Traits: Warlike and powerful (according to Cloud), the Krugreppeans are ruled by a leader, although their government was not clearly defined.

    Although often considering violence as the first option, Krugreppeans can be quite friendly and somewhat whimsical.

    The Krugreppean language as unintelligible to humanity, and when universal translators were used, their speech patterns are somewhat convoluted, and their meaning is sometimes a challenge to interpret.

    Their translated words demonstrated the word "Hoopla," frequently, which was apparently a term of greeting and agreement. 

    They are superstitious enough to fear the Valkyrie as the Chooser of the Slain. 

Type: Bilaterally symmetric semi-humanoid mammalian bipeds
Eyes: Two (on head); most images show them as having either solid black eyes or black eyes with a small/central apparently pupil-structure; a few images show a white (sclera-like) region surrounding the darker region (see the images of "Dave" or of the queen/consort/second-in-command or the other female shown in the main image).
Fingers: Four (plus opposing thumb)
Toes: Unrevealed
Skin color: Brown
Average height: Unrevealed (approximately 7' to 7'3")
Other distinguishing features: The Krugreppeans are covered in thick body hair, even the females. They have no external nasal structure

(Defenders I#150 (fb) - BTS) - Dreollnian child princess Ilse Pterigil was left comatose by a blinding laser beam of unrevealed origin that penetrated into her brain. Her mind reached across space to tap the power of the now-sentient Cosmic Cube (later Kubik), a force field containing reality-altering energy, as it explored the cosmos. Mistakenly equating starlight with the laser beam that injured her, Ilse used the Cube’s energy to transport stars and their discharged light into a pocket dimension, destroying many civilizations dependent on them.

(Defenders I#150 (fb)) - One day, the Krugreppeans found their world abruptly dark (as Ilse, later known as the Star-Thief, had taken their planet's sun). 

     Within a day or two, their world's temperature dropped catastrophically.

     The Krugreppeans soon piled into what spaceships they had, which could apparently only hold a small portion of their population. 

    It is unrevealed what basis was used to determine who left and who stayed behind.

    Those remaining were swiftly frozen in glaciers made of their atmosphere.

    The departing Krugreppeans navigated through space bereft of stars.

(Defenders I#150 (fb) - BTS) - This pattern was apparently repeated by the millions.

(Defenders I#150 (fb) - BTS) - Aware her brethren were vanishing, a relatively nearby sentient nebula’s radiated fear attracted the former Cosmic Cube. Ignorant that its own power was indirectly the cause and unable to reverse the effect, the Cube befriended the nebula, and it suggested the heroes of Earth might be able to solve the puzzle confronting them. The nebula traveled to Earth but inadvertently rendered itself somewhat amnesiac by adopting the forms and memories of two recently deceased humans. As Cloud, the nebula joined the Defenders.

    After regaining its memory, the Cloud nebula transported the Defenders (Andromeda, Angel, Beast, Gargoyle, Iceman, Valkyrie), as well as ally Seraph, into space alongside the Cosmic Cube entity and told them of the mystery of the disappearing stars. 

(Defenders I#150) - Apparently detecting and warping into their vicinity, the Krugreppeans fleet surrounded the Defenders, Seraph, Cloud, and transported them into their flagship via tractor beam. Within the ship, several Krugreppeans (apparently including "Larry") confronted the new arrivals. Their language foreign to the new arrivals, the Krugreppeans presumably sought to negotiate their surrender before one of them recognized the Valkyrie as a chooser of the slain and fearfully fired upon her. The other Defenders joined the fight, and Cloud's efforts to break up the conflict failed as her appearance further frightened the Krugreppeans. Finally, Seraph's bliss power allowed her to calm the Krugreppeans, who then led the Defenders and associates to their leader. 

     As the visitors approached the leader, Beast asked Cloud if she couldn't facilitate telepathic communication, but she noted that she couldn't do so without adopting their forms and structures, which was very traumatic physically and emotionally for her.

    The leader directed the visitors to a viewscreen, which showed the Krugreppeans before and after their sun's departure.

    As all present lamented how many had been lost to the Star-Thief, the former Cube revealed its presence and its role in sending Cloud to Earth.

    When the Angel wondered if this foe -- who had thwarted both the Over-Mind and the Cosmic Cube -- wasn't out of their league, the Krugreppean leader responded, and Seraph appreciated that he was insisting that they must fight regardless of the odds. 

      While unable to simply will the stars back (but unaware that Star-Thief was draining its powers), the Cube nonetheless created a number of bio-cybenetic devices, which when placed in the ear would translate the alien languages for all present.

