Picture the Novelverse - Characters, Ships and More !

Am I doing something wrong? I can't link images anymore with the "Insert Image" button. After copy&pasting in the picture's web address, only a white X in a small black box appears.

 

Is there any image out there, fan-made or otherwise, depicting a Commonwealth jaunt ship?

 

It's a variant of the known 22ndC design but with different pylons. I wonder whether this class could be reconciled with any of The Romulan War starship class names?



I can't post an image in this thread, so I'm going with a bare link: http://www.maddrax.de/bigpix.php?id=serie-pix-9088234168eb786ec7e78b3d8cac0601&w=580&h=700

Only TrekLit in the broadest sense - it's literature and it features Star Trek - nevertheless I'd like to share this gem.

The image is the cover of a novel, part of a German post-apocalyptic novel series called Maddrax.

In No. 44, roughly translating to By Their Own Rules, the titular characters Matthew Drax and Aruula come across a valley containing the descendants of Star Trek RPG players who take their game as reality. The beginning of an affectionate parody...

Blurb:

Fashion of the future: The Kling and Andor players wear their masks all the time, whereas the Vulks and Roms only have pointed ears. Feds go without masks and make-up, but there's a green-painted female dancer during the current Con.

The novel was released in 2001, before ENT aired in Germany. I'd never seen or heard of the Andorians before and accepted that their masks are pink. Not only on the cover, but in the novel itself Andors are proud of their Pinkie Pie-pink skin. Now watch "The Andorian Incident" and enjoy the irony.

What's in a Name? : Do these names ring a bell? We've got Lemoy (Vulk), Manard (Rom), Johcos (Kling Sub-Emperor), Rolley (Kling ambassador), T'Russ (Vulk healer), Winell (Andor), Rinold (assistant of the Master), Sojak (founder of the Vulks' society, play on words on soya), Joalins (Willner's wife in the Village of the Dead, "killed" in a duell with a Kling), and Jayler (Fed swordmaster).

Take me to your leader: Captain Caligula Willner, Captain of the Truly United Federation of Really a Lot of Worlds; Imperator Morn, Protector of the Truth, Champion against Peace, Dog of War - of the Kling-Empire, Senator Den'by of the Rom-Imperium (she's a blonde); and Prefect Regder of the Empire of the Andors.

History/Society: The four empires call their canyon "the Quadrant". Their territories are divided by the Neutral Zone. There are two more notable entities: the Village of the Dead, and the Game Master. The latter is responsible for ensuring the correct application of the Rules by everybody. The other is the place where somebody goes when he or she loses all of their points. They are not allowed to interact with the "living" anymore.

Everybody carries dice and display their Values on their chest. Points are given to various talents, e.g. intelligence. The Master determines the Values by rolling the die upon birth, or - as in Matt's and Aruula's case - upon arrival in the Quadrant.

Members from different peoples are not allowed to have children with one another. Children of mixed heritage are sent to the Village of the Dead upon birth.

Every year, one of the peoples organizes the Con, where members of all species compete in various disciplines. Years before the events of the novel, the Vulks were weakened so much during a Con that then-Fed captain November assimilated the Vulks into the Feds. They still behave like Vulks but wear the colorful shirts of the Feds (see cover). Cons are the high point of the year, last three days and consist of Panels, Dealers, Filks and Fancys.

Dice are produced by the Andors and only purchasable on a Con. The Feds hold the 250th Con in 2521.

The Klings are always drunk and have mutated dogs, called doggs, as pets. They are considered violent, but every confrontation is solved with dice anyway. The Kling eat their worms, called !eek, alive. !eek is a dish best eaten cold.

Feds count the passage of time in "Moondates". At the time of the novel (the year 2517), we have Moondate 6710,17. The novels concludes a week later, still the same Moondate. Vulks behave logically and give a lot of percentages. Healers, like Doctor T'Russ, use salt shakers they wave over injured to determine their health. There are counselors - they listen but the only thing they're saying is "But I sense great anger and pain inside you."

A common insult is "Dumb Gorrn!". The pathway leading from the canyon to the outside world is called "interdimenional rift".

It's one of my all-time favorite novels in the Maddrax series.

 

A silver Vesta with a ring completing the pylons!

 

Thanks for sharing, Clawhammer!

The Vesta class is my favourite starship in Star Trek Online.

Also, in their cover preview for an upcoming German edition of a Voyager novel, Cross Cult identified B'Elanna's slipstream vessel with your Spirit-class starship.

 

I think it would made a good design for the free starship Titan in the mirror universe.

 

I hope its not a placeholder. Although the Tellarites aren't starship designers by themselves (ENT: A Choice of Futures) I always found them somewhat underrepresented.

Plus, the ship is a fine kitbash, Imho.