This is a place to discuss, review and possible ask for revisions (but I hope it won't be necessary) on my Ocampa backstory.
Original discuss can be found here:
www.trekbbs.com
I will publish everything I write in this project. You may here:
-Asks for revisions if you do not want your contribution to be used (or used this way), but I hope it will not be necessary
-Review what I wrote
-Asks questions
-Give me new ideas (although you may do it in the original thread as well)
-Make general discussions on any subject brought up
Everyone is invited.
People who contributed to the original thread:
Akiraprise
Lynx (special thanks for great help and good discussion)
Guy Gardener
at Quark's
hbquikcomjamesl
Here is the first part (it is a general overwiev. It is also pretty unusual, but I think nothing contradicts it in canon. And it's a nice similarity to Bajorans)
Ocampa history and legends
“For we are more and we go further than it seems. A lot have been called “legends”, and even more have faded into completely forgotten realm. We had more impact than we ever realized.” - Kes of Ocampa
Historical overview of the Ocampa
The Ocampa evolved in a system close to the galactic border, orbiting a yellow, bright star. When life was ready to emerge on that planet, an old, advanced civilization known as the Precursors seeded it with their own genome, causing life to evolve in their image. On Ocampa, life evolved even more similar to that on their homeworld than on most planets where their life was seeded.
Planet was very hospitable for life. It soon emerged from the few oceans and taken over the planet, with lush forest covering it, with the exception of a few deserts, although different forests were in different climates. Animal life that evolved on the planet was very varied, big and small, carnivore and herbivore, but all had one feature: ability to form emphatic connections with others. And in this environment, the Ocampa evolved.
At the time, they were developing at normal rates and had multiple birth periods. They had the strongest ability to form emphatic connections of all beings on the planet. They even could form them with members of other species. They used this ability to tame animals for numerous uses. It also was a driving force behind formation of the Ocampa civilization, as the thirst for emphatic bonds drove them to create even greater communities. Bonds also increased intelligence, morale and productivity of all Ocampa involved, and crime was nonexistent. But even those within them retained their individuality and had free will. They could leave at any time and rejoin when they wanted. No one was ever forced either way, because forcing someone to enter a bond or stay there would create suffering within the bond, and denying someone this what the Ocampa called “natural right” was unthinkable.
They created a great civilization, but still in harmony with nature, with the main industry placed in the deserts. But, in time, they wanted to extend their bonds to other civilizations, other species, from other planets. They created first starships in their deserts, and set out to explore their star system. They found 4 Ocampa - like planets between their own and their star, but only one, the second from the star, was colonizable, if still rather cold and mostly frozen. But a gas giant behind their planet was another story. They quickly found out that gasses it was made of could be used as fuel in drives that allowed ships to bend space and travel faster than light. The Ocampa then set out to explore space, colonize planets and meet new species. To every planet they claimed, they brought their own plants and animals. This included a plant later known as “Leola roots”, which was their main food source. Today, often presence of this plant on a planet is the only indicator that the planet once housed an Ocampa colony.
When they met other species, they first evaluated them. If they were deemed aggressive, automated probes were left to guard them and warn others about them. If they were deemed peaceful, the Ocampa came to them, teached them about many things and, sometimes, allowed them into their bonds. Soon, a government was established, known as “Ocampa Star Empires”. It was a benevolent empire, working to benefit of everyone in it, and to isolate (but not destroy) every dangerous species, allowing everyone else to flourish. It ruled a vast expanse of space, ending where later “Nekrit Expanse” was.
During one expedition outside the empire, a group of Ocampa found a planet devastated by war between two factions of energy beings. The Ocampa attempted to broker peace, but were rejected. For the first time then, the Ocampa used their powers for war, and drove the beings off planet. These beings later became known as the Prophets and the Page - Wraiths, after they established a new home in a wormhole they created.
For centuries afterward, the Ocampa and their subjects thrived in peace. It ended abruptly when a particle was discovered, a particle extremely powerful, which could power entire civilizations… or destroy the ability to travel faster than light, forever. A civilization was found using them, and the Ocampa demanded they give them over, for them to be destroyed. Their enemies declined and the Ocampa took the particles by force. The civilization retaliated by launching a massive war against the Ocampa Empire. During the years of war, most of it was devastated. The enemies released the imprisoned aggressive species, and set them against the Ocampa. In a bid to produce more soldiers for themselves, the Ocampa modified themselves to grow quicker, much quicker, and the price of quality and long - term reproductive ability. Not only were they now only capable of having children once (through they usually had at least four), but their lifespan was drastically reduced. But even that failed. They were driven back to their homeworld, and their enemies were closing. In a bid to save themselves, all Ocampa on the homeworld participated in a ritual that combined their forces into one, and destroyed most of their enemies, and stranded all others without faster than light travel for many years. The remnants of their original enemies later created the Borg Collective, as a perversion of and to slide on the Ocampan community bonds.
