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House Veska acknowledges your glorious efforts and recognizes the profound honor you have earned for us. Your continued representation of Veska and service to the Fleet solidify the strength of the Klingon Empire. You are an inspiring warrior.

It is my glorified duty to inform everyone that you, WanraK, have been chosen as our new Line Proctor, Second Seat on the House Veska High Council, Defender of our Convocation, and my right hand. 

Given this glorious day, diligently witnessed by the naked stars, honor-bound in the house scrolls for all time. 

Ke'vheq epetai-Veska

 

  In the Days before Kahless the Unforgettable the family Veska controlled an important seaport city.  They were well known for producing fast sailing vessels that could easily outdistance the heavier vessels of their opponents but could not withstand the sustained barrages of boltcasters and catapults.  Many warriors of the household were marines, trained to attack from shipboard.  They were lightly armored, and used a variety of weaponry including several small swords, axes, crossbows and maces. The bat'leth was never a favored weapon, due to its intense weight that could drag a warrior to the bottom of the ocean (since a true warrior would rather drown than release his weapon to the depths).

history7.jpg (12242 bytes)     The ships would often attack with the suns at their back, leaping from the shallow keeled vessels and wreaking great havoc, then re-boarding their ships with their booty and sailing into deeper waters.  One of the household’s enemies called them "Great Sea Hawks."  These birds with a wingspan of two meters would congregate high in the sky in packs of  almost 100 birds.  When a large prey animal was spotted, they would descend en masse and rip the hapless creature to shreds with their razor sharp talons, swallowing as much as they could, then fly away.  Rather than be offended, the early Veskans took the creature’s name and it’s fierce reputation as it’s own symbol.  Soon the warriors were wearing the bird’s claws on their gauntlets, and wearing the speckled white and black feathers on their uniforms.  Some captains risked their lives to raid sea eagle nests to capture and train hatchlings.  These mascots would fly ahead of the ships, and were trained to circle overhead if they spotted another vessel.
  

 
 


    With the spread of their reputation, many coastal cities and fortifications would go on alert anytime a lone sea eagle was sighted.  Thus the fear of attack by House Veska stretched all along the coast of the Northern continent.  The old maritime Veskan flags and sails used to show one of these birds with its wings spread and a skull in each talon.  After the move to space though and the discovery of the Romulans it was decided that the depiction was too similar to the Romulan Bird-of-Prey symbol and the flag was retired.  The romantic  association with these creatures continued although they were much harder to keep on board a space cruiser than a targ.  Klingon vessels were too cramped for the birds to exercise properly and many captains kept their mascots in stasis and would allow them to hunt on distant exotic worlds whenever the situation allowed.  More than one alien enemy of the Empire has lost their life to the swift claws of these birds.    
 

 
       Pollution and over fishing reduced these once prolific birds’ numbers dramatically during the industrial age.  After the destruction of Praxis, and the resulting turmoil on the oceans of Kronos, these birds are all but extinct in the wild.   The modern House symbol, often adorned with precious stones for higher ranking officers, is a stylized representation of the claw of the Great Sea Eagle.  A House represents the living members of the same clan, the Line includes all the members living and dead.
It establishes the House's history.		 
   
 

 


A House represents the living members of the same clan. The Line includes all the members living and dead.
It establishes the House's history.
 

