Dahat

The Dahat are a humanoid warrior race originating from the planet Arnka. One of the major powers of the galaxy, the Dahat are a tradition-bound people who value honour and combat over everything else.

History and politics
Little is known of Dahat society to outsiders. The Dahat are ruled by Emperor Grak and their empire lies outside of Federation space. As of right now they refuse to join the Federation as they believe it to be below them to ally with races they deem to be weak.

Physiology
The Dahat tend to be larger and stronger than many other races and often resemble large apes. Dahat have three sexes with the males and females being almost indistinguishable, and a third gender that is only marginally sentient. Females give live birth six weeks after fertilization by a male, and the third gender concentrates on early childhood development, producing milk and feeding the young while serving as vicious protectors of households.

Dahat have very particular environmental requirements and suffer in extremes of heat or atmospheres with too little oxygen. Seeming to have evolved on a world with significantly stronger gravity than earth, Dahat are comfortable at up to three gravities. Terran languages lie just at the outside edge of Dahat vocalization, and while some sounds are difficult for them to make, a Dahat will be understood, one way or another.

Voyage to the Stars
Prior to the events of the campaign, a Dahat who crash landed on Terra was shot by a Federation captain on shore leave. The Dahat Empire then demanded that their citizen be returned as soon as possible. If the Federation fails to return him there is a a high possibility the Dahat Empire will wage war on the Federation as a whole for exhibiting dishonorableness towards their people.

The wounded Dahat was entrusted to be delivered to Arnka by the crew of the TSI Heavenheart. Later that day, the Heavenheart was attacked by a mysterious spacecraft and boarded by mysterious humanoid creatures who were capable of blending into their surroundings. After an analysis by crew member Torlin Hall, it was discovered that these creatures were genetically modified Dahat, presumably from the failed Supersoldier X Project.

Trivia

 * The Dahat are under the Fifth Age manual as the Daht. Their name was changed in order to prevent it from being misheard on calls as "that".