Klingon

Worf, Klingon Lieutenant Commander of Starfleet

The **Klingon**, also known as **Tlhlngag** in Klingonese, are from the harsh world of Qo'noS and from the 1960's series, Star Trek. They are a prideful and honorable race that follow a strict code of honor and fight as warriors. There are even Avatars of this proud race from Star Trek Online as many fight against the Borg, the Iconians, and many others.

## Physiology

In the early days, Klingons look similar to humans with the exception of their anatomy. However, an augmented virus changed much of their facial features. This virus causes ridges to appear on their heads, shoulders, feet, and spine. Some have more human-like hands while others ended-up having talons. They still have hair but they grow on the sides and back of their heads with bushy eyebrows and men having more facial hair. Like humans and other humanoids, their hair turns gray with age. They even have two fangs among their crooked or sharpened teeth. They don't have any tear ducts, but it is unknown if they can produce tears at all.

The anatomy, or Brak'lul as they call it, is rather unique. Klingons have a series of "back-up systems" in their anatomy with an interwoven ribcage. They have twenty-three ribs, two livers, eight chambered heart and double-lined neural pia mater. Almost every vital function in their bodies has a built-in redundancy in case any primary organ or system fails, which is understandable from the hostile environment they evolved from. This is a beneficial to the Klingons to allow them to survive and recover from grave injuries better than most humanoids. The only downside is that all the extra organs means just that much more can go wrong. This resulted in them having superhuman strength and regenerative capacity. This may also result in being unaffected by tranquilizers as well.

The blood of the Klingons are often red that is indistinguishable from humans but there are a few that have purplish-pink blood. Whether or not it was done by the virus is unknown. It is even possible that Klingons might have two circulatory systems and two types of blood in their bodies, which might represent another aspect of their remarkable brak'lul. Additionally, Klingons experience accelerated hair growth during *jak'tahla*, which is equivalent to human puberty, along with other physiological changes such as *gorchs*, which look like large pimples. The lifespan of the Klingon is around 150 years.

Klingons are more vulnerable to cold weather than all other humanoids. Alcohol has the same effect on them as humans. They also prefer to live in a dark environment. Which is why many of their ships are dark on the inside. Their skin coloration ranges from olive, brown, and black to pearlescent or metallic across the entire spectrum of the rainbow, varying from purple, pink, burgundy red, yellowish tan, dark orange, umber brown, grey, blue, dark green, coal black, and chalky white. Their skin has a shimmery slick metallic semi-reflective sheen to it. Albino Klingons are considered outcast in their society.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Before the apocalypse happened, the Klingons had adapted a combat-oriented, warrior culture with honor being the highest virtue with many forms of rituals relating to brotherhood, ritual sacrifice when they cannot fight anymore, and rituals for death. They followed many sacred texts that formed the basis of their religions such as the Paq'batlh (The Book of Honor) and the Sacred Scrolls of the Kuvah'magh (The Savior of the People). They don't take hostages as they consider it the path of a coward and considered dishonorable. As such, they are prideful warriors that value honor, tradition, brotherhood, and glory in combat.

In the psyche multiverse, many Klingons headed out in search of glory while facing many other warrior races across all of creation. The Klingons treat many warriors with respect and form bonds with their companions such as Mandalorians, Korgans, and many others as they build colonies and civilizations where many train as warriors and soldiers. But there are a select few that choose science and education to further expand the minds of the other races. Some of them spread out to teach the multiverse at large about the various traditions and combat styles of the races. Others stay behind to teach the new generation about mathematics, strategy, science and many other to increase their chances of survival.

There are Avatars of this species that stand alongside either the Klingon Empire or the United Federation of Planets. The two sides don't really get along but respect each other when in battle. However, many of whom fell to the parasitic organism that has been controlling all Avatars.

## Post Apocalypse

When the apocalypse happened, many infected Avatars board the ships to spread out others to the real universe. Many of the Klingon Avatars fought with everything they had against their infected brothers and sisters to administer the cure. Once they have been cured, more than half of the cured cut their hearts in order to restore their honor as they died. What is left of those that have been cured live in exile.

The rest of the Klingons continue what they do best; being warriors. They continue to do so with many other species that have a warrior's pride and honor as they train to fight in the multiverse. Some were taken in as combat instructors and mercenary fighters across the real universe. Other Klingons settled onto hostile worlds with many other warriors and soldiers to hunt big game, train their bodies and minds as they prepare for battle and destroy any weaknesses they have.