Voyd Enclave (Void)

Culture: Admiralty/scavenger The Voyd history is an interesting one. Millennia ago, there was a large population of humans near the center of the galaxy, their civilization centered around the massive galaxy center star. As this was before any other empire had expanded far enough to make contact with them and they lived in relative harmony. That is until the star began to decay, leaking unknown special radiation into the surrounding human country. This stirred humanity into a panic, and most of them took to the stars, desperately seeking refuge. Most became lost in space, eventually starving to death. More came into contact with the Walren or Kadar and were quickly destroyed. Some landed on earth and colonized it, their technology quickly becoming un-maintainable devolving back into the Stone Age to be rebuilt again. Still others were able to form and rebuild another empire farther away from the center, after many years of struggle finally managing to establish themselves in the galactic scene as the Vuxati Commune. And lastly, some refused to leave, holding on to the nearly fanatical religious belief that they would adapt to the radiation. Surprisingly, they were correct. Their physiology changing, the humans there become something else, being changing to shadowy visages of their former selves, lacking any features but their silhouettes. This transition occurred when the star imploded on itself, becoming a massive black hole. Until very recently the Voyd Enclave still populated the systems of black holes around the galactic center, immune to their gravitic and radioactive effects. They become somewhat pirate-like, favoring raiding other empires’ ships and retrofitting them instead of creating their own. After an interesting turn of events, the became a puppet state of the Walren Empire, cleverly staging a fake civil war to transfer power to the rebel element, the Pure Voyds, freeing the Voyd Enclave once more. A few years later, the entire Voyd civilization packed up and left, all flying their ships directly into the galactic center black hole, where they remained for nearly 250 years. When the cane they exited... with their new fleet of their own engineered fleet of several billion ships. Acting quickly, the Walren and Saurian Empires prepared their fleets for battle, heavily outnumbering the inferior Voyd ships. Luckily, crisis was averted when the Saurian revealed a newly discovered technology, locking the entire galactic center black hole system inside a sort of pocket dimension, trapping them inside. Durning this time negotiations were made, and a peace agreement was struck, resulting in the Voyd Enclave returning into their personal abyss. Technology: While Voyds do possess their own tech, they mostly use pirated ships and equipment from other empires. They often retrofit them with their own special thrusters and drives, which while not notably faster are somehow unaffected by gravitic effects such as black holes. The other special facet of Voyd technology is their discovery of how to traverse the galactic center black hole. No other empire knows what lays beyond that black abyss, but much Saurian activity around the galactic center has led some to believe otherwise.

Worship

The group of original Voyds that stayed behind when the rest of their race left the galactic center did so mostly out of their religious fervor targeted towards the black hole called the Alphega Singularity, many even going so far as to believe it was some sort of god despite the deadly radiation it was giving off slowly but steadily. Another large sect, this one based in the science and matters of physical reality, believed nothing of the sort and fervently tried to dissuade them from this notion. Ultimately being unsuccessful, these humans packed up and left, eventually reestablishing themselves and building a new empire from the ground up after many long, hard years of struggle. They are now known as the Vuxati Commune, and the Voyd Enclave itself denies their shared genetic ancestry for various reasons while the Vuxati are open about their heritage.