The Edge of Midnight

(art of Barreuco by @mousbones.bsky.social)

Book One The Edge of Midnight Book One: The Business of Risk  covers the opening moves of the cold war, detailing the political and social state of the Federation and Empire in the aftermath of the 2256-57...

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BARREUCO IN CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE BUSINESS OF RISK

Barreuco would be removed after the Convoy PD-14 disaster in spring 2258, in the first No Confidence motion in Federation history. The snap election - sometimes called the "redshirt election" saw her lose to Byss Th'rhahlat, her once ally and leader of the Outer Systems and Frontier Party (OSF-P).

Unable and arguably unwilling to come to grips with the necessities of a wartime presidency, Barreuco's crisis of inaction "filtered like a fungus" through Federation Central and Starfleet, preventing any serious mobilisation against the Klingon threat.

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.

a TOS era starfleet ship with a pod, based on the unidentified ship in SNW S3 opening

just me manifesting TOS Nebula

April was criticised at the time for acting without Tactical Command support, though recent historiography has also critiqued his and Captain Pike's decision to conduct offensive actions against the Gorn against the orders of Starfleet Command.

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

Despite it's closeness to the Capital world, Starbase One rarely sees a large number of vessels present on station: the Centennial Fleet Review was a exception that drew large numbers of rare exploratory craft, include all of the remaining Crossfield-class testbed vessels.

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

In the pre-Organian period, Ventura class vessels replaced many Saladin and Hermes-class ships on internal exploratory and scientific assignments, allowing the more advanced scouts and destroyers to be shifted to Tactical Command.

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.

Chapter Twenty "I have met better-behaved schoolchildren than the average Starfleet Admiral." -  Starfleet Secretary Zho’Ca Tihra. "Is Ran Armstrong an explorer? Sure. He's the guy who sends the scrawny kid into...

"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.

YouTube video by Jessie Gender How Star Wars Andor Reframed the Star Wars Myth

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.

(because that's what William Ware Theiss had to work with at the time)

AR Vale, a middle aged human ale in a green plaid suit and white gloves

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.

PRESS RELEASE: SAN FRANCISCO 2161 June 1st, 2392 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW BERLIN, LUNA The Tranquility Press announces the 200th anniversary republication of “SAN FRANCISCO 2161: 47 Days That Changed the Galaxy and Created t…

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.

Chapter Nineteen " '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...

"'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 Edge of Midnight The Edge of Midnight is the latest historical work from the award-winning Seamus Devenish, chronicling the Federation-Klingon Cold War of 2258-2293. Spanning nearly 40 years of Interstellar History, D...

Indeed there is!

There is great fun to be had.