Year Event
515 Veska clan founded on the Northern Continent of the Homeworld.
790 Kahless leaves the service of Molor.
800 Kahless unites the Klingon people by defeating the tyrant Molor.
822 Kahless steps down and Anag becomes Emperor.
1372 The Homeworld is invaded by the Hur'g.  These "outsiders" pillage the planet and loot many cultural artifacts including the Sword of Kahless.  
1492 Medieval Klingons finally defeat the Hur'g and capture their advanced technology.  
1509 A nuclear weapon is used for the first and last time on the Homeworld.
1616 "The Great Diaspora" begins and the warring Houses leave the Homeworld to establish the Klingon Empire among the stars.
2050 First contact with the Romulan Star Empire. War immediately follows.
2053  War with Romulans ends with heavy losses for both sides and no clear victor.
2069 The reign of the last Klingon Emperor is over.  Hereafter family lines rule the Empire through the institution of the High Council.
2107 The planet Veska is colonized near Orion space initially as a Star Fortress along what will later become the Federation border .
2130 Juhara moves to become leader of House Veska after defeating Koroth in personal combat.
2156-2160 First Federation/Romulan War.
2188-2196 First Klingon/Kzinti War (sometimes called the Demon War).  Results inconclusive.  Heavy Klingon casualties, Juhara killed and Juhara’s son, Klizad, named new House Leader.
2196 Klizad offered position on High Council but dies in route to the Homeworld.  Quorel becomes leader of House Veska.
2207 Klingon vessels first encounter Federation ships but the Federation does not learn of the Empire's existence for another 11 years.
2209-2212 Second Klingon/Kzinti War, one quarter of  the fleet is destroyed.
2213 Quorel assassinated due to poor leadership and lack of military prowess.  Doleth becomes Leader of House Veska.
2218 The IKV Devisor, pursuing Klingon rebels, encounters the USS Sentry.   The Federation believes this to be their first contact with the Empire but Klingon ships had been raiding Federation shipping for  years.  
2217 Due to technology developed by House Veska the High Council appoints several House members to front the new Military Technology Branch (MTB).
2219 The MTB develops plans for X-22 Bird of Prey and construction begins a year later.
2229-2237 Third Klingon/Kzinti (Demon) War.
2230 An emissary from the Federation, Dr. Tagore, travels to the Klingon Homeworld. 
2235 Dr. Tagore and the Klingon Captain Krenn are successful in defusing a major conflict between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.  In spite of this relations continue to degenerate, giving rise to 70 years of unremitting hostility.
2242 Battle of Donatu V is fought near Sherman's Planet.
2245 The Federation research outpost at Archanis IV is destroyed, a diversion that allows a Klingon task force to penetrate deep into Federation space to set up a forward base at Axanar.
2247-2250 The Four Years War.  War ends with Axanar peace mission. 
2253 X1-22 Bird of Prey prototype under construction in Veska orbital shipyards, under MTB supervision, to replace losses during the war.
2260-2261 Second Federation/Romulan War results in Neutral Zone establishment. 
2266 Technology exchange treaty between the Klingons and the Romulans allows each side to focus on the greater perceived threat posed by the Federation.   Klingons supply warp technology and ships to Romulans in exchange for cloaking technology.
2267 Another Klingon/Federation War ends before it begins with the Organian Peace Treaty.   Imposition of the treaty and establishes the Klingon Neutral Zone and the collective colony at Nimbus III.
2264-2268 Fourth Klingon/Kzinti (Demon) War. 
2268  The USS Enterprise violates the Romulan Neutral Zone to steal a cloaking device.  Soon thereafter, the Treaty of Algeron precludes any development of cloaking technology by the Federation.  The Klingon Empire is not affected by this agreement and the MTB refits all the X1-22 with cloaking devices and they are re-introduced as the K-22 Bird of Prey.
2269 House Leader Doleth dies in his chambers of old age.

The Wars of Internal Dissension sweep the Empire.

A Federation free trader unleashes a plague of tribbles upon an Imperial world.  Captain Koloth pursues the trader and is successful in recovering the genetically engineered predator designed to eradicate the tribbles.
2270 Kevmor and Kalen vie for control of House Veska.  Through personal combat, Kalen wins.
2271 The V'Ger entity passes through Klingon space, destroying the IKV Amar and two other battlecruisers.

Klingon forces under Captain Kor decisively defeat Romulan forces in the fierce hand to hand Battle of Klach D'Kel Brakt.

2275 The Fire Blossom travels to Direidi in the Organian Treaty Zone to secure mining rights to the largest dilithium deposit in the region.
2285 Klingon spies obtain information about the Federation's Genesis device.  A K-22 Bird of Prey scout commanded by Kruge is captured and its crew is killed by Adm. Kirk.  This marks the first positive Federation evidence that the Klingons have developed cloaking technology.
2286 Klingon Ambassador to the Federation, Kamarag, demands the extradition of Kirk but is refused.  

