A Bad Crowd is a Discovery story mission in Star Trek Fleet Command, recommended for level 25. It opens at warp 1 and needs only warp 8 to complete, since everything happens in the Orion system. You investigate a ship sighting, fight off a mercenary ship of about 131,625 strength, then interrogate the mercenary. The reward is 250 3★ Battleship Parts and 11 15 Minute Repair Speed Ups, and finishing it unlocks Hot and Cold. It is a short mission with one real fight.
A Bad Crowd objectives
There are three objectives, all in one system, and no choice split:
- Investigate the sighting. Location: Orion.
- Defend yourself from the mercenary ship. Location: Orion. Enemy strength is roughly 131,625.
- Interrogate the mercenary. Location: Orion.
The opening step is travel only. Once you arrive in Orion to investigate, the mercenary attacks, and that fight is the whole combat side of the mission. With the mercenary beaten, the last objective is to interrogate them, still in Orion.
Because the three steps share a system, A Bad Crowd is a single trip with no hopping between systems.
Where and what warp
A Bad Crowd has no pickup system in the data. It opens at warp 1 and needs warp 8 to complete, and Orion is the only system involved. The recommended level is 25, and the mercenary at about 131,625 is the one check on whether your ship is ready.
There is no return-to-station step, so the mission ends with your ship still in Orion.
A Bad Crowd rewards
| Reward | Amount |
|---|---|
| 3★ Battleship Parts | 250 |
| 15 Minute Repair Speed Up | 11 |
Completing A Bad Crowd also unlocks Hot and Cold.
A Bad Crowd and Cornered Animal compared
The mission before this one is Cornered Animal, also recommended for level 25.
| Mission | Warp to complete | Systems | Combat | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornered Animal | 20 | Amagi, Jizo | 8 hostiles of level 23 or higher | 385,000 Parsteel, 6 3★ Uncommon Refined Crystal |
| A Bad Crowd | 8 | Orion | One mercenary ship, about 131,625 | 250 3★ Battleship Parts, 11 15 Minute Repair Speed Up |
Cornered Animal spreads its combat over 8 kills and covers two systems. A Bad Crowd drops the warp from 20 to 8 and puts everything into one fight. The rewards shift from Parsteel to Battleship Parts.
Tips
Bring a combat ship, not a miner. The first and last steps are travel and dialogue, but the mercenary at about 131,625 decides the mission.
Use the repair speed ups on the ship that fought the mercenary. Eleven of them come to 2 hours and 45 minutes of repair time in total.
The 250 3★ Battleship Parts are the main reward, so the mission matters most if you are working on a 3★ battleship.
For the rest of the Discovery storyline, see the Discovery arc page, and for every mission by level, the mission guide.
