Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One: 1 (Nemesis, 1)

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Speaking in modern terms, HMS Dreadnought was a game changer, a technological marvel, different and better than what had come before. As a technological marvel, Great Britain’s new battleship was also a disruptor. She made older ships obsolete – for both Great Britain and everyone else – while also upsetting the balance of power on the high seas. The Nemesis itself almost certainly qualifies. While it's not sapient, it bends reality — the Lattice Danny makes use of — in a fashion which allows for what might be called 'unreality' to exist. And with a 3,000 year orbital cycle, that may have been responsible for the gods of antiquity. Some weapons have ‘Blast’ listed in their profile’s abilities. These are referred to as Blast weapons. In addition to the normal rules, the following rules apply to Blast weapons: Healing Factor: Dreadnought has one; while not Wolverine-level, she recovers from internal organ damage that would kill a normal human while feeling not much worse than sore, and broken bones completely heal within a few days.

Use this Stratagem in your Command phase. Select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES DREADNOUGHT model from your army (excluding WULFEN and DEATH COMPANY models). Until the start of your next Command phase, that model gains either the Rites of Battle ability or the Tactical Precision ability, as shown below:Despite this book’s title, and the picture of a great big ship on the cover, this is really a book about people.

Paper-Thin Disguise: Sarah is very obviously Calamity, and Danny figures it out on their third meeting. When the last decisions were being made, Massie gives us a host of strangers, about whom we should have some information. Policy and decision makers from Russia, Austria, Serbia, and France were in key places in the chain of events but represented countries not mentioned in the title. In the text they abruptly become vital in terms of their motives and traditions, and particular national points of view, but they are unknown to the reader.Author Diane Carey made extensive use of the Star Fleet Technical Manual when writing this novel. Besides the use of the titular three- nacelled Dreadnought-type ship, the organization of the Federation and Starfleet infrastructure revealed to Piper by the library computer is identical to the layout written by Franz Joseph in that manual. She also mentions several Federation starships and starship classes from that work, such as the Saladin-class of destroyer. Even major characters Piper, "Scanner" Sandage, Vaughan Rittenhouse, Sukaru Tutakai, and Sarda were named for Ptolemy-class transport/ tugs USS Piper, USS Sandage, USS Rittenhouse, and the Constitution-variant subclass vessels USS Tutakai and (probably) USS Sardar. Carey also misspells Potemkin as Potempkin, as Franz Joseph did in the earlier manual. Gendercide: Graywytch's ultimate plan is to kill all men. It comes disturbingly close to succeeding, resulting in the deaths of millions of people, including many trans women and intersex individuals as well as numerous cis women who were killed in the resulting chaos. The total death toll was in the millions. Dark and Troubled Past: Sarah's powers are hereditary, thanks to the super-serum her grandfather was injected with, but they come with about a 50% chance of dying from leukemia within ten years of exposure. Two of Sarah's brothers didn't make it, and Sarah herself had leukemia as a child, although the cancer now seems to be in remission.

The events of this novel, of a Starfleet vice admiral trying to start a military coup of the Federation, are similar to a later DS9 storyline in " Homefront" and " Paradise Lost". Even more similar is the plot of Star Trek Into Darkness, which also features a Dreadnought-class starship as part of the coup. England, was never going to accept any power threatening its vital sea routes. The Homeland could not survive the loss of food raw materials, or employment tied to its world-wide interests. For England this was an existential fact. Germany had no comparable exposure. Grey, on the eve of war: "Thus, the efforts of a lifetime go for nothing. I feel like a man who has wasted his life." Later that same evening: "The lamps are going out all over Europe," he said. "We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."Robert Kinloch Massie was an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar. Churchill on the political wrangling that accompanied the budgeting process for ship construction: "In the end a curious and characteristic solution was reached. The Admiralty had demanded six ships; the economists offered four; and we finally compromised on eight." The first novel, "Dreadnought", opens with Dannie receiving the powers of a dying superhero, which has the side effort of transforming her into her idealised self. Notably the series was written by a trans woman specifically as a Power Fantasy for young transgender adults. The first time is when Doc Impossible makes the results of Danny's medical scan available to all Legion members, accidentally outing Danny to the trans-hating Graywytch. Nicole, Clark (March 14, 2019). "The Female Superhero Stories You Should Be Reading Right Now". VICE.