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A Thin Veneer (Star Trek/Babylon 5)

Quote:The battle was shrouded in myth and legend, however a few dedicated
historians were able to glean the truth concerning the southern
campaigns. Molor's rampage had been one of purpose. He tried to gather
enough power to take the war to Qam-Chee, the premier threat to the
entire Klingon people but he failed in his advances at Kon. Kahless had
no idea of the threat it represented when he began his own conquests
but he quickly discovered the truth behind Molor's madness. The gods
ruled there and their influence threatened the entire world. The
savagery of the leadership had not or would be surpassed in the entire
history of the Klingon people.
Modern historians realized the
truth about the warriors of Xol. They were stronger and more vicious
than any others found history. The serpent king's heart was not
Klingon, it was something else. Xol would have placed the entirety of
the Klingon people under an eternal yolk of slavery if they had
continued the conquest of the western Kingdoms.
Chang smiled
pleased at the memory of the story of his childhood. He understood the
hints behind the myths perfectly. Qo'noS of the time of Kahless had
been invaded by aliens. The bloody campaign took a decade to complete.
After a titanic battle between Kahless, his woman and his surviving
brothers against the serpent King, Xol was beheaded by Kahless himself
and Xol's head slung into the mouth of the volcano K'stoQueS'qu to keep
it from infecting others. It had only been then that Kahless had
understood his grandfather's stories about Goul'kids snake gods and
their Karffea elite and how he had slaughtered many of them before they
had fled to the southern kingdoms to rebuild anew. It had been his
grandfather and his brothers who had thrown the 'wheel of heaven's
water' into the pit of a volcano forever cutting the enemy off from
their source of power.
With Xol defeated, the Lady Lukara
suggested that the world be cleansed of the Qam-Chee threat once and
for all and her mate hardily approved. Close to a million people of the
southern kingdom were thrown into the heart of the lava pits of
K'stoQueS'qu. Anyone suspected of harboring the snake ones were
slaughtered and their bodies thrown into the molten lava. By the hand
of Kahless the Klingons finished slaying the gods that had survived his
grandfather's purge. Then, please with what he had accomplished, he
rested with his woman at his side. He developed a taste for poetry as
he grew old, got pretty good at it, too.