Season Six: Under Siege



 was released on July 12, 2012. It introduced a major expansion of end-game content with the Fleet Advancement System and several associated group missions.

Systems

 * Fleet starbases: First holding type of the Fleet Advancement System
 * Tiers of the starbase and its three systems (Engineering: Industrial fabricator; Science: Communications array and transwarp gate; Military: Shipyards) upgraded by completing Starbase Projects requiring various resources, amongst them fleet marks
 * Players contributing resources earn fleet credits for which rewards, e.g., ships and items, can be obtained from the fleet store

Ships

 * 37 new tier 5-variants of existing ships (21 FED, 16 KDF): More "Retrofits" (requiring fleet credits) and new "Fleet Retrofits" (requiring fleet credits and Fleet Ship Modules 🇫🇲 from the Zen Store):

Missions and Events
New currency, fleet marks, can be earned from the following missions: During the new two-hours Fleet Marks Event all these missions reward bonus fleet marks.
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)
 * Tholian Incursion on Nukara Prime (fleet marks only rewarded during event)


 * TNG 25th Anniversary Event (July 19-24, 2012)

Locations

 * Fleet starbase (including fleet hub interiors, lower storage compartments and associated star systems for Federation and Klingon fleets)
 * Nukara Prime (Nukara System, Eta Eridani Sector Block)

The Foundry

 * Many bugfixes and UI improvements
 * New NPC behaviour settings
 * New backdrops
 * Addition of several assets from previous seasons:
 * Bajor/Hathon
 * Bortas Bridge
 * Coliseum
 * Earth Spacedock - newer version
 * Cardassian Galor Bridge
 * Defiant Bridge 02
 * Defiant Ship Interior
 * Ferengi D'Kora Bridge
 * Drozana Station - 23rd Century
 * Facility 4028
 * Hfihar
 * Jem'Hadar Bridge
 * Nopada Desert
 * Odyssey Bridge
 * Orith
 * TOS Bridge
 * TOS Ship Interior
 * New assets for each planet in the Sol System:
 * Mercury
 * Venus
 * Mars
 * Jupiter
 * Saturn
 * Uranus
 * Neptune
 * Pluto
 * Sol System - newer version

Test Weekend
Season Six was first released on Tribble 23 May 2012. Cryptic held a Tribble Test Weekend from 6 to 9 July 2012 prior to the release of Season Six. Players who participated will receive a Fleet Tribble and Ang the Vicious duty officer as a reward.

External link

 * Season 6 Dev blog entries at the Official website.