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I've checked the Beta Quadrant pages of my Star Charts copy but haven't found yet Tyrellia and Balduk. Could somebody give me a hint where to find them, please? Nearby major stars, sectors, anything?
(I can be pretty bad at finding stuff on those maps. Took me a week to find Maluria the first time around).
Stellar magnitude note: Balduk's host-star would be in the neighbourhood of +5. Ditto Tyrellia.
If you can nail down something in those stellar classes, in that magnitude range, and those rough X-Y co-ordinates, however "high" or "low" on the Z-axis...?
Unfortunately, the only good source I'm aware of online for galactic rectangular coordinates (the Internet Stellar Database) doesn't support searching by apparent distance on the projective plane ignoring Z-coordinates, so there's no real convenient way of doing that.
Upon further reflection, the series I had in mind was Aldnoah.Zero - which has examples of such arcs being played out in both directions.
A/Z pits Earth against Mars, with the Martian side founded by human colonists who gain access to advanced alien technologies.
On the Martian side, Slaine Troyard was brought to Mars by his father, who had provided his research expertise in the deciphering of said alien technology. However, in a xenophobic neo-feudal society which treats Terrans as second-class subjects, Slaine gradually seeks to use the prospect of renewed war with Earth to subvert Martian society for his own ends... which by no means coincide with the wishes of his supposed Terran cousins. But the more he compromises his principles to seek his goal, the more warped and corrupted his results beome.
On the Terran side, Rayet Areash was raised on Earth by Martian emigrants in the wake of the first war between Earth and Mars. Her parents were part of a sleeper cell which was used to stage an assassination attempt, aimed at sparking renewed conflict between Earth and Mars. However, after her father's cell approaches a Martian noble in order to claim their promised reward, they learn the hard way that the first rule of assassination is to kill the assassins. Rayet manages to escape and later joins the Earth forces, seeing it as an opportunity to seek vengeance against all Martians. (While she manages to avoid revealing her own connection to Mars at first, this mental turmoil leads to serious trouble later in the series.)
Of course, said examples are quite removed from how things play out here. But the overall concept is an intriguing one, both in how the person involved buckles under the strain of their... evolving loyalties and how their actions shape events for both friend and foe alike.
Not sure that screening by stellar class is possible with this, although it does show which stars fall into which classes, and there's a limited form of magnitude depiction available.
Well, the idea is that Pioneer is exploring the part of uncharted space that was blocked by the Romulans before. Assuming that the treaty forced the Romulans behind a smaller border than they'd had at the peak of their expansionism.
Finally had a chance to get to this; a very good and satisfying read.
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing Archer's continuing trajectory towards the presidency, yet I'm also hoping it doesn't happen too quickly. I am enjoying the journey.
I never hated the gazelle speech but enjoy the ribbing he's getting for it.
I appreciate seeing T'Pol and Reed in the captain's seat, it feels like past due; and I am glad that Trip's rehabilitation isn't being rushed.
Lest we feel everything is too rosy, a suitably power hungry Vabion and the Orions will lurk and scheme.
I am very much looking forward to the next installment; when is is due and who is writing it?
