Legacy of Romulus

Launched on May 21, 2013, Legacy of Romulus was Star Trek Online's first expansion which brought numerous updates to the game, first and foremost a third playable faction, the Romulan Republic.

General

 * The new Reputation: Nukara Strikeforce was made public, complete with its own rewards.
 * New Level 20 Nimbus III adventure zone with 6-mission Wasteland story arc and 4 dailies.
 * Players became able to customize and rearrange existing traits.
 * Players became able to unlock additional traits for themselves and their crew.
 * The UI was modified by allowing players to choose from colors for their HUD.
 * Introduced new enemy faction: the Elachi.
 * Introduced Suliban.
 * Introduced Tal Shiar Lock Box.
 * Warp core slot available for non-Romulan starships.
 * The interior of Drozana Station underwent a major overhaul.

Klingon characters

 * Instead of having to play a Federation character to level 20 to unlock the creation of a Klingon Empire character, every faction, including the new Romulan Republic, became playable from the beginning of the game.
 * Completely new tutorial for Klingon characters and new story content for levels 1-20.

Playable Romulan Faction

 * A new playable faction, the Romulan Republic, became available to players with this expansion.
 * The player can choose between Romulan and Reman playable species for this faction.
 * Remans became available as either a C-store unlock, or an account-wide reward for achieving Tier 5 in the Romulan Reputation System.
 * New Romulan player-hubs: New Romulus Command and Romulan Flotilla
 * Romulan episode content including around 30 exclusively Romulan episodes.
 * Around level 10, in the mission, players have to ally with either the Federation or the Klingon Empire.
 * This choice is permanent, and allows access to some of the ally's equipment and starships.
 * Empress Sela and Colonel Hakeev return in the story, including voice-overs by Denise Crosby.
 * In addition to their ally's Tier 1-4 ships, Romulan players will be able to fly iconic Romulan warbird class starships. These ships use **Singularity Core engines, and cannot equip standard Warp Core engines.

External link

 * Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog index

Legacy of Romulus