Ssstram, Mak, and Nahara - known unknowns of the Yeerk's additional conquests and a headcanon explanation for a contradiction
2025.01.20 22:22 oldroughnready Ssstram, Mak, and Nahara - known unknowns of the Yeerk's additional conquests and a headcanon explanation for a contradiction
One thing that has stood out to me when reading the Animorphs books are little mentions of the bigger universe. A particular repeated instance of this is three excerpts describing the Yeerk Empire's additional hosts, or enslaved species besides the main 3 of Gedd, Hork-Bajir, and Taxxon.
As most of these concepts are from obscure throw-away lines, I thought it best to quote as many relevant excerpts. Just a note before I get in too far, there are several mentions of mysterious Controllers throughout the books that are neither Taxxon or Hork-Bajir or Gedd. Each of the 3 excerpts I'm about to quote are unreliable to some degree, but the known unknown of other aliens besides the main 3 makes it at least plausible that some of these aliens mentioned below were made into Controllers. Also I'm going to completely leave out several related excerpts, like the portion of Visser where Edriss goes over the 5 classes of hosts species as designated by Yeerks or the Orff in 41, because that's not within the scope of my thoughts.
“Seerow gave the Yeerks advanced technology, didn’t he?” Cassie asked. I nodded.
We get 3 mentions of Yeerk conquests of note that technically are never shown and are rarely if ever mentioned again. First, Temrash 114 boasts to Jake about the Yeerk conquests of the Ssstram and Mak. We can't fully trust him as a narrator but we do know that the Hork-Bajir and Taxxons are real so it's at least plausible that Temrash is being honest. Also of note is that he groups the Taxxons separately, as "overlords of", so if the Ssstram and Mak were made into Controllers then it probably resembled the invasion and conquest of the Hork-Bajir more so than the alliance with the Taxxons. As for the timeline we could assume that, with his comment of saving the Andalites for last and having humans in between Hork-Bajir and Andalites, the Ssstram and Mak were conquered in between the Hork-Bajir and the time this book takes place, or some time between our 1970s and 1998.
Second, we have Ax giving a short rundown of Yeerk activity as a result of Seerow's Kindness. This excerpt gives us a nice opening for the conquest of the Ssstram and Mak - Ax claims that after the Taxxons, the Yeerks went and conquered many more unnamed species eventually enslaving and destroying billions. With that information, you could conclude that the Ssstram and Mak were enslaved or destroyed after the Taxxon alliance started. If we continue to equate these two with the Hork-Bajir, then the answer could be that they were enslave and then destroyed by an Andalite genocide, although perhaps these two were far less useful as hosts as compared to the Hork-Bajir or perhaps Z-Space configured so they were isolated from the Yeerk forces we see in the books.
However, with this opening also comes a contradiction. Ax's account has Seerow's Kindness followed by the conquest of the Nahara, an alien species that is mentioned nowhere else, before the Hork-Bajir. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles has its own account of what happened after Seerow's Kindness and the Nahara are nowhere mentioned. Still, I have a theory that could head-canon this contradiction.
He still preferred to think it was just the Yeerks who had stolen the ships who were guilty. He clung to the belief that the main population of Yeerks were in favor of peace with Andalites. We would get transmissions from the home world. News that the Yeerks had attacked a moon colonized by Skrit Na and taken additional ships and weapons. News that the Yeerks had attacked and seized a Hawjabran colony ship. They had attempted to infest the Hawjabrans, but had failed because Hawjabran brains are not centralized, but spread in small nodes throughout their bodies. They had left the Hawjabrans to die. Their ship’s life support had been knocked out in the attack. An Andalite courier had come across the ship, drifting, with eight thousand Hawjabrans frozen in the vacuum of space. News that a group of Ongachic minstrels had been taken and successfully infested. Fortunately for the Ongachic race, they’d long ago abandoned their planet. They are entirely a nomadic, space- faring race now. The Yeerks would have to hunt down literally millions of Ongachic ships spread in every direction through the galaxy. The Ongachic race would survive. But, my father kept insisting, the Yeerks on their home world have been peaceful, these years since the attack that destroyed his honor. I didn’t point out that the Yeerks on the homeworld had no choice - An Andalite fleet was parked in orbit above them, ready to shred anything that tried to come or go in the system. Hork-Bajir Chronicles, p. 20
But then it happened. Palp to palp, the message came to me. Esplin 9466 to the infestation pier! There was a new species to try. After failures with the Hawjabrans and only the few Ongachics, our wandering assemblage of spacecraft had found a new planet. With new creatures. Hork-Bajir Chronicles, p. 27
Nearby, close enough to see, were a pair of Andalite fighters. We had four altogether. Plus the two transports. We had also seized a small Ongachic craft and three Skrit Na ships. The Skrit Na ships were slow but well-armed. The Ongachic ship was faster but carried no weapons. Hork-Bajir Chronicles, p.33
The Yeerks had learned very fast. They had Andalite, Skrit Na, Ongachic, and Hawjabran technology to dissect. And now they were no longer held back by a lack of hosts. Hork-Bajir Chronicles, p. 71
To start, we need to keep in mind that every Animorph book has the limited perspective of the narrator(s). In the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, our 3 narrators are limited in that they mostly are physically stuck on the Hork-Bajir home world and have limited access to information from the wider universe. The account of the Yeerks' activity in between Seerow's Kindness and Seerow's Death is entirely secondhand. Even Esplin is a newborn Yeerk who is mostly pool-bound and reliant on talk and not personal experience about this period.
