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INTRODUCTION
FROM: GENERAL CHANG, COMMANDANT OF THE KLINGON DEFENCE
FORCES ELITE COMMAND ACADEMY
TO: ALL NEW STUDENTS
Cadet:
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you
to the Elite Command Academy. As you are well aware, attendance at the Academy is by invitation only. We have no standardised tests,
no entrance exams here. Your exemplary record of previous service aboard starships in the Imperial Navy has served as your only
prerequisite for your acceptance to this institution. Upon examining your record and interviewing your commanding officers, we
selected you to join us because you have demonstrated
the characteristics necessary for starship command. The instructors at this academy, every one of which walked these halls as a
student at one time, will mould you into a fearless and deadly instrument to ensure the future of our Empire or break you and leave
you behind. You may succeed, and success is rewarded with a command upon graduation, but most likely you will fail, which means
dismissal and immediate return to your previous posting, but in either event your attendance here places you among a select group of
the finest warriors in the Empire. Glory and honour to you, and your house.
QAPLA’
GENERAL CHANG
COMMANDANT, KDF ELITE COMMAND ACADEMY
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To play Star Trek®: Klingon Academy™ you must meet or exceed the following system requirements.
Pentium 2 / 233MHz CPU
64 MB RAM
DirectX™ - certified 3D accelerator card w/8 MB RAM
DirectX™ 7.0
Windows® 95/98
DirectX™- certified soundcard
500 MB free hard drive space
Mouse
Keyboard
12x CD-ROM
Multiplayer: 56.6 modem connection, minimum,
Supports ADSL & Cable modem, 6 players internet, 8 players LAN
INSTALLING STAR TREK®: KLINGON ACADEMY™
Place Star Trek: Klingon Academy CD-ROM #1 into your CD-
ROM drive. After a few moments, an auto-run screen should
appear. This is the Klingon Academy launcher. If the launcher
does not appear, simply double click on “My Computer”, then
double click on the CD-ROM drive, and then double click on
“Setup”.
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If you have not installed Klingon Academy, the first button on the launcher will be labelled “Install Klingon Academy”. To install the
game, left click on this button and follow the instructions given by the install program. If you do not have DirectX 7, or if you are not
sure if you do, click the “Install DirectX 7” button and follow the instructions. Users of the Windows 95 operating system who intend
on playing Multiplayer games of Klingon Academy should click the “Install WinSock 2” button to install necessary networking files. (If
you are unsure if you have already installed Winsock 2, click the “Setup” button on the launcher to see if Klingon Academy detects
Winsock 2.0.) Users of Windows 98 do not need to do this, as the proper version of Winsock is already incorporated into their operating
system. Once the game is installed, the “Install Klingon Academy” button will be replaced with a “Play Klingon Academy” button. Click
this to begin play.
KLINGON ACADEMY SETUP
Star Trek: Klingon Academy supports a variety of game resolutions and video hardware,
including multiple video card configurations. To select your game resolution and your
display device in the case of multiple video card configurations, simply click the “Setup”
button on the Launcher. A window will appear containing a pull-down menu used to select
the video hardware you wish to use, a resolution list box, and an indicator showing if
Winsock installation is required.
DISPLAY DEVICE
Click the arrow pointing downward to open the pull-down window. Click the desired
display device to set it.
SELECT RESOLUTION
Highlight the desired game resolution from the list to select it.
If nothing is listed, click the “Detect Available Resolutions”
button to refresh the list.
MULTIPLAYER
This displays the version of Winsock currently installed on your system.
OK
This button accepts and saves any changes to the setup and returns you to the launcher.
CANCEL
This button ignores any changes made to the setup and returns you to the launcher.
A NOTE ABOUT THE IMPERIAL CALENDAR
Given the nature of printed documentation and its difficulty in being protected, it is sure that some of the readers of this manual are
members of the feeble Starfleet Intelligence Services. In the interest of displaying Klingon courage and our vast confidence in our
capabilities to repel any threat from the Federation regardless of information leaks, we will explain how to convert Klingon Imperial
Calendar years to the Federation equivalent Julian calendar years.
The year in which Kahless defeated the tyrant Molor and established the Empire is known as the Founding Year. The first year after the
Founding Year is known as Year One, Imperial Reckoning, or 1 IR in an abbreviated form. The Founding Year of the Empire is 625 A.D.
in the Federation Julian equivalent. Thus, adding 625 to any Imperial Reckoning year will give you the Federation equivalent. For
example, the year 1000 IR is the equivalent of 1625 A.D. The current year is 1666 IR, or 2291 A.D. Federation spies are free to distribute
this information, for whatever good it will do them.
