Many years ago on the planet Irk there was a race of insectoid life forms (in this version there is more than one species on Irk so the term Irken is too vague. For now at least.) . Like insects on Earth they had a monarch government and ranks.

The smaller insectoids had numbers far greater than the taller ranks. They proved to be quite intelligent.

The rightful rulers, known as Royalty, were born from a queen of their species. Unlike other ranks however, Royalty did not have a set appearance. They could be any size or shape. In the event that the heir to the throne was unable to fully lead, the Royalty set up a council consisting of a member of each rank. It was hard wired in the DNA of these insectoids to follow the Royalty. But all that was about to change.

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One day Queen Miyuki gave birth to a son whom she named Spork. Spork's egg was placed out in public so everyone could admire their future ruler. There was much joy throughout the planet. However two members of the council were not pleased. Members of the Tallest rank Redokan and Purpletos, or just Red and Purple for short, were forming a plan to rid the planet of the Royalty rank making the Tallest the lead rank. Spork complicated said plan. Now they had to assassinate both Spork and Miyuki without it being suspicious. The plan would take many years.

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After Spork hatched he was placed under Red's apprenticeship. Red worked for the science division and Miyuki had ordered them to build The Massive. The Massive could hold nearly the entire insectoid race. It was meant to be a research vessel in which generations of the insectoids could dedicate their lives to researching the universe and meeting other species. Miyuki didn't know that she was playing right into the Tallests' plan.

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The Massive was nearly complete when Miyuki was about to announce something she claimed would change their world. With some "advice" from Purple she invited every member of the council to the event. Meanwhile, Red was teaching Spork a lesson in bio-engineering. He and his scientists were working on enhancing a member of an endangered species of a slime-like animal. The animal was valuable to Irk's forest and a necessary part of the environment. It reproduced by splitting its cells and eventually separating into two new individuals. The idea, at least what Red claimed, was to create a serum to rapidly multiply is cells thus making it reproduce faster. Red gave Spork the serum. Spork was just to put a small amount in. As he began to pour Red pretended to place his hand on Spork's shoulder as a congratulations. In reality he was placing a small machine that hacked into Spork's nerves making him drop the full amount of serum on the animal.

The animal grew and mutated unable to separate. It became a giant monster and escaped its enclosure. Red quickly deactivated all but one escape pod in the lab. He gave mocking wave goodbye as the monster attacked the scientists and killed Spork.

Purple was to get Spork when he did not show up during the announcement. Purple was able to disable the security systems along the way to the lab. Eventually he opened the lab's doors and the monster ran out, hungry. Purple hid behind a beam while the monster attacked and devoured the Council. Red's escape pod landed during the attack. He activated the distress signal on the pod and met up with Purple to pretend that they were just innocent victims.

Miyuki saw this and dragged her wounded body towards them.

"How can you two do this?" she asked weakly. "Why did you two fools do this?"

Red smiled and picked her up by the antennae, one of the most painful and humiliating spots to be grabbed by for the female insectoid.

"That's no way to talk to the Almighty Tallest." Red laughed. His laugh was joined by Purple as he tossed Miyuki into the monster. It wasn't the monster that killed her. Purple tossed in a small bomb. He would later say that is how he defeated the monster but unfortunately he could not save Miyuki.

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When the emergency crew landed they found what appeared to be Red and Purple battered, bruised, and unconscious on the ground surrounded by goo and insectoid remains. They were "rescued" and they immediately made a public announcement.

"My fellow Irkens, it is with heavy spiddle splats(hearts?) that we announce the death of Queen Miyuki and Prince Spork." said Red with a fake somber face.

"Sadly this is the end of the Royalty rank." announced Purple bowing his head.

"They will be missed but do not worry. As the last surviving members of the Council we shall take control." said Red.

"We know we cannot replace Royalty…" said Purple.

"…But I know we can do a just as good if not better job as your leaders." stated Red.

Then a Brute rank Irken appeared on screen.

"All hail The Almighty Tallest!" he yelled waving his spear in the air. The two were happy to hear the crowds chanting the words Almighty Tallest outside of their building. They were now rulers of Irk.

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The let themselves into the late Queen's chambers and began to "redecorate" it by smashing unwanted items to pieces including the Royalty staff. Then Red noticed something in the Queen's chambers. It was an egg. The announcement she never got to make was that she had another egg and therefore another heir.

Red raised it up in order to smash it. Even he does not know why he looked up. He saw through the green membrane of the egg. There was a little baby inside it. It was so innocent. So helpless. Red felt something. Was it guilt? No. But he couldn't destroy this egg for some reason. Just then the small being inside it moved and opened it's eyes. It say through the shell and looked right at Red before closing its eyes again.

Now Red was stuck with this egg that he could not kill. He hid it from Purple who was enjoying the Queen's snack pile. He left the room and scurried through the alleyways of the Irken city. Eventually he found a small fast food restaurant called Food Courtia. He placed the egg at the steps and ran.

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Irk slowly began to fall under the Tallest rule. The Tallest ordered many machines to be invented. They claimed that they were just trying to make their citizens happy with all the technology but it was actually to make them dependent on the machines and whoever controlled them. When some of the older insectoids began to suspect something the Tallest ordered all of the unhatched eggs to go through a new procedure they called the PAK project. Each new Irken was equipped with a machine called a PAK permanently attached to them. It gave them enhanced abilities, acted as a computer, gave them advanced mobility with arthropod legs, and acted as a storage pack. Their real purpose however was to block the genes in the common insectoids DNA that makes them obey Royalty and lower their intelligence thus making them little more than drones. The Massive was changed into a military vessel. Under the Tallest rule all of Irk's resources were wiped out making Irk uninhabitable. All the species except for the insectoids became extinct. Being the only species on Irk, the insectoids earned the name Irkens.

Unable to live on Irk, the Irkens set out for the stars. The Tallest ordered a few select Irkens to find a new planet to call home. The dubbed this mission Operation Impending Doom. The Invaders split up and much to everyone's surprise each of them conquered a planet by themselves. This gave Red and Purple an idea. Why settle for the Irkens when it is so easy to conquer other planets? Their new goal was to rule the universe.

Soon they set out a call to the most elite of Irkens to sign on for Operation Impending Doom II and a small orphaned Irken boy answered.

IRKEN FUN FACT: Irken antenaes have a large variety of functions from communicating, to attracting, and expression. Without antenae an Irken cannot hear or smell.

The male antenae are straight with a bend in the middle while the female's are curved at the end. The female antenae are far more sensitive than the males especially mother Irkens whose sensces are hightened to protect their children. Irkens do not kiss as they do not view pressing lips against each ther as affectionate. Instead the curl their antenae's up.

If one touches a female Irken's antenae it is considered very offenscive. It is basically the equivalant of touching a human female's rear end.