Ravagers

### **Biology and Culture**

Ravagers are a humanoid reptile species from the planet of Ravaagia. They possess strong legs and leathery skin, along with strong, sharp teeth and horns growing on their temples. They also possess vestigial fins and lantern, which hint to an aquatic origin. Their eight eyes are blue and glowing, and they possess thick fur on their head and tail. Ravagers have sexual dimorphism, with females having a lighter coloration on their chin, neck, chest and tail, along with a lot less tail fur.

Current Ravager society has a culture of peace and calmness, revering calm attitudes and composures and shunning any violent or aggressive behaviour. Ravager people see much ingrained prejudice in Federationist territory, even though as of 5061 A.E, the Invasions had ended 225 years ago. Many of them protest against the Federation's erasure of their culture and to the reapproppriation of their old cultural identity as proud warriors. These protesters have all but been suffocated, however.

Some Ravagers see the term "Ravager" as prejudiced and harmful, and wish to be called "Ravaagians". This movement, however, saw little to no success. The Federation continues to refer to them as Ravagers in all of their official documents.

### **Society and Technological Advancements**

Ravagers were a savage, backwards civilization in their prime. At some point in their history, an intelligent alien species tried to help them and provided advanced technology, along with the way to use and produce it. Ravager society, once being proficient in the utilization of this advanced tech, used it to further their civilization. At some point, however, a global war occurred and they regressed back to a state of anarchy.

In this global catastrophe, however, the advanced tech survived. With this tech, this post-apocalyptic society entered a mindset of marauding and ramsacking other planets. They would do so for many decades, until they encountered human colonies around 4732 A.E. When one of these colonies were attacked, they entered an unexpected war against a galactic coalition known as the Human Union. These conflicts and harassment against the humans for their colonies lasted 104 years, finally fading out and officially ending in 4836 A.E after the four human planets focused all of their efforts in the war against the Ravagers by creating the Northern Star Federation. This period of conflicts between humans and Ravagers is called "Ravager Invasions Era".

After the Ravager forces were progressively crushed and the Federation turned their planet into a puppet state, supervisioning the creation of a government and a campaign to revamp Ravager culture into a more submissive and less aggressive one. This new government, called the Confederacy of Clans, was heavily stripped down of its military capacity, to ensure that a Ravager insurrection never happened. These limitations to the Confederacy of Clans have been progressively loosened due to numerous protests towards Federal sanctions, in accusations of them being acts of prejudice and no longer necessary.

In Ravager culture, matrimonial unions are marked not by a ring, but by a small ribbon with the two favorite colors of the marrying couple being tied to each opposing horn, as a means to show that they complete each other. Depending on the clan, Ravager matrimonial unions can involve more than two people.

### **Notable Ravagers**

* Aargnak, current Ravager diplomat in the Federation Council.

### **Mentions**

* Ravagers have not yet been mentioned in any Everdream work.