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Dominion blockade over Karemma
The Dominion is one of playable factions in Star Trek Online. It is a major galactic political power based in the Gamma Quadrant, whose influence is exerted over thousands of planets there. It was created by the Changelings, a species of shapeshifters native to a rogue planet within the Omarion Nebula, who refer to themselves as "The Founders." The Dominion's subject worlds are kept in check by Vorta administrators and formidable Jem'Hadar soldiers.
Player Characters
Like other factions characters, Dominion players must choose a career (analogous to a 'class' from other MMORPGs) and a species (or race). Neither can be subsequently altered. Later, when the player reaches a higher rank, a starship must also be selected, which can, however, be changed at any time.
Classes
In Star Trek Online players may choose which career they wish their character to adopt. Players are able to currently choose from the following three careers:
Tactical | Engineering | Science |
Each profession has its own advantages (and, of course, disadvantages) in the game play of Star Trek Online.
Races
Dominion characters are far more limited than other factions in terms of available races, due to the unique structure of the Dominion's military. Players can choose from the freely available Jem'Hadar and premium (purchasable) Jem'Hadar Vanguard with additional space combat bonuses.
Species | Acquisition | Innate traits |
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Jem'Hadar |
Free | Ground bonus & clickable ability:
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Jem'Hadar Vanguard |
600 | Ground bonus & clickable ability:
Space bonus:
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Starships
- See main article: Dominion playable starships
Jem'Hadar players get one free Tier 5 vessel, and can choose from a variety of other paid-for starships as well as vessels of the faction they choose to align with after “Turn the Tide”.
Each starship has numerous sub-types for different ranks and styles of play, and each of those sub-types with a number of cosmetic variants.
Escort | Carrier | Dreadnought Cruiser | Heavy Raider | Warship |
Storyline missions
Engineered for War | |
The following Episode Arc cannot be replayed. Your training is nearly complete. The time has come to travel to the Alpha Quadrant and warn the Alliance forces of the renewed Hur'q threat. Victory is Life! | |
“Hunt” • “Ceremony” • “Turn the Tide” |
Once “Turn the Tide” has been completed, the player must complete the Gamma Quadrant story arc before being able to replay standard Federation and Klingon Defense Force storyline episodes depending on their allegiance. The game refers to any episode prior to Turn the Tide as a simulation.
Culture
Absolute rule of the Dominion remains in the hands of the Founders and their Great Link, whose decisions cannot be disputed under any circumstances. However, the Founders are largely content to leave the administration of the Dominion's daily affairs to the Vorta. The loyalty of the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar is genetically-engineered, which in most cases ensured absolute obedience to the Founders. The Founders themselves are rarely seen, even by their servant races, and are often treated as gods or myth. Due to such a social standing within the Dominion, most of what the Dominion's member races carry out are often for the glory of the Founders, or to please them in some way, similar to how religious figures would pray or carry out an action to please their god(s).
The Dominion prefers to eliminate threats through influence and espionage, only launching military strikes when the usual tactics are unsuccessful.
History
Origins
- Thousands of years ago the Changelings were a peaceful people who explored the galaxy much as Starfleet does today. However, they were persecuted by the "solids" they encountered, and eventually retreated to their homeworld in the Omarion Nebula. From there they founded a vast interstellar empire intended to remove or subjugate all potential threats to the Changelings and impose order on the galaxy. The Vorta, initially a race of tree-dweeling primates, were genetically uplifted to become the Founder's administrators. 2,000 years ago, genetically manipulated Klingons were intended as a soldier caste and became known as the Fek'Ihri. However, the Dominion's plan to control them via addicting them to Ketracel White failed. Eventually, the plan worked with the Jem'Hadar, who became the Dominion's front line soldiers instead.
- Over their history, the Dominion subjugated hundreds of races including the Dosi, Karemma, T-Rogorans, and Yaderans.
- At some point in their history the Changelings sent 100 infants to explore the galaxy and return to share what they had learned. Among them were Odo and Laas.
Dealings with the Alpha Quadrant
- In 2370, the Jem'Hadar destroyed a number of bases and starships from the Alpha Quadrant that had unknowingly entered Dominion territory through the Bajoran wormhole. Among these were the New Bajor colony and the Federation starship U.S.S. Odyssey.
- Following the initial hostilities, the Dominion began using espionage to destabilize the Alpha Quadrant. Changeling infiltrators replaced key members of numerous Alpha Quadrant powers and influenced them to attack each other. These infiltrations were responsible for a number of large-scale conflicts including the Klingon-Cardassian War, the second Federation-Klingon War, and the Battle of the Omarion Nebula.
- In 2373 the Dominion established a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant by allying with the Cardassian Union, and began bringing large fleets of warships through the wormhole to fortify their strength there.
Open War with the Alpha Quadrant
- Determined to prevent any more Jem'Hadar forces from entering the Alpha Quadrant, Captain Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space 9 placed thousands of self-replicating mines at the entrance of the wormhole. The Dominion responded by sending a fleet of 300 Jem'Hadar and Cardassian warships from Cardassia Prime to attack the station, eventually capturing it. Sisko and most of his senior staff escaped on the U.S.S. Defiant and regrouped with Starfleet and the Klingon Defense Force.
- Though the first few months of the Dominion War in 2374 were marked by several crushing defeats for the Federation Alliance, the re-taking of Deep Space 9 (with the help of the Prophets, who removed a fleet of 2,800 Jem'Hadar warships in the wormhole) turned the war around for the allies.
