A History of The Life and Evolution of The Reshtarc Family's Prime Technological Research and Development Facility and the Role of the Klingon Space Agency
By K'Jev sutai-Reshtarc
Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited: A Journey Through Time
A Journey Into The Ancient Past
A Glimpse of the Present: Revisited
Flashes of ReCAL's Foremost Achievements
From The Historic Memos Department
From The Historic Advertisements Department
This text has been assembled with the permission of the Council Members of Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited (hereafter referred to as ReCAL) and the Commander of the Behacor Prime Security Unit (hereafter referred to as BPSU).
In all the years and during all the many different manifestations of its life, ReCAL has never been chronicled as the premier research and development company that it has become. That is one of the main reasons why this reference work was allowed to proceed with a minimal amount of security impediments and no obvious visits to the agonizer cube.
Qapla' to all those interviewed and involved with this transcription.
After many years of service to House Reshtarc and the Empire, ReCAL has allowed the work on this history to progress. ReCAL has been the forerunner of technological advancements throughout the Empire and all of its holdings for many years. This chronicle will finally bring all of the aspects of ReCAL into one concise and complete history and guide.
Over the course of a myriad of years, the weapons and technologies designed and tested by ReCAL have been many and varied. From the very first nuclear based weapons attached to computer guided projectiles, ReCAL has stayed at the forefront of discovering new and improved weapons with which to arm the vessels of the House and Empire. ReCAL has evolved along with other companies in weapons development, but ReCAL was always the leader in producing an infallible product for Empirical use.
The engineers at ReCAL have striven to produce the highest quality of workmanship in every item that departs from the Behacor Prime facilities. As with any weapons Research and Development Facility, there have been setbacks, failures and fatalities, but as said occurrences are all in the name of technological progress, they are deemed not only acceptable, but honorable.
The myth and mystique of ReCAL has endured and lingered throughout the Empire for many generations. Except for high ranking Reshtarc Family members possessing close ties to the Line Lord, most of Klin only knew the name ReCAL meant legendary service to both the Reshtarc House and the Empire. This volume will bring together much of that mystique and speculation that has surrounded ReCAL and its many subsidiaries.
ReCAL, as it is known today, started out as a small laboratory located among the Reshtarc Holdings on the Homeworld. No one could have predicted that the original lab, small as it was, would have become such a colossal operation, the premier operation, in the field of technological engineering advancements in the year 2032, when Kelrik epetai-Reshtarc developed the first oscillation driver engine.
Kelrik, the founder of ReCAL, was fascinated by the Klingon Space Agency (KSA) as a small child, and studied all the aspects of the first program to put Klingons in space nearly thirty years before he was conceived. The KSA was the organization that Kelrik used to mold and shape his management and production styles into the corporation that became ReCAL.
ReCAL, in and of itself, would have never been possible without the foresight and determination of several spirited Klingons who lived over three hundred years ago. It was at this critical turning point in the Homeworld's history that the Klin's eyes looked toward the naked stars and the domination of the Great Black Void: space.
What follows is a history of the Klingon Space Agency and Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited, and those unique Klingons who were foresighted enough to turn the conquest of space into reality for the Empire and its people.
A Journey Through History
An Excursion Into The Ancient Past
I n the mid 1950s, after the decade long War of Consolidation, the Klingon High Council deemed it was the right time to begin the conquest of space. The High Council created the Klingon Space Agency and its rhetoric was ". . . to launch Klingons into space." The High Council staffed the fledgling Klingon Space Agency with the best young engineering and technical minds that the Klingon Academies had graduated.
As early as the 1930s, there were Klingon scientists and rogue engineers who had been building and studying the effects of guided rocket flight. Most of the scientists were working under the Military auspices during the War of Consolidation and the original rockets they built from the late 1930s and early 1940s were nothing more than "flying bombs". As crude as they were, the pioneering scientists advanced the newly developed gyroscopically controlled guidance systems for use in their rockets. After the first of the second generation rockets was successfully launched and made contact within fifty meters of its intended target nearly 3,000 kilometers away, the rocketry project was judged a success and was granted immediate funding to continue.
As the years went by, the rockets grew larger in size, more complex and accurate in their guidance systems and more powerful in their destructive capabilities. Nuclear fission warheads were the weapon of the day, and every rocket that was built was tipped with several individually targetable independent warheads; devices that could destroy an entire city and lay waste to the surrounding areas for a thousand years.
During the time when the rockets' guidance systems were growing increasingly more advanced and object targeting became extremely accurate, a scientist named Gharock sutai-Rustazh suggested launching a rocket through the atmosphere and into orbit around Qo'noS. Initially his idea was ridiculed as impossible by those in the non-science community. However, after much debate in the High Council and many threats, warnings and two unexplained deaths, it was assumed that space would be the next great battlefield of the Klin Kingdom. Gharock in turn was given the massive funding necessary to make the assault on space a reality and he was granted total control of the Klingon Space Agency in 1953.
The actual task of placing a Klingon in a stable, non-deteriorating orbit around Qo'noS proved much more difficult than originally thought. The first huge problem was overcoming the tremendous pull of the Homeworld's gravity. The engines in the rocket would have to be gigantic and extremely powerful. The engines that powered the rockets currently in use were not large or powerful enough to break free from the enormous pull of the Homeworld. Gharock immediately began working with a team of his best engineers to solve the problem.
Gharock was not overly concerned with the size of the launch vehicle, mostly because the size of the launch vehicle depended on the fuel load it would need to carry. Fuel consumption was the key element in the how large the first rocket had to be. The engines of the rocket were going to be immense and they would have to burn fuel at an alarmingly fast rate to produce enough sustained thrust to counter the effects of the planets' gravity. Standard fuel pumps would have to be replaced by turbo pumps that used forced oxygen to pump the hypergolic fuels into the combustion chamber at one thousand times the standard rate. Due to the high speed fuel transfer, all of the seals, joints, junctions, unions and couplings had to be re-machined in order to control the high pressure output of the turbo pump fuel system.
Aside from difficulties of designing the engines, there were other setbacks as well. From the start there was derision among the Council Members and the scientists as to how the rocket should be launched into orbit. Some of the Council Members with Military interests wanted to launch the rocket in a direct vertical ascent, perpendicular to the surface of the planet. Gharock and his team were vehemently against this approach, but in the end the Council threatened withdrawn funding. Gharock grudgingly gave in.
