Mission: Cutting the Cord/Walkthrough

= Brea System =

Defeat Satellites and Ships in Orbit
Tactical Officer:

Romulan Commander:

A Mogai Escort will move immediately to intercept you. You must destroy it and deal with the turrets guarding the system before you can beam down.

Defeat Romulan Reinforcements
Tactical Officer:

After you have defeated the first Romulan ship, another group will warp in to engage. Defeat them.

[Tactical] Reprogram Turret Targeting (Optional)
Tactical Officer:

Tactical captains can reprogram the defence turrets so some of them will start targeting each other and any Romulan vessels still in the area, helping you to defeat all of them.

Upon completing this objective, all members of the team will receive the accolade

Beam Down
Tactical Officer:

Approach the planet until you reach transporter range and can then beam down.

Tactical Officer:

= Brea III =

Set Spatial Charges
Tactical Officer:

Proceed west, into the city. As you exit the square, you will be contacted by your ship again.

Federation Tactical Officer: Klingon Tactical Officer:

You will encounter a single Romulan Technician as you exit the square, which is not much of a combat challenge. Proceeding forward, you come to a courtyard with a fountain. There are a number of Romulans here, and you have the option to call for reinforcements if you would like. A group of NPCs from your faction will beam in and assist you in fighting the Romulans if you do.

Once you have defeated the Romulans, any reinforcements you called in will beam out again. Set first spatial charge on the wall of a building on the North side of the courtyard.

Tactical Officer:

You can utilize the virtual guide path to show you where you should be going. Your next destination requires you to climb up stairs to top of building. Once you reach the rooftop, an ambush of Romulans beams in to attack you. They are easy enough to defeat without calling for help (which is good, since you don't have that option here)

After defeating this group of Romulans, your ship will contact you with an optional mission objective.

Tactical Officer:

Proceed along the catwalks, passing over a square containing a group of Remans battling Romulans. Assist them from on high if you desire.

At the end of the catwalk is the top of a rotunda, where you can place second spatial charge.

Tactical Officer:

Head around the rotunda to the right and you'll find the first orbital strike location, indicated by a holographic starship silhuette. Go to that location and call in the orbital strike. A cutscene shows some Scorpion fighters on a nearby rooftop being taken out.

Continue following the guide path, which leads to the new catwalk and down, though partway down the stairway there is a landing that leads up to the roof of another building.

Following the guide path takes you down the stairs and into another courtyard; heading up the stairs will trigger the optional Engineering objective (see below); you can do this now, or tackle it later when you will have to cross that rooftop anyway. There is combat taking place in the alleys leading away from the courtyard.

Tactical Officer:

Place the third spatial charge on the wall of the data facility. Romulans will beam in to attack you once you have completed this task, but you can request additional support to deal with them.

Once you are done, fight your way West down the alley and around the corner to the South. There will be numerous groups of Remans and Romulans battling each other in the alleys and squares. Lend what assistance you want as you proceed. At the base of a large tower, place the final spatial charge.

[Engineering] Remodulate Weather Controller to Depolarize Gravitic Lift (Optional)
Atop one of the buildings is a weather controller; it is located roughly between the locations you place the third and fourth spatial charges, and is accessible via several stairs which lead up to it from several directions. If you have not done it already, the next set of objectives in the hunt for Hakeev will take you directly across this rooftop, so you will have the opportunity to do it then.

When you reach the rooftop, a Scorpion fighter will fly overhead, blasting one of the catwalks with a photon torpedo, causing it to catch fire.

Engineering captains can hurry to the weather controller console and remodulate it before the Scorpion fighter comes around for another pass. All members of the team will receive the accolade, and the weather controller will interfere with the Scorpion fighter as it fires another photon torpedo at the weather controller console area.

If you are able to shoot down the Scorpion fighter, either using the weather controller or doing sufficient damage to it (or both), you will receive the accolade.

Scan for Hakeev
You now need to figure out how to reach Hakeev. Perform a quick scan to locate him.

Science Officer:

Disable Force Field by Drawing Power Away
Head up to the rooftops and go North; note that a force field prevents you from proceeding South anyway. The first rooftop you reach will be the one holding the weather controller, where you can complete the optional Engineering objective if you have not done so yet (see above).

Proceed across this rooftop and take another catwalk North to the roof of the data center building. Use the console atop the data center to queue a power drain.

Science Officer:

Engineering Officer:

A number of Romulans will beam onto the roof of a building to the North of the data center and begin attacking you. You cannot get over to that rooftop, but it is in range of your weapons. You can engage in a firefight with the Romulans, or ignore them and run, but the most effective way of dealing with it is to destroy the Scorpion fighter that is parked on the rooftop next to the Romulans. It will explode, taking all the Romulans out, and grant everyone on the team the accolade.

