3. 8. WQ Human

While they are of the same race as the Humans, the WQ Humans want nothing to do with them. When the Humans were attempting to unite the races, the WQ Humans began colonizing the Western Quadrant of the galaxy. Here they developed their communities and began extensive trading with other races, specifically the Thevians. The unification attempt failed due to a war that broke out between the Thevians and the Ik'Thorne. The main Human forces almost immediately joined forces with the Ik'Thorne, for several reasons that are not clearly understood. The WQ Humans looked upon this as being unjust, and lobbied several times to withdraw Human involvement from the conflict. Finally, they declared themselves a separate entity. Immediately, the Humans withdrew from the Thevian-Ik'Thorne conflict, and attempted to suppress the rebellion. The civil war continued for over 50 years, and ended in an unstable peace treaty. Since then there have been several conflicts between the two human groups, and their relations seem to be worsening.

Because of the worsening relations, the WQ Humans have developed cloaking technology for their top ships. This allows them to move about space and hunt or trade without detection. However, the cloak technology has one exploitable flaw. If a cloaked ship comes in contact with a space mine, the cloak switches itself off and must be manually reset, leaving the ship vulnerable to attack.