The Draken

The Essential

The Draken are a species that breathes war the way other civilizations breathe air. Forged in the volcanic crucible of Draconis—a world where the ground itself hungered and the sky bled ash—they emerged as seven-to-nine-foot reptilian warriors capable of projecting flame from specialized throat glands. Their biology is not merely adapted to fire; it is a covenant with it.

For millennia, the Draken built an empire through conquest. They did not negotiate—they consumed. The Krythorians fell first. Then the Vyxians. Then the Zorlacians. At its peak, the Draken Empire administered multiple galactic sectors through a hierarchy as rigid as volcanic glass and twice as sharp.

Modern Draken civilization exists as a fragmented constellation of Neo-Draken Stellar Kingdoms, each claiming legitimacy from the ashes of empire. The Warrior Assembly maintains the largest clone armies. The Council of the Serene Flame pursues diplomacy. The Cult of Draconis dreams of reconquest. Yet all share the same genetic memory: the moment their ancestors pierced the Crimson Veil and witnessed the Twin Fires of their binary suns for the first time—proof that they were born to reach the stars.

Their most controversial technology—clone warfare—allows them to produce combat-ready soldiers in thirty days, including genetic duplicates of enemy species for infiltration. This capability makes even a fragmented Draken nation a threat no galactic power can ignore. The Blood Oath Legions and Shadow Talon Commandos remain among the most sought-after mercenary forces in known space.

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