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Thraddash

2004-09-18T09:29:02Z

Smaug: Link fixing.

The Thraddash are a race of intellectually challenged barbarians from the Draconis stars. They have built and decimated their civilization nineteen times by the time of [[Star Control II]]/[[The Ur-Quan Masters]], naming their new civilizations numerically, i.e. ''Culture 19''. They are best dealt with by tricking them into attacking the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah|Kohr-Ah]], waiting for them to retreat to their space in diminished numbers, then pummeling them mercilessly into submission, where they will rename their civilization ''Culture 20'' or a title of your choosing. Their alliance will make the acquisition of the [[Aqua Helix]], an important artifact needed to repair the [[Ultron]] and ultimately beat the game, possible.

The Aqua Helix can also be taken while the Thraddash are away, attacking the Kohr-Ah. And even a third method exists: you can trick the [[Ilwrath]] into attacking them by broadcasting using a [[HyperWave Caster]] near their homeworld. You can then either take the [[Aqua Helix|Helix]] while the battle rages and the Thraddash are distracted, or wait until the races have fought each other long enough and then proceed to attack them yourself, as with the attack on the Kohr-Ah.

Ur-Quan

2004-09-18T09:15:03Z

Smaug: Spelling fix

The Ur-Quan evolved on a world far distant from the region of space depicted in the Ur-Quan Masters. Their world was harsh and violent, and they evolved the capacity to dominate that world. They became the top predators of their world. Their only threats were each other, so they had problems getting along with one another. Eventually, they found a way to cooperate with one another, and they formed the rudiments of a civilized society to the best of their abilities.

With a civilized culture driving them, they set out to explore known space. Their forays bore fruit quickly, as they met a race known as the [[Taalo]]. The Taalo, being effectively rocks, did not evoke the Ur-Quan's predatory nature. The Ur-Quan could mingle amongst the Taalo without having to fight their biological instincts to kill and dominate. The Taalo belonged to an organization of species known as the [[Sentient Milieu]]. Eventually, the Ur-Quan joined the Sentient Milieu, and became a member race in that venerable organization.

Though they were members of the Sentient Milieu, they still had difficulty integrating with other non-Taalo species. As such, they performed the duty to which they were best suited: solitary exploration missions. The Ur-Quan excelled at this task. But, it was in doing so that they brough doom upon not only the Ur-Quan species, but all of the Sentient Milieu as well.

On one expedition to a planet, the Ur-Quan scout discovered the presence of a sentient species known as the [[Dynarri]]. This species had the ability to control the minds of vast numbers of sentient beings. The Dynarri rapidly conquered the Sentient Milieu. Only the Taalo were immune to the Dynarri's compulsions. This could not be tolerated, so the Ur-Quan were forced to help exterminate the species they once called friend.

The Dynarri forced the Ur-Quan to destroy a few other members of the Sentient Milieu over the centuries that they served under Dynarri compulsion. The Dynarri visited other forms of pain upon the Ur-Quan, by tampering with them at a generic level. The Ur-Quan were the easiest for the Dynarri to control, so they wanted to maximize the use of this species. They fractured the Ur-Quan species into two races: the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]], the green Ur-Quan, and the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]], the black Ur-Quan. The green Ur-Quan would be the thinkers: the scientists and bureacrats. The black Ur-Quan were the workers: the warriors and laborers.

Eventually, an Ur-Quan scientist named Kzer-Za discovered the means by which the Ur-Quan could free themselves from the Dynarri. Intense pain would prevent any Dynarri from excercising their mental compulsion. Though it took several years, the Ur-Quan races led the war of liberation and subjugatted the hated Dynarri.

Then, the two Ur-Quan races met to determine two things: the means by which to punish the Dynarri and the way to prevent the Ur-Quan from ever suffering under the dominion of another race again. The Dynarri question was answered quickly: the Ur-Quan stripped them of their sentience at a genetic level, reducing them to mere translation units to allow the Ur-Quan to not have to degrade themselves, as they saw it, by discoursing directly with other sentient species. The second question caused a schism between the Ur-Quan species.

