Delta Recruitment

 is a limited time in-game Global Recruitment event. It included new benefits and rewards for new 2409 Starfleet, Klingon Defense Force, and Romulan Republic characters, known as Delta Recruits, created during the event.

Availability
was available for a limited time on the following dates:

PC:
 * April 2nd, 2015 - May 21st, 2015
 * April 19th, 2018 - May 17th, 2018
 * April 15th, 2021 - May 13th, 2021

Console:
 * June 5th, 2018 - July 3rd, 2018
 * May 13th, 2021 - June 10th, 2021

Any character created during the Event will remain a Delta Recruit indefinitely, allowing players to progress through objectives at their own pace.

Features and benefits

 * All accounts received an extra Character Slot during the first run of this event.
 * Delta Recruits have a temporary bonus trait, Delta Recruit, which awards Dilithium for the player's entire team upon defeating enemies. This Trait is only active during a Delta Recruitment Event.
 * Delta Recruits are able to quickly fill the gap between themselves and high-level characters.
 * Delta Recruits played a story which is parallel to that of their faction, with unique goals. Guided by faction-specific Temporal Agents who aimed to prepare them for the coming Iconian War, Delta Recruits are tasked with learning all they can about the Iconians through various additional mission steps marked with a [[File:Delta_objective.png]] symbol. These objectives would lead to a point of interest containing valuable Iconian Information or Technology.
 * This was represented by the Delta Recruit Window, a new UI element in the mission tracker. This UI is accessible to Delta Recruits by using the.
 * During the first six weeks of the event in 2015, there were server-wide goals to which only Delta Recruits could contribute. Successful completion of these goals unlocked server-wide bonuses for the subsequent week. During the event's subsequent returns, the server-wide bonuses were not re-run. A list of these bonuses is provided below:

Delta Recruit Character and Account Rewards

 * Delta Recruits earned free, high-quality equipment sets at Levels 10, 20, 30, and 40, as well as a "Reputation Jump-Start" package at Levels 50 and 60.
 * Completion of the entire Delta Recruit storyline awarded an account-wide starship trait, Temporal Insight.
 * Additional rewards were unlocked upon reaching Levels 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 on a Delta Recruit character, upon reaching Levels 1 and 5 in any Research and Development school and reaching Levels 1, 5 and 10 in their respective faction's Admiralty System.
 * Completion of Delta Recruit goals provides certain rewards for all level 20+ characters on an account. Once the Klingon Recruit character has reached level 20+, the Recruit can also claim other account-wide rewards from past Recruitment events by visiting the Temporal agent at each faction's social hub:
 * Philip Crey at Earth Spacedock.
 * Commander Q'on in First City.
 * Subcommander Kail at the Romulan Flotilla.

Rank
Complete missions to rank up your Captain.
 * Note that while Recruitment Mark rewards receive a bonus from Bonus Mark Pools, they do not receive bonuses from Bonus Mark events.
 * See "Equipment Packs" for the contents of the free, high-quality equipment sets earned from levels 10-40.

Admiralty
'''Complete Admiralty Campaigns. Requires level 52.'''
 * These objectives require the completion of the recruit's faction Admiralty Campaign. This includes:
 * United Federation of Planets for Starfleet recruits
 * Klingon Empire for Klingon Defense Force recruits
 * Romulan Republic for Romulan Republic Recruits

R&D
Perform Research & Development.
 * Research and Development requires level 15.
 * Level 10 reward: If all of your R&D levels are above 10, the player will instead be offered a Large Crafting XP Bonus Pool.

Episodes
Play through the story Episodes.
 * The total number of story arcs varies between each faction:
 * - Complete all missions in all story arcs from "Klingon War" through "Iconian War". There will be 8 story arcs for Starfleet Delta Recruits, meaning the half way point is after 4 story arcs ("Borg Advance").
 * - Complete all missions in all story arcs from "Empire" through "Iconian War". There will be 10 story arcs for Klingon Delta Recruits, meaning the half way point is after 5 story arcs ("Borg Advance").
 * - Complete all missions in all story arcs from "From the Ashes" through "Iconian War". There will be 12 story arcs for Romulan Delta Recruits, meaning the half way point is after 6 story arcs ("Freedom").
 * Other characters on the account can reclaim 18 story arc completion rewards in total.
 * In order to gain the rewards for completing the "Delta Quadrant" arc, the player must complete all of the missions on Kobali Prime, despite them being removed from the episode journal. These can be tracked from the accolade "The Delta Quadrant".
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Fleet
Join other captains in a Fleet for additional bonuses.
 * Your character must be level 30+ to claim this reward.

Learn / Collect
Locate Iconian Information and Technology scattered throughout various missions.
 * Included in this list is the "start" and "end" points for the Delta Recruit storyline. For specific information on each objective, see the Episode page for more details.
 * The inclusion of from the "Yesterday's War" story arc is a remnant from the 2015 version of this event, this episode was originally placed in the early-game for all three factions. The entire arc is not required for Delta Recruit completion.
 * Mark rewards from mission-specific objectives do not unlock any Account-Wide equivalent. See below for total completion rewards.


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Collect Iconian Technology
Collect Iconian Technology throughout the galaxy.
 * The total number of Iconian tech varies between each faction; 9 for Starfleet, 10 for Klingon, and 10 for Romulan. See above for specific objective details.

Collect Iconian Information
Learn as much about the Iconians as you can.
 * The total number of Iconian info varies between each faction; 8 for Starfleet, 11 for Klingon, and 13 for Romulan. See above for specific objective details.

Equipment Packs
At each Level Milestone (10, 20, 30 and 40), a Delta Recruit may choose from one of the following four Equipment Packs:
 * All equipment is Bound-to-Character and has a value of 0 EC. All assigned [Mod]s are static up to Purple Quality, and will be the same for every Delta Recruit. This equipment can be upgraded, but will remain bound and 0 value; it will gain random [Mod]s if the Quality increases.

Event updates and notes

 * This event has been remastered as of April 15, 2021. Missions no longer included in the main episodes have their recruit objectives removed, with new objectives added to missions from the New Romulus, Solanae Dyson Sphere and Delta Quadrant story arcs. The Delta Recruit story comes full circle with the on-screen date still remaining as "June, 2410. One year from now...", but the location that it takes place is changed from to . The introduction and conclusion cutscenes have been remastered and further rewards have been added from reaching Level 60 and completing Admiralty assignments. In addition, reputation marks awarded during completion of objectives have also been updated.
 * Prior to the event update, for KDF players, the mission was still counted as part of the Vigilance story arc for the purposes of completing story arc milestones. With the release of Season Twenty: House Divided and the removal of the Vigilance story arc, players could not claim or reclaim the story arc reward. The 2021 Delta Recruit update has since removed Vigilance and repurposed its rewards.
 * As part of the Cardassian Struggle arc revamp, released with Season Eleven: New Dawn on October 27, 2015, two cross-faction missions with Delta Recruit objectives, and, were removed from the game. Their objectives were added to the missions  and.