Dlanian

The Dlanians are a tall, skinny race native to the planet Outlin. They are known for having drastically different ideologies during their 3 known periods, The Era of Silence, The Era of Conquest, and The Era of Guilt. They are also known for their technological prowess and for their religious customs of wearing masks whenever in public.

Appearance
The Dlanians often wear masks and armor to not reveal their actual appearances, however, a small population refuses to wear such garments, in which outsiders and other Dlanians can see their physical appearances. They are, for the most part, commonly skinny with grey skin, large black eyes, long necks with small skulls, and they have 2 long fingers on each hand with thumb benief their palms and 3 toed feet. Males and females have very little differences, with only their reproduction glands being their only major differences.

Culture
The Dlanians have gone through many different periods in which radically different cultures have taken charge across the their entire species.

History
The Dlanians prior to the space age were once a race of peaceful religious beings. During this time period, they were known for carving wooden masks and wearing large elaborate cloaks, with most of their kind usually living around the mountains of the planet, which they considered to be holy marks of their creators. Although they are omnivores, they decided to take a life of veganism, believing that their creators would be very displeased if they started eating the beasts that he or she created. They would live this way for several hundred years and discover new technologies. At the year 1088, they would have successfully constructed their first-ever spaceship, able to go beyond their home planet and discover the many-worlds that their creator supposedly made for them to explore...

The Era of Conquest
The Dlanians after being on the Galactic stage for a few years before the Fall of Atlantis were still peaceful to a degree. However, Once the Atlanteans fell, a power struggle caused the balance of the Galaxy to be off set. During their great exploration of known space, they would come to find that many beliefs that they previously believed in would proven wrong, coming into contact with species with different beliefs, including not worshipping mountains but instead of using them to mine mineral resources, not being vegan but instead eating animals and a few species even eating each other, and lastly some species that were not religious whatsoever. This grave Discovery would lead to many to become depressed, and many more to become disaffiliated with their religion. Over the next hundred years, they would soon cast aside their religion and the traditions that it held, with the banishment of masks being the loudest denouncement.

Wels the Enlightened
A great king during that time during 1266 EY (Earth Year), known only as Wels the Enlightened, took control of Dlania and took the new galactic player and over the years turned it into a strong power in the region. Wels would also begin some of the radical changes of Dlanian society, such as banning their religion and banning the wearing of their traditional masks. Wels would also begin manipulating the species in the nearby areas, using various methods to get foreign politicians to make deals more favorable to the Dlanians. Wels would however die in 1394 at the ripe old age of 172, dying of a seizure during a briefing with his cabinet of generals.

Koris the Extinguisher
In the year of 1652 EY, a Prominent General would run for the position of The Grand Manager of Dlania, this general being known as Koris Balka and Later Koris the Extinguisher. Koris the Extinguisher would be the main person behind the Extinction of 12 species, using Dlanian built super weapons unlike the universe has ever seen before. The most famous of these super-weapons was refereed to as The Magnium Pulse, a large mobile space station with a powerful Electromagnetic pulse ray capable of leveling cities in a mater of seconds. Koris would die in the year of 1872, after 220 years of rule and over 263 years of life, living a much longer life than the person responsible with bringing Dlania to the title of a galactic power.

The Era of Guilt
After only a few planets remained free near the fringes of their Empire, a Guilt fell over this race. It's unknown to even the Dlanians today from where this guilt came but it is recorded as "The Great Guilt" in which this race did feel remorse for all the death they had brought. The enslaved races were freed, however most of them were so low in numbers that re-population couldn't happen and they would later come to extinction. Two of the only species that survived were The Vel and The Drakes, with the Vel adopting a culture of having no home to call their own and being known for being skilled mechanics, and the Drakes becoming a species tied to The Galactic Underground, spawning many well known criminals and eventually forming The Criminal Empire of Zelenograd.

The Dlanians would proceed to destroy most of their own fleet and abandon many of their colonies, most prominently those planets that were once the homes or colonies to an extinct race. The Dlanians would also abandon the plans of colonizing the Homeworld of the Kubilu, also known as the Movian's future home of Movis.

After so many decades of growth and a level of return to their ancient ways, Their home planet of Outlin has turned into a Ecumenopolis, a city covered planet. Trees and solid earth during this time would now only exist in Handmade Parks or museums, with the rest of this city becoming pure city.

Trivia

 * Their masks were made to resemble power outlets.