In The Raptor’s Claws

I was married but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.

Chapter 22 – Declawing the Birds of Prey The battle against the Birds of Prey was a grim business, and it wasn’t won by charm or personality –  Vice Admiral Amelia Bridges The efforts to end the threat posed by the Birds of Pre…

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In the Raptor's Claws: Earth, Romulus, and the War that Birthed the Federation Part of the Earth-Romulan War Project

Happy anniversary to #StarTrekEnterprise! If you’re interested in what Archer and the rest of Our Heroes got up to after the show was over, please check out intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com

Chapter 22 – Declawing the Birds of Prey The battle against the Birds of Prey was a grim business, and it wasn’t won by charm or personality –  Vice Admiral Amelia Bridges The efforts to end the threat posed by the Birds of Pre…

Chapter 22 – Declawing the Birds of Prey

The battle against the Birds of Prey was a grim business, and it wasn’t won by charm or personality – Vice Admiral Amelia Bridges

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Latest episode of Worlds in Progress the Tranquility Press Podcast is live on Patreon wher we speak with @pjlusk.bsky.social about @intheraptorsclaws.bsky.social

PJ has given us an intimate yet epic, strategic yet tactical, & political yet personal story of the first interstellar war. He was kind enough to consult on much of my story and take my thoughts about his.

If you haven’t yet started, his epic is nearing its end. You should definitely start today!

In the Raptor's Claws: Earth, Romulus, and the War that Birthed the Federation Part of the Earth-Romulan War Project

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Both the Andorian and Tellarite Heads of State, and much of their governmental structure, in this story were created by @pjlusk.bsky.social in his excellent work, “In the Raptor’s Claws”. intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com

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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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Chapter 20 – The Threllvia Offensive Our backs are against the wall. But our cause is just, so we will prevail! Let the Romulan horror shatter against the frigid winter of Threllvia! – Admiral Thy’lek Shran In the 22nd century, …

Chapter 20 – The Threllvia Offensive

Our backs are against the wall. But our cause is just, so we will prevail! Let the Romulan horror shatter against the frigid winter of Threllvia! – Admiral Thy’lek Shran

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Chapter 2 – The NX Program Don’t fail – Henry Archer Henry Archer was a madman. Born in 2083 in San Vicente, California, Henry was one of the first generation to be born after the unification of Earth. Like many born after t…

Happy Frontier Day, folks! Please check out our Chapter 2, on the NX program and the beginning of the journey of the first starship called Enterprise #StarTrek intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/t...

Chapter 1 – The T’Plana-Hath Commission for the Reconstruction of Earth Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. – Isaiah Berlin Three hundred years ago, Earth was not the seat of a great interstellar power. In the mid-twenty-first centur…

Happy First Contact Day, folks! Now would be a good time to take a look at our first chapter, which examines the fallout from first contact and starts the story that ends with the Earth-Romulan War!
#startrek #firstcontactday
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Chapter 19 – Asteroid Hopping: New Mariana The special relationship between Earth and Vulcan has been the backbone of galactic peace. Once we treated them like children. As children are wont to do, they have grown past us, and we are all gr…

Chapter 19 – Asteroid Hopping: New Mariana

The special relationship between Earth and Vulcan has been the backbone of galactic peace. – Councilor to the Federation for Vulcan Soval

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But the big way to move out of the system was military service. Reman soldiers would fight in skirmishes with the Klingons, in the suppressing of the Haakona rebellions and most importantly provide ground contingents during the Earth-Romulan war. See @intheraptorsclaws.bsky.social for details

Chapter 18 – Asteroid Hopping: The Solomon Belt and Colonel Edison Intel found some Romulan news reports about us. They say the Devil Fish can only have been recruited from jails or insane asylums for their bloodlust! I’d say they got that one right! – Colon…

Chapter 18 – Asteroid Hopping: The Solomon Belt and Colonel Edison

Intel found some Romulan news reports about us. They say the Devil Fish can only have been recruited from jails or insane asylums for their bloodlust! – Colonel Balthazar Edison

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We should all aim to be such great trash

#OnThisDay, 2146:

USS Benjamin Franklin is launched. The lead of the Franklin-class, a replacement for the Intrepid-class frigate, it is the first Earth-built ship capable of Warp 4.

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And with that, Part 2 is done! Now we move into the backstretch of the war, where the Coalition of Planets starts to win this thing.

It'll still be a long road, though, getting from there to here...

Chapter 17 – Galorndon Core: Aftermath What do we do in the face of insensate evil? We endure. We will only be defeated when we allow ourselves to admit we are defeated. – T’Pau By August 13, 2157, the Coalition leaders in the hal…

Chapter 17 – Galorndon Core: Aftermath

What do we do in the face of insensate evil? We endure. We will only be defeated when we allow ourselves to admit we are defeated. – T’Pau

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Happy #TrekTuesday! Want to do a little Christmas Eve AMA on the project.

On that, we agree. Insurrection *is* boring and forgettable. At best it’s one of those TNG two-parters that kinda sucks and you just sorta let slide out of your brain. Better than the Twain one, worse than Descent.

What I’m saying is I think Nemesis is actively awful

Not sure I would go that far (Insurrection is more forgettable than actively awful), but to each their own

Yeh lets bring back #FollowFriday! Some great #StarTrek Fan Projects!

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The addition of the Remans was extremely important for flashing out the Romulan Empire as an empire and not just a nebulously defined Planet of Hats.

They have been vital to our project, as a handy solution to the “how do you have land battles in the ERW w/o ever seeing the Romulans?” problem too

A flight of 3 D'deridex warbirds in orbit of a planet

#Wolf359OnThisDay - A flight of 3 Warbirds is dispatched under the command of Tebok to follow a Borg Cube that has been dectected transiting Romulan Space. It seems to be heading to the area of space known as the Coridoor. He is under strict instructions to observe but avoid detection at all costs

Chapter 2: The Empty Frontier Wagon trains to the stars When the generation vessel Tyrava pulled into orbit of the M class 1 world of Saiter IV in early 2320, it was the hundred new world settled since the start of the frontier...

Happy holidays to all and sundry, Second chapter is up!

As the Romulan empire pushes deeper into the Beta Quadrant questions of exactly how and for whom these new worlds should be governed threaten the uneasy political equilibrium of the Third Republic.

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Chapter 16 – Galorndon Core: “Sink the Praetor!” I don’t give a damn what you have to do. Beg, borrow, or steal if you have to. I cannot abide that behemoth at liberty in human space even one moment longer. – Priyanka Patel, United Earth Pr…

Chapter 16 – Galorndon Core: “Sink the Praetor!”
I don’t give a damn what you have to do. Beg, borrow, or steal if you have to. I cannot abide that behemoth at liberty in human space even one moment longer. – Priyanka Patel, United Earth Prime Minister
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Chapter 15 – Galorndon Core: Shran, Archer and Valdore There must be something wrong with the pinkskins’ ships today! – Admiral Thy’Lek Shran There was no way for Admiral Archer to have known just how much the next few days would alter the trajec…

Chapter 15 – Galorndon Core: Shran, Archer and Valdore

“There must be something wrong with the pinkskins’ ships today!” – Admiral Thy’Lek Shran

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