EARLY HISTORY The Dilgar are not alone in that their world was once populated by a myriad of counterpart species, closely related, descended from a common ancestor and all occupying a similarl evolutionary niche. Indeed, humanity’s own homeworld of Earth was once home to numerous species of humanoid, all apparent cousins of humans themselves. Yet on Earth, such species vanished in pre-history, wiped out by competition with man’s distant ancestors. What makes the Dilgar perhaps unique is that many of their close relatives survived well into the Dilgar’s own recorded history. Thus the early cultures of that world were founded not by one, but by perhaps a dozen species. All these creatures were ‘Dilgar’ of a sort – in the way that a human is an ape – but were known by a variety of other names. There were tall, rangy nomads occupying a vast, but largely unpopulated stretch of desert plain crossing two of the world’s southern continents; muscular mountaindwellers who had reverted partially to quadrupedal motion. There were creatures physically identical to the Dilgar themselves, yet with a skull of twice the thickness and half the capacity and there were creatures who used their unbelievable cunning to hide away in the secret places of the world, yet possessed bodies so frail as to be prey to all others. There were these and many more, united only in their suffering at the hands of the Dilgar. No matter the specialisations with which their evolution had gifted them, none of these Dilgarid species possessed the social skills of the true Dilgar, did not form the complex social hierarchies and tribal allegiances which the Dilgar developed even before the advent of simple technologies. The Dilgar were unified and communicative, and would not willingly compete with one another when desperately needed resources could instead be plundered from their unfortunate neighbours. As such, Dilgar history is an endless account of war between the Dilgar and their cousin species and, almost invariably, a similarly endless account of the Dilgar’s merciless extermination of these same relatives. The Dilgar were powerful, doubtless the most advanced of all the Dilgarid species, though by no means entirely dominant and several distinct species survived side-by-side for thousands of years, albeit in a state of nearperpetual conflict. These species remained in their enclaves, even as the Dilgar discovered powered motion, aviation and a host of other advanced technologies. Such discoveries were, as always with the Dilgar, put to use in their endless wars of conquest. Inevitably, the Dilgar soon thereafter made their first few steps towards space exploration. The other Dilgarid races never developed technology of anywhere near this level and so the Dilgar’s domination was complete. What had begun as competition for resources now became a calculated programme of extinction by the Dilgar, obliterating any trace of their planet’s other species. Just two-hundred years after the Dilgar’s first successful launch into space, their world was subdued utterly and the last non-Dilgar eradicated from it.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:37:20 +0000
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