“Can someone tell me how we missed another coup?” - Ken Wescott.
The tottering government of Chancellor Lornak falls to the new, military order of "The Thought Admiral of the People": Sturka.
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"The Parachute Officer – a young human woman – met the Ambassador at the steps. She was a little better turned out than our marines, but not by much; her rifle barrel was charred black at the end, and a scabbed gash on her head looked fresh. But when Calax’Zi appeared, she clicked her heels and saluted like the best of them. The President-Elect stared at her for a moment, then pulled her into a hug, tears flowing freely.’"
The Klingon Aristocracy makes a gambit for the crucial neutral world of Kobax III. Wescott matches their bet, and raises.
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"The moral crisis we face cannot be fought by police action. It cannot be fought with phasers. It is a time to act in this council and their sub-councils, and the planetary governments and courts. It will be fought in this room, by this government: and it is a battle that I intend to win." Wescott clashes with the government of Benecia over civil rights: as Redshirts clash with protestors, the reform movement is in crisis - but will they turn this into a moment of opportunity?
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“Mister Wescott look and see,
Is there a reform in your bill for me?
I been waiting a long, long time.
Since I cast that vote of mine!”
- Please Mister Wescott, 2263.
As a new Federation government grasps with the consequences of social and constitutional reform, the Klingon Empire enters a new, dangerous phase of political violence.
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"Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, both in the Beta quadrant, and, we hope, around the galaxy." – Ken Wescott.
A new, unsure President must gamble everything to prevent total war with the Klingon Empire.
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"I think I've had all the fill of Armageddon for one lifetime." - Sairose Fitzpatrick.
Over Acamar, a total war is imminent. Everyone - Klingon, Starfleet and Politican - is willing to risk everything to ensure victory. Only one person will actually take the risk, however, and push the quadrant that much closer to disaster.
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Storm clouds gather over the planet of Acamar as Starfleet races to prevent the establishment of a Klingon foothold in their back yard.
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“Flew from Beta Rigel VI TOAC
Didn't get to bed last night,
All the way my bat'leth was on my knee,
Man, I've had a dreadful flight
I'm back in the KSSR,
You don't know how lucky you are, boys:
Back in the KSSR!” – Romanticistic Rock band “The Quin-tles”, 2262
The Klingons strike back in the trade war; meanwhile, the passage of power in the Federation sets the stage for a confrontation over the embattled planet of Acamar.
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“An embargo if necessary, but not necessarily an embargo.” –Peter Broadhurst
Outmatched by the Klingon fleet, the Federation flexes its economic muscles across the quadrant.
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“A scrimmage in a Border Station --
A canter down some dark defile --
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail --
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!”
- Rudyard Kipling, Arithmetic on the Frontier
As the 2260s begin, both the Federation and the Klingon Empire prepare for the next stage of the Cold War.
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“It’s only fair the nobility gets hung from lampposts. If we don’t do it, Sturka will.” – Savan joke.
As the might of Klingon central power is turned on the rebels, the Federation prepares for the long, twilight struggle ahead.
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“Klingons don’t do revolutions. At least, I thought they didn’t.” – Matthew Decker. As Starfleet reels from the disaster at Caleb IV, Klingon social strife boils over into open revolt.
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“Caleb IV was an avoidable tactical disaster, but an unavoidable operational one. Thank god it happened when it did.” – Angella Fukuhara Starfleet suffers a grim backhand blow in the Undivae-Caleb system, as the Imperial Klingon Navy demonstrates its power.
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“All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance, a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.” – Robert Dylan, Old Earth Poet and Musician, circa 1967 CE
“I’m starting to realize that ‘we come in peace’ only means something if they’re clear on the fact we can also kick their ass.” - Matthew Decker, apocryphal.
As the Klingon Navy rounds up the Suliban population, Starfleet scrambles to deliver a decisive response.
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“The impact of escalated Orion piracy...can be understood as nothing less than a complete and irrevocable upheaval. If a disaster is to be averted, Starfleet must acknowledge and comprehend the scale of the Strategic Earthquake in the Disputed Area as soon as possible.” - The Holland Report.
Klingon Command faces a crisis which seemed to have no solution. “I think it is safe to say that these are not aftershocks,” Admiral Nogura would note in a memo to Commander, Starfleet, only a few weeks after Holland’s fateful description. “We’ve got a whole new problem on our hands.”
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“What does peace mean to the Klingon Empire? Nothing. It is a concept they have no use for, or real understanding of – even all their words for it were conquered from the languages of their subjects.” – Ambassador Robert Fox, 2265
It is safe to say that very few people understood the Klingon Empire at the end of the 2250s. The reasons why are much harder to summarise.
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“I’ll be honest, Ken, I deserved that.” - President Barreuco, to Kenneth Wescott, after losing the Vote of No Confidence, April 4th, 2258
"You have asked us to come together behind a united cause: behind a common belief. I think I know what that common belief is: that you have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, Madam President, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” - Ambassador Byss Th'rhahlat
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“When a President loses a war, there are consequences where they want them or not. When a President refuses to admit he lost the war because he was afraid to lead, they deserve the consequences.” - Sarek of Vulcan
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“What’s worse than Starfleet not approving the ship you want to build? Starfleet approving the ship they want to build.” —Matt Jeffries to Laurence Marvick, 2244
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“Until we have enough ships to match the D7 whenever it appears,we will never regain anything close to the security we once had inthe Klingon Border Area .”
— Admiral Agatha Drake, C-in-C 2nd Fleet, 2258
“This isn’t over. Armistice or not, the Klingons are coming for us.”
— Captain Matthew Decker, 2257
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