On the day of the first unmanned Direct Ascent lift-off, all of the High Council members were present at the launch complex, west of the Throne City. The rocket roared off the launch pad atop a column of white fire. The launch was flawless. The Council Members began to roar in approval. Then there was a brilliant flash of orange-yellow flame, and a huge billowing fireball, followed by a deafening explosion. The rocket exploded. The gathering fell silent.
Back at the control center, Gharock watched the telemetry from his console. As the rocket reached maximum dynamic pressure or max-Q, harmonic vibrations began to shake the rocket so severely it interrupted the internal fuel flow, causing a back pressure feed through the fuel system. Less then twelve seconds after reaching the max-Q limit, the back pressure in the fuel system reached such a high pressure the transfer junction ruptured, spewing fuel directly into the reaction chamber, which ignited the fuel and destroyed the rocket.
When Gharock explained the reason behind the failure, the Council Members insisted the rocket exploded due to "faulty engineering". The Council Members mandated that the next rocket successfully make orbit or there would be "official changes in the management of the Klingon Space Agency". Gharock and his crew started to redesign the rockets to compensate for the severe harmonic vibrations as the rocket reached max-Q.
After one more failed attempt and months of wasted research, Gharock tried a different approach.
In 1954, Gharock launched a two stage Doqnagh rocket on a parabolic course aligned with the Homeworld's curvature and axis rotation, easing the rocket into orbit, instead of trying to punch a hole through it. The unmanned rocket curved away from the launch pad in a graceful arc, reaching max-Q in two minutes. Eight minutes later, the rocket reached a stable orbit. The first step was an unqualified success.
Several more unmanned flights followed that year, testing various systems and components on the spacecraft, systems that the pilot would actually need in order to maneuver the craft while in space. The six test flights were all successful to such an extent, that the Council and the KSA decided to put a pilot in the command seat of the module before the end of 1955.
Gharock's own son, Gorach was chosen to be the pilot. On an early morning late in 1955, a Gharock Doqnagh, lifted off from the launch complex west of the Throne City, riding a pillar of flame into the sky. Exactly twelve minutes after lift-off, Gorach was in a perfect parabolic orbit, one hundred and forty miles above the clouded surface of Qo'noS.
While the Gharock Doqnagh Project was well underway with at least eight more manned flights planned, Gharock was busy working on what he referred to as the tInQuQ. This three stage booster rocket was an immense creation and for good measure: standing over three hundred and fifty feet (350) tall it was designed to send Klingon pilots to Praxis and back safely.
Gharock's tInQuQ Program would test the abilities of all the scientists of Klin in an unparalleled effort. The tInQuQ rocket, when completed, would contain over 6.5 million components, each of which had to be tested thousands of times to insure proper functionality. Over 8,000 scientists, theoreticians, engineers, and laborers were assembled to perform the daunting task of bringing this awesome machine to life.
Gharock sutai-Rustazh oversaw the entire operation. Every final engineering and logistic decision was laid squarely on his shoulders. The tInQuQ Program was fully his project.
The first unmanned tInQuQ lifted off from the Rustazh Launch Complex (RLC) early in 1961. The rocket exploded in a fiery death of superheated metal shards eleven seconds after liftoff. Telemetry feedback showed the No 5 booster was losing fuel pressure at the turbo pump transfer junction. The junction union ruptured allowing the fuel components to stream out of the sealed housing and enter the thrust chamber which ignited causing the explosion and loss of the entire vehicle. After the remainder of the wreckage was retrieved and inspected by Gharock, the malfunction was traced back to a technician who did not correctly seal the turbo pump transfer junction. The technician was executed at his station for incompetent work in full view of his staff.
It was now known that Gharock would accept nothing less than absolute perfection. The second tInQuQ vehicle was launched from the RLC later in the year of 1961. This time all three stages performed flawlessly, rocketing the control module into a 170 mile-high geostationary orbit. Initial telemetry reported all components and systems were in perfect operational status. When the new control module was completed, the KSA would for the first time, put three Klingons in space at the same time.
The control module of the tInQuQ-vagh was being developed by Temohk sutai-Rustazh, Gharock's understudy at the KSA. Gharock had been priming Temohk for a number of years in the theories of space craft engineering and the basics of rocketry, and when the time came, Temohk was promoted to manage the control module construction.
The CM was unlike any of the other modules that had carried pilots before. The module was larger by almost ten times, needing to accommodate three Klingons, and it was one hundred times more complex than the earlier, single pilot control modules. The systems on the CM were triply redundant, a safety feature deemed necessary to circumvent the failings of any of the major systems on the craft.
The CM was a unique craft in that it would also be used in landing on the surface of Praxis. Landing on the surface of Praxis would prove to be one of the more difficult aspects of the mission. The CM would have to be able land and take off vertically. This meant that powerful engines would be needed to break free of Praxis' gravitational pull. From an engineering standpoint, the CM would be the most advanced flying machine ever constructed.
Two sets of three retro-rockets would be installed in the CM. The first set of engines would be used for landing and then after a brief period of exploration, the second set of engines would be used for lift-off from the surface.
Temohk designed the CM himself, and he personally oversaw the installation of every component in the first control module. By 1963 the CM was completed.
Over the next two years, four more successful unmanned flights were launched which tested vehicle maneuverability, structural stress resistance in both a vacuum and a zero-G environment, navigational array computers, communication telemetry and sustained third stage thrust of the CM engine. Landings on the Homeworld simulated the landing that the pilot would have to make on Praxis.
Finally, the new CM was perched atop the tInQuQ-vagh. The three Klingon pilots were strapped inside, ready for the ten day flight to Praxis after months of intensive training.
At exactly 0440 AM, the tInQuQ-vagh (nicknamed Homeworld's Glory by the engineers who built it) lifted off the launch pad at RLC and arced into the clouds riding a pillar of fire. The Klingon Space Agency Command Center (KSACC) tracked the Glory and reported no problems; all telemetered systems showed blue lights. Mission Commander Karg vestai-Demma reported a fairly smooth ride, all gauges, readouts and meters were in the blue, showing the rocket to be performing flawlessly at this earliest point in the flight. As the rocket roared through max-Q, Karg reported severe buffeting, but after a moment, it subsided.
