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The Deferi
General
A race who believe in balance with the forces of nature and advancement.
- Martial Pacifist: They only fight for survival. Their only enemies are the Breen (who kidnap them as slaves and steal their crap) and the Borg (who are everyone's enemy).
- Morality Pet: To J'mpok's Klingon Empire, who view them as very honorable for saving a Klingon Fleet decades ago. The Klingons don't even want to conquer them.
Ambassador Surah
The lead ambassador for the Deferi to offworld cultures.
- Ambadassador: Subverted, he doesn't want to fight anyone. At the Borg conference he states that the Deferi will remain neutral if a consensus can't be reached.
- Big Good: For the Breen Arc.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He's involved in a minor and optional diplomatic mission on Starbase 39. He's very important later in the game.
- Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Surah has a massive case of packing up his bags and going home whenever things aren't "in balance". He does this in a side mission at Starbase 39 and does it again during "Second Wave".
The Breen
General
A race of humanoids who wear environmental suits and wield cryogenic weapons.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: They have a warrior code like the Klingons but prefer to take prisoners as slave labor. Large-scale massacres are offensive to them, though.
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: They use ice as a weapon against other races.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The Breen are bad guys, as a general rule, but even they are disgusted by Thot Trel's actions.
- Gas Mask Mooks: The Breen invoke this, even if it's more like humans in refrigerators.
- Malevolent Masked Men: They wear environmental suits that make them look scary.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: We see one of their slave mines as a way to emphasize what enormous jerks they are.
- Social Darwinism: Their code of honor is based on survival of the fittest. Needless cruelty is offensive to most Breen but they'll do anything if it serves a purpose.
- The Unintelligible: As per their depiction in Deep Space 9, the Breen still speak in a series of metallic, electronic sounds, though the text subtitles still shows what they're saying; most of the time it's typical Evil Gloating.
Thot Trel
The leader of the Breen forces in the Deferi sector.
- Big Bad: Of the Deferi arc.
- Dramatic Irony: Believes the Preserver Archive will contain innumerable weapons to help the Breen dominate the galaxy. It's a stasis chamber containing Preservers.
- Evil Overlord: Acts like this as he commits numerous war crimes, gloats, takes slaves, and generally acts like a monster.
- Kick the Dog: He does this numerous times to the Deferi. So much so his own men are disgusted with them.
- Large Ham: In the tradition of Hakeev and several other characters.
- Last Words: Signify what kind of ego the man has."But I'm Thot Trel..."
- Villainous Breakdown: Has one after the discovery of the Preserver Archives' true contents. People. His career is effectively over as he's conducted a war for something his superiors will deem worthless.
- 0% Approval Rating: The Breen under his command are deeply uncomfortable with his war crimes.
Preservers
General
An ancient race that predate other sentient life in the galaxy. They managed to escape extinction by building an underground archive on their homeworld, Lae'nas III. During the Iconian War, M'Tara destroyed the archive in a partially-successful attempt to demoralize the nascent Khitomer Alliance
- Benevolent Precursors: All life in the galaxy is descended from their efforts.
- Big Good: They have the potential to be this for the entire galaxy. They die before it can happen.
- Death from Above: M'Tara's Iaidon Dreadnought delivers one of these to their archive, leaving a charred spot on Lae'nas III's surface so massive it can be seen from space.
- Disappointed in You: The revived Preserver's reaction to M'Tara's decision to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the whole galaxy.
- Human Popsicle: The Preservers are all on ice at the start of the adventure. They die before many are awoken.
- The Omniscient: Every Preserver has the entire collected sum of their race's knowledge in their head.
- Sealed Good in a Can: They're a race that has the potential to change the whole of galactic history. Too bad they don't get the chance.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: They waited millions of years to meet their children and ended up being killed by their Firstborn.
