Nul-Nul

The Nul-Nul

(Aka the Nul)

Not much was known about the Nul-Nul until 5025, when a Nul prince joined the United Stars Navy conscripted by (then) Captain Eric Olafson of the USS Tigershark.

The Nul are one of the truly ancient civilizations of the M-0 (Milky Way Galaxy) and have been around for at least as long as the Saresii, but due to their very aggressive nature, the Nul fought among each other and bombed themselves several times to Stone Age levels. They finally were united by a strong King who killed all family and pod leaders and prohibited the formation of Noble houses of any kind, They accented twice, the first time about a million years ago only to be punished by the Dark Ones for resisting and fighting them. The Dark Ones, so the Nul legends claim destroyed all technology and killed every Nul with any scientific knowledge. Again it took them a long time to rebuild. Due to their size and inability to manipulate small objects without mechanical aides it took them a lot longer to built Computers and machinery necessary to conquer space. It did not help that Scientists and scholars were held in lesser regard than warriors and fighters and being a scientist had been a stigma that led to social exclusion. Despite all these odds the Nul managed to ascent again only to get involved in a Y’All invasion that destroyed many of their new colonies and decimated their space fleet.

These events and their natural aggressive nature made them distrust and hate any other civilization and the first one they met were the Shiss, equally aggressive and on a similar technological level. The first meeting between the two species did immediately escalate into an all out space battle.

The Nul and Shiss have been bitter enemies ever since.

They became allies for a very short time during another Y'All invasion, but the Shiss used this alliance to betray the Nul and kill thousands of Nul in a well laid trap. This was the last time the Nul participated in any conferences, diplomatic meetings or formed alliances with anyone.

The stellar rise of the Union was at first of no concern to the Nul, but as the Klack joined the Union all changed. Not only were the Klack another of the Nul-Nuls old enemies, the Klack Empire was Coreward while Union space (Back then) was exclusively in the Upward sector.

The Klack Empire was connected to the rest of the Union via a relative narrow strip of space that went right through the Shiss / Nul border area and called it the Klack noon passageway. The Nul attacked a Union ship and destroyed it and this act in return caused a massive and strong Union response and every Nul ship and station in or near the Passageway was attacked and destroyed.

This did not escalate into a war as the last Y’All invasion had just recently ended and the Union fought the Kermac and their Thrall species in the 4th Intergalactic War.

The first time since the collapse of the first Galactic Council the Nul participated in a diplomatic conference when the 4th Galactic War ended and the Big four were invited to participate. The Nul had no opinion on the Kermac Surrender or the armistice, but they did sign the Declaration of Free Space with all the others ratifying the Free Space treaty.

No defined borders had been declared between Nul and Union space and not a week goes by with some Nul / Union clash and until 5025 both sides expected the break out of all out war at any day. The Nul had no illusions to win an all out war against the Union, even if the Kermac decided to take the chance and enter the war as well but they had built up their fleet and their military ever since the 4th Intergalactic War and amassed an impressive fleet able to inflict terrible losses to the Union before final defeat.

While the Nul were not exactly on the same technological level and quite behind in some areas, their ships were massive, heavily armored and excluding Terran Translocator cannons, their Graviton based arsenal was second to none, and the only non Union weapons known that could collapse the shields of even the strongest battle ship.

The Nul have two distinct subspecies, the purple Nul and the Gray Nul. The word Nul is pronounced differently for each sub species and hence the reason the Nul call themselves the Nul –Nul ( pronounced Nuul-Nuhl) while everyone else simply refers to them as the Nul.

The purple Nul represent 99.9 percent of the species while the gray are very rare and somewhat bigger. The gray Nul are held in highest esteem and considered often but not always society leaders.

The Nul-Nul are ruled by a King and under an absolute monarchy, but they do not have a hereditary noble system.