Shoulders of Giants is a level 61 Föderation faction mission in Star Trek Fleet Command. You help Telma, a stranded researcher for the Federation Wissenschaft Council, find a Progenitor graveyard in Yunii and reach an intact Progenitor ship. You pick it up in Lorraine and need warp 900 to start and to complete. When the ship’s defences wake up, you either abandon Telma or hold off the attack until Telma gets out. Both paths pay 3,600 Federation Credits and 404,000 of a raw Σ resource.
It is a different mission from Auf den Schultern von Giganten, a short Borg story mission with a similar name.
Shoulders of Giants objectives
The first four steps are shared:
- Find the Progenitor graveyard. Location: Yunii.
- Follow the Progenitor trail. Location: Yunii.
- Beam Telma aboard the Progenitor ship. Location: Yunii.
- Was sollen wir tun?
Telma’s ship has broken down two weeks into an assignment to find the artifacts of an ancient race, so you offer help. The trail leads to a Progenitor transmission explaining that their fleet lost a war against a people they call the Alphas and sent their greatest achievement, the Archive, to hidden coordinates. There you find an intact Progenitor ship behind a dark moon. Telma beams aboard and heads for its core, and then twelve crewless Progenitor vessels power up their weapons and target you.
Abandon Telma
- Kehren Sie zu Ihrer Station zurück.
You leave Telma behind. Telma does not survive, and the Archive is lost too.
Rescue Telma
- Defeat 12 hostiles of level 60 or higher.
- Kehren Sie zu Ihrer Station zurück.
You hold the Progenitor ships off while Telma finishes. Telma comes back with the Daten, though it is heavily encrypted and will take the Science Council years to crack.
Wo und welcher Warp
The mission is picked up in Lorraine and needs warp 900 to start and to complete. Every located step is in Yunii, and both paths end back at your station. The recommended level is 61.
Shoulders of Giants rewards
Both paths share 3,600 Federation Credits, 104,000,000 Federation Points, -228,384,000 Klingonisch Points and -50,752,000 Romulan Points. The rest depends on the choice:
| Path | Other rewards |
|---|---|
| Abandon Telma | 600 6★ Common Refined Kristall, 404,000 Raw Σ-Parsteel |
| Rescue Telma | 548,780,488 Parsteel, 404,000 Raw Σ-Tritanium |
Other level 61 Federation missions
| Mission | Pickup | Warp to complete | Main rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoulders of Giants | Lorraine | 900 | Depends on the choice |
| Tribbles & Tremors | Euryodite-731 | 900 | 1 Aamaarazan Breathing Mask, 310,000 Raw Σ-Parsteel |
| Sinister Machinations | Euryodite-731 | 900 | 57,500 Concentrated Latinum, 425,000 Raw Σ-Dilithium |
| On the Horizon | Solas Astra | 900 | 512,000 Raw Σ-Tritanium, 213,000 6★ Raw Gas |
| Lost Histories | Solas Astra | 900 | Depends on the choice |
Shoulders of Giants is the only one of these picked up in Lorraine.
Tips
Abandoning Telma is the quickest route: no fights and an immediate trip home. The first half of the mission is travel and story in Yunii, so the whole run can be done by a ship that never fires a shot.
The rescue costs a 12-kill grind against hostiles of level 60 or higher, with no named boss. In return you get Raw Σ-Tritanium and ordinary Parsteel instead of Raw Σ-Parsteel and Refined Crystal. The 600 Refined Crystal is the reason to consider the abandon path if you are short on it.
Both choices move your standings by the same amount, and the Klingon loss of 228,384,000 points is the largest of the three. See Fraktionsruf for how those points work, and the mission guide for more missions by level.