Dragonian

"Xenophobic springs to mind when thinking of Dragonians, can't blame them really when you look at what happened on their homeworld." A space-faring human trader's impression on the Dragonians post 2000.
Dragonians are DragonKin native to the planet of Geria, one of two habitable, and inhabited planets in the Sera System within the Dragoian Home Galaxy. Their average lifespan is around 675 years for males, 1200 years for females.
==Overview==
The Dragonians, having recently developed space flight using retro-engineered Androgian technology found buried deep on Geria, could finally do something about the crippling over-population of their tiny homeworld. While unaggressive for DragonKin, the Dragonians failed to make peaceful contact with the natives of the nearest habitable world (Serinia) and instead resorted to brute force and harsh terms of surrender to occupy Serinia and claim it as a colony world. The average height for a Dragonian Female is 10ft with a few Females reaching 11ft while the average height for a Male is 9ft.
== Appearance ==
Skin Type: Scales.
Colour Range: Dragonians are single colour and range from white to pale greys.
Eyes: Dragonians have two large eyes with a slit pupil in colours that are commonly a shade of blue and rarely green. The eyebrow of a Dragonian is particularly bulky.
Heads: Dragonians have bulky heads with a large lower jaw and massive upper jaw, which mount 2 small pointed horns which are usually shorter on males, and 2 wing-like appendages that function as ears. Dragonian jaws have minimal lips and exposed teeth, with 3 protrusions on the upper jaw covering some of the teeth which are generally shorter and less pointed on males.
Bodies: Dragonian bodies are very similar externally to that of humans although lacking human genitalia and are generally more lanky and have large, clawed, 3 toe feet and clawed 4 finger/1 thumb hands. A short spiked tail protrudes from just above the arse.
Tongue: Dragonians have a short, single pointed tongue.
== Technology==
Dragonian technology is relatively poor for a space faring race despite the fact they have had armed starships and energy weapons since 1831, but thanks to lacking technology they didn't have any form of faster-than-light capabilities until 1987 when they managed to badly retro-engineered Androgian hyperdrives which were discovered when mining Sera IV and improve their relatively slow native sublight drives and feeble starship shields with the poorly retro-engineered Androgian technology.
Despite the Dragonian's lack of personal shielding units they have retro-engineered average strength ship shields from Androgian ones to replace their original feeble ones that offered little to no protection against high powered weapons. The retro-engineered shields are comparable to those of the Ayvoid, and are capable of withstanding multiple direct blasts from an Androgian vessel's secondary weapons without failing.
Dragonian weapons are all energy based, and have been since 1831 when the first field-ready weapons were introduced alongside their crude starships to combat both the limited resources onboard a ship as well as Geria's dwindling natural resources. These rather crude energy weapons fire a bolt which drains significant amounts of the power core on handheld weapons, resulting in the requirement for near constant replacement of the weapon's power core in combat similar to chemically propelled ballistic weapons, although these power cores are usually recharged from an external power source after use to prevent waste. Large weapons such as those mounted on ships or extremely cumbersome hand-held weapons such as the Infantry Cannon do not require constant recharging, as their power drain is insignificant compared to their miniature reactor's output.
==Culture==
Dragonian culture is peaceful for a DragonKin species mostly due to small numbers which is due to a small homeworld, although major wars have broken out in the name of resources during periods of high population before the discovery of space flight, although wars for resources were only as a last resort as the resources expended during them often negated the resources gained.
Following their near extinction, the survivors almost all became insular and xenophobic.
==Military==
The Dragonian military was never a true army, maintaining a small standing force that acted as law enforcement, and drafting civilians with military training whenever they were needed, such as during the colonisation of Serinia in 1991.
Unlike most militaries, the highest ranks of the Dragonian military were primarily political ranks.
*Master Emissary (ME) - Total political leader, inherited. In times of war, has total command, but often allows the SEs to run it for her.
*Senior Emissary (SE) - Global political leader, inherited. Only 2 ever existed at one time, with each presiding over around half of Geria to represent the 2 nations that were around prior to unification. In 1991, the Senior Emissary's both ended up looking after a whole planet, with one staying on Geria, while the other became the leader of the colony on Serinia. In times of war, a SE would command half of the military.
