Starfleet, Klingon and Romulan crew members can finally set their warp drives for the Delta Quadrant. Cryptic Studios today announced that Delta Rising, the next expansion for the popular MMO Star Trek Online will hit servers on October 14.
Engage! With The Cast Of Voyager In Delta Rising Expansion For Star Trek Online
Players can join up with several crew members of Voyagers as they travel through the Iconian gateway into lands barely explored in the farthest sectors of the Milky Way Galaxy. Opening up an entire new quadrant of the galaxy was no easy feat, one that executive producer Stephen D'Angelo was well aware of.
"We kicked off design and planning for Delta Rising in December of last year, laying out the foundations for the most ambitious update to the game to date." he said in the official statement, adding, "But that wasn't all. We wanted this expansion to take on the Delta Quadrant, and we plotted out the year with Tim Russ playing Tuvok in our well-received stories that opened up the Quadrant. We set the team loose to learn all they could about it by watching 7 years of Star Trek: Voyager episodes, so they would be versed in the species, look, and stories that took place there. And then we worked for more than 6 months bringing all those details to life in new stories that accurately reproduce and extend upon the show."
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And here I went and watched all 7 years of Voyager for free! The expansion will up the level cap from 50 to 60, the first such increase in over four years, and introduce a wealth of new species, technologies and quest lines for players of all factions to interact with.
Star Trek Online is free to play and can be downloaded now. Microtransactions are part of the game. If you want to get your crew good and ready for the release in a month, you can always purchase the Delta Rising Operations Pack here.
Watch the trailer below.
