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Using the Alcubierre drive, the Ahl employ a completely different form of FTL travel, which is much faster than the rest of the Alpha Quadrant. This allowed them to make first contact with a variety of species very early in their interstellar development. They gained incredible technology, including weapons and ways to power their ships, and jumped their technology lightyears ahead of their contemporaries like the Vulcans. Among the most prized of these early technologies was the ability to turn lifeless worlds into verdant paradises in record time. | Using the Alcubierre drive, the Ahl employ a completely different form of FTL travel, which is much faster than the rest of the Alpha Quadrant. This allowed them to make first contact with a variety of species very early in their interstellar development. They gained incredible technology, including weapons and ways to power their ships, and jumped their technology lightyears ahead of their contemporaries like the Vulcans. Among the most prized of these early technologies was the ability to turn lifeless worlds into verdant paradises in record time. | ||
Using their variety of technologies, the Ahl went on a crusade to establish interstellar peace and cooperation. Their treaty, the Axia Conventions, have been ratified by every major power, but their enforceability has been knee-jerk and suspect for at least the past three centuries. The penalties of economic sanctions and military intervention ring hollow when the Ahl are faced with galactic powers many times larger than their own, a gap of power not even their advanced technology can | Using their variety of technologies, the Ahl went on a crusade to establish interstellar peace and cooperation. Their treaty, the Axia Conventions, have been ratified by every major power, but their enforceability has been knee-jerk and suspect for at least the past three centuries. The penalties of economic sanctions and military intervention ring hollow when the Ahl are faced with galactic powers many times larger than their own, a gap of power not even their advanced technology can close. | ||
Their failure to keep the peace between the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites in the decades before the founding the Federation was well-noted, as were their unsuccessful attempts to mitigate the escalation of the Federation-Klingon Cold War, which had the adverse effect of precipitating the Battle of Axanar. In the face of their failures as interstellar peacekeepers, the Federation stepped in, but the Ahl's assistance and consult was still sought as wise interstellar elders, though this advice has been seldom heeded in the last few decades. | Their failure to keep the peace between the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites in the decades before the founding the Federation was well-noted, as were their unsuccessful attempts to mitigate the escalation of the Federation-Klingon Cold War, which had the adverse effect of precipitating the Battle of Axanar. In the face of their failures as interstellar peacekeepers, the Federation stepped in, but the Ahl's assistance and consult was still sought as wise interstellar elders, though this advice has been seldom heeded in the last few decades. | ||
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===Dying or Merely Sleeping?=== | ===Dying or Merely Sleeping?=== | ||
While some say the Ahl are irrelevant, that statement is only in the context of their former role as a small—if technologically advanced—power. They control but a group of five star systems, but they could easily expand. | While some say the Ahl are irrelevant, that statement is only true in the context of their former role as a small—if technologically advanced—power. They control but a group of five star systems, but they could easily expand. | ||
And what if they do? What if the Ahl attempt to regain respect on the galactic stage by building an Empire? Some say this is the purpose of seeking an alliance with one of the great powers: not to bow out gracefully but to gain a partner in an exercise in imperial expansion. | And what if they do? What if the Ahl attempt to regain respect on the galactic stage by building an Empire? Some say this is the purpose of seeking an alliance with one of the great powers: not to bow out gracefully but to gain a partner in an exercise in imperial expansion. | ||