[Erax]

CODED TRANSMISSION
From: Commodore Haase, ISB
To: Admiral Wiers

"Long Live the Emperor"

Virgillia IV, 2404.9

Admiral,

With the capture of Aram I we have re-established contact with several undercover intelligence teams which had been installed on-planet before the war. Their reports provide us with a reasonably accurate portrait of Yakrin society and culture. This is a summary of our findings; a full composite report is being drawn up and will be sent later.

Yakrin society is organized into castes, with the priest, warrior and worker castes common to many other human and alien societies. Medical, technical and scientific personnel belong to a variety of sub-castes with status levels between that of the warrior and the worker castes.

Their society is governed by the priest caste, which has been following an agressive policy of expansion since the Yakrin developed interplanetary travel. They have grown steadily more xenophobic after contact with the Alliance and with us.

The warrior caste is loyal to the priests, who direct them by means of threats and promises regarding their afterlife. Yakrin ground troops therefore have unusually high morale. They rarely retreat and never surrender.

When we landed on Aram I, all surviving members of the priest and warrior castes banded together into militia units to resist our invasion. Once these planetary militia units were defeated, there was no resistance from the remaining castes.

Freed from their priests, the workers and professionals have cooperated fully with our troops, teaching them how to repair and operate existing facilities. Controlling Aram I should require no more than our usual complement of planetary security forces.

We have been warned by the Aram I Yakrin that their brothers and sisters will no longer consider them a part of the same species. According to their religion, those who have contact with humans become as impure as the humans themselves and will be treated as such. If any Yakrin frigates reach Aram I, it is quite likely that they will attempt to bombard their former homeworld. We strongly suggest that you guard each and every captured planet against attack from space.

[ June 03, 2003, 17:28: Message edited by: Chief Engineer Erax ]