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<\/span>Officer Mudd at a glance<\/span><\/h2>\n

Officer Mudd is the Star Trek: Discovery version of Harry Mudd, a Science-class Epic from the Mudd’s Company group. He plays as a fragile-looking captain who is actually hard to kill in the opening rounds, then closes fights early with a double-shot officer ability.<\/p>\n

This guide covers his Captain Maneuver, his officer ability, the Mudd’s Company synergy bonuses, his character traits, and how to get him in Star Trek Fleet Command.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Who Mudd is in Star Trek canon<\/span><\/h2>\n

Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd is a 23rd-century con artist, smuggler, and swindler. The character first appeared on The Original Series, played by Roger C. Carmel in “Mudd’s Women” and “I, Mudd,” and again in the animated episode “Mudd’s Passion.” Decades later, Rainn Wilson took on the role for Star Trek: Discovery in “Choose Your Pain” and “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” and for the Short Trek “The Escape Artist.”<\/p>\n

The Discovery version is the one that ended up in this game. After Mudd’s creditors chased him into Klingon territory, he was captured and dropped on a prison ship. He shared a cell with Lt. Ash Tyler<\/a>, and later Captain Gabriel Lorca was added to the cell. Mudd was eventually discovered to be spying on his prisonmates for the Klingons. Tyler and Lorca escaped, and Mudd was left behind. He turned that experience into something colder. By the time he meets the Besatzung der Discovery<\/a> again, equipped with a time-displacement device and traveling inside a gormagander, he is willing to take the ship by any means.<\/p>\n

The in-game flavor text picks up from there. It describes a Mudd who traveled through the mycelial network from another universe, hardened by his Klingon captors, with no line he will not cross. The Officer Ability name, 823 Ways to Die, is a nod to his second Discovery episode, where he kills the Discovery crew over and over inside a time loop.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Mudd’s role in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mudd is a Science-class Epic in the Neutral faction and belongs to the Mudd’s Company officer group. In practical terms he reads as a survival-and-burst captain. He sits in the captain chair on combat ships, soaks early damage with high shield mitigation, and turns the first round of weapons fire into a heavy opening volley.<\/p>\n

He shows up most often on ships designed to win fast: smaller hostile-grinders, PvP openers, and any setup where the player wants to push damage into round one before slower abilities have a chance to scale. Players who lean on long, attrition-style combat get less out of him, since both of his abilities live almost entirely in the opening rounds.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Captain Maneuver: Two Steps Ahead<\/span><\/h2>\n

When Mudd is the captain, Two Steps Ahead gives a 40% chance at the start of combat to raise the ship’s shield mitigation to 98% for the first two rounds (as of the latest Daten<\/a>). When it triggers, almost every point of incoming damage goes into shields instead of hull, which buys two clean turns to set up a kill.<\/p>\n

The 40% trigger chance is what to watch. Mudd’s Company synergy pushes that chance up, so the maneuver is meant to be paired with other Mudd’s Company Offiziere<\/a>, not run on its own. Stacking enough synergy can roughly double the effective trigger rate, which turns a coin flip into a setup the player can plan around.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Officer Ability: 823 Ways to Die<\/span><\/h2>\n

When Mudd sits below the captain, 823 Ways to Die gives the ship a chance to double the shots of every weapon for the first round of combat. The chance scales with promotion.<\/p>\n

Two-source values for the rank progression, current as of the latest game data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rang<\/th>\nChance to double first-round shots<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

A fully promoted Mudd lands the doubled volley most of the time, which stacks well with crit-chance or armor-piercing captains seated above him. Note that the doubling applies to all of the ship’s weapons in that opening round, so it scales harder on hulls with multiple weapon Banken<\/a> than on ships built around a single big gun.<\/p>\n

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

The shield wall plus the double-shot opener gives Mudd a clear lane for fast fights. Three situations where he earns the seat:<\/p>\n