Category:Bagh Jorkel

The Bagh Jorkel (colloquially: Badgers) are the species who brought FTL technology to Earth.

By crash landing in Toronto.

It appears that the Bagh Jorkel were en–route from one known destination to another known destination when something went wrong. It is notable that none of the stars visible in our part of the Milky Way are identifiable by the Bagh Jorkel from their own charts of spectral analysis.

The engineer responsible for their unexpected departure from Bagh Jorkel space has a special place in their pantheon &mdash; somewhere between Satan and Murphy.

After first contact, the Bagh Jorkel began purchasing land from various Earth Governments in exchange for the advanced technology they brought with them to Earth.

Having been on Earth for such a short period of time since first contact, the Bagh Jorkel still relate to themselves as being Bagh Jorkel first and foremost. There is some speculation that they may be the last Bagh Jorkel in the Universe.

The Bagh Jorkel having a preference for cooler climes, the Governments with land near the Arctic circle were usually able make more deals.

With a Human population of around 16 billion to the Bagh Jorkel population of around 500 thousand at this time, anything that makes it easier for them to have an en masse "accident" in the scatter is just not smart. Thus they very much like being super groovy on their new friends homeworld, either living in scattered communities in the last of said worlds resource belts, or integrated fully with commerce, travel and technology.

While willing to trade some technology, the Bagh Jorkel have been unwilling to part with several key techs. Notable amongst these are the technologies required to build, maintain and even operate the FTL drives now being used to move Humanity amongst the stars.

Correspondingly, every ship moving between the stars has an engineering complement containing at least one Bagh Jorkel capable of maintaining the drive.

The Bagh Jorkel themselves refer to this requirement as a safeguard because while the Bagh Jorkel are nice as a species, they are not stupid &mdash; they will hang onto the core secrets of their drives until Human/Bagh Jorkel societies are wound together past the point of easy ethnic cleansing moods.

In general, there are Bagh Jorkel looking to ship out with a drive at many large starports, but then they tend to be kind of concerned with what happened to the last guy. And because of the political/power implications, the authorities tend to investigate Bagh Jorkel deaths much more stringently than the death of human crew.