This is one where I've deliberately ignored the limitations of the STO game itself. I've always been a fan of M.R. James eerie otherness, and of Stanislaw Lem incomprehensible aliens; Claws is a venture into that sort of territory, and also deepens the ongoing mystery of just exactly what did happen to Ronnie Grau during her various temporal misadventures.
This one uses two of my KDF characters, Rrueo and R'j Bl'k', as viewpoint characters. Both of them present some challenges. Rrueo, being a Ferasan, is also a telepath, and it turned out that her habit of idly scanning people's minds and constructing metaphors for them... was a handy way to illustrate other characters. As for R'j Bl'k', well, both she and her entire species started out as throwaway jokes, so it was hard work to turn her into anything like a credible character.
(If you ever run into them in-game, it's worth looking up their character bios. R'j's contains some more information on the terrifying Mlkwbrians, and Rrueo's... is just amusing. Be warned, though: Rrueo is pretty normal in these stories, but in-game she speaks in lolcat, and that's what her bio is written in, too.)
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