- Later that year, the Romulan Star Empire discovered evidence that the Dominion planned to violate their non-aggression pact and invade Romulus. As a result, they joined the war against the Dominion.
- The following year, Section 31 infected the Founders with a morphogenic virus to weaken the Dominion's leadership.
- Becoming desperate for a quick victory, the Female Changeling negotiated an alliance with the Breen Confederacy. Breen technology proved to be very effective against the Alliance: in the Second Battle of Chin'toka, more than 300 Federation, Klingon, and Romulan starships were destroyed. Fortunately, Starfleet was eventually able to develop technology to counteract the Breen weapons.
- Meanwhile, Legate Damar had become disillusioned with Cardassia's costly alliance with the Dominion, and formed a resistance movement.
- With the combined efforts of the Federation Alliance and Damar's rebels (the ranks of which now included the entire Cardassian military as well as most of Cardassia's civilian population), the Female Changeling finally surrendered at the Battle of Cardassia and the war ended. Odo cured her of the virus, and returned to the Gamma Quadrant to distribute the cure to the rest of his people. The Female Changeling was taken into custody and held at Facility 4028.
The New Link and the True Way
- While the powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants would have little to no contact with the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant anymore for the following decades, Laas forms a New Link in the Alpha Quadrant. Independently from and unbeknownst to the Great Link in the Gamma Quadrant, he allies himself with the True Way and conscripts the services of the Alpha Jem'Hadar.
Missions involved
- “Second Wave”: The Vorta Loriss represents the Dominion forces which were lost in the Bajoran Wormhole in 2374 and suddenly reemerge in 2409.
- “Of Bajor”: Captain James Kurland and the player hail Loriss from Bajor and attempt to convince her that the Dominion War is over and to relinquish control of Deep Space 9.
- “Operation Gamma”: The player must bypass the Jem'Hadar blockade to enter the Gamma Quadrant and make contact with the "modern" Dominion, represented by the Vorta Eraun.
- “Facility 4028”: Eraun accompanies the player to Facility 4028 to retrieve the Female Changeling being held there since the end of the Dominion War in 2375.
- “Boldly They Rode”: Eraun accompanies the player to DS9 to negotiate the return of the station to the Federation. Loriss immediately complies when she sees the Founder, but her Jem'Hadar soldiers rebel against her. After the player defeats the Jem'Hadar, Loriss expresses her gratitude for the player's efforts.
- “Butterfly”: In a holodeck simulation of changes to the timeline resulting from the use of the Krenim temporal weapon, the player finds themselves on the bridge of a crippled U.S.S. Ajax in the midst of a Dominion invasion of the Sol System, a female Vorta commanding a Jem'Hadar warship demanding that the crew of the Ajax surrender.
- “Midnight”: In 2410, during the final battle against the Iconians and their Heralds in Earth orbit, Dominion forces suddenly arrive to assist the Iconian Resistance. The vessels are commanded by former Romulan Empress Sela, who had departed for the Gamma Quadrant several weeks earlier in order to solicit the Dominion's assistance.
- “Scylla and Charybdis”: A Dominion fleet, commanded by Loriss 4, arrives over Bajor during the battle between Alliance and Tzenkethi forces and the Hur'q. After siding with the Alpha Quadrant forces and defeating the Hur'q, Loriss 4 hails the player, informing them that she has a message from Odo.
- “Hunt”, “Ceremony” & “Turn the Tide”: Jem'Hadar Faction Introduction
- “Storm Clouds Gather”: The Dominion seek a summit with the Alliance
- “The Search”: The Alliance and Odo investigate the Hur'q on the Dominion's outermost planets.
- “Doomed to Repeat”: The player investigates an Ancient Dominion Station and learns about the true origin of the Fek'Ihri and why the Hur'q are attacking.
- “Tenebris Torquent”: The player learns secrets about the Dominion and the Hur'q.
Military
Starships
Ground Forces
- Jem'Hadar Demolitionist
- Jem'Hadar Soldier
- Jem'Hadar Shock Trooper
- Jem'Hadar Veteran
- Jem'Hadar Assault Officer
- Jem'Hadar Elder
- Jem'Hadar First
- Founder
Bosses
Size charts
See also
- Playable Dominion Starships
External links
- Dominion at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.
Factions by Quadrant
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α | Breen Confederacy • Cardassian Union • Deferi • Drantzuli • Federation (Starfleet) • Ferengi Alliance • Kentari Union • Lukari Concordium • Na'kuhl • Tholian Assembly • True Way Alliance • Tzenkethi Coalition |
β | Federation (Starfleet • DSC Starfleet • TOS Starfleet) • Gorn Hegemony • Iconian • Klingon Empire (Klingon Defense Force) • Klingon Empire Rebels • Klingons (2256) • Nausicaan • Orion Syndicate • Romulan Republic • Romulan Star Empire • Reman Resistance • Son'a • Vulcan |
γ | Dominion • Fek'Ihri Horde • Hur'q |
Δ | Automated Personnel Unit • Benthan • Borg Collective • The Cooperative • Bluegill • Hazari • Hierarchy • Hirogen • Kazon • Kobali • Krenim • Malon • Ocampa • Octanti • Talaxian • Turei • Tuterian • Vaadwaur Supremacy • Voth |
Others | Borg Kingdom • Coalition • Creatures • Devidian • Elachi • Terran Empire • Undine (Species 8472) • Vorgon |