Gorath, for the longest time, was the only 'War Race' in the galaxy. They took pride in this fact, as being dubbed a true warrior is the highest honor possible to bestow on a Gor. Not that the Gor's really understand the concept of 'honor'. Gorath is a race of seven-foot tall, violent beasts who live for war and conflict. Their system of government is a mix of kratocracy and military dictatorship. The Gor High Militariat, a staff of their strongest and most brilliant soldiers, run the planet with an iron, militarily backed, fist. They are considered a 'type-A War Race', as the Galactic Council on Species Identification and Classification thought that war races needed to be a brute force of nature, rather then a strategy minded race, like humanity, the only 'type-B War Race'.
Gorath was an anomaly. The Estian Commission of Observation watched many supposed War Races battle it out, and when coming to the discovery of the uses of plutonium, and nuclear weaponry, they waged an apocalyptic war that ended them for good. This happened on thousands of occasions, but in the case of Gorath, they simply had a plutonium deficit on their planet, denying them the right to self-initialized atomic global extinction. So begrudgingly, Gorath progressed. And eventually, one nation conquered the planet.
Gor Ships are fierce war machines, dedicated to high firepower and armor. Their FTL drives allow for many short ranged jumps, instead of the normal singular long jump. The Gor mainly use boarding craft to invade enemy vessels to engage in close quarters melee, where they specialize in.
Shipboard weaponry is primarily coilguns and high-energy laser cannons. Both easily mass produced and able to be quickly fitted to ships.
Gors are all terrifyingly tall and physically powerful, but the pure presence of the Reaperlords, the genetically engineered killing machines loaded down with the strongest armor and most powerful weaponry available, able to take on hundreds of normal Gors, is enough to send anyone running for their lives and sanity.