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THE ACADEMY
In 1645 IR, a series of large skirmishes broke out along the Romulan border, near the chuDegh system. The opening moments of these
conflicts, which came to be known as the chuDegh Offensive, caught the Imperial fleets in the area completely off guard. Many
experienced starship captains were lost during the initial Romulan attack, desperately defending their comrades as they attempted to
withdraw and regroup in the face of so ferocious an onslaught. The regrouping was long and painful, resulting in grievous losses of
starships and warriors, as the Romulans pressed their advantage. Desperately, the few remaining experienced commanders fought to
control the utter chaos that was the remains of their fleets and hold on until reinforcements could come. General Chang, Military Advisor
to Chancellor Lorak, pulled as many ships as could be spared from their stations along the Federation Neutral Zone and took charge
of planning the counter attack. After some intense and bloody fighting, the Romulan advance was halted and the lines fixed. These
battle lines were eventually to become the new border between the Empire and the Romulans, resulting in the loss of several mineral
rich worlds and strategic bases.
Faced with the grim reality of the narrowly averted disaster, Chancellor Lorak ordered a full investigation into the causes of the
humiliating defeats in the early part of the fighting. The conclusion was sobering. Traditional methods of advancement into a starship
command, through challenge, assassination, or family lineage, were placing ill prepared and oft times inexperienced warriors into
positions of vast responsibility and those that were experienced were stationed mainly along the Federation Neutral Zone. Quite simply,
there were not enough trained and experienced starship commanders to adequately defend the Empire from its myriad enemies. Chief
of Staff Gorkon, who headed the investigation, recommended that a training facility be created. A college of sorts, that was outside the
influence of politics and heredity. A centre of learning that would take in only the finest and most capable warriors, regardless of
prestige or political power, and mould them into the finest starship commanders in the galaxy. Thus, the seeds of the Elite Command
Academy were sown.
Of all the warriors in the Empire, both Lorak and Gorkon agreed that the only one worthy enough and capable enough to bring such an
institution to life was General Chang, the Chancellor’s chief military advisor and hero of the Empire. Unfortunately, the General refused
the position, as he was busy readjusting the defence of the Romulan Border and the Federation Neutral Zone to compensate for the
losses incurred during the chuDegh Offensive. After further convincing from the Chief of Staff, General Chang finally relented. For the
next two years, General Chang pored over the military records of the warriors of the Empire. He conducted interviews with associates
of potential candidates and deeply investigated their backgrounds. Eventually, the General compiled a list of the best and brightest in
the Empire and brought them to Qo’noS to study at the newly constructed campus of the Klingon Defence Forces Elite Command
Academy.
The Inaugural Class of the Academy began its first term in 1648 IR, with General Chang serving as the Dean and the only instructor.
Of the one hundred warriors who began the program only six graduated. It was from this first group of graduates that Chang recruited
additional instructors for the Academy, beginning the tradition that all instructors are graduates as well.
Today, the Academy takes in more than three hundred cadets per term, graduating roughly five percent of them. Graduation from the
Academy means an immediate command, respect for the accomplishment, and prestige and honour for the graduate’s house. This
semester marks the eighteenth Academy term.
GENERAL CHANG
The General has served in the KDF for nearly 75 years and has been decorated dozens of times for his actions in virtually every
significant armed conflict in the Empire since his service began in 1588 IR.
Chang served gallantly aboard the I.K.S. naQjej during the first of our numerous conflicts with the Federation after their initial invasion
of our space in 1593 IR, eventually becoming First Officer of the naQjej under the command of Lorak son of B’kol.
In 1600 elements of the tlhoq pagh Assault Fleet encountered forces of the Romulan Star Empire for the first time, near what is now
known as the N’derial system. It was not long afterwards that open hostilities were declared with the treacherous Romulans. Chang,
now commanding his own starship in Lorak’s vaunted Hegh yan Strike Fleet, fought brilliantly earning several commendations for his
string of victories in the N’derial campaign.
For the next 10 years, Captain Chang served in securing the borders of the Empire against further Romulan aggression, eventually
commanding the Hegh yan Strike Fleet when Lorak gained a seat on the High Council. In 1615, trouble again began surfacing on the
Federation border but Dugh’naS, commander of the gho’vaD Defence Fleet, bungled the initial engagements, placing the Empire’s
interests in the sector in jeopardy. Chang and the Hegh yan Strike Fleet were moved to the trouble area and in a co-ordinated effort
with the remnants of the gho’vaD, now under the command of Colonel Koord, fought the Federation to a standstill with the final battle
taking place near Sherman’s Planet in 1617.
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THE INSTRUCTORS
Chang and Koord, at the recommendation of Council Member Lorak, were promoted to the rank of General. Koord went on to a brilliant
career of his own and Chang was placed in charge of the defence of the Empire’s border with the Federation. Over the next 19 years
the border maintained its stability and the Empire went through a period of quiet. In 1636, Lorak became Chancellor of the High Council,
appointing General Chang as his Military Advisor. In 1642, Lorak ordered a program of expansion on the Federation border, dramatically
heightening the tensions with the Federation and bringing the Empire the closest to total war with Starfleet it has ever been. Chang
amassed a sizeable amount of the Imperial Navy on the border 1and drew up plans to begin a massive thrust into Federation territory.
The General was on the verge of launching the offensive when the hated Organians imposed their Peace Treaty upon us due to the
actions of Captain James T. Kirk.