The green Ur-Quan, who had dubbed themsevles "Kzer-Za" in honor of the one who had discovered the way to fight the Dynarri compulsion, suggested what they called the Path of Now and Forever. This would require the Ur-Quan species to subjugate each other species and present them with 2 options: join them as part of their Hierarchy and retain some autonomy, or become a fallow species, trapped on their homeworld beneath an impenetrable [[slave shield]].

Among the black Ur-Quan rose Kohr-Ah, who proposed the Eternal Doctrine. It called for a war-without-end against all non-Ur-Quan species.

Each Ur-Quan race moved to execute their doctrine. The Kzer-Za erected a slave shield around the [[Faz]] homeworld, while the Kohr-Ah incinerated the homeworld of the [[Yuptar]]. The Kohr-Ah fleet was the first to reach the homeworld of the [[Mael-Num]], the last of the major species that were part of the Sentient Milieu. As the Kohr-Ah began preperations to sanitize the world, a request came from the Mael-Num, asking why they were proceeding on this path. The Kohr-Ah were struck by these words and began to explain. This gave the Kzer-Za fleet enough time to arrive.

The ensuing battle started the first Doctrinal War. A war that the Kohr-Ah almost won. Only the chance discovery by the Kzer-Za of a [[Precursor]] Battleship allowed the Kzer-Za to claim victory. But, in victory, the Kzer-Za were magnanimous. They allowed the Kohr-Ah free reign over half of the galaxy, allowing them to practice their doctrine. The Kzer-Za would do the same over the other half. When the two species would meet, they would begin the Doctrinal War anew, with the Precursor Battleship, the [[Sa-Matra]] as the prize to the victor.

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Precursor

2004-09-10T08:22:43Z

Smaug: Relatively complete rewrite, due to the general poor quality of the original.

The Precursors are, from all available evidence, the first species to evolve sentience and explore the galaxy. They moved quickly to become masters of the galaxy, leaving evidence of their presence virtually everywhere. However, it appears that the Precursors vanished from the galactic scene quite suddenly. There has been no evidence discovered that explains the disappearance of the Precursors. The height of Precursor culture seems to have been approximately 200,000-250,000 Earth years ago. The Precursors reigned for only a few thousand years before they vanished.

While the species itself appears to be long gone, evidence of their existence remains. Various artifacts of Precursor origin have been discovered on any number of worlds. The largest artifacts that have been discovered are the [[Sa-Matra]] battle platform, discovered by the [[Ur-Quan]], the Precursor factory discovered underneath the surface of Vela 1 (Unzervalt), and the 10 Rainbow worlds found throughout this region of space, which seem to have been used as garbage dumps for their civilization.

From the Precursor artifacts, it has been determined that the Precursors, as a species was a race of "shaggy giants", perhaps 5-8 meters tall and twice as wide.

The only species that we know of that was a contemporary of the Precursors is the [[Slylandro]]. Due to their lack of actual writing imblements, much of their knowledge has been lost. However, they mention that, prior to the Precursor's disappearance, that they were frantically searching for something, and that they could be described as worried. Their last transmission seemed to indicate that the Precursors had found the answer they were searching for, and that the arrangement of Rainbow worlds would give a hint as to where they went.

Mael-Num

2004-09-10T07:43:38Z

Smaug: Fixing spelling

We know little of the Mael-Num, as with many of the species of the [[Sentient Milieu]]. Given that the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah|Kohr-Ah]] refer to them as "one-eyed creatures", and the similarity of their names, it is suspected that the Mael-Num are really the [[Melnorme]].

Kohr-Ah (Character)

2004-09-07T20:05:15Z

Smaug: Spelling errors and corrections.

Kohr-Ah, the Black [[Ur-Quan]] after whom his kin named themselves, was a charismatic fleet commander, and it was he who devised the Eternal Doctrine. This doctrine states that all non-Ur-Quan sentient life was inferior and must be ´cleansed´ in order to give it a chance to be reborn as an Ur-Quan. He possibly died in the first Doctrinal Conflict, possibly he survived it, but as this battle took place over Twenty-Two Thousand years ago, he is now surely dead. His heritage lives on, as the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]] practice and revere the Eternal Doctrine.

