Skygowan, despite lying at the far edge of explored space in the 2260s, still saw an attempt at both Federation and Klingon political infiltration during this period. Neither party saw much success due to an inability to engage with with the planet's theocratic political culture.

TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY: The Wescott Era, 2262-2268

"Rendezvous in the Federation Phalanx" - advertisement by Vickers-Armstrong, 2261. Despite the end of monetary capitalism, non-state engineering companies - closer to cooperatives than their pre-modern namesakes - still played a vital role in Starfleet contracting and construction.

"90% of conversations with a Federation Ambassador will leave you wondering if T'Kuvma had the right idea." - Lorna McClaren Federation and Empire prepare for the worst: one striving for peace, the other for survival. CHAPTER 11 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS AVAILABLE NOW

"IF WAR SHOULD COME" Information Pamphlet, 2266-67.

"90% of conversations with a Federation Ambassador will leave you wondering if T'Kuvma had the right idea." - Lorna McClaren Federation and Empire prepare for the worst: one striving for peace, the other for survival. CHAPTER 11 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS AVAILABLE NOW

Admiral Pasalk, 2261. Pasalk would retire as head of the Judicial Office in late 2261, citing health concerns. Leaked correspondence in 2263 revealed that he was asked to resign by the JAG after multiple concerns about pro-Vulcan bias were verified through trial records.

D9 "Pocket Battleships", 2261. Designed in the late 2250s, the D9 was a failed attempt by the Imperial Navy to create a independent raider capable of outgunning Starfleet capital ships. It would later find a role as a supporting vessel in the battle line alongside the B1, B2 and B10 battleships.

"Conn, Sonar. Crazy Kor!"

"We won't break the Klingons because we have better ships and bolder captains. We don't. We'll beat them because we strike fair deals and keep the trade lanes open, and they don't." - Nilz Baris, 2275.

Erica Barreuco, 16th President of the United Federation of Planets (2254-58). Sometimes consider the "last of the Archerites", Barreuco's strong position on infrastructure expansion and internal trade reform was wiped out by her poor leadership during and after the 2256-57 Klingon War.

A rural Klingon is being shown around the first city by his brother, who is trying to impress him with his wealth. First, they go to the chief market, where the city brother buys the finest clothes for his nephews and nieces. The rural brother is unmoved. "How will they wear this in the fields?"

USS Singapore firing a warning shot, Summer 2262. The Qingdao class 'fast cruisers' were a pre-war class of patrol ships, ostensibly designed to replace the Pioneer with Tactical Command. Fifteen were built between 2254 and 2263.

M'Talas Prime - a corruption of the old Orion name, Ma'talk Elas - is a last vestige of the Orion Empire. The former "treaty port" stood at the boundary between Orion territory and the Vegan Tyranny; by the 23rd century, however, it slumped into uncomfortable but profitable neutrality.

just me manifesting TOS Nebula

The Gorn Demarcation Line, 2261. The Parnassus Crisis (April-mAy 2261) was the last time a 1st Fleet Officer (Admiral Robert April) led a task force in the field.

The only visible member of the Draylaxi still at the conference, Thimur Wross, sat in mourning for the first day after her death, but then returned on the 19th. “Were she here, you all know she’d tell me to cry when I’m dead. There’s work to be done.” - Thimur Wross

Elements of Starfleet's 1st Fleet assemble for the Centennial Fleet Review, August 9th 2261. Visible Here are the Nimitz Class USS Hawkins, Bellephron Class USS Sukran, Larson (I) class USS Threllvia & Gortash mer Vora, Hermes Class Henry Archer and other scouts assigned to the Home Fleet.

"One of these days, ALLANGTRANS will finally tell us what whether the Klingon 'Forward Assault Division' is a formation or a religious ritual." Admiral James Komack. A brief interlude on the organisation of the Federation and Klingon Armed Forces in 2265. edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/interlude.html

Though the original Ventura design dates back to the late 2230s, various mid-life refits in the late 40s and early 50s allowed the scout to remain in service until 2268, when it was retired from the short-range patrol role.

The first time as tragedy. The second time without grammatical errors. The second edition of THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE BUSINESS OF RISK is coming soon.

"I have met better-behaved schoolchildren than the average Starfleet Admiral." - Zho’Ca Tihra. The Strategic situation continues to deterioate: all it will take is one one mistake to push everything over the edge. CHAPTER 10 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS AVAILABLE NOW

This has been an incredible peice of speculative fiction, bravo @mikeduncan.bsky.social! I am about to go for a walk and find out what happens on Mars at the end of their (first, perhaps?) Revelution.

HOLY SHIT. @jessiegender.bsky.social has done IMO her best work ever. This is a masterpiece of critical analysis and in-depth reflection of an amazing series, but moreso than that, it is a sobering commentary on fascism, systemic oppression and our cultural failings. youtu.be/SjMsPsaVyr8?...

