- Varied skin, hair and eye coloration
- Until the 24th century, had a tribal society with rival families ruled by peretors
- Sealed important bargains with a blood cut, a deep slice into the wrist
- 2319: Karnas, seized 63 hostage & demanded weapons from Starfleet for their lives;
- 2 Federation mediators were killed, Mark Jameson provided him with the weapons;
- He also provided an equal amount of weapons to Karnas's rivals;
- Believed that doing so would result in only a minor war, instead, the civil war lasted 40 years
- 2359: Karnas unified his people, ending the war
