Legion Sketchbook

Enter the Kublarens!

Tribal, warlike, and aggressive, the Kublarens are a species of aliens most known to the legion serving along the edge. Resembling bi-pedal frogs with three-fingered hands, the race is rarely encountered outside their home planet of Kublar.

Standing well below the height of a human, the Kublaren’s amphibian-like traits have made them easily read by Republic negotiators working their home world. A purple hued air sac rests just above the throat, which expands and contracts as they breathe. Repub arbiters have reported the speed a Kublarern inflates the sack is a telling expression to indicate mood. Desire, surprise, and fear are all spelled out in the way the particular alien puffs out its throat. Adding a lick to the eyebrow ridge by their prehensile tongues is usually a sign of anger, according to the growing number of House of Reason experts on Kublaren behavior.

Major tribal leaders seeking diplomatic relations, prompted the Republic to send ambassadors and engagement teams to Kublar. When attacks on envoys and troops became commonplace, news networks compared the Kublarens to the problematic Zhee. To head off any bad press, the House of Reason deployed a legion detachment to act as special security during tense negotiations for statehood.

Dark Ops legionnaires have long leveraged Kublaren culture to their advantage in working with the locals. Pitting rival tribes against each other served as a clean method for rooting out violent, bad actors. Using their position embedded in “Koob” villages, Dark Ops studied the alien’s culture, pushing their intel to incoming units.

The Kublaren tribes favor slug based and close combat weapons to the energy based variants of modern society, but that doesn’t mean they are less dangerous to modern forces. Large numbers of locals, armed with crudely carved tomahawks, knives, and rudimentary slug throwers, have been the downfall for multiple missions to the planet. During the Battle of Kublar involving the 131st Legion, hordes of military age “Koobs” armed with surplus MCR military kit, successfully ambushed the legion’s Victory Company. Working in tandem with the Mid-Core Rebellion, the locals had almost wiped out the leejes.

V-Co's leadership staged a bold last call for help on a secluded broadcast tower, allowing the legion force to escape before the tribes could overwhelm them.