Vyre

On the Emprah's galactic crusades, certain small and otherwise harmless looking inhabited systems were avoided all together, and for good reason. Inside these innocuous systems floated small, dark planetoids of heavy metals and circuitry surrounded by energy shields and odd, kite shaped vessels marked with complicated characters. Inside these structures live creatures known as the Vyre. Empy avoided Vyre held systems with good reason, for while vastly decreased from their once glorious multigalactic empire, the Vyre are still a proud, possessive and very deadly race.

The 'Dark systems,' as they are called by the few members of the Imperium that know of them, are quite equally spaced out around the galaxy, due to the nature of the crumbled Vyrran empire, however they are actually more prevalent completely outside of the galaxy, to the galactic east of the segmentum ultima. The denizens of these systems rarely venture from their vessels and shield-worlds; mainly because there isn't really anything that interests them outside, and the majority spend a great deal of time asleep, waking only to eat once a month or so.

Birth

The Vyre are incredibly old. Both as a race and individually. The Imperial Domain of Vyrrah was founded and destroyed before even the Old Ones came to the fore. many hundreds of millennea ago a group of scientists were commissioned to create a perfect weapon; a weapon that would operate, maintain and direct itself. Their answer to this question was the Vyre; tall and silent, the first hundred Vyre marched out of the air transport to greet the world leaders who had paid for the archangel project. Exactly thirty two minutes later all one thousand six hundred and fifty seven soldiers, staff and guests on the site were dead, and the newly established Vyrran race had secured its first foothold in the bloodiest civil rights war in the history of the universe. Over the next forty years the population of that planet in the outskirts of the ultima segmentum was reduced by almost one half from twelve billion to just over six as the fury of Vyrra overtook the planet. in this time, twelve thousand new Vyre were created by a mixture of breeding and the passing on of the curious virus responsible for the incredible abilities of the Vyre. after this time the vyre disappeared into their mountaintop strongholds for a few centuries, over which time they came to realize that they were quite possibly immortal. bolstered by this knowledge, and other discoveries, four hundred years later, thirty thousand Vyre came pouring from the mountains, took the world by storm, constructed far greater space vessels than had ever been seen before and promptly went on to conquer the whole known universe