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The
Drengin Empire
If you believe what the Arceans say…
Most of what we know about
the Drengin comes from the Arceans. The Arceans have had a long
relationship with the Drengin and amazingly a peaceful one given
that both the Arceans and the Drengin are a warrior race.
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Figure 1 Kandar the Drengin from the cartoon series "Drengin Heroes" |
The Drengin Empire is old.
By human standards they are ancient. To put it in perspective,
they already had star colonies while humans were still in
hunter/gatherer mode.
What we consider the
distant past such as man walking on the moon they still consider
“contemporary news”.
The home world of the
Drengi has been united for over 100,000 years.
In the ancient language of the Precursors, Drengi means
“third” (strangely enough, “Altaria” means second and
“Arnor” means first but we have not had any contact with a
race called “Arnor” but things get strange in a hurry here).
It is said that the
emperor of the Drengin isn’t a Drengin at all but a being
considered to be part of “The Arnor”, which we know of no
world called Arnor nor is there any hint or rumor of such a world
so we have no idea what exactly that means.
The Drengin are a ruthless
evil race (according to the Arceans at least). We humans have led
a pretty naïve existence. As you know, humans have not been in a
major war for over a century. Our weapons are based basically on
what we had in the 21st century still. It was always
assumed that any space-faring race would be peaceful like we
Humans are now.
But the Drengins are not
peaceful it seems. They have slavery for instance.
In fact, nearly a third of their population is categorized
as “slavelings” which have no rights at all. Punishment for
even the slightest infraction by a slaveling is punishable by
death via what they call a “death furnace”.
Of course, the Drengin
deny this and indeed have gained a great deal of popularity with
our youth. The Drengin included a great deal of their literature
with their probe transmissions and many of their stories have been
turned into projection movies and more.
The top rated syndicated
vid is “Drengin Heroes” about a group of Drengins who live on
an asteroid colony who valiantly fight Torian thugs and a robotic
race known as “The Gor” (yea, awfully similar to Yor eh?).
We won’t know the truth
about the Drengin until we meet them.
But we do know that they are a highly militaristic society
and while you may have complained about the increase in taxes
recently, with all the star gates now disabled, I think it goes
without saying that we need to build a defense and thus your taxes
are being well spent I’d say.
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