Syndicate & Emerald Chain

The Syndicate is Star Trek Fleet Command’s individual progression track, sometimes called the Orion Syndicate. As you bank Syndicate XP your account climbs 65 levels, and each level hands out permanent account-wide buffs plus a stack of rewards: officer shards, extra presets, and cosmetic avatars and frames. The buffs stay with your account no matter which alliance you fly with. Reaching level 65 takes 280,550,000 points, and the full level table is below.

How the Syndicate works

Syndicate progress is yours, not your alliance’s. You earn Syndicate XP by claiming your daily Syndicate chest and from packs in the store, and that XP levels up your account. Once a level is reached, its buffs and unlocks apply to your account and stay there even if you switch alliances. There is nothing to activate. The buff values in the table are the base figures the game shows; most scale up with your operations level, so the same buff pays a higher percentage at ops 60 than at ops 20.

Because it is account-bound, Syndicate is one of the more reliable ways to build permanent passive stats: the progress you make follows you regardless of where you play.

What each level gives you

Every level bundles a few things together. There are permanent buffs, which early on lean economy (resource production, mining, cargo, warp speed) and later shift to combat (hull and shield health, officer stats, isolytic damage and defense, weapon damage, critical damage). There are officer shards: the track runs through Ghrush in the early levels, then Mavery, then AGIMUS, Phellun, and finally SNW T’Pring at the top. And there are quality-of-life unlocks that are not stats at all, like extra officer and fleet presets, a Fleet Commander slot and seat, a Multipurpose Exocomp slot, and Insta Warp for survey ships.

Where the Emerald Chain fits

The Emerald Chain is the alliance counterpart to the Syndicate, and it works the other way around. Your alliance earns Emerald Chain XP by competing in Alliance Tournaments, and the rewards it unlocks apply to the whole alliance rather than to you alone. Unlike Syndicate buffs, Emerald Chain buffs are tied to alliance membership: leave the alliance and you leave those buffs behind. The two share a page on the database because they are sister loyalty tracks, but the level table here is the Syndicate, which is yours. The avatars and frames in that table (the Syndicate frames, Undercover Pirate Tendi at 45, the SNW T’Pring frame at 57 and avatar at 65) are Syndicate cosmetics, and they change nothing about your stats.

Full Syndicate level table (1 to 65)

Points shown are the cumulative Syndicate XP needed to reach each level. Buffs stack with everything below them, and the values listed are the base figures before operations-level scaling. Current as of the latest game data.

Is pushing Syndicate level worth it?

For most players, yes, because the payoff is passive, permanent, and account-bound. Almost everything else in the game asks you to spend time or resources for a one-off return, while Syndicate buffs pay you on every action for as long as you play, no matter which alliance you are in. The officer shards are a real draw too: a steady climb funnels full officers like Ghrush, Mavery, AGIMUS, Phellun and SNW T’Pring to your roster without opening a wallet. If you are choosing which levels to push toward, the health and isolytic levels in the 40s through 60s are the ones that change what your fleet can survive and kill, especially against the toughest armada targets like the Aggregation family.