Umgah
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| Umgah | |
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| Ship | Drone |
| Homeworld | Beta Orionis I |
| Contacts | Arilou, Mycons, Spathi |
| Quote(s) | "Har! Har! Har!" |
The Umgah are a fictional race of beings featured in the sci-fi Star Control computer game series. They were the first race in the quadrant to be defeated by the Ur-Quan and to join their Hierarchy of Battle Thralls.
[edit] Physiology
The Umgah are large, pink or lilac-colored blobs, with several mouths, eyes, and tentacles at seemingly random positions in their bodies. All Umgah are born with agoraphobia, and prefer biotic environments in their ships. All the collected xenobiological knowledge in the quadrant has been unable to improve on 'Blobbies' as a description of their unique form of life, though the Umgah themselves are immensely skilled at bioengineering. They often add or remove limbs and organs from themselves for fun, for example.
[edit] Philosophy
Umgah discussion is full of jokes, and their sense of humor is renowned (or, more accurately, feared) throughout the galaxy. Umgah jokes often involve using a HyperWave caster to send messages to other civilizations, claiming to be gods or monsters. They have performed such jokes on the Ilwrath and the Spathi, in the former pretending to be the gods Dogar and Kazon, and in the latter pretending to be monsters such as the "Grand Master Planet Eater." Given that their pranks have ended in, thus far, several thousand Spathi dead of acute anxiety, a six year holy war by the Ilwrath, and even the Umgah themselves joining the Ur-Quan's hierarchy bent on enslaving all sentient life, it can be deduced the Umgah are not a responsible species.
When the Arilou discovered a living Talking Pet, they took it to the Umgah for medical treatment. The Umgah, with their great medical knowledge, were able to restore the Talking Pet to health. Unfortunately, their experimental tendencies led them to genetically alter the Talking Pet, restoring to it the full psychic potential of the original race enslaved by the Ur-Quan to create the Talking Pets, the Dnyarri. This act led to the entire Umgah race being psychically dominated for some time, and could have led to the psychic subjugation of the known galaxy.
[edit] Umgah Drone
Drones are very slow, with a short-range cone-shaped spray of antimatter that sprouts out from the front of their pod-shaped ship. This attack is very damaging and can be maintained indefinitely, providing a shield against most attacks from that direction. The Umgah ship also has a special ability that allows it to put on tremendous bursts of short-lived speed moving backward. With skill, a pilot can use this ability to dash out in front of an opponent's ship so that it passes into the antimatter cone before it can maneuver. However, due to the Drone's low crew number and difficulty in piloting, players often consider it a poor fighting ship. A highly skilled player however can use this ship as an antidote to much more powerful larger ships, and it can be held in reserve preventing more skilled players from early deployment of larger, more powerful ships. The warp can also be used offensively to knock the enemy ship into rapid motion, and then to use the anti-matter cone to destroy or severely damage it when it comes close the next time.
