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Star Trek Vanguard: Harbinger

FROM THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF STAR TREK ®: A TIME TO HEAL, THE START OF A NEW EPIC IN THE ERA OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Returning from its historic first voyage to the edge of the galaxy, the damaged U.S.S. Enterprise™ journeys through the Taurus Reach, a vast and little-known region of space in which a new starbase has been unexpectedly established. Puzzled by the Federation's interest in an area so far from its borders and so near the xenophobic Tholian Assembly, Captain James T. Kirk orders the Enterprise to put in for repairs at the new space station: Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard.
As Kirk ponders the mystery of the enormous base, he begins to suspect that there is much more to Vanguard than meets the eye. It's a suspicion shared by the Tholians, the Orions, and the Klingon Empire, each of whom believes that there are less than benign motives behind the Federation's sudden and unexplained desire to explore and colonize the Taurus Reach.
But when a calamity deep within the Reach threatens to compromise Starfleet's continued presence in the region, Kirk, Spock, and several key specialists from the Enterprise must assist Vanguard's crew in investigating the cause of the disaster and containing the damage. In the process, they learn the true purpose behind the creation of Vanguard, and what the outcome of its mission may mean for life throughout that part of the galaxy.
Inside: Bonus diagrams of Vanguard station!

Model of HMS Vanguard (1835), photographed at Portsmouth Naval Museum 31 July 2010
Launched on 25 August 1835 at Pembroke Docks in Wales, the 80 gun Vanguard was one of the last generation of sailing battleships built for the Royal Navy

This model was made to teach young recruits the main parts of a ship and the ropes that worked her masts and yards.

The Vanguard was designed by John Edye, Chief Clerk in the Surveyor's Office, to the directions of the Surveyor, Captain Sir William Symonds. The Vanguard was the first of a class of eleven. She was ordered from Pembroke Yard in June 1832. Vanguard was laid down in May 1833; she required 60 skilled men for 16 weeks to set up the frame. She was launched on schedule in August 1835. At the time she was the broadest ship ever built in England. Vanguard cost ?56,983 to build, and a further ?20,756 to fit for sea. Her construction used 3,560 loads of timber and required 186 man-years

The sixth Vanguard, built in Pembroke in 1835,was one of the first big ships to be designed by Captain Sir William Symonds. Until this officer launched out on his own ten years earlier, progress in naval architecture had become a matter of repeating past designs with improvements largely copied from the best prizes taken from the enemy. Symonds first designed a corvette on original lines and it was such a success that he was entrusted with the design of several larger ships: they were faster, more stable, and broader and loftier between decks than the orthodox design, yet were of very staunch construction. It has been said that in them the sailing ship in the Royal Navy reached its highest development; this is as might be expected, for they were soon to be rendered obsolete by the introduction of the steamship.

Her life was largely a peaceful one, though she was on the fringe of war-like operations in 1840. In the preceding years, Mahomet Ali, the Sultan of Turkey's viceroy in Egypt, having overrun Palestine and Syria, put his son in power in those countries; the Great Powers became anxious about the situation thus created and, in 1840, a combined Anglo-Austrian squadron was sent to the Levant to assist the Sultan to restore order in his empire. Active operations lasted from August to November, during which period some ships saw fighting at the capture of Acre and of Beirut, but the Vanguard was in a squadron that cruised off Alexandria, blockading the Egyptian fleet and a Turkish squadron which had gone over to Mahomet Ali. She remained there until the incident was ended.
She took no part in the Crimean War and in I 867 was renamed Ajax, as the name Vanguard was wanted for one of a class of steam-driven ironclads about to be built.

Loaded Vanguard on Randal green Plant a Tree Charity trucks with 84a Flywheels.
CTO gelled bare 430 exII camera right white balance set to incandescent.

The Taurus Reach: a remote interstellar expanse that holds a very old and potentially cataclysmic secret, the truth of which is feared by the Tholians, coveted by the Klingons, and dubiously guarded by the Federation. At the center of this intrigue is Vanguard, a Federation starbase populated by an eclectic mix of Starfleet officers and civilians, whose lives are forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Reach and steadily peel them away...one after another.
In the aftermath of Harbinger, Commodore Diego Reyes commands Vanguard while waging an intensely personal struggle, tasked to uncover the true significance of the Taurus Reach while simultaneously concealing that mission from his fellow officers -- and even his closest friends. As the Daedalus-class U.S.S. Lovell brings some of Starfleet's keenest technical minds to help, the U.S.S. Endeavour makes a find that could shed further light on the enigmatic meta-genome that has captured the Federation's interest -- if its crew survives the discovery....
Deep within the Taurus Reach, an ancient and powerful alien mind has awakened prematurely from aeons of hibernation, alerted to the upstart civilizations now daring to encroach upon the worlds in her care. With the stakes for all sides escalating rapidly, the alien lashes out with deadly force against the interlopers, propelling the Vanguard crew on a desperate race to understand the nature of the attacker, and to prevent the Taurus Reach from becoming a war zone.