Grysk

The **Grysk** awere a warlike sentient species in the Milky Way and ruled an empire known as the Grysk Hegemony.

## Biology

The Grysk are basically taller than humans with grey skin, deep-set eyes, angled brow ridges, wide shoulders, a tapered skull, no teeth, and fingers. They are proved to be very resilient to wounds. A single Grysk was known to take enough bullets to kill half a dozen very strong humans and keep fighting. The Grysk were also very intelligent, and quickly adapted to almost any situations.

They had an innate ability that seemed to be common in their species where they could prey on the fears of their enemies. They could use their enemies' fear to increase their strength and competency in combat. Not only that, but they could stoke fear in their enemies. The more fear an individual felt, the worse the effect became, sometimes paralyzing an enemy with fear.

## Society and Culture

*See Grysks on Wookiepedia: Grysk*
*"I've touched the mind of Un'hee. I've seen what the Grysks did to her, how they probed deeply into her mind and soul, how they found her deepest desires and fears, her most comforting memories and her most cherished hopes. How they twisted and tarnished and bent all of them to their will. How they broke her soul. They are a terrible enemy, Eli. Your Empire—your former Empire—forces its will on its slaves through soldiers and weapons and warships. But the Grysks…three can command a nation. A hundred can rule an entire world. Billions of beings, their hearts and souls broken, ready to fight and die at the order of a handful of aliens. No resistance, no revolt, no dissent, no hope."*
― Navigator Vah'nya, to Lieutenant Commander Eli Vanto on the ability of the Grysks

They controlled an empire known as the Grysk Hegemony. The Grysks employed "client species," which were beings they had convinced to serve them.

With the help of the telepathic Agbui, a client species employed by the Hegemony, the Grysks would probe deeply into a potential client's mind and soul, finding the individual's deepest fears and desires, as well as their most treasured hopes and comforting memories. The Grysks would twist all of these to their will, eventually enslaving the individual. These new "clients" were then willing to fight and die for their new masters. Additionally, the Grysks would isolate what mattered to a species, threatening it to help bring them under their will. Sometimes, instead of using their preferred method of subverting entire populations, in cultures that blindly followed their leaders the Grysks would simply bend the foreign government to their will and purpose. Because of this, the Chiss ozyly-esehembo named Vah'nya believed it only took three Grysks to rule a nation and only one hundred to rule a world.

## History

The Grysk came into contact with the Terran Alliance in late 2041 in Sector 5, despite their imposing appearance. The Alliance tempted to either invite them into the Alliance or propose a treaty of alliance and peace between the two powers. But the Grysk had proven to be far more aggressive and attacked the Terran fleet on sight after first contact. The Alliance tried to sue for peace and insist that they pose any threat to the Grysk, and tried to send an envoy to negotiate. Instead, the Grysk once again attacked with open hostility. This had a terrible effect, as one of the destroyed ships actually crashed on the world the skirmish had taken place over relatively intact. Although most of its systems were wiped, the Grysk were able to recover a lot of data on hyperspace lanes from its computers. This combined with their own hyperspace technology meant they now had the ability to expand outwards.

The Grysk launched an attack and captured an Alliance planet Ashgalar within Sector 4, until the Terran Alliance fought in a massive battle to retake it. This led to an open all out war between the Grysk Empire and the Terran Alliance

### Grysk-Terran War

The Grysk proved formidable opponents in war despite their small size and their massive fleet of highly advanced ships and starfighters to challenge the Terran Starfleet. In addition, the Grysk foot soldiers wielded advanced weaponry, some even more advanced than those wielded by the Alliance, and However, something was quickly discovered about the Grysk proved to be a game changer and gave the Grysk a major advantage, winning them many major victories early in the war. The Alliance discovered that t

The Grysk used their ability to prey on their enemies' fear This ability had allowed the Grysk to win major victories and inflict serious casualties on the Alliance's armies. The Alliance had been driven back extensively, forced to surrender territory to the Grysk to pull back and tighten the lines.

The first two years of the war were the worst, with the Grysk to gain the advantage against the Terran Alliance and pushed them back across the Milky Way galaxy. However, eventually, after 2 years, the Alliance was able to tighten their defenses and stop the Grysk advance. The following three years had seen mostly a stalemate between both sides