For those that have seen the Borg event trailer on Facebook, you’ll notice that a Borg cube warps into Federation space. It’s up to you to defend the starbase!

Can you think of a better way to tease a new ship battle-based event type. Here’s how it will work:

You take all the ships that you own (from the Constellation class to the HMS Bounty) and outfit them with your existing crew (enhancing their ship abilities). Then you take each ship and battle the cube 1v1 (just like a normal ship battle), earning VP for each battle. Your first few ships will most definitely get blown up, but the Borg cube will be fatigued along the way and you end up may destroying it after a few battles. If you are successful in blowing up the cube, your fleet gets additional points (for a new fleet leaderboard that rewards honor).

You will get 3 tickets per day, so once all of your ships have been blown up (or the cube destroyed), you can use a new ticket to try again. Alternatively, you can rebuild a single blown up ship using dilithium to continue using that ship in the current ticket.

We know that DB reuses core gameplay to create its events (shuttles, build/craft, away missions) and this new ship-based event will re-purpose the ship battle gameplay mechanism. You’ve also built and collected many of the 20+ ships that are in the game, and they’re just sitting in drydock. Like the gauntlet and proficiency rolls - your ships will matter again!

Don’t forget to buy the NX portal to get another 5* ship…