The Kzinti

[redwood973]

Are you sure this whole thing didn't get started by some human stepping on one of their tails, and then got blown all out of proportion?

[BouncyCaitian]

I intend to come up with more the TOS through DS9 eras, but I'm working lots of over time right now...so I'll post when I can

[BouncyCaitian]

Empire And Federation (TOS ERA)

The treaty imposed on the Kzinti by the Federation was humiliating and quite harsh by Kzinti standards, but they see began to see the Federation as something more than a collection of ‘plant eaters’ and omnivores. The Andorians and the Terrans has long and bloody histories before they had gone into space. Kzinti reasoning (such as it was) came up with the idea that the Andorians and Terrans ran the Federation with assistance from the Vulcans in areas of technology execution, the Centauri for medical research, and the Tellarites for mining.
While most Kzinti scoffed at this notion of species working interdependantly, a few forward thinking Kzinti began to suggest noting the effectiveness of the long term combination of strengths and weaknesses the Federation possessed, while deferring to more conservative forces on practical matters of building a new armada to challenge the Federation and other Alpha Quadrant powers. Many Kzinti despaired of ever matching the Federation’s warships, particularly the newer Baton Rouge and Constitition class Heavy battlecruisers, which woefully outgunned anything the Kzinti could field with their pre-warp technology.
There were several attempts by various ‘free-booters’ organizations, in actuality, servants of the Patriarchy sent on espionage missions to gather technology for the Patriarchy to even the odds in the next war. One of the more notorious incidents happened in 2272 when the shuttlecraft Copernicus, (assigned to USS Enterprise Reg File #: NCC-1701/1), under the command of Commander Spock, with Lt’s Sulu and Uhura, was returning from the Beta Lynxis system with one of the most dangerous artifacts known at the time, a Slaver Stasis Box that had been found by accident by miners.
The only known way to discover a Slaver stasis box, was with another stasis box and while on return, the box glowed, indicating another box was nearby. After a few moments, the Copernicus headed for an ice asteroid in the Lyre system. After setting down on planet, the crew were ambushed by a crew from the Kzinti patrol ship Traitor’s Claw, commanded by Chuft-Captain. Chuft-Captain had acquried the second box and used it to lay a trap in hopes of it containing a weapon from the Slaver Empire that could turn the tide against the Federation and the rest of the Quadrant.
The Kzinti found an artifact about the size of a modern ten pound dumb-bell, from Commander Spock’s later analysis, was identified as a spy’s weapon. It included what must have been an onboard replicator that reconfigured the artifact into a form of transport, a laser pistol, a rather serviceable telescope, a reasoning computer, and most horrifyingly, a total matter-energy conversion beam. The efficacy of the weapon was proven when the Kzinti used it against a target mountain, which promptly disappeared. The resulting shockwave allowed Cmdr. Spock and Lt. Sulu to escape with the weapon, but Lt. Uhura was captured. After a brief negotiation, involving Cmdr. Spoke facing off with the Kzinti commander, and losing a personal duel with Chuft-Captain, the Copernicus crew were reunited. The Kzinti were desperate to find the Matter-Energy weapon and asked the artifact how to find it. It responded and they went to test their findings. The resulting explosion damaged the Kzinti patrol vessel to the point when the Copernicus crew could escape and make a report to Starfleet Command.
The Patriarch, began ordering attack probes into the Federation with singular ships to gather information on Federation weapons, tactics, and strengths. Most of which were promptly crushed by the Federation and denied by the Patriarch as having any connection with. But with each skirmish, the Kzinti’s knowledge grew. Including knowledge of other enemies such as the Klingons, which appeared to be almost like the Terrans, but bred for war and worthy prey.
The Klingon’s for their part, had heard of the Kzinti, and had considered most Federation reports to be exaggerated on the Kzinti’s viciousness, but sent a delegation to Kzinti space, consisting of the IKS Dominator (D-7C), Revenge (D-7A, and Ravager (C-7). They were forced to reevaluate their position when no response from the delegation was forth coming, but revenge for the delegation would have to wait as the Federation and the Empire and discovered that the Organians had disappeared, and both sides raced to arm themselves, anticipating an attack from the other.
The Kzinti had ambushed the Klingons in the Patriarchs Eye, a nebula some twenty lightyears from homeworld. They had managed to take the Ravager and the Dominator intact, and the Revenge was missing a warp nacelle. Many heroes ate well over three nights as the ships were towed to a secretly constructed shipyard and research center on the far side of Kzinti space. The Federation, far too busy with the Klingons and the Romulans, paid little attention to a relatively quiet border. The Patriarch was ruthless in exterminating threats to his line and had the Kzinti expand away from the Federation and the major Alpha Quadrant powers, crushing and dominating whatever species came in their way while building far from the eyes of the Federation
The Kzinti eventually bumped into the Ferengi and after a few untoward incidents, realized they could be useful as eyes and ears within the Alpha Quadrant as information and technology gatherers and were willing to pay the Ferengi handsomely for as much weapons technology and templates as they could get thier hands on. The Alpha Quadrant paid little notice to the diminutive, if annoying traders . Much to their pain.
An unexpect shift between Klingon-Federation relations in the form or the Khitomer Accords caught the Kzinti by surprise as the two major superpowers of the quadrant brokered peace between them, something previously unthinkable to the Kzinti mind. It also freed up a Klingon invasion fleet to avenge the Kzinti’s treacherous dealings with the Klingons in previous years. The Klingons went with a three full warfleets of hundreds of ships, expecting minimal resistance from previous records obtained from the Federation.
They were not expecting hundreds of top-of-the-line dreadnaughts, battlecruisers, torpedo cruisers, frigates, cruisers, and attack fighters numbering in the thousands. The galaxy was painfully introduced to the Flesh-Tearer and Throat-Slicer class ships which have become a signature of Kzinti power today. The Klingons had to fall back as the nearly suicidal tactics of the Kzinti decimated the First Grand Fleet under Thought-Admiral Kang. The Klingons beat a hasty retreat across into Federation space, who were aghast at the armada that had been created without them noticing.
In the first combined fleet assault by the Federation and Empire, the Klingons and Federation cemented the Khitomer Accords by fighting their way into Kzinti space. Bu the Kzinti made them pay for every inch, using tactics that would later be recognized as those used by the Dominions Jem’Hadar. The fight over Ka’ashi involved desperate maneuvers and tactics on the part of the Federation and the Empire, who simply weren’t ready for the sheer number and ferocity of the Kzinti.
The Federation and the Empire both had to withdrawl and execute a policy of containment while the Kzinti had to desperately move supplies to their fronts and dig in, waiting for the counterblow. Which never came.

[JakeNess]

can someone fabricate the year the Kzinti developed Warp Drive?