Akltak

The Akltak are an avian race originating in the Feathered Nebula Cluster. They are a former Ununified race of the Unified Council considered neo-sapient by that body.

## Description

Akltak are birds with toothed beaks and hands on each wing, their height is similar to Terran standard. They are hollow-boned with a unique muscle structure that quickly allows adaptation to nulgrav and microgravity, capable of flight in up to 1.5 Standard Gravity (1 Standard Gravity = 0.75 Earth Gravity). They can see five primary colors and have very sensitive hearing.

## Culture

Akltak have four stages of development:

* Eggs
* Chicks
* Moltlings
* Adult

Their belief system references "The Great Egg" and "Those That Soar".

They are known to use ritual dances:

* Mating Dance
* Dance of Sorrow of Summer's End - Performed by a 20 year old Akltak in a homemade costume and uploaded to SolNet, the video was downloaded or watched over a hundred and twenty billion times. Apparently it was extremely popular with the Clone World Consortium and the two avian species of the Terran Confederacy.

Their social organization is by clan, each clan over time can bud new clans.

## History

The Akltak rejected membership of the Unified Civilized Races, they were one of the Ununified Races, rarely considered civilized by the rest of the races, but outside of the ever present rules and laws and regulations of that eons old organization.

The Akltak have had FTL for 3 centuries and in that time have explored and colonized worlds in the Great Void with what other races called reckless abandon.

The colony where the Akltak were first contacted by the Terran Klark Kant had existed for nearly one hundred years and it's population was nearly a half-million.

Their homeworld systems resources have largely been extracted, their ecosystem and culture largely destroyed by the Unified Colony Council and its agents.

Represented by the Terran Legal firm of Johnson, Jackson, and Johnston, and by the Terran Colony Administration, the Akltak race is now emancipated and is suing the Unified Councils for over a hundred different reasons. Most of these suits are being won without the opportunity for appeal.

The Terran Colony Administration has identified a total of 5 star systems suitable for the Akltak and their entire race is in the process of being relocated to, and helped by the Terrans to create, their new colonies. These 5 systems number more than the Akltak had previously possessed.

The first of these worlds was purchased personally, just sixty days prior to her arrival, by Cheekeet Longflight. Nearly a quarter million of her race have transferred to the planet in the last three weeks prior to Cheekeet's arrival. Most of them transferred by a Junker named Max-a-Millions who had reconfigured his ship for refugee and passenger carry.

Having recently joined the Terran Confederacy they are beginning to form a Gestalt.

## Notable Members

Cheekeet Longflight - Experienced ship pilot, colony environmental engineer and colony Governor

Kikteek Deepswoop - Communications Officer aboard High Nest Six, who requested aid from Klark Kant and invited him in.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 First Contact Rewind - Part Eighty-Six
First Contact - Part Five First encounter when the Longflight Clan is rescued from a Precursor late generation planetary assault machine by Klark Kant (Klark-351).

First Contact - Part Twenty Six Cheekeet serves aboard the *CNV Jesse L. Brown.*

First Contact Rewind - Part Eighty Six Cheekeet moves to the planet she had bought for her race 60 days previously.

First Contact Second Wave - Part Ninety Three First appearance of the Akltak Gestalt.