Gaim come
from a planet known as N'chak'fah, with a thick atmosphere which completely
obscured this insectoid like race from seeing the stars. Ruled by
a strict Monarchy based government where the Queens hold absolute dominion
over her subjects, the Royal houses of Gaim completed fiercely among
themselves for control of their world. About fifty Earth years ago,
the Narn Regime attempted to invade the Gaim home world. The Narn
believed that N'chak'fah would be an easy target. They were very,
very wrong. For the first time in Gaim history, the segmented royal houses
of the Gaim home world united to stave off the Narn Regime's attempt
to Invade. Genetically
engineered warrior drones slaughtered Narn troops and warrior insects
given the power of flight drove Narn fighter craft to fiery deaths against
the rugged terrain of N'chak'fah. Faced with the threat of invasion from
outside forces, the Queens put an end to thousands of years of open hostilities
and turned to gather as much information about potential threats from
the stars. This eventually led the Gaim Queens to decide that contact
with other races was necessary to their world's safety and survival.
To deal with aliens, the Gaim Queens consciously manipulated the genetic
matterials in their eggs to achieve a new breed of Gaim, an ambassador
class drone. For
the first time in their planet's recorded history, the Gaim Queens combined
their genetic matterials and produced a Gaim capable of representing
the whole Gaim society and all the Royal houses of N'chak'fah.
(from the B5 Tech Manual)
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