Actually wild that we’re getting a single player Mass Effect-like RPG for The Expanse before we ever get a Star Trek one. That said, I’m so fucking pumped.

AR Vale, 2264. Arwel Redford Vale (2225-2314) served as President Wescott's Chief of Staff between 2262 and 68. A realist politician, Vale, would serve as a key architect of Charterite Foreign Policy under both Wescott and his successor, Lorna McClaren.

Designed in the late 2240s as a "Space Control Cruiser" and redesigned multiple times in the following years, the Atlas class was one of the few pure warships within Starfleet - and the first Battleship class launched since 2161.

"Thing is, once you strip away the Utopian Bullshit, this Federation thing is largely an exercise in galactic free trade. This is not a bad thing." - Lorna McClaren.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Tranquility Press is pleased to announce the 200th anniversary republication of "SAN FRANCISCO 2161: 47 Days That Changed the Galaxy and Created the United Federation of Planets" by author Aubrey B. Marincola, originally published in 2192.

"'Why do we keep intervening in conflicts on our border?' Gee, I don't know, why do you keep having to take a cat to the vet after you let it eat from an open garbage container?" - Ambassador Jonn Elledge. CHAPTER NINE OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS OUT NOW

"'Why do we keep intervening in conflicts on our border?' Gee, I don't know, why do you keep having to take a cat to the vet after you let it eat from an open garbage container?" - Ambassador Jonn Elledge. CHAPTER NINE OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS OUT NOW

The Archanis Sector, 2258-9. Overstretched post-war and undermined by Klingon power projection so close to the homeworld, Rittenhouse's controversial withdrawal from the region was inevitable after First Caleb IV.

Charterite Election Poster, 2264. Wescott's stalwart defence of his record - along with a decisive broadening of the Charterite Programme - saw the public rallying to the progressive faction at the polls.

I just learned that Star trek fan-nonfiction exist. I started like reading stuff from @tranquilitypress.bsky.social and @eomproject.bsky.social and I found it so freaking cool! I love star trek fanfiction and fanprojects, they bring the coolest stuff ever. #StarTrek

I'm reading chapter 1 of The Edge of Midnight, its such a cool Star Trek Fan-nonfiction! Its really interesting and I love the name "The Ploughshare Navy" Here's the link to it in case anybody wants to read it edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/chapter-one....

Happy #FirstContactDay! Celebrate by reading the history of how 21st century Earth civilization was taken to the brink of annihilation--and then saved.

"Thing is, once you strip away the Utopian Bullshit, this Federation thing is largely an exercise in galactic free trade. This is not a bad thing." - Lorna McClaren.

The Grand Fleet" - STARRON 1 over Khepri (Regulus III) at the end of Exercise Androcles, Summer 2265. Art by @AventineIss.

Task Force Blackfriar, early 2261. Blackfiar was a typical "Mendez Column", a term for the ad-hoc task forces used by Klingon Command after the end of T'Kuvma's war during anti-piracy and privateer operations.

TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY: The Wescott Era, 2262-2268

Beware the Ides of March.

"Death, destruction, disease, horror. That's what war is all about, Anan. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided." - James Kirk

Ohhhhhh, this is fuckin rad.

Dochainen Aedhain - the speakers temple. Any Romulan settlement of any significance would have at least one of these, ranging from simple raised platforms to enormous indoor speaking venues. They served as centers of civic life, including festivals, political events and public ceremonies.

"Every right we have, every principle we uphold, has been fought tooth and nail for against some of the most venal, corrupt, paranoid and evil people a civilisation can breed. They are never to be taken for granted." - Nancy Hedford.

M'Talas Prime - a corruption of the old Orion name, Ma'talk Elas - is a last vestige of the Orion Empire. The former "treaty port" stood at the boundary between Orion territory and the Vegan Tyranny; by the 23rd century, however, it slumped into uncomfortable but profitable neutrality.

The Palais De Concorde has served as the seat of the Federation Council since 2175; suspended on four columns above the Champs-Elysée, it houses the Federation Council, Security Council and offices of the President of the United Federation of Planets.

"We have a higher duty to the Empire. We have a higher duty to the people. We have a higher duty to Kahless! And that duty requires us to act with speed, and with aggression, to save the Empire from itself!” CHAPTER 17 PART II OF THE AUDIOBOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW

General Kesh, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Marshal of the House of Kahless, Conqueror of Krios, Victor of Mata'pak IV and Liberator of the Tong Ken Nebula, October 2268.

NOW AVAILABLE: CHAPTER 17 PART 1 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT AUDIOBOOK The Klingon Aristocracy makes a gambit for the crucial neutral world of Kobax III. Wescott matches their bet, and raises.