Skagaran
History:
A once-spacefaring race who were of humanoid appearance, but with distinctive markings on the
forward temples and nodular features on the throat and earlobes. They visited Earth in the 18th Century and abducted a party of
humans from the US Wild West to serve as slaves on a distant planet. Whether this was the Skagaran homeworld or merely a colony is
not clear. The latter is unlikely as no other Skagaran ships appear to have visited the world in hundreds of years.
The humans
overthrew their masters, some time thereafter, establishing a new hierarchy with the Skagarans at the very bottom. It was deemed
illegal to educate Skagaran children and the adults were assigned menial tasks. They were subject to bullying, brutal punishment and
were hanged for minor misdemeanours.
Over the following three hundred years, there seems to have been little in the way of
technological progress, as when Enterprise NX-01 visited the planet in 2153 the people were still living a simple, frontier town
existence. Following the visit, the humans made some concessions to the Skagarans, even allowing their children to be taught.
ENT "North Star"
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