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| The Forgotten War | |
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| Series: | The Next Generation, No. 57 |
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| Author(s): | William R. Forstchen |
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| Published: | paperback - 1999 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0671011596 |
| Chronology | |
| Date: | 2367 |
Picard confronts a deadly secret from the past!
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Descendants of survivors from Murat's vessel have no functional subspace radio -- and are completely unaware that the war is over. They have developed their own crude industrial base in order to defend themselves from the equally militant descendants of a crashed Tarn vessel's crew. They have copies of Mustang warplanes, copies of M-1 Garand rifles, and copies of full body armor and uniforms bearing Starfleet markings. They retain the information necessary to fabricate these things because they make use of the intact databases from their ship. Standing forces who consider themselves to be loyal members of the Federation, fighting for their lives, employ methods such as child soldiers and mass incineration booby traps. They also have and use lethal chemical and biological weapons at a tactical level. The Tarn on the planet, for their part, have recently relearned the fabrication and use of crude low-yield tactical nuclear weapons. They not only do not know that the war between the Tarn and Federation is over, but they also do not know that the Federation-Klingon war is over.
Both combatant groups have suffered extreme psychological anguish, and are extremely bloodthirsty and intransigent. Verdun crew descendants, for example, feel contempt for Riker and the other Enterprise personnel when they learn that these strangers have not earned their ranks through promotion for killing many Klingons in battle -- furthermore, thy find that these others do not derive pleasure from extreme violence. Soon, armed vessels from both sides arrive, standing ready to re-ignite the larger war between the Tarn and the Federation in order to "save" their respective citizens fighting on the planet below. The situation is finally resolved when Jean-Luc Picard and Harna Karish agree to each simultaneously give strategic mass destruction weapons to the opposing side in the fighting below. This creates a situation in which it finally becomes possible to get each side to cease hostilities and agree to be evacuated.
The author acknowledged the novel's uncredited co-writer, Elizabeth Kitsteiner Salzer, in Voyages of Imagination by Jeff Ayers.
Many notes from the book seem to depict a belief that the Tarn Wars were an occurrence of the era of Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series, such as the uniform colors, the uniform pictured on the cover and descriptions of miniskirt uniforms and rank insignia as well as the mentions of Captain Pike and the original Constitution class Enterprise. This is in contradiction to the dating information, which places events in the mid 22nd century, two hundred years prior to the TNG era the book is set in, and one hundred years prior to TOS. It is possible that the authors were unfamiliar with the Star Trek timeline, or that the book had been heavily re-edited to remove information that could be seen as contradictory to TOS continuity.
A very vague reference creates a possibility that Picard was considered to have been a relative or descendant of Captain Murat, in that Picard tells Midshipman Forsyth that he had an ancestor who played chess with the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Marshal Joachim Murat is noted to have been one of Napoleon's chess opponents.
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The Forgotten War: The Nagai and the Tofs is a Hyperspace-exclusive article written by James McFadden, detailing the history of the Nagai-Tof War.
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The Forgotten War: The Nagai and the Tofs on Hyperspace| The Forgotten War | |
 Golden age Epic adventure #1 |
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| Publisher | QuikLink Interactive |
| Version | T20 |
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| Canonical | yes |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Pages | 35 |
| Available from | RPGNow |
Golden Age Epic 1: The Forgotten War is set in the "Golden Age" of the Third Imperium (1105-1116) in the Spinward Marches against the backdrop of the Fifth Frontier War with the Zhodani Consulate. Set in District 268, the crew of the Far Trader Spinward Rebellion have just been drafted by the Imperial Navy into service as a naval auxilliary.
The District 268 Navy is stretched to the limit trying to guard the border. At least it is a relatively quiet area of the Marches... or so the characters have been told. Their first assignment is to deliver a marine squad and supplies to a marine forward base deep in District 268, a mission that could be fraught with danger...
This adventure contains T20 statistics for new ships as well as old favorites from the Classic Era: the 200 ton Far Trader, 300 ton Gazelle Class Close Escort, 20 ton Gig, 15 ton Planetary Defense Fighter, 400 ton system defense boat, 600 ton Zhodani Patrol Corvette, 8 ton Zhodani fighter, 400 ton corsair, 1000 ton X-Boat tender, 130 ton Sword Worlds Blockade Runner and other vessels we can't even mention...
Full Deckplans for the 200-ton Far Trader and the 130-ton Blockade Runner are also included!
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