Gorkon, supported by General Chang, challenges for the leadership of the High Council and the Empire is again plunged into civil war.
2287 Earth deep space probe Pioneer 10, launched two centuries earlier from Earth, is destroyed by a Klingon Bird of Prey. 

The social experiment on Nimbus III, created after the imposition of the Organian Peace Treaty, finally fails.
2289

Federation negotiator Curzon Dax, a Trill, negotiates with Kang over the Korvak Colony. 

Designs submitted by the MTB to the High Council for D-32 Strong Bird. The design is accepted and production begins soon after.

2290 Several battlecruisers refitted by the MTB as sleeper ships are launched on extended missions.
2292 The MTB develops a Bird of Prey that can fire its weapons while cloaked. 
2293 The Klingon moon Praxis explodes.  

Gorkon, Chancellor of the High Council, is assassinated and is succeeded by his daughter Azetbur.  

The Khitomer Conference finalizes peace overtures between the Federation and the Empire.

2294 Ambassador Kamarag engineers a series of raids across the Neutral Zone escalating in a full scale attack with his private fleet.  He is also  linked to a simultaneous coup against Chancellor Azetbur's government.  The plot fails and Kamarag kills himself.
2297 First Klingon contact with Ventax II.
2311 The Tomed Incident marks the last Federation contact with the Romulans for many years.
2313  K'empec ascends to lead the leadership of the Klingon High Council.
2315-2219 Border skirmishes with Romulans on the rise and leads to open battles in the "Triangle."
2331 Skirmish with the Cardassians results in the loss of one ship.
2344 The Federation starship USS Enterprise-C is destroyed defending the Klingon outpost on Naraendra III from Romulan attack.  While the Khitomer Conference laid the foundations historians mark this as the keystone event towards the Federation/Klingon alliance. 
2346 Romulan forces attack the Klingon outpost on Khitomer.  Four thousand Klingons are killed and 100 are captured.  It is clear at this point that the Romulans have embarked on a major campaign to destabilize the Empire.
2351    The Class D-12 Bird of Prey is retired from service due to faulty plasma conduits.
2352 Veska Council Member Moaggh assassinated.

The peace overtures began at the Khitomer accords six decades earlier are finally bound into a treaty between the Federation and the Empire.

2353 Veskan Council Member Jooth assassinated, Capt. Boroth and Capt. MaK'ar appointed to sit on House Council.
2354 Duras surprise attack on Veskan outpost Mol'Kai killing all.  Veska attacks Duras. 
2358 Second battle at HoH yotlh. Veskan fleet wins, destroying 8 Romulan War Birds.

The Empire and the Federation enter a co-colonial venture on Dantar IV.  The colony is attacked by Brikar forces attempting to drive a wedge in the alliance and to protect a secret armament stockpile there.  Cadets, lead by Worf and K'Ehleyr, uncover the plot and save the colony.
2361 Worf, son of Mogh, becomes the first Klingon to graduate from Starfleet Academy.
2362 House Veska members Kore and Morack killed in skirmish by Duras.

Kang meets the former wife of the Albino on Dayos IV.
2364 Koram attains leadership of House Veska and appoints K'oh, Qag, and Qugh to sit on the House Council.

Klingon rebels commandeer a Talarian freighter and are killed aboard the USS Enterprise-D attempting to escape extradition.
2365 Chancellor K'mpec refuses to admit evidence implicating House Duras of betrayal to the Empire.  Evidence is presented that Mogh betrayed Khitomer to the Romulans and he is judged a traitor.  K'mpec suppresses information that would exonerate Worf's father while implicating the powerful Duras clan.

Federation Cmdr. William Riker serves for a brief time as first officer on the Bird of Prey Pagh.

Klingon development of interphase cloaking is shown to be unreliable after several accidents. The project is abandoned but it is unclear whether there is any connection to the Federation's covert development of interphase cloaking in 2357.

The sleeper ship T'ong reactivates and, ignorant of the alliance, threatens Federation holdings.

2366 Chancellor K'empec dies of poison.  Gowron vies for leadership of Klingon High Council but is challenged by the by the sisters Lursa and B'Etor. They intend to install the illegitimate son of Duras, Toral, as leader of the High Council. 

