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The Great Ones were the gods of the natives of Maltos IV. In the Book of Fulfillment the natives describe making multiple appeals to the Great Ones to save them from Klingon invaders. The natives see the arrival of James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise as deliverance provided by the Great Ones. Once the Klingons were driven out and Kirk had departed, the natives made sacrifices to the Great Ones and held a great feast, ending with the consumption of Klingon prisoners. (TOS - Strange New Worlds short story: "Book of Fulfillment")

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  • The Great Ones were the gods of the natives of Maltos IV. In the Book of Fulfillment the natives describe making multiple appeals to the Great Ones to save them from Klingon invaders. The natives see the arrival of James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise as deliverance provided by the Great Ones. Once the Klingons were driven out and Kirk had departed, the natives made sacrifices to the Great Ones and held a great feast, ending with the consumption of Klingon prisoners. (TOS - Strange New Worlds short story: "Book of Fulfillment")
  • The Great Ones are the gods of Earth's Dreamlands. Little more powerful than humans, they rely upon the protection of Nyarlathotep. They are the gods of ancient Mnar (and possibly Hyperborea), or echoes of those deities. They dwell upon Kadath and sometimes mate with human women in the manner of the classical gods.
  • The Great Ones was the name given by all modern Foitani to the Imperial-era Foitani who lived before and during the Suicide Wars. They were revered as demigods by their descendants. Around 3000, a research group discovered an ancient site where a squadron of Great Ones had been kept in suspended animation for millennia.
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  • The Great Ones were the gods of the natives of Maltos IV. In the Book of Fulfillment the natives describe making multiple appeals to the Great Ones to save them from Klingon invaders. The natives see the arrival of James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise as deliverance provided by the Great Ones. Once the Klingons were driven out and Kirk had departed, the natives made sacrifices to the Great Ones and held a great feast, ending with the consumption of Klingon prisoners. (TOS - Strange New Worlds short story: "Book of Fulfillment")
  • The Great Ones was the name given by all modern Foitani to the Imperial-era Foitani who lived before and during the Suicide Wars. They were revered as demigods by their descendants. Around 3000, a research group discovered an ancient site where a squadron of Great Ones had been kept in suspended animation for millennia. As modern Foitani were all vodranet, and as they had lost all knowledge of Foitan history and physiology after the Wars, they assumed that the Great Ones were also vodranet. The modern Foitani were horrified when, on reviving the Great Ones, they learned that they were kwopillot, and were more horrified still when they learned that the kwopil genome was the natural one for their species, and that it was their ancestors--who had instigated the war by their rebellion and had destroyed all kwopil settlements before their few surviving worlds were knocked back into a Dark Age--who were the deviants. The moderns were prepared to destroy the Great Ones, themselves, and all witnesses to maintain their version of history, but through the intervention of Jennifer Logan a peace agreement was reached that allowed the Great Ones to coexist with the moderns. The Great Ones had a penchant for exploration and research of primitive civilizations. They would typically abduct several specimens, destroy the specimens, and store their physical and neural makeups in a computer program. As needed, they would create new specimens and conduct experiments with no thought to the comfort or safety of the specimens. They would also, if they deemed a primitive race likely to pose a threat should it ever evolve into a spacefaring civilization, eradicate that race by engineering an incurable, lethal, communicable respiratory virus and introducing it into the population. A failed attempt to eradicate humans from Earth in this fashion resulted in the creation of the common cold.
  • The Great Ones are the gods of Earth's Dreamlands. Little more powerful than humans, they rely upon the protection of Nyarlathotep. They are the gods of ancient Mnar (and possibly Hyperborea), or echoes of those deities. They dwell upon Kadath and sometimes mate with human women in the manner of the classical gods.
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