Star Trek Online: Season 12 Brings Reckoning Down Upon Players

Star Trek Online entered its twelfth season today, making it MMORPG with the largest number of seasons. Season 12 is known as "Reckoning" and it takes players to "an unexplored region of the Alpha Quadrant," where they will investigate "some unusual activity." Ultimately, they will end up fighting the Tzenkethi, "a highly-intelligent, militant warp-capable species."

Season 12's key features are as follows.

• New Lukari Science Vessel – Captains can finally earn the community-designed T6 Lukari Ho’kuun Science Vessel by participating in daily anniversary missions and completing the new featured episode.
• Two Daily Anniversary Missions –Completing “Omega Molecule Stabilization Daily” and “Party Patrol” each day will earn dilithium, reputation marks and pictures of Q, which must be collected to earn the new Lukari ship.
• Omega Molecule Stabilization Mini-Game – Players can track down omega particles that Q has scattered across the galaxy and use them to craft upgrade kits.
• New Featured Episode – In the brand new episode, “Of Signs and Portents,” captains team up with the Lukari to battle the Tzenkethi and earn rewards toward the new Lukari Science Vessel.
• New Reputation – “The Lukari Restoration Initiative” allows players to earn marks toward weapons and gear infused with protomatter technology to defend themselves from the Tzenkethi.
• New Crafting School – Season 12 introduces a new Research School to the R&D System, allowing captains to create new kits and modules.
• Two New Space Queues
  • “Gravity Kills” – Captains will lead an attack on a Tzenkethi protomatter facility and collect Hawking particles to drop their special defenses.
  • “The Tzenkethi Front” – Players will defend the Eta Serpentis system from a Tzenkethi attack by turning their protomatter weapons against them.
• Full Space Battlezone – Captains will head out to the final frontier to lead an all-out war against the Tzenkethi, in an effort to stop the production and deployment of protomatter weapons.

Unfortunately, Season 12 is currently only available on PC. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of the game will be receiving the update "at a later date."

You can find more information on the official website.

Additionally, Star Trek Online's 7th Anniversary events have begun. They are being kicked off with a Featured Episode called "Of Signs and Portents," which gives players a chance to explore "the coming story" further and earn a "Lukari Ho'kunn Science Vessel," which the community helped design, in the process.