{"id":37467,"date":"2026-09-27T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/developing-minds\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:02:54","slug":"developing-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/developing-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing Minds is a level 62 station mission in Star Trek Fleet Command with a single objective: upgrade your R&amp;D Department to level 62. It needs only warp 1 to start and finish, so the upgrade itself is the whole task. The reward is 5,875,000,000 Tritanium and 180,000 Raw \u03a3-<a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/parsteel\/\"   title=\"Parsteel\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21186\">Parsteel<\/a>, and completing it unlocks <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/the-secret-of-violence\/\">The Secret of Violence<\/a>. It pays well for an upgrade you need anyway.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developing_Minds_objectives\"><\/span>Developing Minds objectives<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With the quadrant sliding into violence, your officer recommends putting more into Research and Development. There is one objective and no choice split:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade R&amp;D Department to level 62.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No system, hostile or donation is involved. The mission completes the moment the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/rd-abteilung\/\">F&amp;E-Abteilung<\/a> reaches level 62.<\/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>Warp 1 to start and warp 1 to complete, with no pickup system. The recommended level is 62, and the real gate is the building upgrade.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developing_Minds_rewards\"><\/span>Developing Minds 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>Tritanium<\/td>\n<td>5,875,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Raw \u03a3-Parsteel<\/td>\n<td>180,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Completing the mission also unlocks the next story mission, The Secret of Violence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_R_D_Department_62_costs\"><\/span>What R&amp;D Department 62 costs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The upgrade needs <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/operationen\/\">Operations<\/a> 62 and Academy 62 in place first. Its listed cost and base build time:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Kosten<\/th>\n<th>Amount<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u03a3-Parsteel<\/td>\n<td>532,440<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6\u2605 <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=\"21184\">Ungew\u00f6hnlich<\/a> Raffiniertes Gas<\/td>\n<td>6,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6\u2605 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/tag\/common-officers\/\"   title=\"Gemeinsame Beamte\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21183\">Gemeinsame<\/a> Veredelter Kristall<\/td>\n<td>6,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u03a3-<a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/dilithium\/\"   title=\"Dilithium\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21185\">Dilithium<\/a><\/td>\n<td>3,915<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Base build time<\/td>\n<td>78 days 48 minutes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The step either side shows how fast the cost climbs. Level 61 lists 348,840 \u03a3-Parsteel and a base build time of about 57 days 19 hours, while level 63 jumps to 1,567,940 \u03a3-Parsteel and about 105 days 8 hours, and also asks for Dilithium Vault 63.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developing_Minds_in_the_storyline\"><\/span>Developing Minds in the storyline<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The missions on either side are also level 62 and also finish at warp 1. The warp jump comes two steps later, at Standoff.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Mission<\/th>\n<th>Ebene<\/th>\n<th>Warp to complete<\/th>\n<th>Belohnungen<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/who-wants-to-begin\/\">Who Wants to Begin?<\/a> (previous)<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>5,170,000,000 Tritanium, 324,000 Raw \u03a3-Parsteel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Developing Minds<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>5,875,000,000 Tritanium, 180,000 Raw \u03a3-Parsteel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Secret of Violence (next)<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>400 \u03a3-Dilithium, 104,000 Raw \u03a3-Parsteel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tips\"><\/span>Tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Operations 62 should already be done. <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/ever-expanding\/\">Ever Expanding<\/a>, six missions earlier in the same story, asks for exactly that upgrade, so the only other prerequisite to check is <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/akademie\/\"   title=\"Akademie\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"21182\">Akademie<\/a> 62.<\/p>\n<p>Put the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/tritanium\/\">Tritanium<\/a> straight back into the station. At almost 5.9 billion it is the largest Tritanium payout in this stretch of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The other building upgrade missions are listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/forschungs-und-aufbauende-missionen\/\">Research and Building missions<\/a>, earlier story chapters are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/hauptstoryline-missionen\/\">main storyline missions<\/a> page, and every mission by level is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/missionsleitfaden\/\">mission guide<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing Minds in STFC: a level 62 station mission to upgrade R&#038;D Department to 62. Upgrade cost, 5.875 billion Tritanium reward and what comes next.<\/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-37467","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\/37467","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=37467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39138,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions\/39138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}