Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah

The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are one of the two subraces of the Ur-Quan. They share many physical characteristics with their Ur-Quan Kzer-Za brethren, except their skin is black instead of green and their eyes are blood red. Their race was genetically engineered by the Dnyarri from the main line of the Ur-Quan during the height of the Dnyarri Slave Empire. The Kohr-Ah were designed to be the "effectors," the builders and warriors of the Empire.

Overview
The Kohr-Ah named themselves for their greatest surviving leader following their successful revolt against the Dnyarri. Kohr-Ah (the individual) was a starship captain and is credited with the development of the Eternal Doctrine, to which all Kohr-Ah (the race) adhere.

Like their Kzer-Za relatives, the Kohr-Ah are driven more than anything by the need to prevent anything like the Dnyarri slavery from ever happening again. But while the Kzer-Za are satisfied by containing the other species, the Kohr-Ah see genocide as the only solution. They do not have ethical problems with this; each alien they kill could be reborn as an Ur-Quan.

After their defeat by the Kzer-Za in the first Doctrinal Conflict they were banished to circle the galaxy, and when they next met the Kzer-Za they would begin the ceremonial war again to find which subrace's Doctrine was superior. It has been thousands of years and the Kohr-Ah have more than made up for their ancient losses. They have, in fact, surpassed the might of the Kzer-Za and are poised to win their civil war.

In the wake of their travels they have left half the galaxy devoid of sentient life, primarily through the use of their Marauder starships.

Philosophy
The Kohr-Ah's Eternal Doctrine is much simpler and less subtle than the byzantine Path of Now and Forever of their "effete" Kzer-Za brothers. The Kohr-Ah religiously ignore any pragmatical or moral objections to their philosophy, which they consider self-justifying, needing no confirmation. They also believe in reincarnation, that all sentient life is in a constant cycle of death and rebirth into new forms. Since the death of an individual is the not the end of its existence, termination of life has no adverse effects, but in fact provides a sentient being with an opportunity to be reborn as an Ur-Quan. All other forms of life (with the exception of the Kzer-Za, their "partners in the eternal conflict", the only race they consider an enemy) are considered "filth" — possible future threats to the freedom and security of the Ur-Quan species — or "threats" — a status that The Captain may receive after destroying a certain number of Marauders. Both filth and threats must be cleansed. The only exception allowed is the case of an alien race which agrees to kill every non-Ur-Quan sentient life-form, including themselves — a condition that no one has ever accepted.

The Kohr-Ah are so attached to this Doctrine, that during the Kessari Timeline, the Kohr-Ah initiate a civil war against the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za again to fight for Doctrinal supremacy, in spite of the Kzer-Za wishing to make amends with the other sentient races of the galaxy.