Unique Specimen is a single Delta Quadrant mission in Star Trek Fleet Command, recommended for level 30. A distress signal from a wrecked ship’s datapad leads you into an ambush by derelict 900-year-old ships, and a stranger named Tarnos offers a way out, for a price: he wants Maia. You pick it up in Ba’Neth at warp 25 and need warp 26 to complete it. Both answers to Tarnos pay a Tom Paris shard, and the choice sets the rest of the reward.
Unique Specimen objectives
The first four steps are shared:
- Investigate the coordinates. Location: Ba’Neth.
- Defend against the attack. Location: Ba’Neth. Enemy strength about 153,000.
- Create a diversion.
- Find a safe location. Location: Think Tank.
- Respond to Tarnos’s offer (choice split, see below).
The coordinates in Ba’Neth hold nothing but abnormal theta radiation from antimatter waste, until the five derelict ships around you power up and attack. Ten more arrive, their technology too old for Maia to hack. Tarnos contacts you from subspace, calls himself a sort of Think Tank, and suggests ejecting 4M Parsteel to overload the old ships’ targeting. You escape to his coordinates, your shields are adjusted from outside, and you find yourself in subspace with Tarnos. His price for a map of the Underspace is Maia herself.
Path 1: share a copy of Maia
- Leave the subspace. Location: Think Tank.
Maia refuses to leave you but offers a full copy of her program. Tarnos says a copy is still a copy and tells you to take your time. Rewards: 1 Tom Paris shard, 5 100K Tritanium Tokens, 3 1 Day Peace Shields.
Path 2: decline the offer
- Leave the subspace. Location: Think Tank.
Maia turns him down outright; her purpose is to help you. Tarnos again says you can meet when you change your mind. Rewards: 1 Tom Paris shard, 9 8 Hour Speed Ups, 16 10K Dilithium Tokens.
On both paths Tarnos sends you home, and Maia notes that you still need the Underspace and a map to move around the Delta Quadrant.
Where and what warp
You pick up the mission in Ba’Neth, which needs warp 25. Completing it needs warp 26, since the safe location and the exit are at the Think Tank. The recommended level is 30.
The only fight is the ambush in Ba’Neth, at roughly 153,000 strength.
Unique Specimen rewards
| Reward | Share a copy of Maia | Decline the offer |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Paris shards | 1 | 1 |
| 100K Tritanium Token | 5 | none |
| 1 Day Peace Shield | 3 | none |
| 8 Hour Speed Up | none | 9 |
| 10K Dilithium Token | none | 16 |
Tips
Choose by what you need more: three days of Peace Shield or 72 hours of speed ups. The Tom Paris shard is the same either way, and the story outcome barely changes.
The ambush is light for level 30, so any combat ship will do.
Tarnos returns as the Think Tank contact in Undercut, another Tom Paris shard mission. Every mission by level is on the mission guide.