    Thereafter, the leader noted the Defenders group's power and asked their aid in gaining vengeance for their home and other homes lost and yet to be. All of the Defenders, plus Seraph, Cloud, and the former Cube (who took the form of Captain America), all agreed to aid this quest. 

    A quartet of Krugreppeans soon joined the Defenders group in departing aboard a small pursuit craft, which then warped into the region of the void of stars. The group was then pulled into a confrontation with the Star-Thief, but when the Star-Thief threatened them, one of the Krugreppeans threatened the Star-Thief in return, questioning whether it saw pleasure in causing the frigid deaths of planets, and noting that they would not arrest it but rather destroy it.

    Mockingly departing, Star-Thief shrunk the Krugreppean ship to tiny size, but the former Cube restored the ship. After Valkyrie noted that the Star-Thief was mortal, which led one of the Krugreppeans (whom Beast designated "Moe" (see comments)) to conclude that the Star-Thief lived on a planet and that its speaking of eliminating the little lights meant it did not eliminate its own sun. 
    "Hoopla. If it is mortal, then randomness point that it lives planetarily -- on a ground. And loquating as it did of "little lights" -- likely it didn't elide its own sun -- for that would would make a "big light." You trail my speech so good as yet?"

    Agreeing, Beast wondered why, if it was so powerful, why it hadn't eradicated whole galaxies at a time? He speculated that it was because the Star-Thief did not know other galaxies were there, and that this could be possible if the planet was within a large interstellar dust cloud that would block out all of the more distant stars, leaving only a relatively few bright ones in the sky. 

    Beast then asked two of the Krugreppeans, whom he designated as "Shemp" and "Curly," to have their computer list all planetary systems at the edge of the void that were in dark dust clouds. The ship's computers showed four regions, with the top one conforming exactly, as there was only a single bright star in the sky. 

     The Krugreppean ship then flew toward that planet, and one of the Krugreppeans noted, "We'll be deviating round the stellar conclave and penetrating by path of the midst of the dust cloud its own self, so grip together!"

     Cloud spoke to Dreolln's sun, learning of its people and their level of technology, as she told the Krugreppeans and their allies that Dreolln's civilization was warlike and powerful, estimating them to be the equal of the Krugreppeans; although the Dreollnians had no stardrive, the single Krugreppean scout ship would be up against a large interplanetary fleet. "Moe" or "Shemp" then noted, "We're thrusting through the cloud forthrightly, Defenders! Planet sits ahead! So clutch your feather dusters, buddy guys -- for here they come!"

     As the Krugreppean ship approached Dreolln, the crew was intercepted by  the Dreollnian fleet, who fired on them, badly damaging the scout ship; Cloud maintained a stable atmosphere for the inhabitants, saving them from space's cold vacuum. With the ship virtually crippled, Andromeda had "Shemp" or "Moe" fly right next to a Dreollnian ship, and then Cloud surrounded them as they boarded that ship. After Valkyrie tore open the hatch, the Defenders and Krugreppeans (at least "Curly") easily overpowered the Dreollnians.

     Beast and "Curly" entered the ship's cockpit, where "Curly" grabbed the head of pilot Sir Kaltenborn de Register-Cambric and forced him to destroy the Krugreppean ship and then report that they had defeated the invaders and to order the fleet to stand down. Unwilling to allow the invaders to reach his planet, however, Kaltenborn set the ship's controls for annihilation.

     The former Cube saved the Defenders and their allies and transported them to the surface atop a giant facsimile of Captain America's shield, after which the Star-Thief confronted them anew. However, unwilling to harm its own planet, Star-Thief's attacks were easily defended by the Cube, after which it returned to its mortal form.

    With Cloud now able to sense where the Star-Thief, the Cube then flew them to the ruling city, where they fought their way past the Dreollnian guards/soldiers present and into the palace.

    The Krugreppeans, Defenders and their allies continued to fight their way past other guards, ultimately surprising the queen mother when they burst into the room where she was watching over the comatose princess. After Cloud identified Ilse as the Star-Thief, the queen mother explained the events that had led to her daughter's condition. 

    With the Angel having been recently blinded, Cloud linked his mind with Ilse's so he could try to get through to her through their shared experience. Learning of the existence of whole galaxies from Angel, the distrusting princess threatened to destroy galaxies as well as the invaders' individual minds. 

