Sins of the Father; The Blood of Warriors
This is the tale of warriors; fighters who lived for the sheer thrill of battle; they were known as Saiyans. They had begun as primitive cave dwellers, large, aggressive and very powerful, living in the wastelands of their home world; the Planet Vegeta. They shared this planet with another race, the Tuffles, who though much smaller and physically weaker than the Saiyans, possessed far superior technology and lived in great cities far away from the Saiyans. That is until one fateful, terrible day when the Saiyans rose up, and attacked the Tuffles in force, beginning a long war which they mostly dominated. However, the Tuffles who's engineering genius was their greatest strength, fought back with powerful weapons and machines that could detect the Saiyans presences. Just when it looked like victory, there came a rare event; a full moon, which unlocked the Saiyans secret transformation; and turned them all into giant Apes. And in one night, the entire Tuffle race was obliterated, leaving the mighty Saiyans the victors, however this left them without anyone to fight, and with no real idea as to how to use the advanced technology left by the Tuffles.
Eventually, they were able to travel through space, and through alliances with other races, the Saiyans found themselves entering the employ of a group known as the Planet Trade Organization, ran by a family of Frost Demons (or Arcosians or Icejins). They became a race of mercenaries; they would land on planets and wipe out the population for their payers, then move on to the next, thus filling the Saiyan desire to fight, and soon many worlds learned to fear the warrior race; the Saiyans.
Years passed, again and again the Saiyans proved their might and power, reaping the benefits of their unique profession. As a race, they divided themselves into classes determined by their power levels at birth; powers of bellow 15 were low-class; soldiers and grunts who usually worked in attack groups of four or five and were led by usually the strongest warrior within the group, often being sent to easy targets as infants. Powers bellow 30 were designated as group leaders, strong fighters with a lot of cunning; they were able to strategize and plan as well as destroy. Powers in 35-40+ were great warriors, they could go out alone and single-handedly eradicate a planet's populace as well as fight significantly more difficult targets within the organization. Above that, Saiyans born with that high a power were destined to become Elites; the crème del la crème, the toughest, strongest and most powerful among the entire Saiyan army, even becoming personal guards to the royal family, if not being a member of the royal family itself. Through these methods, the entirety of Saiyan society was based upon the simple view; strength and power were everything, and the strongest always leads. Ironic, in that it would be through this narrow-minded view of the universe, that the whole race was nearly wiped out.
Our story follows a turning point in one Sayian's life; when he felt that change had to happen. And while he is significant, it is through his son, that the story shall really begin, until then though, there is the Saiyan warrior Sohok; Mentor of Bardock.