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Do you want ongoing novels on the Kelvin Universe
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Something I put together for fun, to get a rough idea of the damage done by the 2387 supernova, using information from Countdown, Stellar Cartography, Star trek Online and the Star Charts (all of which the novelverse is free to ignore, of course)
^ It's good to know that even magical supernovas respect the sanctity of the Neutral Zone! 
That's not a terribly big circle of Romulan space, though it's a pretty bad break considering that it looks to be the most densely populated section of the Empire, and almost everything below it in that image would've been obliterated by the Borg in Destiny. It's a shame the IRS couldn't hold it together; a couple years later, and Archernar Prime would've been the jewel of the Romulan civilization by default.
Actually, now that I think about it, having the IRS "win" could solve this whole 2397 problem.
Kind of a shame they reunited the Romulan factions, I guess. A timeskip and then dealing exclusively with the Imperial Romulan State (and just never mentioning Romulus, and making only vague references to the fall of the Romulan Empire) might have been a workaround, albeit a far less than ideal one.
Also keeping Donatra would have been nice. Though I am also very content with Kamemor being the head of the RSE.
Sorry, this is kind of a pet peeve: It's Achernar, pronounced "ack-er-nar" or "ake-er-nar." Nothing to do with archery. It's from Arabic akhir an-nahr, "end of the river" (because it's at one end of the constellation Eridanus, the River).
Huh, I always thought it was pronounced "atsch-er-nar"
I think I believed for a while that it was "uh-ker-ner." Maybe I heard someone in some show pronounce it that way.
But Trek has a history of mangling star names. Like in "Mudd's Women" when Harry said he was going to Ophiuchus VII, he pronounced it "oh-fie-ah-kus," and it's actually "oh-fee-ook-us" or "oh-few-kus." And I don't recall if this was in an episode, but I've heard a lot of people pronounce "Eridani" like "air-uh-dah-nee" when its actually "eh-rid-uh-nee."
I could've sworn I checked the spelling on Memory Beta, too. I must've been thrown off by a redirect somewhere.
Well, Memory Beta may be wrong, because the IDW Mission's End comic features an "Archernar" system, and Memory Beta's editors love to conflate things. But the real, actual star Alpha Eridani is called Achernar in real life.
That might have been a little strange, though, because Achernar is way below the galactic plane. Like, far enough below that it's got to be this little tendril of Romulan space poking its way into Federation territory, ruining the nice smooth RNZ boundary we see from a top-down view. It would've put the Romulan capital as a near-exclave if that happened. Not impossible, but kind of weird.
It's honestly kind of unfortunate that it was included as a Romulan planet in the books (though given the way Star Charts portrayed its location I can't blame novel writers for that), because logistically it would've worked much better to go from the Alpha Eridani reference in TOS and keep it as a Federation world that's just "below" Romulan territory.
It's honestly kind of unfortunate that it was included as a Romulan planet in the books (though given the way Star Charts portrayed its location I can't blame novel writers for that), because logistically it would've worked much better to go from the Alpha Eridani reference in TOS and keep it as a Federation world that's just "below" Romulan territory.
I have wondered why the novel authors picked that particular star. IIRC, TOS indicated it was a human colony (I'm guessing that's the TOS reference you're referring to?), and the (admittedly non-canon) FJ Technical Manual seemed to pick up on this and supported it being a Federation system with the inclusion of USS Achernar.
I'm pretty sure it's because it was a major star that from a top-down view appears to be within RSE territory in Star Charts. That's the only reason I can think of, at least.
And yeah, it was the "Wolf in the Fold" reference to Alpha Eridani II that I meant, that episode said there was an Earth colony there. The Romulan War duology presented it as a colony that was wiped out and the planet claimed by the Romulans, which honestly fits both the line and the later novelverse references pretty well, but it's still a good 200ly or so below Gamma Hydra, which we know is right next to the RNZ. Though I'll admit, that doesn't rule out Romulan territory just taking a pretty wide span in the Z direction that doesn't show up well in Star Charts. Maybe their breadth is more perpendicular to the galactic plane as compared to the Federation or Klingons that seem to have spread out for the most part along it.
Right where I did a few posts up.
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