[b]Name of Race:[/b]
-- Kughar

[b]Name of Civilization:[/b]
-- Second Dominion of Oz'Kavosh

[b]Name of Homeworld:[/b]
-- Oz'Kavosh

[b]Base:[/b]
-- Insectoid

[b]Stat Placement:[/b]
-- Toughness: 2
 [i]Their exoskeleton is somewhat stronger than human bone, but once it cracks a Kughar will be highly incapacitated, especially if it breaks in a limb.[/i]
-- Reproduction: 4
 [i]Let's face it: Kughar are insects, and boy do they reproduce fast. Their breeding happens in cycles, and four times a year they gather to breed. It is a celebration and a week of global holiday, and after that the specially trained Kughar take care of all the eggs that were produced. Not every single one of them hatches, but when each female produces around 30... Sometimes the race even eats some of their offsprings due to the space constraints, but now that FTL was discovered... They will fill colonies just fine too.[/i]
-- Industry: 2
 [i]The industry of the Second Dominion is nothing spectacular, although it is more worker than machinery based. As of late, one corporation took the risky step into arms dealing, and is the clear number one in the business for now. The said company is Antic corporation, specialized in missiles, torpedoes and other spaceship mounted explosives.[/i]
-- Psyche: 1
 [i]It is rare for a Kughar to even think of opposing the dominion... but it has happened, as evidenced by the name "Second dominion". Nobody suspected a thing either.[/i]
-- Morale: 1
 [i]Kughar do not exactly cope well with defeat, and will easily get angry over it. Fighting in a losing position is also almost impossible for them. They do not fear the enemy... but in their enraged state they fight extremely poorly and have trouble following orders.[/i]

[b]Brief Planetary History:[/b]
-- The raise to dominance the Kughar species went through was a simple one: they had no real competition. On their home planet Oz'Kavosh only a few species can hope to survive, as it is unusually cold for an inhabited planet. The Kughar species however adapted to this quicker than any other and thus claimed their seat on the top of the food chain. Although when the food chain consists mainly of the few plants that manage in the environment without wilting off, the top is not that awfully hard to reach. When Kughar started developing some real intelligence though, they found out that beneath the ground everything was warmer and nicer, so they dug in. All the years within their home planet have grown several self-illuminating bulbs onto their exoskeleton, including an extra noticeable one hanging on a cord like appendage, much like the light on many deep-sea fishes on planet earth (not that they'd know about that). In addition to this, some genius noticed that when mixing certain body fluids with different chemicals resulted in rather potent rock dissolvant, nothing kept the Kughar from digging deeper.

However, the species slowly grew too big to live in smaller civilizations. Luckily for the Kughar, their base nature is to resolve things without fighting it off the second stuff happens, so from everywhere around Oz'Kavosh the Kughar united under the flag of the Oz'Kavoshian Dominion. There was no clear ruler, but the people voted for pretty much everything and Democracy reigned. However, after a couple decades of peaceful living, the First Dominion was overthrown by Ez-Ara, who then formed the new leading system of the Second Dominion and the stepped down to ensure the system works as intended, as she feared she'd use the power wrong if she was not only a bystander monitoring the correct behaviour of the system.

Then again, the population continued to grow and technology continued to advance. The Kughar did notice that they were simply running out of space and raw materials on their home rock, so they did their best to build a spaceship. Several of their attempts failed, but from each mistake they learned, and eventually their first shuttle made it safely onto a warmer planet nearby. However, the planet's surface was too warm for any life to survive on it... although since when had difficult surfaces been a problem for the Kughar? They simply dug in and called it a new home. This style of settling in has of course made them quite the mining industry dominant species, but it works for them. Now, after having settled to every suitable planet in their home system, the Kughar built several FTL prototypes to finally finish their first exploration and colonization ships with said capability. Now it is just the time to take off and see what awaits out there... and the most daring have even asked the question who?

[b]Note:[/b] Kughar have not ever discovered another intelligent species. This will be their first time in every sense.