Mestiko...is it still there?

[Deranged Nasat]

A thought occurred to me recently. I greatly enjoyed "Mere Anarchy", and the overarching story of the planet Mestiko was handled very effectively. I really became invested in their struggles and trials, and appreciated how the authors gave us a "happy" ending that did not feel tacked on. The people of Mestiko- and of the Federation- earned that ending, where Mestiko had been restored and was in the process of deciding its own fate with regards to its role in the galactic community.

However, thinking over where Mestiko might have gone from here, I remembered something. Mestiko is near the Triborder. Presumably quite near to the Azure Nebula. Uh oh. There has yet been no mention of the planet in any post-Destiny book, but I can't help but think the news isn't good. Does anyone have any thoughts on Mestiko and the Borg's genocide?

 

[William Leisner]

Does anyone have any thoughts on Mestiko and the Borg's genocide?

Yes. I do have thoughts.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Does anyone have any thoughts on Mestiko and the Borg's genocide?

Yes. I do have thoughts.

Ooh, is this what I think it is...?

 

[Paris]

As of right now, there has been no post-Destiny mention of Mestiko, and AFAIK, Mestiko's only appearance has been in the Mere Anarchy mini-series. I would love to see them again, as I too became invested in their struggles. Maybe we'll see something in Losing the Peace

EDIT: ah...it seems William posted really fast on this one! Hopefully this means what we hope it means

 

[OmahaStar]

I do have thoughts.

The scientists warned us this day might come.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I do have thoughts.

The scientists warned us this day might come.

The end of the world is nigh

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I do have thoughts.

The scientists warned us this day might come.

The end of the world is nigh

Which is exactly the outcome I'm worried about for Mestiko!

 

[BrotherBenny]

The scientists warned us this day might come.

The end of the world is nigh

Which is exactly the outcome I'm worried about for Mestiko!

They probably escaped the damage wrought by the Borg since they weren't important enough for destruction. Every other world we know of was an important and older Federation world.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

The end of the world is nigh

Which is exactly the outcome I'm worried about for Mestiko!

They probably escaped the damage wrought by the Borg since they weren't important enough for destruction. Every other world we know of was an important and older Federation world.

Adelphous IV? Jouret? Celes II? Hyralan? Beta Thoridor? Pandril? Morska? Nequencia? Xarantine?

The Borg destroyed everything and everyone in reach.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Which is exactly the outcome I'm worried about for Mestiko!

They probably escaped the damage wrought by the Borg since they weren't important enough for destruction. Every other world we know of was an important and older Federation world.

Adelphous IV? Jouret? Celes II? Hyralan? Beta Thoridor? Pandril? Morska? Nequencia? Xarantine?

The Borg destroyed everything and everyone in reach.

Not everything. The 7000 cubes did not eradicate every world in the alpha/beta quadrants, only everything en route to worlds they were told to go to. Mestiko might not have even been on one of those routes, space is vast after all. Or they could have been an early casualty, but I didn't see any Mestikan names on any of KRAD's lists. Remember, Mestiko has had almost a century of what we hope is peaceful existence after all they've been through. If they were attacked they may have fled to their underground caverns and been protected. I'll wait for Losing the Peace to confirm or deny my suspicions.

 

[Paris]

Adelphous IV? Jouret? Celes II? Hyralan? Beta Thoridor? Pandril? Morska? Nequencia? Xarantine?

The Borg destroyed everything and everyone in reach.

Oh no !!! Not Xarantine and Nequencia!!! Those are my favorite anti-depresants

 

[Deranged Nasat]

They probably escaped the damage wrought by the Borg since they weren't important enough for destruction. Every other world we know of was an important and older Federation world.

Adelphous IV? Jouret? Celes II? Hyralan? Beta Thoridor? Pandril? Morska? Nequencia? Xarantine?

The Borg destroyed everything and everyone in reach.

Not everything. The 7000 cubes did not eradicate every world in the alpha/beta quadrants, only everything en route to worlds they were told to go to. Mestiko might not have even been on one of those routes, space is vast after all.

True, very true, but given what we know was hit, Mestiko would appear to probably be in the danger zone. Bacco's comment in "Lost Souls" might have been hyperbole for sure (okay, we know it was) but "a dead zone for 100 light-years around the Azure Nebula" doesn't sound good for Mestiko. Anyway, seeing as the Borg were attempting to annihilate everyone in local space, I imagine their fleets would deliberately set course for inhabited worlds. I doubt a planet would be safe because the Borg might have taken another route. As vast as space is, the Borg armada would have broken off into smaller fleets aimed right at every world in reach. Of course, as you say, space is vast. There may be worlds in the danger zone that weren't hit.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Adelphous IV? Jouret? Celes II? Hyralan? Beta Thoridor? Pandril? Morska? Nequencia? Xarantine?

The Borg destroyed everything and everyone in reach.

Oh no !!! Not Xarantine and Nequencia!!! Those are my favorite anti-depresants

Well, bad news for you then...

 

[KRAD]

I didn't see any Mestikan names on any of KRAD's lists.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and there was only one list, which was a supplemental list for a single sector.

IOW, at present, we don't know what Mestiko's fate is.

 

[Paris]

I didn't see any Mestikan names on any of KRAD's lists.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and there was only one list, which was a supplemental list for a single sector.

IOW, at present, we don't know what Mestiko's fate is.

Don't know or won't tell us ?

 

[Christopher]

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

Ah, thank you. I wasn't aware it was quite that many...

Well, I guess Mestiko might have a chance after all!

 

[captcalhoun]

Mestiko's name-checked in A Less Perfect Union as being one of the worlds the Klingons have picked off, along with Organia...

 

[Sci]

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

It doesn't to me -- not when you're talking about an invasion fleet of over 7,000 cubes that can apparently each exterminate a planet in less than an hour, anyway.

 

[Christopher]

Mestiko's name-checked in A Less Perfect Union as being one of the worlds the Klingons have picked off, along with Organia...

Just to clarify, that's in an alternate timeline, in case anyone was confused.

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

It doesn't to me -- not when you're talking about an invasion fleet of over 7,000 cubes that can apparently each exterminate a planet in less than an hour, anyway.

I think we're shown several cubes at least in each system. And many of those systems might have multiple inhabited worlds or moons to deal with -- Sol System has Earth, Luna, Mars, and colonies at Jupiter and Saturn at the very least. And what's your reference for the claim that a single cube can wipe out a whole planet in less than an hour?