At MECO, the first stage engines shut down, followed by a small jolt, caused by the explosive bolts that fired, separating the first two stages. When the expired first stage was cleared from the rest of the rocket, the five second stage engines engaged, propelling the craft even farther out into orbit. At SECO, the second stage engines shutdown and separated from the Homeworld's Glory. The third stage engines initiated their burn and shutdown on time as well. All three stages of the rocket performed flawlessly, propelling the Glory farther into orbit than any other vessel sent into space so far. As the vessel reached a stable orbit, the three Klingons removed and stowed their pressure suits, and checked all systems and components. Systems checkout lasted about three hours. When checkout was completed, Malok vestai-Reshtarc, Mission Pilot, fed coordinates into the navigational computer and ignited the CM service rocket. The Homeworld's Glory was bound for Praxis.
During the ten day flight, Mission Specialist Vahk tai-Margon charted stars that had never before been seen so clearly. He mapped the visible surface of Praxis, which grew larger in the control module's windows every day. Karg and Malok continued checkouts of equipment and systems, prepping the Glory for their historic descent to the surface of Praxis.
Mission Planners and Directors at KSACC plotted a region for the Glory to stake their landing, but the final decision would rest on the shoulders of Karg, the Mission Commander. The initial descent through the atmosphere of Praxis would yield a view that no other Klingon had ever seen. The terrain of Praxis' surface was unknown, and Karg had discretion to land the Glory wherever he deemed safest in the large predetermined area.
Mission parameters stated that upon landing on the surface, a full systems check-out would be performed by Karg and Malok. Vahk would take various sensor readings of the environment to determine atmospheric composition. After system check and the sensor readings, the three Klingons would climb into their bulky pressure suits and step out onto the surface of Praxis.
The initial results of Vahk's atmospheric analysis showed that the air was breathable, consisting of the same elemental air components as Qo'noS. Although the air was considered breathable, the Mission Planners ordered the crew to wear their pressure suits.
As Glory neared Praxis and entered the moon's relatively strong gravitational field, Karg fired the braking rockets that would slow the module enough to allow it to settle into a one hundred mile high elliptical orbit.
After another series of exhaustive systems checklist procedures, the Mission Planners and Karg were ready to begin the descent to the surface. Karg fired Glory's retro rockets, slowing the module enough to allow it to enter the atmosphere. The Glory began the descent in a ball of fire, as the ablative heat shield melted away in fiery pieces. Communications with the Homeworld were impossible due to the ionization caused by the heated entry as the module passed through the upper atmosphere.
Finally, after what seemed like hours, Karg fired the manuerving engines, and began to seek for a clearing in which to land. The module descending vertically, seemingly floated above the ground, as Malok read the instruments that updated rate of descent and rate of forward motion. All at once, there was a dull alarm that indicated the sensors in the landing gear made contact with the surface. Karg shut down the engine, and Homeworld's Glory softly touched down on the surface of Praxis.
It was 1965.
Karg, Malok and Vahk went through an exhaustive systems checkout, noting the position of every gauge, dial and meter on the control consoles and radioing the information back to the Mission Planners at KSACC.
Seven hours after landing on the surface of Praxis, Karg and his crew were dressed in the bulky pressure suits, ready to open the hatch to the Glory and step out into history. Karg stepped out onto the deck and slowly descended the ladder attached to one of the Glory's sets of landing gear.
As he set foot on Praxis for the first time in the history of the Klingon people, he said, "I claim this planet in the name of the Klingon Empire!"
Over the next 10 years, two manned missions to Praxis was made every year and by the year 1997, a permanent colony of over three hundred scientists and planetary engineers were living on Praxis.
K elrik epetai-Reshtarc, known throughout the Empire as the "Father of Modern Warp Physics", was born in 1997 on the Homeworld, Qo'noS. His parents, Krohl vestai-Durazch and Klaren Durazch were both Naval personnel. His father served on the ocean going vessel IKV Drowning Rage; his mother on the IKV Sea God's Fury. The Durazch Line was newly formed, Krohl having established the line himself after taking a consort. When Kelrik was but five years old, his parents were killed in a great sea battle; fought against the two of the houses from the South who sought to defy the Empire. Krohl was drowned in the engineering spaces on his vessel, trying vainly to repair a major hull breach. Klaren was killed in a bomb blast that leveled the communication tower she was stationed in.
Young Kelrik was to become a ward of the state. In the time he spent as a ward, it was found that he suffered from a muscular disorder, which prevented from entering the Naval Academy when he came "of age". Instead, he turned all his attention to science and the art of engineering.
In his early instructional classes, Kelrik showed the uncanny ability to see through a mathematical equation and transform it into simple, basic terms. Kelrik excelled far better than the older students and before long, his instructors guided him to the Klinza Academy for Dynamic Physics. Kelrik proved to be the most intelligent student the Academy had seen for many years. He challenged the instructors at the Academy whenever he felt a point was not fully explained in the context of the current lesson or when a point in an engineering axiom did not give a fully logical explanation. In the beginning, several of the instructors were ready to expel the young student. But after seeing his dedicated earnestness and his desire to expand his knowledge base, those instructor relaxed and allowed Kelrik to absorb whatever he could. In fact, they became his personal tutors.
After receiving The Certification Record of the Educated Physicist in the area of Multiphasic Physics in 2008, Kelrik began to put his immense knowledge to use, immediately challenging existing theories in the areas of subspace physics, continuum dynamics, space/time deformation and the overall access to the speed of light barrier.
Much of Kelrik's early work was maligned by the High Council and some of the more noted Scholars of the Klingon Physical Sciences, but young Kelrik was not daunted by their fervent ridicule. Word of Kelrik's work spread, despite the fact that the Scholars had publicly denounced it. In fact, his work piqued the interests of K'Vek sutai-Reshtarc, founder of the young Reshtarc Line. K'Vek became enticed by Kelrik's work and theories so much, he eventually supported the young physicist's work, realizing that equipping a vessel with a faster-than-light engine could lead to newer and greater conquests for his fledgling House and all of Klin. For the first time in history, outward planetary expansion was whispered in among Line Members of House Reshtarc.
K'Vek became so pleased with Kelrik and his work, he adopted him into the Line in 2009 and urged the young physicist to continue his work for the benefit of the family.
After years of toiling on the Homeworld while enduring intense scrutiny by non-believers, K'Vek persuaded Kelrik to move his operation to one of the Homeworld's newly colonized moons, Praxis, in 2025. K'Vek believed that if left alone and away from any undue pressures, Kelrik would make his discovery that could change Klingon history concerning space travel.
He was right.
