They were mentioned in Andor.
The rakatan that is, not the rattan furniture empire.
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Forester@pawb.social 5 days agoLong ago before the dark times before the mouse took over the Rattan empire conquered most of the inner rim. They invented a lot of the tech before their empire fell apart due to poor genetic planning.
fox2263@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
As you can see by my edit, I am very much aware but spell check doesn’t like the word and I didn’t know how to spell it.
fox2263@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Their delicately weaved ships
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
Exactly some say they threaded their way through deep space
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It was also because they abused the dark side to power their tech, but dark tech has an effect on living beings. As a result of being around their dark tech for so long, it made them a more brutal, savage race than they already were. That culminated in them creating a supervirus with the intention of unleashing it upon everything that wasnt rakatan. But their slave races got wind of the virus, stole a sample, and altered it. Now, it only effects the rakatans and cuts them off from the force. I dont remember much of kotor 2 but i’d have to imagine kreia had some pretty interesting things to state on the matter considering the similarities between kreia’s goals and their goals.
Forester@pawb.social 5 days ago
But wasn’t the reason they were conquering everyone was so that they could utilize their genetic material to reproduce as they had somehow made themselves mostly sterile with all of their meddling and technology and the force?
From what I remember that’s also why humans are literally everywhere and why we are able to intermingle as it were with the more exotic humanoids.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I believe the general sterility was related to dark side degredation. They really just got brutally fucked by abusing the dark side as an entire culture and species. Which like, fuck them, they’re evil, but damn they really shot themselves in the foot.
As for gathering genetic data from the lesser races, I do not recall. They wanted to wipe out all other races afair so i dont see why they would want to keep their dna around, and from the rakatans i remember, their race would rather die than intentionally infuse themselves with the lesser races dna. They did conquer huge swaths of the galaxy and kept most everything theyd find as slaves, but those were viewed as highly expendable, not even worth treating decently enough that they survive the year.
Forester@pawb.social 5 days ago
So mind you I haven’t read any of this shit in almost 20 years but from what I remember it was something along the lines of using the humans as walking breeding tanks not that they would be combining DNA, but that the humans would have to be able to be compatible enough to house a growing embryo from the aliens