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The Thanagar race is a powerful warlike society of winged humanoids who possess super-science. Their militant aggressiveness is the only reason they haven't been smashed into oblivion between the two larger empires next to them, the Dionii and the Atorians. Constant raids by both races has also kept the Thanagarians on a war-footing for many years, and explains much of their super-advanced military weaponry. The Thanagar Empire is also in an official state of war with the Dionii and only their mastery of the Hyperspatial Bypass has allowed them to survive and thrive in the face of these mighty foes. A half-dozen allied races within the Thanagar Empire have helped combat the Dionii, and the Thanagarians energy-disrupting devices give them a major advantage in hand-to-hand combat. Finally, the Empire buys a great deal of weaponry from the FAR and is considered a significant ally by that interstellar power.