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I know this is Space Opera and all, but are we talking literally 1200 years of nonstop wars? If so that would leave a pretty reduced population, that and they must be bred pretty much for just war, since otherwise they would revolt at some point or another .-.
[/quote]Well, nonstop wars was an exaggeration but when they weren't fighting they were usually prepared for one.
A kilonova explosion sent neutron star fragments to dozens of star systems and it critically changed them. Many previously habitable planets became barren rocks, while the surviving civilizations needed to live in a radically changed environment. Morte managed to adapt to their death world relatively unchanged but apparently all the other aliens sorts of went insane from the radiation and grew warlike. To them it was attacking either others or their own so they chose the former.

Anyways you're not wrong on that Morteans are reproducing like rabbits. Even with their technology and slightly adapted physiology every third newborn dies. They also used cloning at times albeit the records on its extend are unclear, same for genetic experiments on the population. Anyways for living for a decade in "peace" the Morte is already struggling with overpopulation thus the current plot in the IC.