* Emissary (E) - Local political leader, elected. One for each major settlement which also deals with smaller settlements within a few Km of them. In times of war, an E would command a regiment in the military.
* Junior Emissary (JE) - Very local political leader, elected. One for each lesser (non-city) settlement. In times of war, a JE would command a squad in their Emissary's regiment.
*Peace Officer (PO) - Police member, reports to their settlement's JE or E. In times of war, serve as equivalent to Corporals and Sergeants.
*Soldier (S) - Soldier drafted or enlisted to fight in a war.
== Serinian Occupation==
In Dragoian Year 1991 a fleet of 'colony' ships arrived from the nearby habitable planet of Geria and landed near the largest settlement (assuming it was the capital) deploying vast numbers of armed 'colonists'. The leader of the 'colonisation' effort ordered her 'colonists' to attack the native humans due to lack of noticeable leadership buildings in the area. The Dragonian's energy weapons decimated the human defenders forces (who were badly disorganized due to the suddenness of the invasion). After just 5 weeks of intense fighting and suffering heavy losses on every front while causing minimal Dragonian losses, the assorted human nations finally agreed to surrender on the condition that they would not be wiped out, expecting mass enslavement which was agreed upon to be favourable to extinction. The assorted human nations' leaders met with the Dragonian invasion's commanders a day after the fighting stopped to sign the terms of surrender. The terms were not what was expected (mass enslavement and/or huge population culling) and were actually relatively peaceful with the mostly Dragonians demanding superiority and the treating of humans as second class citizens, but otherwise minimal interference.
The surrender was not taken well by many of the Serinian humans, although the threat of mass genocide should the humans be perceived as breaking the peace treaty as well as the presence of armed Dragonian police forces patrolling the streets kept all but the most extreme humans from causing violent resistance which took the form of small hidden rebel groups which strike against the Dragonians during opportune moments, while most humans displeased with the situation would peacefully protest much to the Dragonian's annoyance. During 1998, all rebellion had ceased due to Atheai Kilas' invasion when the humans of Serinia and the Dragonians realised the only way to survive was to fight the Androgian invasion together.
The reason for the Dragonians occupying rather than enslaving or destroying Serinia was due to Serinia being a last resort plan and previously deliberately avoided by the Dragonians. However with the other planets in the Sera System being uninhabitable, no suitable planets in nearby star systems and Geria's increasing struggle to support it's current Dragonian population Serinia was eventually chosen.
==Destruction==
Main Article: Sera System War
The Dragonians, along with the Serinian Humans, had their system invaded by the Ancient Dragons in late 1998. This Androgian force was led by Atheai Kilas and consisted of Atheai's flagship and 56 other assorted Androgian ships which had survived the extinction of the Androgian race. The invasion was swift and decisive, with the well-equipped and battle-hardened Androgian forces easily destroying the Dragonian and Serinian forces and quickly forcing survivors to form small scale resistance cells. The Androgian occupation of the Sera System lasted for several months while the Androgian forces systematically "harvested" every Dragonian and human left in the system, after which the war had technically ended as there was nobody left in the system to contest the Androgian claim to it.
During the months of the occupation in late 1998 and early 1999, the population of the system was "harvested" and subsequently devoured by the Androgian force with the Dragonian population being devoured solely by females in a 99/1 ratio with 1% of all Dragonians going to Atheai herself, and the other 99% going to the females of her invasion force, while the human population was split evenly between males and females.
The casualty count of the war was shocking, with nearly all 35 million Dragonians and 60 million humans either being killed outright or "harvested" and later devoured by an Androgian during the war and it's aftermath of continued Androgian occupation. Fewer than 10,000 humans and 5000 Dragonians managed to survive, with these few survivors having managed to escape in the few Dragonian ships that had survived the guns of the Androgian fleet by escaping the Sera System by using a dangerous method of engaging their hyperdrives from low orbit.
==Notable Dragonians==
*Jerakia Kileao, Senior Emissary and later Senior Emissary of Serinia, post 1998 she became the leader of the Allied Sera System Fleet.
*Grenla Kileao, Daughter of Senior Emissary Kileao, post 1998 she became the Allied Sera System Fleet's head Dragonian-Human relations officer.
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