House Veska aligns with Gowron in another Klingon Civil War.  By the end of the war the House Veska fleet and leadership is completely destroyed after a sneak attack on their orbital shipyards by the Duras and the Romulans.  The planet side citadel is also destroyed but not captured.

Federation forces prevent Romulan supplies from reaching Duras' forces, allowing Gowron to prevail.  House Veska begins to rebuilds Klagg, D'ahlkris, Q'veq, and Krigg take control and  Khoragh is appointed as House Leader.  

Ensign Ke'vheq is assigned to Imperial Intelligence and Korgh, K'Dhenz, Karreal, and K'tong are appointed to the Veska Council. 

Qo'rroQ returns to House Veska after a sleeper ship mission and marries Veqa.

2367 Battle of Wolf 359.  Klingon ships are called on to assist in repelling a Borg attack on Earth.

K'var attempts to dishonor House Veska and flees to found another Klingon House.  Ensigns Kyrik and Klagg follow him and both join House K'rawl.  

Following this treason Veska Council goes through reorganization - SeHtor is assigned to 3rd Seat.  Korgh steps down from Fourth Seat and K'Dhenz takes his vacated seat. 

Klingon High Command approves plans for new ships and the MTB begins construction of the Negvar class.

Kriosian rebels, seeking independence from the Empire, launch attacks on neutral Ferengi and Cardassian freighters.  Governor Vogh charges the Federation with complicity but evidence is revealed implicating the Romulans.  Also a Klingon exchange technician, JDan, accesses restricted information aboard the Enterprise-D and is able to deliver that information to the Romulans.  

2368 House Veska signs treaty of non-aggression with House K'rawl.

House Veska enters a confederation with Deep Space 18, the USS Wind Spirit, the USS Omega Glory, the USS Pioneer and the IKE First Fleet as part of the Grand Alliance.  This Alliance will collapse within two years when members of the Pioneer are revealed to be embezzling funds.

2369 A clone of the original Kahless appears at Borath.  He is elevated to the title of Emperor, a political figurehead and spiritual leader, but the real political power remains with Chancellor and the High Council.  

Klingon survivors of Khitomer, captured by the Romulans in 2346, are discovered in a prison camp on Carraya IV.  The children of these survivors are permitted to leave.

Ke'vheq is asked to serve on the House High Council.  B'tara is also elected to the council but when K'ahloq does not gain a council seat he leaves the House and forces his wife, Bneya, to leave with him.   

2370 The cruiser Toh'Kah, returning through the Bajoran wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant, is destroyed as a result of a power struggle amongst the crew.  It is determined that this conflict was telepathically induced.

After 80 years, Kor, Kang, Koloth and Dax finally catch up to the one known as 'The Albino'.  Kang and Koloth are killed, but not before fulfilling their oath and killing the murderer of their sons.  Kor is appointed Klingon ambassador to Vulcan.  
2371 General Martok is captured by the Dominion and replaced by a changeling.  It is also discovered that House Veska leader General Khoragh was also captured and replaced by a changeling.  The imposters are destroyed and D'ahlkris assumes the First Council Seat and leadership of House Veska.

Gowron declares the Federation/Klingon peace treaty is ended and attacks the Cardassian Union.  The Empire commits 1/3 of its military to an invasion of Cardassia. The Cardassian fleet is warned by the Federation and Klingon forces attack the Federation station Deep Space Nine.  The invasion is unsuccessful but foreshadows the greater war to come against  the Cardassians and their Dominion allies.

Klingon forces destroy the outpost on Korma, the site of a conference between Cardassian and Bajoran diplomats. A Bird of Prey, captured by Gul Dukat, embarks on raids against the Empire.

D'Har Master Kor recovers the lost sword of Kahless from the Hur'g homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant.  Realizing this powerful symbol could plunge the Empire into civil war, they set the sword adrift in deep space.

The Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor are both are killed during combat with the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D. 

The House of Kozak, a wealthy and influential line within the Empire, falls when its leader is killed by a Ferengi on the Federation station Deep Space 9.

An ancient scroll written by Kahless the Unforgettable is discovered on the Homeworld.  It refutes the mythic tales of the first Emperor's rise to power.  A plot by High Council member Unarrh to discredit Kahless and overthrow Gowron is defeated. 

