Agni discussion thread

[Garak234]

For all discussions of the Agni from the Captains Oath by Christopher Bennet.
https://christopherlbennett.wordpre...ek-fiction/tos-the-captains-oath-annotations/

The Agni appear in the following pages of ST CO(Captians Oath):
Chapter 6
94-109
Chapter 11
178-195

Chapter 14
243- 252

Chapter 15
253-270

Chapter 16
271-95

Chapter 18
315-325
Chapter 19
326-336
Chapter 21
350-355
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Agni

 

[Garak234]

Can Agni quantum similarity drives be used post burn?

we’re all the Agni accounted for and did newly discovered groups of Agni continue to plague the Alpha Quadrant?
Did the Agni end of colonising Mercury as Christopher Bennet proposed to STA(https://christopherlbennett.wordpre...ek-fiction/tos-the-captains-oath-annotations/) as well as creating UFP colonies in lord of Class N planets?
Did the Agni reached pre apocalypse numbers while on Regulas?(If Agni are an egg laying species with modern tech then there numbers may or may not grow very fast)
And did any Agni perform any function in Starfleet?(Ceophalopodic ops?)
Were the Agni the first of many Class N species that joined the UFP(and the Agni in Ceophalophodic ops)
How did Agni ship designs change as a member of the UFP(regulus and the other area of Agni colonisation likely served as Agni shipyards)

Once Diaz facilitated the resettlement of the Agni(and earned a large reputation in her own right) will she finally get a ship of her own?
Will reread the parts of the book related to Regulas related to if it is dependent on Dilithium to stay in the sky if it is then most of the regulans would have died in the burn (unless they can base their domes on the surface with future tech that is)

(The owner of the Agni Christopher Bennet has made it clear that all posts on the Agni should be in question form)

 

[Avro Arrow]

@Garak234 , since you had already created a general discussion thread for the Agni, I've merged your new thread from today into that one. We don't really need to have multiple threads going on the same topic.

(The owner of the Agni Christopher Bennet has made it clear that all posts on the Agni should be in question form)

If my understanding is correct, it would probably be more fair to say that Christopher is the creator of the Agni. My understanding is that everything created for a Star Trek tie-in novel would be owned by CBS (or whatever the newly remerged company's name is now).

Not to speak for Christopher, but my take on that exchange was that he was simply saying that it was generally a good idea to ask about something, rather than just making an assumption that may not be correct.

 

[Garak234]

We’re all the Agni caravans covered In ST CO and are there more Agni (possibly more hostile) still migrating to the UFP and other interstellar powers and wrecking havoc on the Alpha and Beta Quadrants?(the ones in the UFP probably sooner or later go the way of the Regulas Agni, the rest of the Agni, take new planets by force, are vassalized by the Romulans, or are redirected to UFP space.(speculation there is plenty of Agni migration sceneries that can be as specilted on). But as galactic trouble makers they are on the level of Nuasicaans imo any power with the time and space and tech will eventually defeat an Agni caravan except maybe a pre or early warp world.

 

[Christopher]

The Agni were hardly "galactic troublemakers." That's really very insensitive and unfair, and shows a very poor understanding of what was explained in the book. They were refugees who were misunderstood. All they wanted was a new home, but because the civilizations they encountered had a concept of territory they didn't understand, they found themselves harassed for reasons that, to them, were inexplicable, and they defended themselves against what seemed like irrationally aggressive foes. And since those other civilizations didn't grasp the Agni's point of view, they in turn mistook the Agni's self-defense for aggression.

As established in the "history book excerpt" toward the end of the novel, the Agni were content to keep to themselves once they gained new homeworlds. Since their environmental needs are totally different from those of Class-M life forms, there's no reason for them to come into conflict over territory or resources, and they're occupied with building new homes, which could easily be the work of centuries. So of course they're not "wreaking havoc." They have no reason to. They have no interest in anything we have, and we have no interest in the Venus-like planets they thrive on. So there's no basis whatsoever for conflict, and little basis for any interaction. After all, since this was a prequel, I had to establish a reason why we never heard of the Agni after these events.