Сказка про космос, вайну и остальное (инглиш инсайд)
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История, поведанная трэйдмастером Гринишем:
Almost twenty-five thousand of your years ago, there existed near this region of space
an association of starfaring races called the `Sentient Milieu'.
This group formed over several thousand years to enrich mutually their respective cultures
to provide a safe creche for emerging sentient species
and to afford themselves a degree of protection from external hostilities via military alliance.
Of the seven most active Milieu members, the most famous race -- indeed you know them well, Captain
were the Ur-Quan.The Ur-Quan evolved on a harsh planet orbiting a star outside this region of space.
They were solitary predators, like your praying mantis, Captain, or polar bear
who had a very limited set of social behaviors, most of which dealt with sex.
Since they had to compete for survival against many physically superior species
the Ur-Quan evolved intelligence and tool use, in much the same way as your own species.
The Ur-Quan also learned to master their fierce territoriality to build a cooperative planetary culture.
When the Ur-Quan were discovered by the Taalo, they had just begun exploring their solar system
in crude atomic vehicles.
Although the Ur-Quan attacked what they thought to be an invader, the Taalo were patient.
They explained the purpose of the Sentient Milieu, and offered the Ur-Quan membership.
The Ur-Quan recognized the benefits that such a system provided
and once more conquered the hunting beast within themselves
to become cooperative, productive members of the Milieu. This lasted for several thousands of years.Just over twenty thousand years ago
when your ancestors were learning to chart the course of the moon and stars on animal horns
the Sentient Milieu spanned five hundred light years and included the membership of a hundred worlds.
Like all other star-travellers, they had discovered ruins and relics of a far more ancient culture
which your species calls the `Precursors'.
Explorers from many species spent their lives trying to piece together this ancient mystery
but of all races, the Ur-Quan were the most bold adventurers.
Their scouts, flying single-ships, penetrated far into uncharted space, and landed on a million worlds.
On one such mission, a young Ur-Quan made planetfall on a small, life-bearing alien world
to identify some anomalous energy readings, occasionally a sign of Precursor installations.
Instead the Ur-Quan found a small, hideous creature -- a Dnyarri.
Before the scout was able to defend itself, the Dnyarri creature took control of the Ur-Quan's mind
and commanded the scout to place the Dnyarri aboard the Ur-Quan's ship, along with hundreds of its evil brood.
Then the Ur-Quan returned to the heart of the Milieu, landing on its capital planet.
Within hours, every resident of the planet was a Dnyarri slave.
Within a month, Dnyarri-compelled starships had spread the evil, psychic creatures across the entire Milieu.
When the Dnyarri took control over the Milieu, one race fought back -- the Taalo.
These slow, quiet creatures were silicon-based life forms
but bore little resemblance to the modern Chenjesu.
The Taalo were natural immunes to the Dnyarri psychic compulsion; they were unaffected by the creatures' power
and the Dnyarri would not permit anyone to exist outside their control
so they ordered the remaining eleven races of the Milieu to attack and destroy the Taalo home planet.
This planet was one of the few Milieu worlds located in this region of space.
I believe you call their star Delta Vulpeculae. Their home was a moon revolving about the second planet.
I am sad to say that the Taalo were, indeed, eliminated.
However, at the time of their devastation they had completed a device
which they thought would give other races psychic immunity like their own.
What happened to this device, this shield? It's hard to say.
Maybe it was destroyed in the attack on their homeworld, maybe not.In the Dnyarri's new empire, the Ur-Quan were the favored slaves.
This is probably because the Ur-Quan were the most psychically sensitive, the most easily compelled.
As the centuries of Dnyarri dominance passed, what was once the Sentient Milieu
deteriorated and degenerated into a great galactic gulag.
Alien races which did not serve with the efficiency and speed demanded by the Dnyarri
were ruthlessly burned from the faces of their worlds.
The agents of this genocide were inevitably the Dnyarri's favored pet, the Ur-Quan.
After almost twenty-five hundred years of unrelenting Dnyarri control
there were only four living member races of the once-great Sentient Milieu.
By this point, the Dnyarri had used genetic manipulation to split the Ur-Quan into two sub-species
the Green Ur-Quan -- scientists, technicians, and administrators
who were responsible for maintaining the limited infrastructure of the Dnyarri civilization
and the Black Ur-Quan, who filled the ranks of basic laborer and combat soldier.
Then, a chance discovery by an Ur-Quan named Kzer-Za
led to the violent overthrow of the Dnyarri Slave Empire.The Ur-Quan named Kzer-Za was a Green, a researcher specializing in repairing the mental damage
inflicted by long-term exposure to the Dnyarri's psychic compulsion.
By this point in history, the Dnyarri had grown lax in their dominance
and on occasion accidentally permitted their slaves moments of self-direction.
Kzer-Za was able to use those few scattered minutes to compose a theory.
