Fleeing the Nest is an early Star Trek Fleet Command mining mission, recommended for level 10, in which you help a stranded Romulan. It can be picked up in any of nine neutral systems, needs warp 8 to start and to finish, and asks you to mine 300 Tritanium and bring your ship home. The reward is three K’Bisch shards, 500 Officer XP and 60 Tritanium, which makes it a quick officer pickup with no combat at all.
Fleeing the Nest objectives
The story line is “Help the stranded Romulan.” There are two objectives and no choice split:
- Mine 300 Tritanium.
- Return to the Station.
No system is attached to the mining step, so the mission does not tie it to a particular location. Once your ship has mined 300 Tritanium, fly it back to your station and the mission completes.
Where and what warp
Fleeing the Nest can be accepted in nine systems: Friefra, Donfo, Collep, Fostaa, Honsao, Nilkino, Zamam, Weh and Imgra. Warp 8 covers both the start and the finish, so any of those pickup points works as long as your ship can reach it.
The recommended level is 10, three levels below Home Grown Tritanium, the other K’Bisch mining mission. The only thing the mission asks of your ship is enough warp to reach a pickup system and the ability to mine Tritanium.
Fleeing the Nest rewards
| Reward | Amount |
|---|---|
| K’Bisch shards | 3 |
| Officer XP | 500 |
| Tritanium | 60 |
The K’Bisch shards are the reason to run it. The Officer XP and the 60 Tritanium are small, but they come on top of a mission that asks for very little. Three shards is also exactly what Home Grown Tritanium pays, so running both gives six K’Bisch shards in total.
Fleeing the Nest and Home Grown Tritanium compared
Home Grown Tritanium is the other early Tritanium mining mission that pays three K’Bisch shards, so the two are worth running together.
| Mission | Recommended level | Warp | Pickup systems | Task | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleeing the Nest | 10 | 8 | Nine neutral systems | Mine 300 Tritanium, then return to the Station | 3 K’Bisch shards, 500 Officer XP, 60 Tritanium |
| Home Grown Tritanium | 13 | 11 | Zaurak, Elona | Mine 900 Tritanium | 3 K’Bisch shards, 4,000 Parsteel |
Fleeing the Nest is the lighter of the two: a third of the Tritanium, a lower warp and a lower recommended level. Home Grown Tritanium asks for more mining and pays Parsteel instead of Officer XP.
Tips
Send a mining ship. The mission has no fight, so there is no reason to tie up a combat ship on it.
Pick the closest of the nine pickup systems. They all share the same warp 8 requirement, so the choice comes down to which one is nearest your station.
Do not forget the return step. The mission is not finished when the 300 Tritanium is mined; the ship still has to come home.
In the storyline, Fleeing the Nest comes after Impact Site and before Rabid Dogs. Every other mission by level is on the mission guide.
