Upgrade Operations to Level 5 is an early station mission in Star Trek Fleet Command with a single objective: raise your Operations building to level 5. It starts and finishes at warp 1, the game lists a recommended level of 1, and there is no fight or travel involved. The reward is 75 Tritanium and one 1 Minute Repair Speed Up, and finishing it unlocks Construct the R&D Department. It is a tutorial step that pays you for an upgrade the station needs anyway.
Upgrade Operations to Level 5 objectives
The mission’s story line describes Operations as the home of the Command center and the Station’s main computer. There is one objective and no choice split:
- Upgrade Operations to Level 5.
No system is named and no hostile is listed. The mission clears the moment Operations finishes its level 5 upgrade.
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Warp 1 to start and warp 1 to complete. Everything happens on your station, so no ship has to leave dock.
The recommended level is 1. In practice the gate is the building requirement for Operations 5, covered below.
Upgrade Operations to Level 5 rewards
| Belohnung | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tritanium | 75 |
| 1 Minute Repair Speed Up | 1 |
Completing the mission also unlocks the next station mission, Construct the R&D Department.
What Operations 5 costs
Current building data puts the Operations level 5 upgrade at 400 Parsteel with a 15 minute build time. Its one requirement is Parsteel Warehouse level 4, which is why the mission before this one in the station sequence is Aufrüstung des Parsteel-Lagers auf Stufe 4.
Operations also carries a Weapon Damage Bonus for all your ships that grows with each upgrade, and the building data lists it at 5% at level 5. Level 5 is one of the two requirements for placing the Shipyard; the other is R&D Department level 4.
Where this mission sits in the station sequence
| Bestellung | Mission | Belohnung |
|---|---|---|
| Before | Upgrade Parsteel Warehouse to Level 4 | 40 Tritanium |
| This mission | Upgrade der Operationen auf Stufe 5 | 75 Tritanium, 1 × 1 Minute Repair Speed Up |
| Next | Construct the R&D Department | 25 Tritanium |
| After that | Upgrade R&D Department to Level 2 | 30 Tritanium |
How Level 5 compares with nearby Operations missions
Every Operations level has its own mission. The early ones pay small amounts that climb steadily:
| Mission | Tritanium | 1 Minute Repair Speed Ups |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrade der Operationen auf Stufe 3 | 30 | 0 |
| Upgrade der Operationen auf Stufe 5 | 75 | 1 |
| Upgrade der Operationen auf Stufe 6 | 100 | 1 |
| Upgrade Operations to Level 7 | 170 | 2 |
| Upgrade der Operationen auf Stufe 8 | 350 | 3 |
Level 5 is the first Operations mission in this range to add a repair speed up to the Tritanium. By level 8 the Tritanium has more than quadrupled.
Tips
Upgrade the Parsteel Warehouse first. Operations 5 will not start until the warehouse is at level 4, and the warehouse mission pays its own 40 Tritanium on the way.
The 15 minute build is short enough to finish during a single session, so queue it before you go out on your first few hostile runs.
Bank the Tritanium. Early upgrades run on Parsteel, but Tritanium shows up in the costs soon after: Shipyard level 10 asks for 150 and Operations level 10 asks for 225, so the small mission payouts add up to something useful.
More station and story missions are listed by level on the Missionsleitfaden.
