Drinks On Me is a single holiday-season mission in Star Trek Fleet Command, recommended for level 20. Guinan leaves you a note about a fellow bar owner, Zallar, who has spent two years paying the Cabal for protection from the Cabal itself. You try to buy her freedom, and the Cabal takes the payment and attacks anyway. You pick it up in Azha at warp 13 and need warp 24 to complete it, and the reward is 3,700 Dilithium, 90 15 Minute Speed Ups and 250 Federation Recruit Tokens.
Drinks On Me objectives
There are six objectives and no choice split:
- Talk to the Cabal. Location: Maclyyn.
- Buy Zallar’s freedom with 5,000 Dilithium.
- Destroy the Cabal’s ship. Location: Maclyyn. Enemy strength about 17,800.
- Protect Zallar. Location: Azha.
- Defeat 10 hostiles of Level 20 or higher.
- Deliver Zallar to Exchange. Location: Exchange Central.
Zallar has run her bar for ten years, and for the last two the Cabal has taken a quarter of her income. The Cabal agrees to a one-off price of 5,000 Dilithium, then refuses to guarantee anything and opens fire. After you win, they threaten to sell Zallar to Orion slavers and burn her bar, and head for Azha. You get there first, fight off their fleet, and escort Zallar to a friend’s place on the Exchange, where she plans to open a new bar. If you drop by in a year, she says, the drinks are on her.
Where and what warp
You pick up the mission in Azha, which needs warp 13. Completing it needs warp 24, because the last step takes Zallar to Exchange Central. Maclyyn is where you meet the Cabal. The recommended level is 20.
The Cabal’s ship, at roughly 17,800 strength, is the named fight, followed by ten hostiles of level 20 or higher.
Drinks On Me rewards
| Reward | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dilithium | 3,700 |
| 15 Minute Speed Up | 90 |
| Federation Recruit Token | 250 |
Costs against rewards
You pay 5,000 Dilithium to the Cabal and get 3,700 back, so the mission costs 1,300 Dilithium overall. In return you get 90 15 Minute Speed Ups, 22.5 hours of speed ups in total, plus 250 Federation Recruit Tokens.
Tips
Have 5,000 Dilithium ready before Maclyyn. The payment is the second objective and the fight comes right after it.
Stay in Azha for the ten hostiles. The story sends the Cabal fleet there, so the kill count and the protection step happen in the same place.
The speed ups are the real reward at level 20. Every mission by level is on the mission guide.