Kaskori

The Kaskori are a xenos race who inhabit 10 worlds in the south western corner of the galaxy. They have survived as an interstellar race for 8 thousand years. They have a rich history of conquest and warfare and that is just among their own species.

Physiology
The Kaskori are vaguely humanoid in their upper body with 2 arms and a head which is slightly further forwards than a human but their lower body consists of four pincers. One of their most unique attributes is they are 1cm tall on average. Their is little height variation amongst the species so they are almost all tiny but of course their society and culture is simply built around it. They are herbivores and normally eat Saston which is a small hardy organism that can be grown nearly anywhere. Instead of believing they are dwarfs they see all others are giants and predators to them. They live on land and rarely enter the water or live underground.

Origins
The Kaskori originate from the planet of Kaskor which is a desert world. They started off as nothing more than a normal animal species on one of Kaskor's continents. They lived in large groups near the occasional oasis in the desert. Being herbivores and small they were naturally low down on the food chain and commonly hunted by small vermin calls Virot. It was just another part of the food chain until one day it had a breakthrough in it's evolution. One group of the species who were forerunners of the Kaskori lived in an oasis which is their spiritual homeland now. This group had a breakthrough finally and developed a small physic gene which allowed short range telepathy. This telepathy allowed them to willingly share thoughts and as the gene spread through the group they began to be able to share their ideas. Eventually through telepathy they managed to create weapons. They first started off by creating wooden spears and then made mass killed a Virot. They continued to advance and then managed to make shields. Through heavy hunting they were able to wipe out at first all the other Virots on the oasis. They then had to contend with the next step on the food chain feral savage beasts which ran in packs and went from oasis to oasis killing Virot. As the physic Kaskori tried to fight these new larger beasts they found their wooden spears were useless and that their large shields were could not hold them back. They had to come up with something better and in time discovered how to work metal. They learned how to make metal weapons as well as slings and began to fight back against the predators. The could now penetrate the tougher hides of the beasts and they fought a desperate battle against the pack where they took large deaths but managed to kill them to the last one.

Conquest of Kaskori
After slaying the pack they then went onto march across the desert to find other sites of water to live on. After sending out search parties they found other places with other Kaskori and fought them. It was not a hard war to fight them with metal and disciplined formations up against isolated bare hand fighters. One by one they expanded across the region but still to slowly. It changed both with creation of the wagon and the discovery that they could create wells to allow more land to be lived on. Their progress grew faster as their populations numbers grew and the speed with they moved increased.

In tine they discovered basic black powder weaponry and began to manufacture guns. They encounter their next real challenge after having taken over most of the species original location. They came to great undrinkable lands of water. Unsure what to do and how to progress further they settled back to their lands and continued to build higher and higher while wiping out foreign predators. The species ability to share thoughts and idea's meant that they had gone from just another animal to the dominant species on a large continent in 1000 years.