{"id":6172,"date":"2022-07-11T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:53:45","slug":"khan-noonien-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/khan-noonien-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Offizier Khan Noonien Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Khan Noonien Singh at a glance<\/span><\/h2>\n

Khan in STFC is an Epic Command officer with one specialist job and one supporting job. The specialist job is station offense. As captain, his Ruthless Mastermind ability can wipe most of the opposing station and platforms’ mitigation for two rounds, opening a window where damage stops getting soaked.<\/p>\n

The supporting job is sitting on the bridge of a high-damage attacker. His officer ability, Savage Tenacity, stacks critical hit chance every time the ship gets hit, which suits fights that drag past a few rounds.<\/p>\n

He belongs to the Augment faction and the Khan’s Crew synergy group. His named synergy partners include Joachim, Marla McGivers, Otto, Kati, Navi, and Pan, all at 25% synergy with him.<\/p>\n

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

Khan Noonien Singh first appeared in the 1967 TOS episode Space Seed, played by Ricardo Montalban, then returned in 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He is a 20th-century Augment, a genetically engineered superhuman who, during the Eugenics Wars, controlled large parts of Earth before being driven off the planet in 1996. He and his followers slept through almost three centuries aboard the SS Botany Bay<\/a> before the USS Enterprise found them.<\/p>\n

Spock<\/a> once called Khan the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. The Kelvin-timeline film Star Trek Into Darkness used the same character under the alias John Harrison<\/a>, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and the 2025 audio drama Star Trek: Khan re-cast the role with Naveen Andrews.<\/p>\n

The lore card in STFC leans on the Kelvin-timeline version. The in-game flavor text describes Admiral Marcus reviving Khan from cryo, wiping his memories, and using him as a covert asset. Khan eventually broke free, killed Marcus, and turned on the F\u00f6deration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Khan is an Epic, Command-class officer in the Augment faction and the Khan’s Crew synergy group. The card has two distinct jobs, and most players use him for the first one before discovering the second.<\/p>\n

The first job is station offense. With Khan in the captain seat, attacking an enemy station gives him a 50% chance to drastically reduce the opposing station and its defense platforms’ mitigation for two rounds. Mitigation absorbs a chunk of incoming damage at the top of every base hit, so stripping it lets the rest of your crew do their normal damage without the usual soak.<\/p>\n

The second job is bridge officer on an attacking ship. His ability stacks crit chance every round his ship gets hit, which suits long fights where you want each volley to land harder than the last.<\/p>\n

He is not a hostile-killer specialist or an economy officer. Outside of station hits and crit-building, there are usually stronger picks for the job.<\/p>\n

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

Ruthless Mastermind (captain)<\/h3>\n

When you attack a station with Khan as captain, his ability rolls a 50% chance at the start of combat to drastically reduce the mitigation of the opponent’s station and all of its defense platforms for two rounds. The roll happens once per attack, so plan around getting either the strip or no strip.<\/p>\n

The public Daten<\/a> sources publish per-rank numbers for this ability, but for Khan only the rank-1 value is reliable; the rank 2-5 entries are zeros or filler in the source data. In practice that means: the rank-1 strip is already big, ranking him up makes it bigger, and any specific rank-5 percentage you see floating around isn’t trustworthy. Play the ability for whether the 50% roll lands, not for a target damage number.<\/p>\n

Savage Tenacity (officer)<\/h3>\n

Every time Khan’s ship takes a hit from a ship or defense platform, Khan adds to the ship’s crit hit chance. The bonus stacks across rounds. Weapons that fire multiple shots only trigger the bonus once per attack.<\/p>\n

The per-rank stack is consistent across the public game data and the existing wiki, current as of the latest data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rang<\/th>\nCrit chance per hit<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Even at rank 1 the stack accumulates over a sustained fight. At rank 5 a long brawl can push crit chance high quickly, which is why he works best on ships that already crit hard.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Where Khan shines<\/span><\/h2>\n

Three places he earns his slot.<\/p>\n

Hitting enemy stations. His captain ability is the headline reason to bring him. If you’re prepping a base hit and want a higher chance the damage lands, Khan in the captain seat is the obvious pick on Augment ships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Long combat. Savage Tenacity wants time to stack. Hostile grinding and PVP fights that stretch past a couple of rounds give him a chance to actually pile up crit chance. He is a worse fit for one-shot kills where the fight ends before the ability does anything.<\/p>\n

Augment-themed builds. The Khan’s Crew synergy group is mostly closed to other Augment Offiziere<\/a>, so a full Khan’s Crew bridge will outperform a mixed bridge when the captain seat is Khan. If you have the shards, his pairs make sense.<\/p>\n

<\/span>How to get Khan Noonien Singh<\/span><\/h2>\n

Khan has historically lived in Augment-faction sourcing: the Augment Faction Store and Augment-themed mission lines. He has also rotated into officer chest events, Khan’s Challengers content for OPS 40+ players, and Officer Depot offers during Wrath of Khan content cycles. Specific availability shifts. Check the current store rotations, the in-game event schedule, and Recruit Token offers before committing real currency to him.<\/p>\n

Shard totals for reference: 110 shards to recruit at rank 1, another 110 to reach rank 2, 220 to reach rank 3, 330 to reach rank 4, and 880 to reach rank 5. That is 1,650 shards from first recruitment through max rank, with the rank-5 promotion costing more than every earlier rank combined.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Synergies and crew building<\/span><\/h2>\n

Khan’s class-synergy bonus is Command 10%, Engineering 25%, and Science 25%. The Engineering and Science numbers are big for an Epic captain, so his best crews tend to include at least one strong Engineering officer and a Science officer rather than packing the bridge with Command-class names.<\/p>\n

The named synergy bonuses inside the Khan’s Crew group are usable for crew planning:<\/p>\n