Sobekka Hegemony

## General Overview

The Sobekka Hegemony are a small empire, existing within the Zeta Quadrant of the Black Eye Galaxy, dominated by the repitilian Sobekka.

The Sobekka share a remarkable number of genetic markers with both the Nox Veridian Empire of the Omega Quadrant and the Gorn Hegemony of the Milky Way Galaxy despite the almost impossible odds due to the distance between all three species.

The Sobekka are a tribalistic species, possing technology equivilant to the *Terran 23rd Century* which they use to maintain a small but aggressive empire at the southern-most borders of the Zeta Quadrant.

In 2419, the Sobekka successfully destroyed the original homeworld of the Kabbalis Consortium, as they believed that the Kabbalis had been exploiting them during trade deals between the two empries, leading the Kabbalis to resettle on the planet of New Kabbalis (Eta Omega III), serving as an example of how the Sobekka are general quick to anger.

Sobekkan society consists of one male, controlling an extensive number of females in a social structure resembling a herem. Sobekkan males will rarely interact with each other but are permitted to attacking and kill each other for possession of any number of Sobekkan females.

This violence has been a staple of their culture for near centuries with only Sobekkan *"Oracles"*, elder females who are deeply revered in Sobekkan culture as being able to communicate with their dieties as well as see the future, being able to stop the conflict between two warring males.

Physically, Sobekkan males and females are extremely powerful, able to lift several tonnes above what a normal human can achieve and despite general stereotypes about reptilian species, are capable of advanced intelligence, employing sophisticated traps in combat.

In 2419, due to the continual hostility with the United Commonwealth of Planets, Empress Sela of the New Romulan Star Empire, began to offer these nanoprobes as "improvements" to other races in the Black Eye Galaxy in the hope of securing allies against the Commonwealth.

One of these races offered this technology included the Sobekka Hegemony, a technologically inferior expansionist power that wished to acquire the advanced technology in order to finally defeat the more powerful Black Eye Consortium.

However, shortly after that, the New Romulan Empire was formally disbanded after a devastating loss to the Commonwealth and Empress Sela was captured by the Romulan Republic and sent back to the Milky Way Galaxy to face judgment for her crimes.

During this time, the Sobekka lacked the Romulan experience with Borg nanotechnology and it was not long before the nanites assimilated the capital planet of the Sobekkan Empire, with the remaining Sobekkans believing this to be a biological outbreak of some kind.

Despite their eventually assimilation and without the known of the United Commonwealth of Planets, the Romulan Vokar Class warbird, *I.R.W. Vipera* was sent into Sobekkan space with a classified augementation protocol. Its objective was to force a continual recall order on the Black Eye Borg Collective, forcing them to stay within the boundries of their own space so they would not be unleashed to the rest of the Black Eye Galaxy.

The *Vipera* was only partially successful and the bulk of the main Black Eye Borg Collective were forced to remain in their space. However several vessels attempted to regain communication with the Borg Collective in the Milky Way Galaxy. In 2419, the U.S.S. Callisto was successful at preventing a now assimilated Sobekkan ship.

By 2421, the Rothian 13th Legion, a former military force turned terrorist faction within the Rothian Union created an effective nanovirus which they believed would nullify the active nanites within the former Sobekka, essentially destroying the Black Eye Borg Collective. This nanovirus was unwillingly tested on Foxune (Foxune III) and mutated into the Foxune Eternium Plague which was later cured by the U.S.S. Wynter Life.

In March 2421, the U.S.S. Callisto, while on a mission to capture a Borg Trigon Class, the U.S.S. Callisto discovered the *Vipera*, which had been missing to the New Romulan Star Empire for over 2 years. The crew also discovered a retrofitted nanoprobe virus which was fitted to a probe suggesting that the crew of the *Vipera* were attempting to create a cure for themselves when they were overpowered by the Black Eye Borg Collective and the *Vipera* left abandoned in space.

Despite orders to the contrary, Commander Gattis (G69/3B) defied Admiral Shon Tempest and launched the virus into a disabled Borg Trigon Class, spreading it throughout the collective.

With their nanoprobes now disabled, the Sobekka began to lose many of their Borg appendages and resumed their original biology. With most of the Borg technology in a deactivated state due to the reprogrammed nanites, the Sobekka had no immediate way to use the immense Borg Trigon Class ships in orbit around their world, most of which fell into a decaying orbit and crashed on their world, a process that is still very much happening today. As a result, massive population centres would have to be moved out of the way of the impact sites from the crashing ships, an event that the Sobekka would describe as *"The Past Fire"*.

*The Plasma War* served as a reunification event of the Sobekkan people, most of which had been scattered due to their assimilation, with *The Alliance* of *Tribe Bik, Tribe Col* and *Tribe Orn* taking over control of the lesser tribes over the planet.