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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Carnivon Article That Might Have Been

This is Steven Petrick posting.

The working project for Star Fleet Battles is Module C6, which will provide for General War level capabilities of the Paravian and Carnivon empires. The Paravians had a previous treatment in Captain's Log #28, but in Module C6 they will be a more formal empire occupying space with colonies to defend.

The Carnivons were undergoing some thought for a future Stellar Shadows Captain's Log, and this project will probably be abandoned. The working background would have seen Carnivon fleets forces into the WYN Star Cluster in the same manner that the Usurper entered the Cluster. Of course, the Carnivons would have entered the Cluster well before the Usurper, and the alternate history would have seen the Usurper and his followers destroyed by the Carnivons. Other changes to history would have seen the Orion Cluster Cartel never form, the Carnivons destroying the Orion ship.

With more ships, and a larger initial population base, the Carnivons would have developed the cluster more than the Usurper had been able to do, eventually leading to the establishment of a Carnivon shipyard within the Cluster.

Eventually, a Carnivon fleet would emerge from the Cluster and set about destroying one of the two feline empires (either the Kzintis or the Lyrans, which would be first had not been settled on). Long term, the Carnivons would have intended to attack the other feline empire, but the Inter-Stellar Concordium would arrive to intervene. This would be followed by the Andromedan War and, at the end of recorded history, left a renewed Carnivon Empire occupying parts of both feline empires and Klingon space and centered on the WYN Star Cluster as its capital.

I would, at this juncture, like to point out that having the Carnivons occupy the WYN Star Cluster prior to the Usurper was not an idea unique to me. While I had thought of it on my own, Mike West also mentioned the idea to me, so great minds do sometimes think alike.