Story Arc: Cardassian Struggle

A Cardassian terrorist organization plagues the Alpha Quadrant. Will the fragile democracy on Cardassia Prime survive?

Preceeded by Romulan Mystery	Followed by Borg Advance

A Cardassian terrorist organization plagues the Alpha Quadrant. Will the fragile democracy on Cardassia Prime survive?

Preceeded by Romulan Mystery	Followed by Borg Advance

A Cardassian terrorist organization plagues the Alpha Quadrant. Will the fragile democracy on Cardassia Prime survive?

Preceeded by Freedom	Followed by Borg Advance

The Cardassian Struggle story arc is a chain of cross-faction missions available to all factions.

After the Dominion War ended, Cardassian Union signed a peace treaty with the Federation giving up the right to field a military or wage a war. In return, Starfleet has been assigned to protect the Cardassian space from a potential invasion. A secret terrorist organization, the True Way, fights to return the Union to its former glory and reinstate the Obsidian Order.

Commander Sarish Minna of Deep Space Nine has requested aid in reacquiring a Bajoran relic stolen by the True Way. To defeat the True Way, you will need to uncover the location of their base in the Badlands and identify their supporters.

List of missions[]

	“Lost and Found” Deep Space Nine guards the gateway to the Gamma Quadrant. You've faced many challenges already, but are you ready for what you will find at DS9. Mission cannot be replayed.
	Contact: Jorel Quinn / J'mpok / Kererek	Release Date: October 27, 2015
	Special rewards: There are no rewards specific to this mission.	Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)


“Lost and Found” Deep Space Nine guards the gateway to the Gamma Quadrant. You've faced many challenges already, but are you ready for what you will find at DS9. Mission cannot be replayed.
Contact: Jorel Quinn / J'mpok / Kererek
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Special rewards: There are no rewards specific to this mission.
Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)

	“Spoils of War” The True Way is using Maquis tricks to hide their ships. Are you ready to venture into the Badlands?
	Contact: Commander Sarish Minna	Release Date: October 27, 2015
	Special rewards: [Resonating Tetryon Turret [Chance] [Dmg]] [Resonating Tetryon Dual Heavy Cannons [Chance] [Dmg]]	Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt) To the Victor (10 pt)


“Spoils of War” The True Way is using Maquis tricks to hide their ships. Are you ready to venture into the Badlands?
Contact: Commander Sarish Minna
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Special rewards: [Resonating Tetryon Turret [Chance] [Dmg]] [Resonating Tetryon Dual Heavy Cannons [Chance] [Dmg]]
Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt) To the Victor (10 pt)

	“Jabberwocky” The Orb of Possibilities must be returned to the temple in Hathon. I have notified Vedek Krin, she is waiting for you in the temple.
	Contact: Commander Sarish Minna	Release Date: October 27, 2015
	Special rewards: [Physical Augmentation Utility Armor]	Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)


“Jabberwocky” The Orb of Possibilities must be returned to the temple in Hathon. I have notified Vedek Krin, she is waiting for you in the temple.
Contact: Commander Sarish Minna
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Special rewards: [Physical Augmentation Utility Armor]
Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)

	“The Factory” There appears to be some kind of alliance between the True Way and the Dominion. We cannot allow them to join forces.
	Contact: Commander Sarish Minna	Release Date: October 27, 2015
	Special rewards: [Rapid Fire Polaron Full Auto Rifle]	Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)


“The Factory” There appears to be some kind of alliance between the True Way and the Dominion. We cannot allow them to join forces.
Contact: Commander Sarish Minna
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Special rewards: [Rapid Fire Polaron Full Auto Rifle]
Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)

	“The New Link” The Changeling named Laas has deceived the other Changelings in his Link into thinking we are exterminating them. You must convince them of the truth.
	Contact: Commander Sarish Minna	Release Date: October 27, 2015
	Special rewards: [Resonating Tetryon Beam Array [Chance] [Dmg]] [Resonating Tetryon Dual Beam Bank [Chance] [Dmg]]	Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)


“The New Link” The Changeling named Laas has deceived the other Changelings in his Link into thinking we are exterminating them. You must convince them of the truth.
Contact: Commander Sarish Minna
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Special rewards: [Resonating Tetryon Beam Array [Chance] [Dmg]] [Resonating Tetryon Dual Beam Bank [Chance] [Dmg]]
Accolades: The Cardassian Struggle 1/5 (10 pt)

