A newly arriving spacefaring race of surprising power and skill. They are a conquest-based race of impressive military skill and economic standing despite the galaxy still reeling from the Reaper war. They are Spartan in ideas--they focus on military excellence and train their warriors to be extremely powerful. Though their women have significant rights they are not warriors abroad, but fight to defend their homeland. Their home planet is called Lacedoraemon. Doricians are an advanced race with very excellent technological ideas even though they just discovered Mass Relays, etc. Their forward moving, aggressive culture allows them to adapt quickly to any scene and conquer. Even their colonies are shown decent treatment.
The Doricians are tall (approx 6ft5 is the shortest recorded) bipedal creatures with powerful horns made of an almost diamond-hard chitinous material. The horns can be groomed and forced into certain shapes and patterns, which Doricians use to determine their rank, age, and other social statuses. Both genders are horned. To help counter the high gravity of their planet Doricians have two sets of arms with significantly powerful legs, allowing them to fight almost unhindered in any situation. Though they are heavy they have lean, fast bodies, obviously having evolved from an apex predator species and adapted heavily to the slight gravity differences and higher density of their planet. They have two sets of forward-facing, usually vibrantly colored eyes and their facial features are somewhat elongated and slender, resembling slightly feline and reptilian and avian features merged together. They have hands with three fingers and opposable thumbs and their feet are hybridized between digitgrade and plantigrade--and their "big toe" is a raptor claw, perhaps something passed down through evolution in order to better hunt in the heavily forested/mountainous Lacedoraemon. Their figure is humanoid and they have broad shoulders and a slender middle. Their skin seems armored but they have just as little protection against bullets as other creatures and must have the proper armor/shielding against it.
Doricians believe themselves naturally superior to all creatures, and from a young age they are bred to be strong and self sufficient and proud of their race and heritage. They do not know their birth parents usually and all young Doricians are raised together and given proficiency tests at a certain age in childhood where they then go through training until they reach adulthood. Doricians are usually very proud individuals and may be prone to slight arrogance of their own power, which could be used against them. Doricians are not natural biotics given that Lacedoraemon lacks eezo in great amounts--Dorician biotics are rare and are trained into the most hardened and elite of their warrirors. Elders of the city-states within Lacedoraemon choose only the best of the best of both genders to breed and demand all of their citizens participate in athletic games to determine physical strength and speed. Their selective breeding gives almost all Doricians natural talent for being warriors, and even daughters are strong and expected to train in the military just like men. Children's games even have teaching methods and Doricians waste [i]nothing. [/i] They somehow manage to find uses for everything, even their criminals (though the Dorician crime-rate is extraordinarily low, probably due to the terrifying nature of their leaders and the extreme punishments for even the slightest crimes.)They are not a religious people but have a philosophy on war which they use for all of their "spiritual needs."
Since Dorician government is set up in city-state form in order to go into intergalactic space affairs they created one large military front to display their power. The greatest warriors of every city-state (which all have slightly different skill sets in battle and different values of war due to geographical issues as well as different horn designs for different cultures) are gathered up and all Doricians united under this army to create the Dorician Empire, which has now expanded into several colony worlds and they are now looking for even greater expansion. Doricians are led by "kings" who are the highest ranked warriors of a city-state and their elder council who advise them and are in charge of choosing matches between individuals. Smaller communities in the city states have their own smaller leaders who answer to the larger, but their military doctrines keep everything in check in brutal fashion.
