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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- The complete sad backstory of the Ur-Quan and their friends. Now all in one place! Hope you enjoy, it was fun putting all this lore side by side.
Timestamps
0:00 Alliance Records
0:44 The Slylandro's Memories
2:25 The Melnorme (Mael-Num) Account
19:49 The Ur-Quan Kzer-Za Account
24:17 The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah Account
31:21 The Neo-Dnyarri "Accounts"
34:36 The Orz and the Taalo's Possible Survival - เกม
Additional information from the Role Playing Resource Guide
Drall
The Drall were one of the four founding members of the cooperative union of races known as the Sentient Milieu, which dominated the local region of space some 20,000 years ago. Historical fragments show the Drall to be tall, skeletal humanoids often reaching 3 meters in height. It is suggested that the Drall evolved from a mud-skipper analog, because the few images that remain show clear evidence of both mouth-lung and gill systems.
In terms of their culture, philosophy, and history, we know almost nothing. When the Dnyarri assumed control over the Milieu, they found the Draii to be inferior to their other slave races, and compelled the Ur-Quan and the Mael Num to destroy them.
Faz
The Faz joined the Sentient Milieu several centuries before the Ur-Quan, about 2,000 years (Error?) ago. Like the Ur-Quan and the other Milieu races, the Faz fell under the psychic compulsion of the Dnyarri and for over 2,000 years (Again, error?) served their masters every perverted wish. The Faz survived their time as slaves and helped the Ur-Quan defeat the Dnyarri. But when their evil masters were finally overthrown, the Faz became the first victims of the "Path of Now and Forever", a new Ur-Quan doctrine designed to ensure that raceb perpetual freedom. The Faz were offered the choice of fighting for the Ur-Quan as battle thralls, or being forever contained on the surface of their world, cut off from the rest of the galaxy. The Faz chose the latter option, and thus became the first world - there would eventually be thousands - to be enclosed in an UrQuan slave shield.
The location of the Faz homeworld, and their eventual fate is unknown.
Mael-Num
The Mael-Num were one of the founding members of the Sentient Milieu who survived the millennia of Dnyarri enslavement along with the Ur-Quan, the Kohr-Ah, the Yuptar, and the Faz. When the Dnyarri were finally overthrown, the Ur-Quan and the Kohr-Ah adopted different strategies for protecting their species from future enslavement. The green Ur-Quan chose to become slave masters themselves, while the Kohr-Ah chose to destroy all other intelligent life. When these two rival factions met at the Mael-Num home planet, this doctrinal conflict led to a bloody war. During the battles between the Ur-Quan and the Kohr-Ah, the Mael-Num fled their planet in a huge fleet of interstellar vessels, and vanished.
Taalo
The Taalo were the only member of the Sentient Milieu who were able to resist the mental compulsion powers of the Dnyarri and maintain their freedom. This was a mixed blessing though, since the Dnyarri response was to have all the other enslaved Milieu races attack the Taalo planet at Delta Vulpeculae 2c, annihilating the Taalo.
Some historians have suggested that just before they were wiped out, the Taalo were near completion of a device which would have conferred their psychic immunity on the other Milieu races.
Yuli
The Yuli were members of the Sentient Milieu who were enslaved by the Dnyarri, found inferior and ordered destroyed. Additional details regarding this race are not available at this time.
Yuptar
Like the Yuli, the Yuptar were of the Sentient Milieu and fell victim to the psychic coercive abilities of the evil Dnyarri. Unlike the Yuli, the Yuptar survived the millennia of slavery only to become the first victim of the Kohr-Ahb "Eternal Doctrine" which required the "cleansing" of all non-UrQuan races.
Ah, so THAT’S where the info on the Drall’s appearance came from, always wondered why it was written on the wiki despite never being said in-game lol
Didn't P&F confirm that the Mael-num became the Melnorme?
@arugulatarsus They did.
From the 1998 IRC chat with Toys for Bob (Fwiffo is both Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III here):
who are the mael num, realy?
The mael num are ancestors of the Melnorme
Thank you for the compilation!
Glad you appreciate it! And I recognize that username hehe