Angoth

Creative. Loyal. Spiritual.

Before the arrival of the Dowd, the Angoth lived on a low-gravity world with cities built on floating, island-like masses. They were an ingenious but divided people who only formed a unified government after they developed the technology to reach the stars. Before they could colonize many systems, however, the Dowd arrived in force…and showed no mercy.

Most of the original Angoth colonies still lie in ruin, and many of their people were enslaved by the Dowd. Their ability to fly and function in low-gravity environments made them excellent deep-space miners, which may be the only reason they were enslaved rather than exterminated. As the Dowd were pushed back by the Dominion, the surviving Sillibar—a much more technically advanced race—invited the Angoth to join the Pact.  

Today, nearly three-quarters of the Angoth population lives on Pact-controlled worlds alongside other species. As natural flyers, they consider themselves among the best pilots in the galaxy, and they represent nearly the entire corps of non-drone starfighter pilots in the Pact military. Angoth engineers have learned from and built upon original Sillibar technology to create a massive war fleet larger than any in the Cluster.

Like the Krosians, the Angoth see the Sillibar as their saviors. Few are aware that it was the Dominion Expansionary Fleet, not the Sillibar, who defeated the Dowd, and the Sillibar have never seen fit to correct that misconception. Angoth who do not join the Pact military are highly coveted as engineers and pilots across the Cluster.

Angoth are a deeply spiritual people. For most of their history, they worshipped Shak’Ath, a god of sky and wind. Since their near destruction at the hands of the Dowd, however, many Angoth spiritual leaders now teach that the Sillibar are the Prophets of Shak’Ath, formless beings blessed with his power sent to save the Angoth from destruction. Not all have embraced this belief, however, and the gulf between clergy who espouse traditional religious teachings and those which venerate the Sillibar continues to widen.

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