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Chapter 21 – The Xindi Enter the War Today is the day we make our first decision since we abandoned our gods. Today is the day we right the greatest wrong our people ever committed on our gods’ behalf – Xindi-Reptilian Councilor…

Chapter 21 - The Xindi Enter the War

Today is the day we make our first decision since we abandoned our gods. Today is the day we right the greatest wrong our people ever committed on our gods’ behalf – Xindi-Reptilian Councilor Agamid

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Thank you! 😍

Apart from the basics like finding time to write, the biggest challenge has been trying to work through all the various alpha and beta quadrant sources and make them sing in harmony, so to speak.

A wish to answer several of the unanswered question about the Romulans like why they couldn’t evacuate Romulus itself or what they were doing during their isolation.

I have several sources of inspiration but the most important one is of course Diane Duane’s Rihannsu novels.

Yes the end of the last pre Hobus praetor and Nero’s rampage will be featured (the Narada itself will become this ghost ship treasure hunters will look far). The artefact will feature, as will the confrontation above Coppelius which will fatally undermine the Free State and set up Sela’s coup.

Pre Hobus very few, though there a few defectors, people whose homes were overrun by Klingons and unlicensed colonies. Also a small Federation diaspora community that grew during the relative openness of the late 23/early 24th century. Post Hobus of course it’s a different story.

Yes! Some will be kept under wraps but Sela more or less follows the STO story and the final chapters will be about the Fourth Republic’s struggle with Sela’s imperialists. In a previous AMA I mentioned Tebok ends up a navy academy teacher at Mol’rihan and Tomalak… well he has a role to play

Plenty! The absolutely biggest influence is of course Diane Duane’s Rihannsu novels, who provide both the con-lang and alot of historical and cultural background. The Vulcan’s soul Vulcan’s heart novels are also an influence, esp on the Remans and Dralath and Devoras.

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Since we have just finished the first four chapters and are halfway through the life of the Third Republic, and since we’re almost at 400 followers, let’s AMA!

Do you have questions about the project, about the Romulan empire, about whether or not Praetor Dralath became SPOILER or not? Ask below:

Thank you! There is a lot of material out there to be worked and reworked. Glad you’re liking it, even if poor Ael had to bow out at an early stage.

Thank you! 🥹 But that said a lot of the things here is just me riffing off and expanding things written by the @wolf359project.bsky.social team.

Chapter Four The Plan It was with great confidence that director Vreha t’Ravlahk stood in front of the Senate and gave her case. With a seasoned lecturer’s panache and a seeming non-ending confidence in her...

Chapter Four: Llaetus’le

As the Romulan Senate embarkes on an audacious plan, they trigger a crisis that will threaten the survival of the Star Empire and an Invasion by a species called Llaetus’le - The Borg

A Screenshot of the Twitter post for the launch of We Have Engaged the Bord' the tweet says" 22 Months 500+ Pages 151518 Words I give to you. We have Engaged the Borg: The Oral history of the battle of Wolf 359 #StarTrek #Wolf359 https://tinyurl.com/Wolf359Project Below is a Render of the USS Hood and other ships advancing on the Borg Cube

It's our Birthday!🥳🎉 'We Have Engaged the Borg' was ofiically released 2 years ago today!
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has read the book and engaged (pun intended) with us as we explored this pivotal moment in trek lore.
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A Romulan in short blue pants, from "The Enterprise Incident"

It's jorts season

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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

The actual Debrune Teral'n would be lost during the Hobus disaster. It is known that the last pre-nova Praetor, Chulan, took it with him during the evacuation and that he and his entourage were intercepted by the mining vessel Narada. Where it then went has puzzled treasureseekers for three decades

Captain kirk facing an unamused Vulcan guard wielding an overdecorated trident

The weapon itself was a fairly simple, rudimentary even, it unadorned design standing out in the adorned senate chambers. A teral'n, or trident, is an old weapon going back to before the Time Sundering and can still be found in ceremonial use on Vulcan.

Found by Romulan survey teams on a former Debrune colony in the 14th century CE, it was gifted to the Praetor of the time by emperor Valkis III, as a gift but also as a warning, of the importance of the emperor's protection.

(Valkiss III was later overthrown, ending the First Empire)

A hand holding on to a trident like weapon

The Debrune Teral'n was an ancient bladed weapon that symbolised the office of the Praetor. Often but not always carried onto the senate floor by the Praetor themself, especially during the weekly opening and closing of the senate chambers.

Annotated views of the Romulan Warbird from Star Trek The Next Generation. Drawn by Jim Pearson.

I recently scanned these Romulan Warbird plans from a 3-page spread in Starlog Spectacular, June 1993. Non-canonical but pretty good-looking to me, they were drawn by Jim Pearson using Superpaint and MacDraw.

