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==Skorr History==
The Skorr race possesses a rich and vibrant history filled with warfare, near ecological destruction, marvelous artistic ages and periods of rapid technological advances. As a race the Skorr are naturally willing to accept other cultures, beliefs and points-of-view, although they instinctively distrust non-carnivorous species.  The Skorr people possess a great deal of patience as a whole and naturally make excellent warriors and diplomats. Skorr culture is carefully organized around the tribal organizations that developed on their home world. This organization is present throughout their history and cultural identity. As a culture they are rich in Literature, Sculpture and Poetry.  They also highly value Martial Skills.

===The Skorr Timescale===

The Skorr Timescale revolves around the changing seasons of their home world.  Because of a racial tendency to be semi-nomadic, Skorr are always willing to travel to new places and experience new things. Although a patient peoples, the Skorr species seems always to be hunting. This is a direct result of their evolutionary development, caused by their heightened awareness of potential prey caused by their predatory instincts.  The Timescale reveals some of these qualities during times when the periods of histories were bloody or violent. The entire history of the race is taught to each member of the species, and is often recited by word-of-mouth. The times when there were rapid sequences of events taken place are traditionally spoken as quickly as possible, to dictate the chaos of the times.  Every member of the race also memorizes the Genealogies of the Royal Lineage along with their great achievements or failures. Every member of the species must be able to recite this information upon request, and this is sometimes done in formal meetings. 

===Skorr Ages===

Skorr scholars use the term ages much in the same manner that Human scholars do. They represent a general period of history where a uniform social, economic, political, or technological condition was present. These ages may span through any number of years or members of the Royal line, or they may be isolated to a single sequence as history dictates. If more than one-age shares common conditions then usually those ages are named the same, although they are numbered sequentially, in the order that they occurred. Thus the First Golden Age and the Second Golden age are similar enough to have very similar characteristics, although the first golden age occurred first chronologically. 

===Major Events in Skorr History===

In the history of the Skorr home world there are records of individual wars, followed by confederations fighting other similar confederations, and then finally a unified planetary governing body, the present Skorr Hierarchy.

Also present in the history of the Skorr people is the lean times, a period of near ecological extinction that almost destroyed all life on the planet. Only the development of ecological awareness and reclamation science allowed the continued existence of life on the planet.

The individual that finally brought an end to all the fighting was Alar, the first member of the current Ruling house of the Skorr Hierarchy. Alar preached peace and unity and began the Martial Religious Movement that later became the basis for the Skorr System of Honorable Deeds. He used a recently discovered Alien artifact, which he dubbed the Soul of Skorr to unify the people. This device has some amazing properties and is considered the most valued treasure of the Skorr people.

Alar's offspring have maintained their famous predecessor's legacy and maintained a unified and well run society.  All members of the Skorr Royal Line possess a rare blood type that makes them readily identifiable by medical scanners, preventing pretenders and usurpers. The Senior generational Member of Alar's line is the High King of the hierarchy and must be a direct descendant to rule.

===First Contact with the United Federation of Planets===

The Skorr first contact with the federation was not without incident. In 2245, the Federation Starship Olympiad, NCC-0300, A Soyuz class starship, entered the Skorr star system on a standard surveying mission when it was attacked and destroyed by Skorr warships.  The Federation Starship, Grendel, NCC-2033, a Constitution Class starship, was also destroyed after attempting to locate the lost Olympiad.  After the loss of the two starships, Starfleet command suspected the Klingons or the Romulans, and decided to dispatch the USS Laredo, USS Montana, and the USS Johannesburg to investigate the situation. Upon the arrival of the three starships into Skorr space, the Skorr fleet set them upon. After several minutes of intense conflict the three Federation starships withdrew. There was no other contact with the Skorr species until 2269. 

[[Image:Kirk.jpg|thumb|right|Captain, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), James T. Kirk in 2269]]In that year, the USS Enterprise commanded by Captain James T. Kirk was dispatched to Skorr Space, when Starfleet command received an ultimatum to '''''"...Return the Soul of Skorr or face the consequences."''''' Faced with the possibility of a war with an enemy that they did not know or understand, the Enterprise crew eventually unmasked the culprit behind the theft and healed the relations between the Skorr Hierarchy and the UFP. 

Prior to their disastrous encounter with the UFP, the Skorr had developed a warp 9 engine, although they lacked communications and computer technology to utilize it fully.  Skorr government programs managed to retro engineer several of the primary components of the Federation starships destroyed in those critical first encounters and began a serious warp space program of their own, now that they possessed subspace communications and advanced computers. After developing an orbital space-manufacturing shipyard they built their first truly advanced warp vessel. This first vessel, the Moonlight Stalker, was later responsible for the signing of the peace treaty between the Federation and the Skorr Species. This state of War was unknown to the UFP until the establishment of the official contact with the Skorr species in 2269. It was during these historic peace accords that it was discovered that the Skorr starships that had encountered the USS Olympiad and the USS Grendel in 2245 were not equipped with communications technology, and that said technology wasn’t developed by the Skorr Species until after the battle with the USS Laredo Task force. The attack was prompted by the detection of subspace radio waves that were misidentified as an advanced weapon of some sort.  These radio waves were, in fact,  the hails of the Federation starships. 

In 2380, after nearly 111 years of peaceful relations the Skorr Hierarchy joined the UFP in a technology and trade agreement and very limited military alliance.