Klingons (FASA)
Fusion Races
Fusions are Klingon subraces that have been genetically engineered to compete with other major spacefaring races that the Empire has encountered. Fusion races blend Klingon traits with the best and most competitive characteristics of another race to form a new branch of the Klingon species. Klingon/Human and Klingon/Romulan Fusions are known, and others are possible. The Klingon physiology is dominant in such fusions, whose body chemistry, internal structure, and so on is similar to that of Imperial Race Klingons. When Fusion-race Klingons interbreed with Imperial Klingons, random genetic selection will produce offspring whose dominant characteristics are either of the Imperial Race or the appropriate Fusion race.[1]
Though Fusions are more suited than Imperial Race Klingons to living and fighting in various alien environments, they are socially (but subtly) subordinate to members of the Imperial breed In the Empire. Fusion races outnumber Imperial Klingons in many border areas, however, and at least one Klingon Emperor may have been a Klingon/Human Fusion.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McLimore, Guy W. Jr., Poehlein, Greg K., and Tepool, David F., with Ippolito, Donna, and Huettel, Todd W. "The Klingons: Star Fleet Intelligence Manual." Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, Supplement 2002, Second Edition. Based on original material by Ford, John M. Illustrations by Todd F. Marsh, Dana Knutson, Jeff Laubenstein, and Mitch O'Connell. FASA Corporation. 1987.
