Ploxis

The **Ploxis** are the leading elite of the Hegemonic Crux, ruling from the shadows using the K'tang Katorri as proxies and petty thugs. They resemble nude bird creatures and seem to be hardwired into their ships, though this might just extend to the Plutocrats.

## Culture

The Ploxis once had a rich and powerful culture, that unlike most races, embraced the eccentric ideals of the avant-garde immediately and with a deep and powerful respect. This gave the Ploxis extremely advanced technology, unmired by doubt and restraint. This liberal attitude caused them to respect even those who decided that the acquisition of wealth and power should be their primary motivation. However, this attitude allowed the rise of the Plutocrats.

Under Plexor, the Ploxis Plutocrats are highly skill manipulators, capable of manipulating the different races of their home quadrant and even the members of their own alliance through a mixture of guile and long term planning. This trickery is essentially what holds their empire together, as without the Ploxis, the K’tang wouldn’t be able to keep up their infrastructure and the Daktaklakpak wouldn’t be able to find Precursor artefacts as efficiently on their own. The allocation of resources by the Ploxis allows them to retain this control, and sometimes they pit the other species of the Crux against each other for their own amusement. The Ploxis under Plexor do not understand the need for diplomacy within the confine of the League of Sentient Races, as the Captain possesses the only means of transportation and colonisation they have to hand. This means, as far as Plexor is concerned, that the Captain is essentially a dictator and cannot fathom why he doesn’t just put the League races in their place, instead giving the Captain “grief” as they are unable to fight back against a powerful Precursor ship.

## Technology

The Ploxis had extremely advanced technology in their home quadrant, possessing an understanding of Quasispace travel, the means to use and understand Precursor technology and their Plunderer ships, which could be remotely piloted in real time from several systems over. The Plutocrats managed to get their hands on a powerful Precursor vessel called the Praxus-Prime, the largest cache of Precursor technology in the galaxy, develop an anti-matter shield to defend it and even managed to locate a bomb that when detonated would summon the Eternal Ones in person to devour the entire galaxy.

## History

The Ploxis were at once a race that celebrated diversity, and believed deeply in the idea of fairness and of the correlation between success and worthiness as a sentient. This allowed the Ploxis culture to flourish and gave them create scientific might and cultural insight.

As the scientific might of the Ploxis became known, races from all over their quadrant came with gifts and wealth for the slightest piece of knowledge. Most Ploxis took this in stride, as usual with their race, but others sought more wealth, regardless of how much they already had. As with all eccentrics, the other Ploxis welcomed these Plutocrats with open arms and respect. The same was not true of the Plutocrats. They initiated a system of government, one that promoted ownership and self-betterment through wealth and the Ploxis as a whole took to it rapidly.

As time went on, the Plutocrats began to segregate themselves from the larger population inside massive biodomes, whilst other Ploxis starved outside and chaos began to take hold of the once mighty civilization. In a bid to restore "order", the Plutocrats brought in the K'tang Katorri to restore the peace and control the population. Unfortunately for the Plutocrats, the larger Ploxis population saw through this and began to fight back, turning their great thinkers and scientists on the Plutocrats.

As the great thinkers came up with strategies and the scientists worked on weapons of war, the tide began to turn against the K'tang and their Plutocrat masters. Just as victory was about to be assured, the Plutocrats revealed their deadliest weapon. In a bid to retain power, the Plutocrats had made a deal with the Daklaktakpak, to gain control of a Precursor vessel, in exchange for helping the Daklaktakpak find and recover Precursor artefacts. The Ploxis Rebels were decimated, with a few trying to fight back, but the rest fleeing for their lives as their worlds burned.

During the war, the Rebel scientists had noticed the moving of the Arilou Lalee'lay between Quasispace and Truespace and had managed to follow them on a couple of these jumps. Using their scientific might, the Rebels managed to develop Quasispace travel, which they used for their final exodus. Freezing a considerable portion of their population, the Ploxis Rebels threw themselves into Quasispace, unsure of when they would reemerge from cryostasis, if ever.

Taking this as a victory, the Plutocrats had decimated 99.99 per cent of their species, with the last of their number living aboard their Precursor Vessel, the Praxus-Prime. From this ship, they would enroll the K'tang and the Daktaklakpak into the formation of the Hegemonic Crux and begin preparations to invade the Kessari Quadrant, after their own quadrant had been conquered and expunged of every other race.

Following the Plutocrat creed of gaining all material wealth and reveling in the personal suffering of those without, the Crux enslaved the Doog to provide all labour efforts for the Plutocrats and the K'tang's war effort. Meanwhile, Plexor, leader of the Plutocrats and pilot of the Praxus-Prime, began his invasion of the Kessari Quadrant, bringing the Clairconctlar, Harika and Yorn into the fold using harsh deals and shrewd trickery. From there, he discovered the largest cache of Precursor technology in the galaxy and after a dealing with the Owa, managed to obtain the means of creating a great anti-matter shield to protect himself and his Plutocrats.

However, this would all come to an end with the arrival of the League of Sentient Races and their Captain. Whilst Plexor would attempt to persuade the Captain and then try to defeat him, the revival of the Ploxis Rebels allowed the Captain access beyond the anti-matter shield and allowed the destruction of the Plutocrats once and for all.