Digondar League

A secondary power of the galaxy, the Digondar League remains dangerously defiant and uncontrollable by outside forces. They claim to answer only to the Emperor of Tarsis, who is quite pleased with their current lack of cooperation with the powers that brought down the Coalition.

History
First contact was made with the Digondarians at the tail end of the reconquest, at the colony of Umalis. It was soon learned that there had been a great disaster some centuries previously, and Digondar itself had fallen back into feral chaos. The Emperor vowed to aid the aliens himself, provided they swear fealty to him. Because of his personal interest in the mission, probably the only reason Digondar was retaken at all, the Digondarians are very loyal to the throne of Tarsis. The Digondar League was formed after the rebuilding, a loose confederation between the home planet and the colonies, under a High King.

The Digondarians traditionally have a close relationship with the Tarsins, because of their shared past. Digondar is nearly as old a civilization of Tarsis, heavily influenced by it, and they have fought the same battles and struggled against the same great odds time and again. Unlike the Vasîv or Thyrendi, the Digondarians have never held anything back in service to the Empire. Some of the Digondarian leadership even grew up among humans, such as High King Talîkô XXVI, the leader of the League in the late 23rd century. His sympathy for humans led him to successfully negotiate a truce with Earth against the Skabor. While Digondar is not close to Earth, it keeps its ties to Tarsis as strong as it can.

Today
With the collapse of the Coalition of Planets, Digondar was technically free from its long-standing oath of fealty. However; like the arkanin of Othaen, the Digondarians were not eager to see the end of their mutually beneficial vassalage to Tarsis. While the weaker Othaen was made by Earth and MAOX to break all ties with the Tarsins or face war, Digondar proclaimed that it would not be blackmailed, and challenged the rebels and their mercenaries to invade, if they dared. Lacking the resources for a two-front war against both Tarsis and Digondar, and not wanting to risk inspiring the arkanin to take up arms despite the odds, the upstarts decided to leave Digondar be.

This was a fateful choice, and probably for the best. Digondar had fought with the Earthmen before, against Skabor hundreds of years ago, and did not think as lowly of them as other Coalition powers did. With the increasing threat of the Evdraph, it is likely the two will have to ally again, as they did in the days of old.