In 2265, the Bloodied Talon was deployed to investigate recent Federation, Klingon, and Tholian activity in the Taurus Reach. After following a Tholian starship while cloaked, the Talon decloaked and destroyed the Aen'q Tholis when it detected the Romulan ship. A few weeks later while observing Klingon Defense Force ship movements around the Palgrenax system, the Talon's captain, Sarith, was forced to destroy the ship rather than risk detection after it was disabled by the energy surge from the Shedai's destruction of Palgrenax. (VAN novel: Summon the Thunder, ST novella: The First Peer)