Chronology: The Galaxy at Large: Lost Dominion side content

Notes[]

The "Cardassian Struggle" arc (and "Dominion Domination" for Klingon players) was reworked as part of Season Eleven: New Dawn. Most of the missions were removed, some were condensed or replaced with a completely new plot. Only “The New Link” retains some of the original story. For more information on the removed missions, see here.
Despite its name, the new Cardassian Struggle story arc has a larger focus on the Terran incursions and the Alpha Jem'Hadar, and not on the Cardassian Union. The role of the True Way, who are supposed to be the main antagonists of the arc, has also been somewhat minimized.
“Task Force Operations: Cardassian Struggle” was added in 2018 as a wrapper for Terran-related Task Force Operations. It was removed in 2020.

See also[]

Season Eleven: New Dawn

Storyline Missions

Starfleet-only
Tutorial	“Graduation Day” • “Routine Maneuvers” • “Trial by Fire” • “The Shadow Knows” • “Children of War” • “Reporting In”
	“I Sing of Arms” • “Search and Rescue” • “Bull by the Horns” • “Dislodging Klingons” • “The Taurean Affair” • “Earthward Bound”
	“Graduation Day” • “Training Cruise” • “Field Promotions” • “Communication Breakdown” • “Assimilation of the Innocent”
Agents of Yesterday	“Explore Earth Spacedock” • “In the Shadow of Cestus” • “Painful Omens” • “Return to Babel” • “Tangled Webs” • “The Battle of Caleb IV”
Klingon War	“Welcome to Earth Spacedock” • “Diplomatic Orders” • “Stranded In Space” • “Researcher Rescue” • “Secret Orders” • “The Doomsday Device” • “The Galaxy at Large”
Romulan Mystery	“Heading Out” • “Empress Sela” • “Desperate Measures” • “Shadow Play” • “Taris”

Klingon Defense Force-only
Tutorial	“End of Watch” • “Red Alert!” • “Intruder Alert” • “Challenge for Command” • “Your New Command” • “Journey to Qo'noS”
Empire	“Duties of Command” • “The Hunt is On” • “Space Chase” • “Manhunt” • “Friend or Foe”
Warzone	“Bringing Down the House” • “The House Always Wins”
Vigilance	“Mars, the Bringer of War” • “Alpha”
Fek'Ihri Return	“Blood of the Empire” • “Destiny” • “Afterlife”

Romulan Republic-only
Tutorial	“A Day on the Farm” • “A Day in the Sun” • “Virinat, Invaded” • “Flight from Virinat”
From the Ashes	“Explore the Flotilla” • “The Helix” • “Crossroads at Crateris” • “Gasko Blues” • “The Search for New Romulus” • “Turning Point” • “Neutral No More”
Allies	“The Price of Neutrality” • “Memory Lane” • “Bigger Picture” • “Smash and Grab” • “Tradecraft”
In Shadows	“An Inside Job” • “Enemy Action” • “Sleepers” • “Cloak and Dagger” • “Revelation” • “Mind Game”
Wasteland	“Secrets of Nimbus” • “The Lost City of Paradise” • “Blind Men Tell All Tales” • “The Undying” • “A Fistful of Gorn” • “Installation 18”
Vengeance	“Voice of the Voiceless” • “Abducted” • “Small Packages” • “Last Stand” • “The Best Defense” • “Turnabout” • “Devil's Choice”
Freedom	“Toward Freedom”

Dominion-only
Engineered for War	“Hunt” • “Ceremony” • “Turn the Tide”

