Early History
The Dominion was established over two-thousand years prior to the events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, by the Changelings, a race of shape-shifters, as a means of defending themseves against the widespread persecution they faced from humanoid races (whom they called "solids"). These Changelings genetically engineered a series of 'slave races' to act as the footsoldiers of their new empire, and were dubbed the Founders by their new creations.
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