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A time where the human race had expanded across the stars, searching and looking for any planets viable for human settling. They found them, alright, and the new colonization reached a peak where it rivalled the events of the Age of Discovery.

Oddly enough, humanity had not found, well, "proper" aliens. Oh, they did find the native sentient lifeforms of other planets, of course, but no extraterrestial empires nor multiplanetary civilizations. No higher cultures. No superior technology.

Until the start of the new century.

In 2700, the threat from the dark had come. The threat from the unexplored. The threat from the shadows.

And in shadows and swarms they came, hundreds and thousands and millions of bloodthirsty xenobiological monstruosities, ultraged at this new conversion of the once wild planets to the human's order. And humankind did find other technologically superior beings, and did find war.

That was 107 years ago.

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The effects were devasting. Planets were devoured. Lush lands were turned into barren wastelands. Rotten husks were the ruins of once powerful cities. Hives fell apart into the endless espace. Millions died, on both sides. And there would be no peace. There would be no diplomacy between Humanity and the monsters that had come from the stars.

The military had achieved a higher status. The Earth courts, the center of their extraterestial empires, plotted against each other, maybe even more than against the Tchauri. Young children with bright, tactical potentials from all planets were taken to a military training to become killers and soldiers. Human Technology had evolved, hand to hand with political games, intrigue, and idiologies.

And the war raged on.

The Tchauri are a hive coligation of aliens with many subspecies of varying qualities and appearances. The Tchauri don't organize themselves by the traditional human standards or heriarchy: imagine an ant colony. The "mother species" are the Brood Queens, and then there are the workers, the restrainers, the gaaths, the ravagers... each bred for a different purpose or murderous utility.

The Tchauri could also be described as extreme ambientalists, and they abbhore the humankind for taking over their hunting grounds. (Not that they exactly care a lot about the native species of each planet, mind. ) The Tchauri mostly view their war against the humans like the Crusades. There is also a religous aspect: the Tchauri view the High Queen as their "godess", and the other Brood Queens as high, er, priestesses. In a way.

The Brood Queens are mothlike in appearance, with large translucent wings, tentacles that descend from their animalistic mouth, and five long "legs" that when outstretched could easily snap a tank in two. They're very rare, however, and never actually engage in actual combat.

Even if there's a lot of variety within the Tchauri species, most have large mandibles, and are at least insectlike. Or squid.

The Tchauri do not enslave nor assimilate planets into their empire. Not quite.
They do have a healthy diet, you know.