     Beast convinced the queen mother to join the others -- the Defenders, Cloud, the Cube, Seraph, and the Krugreppeans -- in projecting their presence, their desire to help, and their love into Ilse.

     A planet in an unidentified star system, presumably in the Milky Way galaxy

(Defenders I#150 (fb)) - One day, the Krugreppeans found their world abruptly dark (as Ilse, later known as the Star-Thief had taken their planet's sun). 

     Within a day or two, their world's temperature dropped catastrophically.

     The Krugreppeans soon piled into what spaceships they had, which could apparently only hold a small portion of their population. 

    It is unrevealed what basis was used to determine who left and who stayed behind.

    Those remaining were swiftly frozen in glaciers made of their atmosphere.

     His named unrevealed, he presumably led the Krugreppeans who departed their planet after Star-Thief relocated their sun...or perhaps he became ruler at some point thereafter.

    He had a woman by his side who was presumably his queen or consort, but perhaps she was rather his second-in-command.

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    When the Angel wondered if this foe -- who had thwarted both the Over-Mind and the Cosmic Cube -- wasn't out of their league, the Krugreppean leader responded, and Seraph appreciated that he was insisting that they must fight regardless of the odds. 

      The Cube then created a number of bio-cybenetic devices, which when placed in the ear would translate the alien languages for all present.

    Thereafter, the leader noted the Defenders, etc.'s power and asked their aid in gaining vengeance for their home and other homes lost and yet to be. All of the Defenders, plus Seraph, Cloud, and the former Cube (who took the form of Captain America), all agreed to aid this quest. 

(Defenders I#150 - BTS) - The leader sent a quartet of Krugreppeans to bring the Defenders group into a small pursuit craft, which then warped into the region of the void of stars.

He is one of the four Krugreppeans who accompanied the Defenders group aboard the smaller pursuit craft to investigate the cause of the stars' disappearance.

His real name is unrevealed, but Beast nicknamed him "Curly" (see note).

(Defenders I#150) - The scout ship containing the four Krugreppeans and the Defenders group warped into the region of the void of stars. The group was then pulled into a brief confrontation with the Star-Thief.

After Valkyrie noted that the Star-Thief was mortal, one of the Krugreppeans (whom Beast then designated "Moe") to conclude that the Star-Thief lived on a planet and that its speaking of eliminating the little lights meant it did not eliminate its own sun.

    Beast then asked two of the Krugreppeans, whom he designated as "Shemp" and "Curly," to have their computer list all planetary systems at the edge of the void that were in dark dust clouds. The ship's computers showed four regions, with the top one conforming exactly, as there was only a single bright star in the sky. The Krugreppean ship then flew toward that planet.

     After the Dreollnians crippled the scout ship, Andromeda had "Shemp" or "Moe" fly right next to a Dreollnian ship, and then Cloud surrounded them as they boarded that ship. After Valkyrie tore open the hatch, the Defenders and Krugreppeans (at least "Curly") easily overpowered the Dreollnians.

     Beast and "Curly" entered the ship's cockpit, the door to which "Curly" kicked down while stating, "Unless I veer from my estimation, the bullpen is through this door. Sanction me, Beast." To which Beast replied, "Hoopla, Curly."

    "Curly" then grabbed the head of pilot Sir Kaltenborn de Register-Cambric, who denounced him as a churl and a villain, to which he replied, "Appropriate, chum-pal!" 

     "Curly" then forced Kaltenborn to destroy the Krugreppean ship and then report that they had defeated the invaders, which led his commander to order the fleet to stand down. 
    "Now you will conform to my indoctrination--or your knob will be riven like an eggshell!
        Once -- kaboom the dinghy yon! DO IT!
        Twice -- radate to the flotilla you have erased us?"

     However, unwilling to allow the invaders to reach his planet, however, Kaltenborn set the ship's controls for annihilation. The Cube saved all of its allies and transported them to Dreolln's palace, where they fought their way past guards, and confronted the Star-Thief's mortal form, Princess Ilse, and her mother. The first attempt to have Angel commune telepathically with the Star-Thief was almost disastrous and "Curly" realized that this contact had allowed Star-Thief to learn of galaxies, which she might then destroy. 
     "She comprehends galaxies now! If we don't parry her--"

     Under Beast's guidance, "Curly" and the others (including Ilse's mother) all joined together to projecting their presence, their desire to help, and their love into Ilse. Comforted and overcoming her fear, Ilse withdrew her Star-Thief identity, restoring the Cube's power, after which it sent all the visitors back home as it began the process of restoring the stolen stars, starting with the Krugreppeans'.