But the ritual attracted the attention of the Nacene, who came to investigate. Their arrival destroyed all orbital infrastructure of the Ocampa system, and their technology changed the atmosphere of the Ocampa, making it unable to form water. It also killed most of the surviving Ocampa.
The Nacene realize their mistake. As the previously thriving environment of the planet was being devastated, they created an underground city and led the surviving Ocampa there. They were provided everything they needed, and then sealed off there, saving them. Two Nacene then stayed there, in an array that was in the system, to care for them. The others departed.
The Ocampa realized that their thirst for bonds led to this disaster. They severed most of them, and promised that only mates would establish stable bonds from now on. In time, the power of these bonds, and any temporary bonds, was greatly reduced, and tales of the Ocampa empire faded into obscurity. Only a few Ocampa knew it, and it was told from generation to generation in these families.
Vast knowledge of the Ocampa was sealed off in the forgotten library. It was only Kes that opened it, and learned all of it. A few legends survived of the surface, but they all told the tales from before the empire. Outside the planet, surviving Ocampa merged with local populations. In times, they forget their origin, but most emphatic species of the Delta Quadrant has some Ocampan ancestors. And the Leola roots still showed where the Ocampa once ruled.
One Nacene, Suspiria, eventually took the most gifted Ocampa and went on to establish a separate colony. But, on the homeworld, it wasn't until their Nacene, the Caretaker, discovered he was dying that anything changed. During his last years, Kes was born. She always wanted to go to the surface, which she believed in. She felt the call that once drove her ancestors into the stars. She got to the surface, and eventually got her wish. She managed to join the crew of Voyager, one ship that as brought here bu the Caretaker, on it’s way home. She was the first Ocampa since the war to travel beyond the Nektrit Expanse, a region once created by the Ocampa in desperate effort to stop their enemies. It failed then, but, since then, it kept the remnants of these enemies, the Borg, away from the space of what once was the Ocampa Star Empire. Following Kes, many other Ocampa later got out, took Kazon ships and began to reestablish itself in space. There were some problems with the Kazon, but, in the end, they were victorious. They also found a way to reverse changes in their biology, and to bring life to the surface once more. Fifty human years after the Caretaker died, lush forests were on the planet once again.
Original discuss can be found here:
Ocampa (Kes) ideas
Hello everyone; I am currently working on preparing to write a fanfiction about the Ocampa species and civilization, their culture, legends and past. I do intend for it to confirm to what was in the shows at the moment of it's writings, but there is preciously little about it. We know somewhat...
www.trekbbs.com
I will publish everything I write in this project. You may here:
-Asks for revisions if you do not want your contribution to be used (or used this way), but I hope it will not be necessary
-Review what I wrote
-Asks questions
-Give me new ideas (although you may do it in the original thread as well)
-Make general discussions on any subject brought up
Everyone is invited.
People who contributed to the original thread:
Akiraprise
Lynx (special thanks for great help and good discussion)
Guy Gardener
at Quark's
hbquikcomjamesl
Here is the first part (it is a general overwiev. It is also pretty unusual, but I think nothing contradicts it in canon. And it's a nice similarity to Bajorans)
Ocampa history and legends
“For we are more and we go further than it seems. A lot have been called “legends”, and even more have faded into completely forgotten realm. We had more impact than we ever realized.” - Kes of Ocampa
Historical overview of the Ocampa
The Ocampa evolved in a system close to the galactic border, orbiting a yellow, bright star. When life was ready to emerge on that planet, an old, advanced civilization known as the Precursors seeded it with their own genome, causing life to evolve in their image. On Ocampa, life evolved even more similar to that on their homeworld than on most planets where their life was seeded.
Planet was very hospitable for life. It soon emerged from the few oceans and taken over the planet, with lush forest covering it, with the exception of a few deserts, although different forests were in different climates. Animal life that evolved on the planet was very varied, big and small, carnivore and herbivore, but all had one feature: ability to form emphatic connections with others. And in this environment, the Ocampa evolved.
At the time, they were developing at normal rates and had multiple birth periods. They had the strongest ability to form emphatic connections of all beings on the planet. They even could form them with members of other species. They used this ability to tame animals for numerous uses. It also was a driving force behind formation of the Ocampa civilization, as the thirst for emphatic bonds drove them to create even greater communities. Bonds also increased intelligence, morale and productivity of all Ocampa involved, and crime was nonexistent. But even those within them retained their individuality and had free will. They could leave at any time and rejoin when they wanted. No one was ever forced either way, because forcing someone to enter a bond or stay there would create suffering within the bond, and denying someone this what the Ocampa called “natural right” was unthinkable.
