Aakar

Aakar

Military Rank:

Captain

Location(s):

Priors System
Facility 2047
First City
Gorath System
Boreth

Race:

Klingon (Discovery)

Death year:

2411

Voiced by:

Robert O'Reilly

Aakar prior to Season 20

Aakar, son of Aakam was a Klingon special forces operative and a member of House Mo'Kai during the 2250s. He was briefly captured by Starfleet forces during the Federation-Klingon War. He is the grandfather of former Chancellor Gowron.

Biography

In 2256, during the Federation-Klingon War, Aakar led an attack on the Priors System. Using a computer virus masked as a Klingon genetic sequence, Aakar sabotaged the Federation weapon platforms above the planet, turning them on unsuspecting Starfleet ships. In midst of chaos, most of the Starfleet forces in the system were wiped out and Klingons took the planet, butchering the inhabitants and installing large anti-starship missile launchers on the planet's surface.

The U.S.S. Buran led an offensive against Aakar and his forces. The counter-strike was a success and the system was liberated. Aakar himself was captured and placed in custody aboard the Buran.

Aakar would not remain in custody for long. Using the same virus deployed on Priors World defense grid, J'Ula followed a Starfleet vessel to a holding facility in Mandel System and liberated him. Aakar returned to the Priors System and destroyed the Buran, exacting his revenge.

Aakar participated in the attack on Starbase 1, and was swept into the 25th century when J'Ula attempted to use her mycelial weapon. In 2411, Aakar served as J'Ula's First Officer, accompanying her to Qo'noS for the Great Houses meeting. Disobeying her orders, he told the gunman to fire the weapon on the Qu'Vat colony and killed him to avoid being exposed. However, he then betrayed J'Ula and sided with J'mpok, giving the Klingon Chancellor her weapon, which was subsequently used to destroy the Chamber of Alliance on Khitomer.

Aided by Louann Wilkins, an infiltration specialist of the Coldstar, an Alliance captain, accompanied by General Martok, Adet'pa and J'Ula go to the Gorath System where they hack the computer codes for the evidence of J'mpok's attack on Khitomer. Aakar confronts them, but he flees while his forces are defeated, and J'mpok dismisses the High Council in orbit and proclaims himself 'Emperor' following the evidence broadcast. He later confronts J'Ula, Martok, Adet'pa and Tenavik while J'Ula was undertaking several trials on Boreth. He flees and battles them, with the Alliance captain, in orbit, and plants a virus on the Lukara before escaping the system. The Lukara is destroyed, but the Alliance captain managed to rescue J'Ula and her crew in time. With the aid of Tenavik and the monks of Boreth who offered a clone of Chancellor L'Rell to replace J'mpok, the team look a trip to Gre'thor in search for her soul. They landed themselves in Koth, where Martok reunites with Gowron, whose personal honor satisfied Sto-vo-kor, but his entry is blocked due to the dishonor of his grandfather, Aakar. After defeating Fek'lhr in Gre'thor, Gowron offers his soul in exchange for L'Rell's before J'Ula could finish offering hers. Fek'lhr eventually accepts J'Ula's new offer of Aakar's and J'mpok's souls in exchange for Gowron's freedom.

In the meantime, J'mpok cracks down on any resistance to his rule, sending some to Rura Penthe to deny them their warrior's death, or disabling their fleets with a virus developed by Aakar. The Alliance captain, L'Rell, J'Ula, and Martok rally enough support within the Empire, including from the Gorn and the Orion Syndicate, to corner J'mpok on Qo'noS. After J'mpok's flagship is disabled, he retreats into the Great Hall, and Aakar enters orbit with his fleet. While ground forces are taking on ground troops, a team of Alliance forces, led by Kagran and Adet'pa disable the Targ and destroy Aakar's fleet. With both the Kris'tak and the Targ disabled, Aakar beams back to the surface to join J'mpok in the Great Hall. Before that however, Aakar wounds Martok at the courtyard and lures J'Ula into a duel to the death with J'mpok, setting up shields to trap them. Martok retreats back to the Rotarran to join the battle in orbit, but not before handing the Sword of Kahless to L'Rell. While J'mpok duels J'Ula, Aakar and his troops fight the Alliance captain and L'Rell. With the aid of Adet'pa, they bypass his shields and personal transporters in the Great Hall, allowing the Alliance captain to kill him just as J'mpok falls to J'Ula. The death of the two of them allows Aakar's grandson, Gowron, to be released by Fek'lhr from Gre'thor to Sto-vo-kor as promised, and J'Ula passes the Chancellorship to L'Rell.

