Klingon Confederation

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Klingon Confederation
Emblem of the Klingon Confederation
Emblem of the Klingon Confederation
Founded: Early 2270s
Location: Beta Quadrent
Capital: Korax City, Qo'retH
Head of State: Premier of the High Council of the Klingon Confederation
Head of Government: Premier of the High Council of the Klingon Confederation
Legislature: High Council of the Klingon Confederation
Judiciary: High Council of the Klingon Confederation
Major Species: Klingon
Military: Directorate of Defense
Intelligence Service: Directorate of Security
Language: Klingon (tlhIngan Hol, pronounced /ˈt͡ɬɪ.ŋɑn xol/)
Currency: darsek

The Klingon Confederation (tlhIngan boq) is a breakaway Klingon regime established in the Beta Quadrant by several allied Klingon houses. These houses, all affected by the augment virus, decided to leave the Empire and establish their own state rather than have surgery to restore their ridges or continue to face the stigma of those affected by the virus. Because of the fusing of non-Klingon DNA into their own, these houses call themselves fusions rather than augments. In a similar fashion they call those unaffected by the virus Imperials. The founding houses were Drexa, Jurris, Limmrii, Subaiesh, and Urussig.

History[edit | edit source]

In 2154, Klingon scientists working under the direction of Antaak recovered several Augment embryos from a hijacked Bird-of-Prey destroyed in orbit of Qu'Vat colony during the Augment Crisis. Fearing that Humans could overwhelm the Empire if they moved to staffing their ships with Augments, a project was set up to attempt to create their own Augments, using Human and Romulan DNA, to counter the perceived threat.

The effort failed dreadfully. The Augments created did develop enhanced strength and intelligence, but they also began to show Human and Romulan characteristics, depending on which DNA the received, from the blatant to the subtle. These included personality alterations and loss of the characteristic forehead ridges. Ultimately, the subjects died agonizing deaths when the incompatible DNA resulted in neural system breakdown. While working to stabilize the augmentation process, the scientific team enhanced several test subjects who were, unknown to the team, also infected with Levodian flu. The flu virus in some manner incorporated the Augment DNA, turning a carefully controlled experiment into an epidemic. As the unstable augmentation process always killed the subject, this epidemic threatened the Klingon race with extinction.

When it became clear to the research team on Qu'vat colony that it would take weeks to develop a cure, stabilizing the augment virus became the researcher's primary concern. Their efforts proved successful; a method was developed that stabilized the process in the early stages, after the cranial ridges had dissolved and some minor neural re-ordering had occurred (which caused personality changes), but before the virus became contagious, enhanced augment abilities, and caused a fatal neural pathway breakdown.

The cure was distributed throughout the Empire. Because afflicted Klingons' DNA had been altered by the virus, the Human or Romulan appearance and genetic traits were passed onto the descendants of the infected. Initially there were millions of Klingons who had to live with the disfigurement.

In 2154, Antaak and Laneth feared that Klingons without ridges would become outcasts, lose their positions and would no longer have a place in the Empire. However, by the 2260s, affected Klingons served as the captains and crews of front-line starships in the Klingon Defense Force. Later on, some of them even achieved the title of Dahar Master and earned their statues among the Hall of Heroes on Qo'noS.

The races of the Klingon Confederation

In the late 2260s, the opinion of humans had underwent a sharp reversal in Klingon politics. No longer were humans praised as great warriors, but were actually now seen as a weak species who would rather negotiate peace than fight in a battle. In a similar fashion the Romulans, who had once been allies with the Klingons, came to be viewed as a treacherous species. This view of humans was all but confirmed when, in 2266, war was declared between the two powers only to be halted prematurely by the forcible signing of the Organian Peace Treaty.

By 2270, reserve vessels of the Klingon fleet were now being manned by Imperial Klingons, with many of the Fusions undergoing reversal procedures to remove human DNA from their cells and return to a true Klingon appearance. The great military commanders Kor, Koloth, and Kang were but three of several high ranking officers who chose to do so, thus paving the way for mandatory DNA reversal a few years later.

When in 2271 the High Council first began to discuss mandatory DNA reversal for the fusions the fusion Houses vehemently opposed it. Many who would be affected by the policy had been born the way they were by that time. These Klingons saw the DNA removal as simply lying about what they were, similar to having cosmetic surgery. Five of the Great Houses who were composed of mainly fusions, Drexa, Jurris, Limmrii, Subaiesh, and Urussig, formed an alliance to defeat the measure. In the end they were no match for the resurgent Imperial Houses.

The five founding houses of the Klingon Confederation strike out for a new world

Fearing their Houses would be disbanded if they didn't follow the high council's wishes the leaders of the five founding houses met in secret to discuss their alternatives. After much heated discussion the group decided they had only one alternative to maintain their honor, they would leave the Empire that didn't want them and strike out on their own. Gathering together every transport and cargo ship they could lay their hands, along with their own military vessels, the five houses set out for a new world along with any of their allied houses or sympathetic Imperials who wished to join them. Some have put the number of Klingons who set out on this journey as high as ten million. What is certain is that after this event no Klingons affected by the augment virus remained in the empire.

Leaving the Empire the Fusion fleet set out for unexplored space. The search for a suitable uninhabited world turned out to be more difficult than the founding Houses had imagined. The fleet sustained several attacks from hostile aliens and encountered previously unknown diseases, both of which whittled their numbers down some. They eventually began to run low of supplies and had to resort to scavenging where they could. While the military vessels could sustain high warp speeds the transports and cargo vessels were much slower. The fleet was in space for slightly over a year when, just before they were ready to give up, they discovered the world they would later name Qo'retH.