Cerealian

Cerealians closely resemble human Earthlings, with one immediately distinctive feature: they all possess green-colored hair. Their average lifespan stretches to around 200 years, with much of that time spent in their physical prime, similar to the prolonged fighting years of the Saiyan race. Like Saiyans, Cerealians are a warrior-capable species, though their civilization leaned more toward peaceful coexistence than conquest.

Their most remarkable biological trait is the evolved right eye. Each Cerealian possesses a right eye with a merged iris and pupil, deep red in color, that grants incredible visual acuity. This eye gives them natural sniping capabilities, allowing them to target and strike with precision at extreme distances. The ability made Cerealian warriors formidable marksmen, though even their evolved sight was not flawless. The Cerealians used chiaseeds as a standard form of measurement, a small cultural detail that hints at a developed society with its own systems and traditions.

Before their destruction, the Cerealians inhabited Planet Cereal alongside a small tribe of Namekians who had settled there after traveling from another realm. The two species coexisted peacefully, with the Namekians even creating a set of Cerealian Dragon Balls using their innate magical abilities.

Around Age 733, the Frieza Force dispatched its Saiyan Army to Planet Cereal. Under the full moon, the Saiyans transformed into Great Apes and devastated the Cerealian population and their cities. A powerful Cerealian warrior named Flayk managed to destroy the planet's moon, forcing the Saiyans to revert to their base forms, but the invaders remained too powerful for the surviving Cerealians and Namekians to handle. The genocide was nearly total.

The attack was not random. The Heeters, a criminal organization that served as business partners to the Frieza Force, had arranged the assault so they could rebuild the planet and sell it at a profit. After the genocide, they sold Cereal to the Sugarians, a naive race whose own world had been destroyed. Only two survivors remained from the original population: a young Cerealian boy named Granolah, and the Namekian elder Monaito.

Granolah grew up consumed by hatred for Frieza and the Saiyans, unaware that the Heeters were the true architects of his people's destruction. He became a bounty hunter, ironically employed by the very organization that had orchestrated the genocide. When Frieza was resurrected, Granolah used the Cerealian Dragon Balls to make a desperate wish: to become the strongest mortal in Universe 7. The dragon Toronbo granted the wish, but with a devastating price. The power boost compressed Granolah's remaining lifespan from over a century down to just three years.

One of the Granolah the Survivor arc's most powerful revelations was the connection between Granolah's survival and Bardock, Goku's father. During the attack on Cereal, Bardock rescued the young Granolah and his mother Muezli from the carnage, reminded of his own wife Gine and newborn son Kakarot. It was an act of compassion from a Saiyan soldier who was otherwise participating in the very genocide that destroyed the Cerealians. Muezli was later killed by the Heeter leader Elec, but Granolah survived because of Bardock's choice.

This revelation reframed the conflict between Granolah, Goku, and Vegeta from simple revenge into something more complicated. Granolah discovered that a Saiyan had saved his life, that the true enemy was not the species he had spent decades hating, and that his wish for power came at a cost that made his remaining time on borrowed. The Heeters exploited all of this, manipulating Granolah's rage to instigate a three-way battle between Frieza, Granolah, and the surviving Saiyans, hoping all three would destroy each other.

As of the current Dragon Ball Super timeline, the Cerealian race faces total extinction by Age 784, when Granolah's shortened lifespan will expire. Unless the wish's cost is somehow reversed, the last Cerealian will die, and a species that survived for thousands of years will vanish because one of its own traded longevity for the power to avenge it.