Kith

The Kith were a warrior people who were devoted almost exclusively to battlefield training and martial arts. As a unified people, they inhabited most of one of the three great continents of their world and fought amongst themselves in highly organized struggles that could more accurately be called contests than wars.
The Kith planet has 1.6g of gravity and three major continents.
The majority of their combat was against the massive flora and fauna that inhabited their world. Against these, they use weapons.
Their "religion" taught that a man would descend from the sky and take them to the "Great and Last War", which would destroy and remake their world. It is that very commitment unto death of this whole civilization to fight the Atarians with the Infinite Empire that inspires the other worlds to go to war with them.
Their combat tradition against each other is entirely non-weapon based. Combat is a way of life, rather than a means to destruction. They are all just martial artists and honor is gained through merely participating. The victor of an intrakith combat encounter is glorified with tattoos and symbols of victory, but it is also understood it is now their duty to train the defeated one to help them achieve similar feats. In this way, the entire civilization will be strengthened. 
All Kith are ritually tattooed throughout their lives, the different symbols indicating various achievements. 
Upon discovering the world and it's inhabitants, scientists from the Second Dominion theorized that they could be descendants from humans seeded by the First Empire, making their world an ultrarare Jewel Planet. Their theory is largely based on the complete lack of evidence in both archaeological record and mythology of the Kith ever having been off of their world or even having an awareness of space travel. 
== Notable Kith ==
Fresenius 
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