[quote=@Commodore Robot]
[@Arawak]
The Dominion is both incredibly old and prone to destroying planets if they can't keep them. I think something could be arranged.
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They seem like a good fit.  The Dominion's modern paranoia may well be the product of things the Tikali have done in the mean-time between wiping the Tikali out (I optimistically estimate a 90% kill off for them in that time, if not more with the survivors all being in spacecraft and on the run, which is easy for them due to the fast FTL systems they have).  The refusal to settle on planets aspect of the Tikali could be explained by how the Dominion wiped out any world that wasn't a garden world or destroyed worlds they couldn't invade on foot.  The Tikali are vicious, unrepentant and black/white in their thinking so they are deeply, deeply unlikely to surrender in most situations unless the Tikali in question can convinced it is the one who is evil, which as you may imagine is a hard thing to do.  The Dominion likely wouldn't be able to make a convincing argument for why the Dominion is in the right. (The Tikali aren't realists so might makes right won't work as an argument- the Tikali really would try fighting to extinction and indeed, may have nearly did if it wasn't for the last 10% or so being cowardly)  The reason for the long amount of time is because I figure they would take a while time to build up into being a significant (albeit still nominally nomadic/decentralized) force after losing so much population.