At the beginning of the year 2032, Kelrik launched his first unmanned probe-sled equipped with an enormous version of the oscillation driver engine installed in its engineering spaces. The sled was taken out of Praxis' gravitational influence to a small research platform and launched into deep space. At precisely 60 seconds into the launch, a small detonation was set off to destroy the sled. Kelrik's sensors, tuned to acquire the detonation wave, obtained the subspace shock wave and calculated the sled traveled 8 light minutes from its release point at the platform. Kelrik and his engineers were openly astonished. The sled travel slightly over 143 million kilometers, averaging an incredible 297,916.6 kilometers per second.
The Fundamental Laws of Physics were now a thing of the past.
Kelrik continued to advance and refine his theory of subspace propulsion, while K'Vek's and House Reshtarc's political position grew in strength due to his backing of the scientist. Unfortunately K'Vek would not live to see the end result of aligning with Kelrik. K'Vek died without an heir in 2035, when a plasma conduit erupted on the Black Hole Sun, the first full sized vessel to be equipped with an oscillation driver engine. Kelrik changed the name of the vessel to The K'Vek, in honor of the Line's founder. After repairing the damaged conduit, Kelrik himself piloted the vessel away from Praxis to the nearest star system, Mempa, and back in two hundred and forty days. By this time, the efficiency of his new engines had reached limits of 102% the speed of light, and as the subspace medium became more of a "known" in the scientific world, more improvements were on the horizon.
In 2050, K'Nath tai-Reshtarc, now Line Lord, financed Kelrik and his entire engineering staff's relocation to the newly discovered world of Behacor Prime in the Mempa Sector. Behacor Prime was settled by pioneers of House Reshtarc two years earlier, and Kelrik built his new laboratories there.
Over the next few years, Kelrik's designs grew exceedingly more efficient. While trying to find different materials to channel the antimatter flow into a more tightly focused stream, Kelrik used a fragment of a semi-precious crystal called dilithium. Exhaustive laboratory tests showed that if the crystal were cut and aligned correctly, it could improve the antimatter flow. In 2052, Kelrik and his colleagues saw their first unmanned vessel travel out of the Mempa System at 2.5 times the speed of light using the dilithium crystal to concentrate and focus the antimatter stream. Much to their chagrin the vessel did not return. On board telemetry suggested that a plasma conduit ruptured releasing the antimatter that destroyed the ship. This second plasma conduit failure caused Kelrik to reexamine the use of solid duranium plasma conduits. Before he could re-address the problem, Kelrik was killed.
In 2053, House Mortak launched an attack on Behacor Prime and more specifically at Kelrik's Research Station, in hopes of procuring all his files on the oscillation driver engine. His work was saved by his quick thinking as he uploaded all of the pertinent files and databases through an encryption sequencer to The K'Vek II, in geosynchronous orbit above the planet. Kelrik was impaled by several pieces of flying shrapnel from debris blasted by the Mortak's sonic grenades.
The Mortak assault was quickly countered by the Reshtarc Frontier Troops, and all of the captured were executed in the devastated lab. K'Nath tai-Reshtarc confronted the Line Leader of House Mortak who denied having any knowledge of such a plan or attack.
The death of Kelrik did not have any negative effect on his students and fellow engineers at the Research Station. Instead, his death motivated them to probe deeper into the theories behind the subspace continuum and how the oscillation driver engine could be used to exploit it.
Krioch tai-Reshtarc was unanimously voted to take the lead in their scientific endeavors. His diligent study of Kelrik's methodical scientific research and staff management soon turned the Research Station into a thriving, state of the art facility and a production house, manufacturing oscillation driver engines to outfit all the House vessels and vessels of the Homeworld.
K'Nath used this new production facility to his advantage, by offering the technology of Kelric to the High Council (for a price, of course, both in credit and power). The Members of the High Council and the Scholars of the Klingon Sciences (who were much maligned against Kelrik's early work), were now eager to utilize this new technology, finally seeing the conquest it would expedite.
The High Council posthumously venerated Kelric by bestowing the honorific Epetai upon his name, and now Kelrik epetai-Reshtarc is regarded as a both a hero and a legend to the Klingon people who refer to him as the "Father of Modern Warp Physics."
T he Research Station that Kelrik founded on Behacor Prime in 2050 came to be known as The Reshtarc Research Station (RRS) throughout the Mempa Sector and the Homeworld's Inner Core. This was the first embryonic incarnation of ReCAL that can be traced back through Klingon History and the Outward Expansion Movement.
During this period of Reshtarc enhanced productivity, Krioch was able to overcome the one daunting task that loomed over all of the vessels equipped with Kelrik's oscillation driver. He replaced the solid gamma bonded duranium plasma conduits with six alternating layers of machined tritanium and transparent aluminum borosillicate and phase transition welded all the segments together to form a single pressure resistant structure. Krioch then charged the plasma conduits with tightly focused conformal magnetic accelerators to "suspend" the antimatter in the conduit without ever touching the interior walls. Not only did this solve the problem of plasma conduit failure, it also allowed a greater concentration of antimatter to flow more freely, increasing overall output efficiency.
In 2058, K'Nath (now a Leader of the High Council) approved Krioch's proposal to construct an orbital fabrication yard above Behacor Prime, which he termed the Orbital Production Facility (OPF). K'Nath appropriated the funds Krioch would need and dispatched the entire contingent of Reshtarc Engineers to Behacor Prime to begin work on this new facility. K'Nath also claimed Behacor Prime to be the Reshtarc Throne World, and all Reshtarc Family Members relocated to the Mempa Sector and Behacor Prime.
Unfortunately, K'Nath was never to see the OPF completed. At the close of the year 2058, K'Nath was attacked in the Council Chambers and stabbed several times by an overzealous Member of the High Council. K'Nath died a warriors death, killing his attacker and taking him to the Black Fleet.
K'Nath's successor as Line Lord was young Krolt vestai-Reshtarc, third son of K'Nath. With the death of the Council Leader, the remaining Members dropped the funding support of the OPF over Behacor Prime and Krolt was not named Council Leader in his father's stead.
Krolt removed himself from the Homeworld and traveled to Behacor in order to oversee the construction of the OPF (funding for this immense project came directly out the House Military budget). The facility was initially designed to house fifteen Bird of Prey Scouts and ten large assault vessels (D1 and D2 versions).
Krolt named Krioch the Manager of the RSS, while naming Vargon tai-Reshtarc the Manager of the OPF. This arrangement worked well for both parties involved. Krioch was able to focus all his attention on furthering the research of Kelrik and Vargon was able to concentrate on streamlining vessel designs.
