{"id":37427,"date":"2026-09-27T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/minerals-of-the-frontier\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:01:30","slug":"minerals-of-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/minerals-of-the-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerals of the Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minerals of the Frontier is a level 62 mission in Star Trek Fleet Command that sets you up to mine the Mortican Frontier. It needs only warp 1 to start and finish and has two objectives: build a 6* UNC Survey Ship and claim its survey chest, then mine 2,000 \u03a3-Parsteel. The reward is 1 Optolythic <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/daten\/\"   title=\"Offiziersdaten\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21113\">Daten<\/a> Rod and 288,000 Raw \u03a3-Tritanium, and finishing it unlocks <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/why-cant-we-be-friends\/\">Why Can&#8217;t We Be Friends?<\/a> It is a quick mission if you already have the materials for the ship.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Minerals_of_the_Frontier_objectives\"><\/span>Minerals of the Frontier objectives<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are two objectives and no choice split:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build a 6* UNC Survey Ship and claim the UNC Survey Chest.<\/li>\n<li>Mine 2000 \u03a3-Parsteel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Howards has been studying the Frontier and thinks the minerals there are unusual in a geological sense, with chemical makeups unlike anything he has seen. He has drawn up designs for a survey ship to study them. Once you build it, he points you to the Gift section to claim the 6* <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/tag\/uncommon-officers\/\"   title=\"Ungew\u00f6hnliche Beamte\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21112\">Ungew\u00f6hnlich<\/a> Survey Chest, which he says will help him check the ship&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>The second step is a test run. Howards asks for 2,000 \u03a3-Parsteel so he can work out what makes the material special, and the mission ends once you have mined it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Where_and_what_warp\"><\/span>Wo und welcher Warp<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>No pickup system and no locations are named, and warp 1 covers the start and the finish. The mining step can be done wherever you find \u03a3-Parsteel. The recommended level is 62.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Minerals_of_the_Frontier_rewards\"><\/span>Minerals of the Frontier rewards<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Belohnung<\/th>\n<th>Amount<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Optolythic Data Rod<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Raw \u03a3-<a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/tritanium\/\">Tritanium<\/a><\/td>\n<td>288,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Completing the mission also unlocks the next one in the storyline, Why Can&#8217;t We Be Friends?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Minerals_of_the_Frontier_and_its_neighbours\"><\/span>Minerals of the Frontier and its neighbours<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Frontier missions continue the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/hauptstoryline-missionen\/\">main storyline<\/a> beyond level 60. This one sits between two exploration missions, all at level 62:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Mission<\/th>\n<th>Warp to start \/ complete<\/th>\n<th>Belohnungen<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Ventures (previous)<\/td>\n<td>1 \/ 900<\/td>\n<td>Depends on the choice: 33,000 6\u2605 Raw <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/erze\/\"   title=\"Roherz\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21114\">Erze<\/a> and 80,000 Raw \u03a3-Parsteel, or 57,500 Concentrated Latinum and 80,000 Raw \u03a3-Tritanium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Minerals of the Frontier<\/td>\n<td>1 \/ 1<\/td>\n<td>1 Optolythic Data Rod, 288,000 Raw \u03a3-Tritanium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Why Can&#8217;t We Be Friends? (next)<\/td>\n<td>1 \/ 900<\/td>\n<td>Depends on the choice; each path pays 483,000 of a Raw \u03a3 resource plus 700 6\u2605 Common Refined Ore, 100,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/parsteel\/\">Parsteel<\/a> or 1 U.S.S. Discovery Scale Replica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This is the only one of the three that needs no long warp, since the objectives are a build and a mining run rather than travel.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tips\"><\/span>Tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Claim the chest as soon as the ship is built. The first objective only clears when both halves are done, so a finished ship with an unclaimed chest will leave you stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Put the new survey ship straight onto a \u03a3-Parsteel node for the second step. <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/the-frontier\/\">The Frontier<\/a> is the level 61 mission that first takes you into the Mortican Frontier, and other missions by level are listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/missionsleitfaden\/\">mission guide<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minerals of the Frontier in STFC: a level 62 warp 1 mission. Build the 6* UNC Survey Ship, mine 2,000 \u03a3-Parsteel and earn Raw \u03a3-Tritanium.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-37427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-missions","tag-neutral-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427","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=37427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39120,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions\/39120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}