TrueSpace

2004-09-07T10:04:51Z

Smaug: Added hyperlinks and removed the notation about the Androsynth. The idea of them being in Q-Space is pure speculation.

TrueSpace is 'main' reality/dimension of Star Control. It is home to most known races of the Star Control Universe, with the exclusion of the [[Arilou Lalee'lay]], [[Taalo]], and the [[Orz]], though no absolute data has been found on the latter two.

TrueSpace, unlike the other known dimensions ([[HyperSpace]] and [[QuasiSpace]]), has many clumps of solid and gas matter interspersed in it's vastness, such as planets, stars, nebulae and living beings.

Sa-Matra

2004-09-07T10:02:32Z

Smaug: Addition about the Doctrinal Conflict

The Sa-Matra is the name given to a Precursor Battleship discovered by the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]]. It is the very symbol of [[Ur-Quan]] dominance; a virtually invincible war machine that guarentees that the Ur-Quan species will never need know fear of anything.

This weapon was employed against the [[Alliance of Free Stars]] during their war with the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za and their Hierarchy of Battle Thralls. It quickly broke the [[Chenjesu]]/[[Mmrnmhrm]] lines, incinerating conventional vessels at far beyond their own weapons ranges, and led directly to their surrender to the Kzer-Za.

Among the Ur-Quan, the word "Sa-Matra" means "Great Trophy", for that is what it is to them. It is the prize given to the race, [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]] or Kzer-Za, who wins the Doctrinal Conflict.

Sa-Matra

2004-09-07T09:58:34Z

Smaug: Initial Entry

Ur-Quan Kzer-Za

2004-09-07T09:52:15Z

Smaug: Initial page

The Ur-Quan Kzer-Za are one of the two races of the [[Ur-Quan]] species. They share many physical characteristics with their [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]] bretheren, except that their skin is green rather than black. Their race was genetically engineered by the [[Dynarri]] from the main-line of the Ur-Quan species during the height of their slave empire. The Kzer-Za were designed to be the "thinkers": the scientists and overseers of the Dynarri slave empire.

The Kzer-Za follow the Path of Now and Forever. This doctrine states that they must seek out all sentient life and offer them two choices: annihilation or subserivence to Kzer-Za rule. A species is allowed to chose the way they will serve the Kzer-Za. They may serve as a combat thrall species, whereby they are allowed some autonomy of action including the right to travel through space. Alternatively, a species may chose to become a "fallow" species; these species are forced to live on their homeworld beneath an impenetrable slave shield. The punishment for stepping out of line is annihilation, either for the individuals responsible, or, if the crime is particularly aggregious, for the entire species as a whole.

Currently, the Kzer-Za are involved in the Doctrinal Conflict. It is an agreement between themselves and the Kohr-Ah, whereby both species move in opposite directions across the galaxy, promoting their doctrine upon the worlds they encounter. When the two races meet, they engage in a war to determine which doctrine becomes ascendent and lays claim to the ancient [[Sa-Matra]], a Precursor Battle Platform of immense power.

Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah

2004-09-07T09:45:08Z

Smaug: Clarifying some points.

The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are one of the two races of the [[Ur-Quan]] species. They share many physical characteristics with their [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]] bretheren, except that their skin is black instead of green. Their race was genetically engineered by the [[Dynarri]] from the main-line of the Ur-Quan species during the height of their slave empire. The Kohr-Ah were designed to be the "effectors" of the slave empire: the builders and warriors.

The Kohr-Ah species follows the Eternal Doctrine. It states that all non-Ur-Quan species are to be exterminated. The Kohr-Ah are, also, taken with the belief of reincarnation. They believe that by destroying other sentients, cleansing them, they will allow those beings the opportunity to be reborn as Ur-Quan. The Kohr-Ah are thus completely remorseless killers, able to stare down into the eyes of a newborn child and kill him. The vast size of the Kohr-Ah fleet makes them immensely powerful, at the very least the equal of the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za.

Currently, the Kohr-Ah are involved in the Doctrinal Conflict. It is an agreement between themselves and the Kzer-Za, whereby both species move in opposite directions across the galaxy, promoting their doctrine upon the worlds they encounter. When the two races meet, they engage in a war to determine which doctrine becomes ascendent and lays claim to the ancient Sa-Matra, a [[Precursor]] Battle Platform of immense power.

