Na'kuhl
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| Four Letter Code | NAKU |
| Federation Status | Neutral |
| Planet of Origin | Unknown |
| Encountered | ENT: Storm Front |
| T/E Rating | T0/E0 |
| Current Tech Level | N |
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- "You fight for control of nations...we dominate entire worlds. We extend our will across time. If your race were to endure for a million years, you couldn't begin to approach what we've accomplished."
- Vosk
- "You fight for control of nations...we dominate entire worlds. We extend our will across time. If your race were to endure for a million years, you couldn't begin to approach what we've accomplished."
- The Na'kuhl are a humanoid species who have no trouble messing with the space time continuum if their is any benefit in it for them. These games of messing with time are played to increse their power and influence.
Home System
- Quadrant: Unknown
- Location: (Unknown) Sector (coordinates Unknown)
- Proper Name: Unknown
- Star: It orbits a class Unknown star
- Distance from Star: Unknown
- Companions: Unknown
- Moons: Unknown
Home World
- Proper Name: Unknown
- Diameter: Unknown
- Gravity: Unknown
- Axial Tilt: Unknown
- Orbital Period: Unknown
- Rotational Period: Unknown
- Classification: M believed to be
- Surface Water: Unknown
- Atmosphere: Unknown
- Climate: Unknown
- Population: Unknown
History
The ancestors of the Na'kuhl under Vosk's leadership worshiped gods, and Vosk once referred to them as having been considerably imaginative but substantially less technologically developed. At another time, a Na'kuhl who Vosk later respectfully described as "our greatest scientist" stated, "Every moment we live, we are moving through time."
At one point in their history under Vosk's leadership, the Na'kuhl attempted to eradicate the Suliban. They traveled into the past to prevent the Suliban from becoming sentient. However, an opposing faction of temporal agents stopped the Na'kuhl and ensured that the Suliban attained sentience, despite the ongoing enmity between the Temporal Agents and the Suliban.
The Na'kuhl were very nearly defeated and captured by Daniels' faction, but managed to develop a type of stealth time travel before they could be vanquished. This innovative device had the drawback of allowing only one-way travel. Using the device, the Na'kuhl escaped to Earth in 1944 of an alternate timeline created by multiple temporal incursions from the different factions. In this reality, with the assassination of Vladimir Lenin by an unknown faction, Nazi Germany had been able to concentrate solely on the Western Front during World War II, allowing Adolf Hitler to quickly take over England and then much of the eastern coast of the United States, including New York City and Washington, DC. The Na'kuhl were allies to the Nazis and were granted ranks in the SS, complete with the "privilege" to wear SS uniforms as well as several Nazi medals.
Under Vosk's supervision, Na'kuhl work on creating a temporal conduit, in an effort to return to the 29th century. The Na'kuhl further offered to provide advanced technological weaponry to the Nazis, but held back from doing so, not trusting the Human forces and being less interested in their war than they were.
In exchange, the Nazis provided the Na'kuhl with materials to build a temporal conduit with which to return to the future, so that they could no longer be trapped in the past. In fact, the Na'kuhl were forced to create the conduit exclusively from materials acquired from that time period. The group was eventually successful and, just after Vosk was finally located by the Temporal Agents, the Na'kuhl used the conduit to journey to the 31st century, where they launched a decisive attack on Daniels' faction. This offensive not only enabled the Na'kuhl to defeat the opposing faction but also ignited the Temporal Cold War into an all-out conflict, resulting in the very same alternate timeline to which the Na'kuhl had escaped in the first place.
In a last-ditch effort to restore the timeline and stop the Na'kuhl, Daniels transported Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 from 2154 to 1944. Shortly after a wounded Archer was captured and hospitalized by the Nazis, the Na'kuhl had some involvement in overseeing his recovery.
However, this degree of supervision was found, by Vosk, to be insufficient; after Archer escaped during an unsuccessful Nazi attempt to transfer him, another Na'kuhl named Ghrath was blamed by Vosk for neglecting to personally supervise Archer's transfer. Having discovered that Archer was from the future, the Na'kuhl time travelers at first came to the incorrect conclusion that he and the crew of Enterprise were Temporal Agents themselves.
