Brekkian
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| Four Letter Code | BREK |
| Federation Status | Neutral |
| Planet of Origin | Brekka / Delos IV in the Delos system |
| Encountered | By the USS Enterprise-D (TNG: Symbiosis) |
| T/E Rating | T0/E0 |
| Current Tech Level | F |
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- "I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. We have plenty of felicium for sale."
- a Brekkian greeting.
- "I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. We have plenty of felicium for sale."
- The Brekkian are a species that knowingly exploited another species, converting a simple medical cure with a mild addictive effect into an extremely addictive drug that they continued to sell long after the disease it was being used for was cured.
Home System
- Quadrant: Alpha
- Location: Jov Parom Sector (coordinates A23-0001-1296)
- Proper Name: Delos system
- Star: It orbits a class B (Blue-White) star
- Distance from Star: its orbit is approximately 41 million km
- Companions: It is the 4th of 6 planets in the system
- Moons: it has 1 moon.
Home World
- Proper Name: Brekka, also called Delos IV
- Diameter: 19,608 km (12,184 miles)
- Gravity: 0.95 standard gravity with a density of 3.4
- Axial Tilt: 11.9%, with normal seasonal changes
- Orbital Period: 382 days
- Rotational Period: 25.8 hours
- Classification: M
- Surface Water: 56%
- Atmosphere: 1.06% is a standard pressure with 73% nitrogen, 25% oxygen, 2% trace chemicals
- Climate: Mainly a temperate planet with deserts, mountains and swamps. Mostly warm, rarely rains or gets windy and usually a lot of sunshine.
- Population: Just over 5 billion
History
The recent history of the Ornarans and the Brekkians has been intertwined, but for centuries, the two cultures developed independently.
At one time, the Ornarans were more advanced society, diverging from the development of Brekka approximately 2,000 years ago. Two centuries ago, the Ornarans technology reached the point of progressing space travel.
Technologically, Brekka lagged behind Ornara, but the potentially devastating effect of a plague on both cultures in the 22nd century provided the means for the Brekkians to achieve dominance over their neighbors.
A cure was discovered on Brekka through the refinement of felicium; this was rapidly used as a curitiave for the entire Brekkian population, and space travel permitted the felicium to be passed on to the Ornaran population. Unfortunately, the plant resisted all attempts at cultivation on Ornana.
In addition to its curative effect, felicium also has highly addictive properites. The Brekkians avoided consumption once all traces of the plague had been eradicated on Brekka, but, fully cognizant of its narcotic qualities, they were quite happy to continue supplying the felicium to the inhabitants of Ornara, who believed themselves dependent on regular supplies of the drug to prevent a recurrence of the plague.
The Brekkians modified and improved the refining process, and also developed a device that transformed the pill into a substance that enables it to be administered by injection. The euphoric and soporific effects were almost instantaneous, causing a mental laxity as the Ornarans interact on a detached basis.
The advent of the plague has shifted the balance of culture and technology between Brekka and Ornara. Brekka's entire scientific and technological resources are geared to producing felicium pills, which are then traded with Ornara for all necessities and the additional comfort that allow the Brekkians to live a pampered life.
While this comfortable standard of living gives the Brekkians a veneer of sophistication and refinement, it barely masks the arrogance and contempt they have for the people they exploit. It has also resulted in a stagnant society, where they is no reason to progress from a situation where all their requirements and wishes are provided by others.
Generations of drug addiction resulted in loss of intelligence and technical knowledge, and by 2364, the Ornarans no longer had the ability to maintain their interplanetary freighters that they needed to transport felicium from Brekka to Ornara. As a result, the freighter Sanction was destroyed above Brekka when a drive-coil malfunction made it impossible for the ship to maintain a stable orbit. Although the malfunction was fairly minor, the Ornarans' technical ignorance made the problem disastrous.
The Ornarans, along with the Brekkians, requested Federation assistance in repairing their remaining ships, but USS Enterprise-D Captain Jean-Luc Picard declined to render aid, citing Prime Directive considerations.
Soon after the Enterprise-D left, the last supply freighter failed in 2364. As a result their economy failed and Ornara was able to break their addiction to felicium.
Since then the Brekkian society suffered and their economy has been in a depression. Without the Ornaran race to supply them with the technology they wanted/needed, they would, technologically, be at a standstill. Many of the Brekkians started taking felicium just to force depression away.
At first the only transportation to and from Brekka was that of visiting Ambassadors and other scientists and there was not that many of those who visited them.
However eventually they made a few contacts with certain business concerns that were not that fussy about what they bought and sold. As a result the only successful business on Brekka is the selling of their narcotics illegally to other worlds in exchange for supplies or equipment.
Government
They have a unified central government, one that has a vested interest in maintaining the illegal drug trade of felicium with any and everyone who is willing to buy it.