[[Category:Races]]

Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah

2004-09-07T09:37:20Z

Smaug: Removed redundant hyperlink.

The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are one of the two races of the [[Ur-Quan]] species. They share many physical characteristics with their [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]] bretheren, except that their skin is black instead of green. In the Ancient days of the Dnyarri slave empire, the Kohh-Ah were genetically split off the original brown Ur-Quan to be the Warriors and Laborers of the Dnyarri Empire.

The Kohr-Ah species follows the Eternal Doctrine. It states that all non-Ur-Quan species are to be exterminated. The Kohr-Ah are, also, taken with the belief of reincarnation. They believe that by destroying other sentients, cleansing them, they will allow those people to be reborn as Ur-Quan.The Kohr-Ah are thus completely remorseless killers,able to stare down into the eyes of a newborn child and kill him. The vast size of the Kohr-Ah fleet makes them immensely powerful, at the very least the equal of the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za, whom they fight in an eternal Doctrinal Conflict, fought over supremacy of Doctrine and possession of the Sa-Matra Precursor Battle Platform.

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Kzer-Za (Character)

2004-09-07T09:32:25Z

Smaug: Fixing some spelling and sentence structure to make it more accurately English.

Kzer-Za was a Green [[Ur-Quan]], a scientist, and it was he who found out how to defeat the Dnyarri, as the creatures would disconnect from a dying or seriously injured slave. The Green Ur-Quan named themselves after him, and they refer to him as a Martyred Genius- indeed, as he injected himself with Acid Poison and transmitted his discovery to all [[Ur-Quan]] on the planet, just moments before dying. His reserach led to the eventual discovery of the Excruciator by the Kohr-Ah, a violent device that is implanted directly into the brain and causes constant, horrifying pain.

Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah

2004-09-06T11:28:26Z

Smaug: Initial version.

The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are one of the two races of the [[Ur-Quan]] species. They share many physical characteristics with their [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]] bretheren, except that their skin is black instead of green.

The Kohr-Ah species follows the Eternal Doctrine. It states that all non-Ur-Quan species are to be exterminated. The Kohr-Ah are, also, taken with the belief of reincarnation. They believe that by destroying other sentients, cleansing them, they will allow those people to be reborn as Ur-Quan. The vast size of the Kohr-Ah fleet makes them immensely powerful, at the very least the equal of the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]].

Ur-Quan

2004-09-06T11:20:42Z

Smaug: Added details about the liberation of the Ur-Quan

The Ur-Quan evolved on a world far distant from the region of space depicted in the Ur-Quan Masters. Their world was harsh and violent, and they evolved the capacity to dominate that world. They became the top preditors of their world. Their only threats were each other, so they had problems getting along with one another. Eventually, they found a way to cooperate with one another, and they formed the rudiments of a civilized society to the best of their abilities.

With a civilized culture driving them, they set out to explore known space. Their forays bore fruit quickly, as they met a race known as the [[Taalo]]. The [[Taalo]], being effectively rocks, did not evoke the Ur-Quan's preditory nature. The Ur-Quan could mingle amongst the [[Taalo]] without having to fight their biological instincts to kill and dominate. The [[Taalo]] belonged to an organization of species known as the [[Sentient Milieu]]. Eventually, the Ur-Quan joined the [[Sentient Milieu]], and became a member race in that venerable organization.

Though they were members of the [[Sentient Milieu]], they still had difficulty intercoursing with other non-Taalo species. As such, they performed the duty to which they were best suited: solitary exploration missions. The Ur-Quan excelled at this task. But, it was in doing so that they brough doom upon not only the Ur-Quan species, but all of the [[Sentient Milieu]] as well.

On one expedition to a planet, the Ur-Quan scout discovered the presence of a sentient species known as the [[Dynarri]]. This species had the ability to control the minds of vast numbers of sentient beings. The [[Dynarri]] rapidly conquered the [[Sentient Milieu]]. Only the [[Taalo]] were immune to the [[Dynarri]]'s compulsions. This could not be tolerated, so the Ur-Quan were forced to help exterminate the species they once called friend.

