The Koinonians were an ancient, intelligent culture that was composed of two different lifeforms, one of energy and the other of matter, both native to the Koinonian homeworld. The physical and non-corporeal Koinonians coexisted on the planet, however, the physical Koinonians destroyed their own civilization in a series of bitter conflicts between different factions. They lasted for generations, centuries before the 24th century. Those conflicts were later called the Koinonian Wars. They left ruins in underground caverns and only sparse data about the corporeal Koinonians survived into the 24th century. The non-corporeal Koinonians had strong morals and watched the raging wars in abhorrence. They survived on the homeworld even after it was ravaged by the wars and still inhabited the desola