If Kelrik epetai-Reshtarc is known as the "Father of Warp Physics", then Krolt vestai-Reshtarc should be heralded as the one who actually instituted ReCAL. Krolt combined the two facilities (the Orbital Production Facility and the Reshtarc Research Station) into one small entity he titled Reshtarc Industries (RI). Krolt oversaw both of these operations, insuring that each branch received whatever they needed to expedite their discoveries and advancements.
Before he died, Krolt laid the groundwork for the mining operation that in later years would become known as The Reshtarc Mine and Excavation Enterprise (RMEE). The original mining operation was considered both a part of RSS and OPF, and the mining operations supervisor, Mahl tai-Reshtarc reported to both Krioch and Vargon.
Krolt was killed in 2063, hunting a L'Eght beast in a forest some miles from RSS. Krolt's only son, K'Maal tai-Reshtarc was only twenty one years of age when he took the title "Lord of the Line". He ruled the Line with an iron fist, and under his guidance and strong prejudicial influences, the House began to slowly develop its intolerance toward other races and its arrogant attitude.
This shift in temperament was visible throughout RI; K'Maal had no tolerance for a lack of results. He demanded immediate results on all tasks, no matter how large or small the undertaking.
K'Maal also opened up another branch of RI, and he gave it an autonomous reign in the specialized area of advanced weaponry. K'Maal appointed an administrator to this division, Nargoth tai-Reshtarc, and he reported only to K'Maal.
This infuriated Krioch (RSS), Vargon (OPF) and Mahl the mining operations supervisor. Their strategy of working in unison had greatly increased both productivity and morale in all three operations. To add further agitation, K'Maal granted Nargoth every possible consideration to insure his division both ran smoothly and produced tactical results. It was obvious K'Maal was not interested in "scientific research" but in cold hard results which usually yielded weaponry advancements.
And that was what Nargoth's area produced.
It was understood that after K'Maal created this new, seemingly covert division, one of Krioch's engineers was heard to mutter under his breath, "If it wasn't for Kelrik's time consuming research in producing the faster-than-light engine, K'Maal would be walking to planets he plans to conquer." That engineer was never seen or heard from again.
While Krioch tried to make the warp engines even faster and more efficient, Vargon was stricken with the task of altering all of his current vessel designs (sometimes during the construction phase) in order to accommodate the weapons Nargoth was designing. Mahl was ordered by K'Maal to extract more dilithium for Nargoth, but no reason was forthcoming. All three of the RI Managers had to drive their personnel mercilessly to produce for K'Maal.
Eventually the work of the RI teams became slovenly and slipshod, and the Tyrant of Mempa relieved all three managers of their administrative and functional duties. He reassigned them to his first invasion force against the Kelranni at Beta Kel in 2076. Krioch, Vargon and Mahl were killed when a baffle plate ruptured on the Tyrant's Fury, an ancient Bird of Prey they were serving aboard. The incendiary delta ray flash practically boiled them to the deckplates and bulkheads where they worked in the small engineering spaces. No honors were bestowed upon these three loyal servants of the House Reshtarc, but their names will never be forgotten.
K 'Maal replaced the three RI managers with hand picked men who he placed under his direct control. Kodon tai-Reshtarc took managerial control of RSS; Khard tai-Reshtarc was placed in charge of the OPF; and Gharn Reshtarc was the overseer of the mining operation (Nargoth's covert weapons division was unaffected during all of this inner turmoil and administrative turnover). With his three "overseers" in place, K'Maal indirectly controlled all of Reshtarc Industries. This was the turning point of RI's research and development program.
It was during the Kelranni Wars that the OPF completed its first new vessel of an entirely new class. The Class D6 Battle Cruiser was the finished product of Vargon's best designs. The vessel was named the IKV Stormbringer and was laden with the most powerful weapons yet to be installed on any warship of the Klingon Navy.
K'Maal himself led the final stage of the invasion of Beta Kel from the bridge of the newly finished Stormbringer.
The scientists at RSS reached a new plateau and were producing incredibly efficient oscillation drivers. The new drivers were not necessarily faster (the vessels still traversed space at 2.2 times the speed of light), but their proficiency ratings and total power output ratings allowed longer deep space raiding parties with standard fuel loads and stored enough reserve power to operate prime systems on the ships.
Gharn's mining operation quarried deep into the depths of Behacor Prime extracting new metal elements that could be used by Khard in the OPF for the building of the Navy's ships. The miners also found veins of pure dilithium, that Kodon used to more tightly focus the antimatter streams in the oscillation engine.
In 2080 the mining operation expanded off-world, to the nearby planet Behacor Minor, which orbited the same spectral class F3 star as Behacor Prime. Within two years of relocation, the mining project produced unparalleled results in their monthly yields.
Nargoth and his engineers were also making advancements for K'Maal at their weapons research facility. The J-48 Pulse Disruptor was the first heavy disruptor to be installed on a Klingon warship. The J-48 was comprised of four emitter segments is a dense linear arrangement for optimal control of firing order, thermal discharge, field halos reduction (amounting to reduced interference) and concise target impact.
Reshtarc Industries was emerging as the technological leader of all the Houses of the Empire.
B efore he turned the Line Leadership over to his son in 2097, K'Maal opened another specialty branch of RI devoted entirely to the development and implementation of defensive systems. As before, the organization reported to only the Line Lord. Procurement of any raw materials was given priority over all other subsidiaries. Shagrat tai-Reshtarc was to oversee this new operation, and K'Maal warned him at the outset, that results were paramount.
For many years the organizational structure of Reshtarc Industries was kept thus, with each of the four main components of the organization keeping a strictly independent doctrine.
K'Nesk tai-Reshtarc took control of the line from his father K'Maal in 2097, and did little to upset the fine balance the K'Maal unwittingly created. By keeping the divisions separate, he created an environment of competition where each division tried to surpass the other in new developments although occasionally some internal espionage cases materialized.
Kodon's research team continued their development of the oscillation engine/warp drive through the year 2120. Although greater velocity was becoming more difficult to obtain, the uses of the waste energy from the matter/antimatter reactions were harnessed efficiently enough to power the entire primary network of systems on the vessels they served. Plasma diversion from the conduits was attained by passing the energy stream through a manifold system that extracted the exact amounts of energy needed to supplant the operation of primary systems.