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

Voices from the Yard Shipwright Lioren Vale Utopia Planitia Shipyards, Mars – 2352 I’ve been in this trade a long time. Helped build Excelsior cruisers back when they were still the crown jewels of Starfleet. Gamma welded the bulkheads of the Ambassadors that were meant to usher in a new age of diplomacy. I’ve seen starships take shape from the first laid keel to the last hull plating. But nothing—not a single project I’ve worked on—comes close to what we’re building now. These Galaxy class are unlike anything we’ve ever attempted. When we started laying down the first frames on the Martian plains, the sheer scale of them defied belief. The saucer alone is the size of a city. I’ve walked along its framework, through cavernous compartments meant to house families, scientists, diplomats, all alongside the most advanced propulsion systems ever developed. We don’t just build ships anymore. We build civilizations—vessels designed to sustain entire communities as they venture into the unknown. Utopia Planitia has never seen an undertaking like this. The old yards had been resting on their laurels for a time—smaller projects, standard hulls, refits and maintenance cycles. But this… this has revitalized everything. There’s a new energy here, a sense that we are truly at the frontier of what Starfleet can accomplish. Thousands of us work in shifts, constructing, assembling, refining—every weld, every rivet, every isolinear relay is done with the knowledge that these ships are going to be the first step into a much

bigger universe. And today—today is the day we watched one of them take flight. For months, we’ve been shaping these hulls right here on the Martian surface, piecing them together under the blue-glow of the shipyard beacons, their skeletal frames rising like mountains from the ground. But they don’t belong here. They belong among the stars. So we link them up to the orbital tethers. Heavy-lift tractor assemblies, electromagnetic guidance locks, graviton stabilizers—all engaging in perfect sequence. And then, slowly, impossibly, the behemoth begins to rise. It’s an eerie thing to watch—hundreds of thousands of tons, an entire city, lifting into the air as if gravity itself has momentarily forgotten how to work. The ground crews step back, craning their necks, shielding their eyes as the hull ascends, inch by inch, meter by meter, higher and higher. At first, you can still see the raw details—the unpolished duranium plating, the open cavities where the impulse manifolds will go. But then, as it rises, the light changes, and the hull begins to glow in the Martian sunlight, turning gold against the sky. And it keeps going. Up, past the drifting clouds of construction drones, past the carrier platforms, past the drydocks where Excelsiors and Nebulas are getting their maintenance checks. Soon, it’s just a speck against the sky, a single gleaming light among the other specks of the orbiting docks. And then it’s gone, pulled into the final assembly stations, where it will be fitted with warp cores, computer cores, the heart and soul of a vessel meant to last for a century. And we watch. We watch because we know that one day, these ships will leave us behind. They’ll break

orbit, sail beyond Mars, beyond the Sol system, beyond anything we’ll ever see in our lifetimes. And sometimes I wonder—will a ship I helped build make it to the far side of the galaxy? Will it find worlds untouched, civilizations undreamed of? Maybe. But for now, we keep building. Because the future doesn’t wait. And neither do the stars.

An illistration of the saucer of a Galaxy Class starship being raised from the Martian Surface

For this #TrekTuesday, we’re sharing something special, a short excerpt from "A New Starfleet".
Told through the eyes of a veteran shipbuilder, it captures the quiet wonder of watching a Galaxy-class starship rise from Martian soil into the stars.
#StarTrek #GalaxyClass #TrekFic #Worldbuilding

Romulan Praetors are elected from among their senatorial colleagues and are usually consensus candidates, Valorum is probably closest to the average Praetor then Palpatine

But him aside Dralath, the ‘mad Praetor’ of the 2330s and early 2340s probably comes closest.

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I mean…

A sketched portrait of Vice-Admiral Tvarishan Ch'dar, an Andorian who served two decades, from 2280 to 2300, as the longest-running superintendent of Starfleet Academy. He is seen wearing the maroon uniform of Starfleet of that particular era.

"If we want the best and the brightest of all the Federation to represent us in the Fleet, we cannot simply sit on our hands and expect every member world to send their best and brightest to Earth."

— Vice-Admiral Tvarishan Ch'dar, Superintendent of SFA, on the need for satellite campuses (c.2284)

Chapter Three First Contact “Power. That was the first thought I remember. Do you know of the first time you truly looked at a star, from up close? The feeling of there being something immeasurable, a living...

The resulting clash, The Battle of Narendra III would result in the destruction of a Starfleet flagship, the crippling or destruction of multiple Romulan Warbirds and the death of thousands of Klingon Civilians. It would change the politics of the quadrant for the rest of the century:

It was as these scans were conducted that the Enterprise received the distress call from the Klingon colony of Narendra III, under attack from Romulan forces.

Unable to contact Starfleet directly, Captain Garrett on her own initiative decided to proceed to the colony.