It's also important to note that the perpetrators of Seerow's Kindness are likely the only Yeerk band that is off the home world, due to the Andalite blocakade. So the only Yeerks who could have conquered the Nahara are the group that we follow throughout the Chronicle. The Yeerks' activities are, in summary, an encounter with some Skrit Na and taking their ships and technology, an encounter with some Hawjabrans and taking their technology but no ships, which I find intriguing, an encounter with some Ongachics and taking their ships and technology, and then the beginning of the Hork-Bajir conquest. At first glance this account seems to leave little room for a Nahara conquest, but I don't think this narrative is so iron-tight. Especially with regards to the Hawjabran encounter, I postulate that there is a way for that incidental recollection of Ax's to hold true.
The Andalites' report is that the Hawjabran ship was left crippled because the Hawjabrans were useless as hosts. Esplin gives a passing mention that does not contradict that report, so we will focus on the Andalites' account. One important detail about the ship is that it had the capacity for 8000 Hawjabrans while we know the Yeerks only had 400 Gedd hosts. So possibly one reason the Hawjabran ship was not taken was because the Yeerks could not crew the ship, certainly not without sacrificing other ships. Its description as a colony ship could mean that the the Hawjabrans were simply all passengers and that a much lower crew tally was needed, so it's possible that the Andalite's assertion is correct.
Still, I think there is room for the Yeerks to abandon a large Hawjabran ship while seizing smaller Hawjabran ships that are left unmentioned in both the Andalites' report and Esplin's recollections. This is because most large ships in the Animorphs universe are capable of docking with or carrying smaller ships and the Yeerks are limited by their numbers so they only seized smaller vessels. Perhaps shortly after taking these smaller Hawjabran craft the Yeerks that operated them separated from the main fleet. So it's not all too implausible that the Yeerks seized a few smaller Hawjabran ships, that this seizure was overshadowed by the massacre of Hawjabrans, and that Esplin would never know or think to mention these ships because he was left in the dark as a hostless Yeerk. But where would this Yeerk splinter group go?
Seven months passed, and the fleet did not come. Not the two months I had expected. Hork-Bajir Chronicles, p.71
Seven months after Seerow's Death, Alloran arrives with a small Andalite task force rather than the main fleet Aldrea had been expecting. The main fleet had responded to reports of Yeerks in Sector Two. It's possible that the main fleet responded to a legitimate report of Yeerks, but it wasn't the main Yeerk fleet. Instead, the main Andalite fleet had caught the splinter Yeerk group that had flown the Hawjabran ships.
To cap off this theory, Sector Two could be the location of the Nahara. This then allows the Yeerks to have conquered the Nahara before the Hork-Bajir, as there was years between Seerow's Kindness and Death and the Hork-Bajir invasion had been ongoing for only 7 months. The Andalites also responded to the Sector Two report faster than the Hork-Bajir report, so it's possible that if the Nahara are in Sector Two and the Yeerks were invading them there after they started the Hork-Bajir invasion but before 7 months after Aldrea's distress call, the Andalites might count the Nahara as the first species the Yeerks enslaved after Seerow's Kindness.
A quick sum of assumptions needed to reach this conclusion - Esplin and the Andalites are obviously not in a position to know the full fleet composition and activities of the main Yeerk body in the early parts of the book. So it's possible that additional ships were stolen by the Yeerks in their raids and that these additional ships departed from the main force before the Hork-Bajir conquest and they conquered the Nahara in Sector Two where the Andalite fleet. I postulate that it could be Hawjabran ships that form this splinter group based on possible discrepancy, but the splinter group could have utilized additional Skrit Na and Ongachic ships that remained unmentioned.
This is not the only explanation for the Nahara conquest being before the Hork-Bajir's, it is also possible that the main Yeerks launched the Nahara conquest from the Hork-Bajir home world. It's possible they did this after intercepting Aldrea's distress call and wanted to give the Andalites an alternative target. But if that's the case, then a simple rumor with some hard evidence could suffice and not the entire conquest of an alien species by a splinter Yeerk group. My primary Hawjabran explanation also has the Nahara conquest begin before the Hork-Bajir, so that's why I'm still going with that.
TL;DR There's a few throwaway lines about aliens that the Yeerks had conquered that are otherwise forgotten. It gets interesting when one of them contradicts another book and you can jump through a few hoops to make it make sense.
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