2372 House Veska enters formal alliance with House Septaric.

The Klingon Empire joins the Federation, and eventually the Romulans, to battle the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.

The IKV Dark Fire is found abandoned and sabotaged by its captain, Karg.  Karg is forced to leave House Septaric (his fourth House) in disgrace.

2373 House Veska signs mutual defense treaty with House Pach'a'.

General Martok, recently escaped from a Dominion internment camp, is assigned as commander of all Klingon military forces.  

Capt. Ke'vheq is promoted by unanimous council vote to the House rank of General, only the third House member to ever achieve this rank in modern history. 

The Cardassian Union joins the Dominion and their combined fleet drives the Klingons from their Cardassian holdings. 

The Federation station Deep Space Nine is evacuated and occupied by the Dominion.

2374 Deep Space Nine is retaken from the Dominion\Cardassian Axis.  

The MTB begins construction of an artificial wormhole to connect the Empire to the Gamma Quadrant.

House Veska enters formal alliance with Houses KorDas, Krell, Bokturas and the House of Quree.

General Martok ascends to the Chancellorship of the Klingon High Council after the death of Gowron.  Martok pledges a new age for the Empire and a return to the honest ideals of the Klingon people.

In the wake of scandal and corruption sweeping the Empire the House Veska High Council is violently dissolved in a military coup d'etat led by Ke'vheq and K'tara. 

D'ahlkris is deposed following her misappropriation of funds which had been raised for war orphans.  In disgrace the former council members all flee into exile with her.   The traitors eventually try to form a new House called voltron (?) but it collapses within a year of its founding.

The MTB completes the artificial wormhole.  

The Dominion surrenders and House Veska leads the Klingon expansion into Gamma Quadrant.  

2375

 Khoragh returns.  After his capture and eventual escape from the Dominion he chose to stay in the Gamma Quadrant to fight behind enemy lines during the Dominion War.

A new House Veska High Council is seated and Khoragh regains the title of Epetai.  Ladies Destiny, M'rad, Quam-jot-tu, K'tara and K'Debwov all step forward to serve on the new House Council.  Kurak, taj'Iw quv, Qossaq and tIq'batlh also serve and Ke'vheq is named as the new Line Proctor. 

The Federation proposes that the Gamma Quadrant remain "off limits" to the victorious allies of the Alpha Quadrant.  Despite the Federation proposal Veskan forces, reinforced through the artificial wormhole over planet Veska, begin the conquest of the Trazik Confederation in the Gamma Quadrant. 

The MTB launches the IKV voDleH mInDu (Eyes of the Emperor) with advanced new weapon systems and ablative armor.  Lt. Kurak is appointed captain and he names Taj'Iw quv as his executive officer.  They are immediately successful in the Trazik conflict capturing an enemy command cruiser during their first engagement.

2376

 Lt. Cmdr. Qossaq sutai-Veska, Commander of the IKV naSghol, is awarded the Superior Service medal for his commitment to the Empire.

The MTB begins experiment with a "Trans-Dimensional" drive.  

Dejinaera accepts command of the IKV Vendix Siren.  DavI' takes command of the IKV Swift Strike.  Morak takes command of the IKV Heart of Fire.  K'vor takes command of the IKV Sto-vo-kor.

The training vessel IKV voDleH mInDu is sacrificed to seal the artificial wormhole between the Beta and Gamma Quadrants over planet Veska.  The surviving crew members are reassigned but several House members are trapped on the other side of the galaxy. 

Kurak retires from active duty following the destruction of his ship.  Taj'Iw quv is indicted for incompetence and also retires, except in disgrace.

2377

 House Veska enters formal alliance with House MarStoq.

KoraH takes command of the IKV Sons of Honor.  K'jIm takes command of the IKV Sword of Kahless. 

Work on the Trans-dimensional drive is complete and fitted aboard the Vendix Siren.  Work begins on a new artificial wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant.

Destiny, M'rad, and Quam-jot-tu retire from the High Council and Kratnor, KoraH and Dejinaera step forward to take their seats.  The council approves Ke'vheq's ascension to the First Council Seat and he accepts the title of epetai from Khoragh who retires permanently. 

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