EDralvok
The Dralvok crossed with the convoy, not before it — no named homeworld stands behind them, only a code carried through the exodus: the open hand over the closed ledger. To take something openly is honest; to hold it and call the holding _order_ is a lie with better paperwork. That single conviction shapes everything else about them, from how they fight to why the Crimson Corsairs exist at all.
The Dralvok crossed with the convoy, not before it — no named homeworld stands behind them, only a code carried through the exodus: the open hand over the closed ledger. To take something openly is honest; to hold it and call the holding _order_ is a lie with better paperwork. That single conviction shapes everything else about them, from how they fight to why the Crimson Corsairs exist at all.
The Honest Hunt
Where a Protectorate patrol counts what it holds, a Dralvok tests what it can take. This is not bloodlust dressed up as philosophy — it is an ethic, argued as seriously as any treaty, that the closed ledger is its own kind of violence. The Dralvok do not see raiding as a departure from order; they see the Protectorate's order as a raid that never had to answer for itself.
An Argument, Not a Bloodline
That code is exactly the Corsair creed, which is why the Corsairs are Dralvok-_led_ without being Dralvok-_only_. Any Human or Khareth commander who agrees taking beats holding can fly the same colors — the war between the two factions is a disagreement about what the Expanse is for, not a war between peoples. The Dralvok simply argue it loudest, and first.
An Origin Left Unwritten
No source material names a Dralvok homeworld, and none is invented here. What is known is arrival: they came with the convoy, displaced like everyone else aboard it, and built their identity afterward out of that shared crossing rather than a place left behind.
Vanguard by Temperament
Predatory, aggressive, relentless — the Dralvok lean toward the front line of every fight the Expanse has, whichever banner they fly. It is a cultural gravity, not a rule: a Dralvok commander is exactly as capable behind a desk as ahead of a boarding party, but temperament keeps most of them at the edge of the map, testing what can still be taken.