Academy Training Hostiles Guide: Crews, Tokens, Loot & Duo Wave Prep | STFC

Before jumping into Duo Wave Defense, Jules Vern breaks down the real step one: Academy Training Hostiles. This teaching video explains how to unlock the loop, claim your entry tokens, understand the refinery, travel through the new systems, and begin testing which hostiles and crew setups actually work for your account. We cover why players should start low and work upward, how the different Academy Drone types behave, why explorers may be especially difficult, and how critical chance, critical damage, isolated damage, apex barrier, apex shred, and critical mitigation all factor into the math. Jules also walks through early crew logic, below-deck options, tech suggestions, and why punching down may be the smarter play while buildings and refits catch up. If you are trying to prepare for Duo Wave Defense, maximize your training merits, earn engineering credits, and avoid getting turned into finely misted space pudding by Academy drones, this is the starting point. Timestamps 00:10 Intro and welcome to another teaching video 00:22 Setting up Duo Wave Defense and Academy Training Drones 00:34 Step one: build the Academy building 00:44 Claiming tokens in the Academy refinery 00:55 Daily tokens and limited day-one jump start claim 01:15 G6 and G7 graded material conversion explained 01:44 Finding the systems and understanding token travel 01:56 Only the first path costs a token 02:16 Start low and work your way up 02:30 Loot goblins and extra system rewards 02:46 DJz checks the crew and ship setup 03:08 Starfleet Academy and Duo Waves spreadsheet overview 03:22 Academy drone crew tab and work-in-progress warning 03:49 System map tab and hostile ability breakdown 04:04 Academy drone crit chance, crit damage, and crit floor 04:29 Explorer, interceptor, and battleship hostile abilities 05:05 Explorers may be the toughest targets 05:34 Rebuilding the crew with Strange New Worlds Pike 05:45 Goal: win in one round 06:08 Matters suggests Section 31 Georgiou for battleships 06:41 Mitigation officers may not be necessary 07:01 Wrath of Khan Carol Marcus below decks 07:23 Critical damage and isolated damage below-deck options 08:03 Useful tech: Metreon Cascade and Quantum Slipstream Drive 08:23 Critical mitigation explained 08:55 Apex Barrier vs critical mitigation math 09:15 Building and Simulacrum refit value 09:26 Loot goblins are useful but not the priority 09:47 Survey loot goblins hit hard 10:12 Adjusting crew if fights last two rounds 10:25 Building level 20 critical mitigation discussion 10:44 Is punching down the key early strategy? 10:52 Hostiles needed per chest by ops bracket 11:19 Why 90 to 180 hostiles may be too much daily 11:31 Refinery chest value and daily planning 11:52 Spending training merit rewards 12:18 Converting training merits into engineering credits 12:31 Final early analytical deep dive recap 12:50 Focus on training drones before Duo Wave Defense 13:09 Like, subscribe, share, and final advice 13:24 Credits and outro Google Sheet for Academy Training Hostiles: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... #startrekfleetcommand #stfc #talkingtrek #AcademyTrainingHostiles #DuoWaveDefense #WaveDefense #stfcguide #ultimatdjz #gamingguide #mobilegaming Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @ultimatdjzplayz   Visit our website for links to all things related to Talking Trek! https://www.talkingtrekstfc.com Join Our Discord:   / discord