Acquire an Access Chip from a Romulan Officer
The forcefield that prevents you from proceeding to Hakeev's location in the South should now be down. Retrace your steps and follow the guide path to top of the building on which you placed the final spatial charge. Here you will find the location from which to call in the second orbital strike.

Call in the strike and watch a cutscene of the orbital strike incinerating a Heavy Disruptor Turret and the Romulans standing nearby.

Climb up to the top of a large building just East of where you called in the orbital strike, and take out the Romulans there. You can call in support if you need it.

One of the officers will have the access chip you need.

Engineering Officer:

Defeat Hakeev and His Guards
Follow the guide path, retracing your steps back around and down. Take a catwalk heading South and you will reach some stairs leading back to the ground.

Tactical Officer:

You'll have to fight your way through some Romulans that are engaged in battling Remans at the foot of the stairs however.

Take an alleyway running South towards the arched entrance to a large paved square. As you approach this square, which contains Hakeev and his guards, you will be hailed from your ship.

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As you enter the square and approach Hakeev, a cutscene will precede your confrontation.

Hakeev:

Fight Hakeev and his guards. You can call in support to assist you. Watch out for his use of Thalaron mines.

Once all his guards are down, another cutscene will play as Hakeev calls for reinforcements of his own.

Hakeev:

Obisek:

Hakeev's reinforcements have beamed in, but so have Obisek and a group of Remans as well. Battle until all the Romulans, including Hakeev, are down.

Check Hakeev
Once the Romulans are all down, go search Hakeev's body.

Hakeev:

Once you have acquired Hakeev's PADD, the camera pulls back for a cutscene as Hakeev expires.

Speak with Obisek
Now that things have quieted down a bit, have a word with Obisek.

Obisek:

Obisek and his guards beam out, leaving you to deal with the Iconian gate. The Iconian gate is located inside a building on the East side of the square. The Science optional objective is located opposite this, on the West side. You can perform them in whatever order you like, but dealing with the Iconian virus before blowing everything up, rather than after, seems to make a little more sense...

[Science] Deploy a Worm to Overwrite Iconian Computer Virus (Optional)
Enter the building and you'll find an alien console.

Science Officer:

Science captains can use the Iconian interface to deploy a worm to counteract the virus. All members of the team receive the accolade.

Plant Spatial Charges on Iconian Gate
Tactical Officer:

Science Officer:

Stay where you killed Hakeev, just Head back toward where you entered the square.

Science Officer:

Enter the building to the East (white doors for science, blue doors for tactical). A single Romulan Technician sees you...

Technician:

...and runs into the Iconian gateway, vanishing.

Plant the spatial charges on the gateway and head back to the plaza.

[Delta Recruit] Scan the Iconian Gate
Temporal Agent Phillip Crey:

Return to Plaza for Beam Out
A cutscene shows a massive archway in the plaza to actually be... the second largest Iconian gate you have ever seen.

Order Bombardment
Science Officer:

Head to a safe location before you call in the bombardment; there is a sheltered spot amongst the rubble in the South-west corner of the plaza. Once your team has reached this safe location, the holographic ship silhuette which indicates you can call in an orbital strike will appear.

Call in that strike, and a cutscene will show the arch being destroyed by a salvo of photon torpedoes.

Return to Ship
Science Officer:

Beam back up to your ship and you can deal with the huge space battle that is now brewing above Brea III

= Brea System =

Fight Off Romulan Forces
Tactical Officer:

Obisek:

There are many Romulan and Reman vessels locked in combat above Brea III. Engage and assist the Remans.

As the first wave of Romulan ships is taken out, more will arrive.

Tactical Officer:

As the second wave of Romulan ships are destroyed, Sela arrives with a third wave to take charge.

Defeat Empress Sela and Escort
Sela:

Sela and the are a formidable foe; watch out for her thalaron beam attack, which she will often use immediately after emerging from cloak. Be ready with a little evasive manoeuvres or the like if you find yourself in the path of this!

Obisek:

The Leahval will do a number on the Reman vessels, but eventually the weight of numbers (and all those plasma torpedoes) will take its toll.

Once her hull has received sufficient damage (down to 25% or so), a cutscene will show Sela's ship being captured(?) by an Iconian vessel, which emerges from the largest Iconian gateway yet.

Disable the Iconian Gate
Tactical Officer:

Fly over to the asteroid containing the Iconian gate and attack its weak points (there are three).

Depart System
Federation Science Officer: Klingon Science Officer:

Your work here is done. Depart the system and hail your mission contact to claim your reward.

Return to Admiral T'nae/Temek
Federation Admiral T'nae: Klingon Temek:

= Post-Completion = After completing, you can speak to your faction's mission contact about the Iconian threat.

Federation Admiral T'nae: Klingon Temek:
 * The Iconians' presence threatens the Federation.
 * The Iconians are a threat to the Empire.