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The Seventh Doctor establishes the following facts. These are full quotes:

• "Ten centuries ago they began their interstellar expansion." (Pureblood is explicitly set in the 26th century.)
• "The Sontarans abandoned their natural breeding methods in response to the Rutan threat, and adopted cloning as a way to perpetuate and strengthen their kind. That allowed for faster redistribution of learned skills, and altered the Sontaran stock into specialist castes, like colonial insects."
• The "gene-bank and memory core" is called "the racepool".
• When Benny asks the Doctor why he's seemingly helping the Sontarans on this occasion, rather than just letting them die, he says, "I've seen futures where the Sontarans survive and continue to conquer. But some of their developments in space drive, vaccines, genetic solutions to disease … I can't rob the universe of those. Besides … if I do destroy the Sontarans, what will stop the Rutan Host from overrunning the galaxy then?"

Some other tidbits:

• The homeworld is called "Sontara", according to Marshal Stave. (The major narrative point of the story is that Sontara is successfully overrun by Rutans, and Stave and his men have to successfully transplant the racepool to another location, a space station called the Pandora Spindle.)
• The Rutan Modine says, "Months ago, our scouts found a lost Sontaran colony at the edge of the [Mutter's] Spiral. These Sontarans had been there long before our two races ever met. They were purebloods, aggressive animals untainted by the race pools cloning. They had no reason to fear us. We told them how their race had changed in their long absence, turning its back on its proud martial past. how it had rejected traditional mating in favour of clinical science. they were completely manipulable puppets, nothing more! WE gave them ships, weapons … fired with outrage and a desire to "purify" their people, they made for Sontara. Their flesh and blood passed undetected through Sontara's damper screens where we Rutan could not. Their fury burned Sontara into a cinder."

Ultimately Benny is able to show Vord, the leader of the Purebloods, that the Rutans have no plan of a permanent alliance with them. So Vord begs Stave's forgiveness and the two lots of Sontarans join forces against the Rutans, defeat them, and are able to set up the racepool permanently. They then make the world beneath Pandora the new Sontaran home world.

The word Kaveetch is never given by the story, and I really don't think you can make a claim that the Kaveetch are "first seen in Pureblood".

In fact, Pureblood is in fundamental disagreement with The First Sontarans, because the Purebloods had never encountered the Sontarans at all until the 26th century. The Kaveetch, by contrast, were the original participants in the war with the Rutans.

So I'm gonna be rolling back your merger. We should have two separate articles, one for Purebloods and mother for the Kaveetch.