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Warp path unlocks: which mission opens which route
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01 WHY SOME ROUTES ARE LOCKED

Not every system-to-system warp path is open from the start. A number of routes -- especially ones bridging story regions like Augment space, the G5/G6 superhighways, and faction-specific corridors -- stay locked until you complete a specific mission tied to that route. If your fleet suddenly can't plot a course somewhere you'd expect it to reach, check whether the connecting path needs a mission first rather than assuming it's a warp range problem.

02 AUGMENT SPACE: THE UNCAGED STORYLINE

The Augment corridor unlocks in stages through the Uncaged mission chain: Retrofit opens Rigel-Rainsford and the Rainsford-Lydan/Raddan-Tera Lara branches; Volatile Combinations extends from Tera Lara through Rona Tan to Gealan, Kor Na Ron, Terazon X31, and Paradane; Recuperation continues from Kor Na Ron through Duriana, Vellamo, Ifrea 3, and Olassa; and Receding Light finishes the chain from Ifrea 3 to Orda 877, Ilmatar, and Yarda 74. Two extra connectors are picked up in-system rather than from the main chain: Autopilot: Duriana (found on Goqinug in the Duriana system) links Rona Tan to Duriana, and Autopilot: Yarda (found on Tessen in the Yarda-74 system) links Duriana and Quvolis to Yarda 74.

03 CRITICAL PATH AND HOLODECK ROUTES

A handful of routes come from the Critical Path storyline rather than a faction chain: Dark Space (Talmir 86 to Ambit) needs Now and Then Part 9 from the TOS Holodeck section; Take Arms Against an Empire of Troubles III (picked up on Tera Lara) opens Hauge-Kalalisko as well as the wider Haakona/Bolarus/Balduk/Rek'Sgar/Weima cluster into Garadius, Fibona, Ty'Rall, and Beta Sector; and Twists and Turns opens Umxheli/Ash-tor into New Vulcan, while Forwards is Backwards opens the path from Nikola to Singularity Apex.

04 VOYAGER AND MIRROR MISSIONS

The Delta Quadrant corridor unlocks through a chain of Voyager Missions, each opening one hop: Voyage to Velixys (System J-25 through Jiiny and Malon Vortex to Velixys), Voyage to Illusys (Bartu'shakai to Illysus), Voyage to Asil-A (Velixys to Asil-A), and Voyage to Bartu'shakai (Asil-A back to Bartu'shakai) -- plus Commiseration, Waste Management Part 3, Entanglement Part 8, and Silver Scar Part 2 for the smaller Commiseration-Ba'Neth, Mnea-Think Tank, Ba'Neth-Hasak, and Tugaash-Nygea hops. Mirror Independent Space, separately, opens through the Mirror Missions chain: G5K1 to Mirror Romii, then on to Mirror Nausicaa.

05 THE G5/G6 SUPERHIGHWAYS

The higher-level superhighway network unlocks per-faction, mostly through G5/G6-specific mission sets rather than story missions: Baelosian Space Superhighway (Ty'Rall/Draumen/Garadius into Farana and Fibona) and KSG Space Superhighway (Erendari to tIn jIb) both come from the G5 Superhighway Missions; Immortal Space Superhighway (Remme-Dela-Farana) and the large Origin Sector Superhighway cluster (Endriz/Ester/Orasi-18/Ty'Gokor/Brestant into van Vlerken, Rua, and each other) come from the Combat Research Tree; and the FED/ROM/KLG Superhighway Unlocks (OPS61 into the Xenris/Xor'Na'Tin/Kinatal/Blum cluster; Har-52/Bess/Solas Astra into Lorraine, Endron Beta, and Ishka'du; Illuminia/Gratia-3 into Zeta Kan and Cortázar; Memorium to Tesdach'koH) come respectively from G6 Build Missions and the G6 Research Tree. Two more specific routes -- What We Lost (Magnamia to batlh'lI juH) and ...Something Stares Back (Vacuum Epicenter to The Void) -- come from the G5 Klingon Missions and G5 Critical Path respectively.

Sourced from the official Star Trek Fleet Command source, rewritten for stfc.club. Numbers and dates are verified against the source; explanations and framing are our own.