Urpox

The Urpox are a small toad like species with a gaping mouth and two eyes on stalks. They possess two brains with two different consciousness and tend to talk to themselves in with the royal “we”. This is as a result of their subterranean origins. The Urpox pin this as the reason for their technological advances.

They were a member of the Faction of Eight who survived the massacre by the Scryve. They have been missing from the galactic stage for the past 10,000 years until the Measured Librarian tells the Captain where to find them. The Urpox were not an original member of the Faction, merely taking their position as so many had before. The race they defeated and annihilated was the Tpktpk. They were amongst the last to join, followed by a race called the Goros and finally, the Scryve.

The Urpox discovered that the Scryve were developing weapons technology, but didn’t contact the rest of the Faction, as it would trigger a war they couldn’t win. Instead, they began working on technology of their own, to hide from the Scryve, something they have continued for millennia. These included underground fortifications, stealthed starbases and even colonies inside gas giants. The Scryve found and destroyed all of these.

In the end, the Urpox scattered when it became clear that the Scryve would massacre them. One group went into hiding far from the Empire, in stasis. Eventually, the Scryve would catch up, even claiming the system the Urpox were in, but they never found them. One has awakened after millennia of stasis. They remain in stasis for millennia, only to awaken every now and then to check their surroundings, before going back into stasis.