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The Ur-Quan Doctrinal Conflict or Doctrinal War is the conflict between the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za and Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah to prove which Doctrine (the Kzer-Za Path of Now and Forever or the Kohr-Ah Eternal Doctrine) is superior.
The Conflict began when the two Ur-Quan subspecies first started enforcing their Doctrines, immediately following the revolt against the Dnyarri. The Kzer-Za had already enslaved the Faz and the Kohr-Ah had burned the worlds of the Yuptar. The two great fleets met above the homeworld of the Mael-Num, the last free race of the Sentient Milieu. The Kohr-Ah had come to destroy it, the Kzer-Za to imprison it.
In the tense moment, one of the fleets opened fire and the standoff suddenly became a fierce civil war. During the ensuing conflict the Mael-num managed to escape. With both the Kzer-Za and the Kohr-Ah fleets nearly evenly matched, the civil war would likely have resulted in the complete destruction of the entire Ur-Quan race had the Kzer-Za not found a mysterious Precursor warship. This vessel, later called the Sa-Matra, broke the stalemate and ended the decades long war in a matter of days. The Kohr-Ah fleets were reduced to a fraction of their original numbers as the Sa-Matra devastated their ranks.
The Kzer-Za, victorious, were still uncertain that their way was the better one, the one that would guarantee their freedom. Because of this, rather than enslaving the Kohr-Ah, they sent them out into the unknown of the galaxy and instructed them to carry out the Eternal Doctrine as they orbited it. The Kzer-Za moved out in the opposite direction, taking the Sa-Matra with them. It was decided that when they next met, the two subraces would fight a ritual war to discover the true superiority between the Doctrines. The loser would step aside and the winner would take the Sa-Matra as a prize and use it to enact their will upon the galaxy.
>>5008277
nice dubs, was this written by L Ron Hubbard
>>5008277
Shut up and give me my lander upgrades.
>>5008277
What are the Ur-Quan Talking Pets?
>>5008356
All species that have had dealing with Ur-Quan are familiar with the small, quadripedal creatures with atrophied limbs and huge craniums called Talking Pets. The Ur-Quan find inter-species translation as a supremely demeaning task, opting instead for employing Talking Pets, who, in their own small chambers, appear to speak and listen on behalf of the Ur-Quan. However, the Ur-Quan always make themselves visible during communications and make it clear that they, in fact, are the source of the communications and the Talking Pets are merely translation tools. Each Ur-Quan ship, whether Kzer-Za or Kohr-Ah, comes equipped with at least one Talking Pet.
Until the events of the second Alliance / Hierarchy war made many aspects of the Ur-Quan's history clear, most Alliance members assumed the Talking Pets were merely a convenient translation device created by genetic engineering. However, the Talking Pets are far more; they are a crucial symbol of the Ur-Quan's status of dominance and of their long-ago escape from slavery.
Thus, after the Ur-Quan successfully defeated the Dnyarri in their slave revolt and all Dnyarri except those remaining on the surface of Glilandy had been exterminated, the orbiting Ur-Quan captains who held Glilandy under siege decided that extermination would be too kind for the Dnyarri. Instead, the Ur-Quan decided to use their former masters as slaves, in revenge for their generations of suffering and as a reminder of their great victory. Ur-Quan scientists were able to extract the last of the Dnyarri population and genetically alter them, devolving their intelligence and personality down to sub-sentient levels, leaving them little more than biological machines.
>>5008277
checkerooni, also where can i find a nice Hyperwave Caster?