Description
Brekkians are distinguished from humans by a distinctive nasal bridge that contains no dip, remaining flat between the eyes. As children, they can be a lot shorter than the average height for a human child, growing a little faster once they've hit puberty.
Physiology
As with most intelligent humanoid species they have a very complex system with specialized organs, and unique hormones, chemicals and enzymes.
Electrical Discharge
Just like the Ornarans, they have the unique ability to provide a limited electrical discharge from the hands. However this does produce a great strain to the individual discharging the electricity. On the other hand it can incapacitate the unwary. Regardless all Brekkians have complete mental control over their electrical charge unlike the Ornarans.
Psychology
The most common Brekkian relationship aspect is one which might be classed as a habit that's been passed down for centuries. It is that Brekkians nurture by gently rubbing their nose against a child or the person they're in a relationship with.
Most Brekkians have a sweet tooth and they do grow plants that produce a substance almost identical to chocolate. They also produce a lot of different food dishes that seem to be sweeter than expected.
Most of the population are usually calm and happy depending on what they are doing or how they were brought up, but the women seem to be the more dominate sex and they have more of an superior attitude than the men.
Religion
Although many Brekkians seem to have come to terms with the fact that gods and goddesses aren't real, there are several gods and goddesses that they once worshiped and which a small percentage of the population still do worship. One of these is the goddess, Noree, who is the most popular of them all and she even has her own star dedicated to her which is the brightest of them all.
Mythology
There are numerous data records detailing the entire history and legends of their gods and goddesses. Once in high demand they are now slowly being erased from those data systems in which this data is now considered to be a waste of resources. Fortunately a small fringe element of the population has gone to great lengths to ensure that none of these records are ever lost.
Society
While crime is almost unheard of their society is that of a luxury seeking and decadent people. Work is to be avoided and elegant clothes, expensive drink and over sweet food enjoyed. Who cares who gets hurt because of the felicium. All that matters is that there is a sucker born every minute and they are willing to pay, so take them for all they are worth and enjoy the good life.
While the search for the good life seems to be the most important aspect of their existence it seems that at least half of the Brekkian population has a taboo against Brekkian hybrids born of intimate encounters with other races. There aren't that many Brekkian hybrids to begin with but those seem to experience a surprisingly high number of fatal accidents.
This is especially true if they life in the state of Buerno in Jackelieh. There have also been reports of hybrids suffering fatal accidents in the state of Kekorna in Seritona.
Culture
They are a decadent people, one that loves luxury, relaxing, parties, good drink, overly sweet food and elegant clothes. Work is to be avoided if at all possible and music, art and other forms of artistic expression are to be enjoyed. Everyone tries to impress everyone else with how much they have and how little they have to do to maintain their way of life.
Customs
Typically the female selects the male and is the first to initiate both courtship and marriage discussions. During this time a male can refuse but it is not that often that it does occur.
Technology
At the time of the plague, Brekka was technologically behind Ornara. Today, much of their technology is geared toward refining felicium. That has not really changed and while they have been able to purchase some new technology with the proceeds of their drug business they are still well behind that of most other species who have achieved space travel. One of the technologies that they have managed to purchase are replicators and over time they have learned how to build them as well.
Economy
For centuries the entire Brekkian economy was entirely built around supplying the narcotic felicium to Ornara. When the Ornarans last supply freighter failed in 2364, their economy failed and Ornara was able to break their addiction to felicium.
Since then the Brekkian economy has been in a depression. The only successful business on Brekka is the selling of their narcotics illegally to other worlds in exchange for supplies or equipment. This has resulted in their establishing long term trade deals with a number of unsavoury business concerns including the Orion Syndicate.
Military
They have none and have never developed any. There was no need as they co-existed peacefully with the Ornarans who they shared the system with and they were well off the regular shipping lanes.
Now they have a few small armed vessels that are used to transport and when needed smuggle felicium off world and to what every buyer is offering the highest price currently.
Federation Intelligence Files
The Delos system contains two inhabited planets: Ornara, the third planet from the sun, and its outer neighbor, Brekka. Both planets are inhabited by a race that is humanoid in appearance.
The Delos system's sun is relatively unstable and is prone to periodic violent magnetic field changes producing gigantic and intense solar flares. It is speculated that the proximity of the unstable magnetic field is responsible for the innate ability of the Brekkians and the Ornarans to generate powerful electrical charges. These charges are easily capable of stunning humans, although races with similar abilities seem better able to withstand the effects.
In 2370, Odo accused Quark of possessing Brekkian narcotics.
Sources
Both Memory Alpha and Memory Beta were used as references as well as the TV episode, TNG: Symbiosis. Also used was the article from Star Trek Fact Files, File 18, Card 92 and the DS9 novel: Fallen Heroes.
SDC
This file was updated and approved by the SDC on 8 October 2014.
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