The new amounts of excess power allowed for greater strength of defensive shields and offensive weaponry.
When the Jahzil War started in 2112, the Empire's vessels had been using standard harmonic shield generation to protect their vessel. By 2120, Empire and Reshtarc vessels were undergoing a basic shift in defensive screen technology. The added power from the manifold system allowed the Reshtarc engineers to remove the harmonic shielding generators that had been used for the past seventy five years and install spatial distortion generators that operated within the confines of an energetic graviton field. This new shielding generation system rendered all harmonic disruption weapons obsolete and at the Battle of Gamma Eriadon Grand Admiral B'Ragh tai-Solazarn defeated the Jahzil Navy. Nearly one hundred of the two hundred assembled warships were armed with new defensive shielding. It was the deciding factor in the Jahzil War.
The Jahzil War had placed a great strain on RI. All available resources and materials were being gathered for the war effort, and many of the engineers and scientists heeded the war call of their brothers and left Behacor Prime to fight for the Empire and the House.
Kodon, Khard, Nargoth and Shagrat all left their posts on Behacor Prime to join their Line Lord K'Nesk tai-Reshtarc in the fight against the Jahzil. Unfortunately, K'Nesk was killed along with divisional managers in 2116 when his D6 Battle Cruiser was attacked by two Jahzil Heavy Assault Warship and destroyed.
After the Jahzil War, the new Line Lord, K'VeHk zantai-Reshtarc, used the interlude of inaction to increase and streamline Reshtarc Industries economic base. He encouraged each of the subsidies to work together and since the collective deaths of the seasoned managers, the new department heads did just that.
Since the inception of House Reshtarc, armaments has been their sole business. Following the bloody coup of 2369, K'Paal ordered a realignment of the family owned Reshtarc Industries.
K'Paal organized the multi-faceted operation into one giant corporation protected under the new aegis Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited (ReCAL). In the past each individual operation was run independent of each other. The dilithium mining operation became The Reshtarc Mine & Excavation Enterprise (RMEE). Aside from mining dilithium, RMEE mined for duranium, tritanium, and terminium, as well as other metals needed for the various branches of ReCAL.
The weapons/defense division of ReCAL came under the new section title: Reshtarc Advanced Weaponry (RAW). After many years of struggling with no direction, K'Paal removed the added defensive technology development from RAW, and pointed the section's new focus on weapons development and advancement only.
The splintered defense department also was renamed and basically reborn. Reshtarc Defensive Advancements (RDA) was now an entirely new division, devoted solely to development of defensive systems on both the vessel and planetary scale.
After abolishing these antiquated management practices, K'Paal's new strategy immediately forged a stronger centrally controlled corporation, and instilled a renewed sense of pride in the company.
In another of his many shrewd transactions aimed at increasing productivity and performance, K'Paal also tied the Military Academies to the ReCAL corporation by offering "hands on training" at the House's many facilities on Behacor Prime and throughout the Mempa Sector.
K'Paal infused the slowly declining Reshtarc industrial base with new blood and more dynamic leadership. In 2970 he dismissed the former Chief Engineer K'shek and replaced him with friend and ally K'Jev sutai-Reshtarc.
K'Jev sutai-Reshtarc was a bold, young engineer whose work on several secret House projects distinguished him as one of the Empire's best and most innovative engineers. K'Jev immediately set about refining the existing Klingon weapons technology and designing new and better weapons with which the Empire could defend itself. The J-72 project and the Vor'cha-S Class Attack Cruiser were a result of the new spirit at ReCAL.
K'Paal could now turn his attention to other matters on hand. The year 2970 marked the end of the Imperial lease on the use of the Mempa Shipyards, the single largest vessel servicing hub in the Empire. K'Paal decided against signing a new lease and proposed a limited lease on several of the slips. He further demanded and received a new weapons contract from the Empire.
Armed with the new contract and lease he added six more service slips to the yard bringing the total of docks to forty one including two for the new class of Negh'Var Battleships and two for the new Voodieh Battleship. Currently ten of the slips are devoted to the construction of Vor'cha-S Class Attack Cruisers.
The other twenty nine are devoted to repair and upgrade facilities for fleet and line vessels. The Reshtarc control of seventy-five percent of offensive/defensive weapons and their control systems gives the family a unique niche within the Klingon Empire. The closet Federation equivalent to the massive efficiency of the new ReCAL would have been the Krupp Steel Works from the early 20th century which provided the country called Germany with a large part of its armaments in Three World Wars.
The central location of the Mempa Sector is a main reason for the success of ReCAL. The Mempa sector is close to both Qo'noS and yet is far enough away from borders to allow for easy defense. ReCAL transfers all its weapons from this location to the other Houses as well as to other Imperial shipyards.
Tied into the framework of ReCAL, the shipping and merchant fleet is under the steady directorship of Lieutenant Commander Korvette sutai-Reshtarc. The merchant fleet is comprised of one hundred armed Merchantmen of the Targ and H'egH classes. The Merchant force also doubles as reserve Troop transports in time of war.
The thirty six major worlds and forty seven moons which make up the Western Central Core of the Reshtarc Holdings also provide valuable resources. A powerful chain of dilithium mine and refinement plants are sprinkled throughout these core systems and are all operated by RMEE.
Another twenty seven worlds and nineteen moons make up smaller holdings which border on Federation and Romulan space. Huluk 9 which is located near Romulan space provides the Empire with a rich source of duranium and radonium 5, a prime metal for use in the new ablative armors and needed by RDA.
A consortium made up of metallurgists from the Reshtarc and Gholjub lines are exploring many sources of rare metals and minerals for Imperial use. The current state of ReCAL has also been augmented by an Industrial joining with the allied houses of the Lorenssith and the Gholjub. This alliance with one of the major shipbuilders and a powerful mining and metallurgy House provide the three major stability in a time when stability is needed.
The Behacor Prime Orbital Fabrication Facility is the headquarters for most of ReCAL's research and development. Here the very first Vor'cha-S Class Attack Cruiser was developed and built. The original name of the test vehicle was changed from the Dissident Aggressor to the Stormbringer. The facility is also where many of the improved weapons are tested and then installed.
The growth and expansion of the Reshtarc industrial base remains to be seen. The loss of these facilities in war would handicap the Empire, so the family has seen fit to station a powerful fleet within striking distance of any of its key locations. The Imperial Navy also provides five ships whose only purpose is to defend the Shipyards and Behacor Prime.
