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Long ago we lived elsewhere. We lived in peace, at one with our world. It was a golden age. No poverity, hunger, disease or want, but we angered the gods and they banished us to the stars. For time beyond memory we wandered looking for a new world, a new home. Finally we found one that the gods would allow us to tread. Our homes dropped from the stars and we were finally allowed to soar upon the winds. Free from the confines of the space arks that had been our jail for countless years. We learned that we were not alone on this world. Others lived here who were not like us. They attacked and killed some of us. We were stunned, afraid. So we stayed away from them. Even when they stole the crystal of truth from us, we did not seek to retrieve it. But that was then, someday we will regain it. On that day the stars will weep and the gods will again show us the bounty of their favour.

This item is in reality the central crystal memory device from the main Aarakocra space ark. It contains the entire history and technological knowledge of their people. When the main ark crash  landed on the planet of [[Kaclla II]] it was lost amid the wreakage. Since then it has become known that it was discovered by the primative natives of the planet. The [[Pifili]] took it and treated it as a religious artifact. They called it the Stone of Destiny. Somehow they figured out how to seperate it into it`s 3 seperate pieces. Then they seperated them and hid them so that the Aarakocra would never be able to take it from them.

[[Kaclla II]] is the native homeworld of the [[Pifili]]. The Aarakocra did not appear until more than 500 years ago. They fell from the sky in enormas vessels that lite up the night sky for hundreds of miles. Over night the world now had 2 totally different intelligent species seeking to survive within 1 ecosystem. Fortunately their needs for survival were sufficently different that they were able to co-exist with fairly minor conflicts that never grew in size or degree.  

The Aarakocra seem to be for the most part a calm, contemplative species. They do however seem to suffer from a strange form of coma that usually results in death. This coma like state occures when ever the subjest has suffered a drastic injury that prevents them from flying.

They have very little use for any form of culture except of singing. In their case this singing takes place on mountain tops as a form of thanks similar to gospel choirors.  

They have 2 days off at equal seperation from each other. The first is a celebration of their arrival on this world and the second is a celebration of their surviving the first half solar year. Both revolve around their flying and gathering on mountain tops to give thanks for surviveing another hald solar year.

The Aarakocra use to have a great advantage in certain areas over the [[Pifili]] but they have been very rapidly closed the gap. Their are still a few major differences between them in this regard with the Aarakocra haveing better flying, defensive and medical tech.  

The Aarakocra have by far the largest air force of the two species. In fact they have over 25,000 single seater fighters and over 15,000 three man fighter, bombers. Both types of craft have VTOL capabilities. (VTOL - vertical take off and landing) Added to this is the fact that the Aarakocra pilots excell at air combat, haveing a much greater resistance to high G's and greater targeting ability when in the air.  

On Stardate 238503.08 [[T'Pen|Fleet Captain T'Pen]] and the crew of the [[USS Challenger]] visited Kaclla II. This was in response to their request to join the Federation. However members with in the 2 different races liveing on the planet objected to the need for a unified world government first and joining the Federation as well. See Federation Intelligence File [[Fighting Stones(Challenger)|CHL-2385-0214]].

On Stardate 238608.11 while [[T'Pen|Fleet Captain T'Pen]] and the crew of the [[USS Challenger-A]] were in orbit a war broke out between the Pifili and the Aarakocra. The war started in space when a single Aarakocra destroyer opened fire on 2 Pifili destroyers. In the ensueing battle both sides suffered massive losses. See Federation Intelligence File [[Fighting Stones II (Challenger-A)|CHA-2386-0352]]