The physical appearance of the Na'kuhl was generally met with shocked responses from citizens of the era and the unexpected presence of the aliens generated some stories about their existence, rumors that gangster and resistance fighter Sal learned of. The extravagance of these tales caused an associate of his, Alicia Travers, to initially disbelieve the reports.
When Archer and the resistance cell traced the tales back to their source, an informant for Ghrath named Joe Prazki claimed that – even though he had only ever glimpsed Ghrath on one occasion – Ghrath's red eyes had been enough to leave Prazki with an unforgettable impression. For one resistance fighter called Carmine, the act of seeing Ghrath's Na'kuhl features caused him to almost utter an expletive in alarm and speculate that they might be simply those of a mask, a theory that was quickly denied by Sal. He referred to Ghrath as a "freak" and shot him to death. A later suggestion from Carmine was that the Na'kuhl had looked like a demon.
Somewhat simplifying the group's struggle to identify Ghrath's appearance, Archer revealed that he had been an extraterrestrial. Sal's first instinct was to question whether the alien had originated from Mars, though Archer admitted to being unsure about what planet Ghrath had come from. From that point onward, Carmine considered the Na'kuhl to indeed be Martians.
A squadron of German designed Stuka airplanes under Vosk's command were outfitted with hi-tech Na'kuhl weaponry.
The crew of Enterprise was ultimately successful in their mission, managing to destroy the conduit moments before Vosk could enter. This had the effect of eliminating the changes he had made, essentially resetting the timeline, and bringing the Temporal Cold War to an end.
By the 29th century, a faction of Na'kuhl utilized time travel to raid a Carreon ship in 2372 and steal a Deltan time perceptor.
At some point, a Na'kuhl faction contacted the Klingons, and gave some of them knowledge of the future in an attempt to manipulate them into doing their bidding. However, the Klingons rejected this and rebelled against the Na'kuhl. Among the knowledge they had gained was the location of a Doomsday machine, which B'Vat later found in the T'Ong nebula.
Government
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Description
The Na'kuhl have pale complexions, bony-looking faces with bat-like features as well as bright red eyes, and many veins visible on their bald heads.
Physiology
They also have yellowish-brown blood.
Psychology
Religion
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Mythology
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Society
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Culture
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Customs
At this time nothing is known about this aspect of their society or culture. No records or data has been retrieved to aid the experts in creating a theory.
Technology
The Na'kuhl were equipped with extremely powerful plasma rifles. Although these weapons required much power for portable usage, the attainment of such power was apparently very easy for the Na'kuhl in their native time period, where there were – according to an account of uncertain credibility that Vosk once made – energy cells as small as a coin.
According to the same account, the Na'kuhl were additionally capable of unleashing a plague that targeted victims based on their genetic profile and could be dispersed throughout an entire country by introducing a few grams of a pathogen into that country's water supply. The Na'kuhl also used a style of hand-held communicator, in addition to the time-traveling technologies they developed at different points of their development.
Economy
At this time nothing is known of their current economic development level or if they have any system of trade with other species.
Military
With their ability in the past to access different times it was possible for them to use weapons and systems that were far superior to any belonging to the time they were currently in.
With that being said, since the end of the Temporal Cold War the experts believe that they no longer have access to time travel technology and that as a species they are now less advanced than the Federation and no longer a threat militarily.
Federation Intelligence Files
Regardless of what the experts believe Starfleet Command, Starfleet Intelligence and The Federation Intelligence Service all require instant notification of any contact with this species. Even suspected contact or rumors of contact are to be reported.
Sources
Both Memory Alpha and Memory Beta were used as well as the following TV episodes, ENT: Storm Front, ENT: Storm Front, Part II and ENT: Zero Hour.
Also used were the following DTI novel: Watching the Clock and from the online game the STO mission: The Doomsday Device.
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