Cross-faction
Cloaked Intentions	“The Vault” • “Mine Enemy” • “Frozen” • “Coliseum” • “Cutting the Cord” • “Darkness Before the Dawn”
Cardassian Struggle	“Lost and Found” • “Spoils of War” • “Jabberwocky” • “The Factory” • “The New Link”
Borg Advance	“Task Force Operations” • “Report on Borg Activities” • “Where Angels Fear to Tread” • “A Gathering Darkness” • “Assimilation” • “Fluid Dynamics”
New Romulus	“New Romulus Aid” • “Staging Area” • “Hidden Camera” • “Warehouse” • “Mountain Base” • “Secret Shuttle Codes” • “Overgrown Caves” • “Web Access” • “Latest Findings” • “The Power Source” • “Secrets of the Ancients”
Solanae Dyson Sphere	“Sphere of Influence” • “Circles within Circles” • “Supply Woes” • “The Contested Zone” • “The Omega Standoff” • “Tower Control” • “A Step Between Stars” • “Fluidic Destruction” • “Surface Tension”
Delta Quadrant	“Escalation” • “Mindscape” • “Reunion” • “Friends in Unlikely Places” • “Revelations” • “Enemies in All the Usual Places” • “All That Glitters” • “The Kobali Front” • “Capture the Flag” • “The Dragon's Deceit” • “Alliances” • “Know Your Enemies” • “Revolution” • “Taking Care of Enemies” • “Takedown” • “What's Left Behind” • “Dust to Dust”
Iconian War	“Uneasy Allies” • “Blood of Ancients” • “Delta Flight” • “House Pegh” • “Time in a Bottle” • “Broken Circle” • “Butterfly” • “Midnight”
Yesterday's War	“Temporal Ambassador” • “The Once and Future Agent” • “The Core of the Matter” • “Vorgon Conclusions” • “Terminal Expanse” • “Survivor”
Future Proof	“Sunrise” • “Stormbound” • “Time and Tide” • “The Temporal Front” • “Temporal Reckoning” • “Ragnarok”
New Frontiers	“Echoes of Light” • “Of Signs and Portents” • “Mirrors and Smoke” • “Brushfire” • “Beyond the Nexus” • “Melting Pot” • “Scylla and Charybdis” • “The Renegade's Regret”
Gamma Quadrant	“Storm Clouds Gather” • “Armistice” • “The Search” • “Doomed to Repeat” • “Quark's Lucky Seven” • “Tenebris Torquent” • “Home”
Age of Discovery	“The Plausibility of the Possible” • “Impossibility of Reason” • “Secrets” • “Downfall”
J'Ula's Discovery	“Para Pacem” • “Illusion of Communication” • “Beneath the Skin” • “Sentinels” • “Rescue and Search” • “Within The Briars” • “The Ninth Rule” • “Ruins of Doom” • “The Measure of Morality (Part 1)” • “The Measure of Morality (Part 2)”
Klingon Civil War	“The Centre Cannot Hold” • “The Khitomer Discord” • “Partisans” • “Knowledge is Power” • “Leap of Faith” • “Warriors of the Empire” • “A Day Long Remembered”
Terran Gambit	“Firewall” • “Red Shift” • “Blue Shift” • “The Calling” • “Eye of the Storm” • “The Fujiwhara Effect”
Kings & Queens	“Wish Upon a Star”
Some missions may appear in alternative orders for some factions.

Side Content: The Galaxy at Large
Spectres	“Spectres” • “Skirmish” • “Spin the Wheel” • “What Lies Beneath” • “Everything Old is New” • “Night of the Comet”
Wasteland	“Secrets of Nimbus” • “The Lost City of Paradise” • “Blind Men Tell All Tales” • “The Undying” • “A Fistful of Gorn” • “Installation 18” (Still part of main episode progression for Romulan Republic players.)
Lost Dominion: The 2800	“Lost Dominion” • “Second Wave” • “Of Bajor” • “Operation Gamma” • “Facility 4028” • “Boldly They Rode”
Cold War	“Cold War (wrapper)” • “Cold Call” • “Out in the Cold” • “Cold Comfort” • “Cold Case” • “Cold Storage”
Delta Quadrant	“Kobali Crisis Act I” • “Kobali Crisis Act II” • “Kobali Crisis Act III”

See also: Featured episode • Patrol • Removed Missions • Task Force Operation

Story Arc: Cardassian Struggle

List of missions[]

Related content[]

Terran Task Force Reputation[]

Cardassian Space Patrols[]

Badlands Battlezone[]

Task Force Operations[]

Notes[]

See also[]

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			“Counterpoint” We have been alerted to a Mirror universe invasion of DS9. All available allied forces are being redirected to repel the Terran Empire.
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