available’ tab from the top, and then click on the ‘Community Authored’ tab to the left. Once in this menu, click the arrow at the top to bring down the search function and search for “Kirkfat”. Once the mission “Relics” by Kirkfat appears, click on it and press the ‘Hail’ button on the bottom-right of the Mission Journal to accept the mission.

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

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Welp, we have confirmation now that today is indeed the day that the update to Season 6 is going to the live server.  This means that we will have changes aplenty to the Foundry editor….once it is turned back on mind you. First I will direct your attention to this article, detailing the state of things once we get the game back up and unlocked.

Anyone wanting to participate in the fleet portion of Season 6 and that doesnt have a fleet, we at StarbaseUGC have created a fleet just for you! you can find information regarding this here.
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There is an update going out for Tribble. IT makes a number of changes, but as always, we are talk’n about the Foundry. Here are the highlights.

*Edit* There are also reports circulating that object limits got updated. The numbers originally stated are here, but initial reports are the object count is significantly higher, or including items counted under different budgets.

Foundry:
The Foundry editor has been re-opened!
There are some projects that will need to be edited before they can be republished, but most of them will auto-republish just fine.

• Multi-select has been added!
• Left-click now defaults to multi-select.
• This is changeable in the Map menu.
• Middle-click and space+left-click pan the map.
• There are additional behaviors available for contacts and NPC groups.
• Have fun!
• The controls in the costume editor have been updated.
• Image previews for ground objects and contacts are now in 3D.
• It’s a known issue that some of the image previews are cropped incorrectly for contacts.
• Mission flow has been changed.
• Rather than having map transitions created automatically, an author needs to manually place them.
• All objectives must be placed on a map.
• Maps cannot be placed inside Complete Alls.
• There is a new objective type: Dialog with Object.
• Added the ability to have no interact time for interact objectives.
• The name displayed in the reticle for interact objects is now labeled with the actual name specified for that object in the map editor.
• Boy that was hard to explain.
• The preview image for some of the alien artifacts no longer includes a bounding cylinder.
• The backdrop Template “Interior Sky Starfleet 01″ now works with the Utopia Planitia map.
• Updated the Utopia Planitia Foundry Map template.
• Removed the glass doors.
• Replaced the abominable starship with a single Nova class.
• Added the Utopia Planitia backdrop template to the Foundry.
• Dialog popups can no longer be set to “Objective Complete”.
• This unintended feature never actually functioned as expected.
• They can use “Component Complete” instead”.

Known Issues:

• Foundry: Not specifying a door for the first map transition is an error, but doesn’t result in an unfinished task.
• Foundry: The camera position for contacts is incorrect.
• There are portions of floor missing in Drozana and Treasure Trading Station.

The rest of the patchnotes can be found here.