Mission: Cutting the Cord

In Cutting the Cord the player confronts the threat of Hakeev and the Tal Shiar.

Synopsis
The player is ordered to the Brea system to find and deal with Hakeev. After dealing with orbital defences, the player beams down into an urban battlezone, to find themselves without an away team. Alone, the player must place several spatial charges at key points, while defending from groups of Tal Shiar, until they finally locate Hakeev. After defeating him, they discover a huge Iconian gateway that must be destroyed by orbital bombardment. Once destroyed, the player can beam back to their ship to deal with Sela who has brought her battleship into play. After defeating her with help from the Remans, Sela is whisked away by the Iconians through an enormous starship-sized gateway, which the player must then destroy to finish the mission.

Federation

 * Break on Through
 * Go to the Brea System
 * [Tactical] Reprogram Turret Targeting (Optional)
 * Defeat Satellites and Ships in Orbit
 * Defeat Romulan Reinforcements
 * Beam Down
 * Ups and Downs
 * Go To Brea III
 * Set Spatial Charges (0/4)
 * Send Coordinates for Orbital Strikes (Optional) (0/2)
 * Finda a Way to Reach Hakeev
 * Scan for Hakeev
 * Disable Force Field by Drawing Power Away
 * Acquire an Access Chip from a Romulan Officer
 * [Engineering] Remodulate Weather Controller to Depolarize Gravitic Lift (Optional)
 * Defeat Hakeev and His Guards
 * Speak with Obisek
 * Plant Spatial Charges on Iconian Gate (0/2)
 * [[File:Delta_objective.png]] Scan the Iconian Gate (Delta Recruits)
 * [Science] Deploy a Worm to Overwrite Iconian Computer Virus (Optional)
 * Return to Plaza for Beam Out
 * Order Bombardment
 * Return to Ship
 * Icon of an Empire
 * Fight Off Romulan Forces
 * Defeat Reinforcements
 * Defeat the I.R.W. Leahval
 * Disable the Iconian Gate
 * [[File:Temporal objective.png]] Investigate Temporal Probe (Temporal Agent)
 * Depart System
 * Return to Admiral T'nae at Starbase 39-Sierra

Klingon

 * Break on Through
 * Go To Brea System
 * [Tactical] Reprogram Turret Targeting (Optional)
 * Defeat Satellites and Ships in Orbit
 * Defeat Romulan Reinforcements
 * Beam Down
 * Ups and Downs
 * Go To Brea III
 * Set Spatial Charges (0/4)
 * Send Coordinates for Orbital Strikes (Optional) (0/2)
 * Find a Way to Reach Hakeev
 * Scan for Hakeev
 * Disable Force Field by Drawing Power Away
 * Acquire an Access Chip from a Romulan Officer
 * [Engineering] Remodulate Weather Controller to Depolarize Gravitic Lift (Optional)
 * Defeat Hakeev and His Guards
 * Speak with Obisek
 * Plant Spatial Charges on Iconian Gate (0/2)
 * [[File:Delta_objective.png]] Scan the Iconian Gate (Delta Recruits)
 * [Science] Deploy a Worm to Overwrite Iconian Computer Virus (Optional)
 * Return to Plaza for Beam Out
 * Order Bombardment
 * Return to Ship
 * Icon of an Empire
 * Fight Off Romulan Forces
 * Defeat Reinforcements
 * Defeat the I.R.W. Leahval
 * Disable the Iconian Gate
 * Depart System
 * Return to Temek

Reman

 * Guard
 * Guard Elite
 * Shadow Guard Elite
 * Dark Shadow Guard Elite
 * Obisek

Romulans

 * Technician
 * Recruit (Romulan)
 * Scorpion Fighter
 * Uhlan
 * Sublieutenant Medic
 * Centurion
 * Centurion Medic
 * Centurion Scientist
 * Hakeev
 * Sela

Turret

 * Heavy Disruptor Turret

Reman

 * Reman T'varo Light WarBird
 * Reman Mogai Heavy Warbird
 * Reman D'deridex Battlecruiser
 * Zdenia

Romulan

 * T'varo Light Warbird
 * Mogai Heavy Warbird (Mob)

Turret

 * Light Plasma Cannon Turret
 * Plasma Cannon Turret
 * Plasma Torpedo Satellite

Iconian

 * Iconian Probe
 * Quas Cruiser

Mission Replay
This mission is repeatable through Mission Replay, although the Rewards for completing may be reduced. Items scale to a player appropriate level (Scaling Rewards), as followed:
 * You choose 1 of the following
 * You choose 1 of the following

Feature Episode Notes

 * Fifth of five missions plus an epilogue mission, of the third Feature Episode Cloaked Intentions released in February 2011. The missions were included at the end of the Federation storyline episode Romulan Mystery, but still form a separate episode (also titled Romulan Mystery) in the Klingon storyline. In the Romulan Republic storyline the episode is called Freedom and contains an additional short prologue mission.
 * Players who completed the mission in the initial release period got a special series reward, the.
 * The mission is part of the Featured Episode re-runs, and as such eligible for limited time, special mission rewards.
 * During the forth Feature Episode re-run (October 31 to December 5, 2013) the mission was eligible for the daily Lobi Crystal reward (once 15 per player account and day). Also the  was again available as reward, once per character.