The system remains to this day an entrepot linking the UFP and Orion trade networks to the deep alpha Quadrant.

Later versions of the pamphlet, issued in April and May 2267, also included the notorious postscript from Admiral Ch'Shukar, which was condemned in the Assembly Council as alarmist.

Issued after the breakdown of the Rigel Talks, this pamphlet aimed to lay down clearly the Federation government's position on the Klingon Empire as a general war became a certainty.

(thanks!) John C

Though the Admiral denied the allegiations, and was defended by the Vulcan government, his prospective retirement honours were revoked by the Wescott government.

render by @pundus.art

(art of Barreuco by @mousbones.bsky.social)

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BARREUCO IN CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE BUSINESS OF RISK

Barreuco would be removed after the Convoy PD-14 disaster in spring 2258, in the first No Confidence motion in Federation history. The snap election - sometimes called the "redshirt election" saw her lose to Byss Th'rhahlat, her once ally and leader of the Outer Systems and Frontier Party (OSF-P).

Unable and arguably unwilling to come to grips with the necessities of a wartime presidency, Barreuco's crisis of inaction "filtered like a fungus" through Federation Central and Starfleet, preventing any serious mobilisation against the Klingon threat.