PERSISTENT MULTI-FACTION STARSHIP SIMULATOR
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 — and every ship in the docking bay was named, captained, and crewed by another player.
stmud.com 4000.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 scarred and short-handed. Patrol grids have holes. Border zones are technically “demilitarized.” Pirates and salvage crews have learned where to look.
You don’t fly a ship — you command one. Officers have names, aptitudes, and they will die if you push them too hard.
You play a freshly 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.
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.
Each faction’s starter ship is a working light combatant. Bigger, faster, deadlier hulls show up after you earn — or take — them.
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.
Ugly, fast, and personally offensive. Twin disruptor cannons mounted on stubby wings. Klingons consider it a ship; everyone else considers it a problem.
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.
Boxy, methodical, hard to kill. The Cardassian answer to “what if a tax form had phasers.” Excellent armour, fair sustained fire, mediocre top speed.
The workhorse. Shows up in every Federation deployment. You’ll requisition one when McKinley decides you’ve earned promotion to lieutenant.
The flagship of any Cardassian patrol that means business. Wide spinal phaser array, dense armour scheme, takes a beating.
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 requisition at any starbase to see what your rank unlocks.
Go to play.stmud.com. The browser client handles login, the LCARS bridge UI, the deck map, and the consoles. No install. Works on phones.
Click + CREATE ACCOUNT. Pick an account name (4–12 letters) and a password. The server drops you straight at the main menu — no email, no waiting.
Choose SELECT / CREATE CHARACTER, type a name, pick a species and a department. Your first character runs the academy; later characters on the same account skip straight to their starbase.
Three small exercises — open a console, give a captain’s order, react on an
away mission — then type graduate. At your starbase, walk south to the
docking bay, type requisition, name your vessel, and board.
Run mission aboard your ship for paying work — accepting one
plots the course and engages warp for you. scan from your bridge to
see what’s around. Bring a crew before you pick a fight.
In-game, type help <command> for full syntax. The web
client surfaces most of these as clickable panels too.
> scan [SENSORS] Long-range sweep, sector 004-Theta: · USS Sarpedon Miranda-class FED 2.1 AU · IKS Hegh'ta Bird-of-Prey KLI 4.8 AU (weapons cold) · Unidentified hull — ??? 6.0 AU (drifting) > hail sarpedon [COMMS] Channel open. "This is Commander Reyes of the Sarpedon. State your business." > captain battlestations [RED ALERT] Shields raised. Weapons hot. Bridge crew at stations.
n / s / e / w / up / downlook · lmapwhereconsole <name>navigation, tactical, engineering, science, ops.captain <order>captain battlestationscaptain engage <ship>captain firescanmissioncourse <dest>console navigation first).impulse <n>dock / undockreact 1 / 2 / 3tactic <ability>tricorderscoretrainspecializequitsay <text>hail <ship>whotell <name> <msg>Recommended. LCARS bridge UI, deck map, sensor sweep, the works.
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