Krell
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The Krell were natives of the planet Altair IV in the film Forbidden Planet. Two thousand centuries ago, their race died out when they completed their project to gain freedom from "instrumentality" - that is, freedom from the use of tools and devices. A Great Machine would instead, read their thoughts and instantly make them into reality. Unfortunately, the 8,000 cubic mile (33,000 km³) machine they created for this purpose also gave physical form to all of their subconscious hatreds - unfamiliar emotions that had seemingly been eradicated from their society, killed them all in the space of a single night. The unstoppable machine committed genocide.
No image of what the Krell looked liked survived, but the human who studied them, Dr. Edward Morbius (Ph.D Philology), theorized on the basis of their doorways and other artifacts that they must have had triangular body-shapes and very large heads.
The Krell were highly intelligent and cultured and their culture long-lived, having even visited Earth long before Man became a tool-user. Unfortunately, eons of peaceful existence made them forget their baser selves, which ultimately destroyed a great civilization as it was about to achieve its apex.
[edit] Krell Industries Inc.
The Krell were apparently a motivation behind the namesake Krell Industries Inc. – a U.S.high-end audio manufacturer appearing in the late 1980s and continuing to this day. Krell Industries Inc. manufactured an amplifier with the model name Altair.