From the Historic Memos Department
T he following documented memo was found among a large accumulation of discarded communications. It represents the essence and spirit of ReCAL's history of innovations and new technology. The original proposal was written by K'Jev sutai-Reshtarc, the Chief Engineer of the IKV Stormbringer, and forwarded to K'joH sutai-Reshtarc, then Executive Officer of the Stormbringer. K'Jev, while still the Chief Engineer of the Stormbringer, has been promoted by K'Paal sutai-Reshtarc to the President of Product Development of ReCAL. K'Jev also wrote the definitive manual for both the Vor'cha and Vor'cha-S Class Attack Cruisers, thus earning his honorific sutai. K'joH has taken over the command of the Stormbringer, replacing K'Paal who is now in command of the IKV Dissident Aggressor.
This historical document is one of the first signs the resurgence in the production capabilities of ReCAL. Other memos followed, showcasing newer, state of the art ideas that eventually became reality for ReCAL, the Reshtarc Family and the Empire.
To: K'joH tai-Reshtarc, Executive Officer, IKV Stormbringer
From: K'Jev Reshtarc, Chief Engineer, IKV Stormbringer
Subject: New Weapon Development
StarDate: 9502.05
I offer the following scenario :
"A K22 B'rel Class Bird of Prey Scout Ship of the Klingon Defense Force is under attack by a Romulan D'deridex class Warbird. The Romulan ship is much larger and far superior to the KDF scout ship. The Romulan ship is operating with full impulse power and his shields and weapons are at maximum strength, continually and mercilessly bombarding the KDF scout ship. The Bird of Prey is letting loose volley after volley of disruptor fire, but in its weakened condition there is not enough excess power to strengthen the force of the weapons. Sensing victory, the Romulan Warbird moves in for the kill. The Commanding Officer of the Bird of Prey orders his Tactical Officer to first: target the heavy assault cruiser's main reactor and second: fire a single torpedo. The commander of the Romulan vessel laughs, secure in the knowledge that it will take more than a single photon torpedo to beat down his shields which are operating at 100% efficiency. His smile quickly fades, however, as he realizes the torpedo did not impact on the impenetrable defensive screens, but instead, has just passed through his vessel's shields to detonate against the hull of his far superior ship. In an instant, the ensuing explosion turns the Romulan Warbird into little more than millions of superheated glowing metal fragments."
It may appear like I've been spending my off duty hours staying up late with an open flask of warm warnog, but I assure you, in the near future this scenario may actually take place.
Let me explain . . .
Not long ago, the United Federation of Planets and the Imperial Klingon Government commissioned a group comprised of Starfleet scientists, working in conjunction with the Klingon Engineering Division of the military, to produce a new sensor probe. The combined team of Starfleet and Klingon scientists and engineers designed the remarkable instrumentation array designated as the Planetary Survey Device. The Planetary Survey Device is a deep space probe, originally designed to survey lifeless planets for crystal dilithium and its more elusive counterpart, trilithium. The Planetary Survey Device utilized an advanced array of scanners, sensors and computer equipment to accomplish this unique task.
The Planetary Survey Device was designed and constructed to be launched from a scientific research platform or vessel into, as yet, unexplored regions of the galaxy. To be more accurate, the probe's primary functions included the cataloguing of uncharted, unknown systems and the systematic investigation of every celestial body in that designated system for dilithium or trilithium, while transferring all accumulated data back to either the research vessel or scientific research platform from where it was launched. The Planetary Survey Device's electronic computer systems were incorporated into the housing of a Federation Class IX Long-Range Multimission Warp Probe, complete with a matter/antimatter warp field sustainer engine capable of a top speed of warp factor 9 for a duration of twelve hours. A reserve fuel supply was also installed in the probe's casing, enabling the probe to travel at warp factor 8 for a maximum of fourteen days. The research team chose the Federation Class IX probe housing due to its excellent interior shielding and the exceptional stress limit resistance of the outer casing.
The hardware installed in this probe is in the very early stage of development and it is state of the art. The primary computer core system is based on the Federation standard computer system architecture, which Starfleet employs in all of its vessels, research or otherwise. It is the first scientific research probe of its kind to employ the newly developed microminiaturization replication --microrep-- process. There are two microrep main core elements which incorporate a series of microrep subspace field generators, creating a nonpropulsive but powerful symmetrical subspace field distortion of 335 millicochranes inside the faster than light --FTL-- core element. This allows for data processing and organization at a rate of speed much faster than lightspeed. The FTL nanoprocessor units are arranged into optical transtator clusters of 102 segments. The clusters are cataloged into processing modules made up of 26 clusters controlled by 2 isolinear chips. Memory storage for the main computer core is provided by 205 dedicated modules comprised of 15 isolinear optical storage chips. Dynamic access to I/O memory storage is 460 kiloquads per second. Total memory storage of each module is approximately 63,000 kiloquads.
Actual field performance numbers may vary, as the microminiaturization replication process is still in an embryonic stage. As the process is refined and the miniaturized hardware replication process is improved, the performance estimations may escalate upwards 50 to 75 percent of current Federation standards.
So far this sounds fairly routine, a mission for which any number of probes could have been reconfigured. In that respect, your assumption would be correct.
This particular probe, however, was designed to operate within close proximity to collapsing stars and solitary event horizon singularities (black holes): areas of space containing so much electromagnetic and subspace interference and radiation that it would be impossible for a standard probe to scan beyond the subspace static boundary to the surface of the planet and produce any kind of accurate readings or measurements.
These naturally occurring events are not the only major problems encountered in such regions of space. Any planet near such a phenomenon will be subject to an increased amount of subspace interference: the interference caused by the event --say the massive radiation produced by a recently formed giant singularity-- combined with the target planet's own varying range of naturally occurring EM radiation frequency emissions can wreak havoc with ordinary sensor readings and equipment.
The main sensor array of the Planetary Survey Device employs a Three Dimensional Transverse Harmonic Pulse emitted in the form of a Concentrated Diffraction Carrier Wave. When the probe has reached the optimal scanning distance to its intended target, the 3-Dimensional Transverse Harmonic Pulse is emitted within the Concentrated Diffraction Carrier Wave. When the carrier wave encounters the planet's primary EM frequency interference, the information is carried back to the probe's computer core and analyzed by the Distortion Property Duplication software. The data containing the nature of the EM static distortions from the first emitted pulse is processed until an EM frequency with the identical physical properties is found. The 3-Dimensional Transverse Harmonic Pulse is again emitted within the protection of the Concentrated Diffraction Carrier Wave, only this time the pulse is carried on an equal frequency that conforms to the naturally occurring EM radiation. In essence, a null zone is created by the matching frequencies, allowing the 3-Dimensional Transverse Harmonic Pulse to penetrate the natural interference and successfully scan the planet for dilithium and trilithium.
