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Imagine a species much like our own. A species born into the idea of its own evolutionary rapidity in comparision to all others. This species was forced to fight tooth and claw just like the other animals of their world and found themselves inferior to their prey. To make it easier on themselves, it wasn't the idea of picking up a rock and throwing it that sparked their warrior ethic... It was the discovery that they could run faster than their prey... It was the discovery that another tribe had bigger, sharper teeth and ganged up on the prey to bite it to death... It was the discovery that yet another tribe had superior claws on hand and foot... So they began to interbreed themselves with an eye at creating the most ideal warrior - A hunter who could run faster than its prey, then dart in on it with the rest of the pack and bite/slash it to death. Thus, three tribes have become one in
their effort to produce a superior version of themselves and so begins biogenetic advance. Not only must their warriors have speed superior to an animal's... They must have a speed superior to -all- animals. They must have the ability to become superior to -all- animals. It is out of this urge that are born the Chieftans. // The war (machines)... The Elite... Semper Fi(delis), Baby. [[always faithful]]

The Chieftans are superior in intelligence as well. They aren't just stupid war fiends. They overcome the un-advanced members of their species, collect the "scientists" among them and rule their respective tribes, working in unison with one another to maintain a certain order. Then... Comes Lucius. They chose to call him Lucius the Thinker, Lucius-- The Voice of Reason. Lucius felt and convinced the other Chieftans that their rule was wrong. It was wrong for the ((mechanoids)) to control a people that they could so easily conquer... It was not what they had been made for. It was not their purpose. They must seek to breed less intelligent versions of themselves, make themselves more controllable, give themselves back to the people... and they did.

Followers of Lucius soon became nothing more than a subspecies. Unadulterated human life became possible again, became superior, and the subspecies were nothing but weapons to wage their wars. Over the centuries they improved them, mutated them, re-arranged them until they created what we have today - The War Fiend. Biogenetically engineered killing machines.

...because these (machines) exist, the species never developed weaponry that was not organic. Science advanced so rapidly that they produced fliers, swimmers, chameleons, the orc equivalent of a nuke... Cloning is ethical because cloning is weapons production...

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