Y'Beq was a female Klingon warlord that lived in the reign of Molor, centuries before the formation of the modern Klingon Empire. Prior to when Kahless united her species beneath their warrior creed, Y'Beq was one of the countless feudal rulers that divided the planet Qo'noS into various fiefdoms and became one of three such figures who laid their separate claims on Three Turn Bridge, where she offered unaligned soldiers the chance to pledge themselves as followers of her banner, promising that those who did so would receive the endless revelries of her bloodwine-soaked celebrations. When Kahless ventured to her fortress, however, the future father of the Imperial state denounced Y'Beq and her counterparts as dishonoured pretenders that feasted while allowing those under their heel to suffer, prompting the warlords to order his execution. In answer, however, Kahless was able to defeat their respective armies and killed Y'Beq after a short duel between them.
Biography[]
A warlord of the bridge[]
Born within the dark era where the Klingon race was dominated beneath the heel of Molor, a tyrannical figure who ruled Qo'noS with patronage from extraterrestrial masters, Y'Beq was the daughter of Po and later claimed the allegiances of numerous warriors. Leading her soldiers beneath a banner that featured three triangular shapes resembling fangs over a red background with black lining, Y'Beq became one of the various war chiefs that curved her planet into their petty fiefdoms, suppressing those from the commoner castes while she and her followers gouged on the spoils of their violence. As a warlord, Y'Beq faced threats from others, but survived these encounters with her life intact and later claimed to be the ruler of the Three Turn Bridge, though her dubious rights were challenged due to similar claims that were levied by the warlords Koth and Ghorat. On one occasion, the flag of this warlord was risen on poles besides those which held the insignias of her two rivals, which Kahless and his brother Morath witnessed. (ST comic: "Klingons")
Erecting her fortress over one side of the chasm that driven the area into three different sections, Y'Beq and her rivals demanded that each new arrival to the Bridge needed to swear allegiances to one of their factions. When these entrants were brought before her, Y'Beq promised endless revelries for those who fell under her banner, describing how the bloodwine that flowed from her throne was comparable to the milk that a mother fed to her newborn. In addition to her warriors, the fortress also loamed over an established settlement, but like others who dominated Qo'noS over the course of these decades, Y'Beq cared little for the civilians who looked to her as a protector, allowing her people to starve while she lauded over them. Because of the actions of its occupants, Three Turn Bridge was seen as a location that lacked honour, and the concept was a laughable subject to the warlords that lived there. (ST comic: "Klingons")
Y'Beq demands that Kahless swear allegiance to her.
This changed when the bridge was subject to a visit from Kahless soon after his departure from the mountain Kri'stak. When the former hermit was brought before her court, Y'Beq issued her demand for his oath of allegiance, emphasising that since her claim as the sole ruler of Three Turn was valid, the newcomer should pledge himself to her. Raising a filled tankard when she boasted the quantities of liquor that her warriors satisfied themselves on, when she allowed the kneeling man before her to speak, Kahless proceeded to deface the floor of her throne room with the symbol for an unknown word that he asked the warlord to translate. Unperturbed, Y'Beq drank from her chalice and theorised that the rune could be meant to represent fun or joy, believing such ideas were foreign to a member of her species, but Kahless denied this and translated the insignia to reveal that it represented honour, which all three warlords laughed at. Throwing back her head to guffaw, the humour soon died when Kahless continued to speak and Y'Beq translated his words as a threat to her own life but dismissed the danger and tossed the contents of her goblet to splatter over the man's forehead, asking whether the challenger believed that she had not been threatened before. Kahless answered in the negative but told the false ruler and her counterparts that he might not be the first to challenge them, he would be the last to do so, explaining that he rejected gods and masters, instead believing in the bat'leth that he created. (ST comic: "Klingons")
Y'Beq battled Kahless the Unforgettable (pictured above), but was ultimately killed in the same duel.
Furious when the defiant Klingon turned his back on her and departed to address the civilians of Three Step Bridge, denouncing how their warlords feasted from the suffering of their people, Y'Beq proceeded to mobilise her warriors, screaming for them to execute the figure who refused to serve her and denied her rule. The soldiers who were sworn to Y'Beq were unable to fulfil the orders of their mistress and the woman watched Kahless defeat them before she entered the battle herself, wielding a spiked mace. As the moon rose behind her, the warlord swiped her club through the space where her opponent's head was moments before after ducking to avoid the blow, but although Y'Beq proved to be an opponent that held her own against Kahless for the duration of the night, she was knocked from her feet when the targ belonging to her rival charged the warlord from behind. When the sun rose to usher a new dawn, Ghorat confronted Kahless for his execution of Y'Beq and Koth, declaring their deaths had been his to claim. (ST comic: "Klingons")