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| - The Baul is one of the middle-aged cultures in the space-faring business, Not quite as old as the Precursors and not as new as the Syreen or the Earthlings, Shofixti or Slylandro but culturally the Slylandro count as Middle-aged to be specific the Baul have only been space faring since about 20,000 BCE but no later than 18,000 BCE . Its known that they have only been space faring since as early as 20,000 BCE. Their apparent flaws in attitude might make the Player wonder how they were able to come this far. To no wonder they've been uplifted by someone else, namely the Ur-Quan.
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| - The Baul is one of the middle-aged cultures in the space-faring business, Not quite as old as the Precursors and not as new as the Syreen or the Earthlings, Shofixti or Slylandro but culturally the Slylandro count as Middle-aged to be specific the Baul have only been space faring since about 20,000 BCE but no later than 18,000 BCE . Its known that they have only been space faring since as early as 20,000 BCE. Their apparent flaws in attitude might make the Player wonder how they were able to come this far. To no wonder they've been uplifted by someone else, namely the Ur-Quan. 22,165 years ago in 20,000 BC the Ur-Quan subjugated the Rimward region of HyperSpace just shortly after the Senteint Miliu era (23,000 to 20,000 BCE). Along with the Baul and it's current inhabitants, the Xen-Weyi ,Fjorn (Mother-Ark), and Foon-Foon were eventually subjugated by the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za by 17,500 BCE when the Dnyarri Slave Empire ended. Usually Ur-Quan subjugation routine dictates to use Battle Thrall races to maintain the StarBases built in orbit of Fallow Slave worlds. The original circumstances are still unknown, but at some point of history, Battle Thralls in the Rimward region vanished completely, and the Ur-Quans themselves took over the supervision of the region. In the year 20,000 BCE the Ur-Quan Scout ships entered Baul space. In those day the Baul only controlled the home star system, an also in those days the Baul were just simply Asteroid demolition robots. The Foon-Foon were also just explorers with no weapons. The Ur-Quan come in to there star system and then just find robots doing there job destroying asteroids and scouting deep space. so they were easily defeated then came the Xen-Weyi subjugation. the Bauls and the Foon-Foon chose to be Battle thralls and the Xen-Weyi chose to become fallow slaves and thus slave shielded. After the Xen-Weyi get slave Shielded eventually the Baul turn on there fellow allied Ur-Quan Xen-Weyi guard allies. although the Spathi and the Ilwrath both abandoned the Ur-Quan Earthguard the Ur-Quan Xen-Weyi Guard ended up having a civil war instead of both mutually abandoning the guardee or slave shilded planet. although the Foon-Foon did evolve weapons to fight the Baul. at some point the Lurg told the Baul to abandon the Ur-Quan Xen-Weyi guard and they did end up doing that. The status quo changed years after the Great War between the Hierarchy and the Alliance ended, as Kohr-Ah fleets entered the scene, triggering the Second Doctrinal Conflict. Every Ur-Quan Kzer-Za was eager to participate in this important battle, but they couldn't leave the region without ensuring the maintenance of the StarBases. They decided to uplift the first pre-spaceflight culture they can find to be Hierarchy Battle Thralls so they can rush blowing up Kohr-Ah Marauders. To the misfortune of the universe they found the Bauls first, though it could have been a carefully reasoned choice: Ur-Quans don't restrict themselves from uplifting other species if that fits their purposes, BUT it somewhat contradicts their goals -- they make a potential threat stronger. Seeing the other example of Ur-Quan uplifting -- the Ilwrath -- it is possible that the Kzer-Za deliberately chose a culture they found ultimately harmless. The Ilwrath were fierce combatants but submissive to authority and unable to progress. Similarly the Bauls respect their authority and strength, and not really interested in progress as long as they can practice their own authority over others. Perfect choice. As quickly as they could, the Ur-Quan Lords charged the Bauls with the supervision of the last remaining StarBases in the region. They gave the Bauls Hyper-Space travel capable technology and told them not to disobey, in a way meaningful to them. At the time, the Baul homeworld faced rebellion as a few settlements joined an armed rebellion, advocating for social progress, education and other good stuff uncharacteristically to the rest of their world. These settlements were wiped out by the Ur-Quan as a demonstration of what could happen to the whole species if they don't behave. The Bauls not only understood the message, they were also thankful for it, and from that on, they followed the instructions of their masters obediently. In the end, both Ur-Quan subspecies weakened considerably in their conflict as the result of the Captain's interference. Not knowing of these results, the Baul continued their servitude in a mixed admiration and fear of the strength of the Ur-Quan. In the meantime they found some zest in themselves about experimenting with new weapons, but with the Ur-Quan threat lingering in the air, they didn't dare to put them in use against other races. That changed when the Lurg came about.
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