Missions involved

• “Operation Riposte”: The U.S.S. Buran leads the counter-strike against Aakar's forces. Aakar's dreadnought is disabled and Aakar placed in custody aboard the Buran.
• “The Plausibility of the Possible”: Player takes Aakar to Facility 2047 to be interrogated. However, the Klingons manage to uncover the location of the holding facility and J'Ula arrives to liberate him. While the player successfully pushes back the attack and defends the facility, Aakar successfully escapes.
• “Impossibility of Reason”: Aakar leads the assault on the Buran at Priors World. When the ship is destroyed, Aakar and his search party follow the surviving Starfleet officers to a nearby moon. Officers, who were attempting to take Captain Lorca to a medical facility, barely manage to escape.
• “The Centre Cannot Hold”: Aakar is present at the Great Hall during J'Ula's meeting with the Klingon High Council and recognizes Discovery-Federation players. He joins House Mo'Kai and Klingon Rebel forces in the fight against J'mpok, the player and other attendees after the meeting and flees with J'Ula following the battle.
• “Best Served Cold”: Aakar leads a House Mo'kai force on a prison break on Rura Penthe, but he his stopped by Martok, Kagran and a team of five players.
• “The Khitomer Discord”: The player and Martok confront and fight J'Ula and Aakar at the lower levels of Khitomer, where Aakar retreats while J'Ula is captured. After the player emerges from the lower levels with the help of Adet'pa, he aids J'mpok in launching a mycelial weapon killing many delegates on the surface.

  

  Aakar and his forces confront the player, Martok and J'Ula in the Gorath System.

• “Partisans”: After Wilkins hacks the various computer codes in the arena of the Gorath System, which allowed Aakar to gain access to them, Aakar confronts her alongside the player, Martok and J'Ula. He flees before the battle takes place and his forces are defeated by them.
• “Knowledge is Power”: J'Ula, Martok, Adet'pa and Tenavik encounter and fight Aakar while they're on Boreth but he flees before they could finish him. In orbit, the player and the former three managed to disable his ship but he plants a virus on the Lukara before fleeing. The Lukara is destroyed but the player managed to retrieve her crew.

Aakar finally meets his end.

• “A Day Long Remembered”: Aakar leads reinforcements to back up J'mpok's forces during the final battle for Qo'noS, and beams down to the surface to confront the player and their allies, wounding Martok and forcing him to return to his ship, the I.K.S. Rotarran. He lures J'Ula into a duel to the death with J'mpok, and sets up security fields so that the player and L'Rell cannot interfere, as well as unleashing mycelial rift drones. With the aid of Adet'pa, the player is able to counteract his personal transporter as he attempts to escape from the battle, and is killed by the player, just before J'mpok himself falls to J'Ula.
• “Remain Klingon”: Aakar leads reinforcements against Alliance forces during the final battle of Qo'noS and beams down to the surface to join J'mpok when the Targ is disabled and his forces defeated.

Missions mentioned

• “Leap of Faith”: The player, accompanied by Martok and J'Ula, encounters Gowron in Koth, the void between Gre'thor and Sto-vo-kor, where Gowron's personal honor would satisfy Sto-vo-kor, but his entry is blocked due to the dishonor of Aakar. After defeating Fek'lhr in Gre'thor, Gowron offers his soul in exchange for L'Rell's before J'Ula could finish offering hers. Fek'lhr eventually accepts J'Ula's new offer of Aakar's and J'mpok's souls in exchange for Gowron's freedom.
• “Warriors of the Empire”: L'Rell, J'Ula, Martok, and the player rally the forces within the Empire opposed to J'mpok's rule: the House of Kang, whose leader was imprisoned on Rura Penthe; the House of Korath, their fleet disabled by Aakar's virus at Forcas III; and the Elachi represented by Tarsev, seeking to stop the use of the mycelial weapon, at Qu'Vat.

Other involvement

• "Hoch 'ebmey tljon": During the events of “The Khitomer Discord”, Chancellor J'mpok faces a difficult choice when he meets Aakar, a potential new ally.
• "Remain Klingon": In the final battle of the Klingon Civil War in orbit of Qo'noS, B'Eler and Trevana desperately crack Aakar's encryption codes, ensuring not to bring the shipyard's security down on them. Retrieving the new weapons and defense systems' design specs, they bring the information to the Witch.

Notes

• Aakar's model was revamped with Season Twenty: House Divided as part of the Year of Klingon updates. This changed his appearance to give him the look of an ancestor of Gowron with his change of voice actor to Robert O'Reilly.
• Additionally, the line "Experience Bij" is a tribute to another of O'Reilly's roles, Captain Kavok from the TNG video tape-supported board game.

See also

• Imperial Assault, a four-piece ground set patterned after Aakar's unique weaponry
• [Console - Universal - Aakar's Vengeance]