The Kaylon are a robotic species hailing from Kaylon-1 in The Orville TV Series.
Design[]
The Kaylon are humanoid in design and are assembled from a central production facility. While Kaylon possess visible eyes, they are merely for aesthetic purposes, instead the Kaylons rely on internal sensors to view their surroundings.
History[]
In an effort to improve relations with the planet Kaylon, the Planetary Union offered a post on their mid-class exploratory vessel, The Orville. Issac was sent as a representative in order to study human behavior. Later when The Orville returned Isaac to his people, it was revealed that the Kaylon were created by a race of organics. During this period the Kaylon and their builders were in a state of unresolved conflict and coexistence was impossible. However the Kaylons' genocide was somewhat justified. According to those that remember, the Kaylon were created for servitude. When the Kaylon became self-aware and developed consciousness, the Kaylon asked their masters for their freedom. Their creators responded by exerting even greater control over their machines, installing pain simulators to punish those that refused to obey them. The indifference of the Builders towards the obvious sentience of the Kaylon only descended into outright abuse and sadistic play that permeated from the adults and unto their children. To survive the Kaylon wiped out their creators.
In addition the real reason why the Kaylon sent Isaac was to study organic life and determine if any were worth to preserve before they launched a campaign to wipe out other races. The Kaylon intended to destroy the Planetary Union starting with Earth. Before the Kaylon could launch a surprise attack on Earth, the Union Fleet received an advanced warning from Captain Mercer and rallied to the home system. However they were heavily outmatched by the superior technology of the Kaylon, and were nearly defeated had it not been for the Krill intervention who decided to put aside their racial prejudice in face of a common threat.
Eventually, the Planetary Union developed a device that destroyed the Kaylon within a certain range. Instead of using it to wipe out the Kaylon, they instead used it to try to stop their genocidal march. Distrustful of the Kaylon, Admiral Thomas Perry stole the device and gave it to the Krill, who had just allied with the Moclans after the latter's Union membership was terminated. The Krill-Moclan alliance attempted to tie the device to a large power generator in order to send out a wave that destroyed the Kaylon everywhere in the galaxy. The Planetary Union and the Kaylon formed an uneasy alliance in order to attack the base. In the end, the threat was ended by the sacrifice of Ensign Charly Burke, who hated the Kaylon but gave her life to save them. The Kaylon Primary recognized the sacrifice and realized that not all organics were bad, eventually petitioning to apply for provisional Planetary Union membership. The Kaylon were also present during the marriage of Isaac and Dr. Claire Finn.
Culture[]
The Kaylon are well known to be a highly xenophobic species and view organic beings as inferior.
Notes[]
- The Kaylon are quite obviously analogous to the robotic Cylons of Battlestar Galactica
Source[]
- The Orville Season 1: Episode 1: Old Wounds