This week, we discuss the spotlight along with our thoughts of Star Trek Into Darkness! Then we review The Tangled Webs We Weave.

Mission Title : Waiting for the Light

Author : @Kirkfat

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

Mining Outpost 47 is requesting your assistance. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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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.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

Mission Title : Alpha Flight

Author : @RemairTamec

Faction : Federation

Level Requirements : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

You have been selected for the prestigious Alpha Flight course, the Federation’s most elite pilot training program. Drawn from around the Federation and its allies, Alpha Flight pushes the quadrant’s best pilots to their limits. As stakes rise, egos clash and safety protocols are pushed to the wayside, you realize not everyone is cut out for the course, and only a handful will graduate to receive the golden wings. Will you be another dropout, a line on a memorial plaque, or will you meet the challenge and prove that you are the best pilot the Federation has to offer?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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We survived the server outages to bring you Foundry news for the week and a review of Hero of the Empire!

Mission Title : You Don’t Know When It’s Real

Author : @Chipertuesday

Faction : Federation

Level Requirements : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

After a tough mission in which you cooperated with the Enterprise-F, you and your crew go back to earth for a shore leave. Since you have no specific plan for the holiday, when your bridge officers invite you to join a hologram small craft racing game, you accept their offer. It was all enjoyable at first, but then it goes wrong and you suddenly realize that you are now in something more than a simulation…

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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Mission Title : Protector

Author : @terinvorta

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

A temporal anomaly has appeared on the edge of Sector 001, broadcasting a distress call. Your mission? Find and save the originator of the distress call. But all is not as it appears…

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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New tribble notes contain the following updates to the Foundry!

Foundry:

• Changeling NPC Contacts now have more visual variety.
• Added visual variety to Klingon TOS NPC Contacts.
• Resolved the issue that prevented players from purchasing additional Foundry slots.
• Players will no longer receive mission rewards while in preview mode.
• The ground Away Team will no longer appear upon previewing Space maps.
• Added new NPC Groups to the Foundry:
  • Elachi Ground
  • Elachi Space
  • Reman Rebellion Ground
  • Reman Rebellion Space
  • Romulan Republic Ground
  • Romulan Republic Space
• Added Elachi and EV Tholian NPC Contacts.
• Resolved an issue where all dialogs on a map would be copied to all objects during map duplication.
• The waypoint for a Reach Marker Task is no longer larger than the actual in-game area of activation.

Mission Title : Inner Space

Author : @rsmudger / @rickysmith1

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

A huge Zone of Darkness has been detected deep within Cardassian Space on a direct course that intercepts many highly populated planets from Cardassia Prime to New Romulas.

It is so vast it shifts the gravity-well of local stars and can block out all sensor readings in and around entire star systems.

Visual recordings of the engulfed star have revealed there IS a body at the center of this veil and several Cardassian ships have gone missing attempting to intercept it.

Now Starfleet has made it ‘your turn’ to face this Goliath, What lies at the center of this blackness, why is it destroying life and are you ready to go where no man has gone before?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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Editor’s note: This review is the first in a series of Foundry Challenge reviews. Please encourage Rellim to continue with his review series.

Mission Title : Beneath the Skin

Author : @P_Sutherland

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 16+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

While your ship is in port being repaired and upgraded. Starfleet wants you to re-chart a system inside the Delta Volanis Cluster. The last ship to visit the system was a colony freighter in 2398. Since then the Federation colony has received few guests. Head into the Delta Volanis Cluster to begin your mission. A routine assignment. What could go wrong?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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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.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

In the official announcement, BranFlakes sends us forth in our shuttles to pick a winner.  Go forth and play these missions!  From today until Wednesday, May 29th at 10AM PDT, voting will be open.

So, without future ado, here is the list of entrants (along with the background story):
Small Craft Escapades

For this Foundry Challenge, create a mission that features content designed for and around a player being in a small craft (shuttle, fighter, etc). There is no background story you must build off of, so feel free to get as creative as you’d like.
Foundry Challenge #7 Entry Missions:

Mission Title: Beneath the Skin
Player @Handle: @P_Sutherland
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: While your ship is in port being repaired and upgraded. Starfleet wants you to re-chart a system inside the Delta Volanis Cluster. The last ship to visit the system was a colony freighter in 2398. Since then the Federation colony has received few guests. Head into the Delta Volanis Cluster to begin your mission.

A routine assignment. What could go wrong?

Note: This mission is designed for a single player.

 

Mission Title: Inner Space
Player @Handle: @rsmudger
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: A huge Zone of Darkness has been detected deep within Cardassian Space on a direct course that intercepts many highly populated planets from Cardassia Prime to New Romulas.

It is so vast it shifts the gravity-well of local stars and can block out all sensor readings in and around entire star systems.

Visual recordings of the engulfed star have revealed there IS a body at the center of this veil and several Cardassian ships have gone missing attempting to intercept it.

