![]() ![]() The Heralds showed gratitude to the Iconians they served. ( DS9 - Gateways short story: " Horn and Ivory")Īlways few in number, the Iconians uplifted a semi-sentient species from their planet and called them "the Heralds", using them as servants and trusted companions. Out of respect for these entities, the Iconians did not deploy any gateways within ten light-years of the wormhole or those worlds that the entities watched over. During the deployment of the network, they discovered the existence of a race of beings that dwelt within the Bajoran wormhole. Using this technology, they formed the Iconian Empire which spread across space. ( VOY - Gateways short story: " In the Queue") What was unknown to many was that the Q Continuum had a certain fondness for the race and provided them the means to create gateways with the most casual piece of their technology in order for them to reach other worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. The ascendancy of the Iconian race began thousands of years ago, when their race made use of the Dream Gem to develop their Gateway technology. The Iconians were the first species on worlds seeded by the Preservers to arise to sentience, and at some point came to know their creators. ( DS9 - The Secret of the Lost Orb comic: " The Search") The Iconians has a religious belief of some kind. Whether this was entirely due to natural lifespan or augmented by their medical technology is unclear. At least three and probably all of the twelve survivors of the fall of their empire lived into the 25th century. Throughout their history, the Iconians were a small population (apparently only female, with parthenogenic children born rarely) and with lifespans that lasted millennia. It was theorized that they altered themselves to become living weapons after their civilization fell. Instead of being able to generate energy blasts, they used weapons similar to the kinds they would later use to arm their Heralds. ( STO mission: " The Iconian War")īefore the fall of their empire 200,000 years ago, the Iconians - not just as a species, but the very same individuals - appeared fully organic. If an Iconian traveled to the past, their mind would "reshape" to that time period, meaning that all the memories this individual had gained after their arrival would be lost. This meant the Iconians themselves could not travel through time. ![]() However, time itself had a very unusual effect on their minds, as they were chroniton-based. They were apparently immortal beings, not being affected by aging. Despite this incredible capability, using their own energy for such purposes could be dangerous and even deadly. By the 25th century, and probably millennia before that, the Iconians had evolved/altered themselves in such a way that they were partially energy beings, capable of using their own "essence" to power up different types of equipment, such as their Gateway technology. ![]()
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