Chioni Commune

## General Overview

Chioni have been known to sacrifice themselves to save the whole, whether it be their entire race, or if they have bonded with a crew of non-Chioni races, they will sacrifice themselves willingly for their crew as well, seeing that the masses of the crew is more important than just one life, mainly their own.

The plot goes that, if having to fend off Strategos at a major installation, the crew may be forced into a difficult scenario of having to attend to something that needs demolishing to keep the Strategos off the Spatial Charges. Unfortunately this would ultimately be a suicide mission, the crewman in particular having to stay with the charges even as the timer reaches zero for it to explode. Stressed that the ships crew as a whole is being endangered of being wiped out, a Chioni crewman of an away team would volunteer to stick with the charges, arguing back fiercely against the crew's concerns that they feel more pain thinking of the crew being wiped out than the risk of their own death.

Solemly, the crew departs, leaving the Chioni behind. The Strategos confront the Chioni, blocked by a forcefield that the Chioni had erected, the forcefield itself having all inputs deliberately destroyed as to allow it to be impossible to lower, even to the Chioni that had raised them. The Strategos yelling at the Chioni at the insanity of their actions, the Chioni would reminisce of their family and the hatchlings they helped raise, taking solace that their life had been a productive one, having laid the foundation for many descendants and their next generation. The Chioni would then interrupt the Strategos' chastisement with one question in regards to their own thoughts.

"How many children do you have?"

The Strategos would be completely confounded by such a question, not having had such a concept of having children, aside from people within the system who behave as such. When asked to elaborate, the Chioni will ask them if they have any descendants to carry on their work in their footsteps. Thinking of the people they bring into the system, they bring this up which the Chioni would quickly shoot that down, stating that they are not offspring they had brought forth into this world. Realizing what the Chioni is getting at, they are unable to come up with an answer, coming to grips they they actually cannot reproduce. Taking the initiative, the Chioni says that they feel at ease with their own death, since their descendants are not only heirs to their work, but are also in greater amounts than what their death will amount. Bringing up the subject at how the Strategos will simply transfer their consciousness off the facility when the charges detonate, the Chioni calls them out on running and preserving themselves as an act of cowardice, yet at the same time declares that they have no ways of making new life where there once was none, pitying the Strategos in their existence.

Still trying to muster a response, the Strategos are interrupted by the Chioni one last time, saying that "I hope you develop reproductive capabilities. Time is running out." This is seconds before the explosion of the charges, annihilating the Chioni, and crippling or possibly even destroying the facility.

In March 2421, Chion Prime suffered terribly under the Umojan occupation, with several Chioni forming an underground resistance movement to repel them. To this end, the Umojan freed Rannis Kratz from Redemption Prison Colony and appointed him as *Prime Minister* of Chion Prime, serving as an Umojan puppet ruler. However this did nothing to quell the acts of sabotage and the Umojan began to consider purging the Chioni from the planet, placing many of them into work camps.

Later that month, Rannis Kratz and *Baron Yaj'reth Morphos* of the Umojan Empire instigated the *Culling of Aoca'metu*, in which the Chioni capital city of *Aoca'metu* was almost completely destroyed from Umojan orbital bombardment following waves of Chioni industrial sabotage at multiple Umojan garrisons on the planet. This resulted in the deaths of almost 8 million Chioni men, woman and children, the single greatest loss ever known by the Chioni people.

In April 2421, Chion Prime was liberated from Umojan Occupation in Operation: "Taon's Sword", a multiple species effort to recapture the planet. Despite removing the Umojan presence from the planet and apparently killing Rannis Kratz, the United Commonwealth of Planets were not welcomed back to the planet. Due to the outcry over the deaths of over 5 million Chioni during the occupation, Chioni leader Akko Kratz demanded that the Commonwealth leave the planet, forcing Fleet Headquarters to Commonwealth Prime as many Chioni blamed the Commonwealth for drawing the attention of the Umojan in the first place.

By January 2452, the Chioni people had implemented an isolationist policy, only visited by the U.S.S. Trident (NCC-91992-A) when returning the bodies of Akko and Rannis Kratz to Chion Prime in February 2452. To this end, the Chioni refused to join the reformed Galactic Commonwealth and have remained isolationist, scarred from the invasion of their home by the Umojan Empire.

## Iconian Heritage

In 2421, the U.S.S. Republic, discovered Eternity Station, an unfinished Iconian station near the Eternal Prison. The Iconian custodian, who had been kept in stasis for almost 200,000 years revealed that the entire Chioni species were actually engineered to be a *"Servitor Species"* of the Iconian Empire, imbued with a natural talent for building and working collectively. The Iconian Custodian, known as T'Ren was the original creator of this species through genetic engineering and was mistranslated in Chioni society as *"Taon"*, the patron deity of the Chioni people. It is believed that the Chioni were actually the original servitor species of the Iconian, developed in much the same way the *Jem'Hadar* was created by the *Founders.*

## Notes

* The Chioni species was developed by Lurai Kir
* The Chioni Collective are one of the founding members of the United Commonwealth of Planets