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Chapter 23 – Withdrawal and Fortification

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken my people? – President Fluxa-moshan-tethras, quoting Earth religious scripture

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Chapter 23 – Withdrawal and Fortification
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken my people? – President Fluxa-moshan-tethras, quoting Earth religious scripture By September 2159, it became clear to the Continuing Committee – if…
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If Nathan Samuels didn’t want to get shivved by Patel for UE Prime Minister, maybe he should have sucked less
The only thing Bsky talks more about than politics is space politics.
We’re doing starwars discourse again?
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The Romulans are coming... so chuffed to be asked to work on this with @intheraptorsclaws.bsky.social #startrek #fanfiction
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Now I just have to finish the dang thing. Only 3 chapters to go!
Big news! As we close in on the final chapters, I’m happy to report we have a front cover for the eventual pdf version.

Huge thanks to @steillustrates.bsky.social for his amazing job
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Big news! As we close in on the final chapters, I’m happy to report we have a front cover for the eventual pdf version.

Huge thanks to @steillustrates.bsky.social for his amazing job
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I was married but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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
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September 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
To 59 more!
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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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!
August 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Did you know:

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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August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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 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…
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April 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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 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…
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April 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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#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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January 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy #TrekTuesday! Want to do a little Christmas Eve AMA on the project.
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 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…
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December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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
Star Trek Nemesis was released 22 years ago today.

This film is generally reviled when I post about it. Please say one thing you like about this film.
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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#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
December 18, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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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 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...
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December 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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 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…
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December 20, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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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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…
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November 29, 2024 at 2:37 PM
@greatesttrek.bsky.social in honor of this week’s episode of Greatest Gen, wanted to re-up our chapter covering this episode. Hope people enjoy! intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/c...
Chapter 3 – The ENT2X03/Vadia-Lya Incident
Not a very subtle warning shot! – Captain Jonathan Archer Following her launch in April 2151, the Enterprise set out on the first leg of her voyage. This first year was very much a mixed success fr…
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November 25, 2024 at 2:19 PM
If you’re starting with this project new:
The first duty of any Starfleet officer is to the truth; whether scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth.

And the truth is this: the Romulan Star Empire is dead, and we killed it.-VAdm Picard
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Foreword
The first duty of any Starfleet officer is to the truth; whether scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. And the truth is this: the Romulan Star Empire is dead, and we killed it. …
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November 10, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Latest Chapter:

Chapter 14 - Chapter 14 – The Eve of Galorndon Core: Establishing the Distant Blockade of the High Space Fleet

"Starfleet won this war as much in London as it did at Galorndon Core" – Priyanka Patel, United Earth Prime Minister

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Chapter 14 – The Eve of Galorndon Core: Establishing the Distant Blockade of the High Space Fleet
Starfleet won this war as much in London as it did at Galorndon Core. It was the work of untold millions of hands. Even so, it was impossible to ignore how much of our effort would depend on Admira…
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November 10, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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