Ghost Walking is a Star Trek Fleet Command story mission with a station objective: upgrade your R&D Department to level 44. It sits inside the Progenitor storyline, between two long-range Missionen, yet it needs only warp 1 to start and finish, and the game lists a recommended level of 1. The reward is 100 100K Dilithium Tokens, and completing it unlocks Paths to Tread. The same building level is also the target of the separate R&D Department Level 44 mission.
Ghost Walking objectives
The story line asks you to upgrade Research & Development to level 44. There is one objective and no choice split:
- Upgrade R&D Department to level 44.
No system is named, no hostile is listed and nothing is donated. The mission clears when the F&E-Abteilung reaches level 44.
Wo und welcher Warp
Warp 1 to start and warp 1 to complete, with no pickup system. The whole mission happens on your station, even though the missions on either side of it take you out past warp 100.
The recommended level is listed as 1. The real gate is R&D Department 44, which is a long and expensive upgrade.
Ghost Walking rewards
The mission pays 100 100K Dilithium Tokens. Completing it also unlocks Zu beschreitende Pfade.
What R&D Department 44 takes
In current game data, the level 44 upgrade needs Operations 44, Akademie 44 and the research 4★ Tactical Battleships at level 1. It costs 11,199,600,000 Parsteel, 41,175,000 Dilithium, 6,500 4★ Rare Refined Gas and 1,000 4★ Uncommon Refined Gas, with an unboosted build time of 200d 17h 36m.
The same upgrade is also the objective of R&D Department Level 44, the station mission for this building, which pays 50 100K Dilithium Tokens and 60 8 Hour Speed Ups. Between the two missions, R&D 44 is tied to 150 100K Dilithium Tokens and 60 8 Hour Speed Ups.
Where it sits in the story
Ghost Walking follows Überbleibsel eines Traums, where you track down the origin of the Progenitor signal, and it leads into Paths to Tread, where you help Maia integrate with her Progenitor codebase.
| Mission | Warp zum Abschließen | Main task | Belohnungen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Überbleibsel eines Traums | 105 | Find the Progenitor signal in Wololo, defeat 15 hostiles of level 44 or higher | 9,405,000 Tritanium, 9 1M Tritanium Token |
| Geisterwanderung | 1 | Upgrade R&D Department to level 44 | 100 100K Dilithium Token |
| Zu beschreitende Pfade | 110 | Meet Scotty, follow the artifact to Ovala and Perralon 472, then deal with the Orion | 1,400 Ultra Recruit Token, or 85,500,000 Parsteel and 90 1M Parsteel Token, depending on your choice |
Ghost Walking is the pause in the middle. Paths to Tread ends with a choice: donate 16M Tritanium to the Orion, or fight them at roughly 2,726,322 strength.
Tips
Plan the R&D upgrade well ahead. At over 200 days unboosted, it is the slowest part of this stretch of the story by far, so line up the Parsteel, refined Gas and speed ups before you reach Ghost Walking.
Put the Dilithium Tokens toward the next upgrade. R&D 44 alone asks for over 41 million Dilithium, and higher levels ask for more.
