Why Can’t We Be Friends? is a level 62 main storyline mission in Star Trek Fleet Befehl, set in the Mortican Frontier. You answer a distress call from the USS Palomo and end up caught between a Starfleet captain, a Klingon captain and a Romulan commander, with three ways to pick a side. It starts at warp 1 with no pickup system and needs warp 900 to complete. Each choice pays 483,000 of a different raw Σ resource, and finishing it unlocks A Fool’s Hope.
Why Can’t We Be Friends? objectives
The first four objectives are shared:
- Find the USS Palomo. Location: Yunii.
- Defeat 12 hostiles of level 60 or higher.
- Regroup. Location: Stellastica.
- Was sollen wir tun?
Captain Kennedy’s Palomo is surrounded by unflagged ships that are poorly fitted for combat, and one of their pilots is raving as you drive them off. When the Palomo regroups in Stellastica, seven Klingon ships under Kunas decloak to avenge an old defeat, and then the Romulan commander Tunal arrives to catch both of them at once. Kunas and Kennedy each ask you to join them, and Tunal is open to help too. Each of the three paths has two fights in Stellastica.
Aid the Federation
- Defeat the Klingon ship. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,391,917,710).
- Defeat the Romulan ship. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,367,690,171).
Kennedy holds off the Romulans while you take on Kunas, then you help the damaged Palomo finish the Romulan ship. Kennedy loses fourteen crew and says something seems to have possessed the attackers. Rewards: 700 6★ Common Refined Ore and 483,000 Raw Σ-Tritanium.
Aid the Klingons
- Defeat the Palomo. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,534,007,028).
- Defeat the Romulan ship. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,367,690,171).
You turn on the Palomo, then help Kunas destroy the Romulans. Afterwards Maia notes that Kunas is acting erratically and may share the madness seen elsewhere on the Frontier. Rewards: 100,000,000 Parsteel and 483,000 Raw Σ-Dilithium.
Aid the Romulans
- Defeat the Klingon ship. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,391,917,710).
- Defeat the Palomo. Location: Stellastica (enemy strength about 3,534,007,028).
Tunal leaves Kunas to you and then asks for help finishing Kennedy. Rewards: 1 U.S.S. Discovery Scale Replica and 483,000 Raw Σ-Parsteel.
Wo und welcher Warp
There is no pickup system, so warp 1 is enough to accept the mission. Warp 900 is needed to complete it: you start in Yunii and every fight after the choice is in Stellastica. The 12 hostile kills have no fixed system. The recommended level is 62.
Why Can’t We Be Friends? rewards
| Path | Belohnungen |
|---|---|
| Aid the Federation | 700 6★ Gemeinsame Refined Ore, 483,000 Raw Σ-Tritanium |
| Aid the Klingons | 100,000,000 Parsteel, 483,000 Raw Σ-Dilithium |
| Aid the Romulans | 1 U.S.S. Discovery Scale Replica, 483,000 Raw Σ-Parsteel |
No path gives or takes faction points. Completing any of them unlocks A Fool’s Hope, where you meet representatives of the major factions.
Tips
Choose by the raw resource you need, since the amount is the same on every path. Aid the Federation is the Tritanium option, Aid the Klingons the Dilithium option and Aid the Romulans the Parsteel option.
All three paths have two fights between about 3.37 and 3.53 billion strength. The Palomo is the toughest target at about 3.53 billion, so the Federation path, which never fights it, has the lightest pair of fights.
The mission comes after Minerals of the Frontier in the storyline. The storyline first reaches the Mortican Frontier in The Frontier at level 61, and earlier chapters are listed on the main storyline page. The factions involved are covered on the Föderation, Klingonisch und Romulanisch pages, and more missions by level are on the mission guide.