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Centuries ago, the Kelvans became aware of dangerously rising radiation levels in the Andromeda Galaxy, a crisis expected to make it uninhabitable by their species within 10,000 years. The Kelvan Empire dispatched a wave of swift, multi-generational starships to the neighboring galaxies. The explorer crews (and their descendants) were ordered to search for new territories and to report on their suitability for conquest and occupation. | Centuries ago, the Kelvans became aware of dangerously rising radiation levels in the Andromeda Galaxy, a crisis expected to make it uninhabitable by their species within 10,000 years. The Kelvan Empire dispatched a wave of swift, multi-generational starships to the neighboring galaxies. The explorer crews (and their descendants) were ordered to search for new territories and to report on their suitability for conquest and occupation. | ||
| − | After nearly 300 years in the intergalactic void, a Kelvan starship reached the Milky Way in 2268. The Kelvans were not prepared for the galactic barrier that surrounded their destination, and their ship was destroyed in the crossing. Rojan and four others made it by life-craft to a safe, [[Planetary Classification Table #m|Class M]] planet but found existence in the great outdoors unnerving. The Kelvans adopted the [[humanoid]] forms common to our galaxy because it was more compatible than their Andromedan forms with whatever transportation might be hoped for. | + | After nearly 300 years in the intergalactic void, a Kelvan starship reached the Milky Way in 2268. The Kelvans were not prepared for the galactic barrier that surrounded their destination, and their ship was destroyed in the crossing. Rojan and four others made it by life-craft to a safe, [[Planetary Classification Table#m|Class M]] planet but found existence in the great outdoors unnerving. The Kelvans adopted the [[humanoid]] forms common to our galaxy because it was more compatible than their Andromedan forms with whatever transportation might be hoped for. |
With a false distress call, Rojan lured and quickly captured Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Rojan's crew modified the ''Enterprise'' with Kelvan technology, permitting the starship to penetrate the Galactic Barrier, and began the long return voyage to Kelva. | With a false distress call, Rojan lured and quickly captured Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Rojan's crew modified the ''Enterprise'' with Kelvan technology, permitting the starship to penetrate the Galactic Barrier, and began the long return voyage to Kelva. | ||
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Revision as of 12:42, 12 April 2022
| SPECIES | |||
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| Kelvan | |||
| Homeworld: | Kelva | ||
| Quadrant: | Alpha | ||
| Affiliation: | Unknown | ||
| Biology | |||
| Average Male Height: | 203 cm (6 ft. 8 in.) to 239 cm (7 ft. 10 in.) | ||
| Average Male Weight: | 127 kg (280 lb.) to 163.3 kg (360 lb.) | ||
| Average Female Height: | 203 cm (6 ft. 8 in.) to 239 cm (7 ft. 10 in.) | ||
| Average Female Weight: | 127 kg (280 lb.) to 117.9 kg (260 lb.) | ||
| Minimum Academy Age: | |||
| Life Expectancy: | 175 | ||
| Distinctive Features: | |||
| Playability | |||
| PRC Rated: | No | ||
| NPC Rated: | No | ||
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- Note: This is NOT a PC and NPC rated species.
The Kelvans are an intelligent and rigidly disciplined non-humanoid species from the planet Kelva, located in the Andromeda Galaxy. They are masters of the Kelvan Empire. Only a few Kelvans are known to have traveled to the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Physiology and culture
Immense in comparison to humanoids, Kelvans are at least twice the size of an adult Klingon male. Their complex minds possessed sufficient discipline to operate each of their hundred tentacle-like limbs independently, but their superior intellectual capacity developed at the cost of more distracting emotions and sensory perceptions.
In the 23rd century, the Kelvans believed in their innate superiority, and deemed it the fate of lesser species to be conquered and ruled. Ruthless but practical, their goals were expressed in plain, civil terms lacking any indication of blood-thirst. As long as the obedience demanded by Kelvan code of honor was upheld, their conquered subjects were treated with appropriate respect and given some bounded latitude.
Science and technology
The various technologies used by explorers from the Kelvan Empire in their first contact with the Federation in 2268 were advanced far beyond the Federation's abilities of the period.
Body shells
Kelvan science allowed their explorers to abandon their native physical forms in favor of new bodies more appropriate to local environments. Rojan described the transference process as "encasing" themselves in "humanoid shells". The process was complete enough to pass naked-eye observation, and well as fundamentally shifting Kelvan personalities toward a humanoid perspective as they experienced life with radically different physical senses.
Field projection
The Kelvans carried a device (worn on belts around their waist in their humanoid form) that served as a weapon, a form of defense, and an instrument of obedience. With a touch, a Kelvan could immobilize multiple targets with a neural field that selectively neutralized nerve impulses to their voluntary muscles.
With similar ease, the devices were capable of a far more drastic change to a target. The device could instantly 'distill' a life-form, suspending animation and encoding the essence of the target's physical form and personality into a compact and lightweight solid, a porous cuboctahedron. The person could be reconstituted from their solid-state at any time, as long as the solid remained intact.
The individual devices worn by a team of Kelvans functioned in tandem with a central field projector of extensive range. Three Kelvans with belt devices boarded and easily captured the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in orbit, while their central projector radiated from the planet surface. The projector was shielded by a metallic substance, similar to diburnium, but considerably more dense and impervious to phaser fire.
Intergalactic spaceflight
Kelvan multi-generational starships were capable of sustained operations and life support across multiple millions of light-years, through the voids between galaxies that offered no chance of respite at friendly starbases or planets. Their faster-than-light propulsion systems permitted the crossing in a reasonable time, spanning only a few Kelvan generations, while a Constitution-class starship running at maximum warp would take thousands of years to complete the journey.
Their engineering skills allowed them to quickly modify comparatively primitive and alien technologies, making them perform on par with their own. Kelvan upgrades to the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 permitted the ship to pass through the negative energy of the galactic barrier unharmed, and was expected to arrive in Kelvan space only 300 years after departure.
History
Centuries ago, the Kelvans became aware of dangerously rising radiation levels in the Andromeda Galaxy, a crisis expected to make it uninhabitable by their species within 10,000 years. The Kelvan Empire dispatched a wave of swift, multi-generational starships to the neighboring galaxies. The explorer crews (and their descendants) were ordered to search for new territories and to report on their suitability for conquest and occupation.
After nearly 300 years in the intergalactic void, a Kelvan starship reached the Milky Way in 2268. The Kelvans were not prepared for the galactic barrier that surrounded their destination, and their ship was destroyed in the crossing. Rojan and four others made it by life-craft to a safe, Class M planet but found existence in the great outdoors unnerving. The Kelvans adopted the humanoid forms common to our galaxy because it was more compatible than their Andromedan forms with whatever transportation might be hoped for.
With a false distress call, Rojan lured and quickly captured Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Rojan's crew modified the Enterprise with Kelvan technology, permitting the starship to penetrate the Galactic Barrier, and began the long return voyage to Kelva.
Once the Barrier was successfully breached, Kirk and his senior officers began a systematic subversion of the Kelvan's mission by exploiting their weaknesses: their social naiveté and inexperience with the new sensations offered by their new humanoid bodies. Kirk convinced Rojan that his new life as a humanoid could be experienced to the fullest on a world in the Federation, and a robotic envoy to Andromeda could fulfill his mission by delivering a peace proposal.
This information taken from Memory Alpha
