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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9527467" data-attributes="member: 710">In Farscape, the Peacekeepers are a "war-like race". They are off-shoot humans, transplanted from Earth even apparently by another alien species that needed warriors to help the peace they brokered. When that species kinda disappeared, the Peacekeepers remained behind, and without a real civilian culture, they remained mostly a "soldier" species.A variation of this could be a multi-racial group - an empire (or republic) where the different species ensured that their military force had members of all species, so no species would dominate and use its military might to conquer the rest. To avoid that they form some sort of warrior dynasties, they might even be sterilized for the duration of their service.That worked great for a while, but it still created its own culture  of people, and at some point, they tried to either take over or emancipate from the rulers and non-military citizens.  But maybe they failed to gain the level of control they needed, and in the end you have culture that has powerful starships and weaponry, genetically or cybernetically optimized for warfare, but without the planets to support them. So they started conquests and raids, and the people they raid get the chance to join their ranks, especially since a lot of them are still sterilized, with insufficient access to the medical facilities and goods to undo the effect.</blockquote>