Protoarkantians

Type: Biological, solitary omnivorous bipedal humanoid.

Political System: oligarchical Empire

Capitol: Arkantis

Planet Count: 72

Population: Extinct

Location: Milkyway Galaxy

Leading family's: Veralian family, ILesura family, Avikiri family, Kenlock family.

Reign: ~30,000 BC - ~10,000 BC

Overview
The Proto-Arkantians were an ancient race originating somewhere in the center of the Milkyway galaxy. Very little is known about their internal politics and culture, but in large part they did not interfere with life bearing planets under their control, instead preferring to Terra-form and colonize barren, inhospitable planets into habitable planets. They, throughout their existence, remained militarized, likely due to internal strife. Although most of their history and culture was lost, Zamorians managed to preserve the Arkantian language, which is the oldest and remains the most broadly used language in Milkyway history.

Their physiology is human-like by all accounts, however their lifespans were significantly longer and their biology was significantly more adaptable to different climates. Their temperament remains a mystery.

History
Rise of Arkantis

Hundreds of thousands of years before any other Milky Way sapient races achieved interstellar travel, the Proto-Arkantians hailing from the planet Arkantis had nearly all of the galaxy under their control. Not much is known about this time, as the Proto-Arkantian's records were lost to time. What is known is that they were humanoids that were largely isolationist, and they were internally racially divided among three races. The ancient Zamorian Hive was the first race to make contact with the Arkantians, although the Zamorians had come from outside the Milky Way, from the Large Magellanic Cloud. Because of this distance (both culturally and spatially) between the empires, further contact was scarce.

Fall of the Proto-Arkantians

The Wrall of Umi Galaxy were older than both the Zamarians and the Proto-Arkantians, and as such they had unlocked the power of Temporal technologies. With it they had birthed an Ockt, a fore-teller with many not yet known temporal anomalies attributed to his or her consciousness. This Ockt was known as Auguris, and he prophesied that Arkantis would unite and destroy the Wrall in the future. The Proto-Arkantians, believing zealously in the truth of their clergy, staged a massive invasion of the Milky Way. The war was short everywhere but the Core region, where Arkantis had retreated to. As legend goes, the Proto-Arkantians prolonged the siege of their home-world for 100 Arkantian Years (544 Earth Years) before it finally gave way and the once glorious capital planet was glassed.

Zamorian Intervention Theory
Proponents

To explain the genetic relation and strange cultural parallels between the Imnarian, Terran, and Drakeousan species, some historians have concluded that the Zamorian interventionist tendencies of the time or Zamorian national interest led Zamor to preserve the three Proto-Arkantian races. As to whether or not had been an Ockt's foretelling or a popular sentiment in the Zamorian Tribe, the Zamorians are said to have distributed the three races on to three un-colonized and verdant worlds far apart from one another in the Milky Way, Imnar, Earth, and Drakeous. Proponents of the theory say that the sheer distance between the systems make panspermia relation theory useless to explain the genetic similarities.There is also the possibility that Proto-Arkantians could have had an Ockt due to their technological advancement, though there is no evidence for or against it. Proponents point to a lack of a clear evolutionary path for Drakeousans and Imnarians to have evolved naturally, as well as the fact that Zamorians had the technological ability to have preserved and spread natural Arkantian fauna on Earth as well, and the interbreeding with local Humanoids could have led to the genetic similarities to the local ape populations. Furthermore, it is also believed by many proponents of the theory that a very viable explanation for the largely different biology is a genome believed to have been essential to the Arkantians success in inhabiting so many planets of varying types with little Terra-formation of the planets landscape and atmosphere. But, in essence has been theorized to be a gene of adaption allowing for radical changes to both organs and physiology after several generations of exposure to the new environment. That while is not overtly hostile to the body of the Proto-Arkantian but would prove uncomfortable and with lower suitability to Proto-Arkantian life.

Critics

Critics of the theory claim that the Zamorians were historically supportive of the Wrall's Incursion, and that natural evolution could have plausibly led to the development of three humanoid species with 80% genetic relation by pure chance. Pointing out the existence of wild humanoids on Sol III with even closer genetic relation to Humans is a cornerstone of the critics rhetoric. Critics of the theory would also point to the vast differences in the biology of the three races, and denounce that evolution could have accomplished such differences in 15,000 years.