The frequency duplication process takes approximately 1.5 seconds depending on the interference content of the immediate area.
Now listen to this carefully:
If the Planetary Survey Device's scanning array is able to match and produce an electronic pulse wave with the same properties as naturally occurring interference from a singularity or a collapsing star in order to successfully scan a planet's surface, what is preventing the use of that same technology from allowing a photon torpedo to pass unencumbered through an opponents fully functional shielding by creating a null zone in their defensive screens?
The same microrep components with complete Distortion Property Duplication software could theoretically be incorporated into the targeting and tracking system hardware of a photon torpedo, along with a graviton polarity generator and a field distortion amplifier. The torpedo's main computer systems would have to be reprogrammed to emit the 3-Dimensional Transverse Harmonic Pulse signal when the torpedo is launched at its locked target. When the Concentrated Diffraction Carrier Wave bounces off of the deflectors, the statistical data returning to the torpedo would be processed by the Distortion Property Duplication software, only this time when a matching frequency is found, the graviton polarity generator and field distortion amplifier of the torpedo would generate a subspace distortion field of the same frequency with the same distinct physical properties. Using small conformal transmission grids mounted on the casing of the torpedo, the newly generated distortion field would follow the basic oblong shape of the torpedo: conical at the primary impact point. When the torpedo comes into contact with the shields, there would be a small Cerenkov radiation discharge as it passes through the null zone before detonating against the primary hull of the ship.
This has a twofold effect, one: there is no lessening of ordinance discharge, as the torpedo does not have to beat the shields down, and two: the shields contain the force of the detonation, as the torpedo has now discharged inside the shields, causing a violent shock wave that would crush the ship.
This is a rather large speculation, and there are many factors that have not been taken into account, such as randomized shield frequency nutations, relative warp velocity before impact, torpedo ordinance capacity and the maximum sustainable damage of the target vessel's structural integrity field before a major malfunction. These are aspects which I am currently modeling on the engineering computer.
As far as the theory behind such a torpedo goes, I believe I have constructed various computer simulations using all the known design parameters of the Planetary Survey Device--which has accurately demonstrated that a torpedo with such an instrumentation array can actually, theoretically work.
I seek only your approval before continuing with my work.
This memo from K'Jev sutai-Reshtarc had a monumental effect on Klingon warfare, especially in the Empire's never ending battle with the Kinshaya. Early models of the Plasma Nutation Torpedo (PNT-1) proved to be a almost useless, as the enemy's shield harmonic frequency was needed to preprogram the torpedo shield frequency.
In late 2370, a member of the Duras family infiltrated ReCAL and using an invasive worm program, downloaded the schematics for the original version of the PNT-1. Lursa and B'Etor used the technology to attack the Federation Starship USS Enterprise and destroy it. Before they could begin their attack, they were able to obtain the shield harmonic frequency of the Galaxy Class Starship and start their attack. (They were destroyed in the process, by a single torpedo that impacted on their warp core, obliterating their vessel.)
It took K'Jev roughly three years of trial and error to perfect this weapon, mostly because during three quarters of the development and testing stages, he was stationed on the IKV Stormbringer, serving as that mighty vessel's Chief Engineer. The PNT-1 was first successfully used to detect and penetrate and enemies shields in 2372 during the Riva 4 conflict against the Cardassians and the Eldrun.
The PNT-1 is now standard equipment on all house vessels including the new Voodieh Class Battleship (fabricated by ReCAL).
For all the great achievements lauded to this weapon, there are some members of the Council who see it as an honorless way to achieve victory.
From The Historic Advertisements Department
B efore K'Paal sutai-Reshtarc assumed control over the Reshtarc Family holdings and ReCAL, ReCAL did little to self-promote itself and the conglomerate that it was. After organizing the corporate infrastructure into manageable subsidiaries, K'Paal set his sights on an aggressive marketing campaign; one that would flood the target market of all ReCAL's specialty divisions and start to bring in much needed credit for the business.
The Reshtarc Family sunk much of its own credit into rejuvenating ReCAL, in the hopes that the through non-stop research and development and technical innovations their original capital investment would be recovered by more than double.
From time to time, ReCAL has advertised some of its more powerful and innovative breakthroughs, such as the A.T.E.X.� software system, the B'rel-S Class Advanced Scout Ship and the Vor'cha-S Class Attack Cruiser (although the Vor'cha-S was only offered to those of the Reshtarc Family).
Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited:
75% of Imperial offensive and defensive weaponry
10% of Imperial ship producing capacity
The Reshtarc are also known to harbor a pure hatred for non-Imperial entities within the Empire itself. Currently these hatreds have been put aside in favor of the traditional enemies of the Empire. The ensuing collapse of the Federation and Klingon Alliance has also renewed Reshtarc industry .
Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited is now working in conjunction with Lorenssith Works and the Gholjub Line to produce a massive military force, unparalleled since the height of the Empire's Outward Expansion Policy. Currently the combined output of these three houses amounts to roughly 63% of Imperial armaments production. Intelligence reports that this conglomeration is producing 25 vessels per month for Imperial use.
The current rate of Imperial Fleet expansion will place the active fleet at over 500 vessels before the end of the next stellar year. The most recent Imperial Fleet estimate is about 265 vessels (this figure does not include House or reserve fleets).
Acronyms:
KUS - Klingon Ultradyne Systems
RI - Reshtarc Industries
RSS - Reshtarc Research Station
OFP - Orbital Production Facility
ReCAL - Reshtarc Combined Arms Limited
RMEE - Reshtarc Mine & Excavation Enterprises
RAW - Reshtarc Advanced Weaponry
RDA - Reshtarc Defensive Advancements
Important Personalities:
Kelrik epetai-Reshtarc - RI
Krioch tai-Reshtarc - RSS
Vargon tai-Reshtarc - OPF
Mahl reshtarc - RMEE
Kodon tai-Reshtarc - RSS
Khard tai-Reshtarc - OPF
Gharn Reshtarc - RMEE
Nargoth tai-Reshtarc - RAW
Shagrat tai-Reshtarc - RDA
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