For those of you who have never played WC and never heard of the Kilrathi, here's how the collest bad guys in the universe look
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The Kilrathi Emperor
On the left, Prince Thrakhat; his aide Melek is the right one with the orange coat.
The Kilrathi are a race of feline predators which evolved on Kilrah. Due to their agressiveness, their history is full of bloody civil wars between the clans that make any war on Earth pale by comparison. At the dawn of their atomical age, the Utara came in peace and gave them Spaceflight; the Kilrathi slaughtered them in turn. Now that they had interstellar spaceflight, they could turn their attention to the stars. They won all the wars with other races until they met the Terran Confederation. The war lasted for more than 30 years, the borders barely barely shifing after their first gains. However, in 2668, Prince Tharakhat fooled the Confederation into a fake armistice, and then started a full assault on Earth itself with a secretly constructed fleet of supercarriers. On their way to Earth, the Kilrathi bombarded several worlds with Strontium clad thermonukes, wiping all forms of life out of them. The final assault on Earth was beaten back under horrendous losses; this was the turning point in the war. Several months later the Confederation was on the verge of total defeat. In a desperate attempt, and experimantal planetbusting bomb was dropped onto Kilrah, killing the Emperor and his subjects, tearing the planet apart. The surviving kilrathi werte hopelessy demoralized and sued for peace, a concept alien to them until this moment of utter defeat. The truth however, is different. There are plenty of independent warlords survivng on the colony worlds, trying to build up their own empires, raiding human border colonies at will, or simply going pirate...
