Dilgar
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The Dilgar are a now dead race that once terrorised large sections of the galaxy with their particularly bloodthirsty conquering habits. The way the Centauri stripped the Narn homeworld down to nothing does not even BEGIN to compare with the Dilgar's cruelty. They were not out for land so much as blood.
They waged war in a manner that was more like genocide, and almost every other major race at some point had some contact with them--all of it negative. The Narns, Centauri, Minbari, Drazi, Vree, Gaim, Abbai, and Iksha to name just a few, all hated them. And with good reasons. They used means such as poison gasses, biological weapons, cybernetic and cyber-organic weaponry, and worse to not just defeat their enemies, but completely wipe them out.
Physically speaking, the Dilgar are a mostly humanoid race, but with a felinoid quality to their facial features--fangs, a slightly muzzle-like nose, large, pale green or yellow eyes with slit pupils, slanted, tufted eyebrows, and thick manelike hair. They were about the same height as humans on the average.
The most (in)famous Dilgar of them all was Warmaster Jha'Dur, or "Deathwalker" as almost everyone else called her. She was a cold-blooded (not literally) warrior in battle and the most EVIL, sadistic weapons-scientist they had. She would wipe out entire RACES just for the fun of it, experiment on entire planets. She created plagues that made the Bubonic Plague of medieval Earth look like the common cold, and built machines that could lay entire planets flat. No wonder everyone hated her so! After the Dilgar were finally beaten back by a bunch of their enemies and then their sun went nova, everyone ASSUMED that "Deathwalker" had died along with the rest of them, but in fact she had been hiding on Minbar, sheltered by the Wind-Swords, the most aggressive clan of the Warrior Caste. She had also developed a serum that would stop aging and give anyone who took it immortality. When news of this broke out, fighting started among the Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds over whether she should be tried and convicted, or kept alive so her secrets could be USED.
Just ONE little problem--to get the main ingredient, you have to KILL someone.
The Council of B5 eventually voted to leave her alive and send her back to Earth. Just as her ship was about to go through the jumpgate, however, this Vorlon ship came storming through, presumably on the orders of the usually detached Ambassador Kosh, and WHUMPH the problem was out of EVERYONE'S hands. And the Dilgar were ALL the way dead.
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