From its observations, Kzer-Za realized that when a slave died
the Dnyarri `disconnected' from the slave's mind, lest it too be dragged down to death.
Further, the Ur-Quan scientist uncovered the fact that when a slave underwent great pain
the Dnyarri temporarily disconnected -- but that the degree of pain had to be extreme, nearly lethal.
Kzer-Za chose its moment carefully -- it waited until it was near an open transmission unit.
Then, in a short moment of mental freedom, the Ur-Quan injected itself with a dose of acidic poison
sending incredible waves of pain through its long body.
In the few moments before its death, Kzer-Za was able to wrest control of the transmitter
to send word of its discovery across the planet, and into space as well.
Before the Dnyarri knew what was happening
Ur-Quan everywhere were hacking at their own bodies with chunks of glass, burning themselves horribly
doing anything that would give them the few seconds of freedom necessary to find the nearest Dnyarri
and crush the bleating creature.
As they gained longer and longer periods of control, the Ur-Quan developed new tools and weapons
to destroy their evil masters. The most gruesome of these devices was the Excruciator
a mechanism which was inserted directly into the brain, and generated a constant stream of agony.
The Dnyarri could not bring themselves to make the necessary mental connection with these tortured Ur-Quan.
They were slaughtered by the thousands.
The Ur-Quan slave revolt was won.When the last Ur-Quan was free of psychic compulsion -- when the last free Dnyarri was dead
the combined might of the Ur-Quan star fleets met in orbit above the Dnyarri homeworld.
They had come together to make two important decisions.
First -- how to punish the few frightened Dnyarri left below on the planet's surface
Second -- how to ensure that never again would the Ur-Quan be made slaves.
The first decision was made swiftly. The Dnyarri would not be allowed to die
that was too kind a fate.
Instead, the creatures would be genetically modified into sub-sentience
they would become dumb animals.
These low creatures would be further debased by serving the Ur-Quan for all eternity
in the most demeaning way the Ur-Quan could imagine
acting as translators, making physical contact with other species
whom the Ur-Quan now considered grossly inferior to themselves and revolting.
The second decision -- how to ensure their freedom permanently -- caused great turmoil.Following the successful Ur-Quan slave revolt
the Ur-Quan met to decide how to ensure their freedom.
The Green Ur-Quan, who called themselves the Kzer-Za in honor of the Ur-Quan who triggered the revolt
wished to establish thePath of Now and Forever' which required that all other sentient species must become slaves of the Ur-Quan or be forever imprisoned beneath an impenetrable force shield. Leading the opposition to this plan was Kohr-Ah, a charismatic fleet officer. Kohr-Ah proposed a simpler alternative, theEternal Doctrine.'
Simply put, this scheme called for the systematic eradication
of all sentient life in the universe aside from the Ur-Quan.
Captain, if these positions seem to you extreme or unwarranted
you must remember that the Ur-Quan had been unwilling slaves for millenia
and that each of them had to remain in agony for years in order to defeat the Dnyarri.
The followers of Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah were all on the brink of madness
but neither side would submit, and so they fought a bloody civil war.This is the last historical item we have for sale.
The civil war between the Green Ur-Quan, the followers of Kzer-Za
and their opponents, the death-dealing Kohr-Ah, lasted for decades.
It is likely that they would have annihilated each other
were it not for a chance discovery by a Kzer-Za -- a Precursor Battleship!
The vessel was huge, many times the size of the Ur-Quan's vessels.
The Precursor ship sliced through the Kohr-Ah forces in days -- the Kohr-Ah were defeated.
However in their victory, the Kzer-Za were humble
they realized that there was a chance that they were wrong, and the Kohr-Ah were right.
Instead of destroying the Kohr-Ah, the Kzer-Za let them go
directing them to make their way through the stars, traveling against the spin of the galaxy.
The Kzer-Za would travel in the opposite direction
and when the two Ur-Quan forces met, they would fight again in a ritual combat
with the Precursor Battleship given to the winner.Captain, this is happening here and now.
The Kzer-Za, the Ur-Quan who enslaved Earth, are fighting their ritual battle against the Kohr-Ah
in a large area centered near the Crateris constellation.
If the Kohr-Ah win this battle, Captain, the Kzer-Za will stand aside and let them kill us all.
We believe it is your destiny to prevent this from happening.
from star control II
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а теперь тоже самое только на русском можно?
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...на русском , но в транслите =))чтоб такой вывих глаз , который уже не вправить
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Да все равно Sa-Matra была раздолбана наспех склепанным ЧММРХНРМами модом прекурсеровского сервисного кораблика. ^^
А затем была глобальная экспедиция к центру галактики по следам Rainbow World'ов...
Ну а там в центре вообще хентай начался... Nothingness of mind, etc.
from StarControl 2&3. ^^ -
Kohr-Ah - телепузик?
