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The Kyekna, herbivorous, reclusive, and defensive by nature, were reaching towards the stars, and the obvious planet to colonize would be their binary orbiting neighbor, Kalkak.

Led by Emperor Kzekmah, an unforgiving, strong leader, the Kyekna had attempted to colonize the planet and establish peaceful relations with the Karkal. The Kyekna use Ionic weaponry, doing high damage to enemies and machinery, but leaving walls and barricades nearly untouched.

The Karkal are zealotic, xenophobic, and carnivorous, fiercely so, and consider the consumption of animals and extraterrestrial beings to give the Karkal warrior the power of their fallen adversary. The Karkal use primarily gunpowder-based conventional weapons, doing more damage to structures, but less to enemies.

The Karkal are led by Queen Kircile, a religious zealot who notably ostracizes all Karkal who are not in the mainstream Karkal religion.

While the Kyekna colonists are only supplied by whatever they brought with them aboard their colonization shuttles, they are notably technologically superior to the Karkal.

The Kyekna begun a campaign against the Karkal, exterminating colonies one by one, but the Karkal remained with a numbers advantage, charging over and destroying various Kyekna colonies.

Upon the arrival of the Koliada, the main group debates whether or not to get involved, as well as who to support if they do get involved, leading to internal tensions within the group.

After a discussion between Queen Kircile, Emperor Kzekmah, and the captain of the Koliada, the Koliada does not get directly involved, but does save a Karkal colony from the Kyekna' scorn, taking a single queen and several unrelated alates as passengers.

Later in the story, the Karkal colony attempts to take over the ship to return to Kalkak and win the war with the Koliada's superior technology, untimely having most of the colony killed off, but having the queen and her alates escape via an emergency pod.