(06-08-2024, 09:04 PM)In an edit, Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original flavour)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-102133776
Wu Zetian Rides Again is also available at Royal Road.
Moreover, In the Raptor's Claws: Earth, Romulus, and the War that Birthed the Federation (Enterprise) has updated for the first time since I recommended it, with Chapter 7: Terra Prime, the Sons of V'Las, and Coordinated Transnational Ultranationalism.
Dr. Zyn ch'Mordan Wrote:While (the first Coalition of Planets) conference was to be the dawn of a new era, humans have often said that it is always darkest before the dawn. Darker, uglier forces were gathering while the government put together their plan for an interstellar alliance. The most consequential of these ultranationalist movements was Terra Prime, under the leadership of lunar mining industrialist John Fredrick Paxton.*
* Arthur Wolfman, Dark Heart: John Paxton and The Terra Prime Movement (Orion Press, May 2175).
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Terra Prime also inspired copycats and imitators on several Coalition worlds among those who resisted these increased entanglements. Perhaps the most consequential of these were the Sons of V’Las on Vulcan.** This group was formed from the enmeshing of two groups: those members of the old le-matya faction who resented having their careers destroyed as a consequence of T’Pau’s rapid drawdown of the High Command and the Argosy, and those from the isolationist L-Langon faction who wanted to withdraw from the quadrant entirely.
** P’Saria, Daughter of B’Sayl, The Extremes of Logic: An Inquiry into the Sons of V’Las and Subsequent Movements, (Vulcan Science Academy Press, February 2273).
https://intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/...tionalism/