Nakh
The last extant client race of the Jjaro — a species annihilated by the Pfhor via the Trih Xeem approximately six thousand years before 2811, in response to a revolt against their enslavers.
What the source establishes — canon
The Nakh were the last extant Jjaro client race. The terminal states that the S’pht’Kr victory over the Pfhor is “the worst defeat [the Pfhor] suffered since the Nakh, the last extant client race of the Jjaro, rebelled six thousand years ago.”1 Two facts are packed into this clause: the Jjaro had client races (plural), and the Nakh were the last still in existence at the time of the revolt — implying all prior Jjaro client races had already ceased to exist.
The Nakh rebelled approximately six thousand years before 2811. The terminal is dated 05.10.2337 in the game’s internal chronology but the narrative present for this event is the fall of Lh’owon in 2811. The revolt is placed ~6,000 years before that event.1
The Pfhor deployed the trih xeem against the Nakh. The terminal establishes that the Pfhor possess a weapon — named trih xeem in the language of the Jjaro who conceived and built it, translating roughly as “early nova” — reserved for slave revolts. The passage then states: “There is not a single Nakh alive today, and if you look for their stars, you will only find ever-expanding clouds of superheated gas and dust light-years in diameter.”1 The weapon causes stellar detonation; the Nakh and their star systems were destroyed.
The Nakh revolt was remembered by the Pfhor military as a defining engagement. The introduction chapter establishes that Battle Group Three distinguished itself in the early Pfhor empire, earning decorations “for turning back the loyalists at Tahrm’s Gap and holding the approaches to the Pfhor homeworld itself during the slave revolt of the Nakh.”2 The revolt reached or threatened the Pfhor homeworld directly — it was significant enough to be the measure of Battle Group Three’s greatest historical achievement.
The Nakh are completely extinct. The terminal is unambiguous: not a single Nakh is alive, and their stellar systems no longer exist as such — only expanding gas and dust.1
Cross-corpus appearances
| Volume | Game / Level | What it establishes |
|---|---|---|
| The Adventure Continues… (introduction) | Marathon 2 / introduction | Battle Group Three’s defining engagement: holding the Pfhor homeworld approaches during the Nakh slave revolt |
| All Roads Lead to Sol (tranced.Finale<0-05>) | Marathon 2 / S’pht’Kr arc | Nakh = last extant Jjaro client race; rebelled ~6,000 years ago; annihilated by trih xeem; no Nakh alive; their stars are expanding gas clouds |
Source-silent / open questions
- What the Nakh looked like, their biology, their homeworld name. The pack gives no physical description, no named individuals, no homeworld designation. “Their stars” (plural) implies more than one stellar system but none is named.
- How the Nakh came to be Jjaro clients. The pack gives no origin — whether they were created, conquered, uplifted, or allied. Source-silent.
- The nature of the revolt. The pack establishes that the revolt happened and that it reached or threatened the Pfhor homeworld, but gives no cause, no duration, no leadership, no events.
- Why the Pfhor had Jjaro client races at all. The relationship between Jjaro client races and the Pfhor slave empire is unexplained. Whether the Pfhor inherited these clients from the Jjaro or acquired them independently is not stated.
- How many other Jjaro client races preceded the Nakh. “Last extant” implies predecessors; none are named or described.
- Whether any Nakh survived off-world or in hiding. The terminal says “not a single Nakh alive today” — the pack treats extinction as total, but gives no accounting of how this was verified.
- The timeline between the Jjaro’s disappearance and the Nakh revolt. The Jjaro disappeared “millions of years ago”3; the Nakh revolted ~6,000 years before 2811. What happened to the Nakh in the intervening millions of years is source-silent.
Cross-references
Jjaro · Trih Xeem · Pfhor · S’pht’Kr · Lh’owon
Where it appears in the vault
Mirror pages
The local 1:1 pages this hub’s citations resolve to — the twin’s own ground truth.
Sources
Every factual claim above is cited to primary Marathon source material — see Sources below. Cross-corpus connections and interpretation are the vault’s own; where the games are silent, this page says so.
Footnotes
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All Roads Lead to Sol — Marathon 2, tranced.Finale<0-05> ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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The Adventure Continues… — Marathon 2 introduction chapter ↩
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Jjaro — For Carnage Apply Within (traxIV<40c>), cited in the Jjaro hub ↩