Luperian

**Introduction**
*The **Luperian** species (*plural **Luperians***) are native to the Delta Quadrant. Their planet was assimilated by the Borg over 7 decades ago, and since then the survivors have tried to rebuild their civilization.*

# Article Under Re-Write

**This article exists from an old wiki, back when Star Trek Online was brand-new and the Luperians were still being thought out. This page will update with current information as it pertains in the U.S.S. Cry Wolf's current timeline**

## Biographical Data

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 *Home Planet: New Luperia*

 *Quadrant Location: Alpha Quadrant*

 *First Contact: 2350*

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### Physical Appearance

Luperians are Canine-like in appearance, however they are bi-pedal, walking on two legs, and possess similar posture to many humanoid species. They have evolved with pronounced muscular bodies, a necessary adaptation to take down mammoth beasts of their home world, sometimes twice the size of an average Luperian. Females are less muscular than males in the upper body, but still possess the strong legs, allowing Luperian to leap high and far to strike thier targets.

# History

*Very little "official" history is known about the Luperians prior to First Contact. They have no written history, according to Jak Greymoon, the Federation's first encounter with a member of the species. Instead, everything in thier culture, from personal history, to great ones in thier society, are passed verbally from generation to generation. Their species is shown to have far superior memory centers than those comparable to humans.*

*The following information has been compiled from various Starfleet sources, who interviewed Captain Greymoon when he was admitted into the Federation in 2345...*

### Early History

The Luperians orignally evolved from fierce, predatory animals. Highly adaptive and intelligent, they would work together to take down the beasts native to thier planet, sometime 4 times the size of a Luperian male, although much slower. The Luperian species flourished on the planet, learning to run on two legs and eventually develop a verbal language.

### The Early Metal Age

The Luperian lived at one with the planet, while excelling in scientific & technological discoveries. They had long abandoned their primitive, savage tendencies, in favor of understanding the world around them. Over the course of several centuries, they learned to use tools to manipulate and change thier surroundings. Much of the ship had been slowly ripped apart by the Luperians, who studdied the inner workings, begining to grasp the concepts of metal alloy, and even electrical components. It was their knowlege of these things occuring in nature that allowed them to better understand the parts of the alien ship. Lightnining on stormy days electrified the ground, rich in minerals that were comparable to the materials on the ship.

### The Metalistic Age

*The following is a recount by Jak Greymoon, describing the Space Age in Luperian development.*
For another century we advanced significantly in the areas of science & technology, most importantly space flight. We had developed a type of faster than light travel for our space vessels, what you refer in the Federation as "slip-space".

After many tests in our solar system, and immediate surrounding neighbor systems, the trials were over, and a larger, deep space vessel was ready to explore. I watched the vessel from our moon's Starbase take off, and in a flash of blue-green light, it was on it's way. But it was not heard from again. The next vessel to come out of sub-space was not ours, and it was not what we expected. But one thing was certain. Our way of life, our planet, would never be the same after we received their first contact message:

**We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is Futile...**

### Borg Invasion of Lupera

 File:Lupera 1.png  In the year 2375 , the planet was invaded by the Borg. Many of his people were able to escape assimilation on thier slipstream equipped starships, bound for a secondary coloninzation planet near the Alpha Quadrant border of the Beta Quadrant. Greymoon was not as fortunate. His ship was assimilated by the Borg before they could activate thier drive, and within only hours, he was a Borg Drone. His sole purpose was to track down the remaining members of Species 8523, so that assimilation of the Luperian could be completed.

50 years later, the Borg were able to track down the remainder of Greymoon's species, to thier new home on Lupera Beta, just outside of Klingon space. Jak & other Borg members of his species were sent to assist in assimilation, but the Luperian were ready. They engaged the Borg Sphere with energy weapons not unlike those used by the Undine, Species 8472. The Borg tried to adapt, but the sphere was overwhelmed by the Luperian forces, and a power surge sent to the sphere overloaded it. The Luperian Drones sent to invade the other vessels were severed from the collective, free of the Hive.

### Lupera Beta

The Luperians who had escaped to the Alpha Quadrant found a small, uninhabited M-class planet to settle down on, and began a new life. Jak had become a member of the Lupera Beta Council Den, the ruling body of the original planet. His first proposal for the safety of their new home was the dismantling of their remaining advanced star ships, and the focus on their back-to-basics life they had so long forgotten. But the Den felt the same way he did deep inside, that if they dismantled their fleet, then they abandoned any hope of ever finding remaining member of their species. Soon, however, this would prove to be last thing on their mind.

### Klingon Domination

40 years after the Borg invasion, the original Luperians that colonized Lupera Beta had grown to nearly 500,000, after finding many others of thier species, and creating new life. It seemed the life was returning to normal again, until a new threat arrived that changed everything.

The Orion Syndicate stumbled upon Lupera Beta, and began a dialog with the inhabitants. Originally friendly, the Orion turned hostile when the Den Council refused to sell them Luperian technology. The Orion responded by invading the planet. Although the Luperian were physically superior to the invaders, the Orion's weapons were far more effective.

In the initial hours of the invasion, the fleet ships in orbit had thier self-destruct codes activated, and the Luperian Data storage facilities were wiped clean as well. Only the Data that remained in the minds of the living Luperian could be extracted. The Luperiane fought the invasion force with ever inch of their determination, but it was not enough. Jak & the Den Council evacuated as many of their colonists as they could to the remaining transport vessels, and took off from the planet. There were half a dozen Klingon warships in orbit of the planet, and they immediately engaged the freight vessel. 2 warships pursued the Luperian vessel, as they transmitted a distress signal on all frequencies in range. It was picked up by a Federation starship near by, which began to head towards them. The Klingon ships continued to fire on the Luperian ship, disabling it and causing a systems failure. The Klingon ships cloaked just before the Federation ship was in range.

*This was the last know account of the Luperian species as a whole. It is assumed that the original Luperian homeworld is still Borg, though it is unknown for certain.*
*It is also unknown at this time what became of the Luperian on Lupera Beta. It is believed that after the Klingon-Orion invasion, the Luperian people who were not able to flee, were either enslaved, or most likely, eliminated by the Empire...*