Status: Truce
Location: Alpha Quadrant
Threat: Low - Limited space naval forces

The Kzinti are a warrior race.  In appearance, they are much like bipedal terran tigers with a naked, rat-like tail and large, bare fan-like ears.  In the days before warp drive, the Kzinti ruled an interstellar empire.  It spanned more than thirty light years, and a number of slave races.  In 2049, the Kzinti finally met a species that did not fall before their advance: humans.  Over the next decades, the Kzinti and humans fought a total of four wars.  By the last war in 2064, the Kzinti had assembled a huge fleet that would have been able to smash any human opposition, save one factor.  By that time, they fought a human species that had discovered warp drive.  Human ships were able to dart in and out around the Kzinti fleet, allowing hit-and-run tactics which the Kzinti warships could not match with only sublight drives.

Following the Man-Kzin Wars, the Kzinti Patriarchy is forced to adapt to life without their slave races and within the limits imposed by the victorious humans.  They generally become isolationist, choosing to maintain their own ways on Kzin and their colony worlds, which are not within much easier reach due to warp travel.

Life in the Patriarchy changed dramitically in 2404.  Dissatified with centuries of bowing to human custom and being a minor influence, at best in interstellar politics, a number of Kzinti nobles led a civil war to overthrown the Patriarchy in favor of a government in which all of the noble families would have a sat, the so-called Kzinti Republic.  The nobles ruthlessly slaughtered every member of the Patriarch's line and every loyal noble or warrior on which they could lay their hands.

Lord Horr'karr-Riit, last of the line of the Patriatchy, fled into political exile in the Federation with the surviving loyal nobles.  But Horr'karr-Riit was Patriarch in name only.  The last Patriarch of the Kzinti was dead on their homeworld, and the government was firmly in the hands of the usurpers.

Today, the Kzinti are still a relatively minor power with only a small space navy.  However, they are more agressive than they have been in centuries and their technological advanced have kept pace with the Federation through the centuries because of the Kzinti's stubborn belief that their time would come and that they must be ready.

Battleships

• -class Dreadnought,
  

Command (Battle) Cruisers

• -class Command Cruiser,
  

Battle Cruisers

• -class Warship,
  

Heavy Cruisers

• -class Warship,
  

Light Cruisers

• -class Explorer,
  

Destroyers

• -class Escort,
  

• Battleships

• Command Cruisers

• Battle Cruisers

• Heavy Cruisers

• Light Cruisers

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• Frigates