M'Tar

The M'Tar are a species claiming to be one of the oldest races in the known universe, with some claiming to exist in the universe before our current universe. As of 2364, they were native to a region of subspace known as the M'Tar Domain.

Physiology
The M'Tar had evolved and shed their bodies, appearing as dark blue or black balls of energy with a blood red core. They have telepathic and telekinetic powers beyond any race encountered by the Federation to date. They are immortal due to a supposed "Fountain of Youth" they and their enemies, the Na'arbi, perfected.

In at least one encounter with the M'Tar, it appeared they consume dead corpses to nourish themselves. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus")

Legend (Purported History)
Captain James Lee speculated that according to M'Tar and Na'arbi legend, the two races were created as different ends of the spectrum and would battle until the end of eternity, and that if that legend was true, the M'Tar could have existed in an universe prior to the Big Bang. The war between the M'Tar and Na'arbi was called the Great War.

Another legend also claimed that the reason for the Big Bang was an intergalactic war between the M'Tar and the Na'arbi, one which destroyed the majority of both sides' populations and both races' home galaxy. The legend stated that the surviving M'Tar created a weapon of such mass destruction, it caused instability in the expansion of the universe, and once fired, the weapon contracted their universe at an amazing rate. This contraction and then sudden expansion created the Big Bang, and the M'Tar, as well as the Na'arbi, survivors supposedly hid in a "pocket" of space not affected by the explosion.

The Artemis Incident
In 2364, the M'Tar attacked the USS Artemis (NCC-1992), killing 80% of its crew. For an unknown reason, the M'Tar activated a warp core breach, and the survivors evacuated the ship. While the Artemis appeared to explode, it in actuality jumped to warp. (IND: "False Security")

"Lady Lazarus"
Years later, en route to another destination, the USS Prospect (NCC-60056) received a weak distress call. Captain John Sill changed course to intercept the vessel.

Upon arrival, the Prospect crew discovered the remnants of the Artemis. An away team, consisting of Commander Anne Cobry, Security Chief George Serigos, Counselor Scott Fack and three security officers beam over to the wreckage (after environmental controls were brought back on-line) to search for bodies. They split up into three groups: Serigos and his escort on the bridge; Cobry and her escort in Main Engineering; and Fack and Ensign Garrett in the front section of primary hull (which was blown out into a wide, three-deck or higher area contained by a force-field).

Cobry and her escort discovered the warp core was not overloading at the time the survivors abandoned ship, but something or someone deliberately sounded the warning when no real threat existed. They bring the warp core back on-line.

All reported finding no bodies aboard the ship, even though so many of their colleagues had died that day.

Fack and Garrett encountered the aliens who attacked the Artemis in 2364: the M'Tar. The M'Tar attacked Fack and Garrett, altering them into the Liaison and Link respectively.

The other teams converged on the area to find the Liaison and Link bound to the Artemis's frame by some sort of biological vine (tied into the Link's back, which, in turn, was wrapped around the Liaison's body). The M'Tar revealed they originally wanted to use the Artemis to infiltrate the Federation while the conspiracy aliens attempted to take control of Starfleet. Unfortunately, they were left to drift for years (as their plan failed), but their new plan involved taking control of the Prospect and returning to enslave the Federation.

Unbeknownst to the M'Tar, their control on Fack weakened when they left his body to feed on corpses (the latest being one of the Prospect security officers). Undercover Na'arbi agent James Lee, revealing some of his true identity to Sill on the Prospect, transported over to the Artemis, exploiting this weakness. After setting the warp core to critical, Lee enabled the Prospect to beam over Cobry and her away team, sans the transformed Fack and Garrett.

The Prospect pulled away as flashing emanated from the hull breach in the Artemis's primary hull. At the last moment, Lee broke Fack and Garrett away from the M'Tar vine and transported them back to the Prospect before the Artemis exploded, sucking the debris, Lee and the two M'Tar through the portal the M'Tar created into the M'Tar Domain. The portal collapsed with the explosion. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus")

Starfleet Command believed these M'Tar were two of a handful of M'Tar left alive after the Great War, and the M'Tar Domain could only open into our galaxy at regular (but greatly-distanced) intervals in time.

Attitude Towards Other Races
The M'Tar encountered to date by Starfleet were extremely aggressive and hostile, believing they were the only beings in the universe with the right to exist as god-like while other races served their every need.

The M'Tar also did not speak a language that could be understood by any humanoid; thus their actions and intentions were often not understood, and their creation of a Liaison and a Link to communicate with other "lesser" beings came into play. The language barrier could be where the M'Tar's attitude towards other races originated from.

Experimentation and Ill Treatment of Other Species
As a part of the Great War, the M'Tar indicated through their words and actions that the "lower" races were expendable in their mission to defeat the Na'arbi.

An example of this attitude was the modification of Scott Fack. Sometime between 1996 and 2353, the M'Tar encountered the cryosatellite storing bodies from the aftermath of Earth's Eugenics Wars. They experimented on all the bodies in an attempt to modify them to act as their agents. The M'Tar only succeeded in altering Fack's body, and when the USS Alexandria discovered the cryosatellite in 2353, Fack was the only survivor they could bring back to life.

Destruction of Non-Compliant Species
Anne Cobry, eminent Starfleet archeologist, discovered on one of her digs evidence that supported belief the M'Tar, millennia ago, would destroy the entire surface of a planet if its inhabitants did not comply.