El'taki

"What slow reacting humans are doing on vast deposits of RDM is a mystery to me, but they are mine now." TwinBragia shortly after claiming El'takia in 2023.
The El'taki are an advanced human species first encountered by the Dragoians in 2018. Their average lifespan is around 90 years.
==Overview==
The El'taki were a peaceful, democratic, human species from the planet El'takia with a love of bureaucratic procedures and long debates between their numerous politicians. Their advanced technology is based of Ancient Dragon technology found scattered and buried around their planet. They used this technology, after long political discussions starting in 1953 and ending in 1977, to build space-faring ships which they used to explore their local system and those close by, however, none of these planets could support life despite some being solid, leading to the El'taki, who were always paranoid about alien attack since they discovered the first Ancient Dragon scout-ship on their planet's surface in the late 1800s, to build large ships designed to carry on their civilization if El'takia were to fall.
These ships were used when TwinBragia's forces claimed El'takia as a mine/farm world due to it's large population and mineral resources, this exodus was a decision notable in El'takian history for being a large scale decision that was made in a matter of days rather than weeks or months, something almost unheard of. Most El'taki now either live in the fleet of ships that escaped, or serve as slave labour and food for TwinBragia and her forces.
== Technology==
Native El'taki technology is around that of early 21st century Earth but the discovery of the Ancient Dragon ships that lay buried under El'takia's soil advanced the species into the intergalactic space-flight era. Although their ships utilise energy-beam weapons for their main weapons, small and hand-held weapons still utilise explosive-fired projectiles.
==Culture==
The El'taki are perceived by species they have met since they fled their homeworld to be very boring due to an in-bred love of democracy, politics and bureaucratic procedures. This love of politics and especially bureaucratic procedures can cause the El'taki to be extremely slow to react if something big happens, requiring the information to be approved by various councils before reaching the High Council, which takes a while to deliberate anything. Large scale decisions being made in less than a month is almost unheard of, and some decisions have taken several years to come to.
Since the El'taki fled their homeworld, they have had to scrounge for resources to keep their fleet going. They do this via lengthy, and some times costly, trade negotiations that most species consider excessively long, but the El'taki consider disappointingly short.
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