{"id":26485,"date":"2026-06-21T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/?p=26485"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:48:50","slug":"the-hierarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/the-hierarch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hierarch in STFC: abilities, role, and best crews"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>What The Hierarch does in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Hierarch is an epic Engineering-class officer in Star Trek Fleet Command, and the public face of The Node, a Borg-adjacent faction built around stolen Borg tech and a rare element called Transogen. The captain ability and the officer ability both fire on round start against players, which is the simple signal that this is a PvP combat officer, not a mining or armada pick.<\/p>\n

Crew him in the captain seat and you are leaning into round-one burst damage. Slot him on the bridge and you are layering hard debuffs onto the opposing ship. Either way, the design points at short fights against player opponents, not protracted hostile grinds.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Star Trek background<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Hierarch does not come from an existing Star Trek series. Scopely introduced him with the original Node storyline in STFC. In the in-game lore, The Hierarch leads the Kis’yhn, a humanoid species the Borg assimilated and catalogued as Species 1862. One Kis’yhn proved incompatible with the Collective and held on to enough of an original identity to be a threat. The Borg Queen called that incompatibility a virus and tried to wall it off by severing the Kis’yhn contingent from the rest of the hivemind.<\/p>\n

The story goes that the severed Kis’yhn drifted back to their homeworld, found a substance called Transogen beneath the mantle, and used it to repurpose the Borg tech they had been forced into. The figure now styled as The Hierarch rose to lead them, and the Node was set against the Borg out of revenge. None of this comes from a canon series. Treat it as game-original, Trek-adjacent lore.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Role in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Hierarch is a PvP combat officer with a strong round-one tempo. Both abilities activate on round start and target players, which is the cleanest way the design tells you what fight to bring him into. He is not an armada officer, not a hostile killer, and not an economy buff. The Engineering class slots him into Borg-tech and Node-themed builds, and the round-one focus pushes you toward fights that end quickly.<\/p>\n

He sits at epic rarity, above commons and uncommons in the recruitment curve and below the legendary tier. Plan for 1,800 shards across all five ranks if you want him at his peak, with the largest single step at rank 4 to rank 5.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Captain ability and officer ability<\/span><\/h2>\n

Captain ability: Twisted Blade<\/h3>\n

Twisted Blade increases Shots against players on round start for two rounds. The single number worth quoting is the rank-1 value of 120 percent, with a maximum value of 200 percent when his class synergy is fully met. Those figures are current as of the latest game data and can shift with patches.<\/p>\n

This is not a captain ability where the bonus scales cleanly with promotion. Past rank 1, the in-game data does not present a clean per-rank curve for Twisted Blade, so the safer way to think about it is as one big round-one Shots bonus that gets larger when the captain seat is paired with a fully synergistic crew.<\/p>\n

Officer ability: Affliction<\/h3>\n

Affliction gives The Hierarch a chance to apply one of three status effects to the opposing player on round start, for two rounds: Hull Breach, Burning, or Assimilate. The chance to land the debuff rises as he ranks up. The point of the ability is the debuff stack on the enemy ship, since burning and hull breach both eat hull over time and assimilate is one of the more punishing statuses in the game.<\/p>\n

You get the most out of Affliction by putting The Hierarch on the bridge rather than in the captain seat, because the officer ability fires from any officer slot and stacks with whoever is captaining the ship.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Where The Hierarch shines<\/span><\/h2>\n

Three situations make sense for him.<\/p>\n

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  • Round-one PvP. Both abilities trigger at the start of round one, so fights you can win or break open in the first volley are where this officer earns his crew slot.<\/li>\n
  • Station defense in a Node or Borg-tech build. The debuff package fits crews built around hull damage and status effects, and the Engineering class lines up with the Node story.<\/li>\n
  • Pairs with synergy officers. The Hierarch has direct synergy with Nog and Ezri Dax, both at 40 percent as of the latest data. Slotting one or both onto the bridge is the simplest way to lift his ceiling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    <\/span>How to get The Hierarch<\/span><\/h2>\n

    The Hierarch is an epic-tier officer, so the route to recruit him will move with the live store and event calendar. Check the current event rotation for a recruit event, look at the relevant faction store, and watch officer pack availability. The full rank track requires 1,800 shards across the five ranks. The single biggest step is the 960-shard jump to push him from rank 4 to rank 5, which makes up more than half of the total spend.<\/p>\n

    If you cannot find him in your store rotation today, that does not mean he is gone. Recruit events for older epic officers come around again, and faction store stock turns over.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Synergies<\/span><\/h2>\n

    The Hierarch belongs to the Status Control Team synergy group. Two named synergy officers are listed for him on the game database: Nog at 40 percent and Ezri Dax at 40 percent, current as of the latest data. Putting either or both on the bridge with The Hierarch is the cleanest way to lift his ceiling, including the 200 percent maximum value on Twisted Blade.<\/p>\n

    Beyond those two, his class synergy is Engineering-flavored, so the captain seat picks up additional bonuses when other Engineering-class officers ride on the bridge. The specific Command, Engineering, and Science synergy percentages have not been published for this officer yet, so treat that part of the build conceptually until they are.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Frequently asked questions<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Is The Hierarch worth ranking up?<\/h3>\n

    If you are running a Node or Borg-tech PvP crew, yes, because his abilities both fire on round start and his officer ability gets more reliable with every promotion. If you are looking for a mining buff, an armada captain, or a faction grind helper, look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

    What ship is The Hierarch best on?<\/h3>\n

    He goes on the ship you take into PvP. The captain ability is a Shots multiplier, so battleships that already lean on Shots damage, or any ship you use against player opponents, fit the profile. There is no single best ship locked in; the choice follows the rest of your bridge.<\/p>\n

    Where do you get The Hierarch shards?<\/h3>\n

    Shards usually come through recruit events, faction store rotations, or officer pack drops. The specific live source changes, so check the current store and event rotations before you spend resources chasing him.<\/p>\n

    Is The Hierarch good for solo armadas?<\/h3>\n

    No, this officer is built around player combat. The abilities target players and trigger on round start, which does not line up with how solo armadas play out.<\/p>\n

    How many shards does The Hierarch need at max rank?<\/h3>\n

    1,800 shards total to reach rank 5. The cost climbs sharply at the top: 120, 120, 240, 360, and 960 shards for ranks 1 through 5 respectively.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Bottom line<\/span><\/h2>\n

    The Hierarch is a focused PvP officer for players running Node or Engineering-led builds. The captain ability gives a heavy Shots bonus on round one, the officer ability layers serious debuffs, and his synergy with Nog and Ezri Dax raises the ceiling further. If your fight ends on round one, he is one of the strongest epic options available to you. If it does not, build the rest of your bridge to make sure it does.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Full guide to The Hierarch in Star Trek Fleet Command: Twisted Blade, Affliction, synergies with Nog and Ezri Dax, and how to recruit him.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26521,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}