Now Starfleet has made it ‘your turn’ to face this Goliath, What lies at the center of this blackness, why is it destroying life and are you ready to go where no man has gone before?

 

Mission Title: Protector
Player @Handle: @terinvorta
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: A temporal anomaly has appeared on the edge of Sector 001, broadcasting a distress call.Your mission? Find and save the originator of the distress call. But all is not as it appears…

 

Mission Title: You don’t know when it’s real
Player @Handle: @Ciphertuesday
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: After a tough mission in which you cooperated with the Enterprise-F, you and your crew go back to earth for a shore leave. Since you have no specific plan for the holiday, when your bridge officers invite you to join a hologram small craft racing game, you accept their offer. It was all enjoyable at first, but then it goes wrong and you suddenly realize that you are now in something more than a simulation…

 

 

Mission Title: Alpha Flight
Player @Handle: @RemairTamec
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: You have been selected for the prestigious Alpha Flight course, the Federation’s most elite pilot training program. Drawn from around the Federation and it’s allies, Alpha Flight pushes the quadrant’s best pilots to their limits. As stakes rise, egos clash and safety protocols are pushed to the wayside you realise not everyone is cut out for the course, and only a handful will graduate to receive the golden wings. Will you be another dropout, a line on a memorial plaque or will you meet the challenge and prove that you are the best pilot the Federation has to offer?.

Mission Title: Waiting for the Light
Player @Handle: @Kirkfat
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: Mining Outpost 47 is requesting your assistance. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

Mission Title: Sarita
Player @Handle: @T1N1
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: Humanitarian / Diplomatic type mission.

Mission Title: Uninvited Guests
Player @Handle: @sirboulevard
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: The incident with Admiral Zelle has left the Federation on a precarious edge with the Romulan Star Empire. With a rising rebellion in the form of the Romulan Republic and the beginning of diplomatic relations between the two nations, forces in the shadows may try to stop it before it gets too far.

 

Mission Title: Shadows of Omega
Player @Handle: @fnordbear
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: While on a standard patrol an eyes-only message is received by the Captain. The Omega Protocol has been activated. You are to travel to the Pilatus system and from there rendezvous with the U.S.S Ursa Major for further orders.

 

 

Mission Title: Cloaked Loyalties
Player @Handle: @edwinsterling
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Not Listed
Mission Summary: A strange request sends you, just you on a shuttle mission deep into the heart of Romulan Space.

Will YOU return at all

 

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Feel free to continue using this thread to discuss the missions above.

Good luck to all of our authors, and for our reviewers, have fun and boldly go!

Waiting for the Light
Fed 31+
A Shuttle Mission
(Contest Entry for Challenge #7)

by Kirkfat

Description: Mining Station 47 is sending out a distress call. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

Estimated playtime: 35 minutes.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to point out typos.

In this week’s episode we’ll cover the week’s news as there’s been another Foundry reward change to crush the latest exploit. Then we review Depths of Nukara Prime.

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.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

From this thread:

General:

• Foundry mission rewards have been updated.
  • Players will only receive rewards for one mission at a time, once per hour.

Also, more updates in these notes:

Foundry:

• Waypoints for contacts on Earth Spacedock have been adjusted so they are correct now.
• The Foundry contacts in Qo’noS First City now have they waypoints pointing to them again.
• Replaced the missing “to” in Bridge Officer dialog descriptions.
• Removed all reference to attachment sidedness for Borg NPC Contacts.
• Renamed some of the Tellarite NPC Contacts to reflect the fact that they are alien, and not Tellarite.

Tune in for some quick Foundry News and a review of the final part of Captain Revo’s Klingon series, Into the Nightmare!

In this thread, the following updates have gone to Tribble:

Foundry:

• Updated the following template maps so that they will have proper pathing information after they are published:
  • Argelius II Interior
  • Borg Interior 02
  • Briarpatch Research Interior
  • Cardassian Interior 02
  • Ice Caves Interior 03
  • Kassae Station Interior
• Added an “Alien” option to the species dropdown menu for both ground and space NPC Groups.

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

Short editorial:  This week’s spotlight goes to a Cryptic dev who took time to make a great Foundry mission.

We at SBUGC congratulate the mission.

Also, we really hope that H20rat gets well soon.  He is fighting mouth cancer.

I would like to encourage all Foundry authors and players to give more than a dilithium tip for his spotlight.  Please make a donation here.

Repost from STO:

This week’s spotlighted mission is “The Rising Phoenix – Part One“ by h2orat.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 41+
Mission Summary: This mission is inspired by epic Trek events that require the best of the best to answer the call and save the day. It includes those Kirk, Sisko and Picard moments where the galaxy’s fate balances on the edge of a knife. Duty and sacrifice are your watchwords… Do you have what it takes to save the Federation?

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.