Persistent Multi-Faction Starship Simulator
Take a chair. Take a ship. Take a side.
A free, browser-playable Star Trek fan MUD set on the wrong side of the war's end. Four factions. One galaxy. No safety net.
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Setting
The big war is over. Nobody won. Treaties were signed in stations that smell like coolant and old smoke, and a hundred million junior officers got handed a ship and told to keep the silence.
STMUD is set in a parallel-canon Trek universe a few years after the last great power conflict. The Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and the Cardassian Union all walked away from that war scarred and short-handed. Patrol grids have holes. Border zones are technically "demilitarized." Pirates and salvage crews have learned where to look.
You play a fresh commissioned officer — Starfleet Ensign, KDF bekk, Tal Shiar operative, or Cardassian garresh. You graduate the academy with one starter ship, a small bridge crew you'll come to either trust or bury, and a galaxy full of people who don't yet know your name.
What you do with that is the story.
Pick your colours
Each faction starts you at a different home base, hands you a different starter ship, and judges you by a different code. Switching sides isn't easy.
Exploration, diplomacy, "boldly go." The Federation handed you an ensign's pip and asked you to find new life.
Honour, glory, the slow grind of an empire trying to remember why it fights. Take a ship and bring back a story worth singing.
Cloak, strike, vanish. The Tal Shiar runs a quiet war the rest of the galaxy thinks ended years ago.
Discipline. Order. The bureaucracy that survived. You were assigned a patrol; do not disappoint Central Command.
Hardware
Each faction's starter ship is a working light combatant. Bigger, faster, deadlier hulls show up after you earn — or take — them.
Federation starter
Small Starfleet utility hull. Modular, well-armoured for its size, decent at everything and great at nothing. The runabout that taught you what a console feels like in your hands.
Klingon starter
Ugly, fast, and personally offensive. Twin disruptor cannons mounted on stubby wings. Klingons consider it a ship; everyone else considers it a problem.
Romulan starter
The Tal Shiar's pocket warbird. Cloaks. Strikes once, hard, with the alpha-strike bonus. Then runs away. Don't get into a slugging match.
Cardassian starter
Boxy, methodical, hard to kill. The Cardassian answer to "what if a tax form had phasers." Excellent armour, fair sustained fire, mediocre top speed.
Federation upgrade
The workhorse. Shows up in every Federation deployment. You'll requisition one when McKinley decides you've earned promotion to lieutenant.
Cardassian upgrade
The flagship of any Cardassian patrol that means business. Wide spinal phaser array, dense armour scheme, takes a beating.
Federation flagship
Long-range, full crew complement, every department has a deck. The ship you want when the mission is "go look at something nobody has ever seen."
Other classes — Excelsior, Bird of Prey, T'Liss, Nor — appear at higher ranks. Run shipyard at any starbase for the full registry.
Quickstart
Go to play.stmud.com. The browser-based client handles login, the LCARS bridge UI, the deck map, and the consoles for you. No install. Works on phones (iPhone tested at 375px width).
Click + CREATE ACCOUNT. Pick an account name (4–12 letters), a password, confirm it. The server creates the account and drops you straight at the main menu — no email, no waiting.
Pick SELECT / CREATE CHARACTER, type a character name, choose a species and a department. The academy spawns. Your first character runs the tutorial; subsequent characters on the same account auto-skip.
Walk through three small exercises (open a console, give a captain order, react to an away mission). Type graduate. The transporter takes you to your faction starbase. Walk south to the docking bay, type requisition, name your vessel, and walk down to board.
Run missions at any console for paying work. Run scan from your bridge to see what's around. Run course <system> to engage warp. Make sure you have a crew with you before you pick a fight.
Cheatsheet
In-game type help <command> for full syntax. The web client surfaces most of these as clickable buttons too.
n / s / e / w / up / downlook · lmapwhereconsole <name>navigation, tactical, engineering, science, ops.captain <order>captain battlestationscaptain engage <ship>captain fireorder continuous firescancourse <dest>impulse <n>dock / undockreact 1 / 2 / 3tactic <ability>tricorderscoretrainspecializequitsay <text>hail <ship>whotell <name> <msg>Get on board
Recommended. LCARS bridge UI, deck map, sensor sweep, the works.
For diehards and accessibility tools.
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