The [[Dynarri]] forced the Ur-Quan to destroy a few other members of the [[Sentient Milieu]] over the centuries that they served under [[Dynarri]] compulsion. The [[Dynarri]] visitted other forms of pain upon the Ur-Quan, by tampering with them at a generic level. The Ur-Quan were the easiest for the [[Dynarri]] to control, so they wanted to maximize the use of this species. They fractured the Ur-Quan species into two races: the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]], the green Ur-Quan, and the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]], the black Ur-Quan. The green Ur-Quan would be the thinkers: the scientists and bureacrats. The black Ur-Quan were the workers: the warriors and laborers.

Eventually, an Ur-Quan scientist named Kzer-Za discovered the means by which the Ur-Quan could free themselves from the [[Dynarri]]. Intense pain would prevent any [[Dynarri]] from excercising their mental compulsion. Though it took several years, the Ur-Quan races led the war of liberation and subjugatted the hated [[Dynarri]].

Then, the two Ur-Quan races met to determine two things: the means by which to punish the [[Dynarri]] and the way to prevent the Ur-Quan from ever suffering under the dominion of another race again. The [[Dynarri]] question was answered quickly: the Ur-Quan stripped them of their sentience at a genetic level, reducing them to mere translation units to allow the Ur-Quan to not have to degrade themselves, as they saw it, by discoursing directly with other sentient species. The second question caused a schism between the Ur-Quan species.

The green Ur-Quan, who had dubbed themsevles "Kzer-Za" in honor of the one who had discovered the way to fight the [[Dynarri]] compulsion, suggested what they called the Path of Now and Forever. This would require the Ur-Quan species to subjugate each other species and present them with 2 options: join them as part of their Hierarchy and retain some autonomy, or become a fallow species, trapped on their homeworld beneath an impenetrable slave shield.

Among the black Ur-Quan rose Kohr-Ah, who proposed the Eternal Doctrine. It called for a war-without-end against all non-Ur-Quan species.

Each Ur-Quan race moved to execute their doctrine. The Kzer-Za errected a slave shield around the [[Faz]] homeworld, while the Kohr-Ah incinerated the homeworld of the [[Yuptar]]. The Kohr-Ah reached the homeworld of the [[Mael-Num]], the last of the major species that were part of the [[Sentient Milieu]]. As the Kohr-Ah began preperations to sanitize the world, a request came from the [[Mael-Num]], asking why they were proceeding on this path. The Kohr-Ah were struct by these words and began to explain. This gave the Kzer-Za fleet enough time to arrive.

The ensuing battle started the first Doctrinal War. A war that the Kohr-Ah almost won. Only the chance discovery by the Kzer-Za of a Precursor Battleship allowed the Kzer-Za to claim victory. But, in victory, the Kzer-Za were magnanimous. They allowed the Kohr-Ah free reign over half of the galaxy, allowing them to practice their doctrine. The Kzer-Za would do the same over the other half. When the two species would meet, they would begin the Doctrinal War anew, with the Precursor Battleship, the [[Sa-Matra]] as the prize to the victor.

Ur-Quan

2004-09-06T10:45:58Z

Smaug: Initial entry

Taalo

2004-09-06T10:25:39Z

Smaug: Just making the last sentence more understandable.

The '''Taalo''' are a race of rock like beings, which, although sharing a base of silicon with the [[Chenjesu]], are very little reminiscent of them.<p>
The Taalo were the first sentient race to encounter the [[Ur-Quan]], and enlisted them into the [[Sentient Milieu]]. They were the only race that did not invoke the [[Ur-Quan]]'s inherent territoriality, and the two species became close friends. They were immune to the [[Dnyarri]] Psi powers, so the [[Dnyarri]] forced the [[Ur-Quan]] to destroy them. For a long time, the Taalo were thought to be extinct, however, speculation has some believe that the Taalo live. They were the only race of the [[Sentient Milieu]] (that we know of) that lived in the SC2 starmap's area. The Taalo may well still exist in some form, as the [[Orz]] refer to them in the present tense. Even if they do not exist, some of their artifacts may remain in their home star regions.