Vespir

The Vespir are an extra-terrestrial wasp-like race whose spaceships crashed 500 years ago in the western mountains of the Serrona region in Eldham. Their population remains relatively few in number and they have not spread past their original crash-site which had come to be built into the technological fortress known today as Salac. In more recent years, the once-isolated Vespir city-state of Salac would find itself peacefully integrated into the new Eldham colonist governments of Elduria, Notos, Eros, and the Vulperium.
The Vespir are closely related to the other extra-terrestrial insect races of the Aphiari, whom they shared a common star system with. 
==Biology==
The Vespir are a 6 ft. tall winged-insectoid species whose social responses to other creatures are determined as much by their biology as by their intelligence. They are apart of a larger race of alien-origin insects known as the Aphiari. The Vespir, Favizin, Avakai, and Hamuli races of the Aphiari once lived in unity, with each race filling a specialized role within society that had been pre-determined for them. Whilst the other races were specialized in things like construction, administration, and art; the Vespir's specialization was that of combat and warfare, and thus they are the strongest and deadliest of the Aphiari with their stingers containing a venom that causes instant death aswell as their claws and chelicera being able to crush bones. With the Vespir race having separated from the other races of the Aphiari, their culture seems to have adapted to allow for Vespir to develop as diverse a number of specialized roles than what was possible before.
It is unknown if the Vespir follow queens as the other Aphiari races do or even what their methods of reproduction are, as information on such private affairs is kept under close guard. Gender differences are minimal, and in fact the females of the race would be indistinguishable in appearance from the male drones if not for their chitin plating being a pale whiteish-yellow color in contrast to the vibrant yellows that most males exhibit.
There are theories that the Vespir follow the Assoti method of reproduction; where in the absence of a Queen, other races are able to be assimilated and made to physically transform into a Vespir. There are further theories that Vespir are not naturally born but have always been a bio-engineered species, though this theory is with it's holes as Vespir have been known to also be reproductively compatible with other races in Eldham through what is posited as a rapid genetic adaptation for the species. (The one documented instance of this has been the many Vespir children of Regulus, himself an anomaly) In any case, the inner workings of the reclusive Vespir race remain a mystery to outsiders.
It is unknown if the Vespir's historical practice of kidnapping other species was also indicative of an old biological instinct carried over into their new lives in Eldham or rather was an act done with a more insidious and complex intent.
==Culture==
==History==
===The Age of Strength===
The Vespir originate from a mysterious homeworld millions of light-years away from the planet of Celeia that they currently inhabit. It was on this homeworld that they functioned as the warrior caste of a greater space-faring species known as the Aphiari. The culture and government practices of this ancient world remain unknown but it must have been a strong authoritarian system in place to have kept the Vespir in alliance with the other Aphiarii races that are traditionally hated in Vespir culture.
This empire of the Aphiarii was one of conquest, and the Vespir being it’s military arm would come to be seen as some of the most bloodthirsty creatures in the universe. They constructed their armor and weapons out of the body parts of the sentient species they were sent to massacre, and it is said they exhibited great cruelty in subjecting them to painful transformative biological experiments while they were still living. Other extraterrestrial races like the Vantashae Constructs, Raajjyn, and Bibshmibbians that have come to live on Celeia today are familiar with this history and maintain the collective opinion that any groups of Vespir that are come across are to be quickly exterminated.
The brutality and infamy of the Vespir would indeed invoke the ire of many other spacefaring societies throughout their empire’s history, and this vast enmity would lead to a devastating interstellar war resulting in the total destruction of the Aphiari homeworld. Very few ships were able to escape the conflagration, with the Vespir prime colony-ship of Salac being one of these few. The Vespir in the aftermath would remain as refugees traveling the stars for many centuries whilst pursued by their enemies in an attempt to fully wipe out their species for good. Eventually, the great star-ship Salac with it’s offensive cannons and small defense fleet would exhaust it’s long-running energy stores as a result of these repeated military confrontations and the ship would find itself breaking apart at the seams in orbit above the planet of Celeia after having just barely repelled one other such attack. In a wreckage of flaming ruins, Salac would find itself crashing down into the mountains of the Southwestern Serrona region on the continent of Eldham.
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