They created a great civilization, but still in harmony with nature, with the main industry placed in the deserts. But, in time, they wanted to extend their bonds to other civilizations, other species, from other planets. They created first starships in their deserts, and set out to explore their star system. They found 4 Ocampa - like planets between their own and their star, but only one, the second from the star, was colonizable, if still rather cold and mostly frozen. But a gas giant behind their planet was another story. They quickly found out that gasses it was made of could be used as fuel in drives that allowed ships to bend space and travel faster than light. The Ocampa then set out to explore space, colonize planets and meet new species. To every planet they claimed, they brought their own plants and animals. This included a plant later known as “Leola roots”, which was their main food source. Today, often presence of this plant on a planet is the only indicator that the planet once housed an Ocampa colony.
When they met other species, they first evaluated them. If they were deemed aggressive, automated probes were left to guard them and warn others about them. If they were deemed peaceful, the Ocampa came to them, teached them about many things and, sometimes, allowed them into their bonds. Soon, a government was established, known as “Ocampa Star Empires”. It was a benevolent empire, working to benefit of everyone in it, and to isolate (but not destroy) every dangerous species, allowing everyone else to flourish. It ruled a vast expanse of space, ending where later “Nekrit Expanse” was.
During one expedition outside the empire, a group of Ocampa found a planet devastated by war between two factions of energy beings. The Ocampa attempted to broker peace, but were rejected. For the first time then, the Ocampa used their powers for war, and drove the beings off planet. These beings later became known as the Prophets and the Page - Wraiths, after they established a new home in a wormhole they created.
For centuries afterward, the Ocampa and their subjects thrived in peace. It ended abruptly when a particle was discovered, a particle extremely powerful, which could power entire civilizations… or destroy the ability to travel faster than light, forever. A civilization was found using them, and the Ocampa demanded they give them over, for them to be destroyed. Their enemies declined and the Ocampa took the particles by force. The civilization retaliated by launching a massive war against the Ocampa Empire. During the years of war, most of it was devastated. The enemies released the imprisoned aggressive species, and set them against the Ocampa. In a bid to produce more soldiers for themselves, the Ocampa modified themselves to grow quicker, much quicker, and the price of quality and long - term reproductive ability. Not only were they now only capable of having children once (through they usually had at least four), but their lifespan was drastically reduced. But even that failed. They were driven back to their homeworld, and their enemies were closing. In a bid to save themselves, all Ocampa on the homeworld participated in a ritual that combined their forces into one, and destroyed most of their enemies, and stranded all others without faster than light travel for many years. The remnants of their original enemies later created the Borg Collective, as a perversion of and to slide on the Ocampan community bonds.
But the ritual attracted the attention of the Nacene, who came to investigate. Their arrival destroyed all orbital infrastructure of the Ocampa system, and their technology changed the atmosphere of the Ocampa, making it unable to form water. It also killed most of the surviving Ocampa.
The Nacene realize their mistake. As the previously thriving environment of the planet was being devastated, they created an underground city and led the surviving Ocampa there. They were provided everything they needed, and then sealed off there, saving them. Two Nacene then stayed there, in an array that was in the system, to care for them. The others departed.
The Ocampa realized that their thirst for bonds led to this disaster. They severed most of them, and promised that only mates would establish stable bonds from now on. In time, the power of these bonds, and any temporary bonds, was greatly reduced, and tales of the Ocampa empire faded into obscurity. Only a few Ocampa knew it, and it was told from generation to generation in these families.
Vast knowledge of the Ocampa was sealed off in the forgotten library. It was only Kes that opened it, and learned all of it. A few legends survived of the surface, but they all told the tales from before the empire. Outside the planet, surviving Ocampa merged with local populations. In times, they forget their origin, but most emphatic species of the Delta Quadrant has some Ocampan ancestors. And the Leola roots still showed where the Ocampa once ruled.
One Nacene, Suspiria, eventually took the most gifted Ocampa and went on to establish a separate colony. But, on the homeworld, it wasn't until their Nacene, the Caretaker, discovered he was dying that anything changed. During his last years, Kes was born. She always wanted to go to the surface, which she believed in. She felt the call that once drove her ancestors into the stars. She got to the surface, and eventually got her wish. She managed to join the crew of Voyager, one ship that as brought here bu the Caretaker, on it’s way home. She was the first Ocampa since the war to travel beyond the Nektrit Expanse, a region once created by the Ocampa in desperate effort to stop their enemies. It failed then, but, since then, it kept the remnants of these enemies, the Borg, away from the space of what once was the Ocampa Star Empire. Following Kes, many other Ocampa later got out, took Kazon ships and began to reestablish itself in space. There were some problems with the Kazon, but, in the end, they were victorious. They also found a way to reverse changes in their biology, and to bring life to the surface once more. Fifty human years after the Caretaker died, lush forests were on the planet once again.
