Drakeian

"We may not be as strong as those Dragoians in military strength, but we are far more civilised than those brutes" Draoga Necron praising her own species when compared to Dragoians.
Drakeians are the native DragonKin of the planet Drakeia. Their average lifespan is around 700 years for Males and 1200 years for Females.
==Overview ==
The Drakeians are a paranoid species of DragonKin with long snouts, tiny wings, short legs, and nearly horizontal horns. The average height of a male is around 9ft while a female's average height is around 10ft.
Drakeian clothing has to adjust for the tiny wings the Drakeians still possess as it is very uncomfortable for the wings to be squished against the body via clothing. Some Drakeians choose to have their wings surgically removed, although due to the way DragonKin regenerate, the process is considered risky and isn't practiced often as the near starvation required to prevent the wings growing back also makes any other injury obtained during the starvation period permanent.
Among the Drakeians, around 1 in 1,000,000 are born with the condition of Heavyscale, with only females surviving birth with this condition.
Unlike most other DragonKin species which have unified before inventing or reverse-engineering space travel technologies, the Drakeians were not a unified species when their first starship left their solar system making them something of an oddity among DragonKin species.
==Appearance==
Skin Type: Scales.
Colour Range: Drakeians are single colour and range from dark greens to pale greens.
Eyes: Drakeians have two large eyes with a slit pupil in colours that are always a shade of yellow.
Heads: Drakeians have moderately bulky heads with a thin lower jaw and an average upper jaw, which mount 2 small pointed horns which are usually shorter on males, and a small hole on each side of their head below their horns which function as ears. Drakeian jaws have minimal lips and exposed teeth, with 2 large fangs jutting out from the top jaw.
Bodies: Drakeian bodies are very similar externally to that of humans although lacking human genitalia and with abnormally short legs and have large, clawed, 4 toe feet and clawed 3 finger/1 thumb hands. They also have a tiny pair of wings protruding from their upper back, although some Drakeians have these wings amputated.
Tongue: Drakeians have a short, two forked tongue.
==Technology==
The Drakeians possess native railgun technology which has completely supplanted conventional firearms, using DragonKin Base Metal, known to the Drakeians as "Drake Metal", as the material to resist wear. However, the Drakeians have found various Ancient Dragon relics buried around their planet and have developed from them their own energy-beam weapons, ship shielding, sensors, hyperdrives, life-support systems and sublight drives. The majority of these Ancient Dragon relics were found buried under the nation of Draknia. 
A group of Drakeians from the nation of Draknia were in the process of building their own starship, the DES Battleaxe when in 2026 they found an Ancient Dragon starship with an intact hyperdrive, which they retro-engineered and retrofitted onto the DES Battleaxe during it's final stages of construction. The hyperdrive as well as other refinements made during the Battleaxe's construction were fitted directly into the Battleaxe's shuttles and into the Battleaxe's replacement, the DES Battleaxe II, during construction rather than being badly retrofitted on top of existing systems.
Despite their comparatively advanced technology, the nation of Draknia kept their starships as secret as possible. This only lasted until mid 2030, when the other nations of the Drakeian species learned of Draknia's space program, causing the entire species to declare war on Draknia to try and steal the technology. This war was surprisingly short and resulted in huge casualties and a victory for Draknia due to their ability to perform orbital strikes with no resistance. Draknia's main tactic was for it's conventional forces to do the best they could to hold the line, while their small fleet of starships would fire on the cities and military facilities of whichever nation was causing the most threat at any given time, causing unheard of civilian casualties and prompting a debilitating surrender once these strikes started to become a grim and inevitable reality, one of the main conditions of a surrender forced this way was to be absorbed into the nation of Draknia, a move which effectively wiped the old nations out and unified the species.
==Culture ==
Regardless of nation, Drakeian culture has always had a tendency to heavily mistrust outsiders, and they fight each other in wars caused by suspected spies from other Drakeian countries.
New technology is rarely if ever shared between countries for fear they would sell it to a country the parent company was not on stable footing with. However, most new technology finds it's way into all Drakeian countries rather quickly, as each country has spies in every other country. The only technology managed to be kept secret for more than a few years was by Draknia, and then only their space-flight technology.
==Notable Drakeians==
*Draoga Necron
*Drakni Faerrarl
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