In 1645 the chuDegh Offensive, a series of large skirmishes along the Romulan border, resulted spectacular losses and the secession
of several contested worlds to the Romulans. Seeing this as a sign of a larger problem Chancellor Lorak launched an investigation into
the situation and concluded that a lack of quality starship captains resulted in the humiliating defeats at the hands of the Romulans.
At the behest of Chief of Staff Gorkon, the Chancellor proposed the creation of a centralised facility to train the most talented and
capable officers as starship captains. No Klingon in the Empire was more qualified to bring this Academy to life than General Chang
does, but the General refused citing his need to remain an active part maintaining the defences of the Federation border. Eventually,
after some convincing by Chief of Staff Gorkon, Chang relented. Finally, in 1648 IR, General Chang founded the Elite Command Academy
and began using it to train the next generation of starship captains in the tradition of the finest warriors of the Empire. Chang has been
instructing at the Academy on Qo’noS and maintaining his position as Military Advisor as well from the 1648 until present.
COLONEL POKTARL
Colonel Poktarl, Son of QeH’a’, has served in the Imperial navy for 25 years. During this time, the Colonel has acquired a somewhat
colourful reputation, and is a bit of a hero to the common people of the Empire.
The House of QeH’a’ had always been very poor and less than influential, which served as a great detriment when the hot-headed
Poktarl joined the Imperial Navy. Poktarl began his career in 1641 IR, serving as the lowest ranking member of the engineering crew
aboard the I.K.S. rapHoch, stationed near the Imperial Fringe. Less competent warriors who joined at the same time he did often
entered the service at a higher rank or were promoted earlier merely because of their families’ status and prestige. This did not sit well
with the young warrior, but these were the captain’s, Brigadier tlhIb’s, decisions to make so there was nothing that could be done.
Growling at the injustice of it, Poktarl set out to literally carve a place for himself in the higher ranks. Over the next four years, Poktarl
ascended to the position of Chief Engineer through hard work, determination, and several challenges of his superiors. It was during this
time he earned the dubious moniker of “‘orayangan” (The Orion) since he drove those under his command like an Orion Slaver.
In 1645 the rapHoch was transferred to duty along the Romulan border, due to heavy losses during the chuDegh Offensive. During the
Battle of D’drazal V, a mistake on the part of the captain of the rapHoch, Brigadier tlhIb, placed the ship in grave peril. During the
engagement, the Brigadier ordered the rapHoch to dive through a Gas Giant at maximum impulse while cloaked. (The high speed
combined with lack of shielding caused considerable damage to the hull of the ship, nearly crippling the sensors. Plasma, leaking from
one of the hull breaches, alerted nearby Romulans to the presence of the rapHoch and they attacked. Quick thinking on the part of First
Officer Gorvatlh saved the ship from destruction but the main power reactors were knocked offline.
Brigadier tlhIb demanded a damage report from Chief Engineer Poktarl, who bluntly stated that the damage would take up to an hour
to repair. Upon hearing this less-than-favourable estimate, Brigadier tlhIb made several rather disparaging remarks about Poktarl’s
skills as a Chief Engineer, and the fact that he came from an insignificant house headed not by an insignificant QeH’a’ but by his
bearded wife. Brigadier tlhIb did not have much time to say anything more because at the first insult Poktarl had left the engine room
and was racing towards the bridge during most of the long-winded tirade. Poktarl spun the captain’s chair around, grabbed the
Brigadier, and promptly hurled him into a nearby bulkhead. Accounts of the tale become muddled at this point because the Romulans
began pressing their attack, but the general consensus was that Poktarl yelled, “Let the fact that I hurled you like a beardless child,
serve as my official notice of challenge, you miserable, pompous, honourless son of a Romulan.” Brigadier tlhIb attempted to
circumvent the challenge citing that the Romulans were going to kill them all, but Poktarl’s honour had been slighted and he demanded
that the “spineless politician” face him immediately. First Officer Gorvatlh desperately attempted to keep the Romulans at bay while
the duel between Poktarl and tlhIb raged all over the bridge. Finally, Poktarl struck the fatal blow and ended the duel, but now found
himself immediately faced with a new problem. He was now the captain, as was his prize in the combat, but the ship was being torn
apart around him. Captain Poktarl, demanded a tactical update, and in a display of tactical adeptness that shocked the remaining bridge
crew, Poktarl proceeded not only to destroy the Romulans attacking his ship, but to turn the tide of the battle and win the day. Over the
next few months Poktarl’s tactical wizardry proved invaluable in bringing the Romulan advance to a halt and solidifying the lines, ending
the chuDegh Offensive and cutting the Empire’s losses greatly.
In 1648 IR, General Chang personally recruited Captain Poktarl as one of the original one hundred warriors in the inaugural class of the
Elite Command Academy. Poktarl accepted and was one of the first six to graduate.
Poktarl returned to his post as Captain of the rapHogh, and commanded her for another five years, before returning to the Academy as
an instructor in 1653.
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