Am I right in thinking the USS Titan's shuttlecraft Ellington was destroyed?
Titan question for the group-mind...
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And Chakotay wasn't even in that story!
Just while we're on Sword Of Damocles... I'm assuming Charon and Titan were both sent on the deep space mission at round about the same time (give or take a week or two for the events of the first two books), but is it likely both ships were sent off in generally the same direction?
From the events of the first three novels, I'd assumed Titan had gone off on its own course and was the only Federation ship for quite some distance, but is apparently in relatively close proximity to Charon (and possibly other Luna class vessels?)
Anybody else have thoughts on that? Or an answer that pulls me up for not paying enough attention when I'm reading the books?
Just while we're on Sword Of Damocles... I'm assuming Charon and Titan were both sent on the deep space mission at round about the same time (give or take a week or two for the events of the first two books), but is it likely both ships were sent off in generally the same direction?
From the events of the first three novels, I'd assumed Titan had gone off on its own course and was the only Federation ship for quite some distance, but is apparently in relatively close proximity to Charon (and possibly other Luna class vessels?)
Anybody else have thoughts on that? Or an answer that pulls me up for not paying enough attention when I'm reading the books?
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Uhh, if it was destroyed in SoD, it must've been replaced, since it's referenced twice in Over a Torrent Sea. I'd say I goofed, but how many Galileos were there again...?
Strictly speaking, it and the Charon would've been surveying large adjacent sectors, and would've normally been quite far apart. We must assume that the vagaries of their respective survey courses brought them coincidentally close together during the events of SoD. As a rule, you'd never find two Luna-class ships close enough to call on one another for help.
Strictly speaking, it and the Charon would've been surveying large adjacent sectors, and would've normally been quite far apart. We must assume that the vagaries of their respective survey courses brought them coincidentally close together during the events of SoD. As a rule, you'd never find two Luna-class ships close enough to call on one another for help.
Yup, that makes a lot of sense. I quite like the Titan series, so it's good to piece together what's happening in the surrounding part of the galaxy the ship occupies; it makes the series that little bit more fleshed out. Thanks
Not long to wait now for the new novels
Orion's Hounds established that Titan and Ganymede were respectively surveying the coreward and rimward halves of the space inside the Gum Nebula, but that doesn't mean they were going in opposite directions. If you look at the inset map in Star Charts' rear foldouts, the Gum Nebula is to the right from the UFP, the core is toward the top of the page, and the rim is toward the bottom of the page. So they were surveying the inner and outer halves of the nebula interior, but on roughly parallel courses, both heading to the "right." (I'd include a link to my map of Titan's route, but my whole website has inexplicably disappeared -- I'm going to look into that.)
Where Charon comes into the picture is a little confusing. In Over a Torrent Sea, I retroactively explain that Ganymede took damage and returned to port, with Charon taking over its survey route.
Okay, I've been out of the loop on new releases for quite a while now. When is the new Titan book coming out?
In March. Titan is also featured in the Destiny trilogy currently being released.
As for my website, it seems the files were accidentally deleted in a cleanup operation at the ISP. I have it all backed up, but it might take me a couple of days to get it up and running again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I was wondering if that was just me; I was trying to look up your Orion's Hounds annotations to check it.
Yeesh. Charon and Rhea were destroyed, Ganymede was damaged, Io's crew got radiation poisoning, and there was an accident during Luna's construction. The Luna-class ships are getting as bad as shuttlecraft.
They should've known something was up when Tuvok steps on board and WHOOSH they get pulled a tad further than 70,000 light years away
Titan itself hasn't been free of casualty since its launch, though nothing on the scale of Charon. Maybe the Luna class is doomed beyond hope... They probably shoot an albatross for luck every time a Luna class is launched
Wait, I thought Rhea was the Luna class in GttS and it survived...?
^^^ Rhea wasn't destroyed if I remember the finale of GTTS correctly. Didn't Picard get the entity to release it during the battle? And didn't her captain try to get Trys back on board following her success on the big E?
I haven't read GttS yet; I was under the impression that the ship was destroyed, but Enterprise managed to save most of the crew.
Of the twelve Luna-class ships, only Charon has been destroyed.
IIRC, Rhea was damaged and needed to return to port for refit / repairs following the events of that novel.
^ And give her crew an opportunity to recover from the trauma of Borg attack/fatalities/near assimilation. That is, for however long an interval there was between Greater than the Sum and Destiny.
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Okay, slightly related question.
I understand that all Luna-class ships are on similar missions of way-out-there exploration. But are all Luna-class ships undergoing the same multi-species crew experiment as Titan, or is Titan the only one?
I understand that all Luna-class ships are on similar missions of way-out-there exploration. But are all Luna-class ships undergoing the same multi-species crew experiment as Titan, or is Titan the only one?
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