Ords

## About

The Ords are a advanced and powerful species that owns most of the Pi Galaxy. Ords' body parts are almost completely invisible due to their extremely dark color. To see something like their mouth, you would need a very strong source of light shining directly on it. They stand 1-2ft tall (0.3-0.6m) and have a shell like exoskeleton. They can break out of their exoskeleton at any given time and once they do, it reveals their much taller inner bodies, which are almost skeletal. Their inner bodies are 5-7ft tall (1.5-2.1m) and have dangerous claws and other features. It takes 2-5 Earth days to regrow their exoskeleton, taking a longer or shorter time depending on their health. Ords come in many shapes and sizes, and rarely even colors. Ords are very good at genetic modification and have created various different versions of their species for different tasks. For example, a short and small species with strong limbs and adaptability for space are used to manage space stations and sometimes serve as spacecraft pilots. In low gravity planets they have conquered, the Ords make themselves tall and slim exclusively to live on that planet. There are thousands, if not millions of different Ord species all adapted for their specific planets. Light speed travel has been achieved by this civilization, but distance can still be a problem, since they own a large portion of the Pi Galaxy and their empire stretches light years across. They try to fix this by keeping in touch with each other, and having colonies expand as vastly as they can to shorten the distance of communication. Ords have highly advanced technology and spacecraft, with a mothership the size of a star and weapons that could blast a star with a single fire and cause a super nova. Most civilizations invaded by the Ords never stood a chance as the Ordic Empire usually attacks 1-2 type civilizations. The only threats to the Ords is practically all other advanced civilizations in the galaxy, the Zions, which are about equal power to the Ords which to them is a pretty alarming threat. Currently, the Ordic Empire and the Zions are in a sort of cold war.

## History

Ords always had competition, as many nearby solar systems were just as advanced as them at the time, and only competed with each other and sometimes had wars with each other that devastated both sides for decades, sometimes centuries. The Ordic systems, the one the Ords and their competitors called home are a cluster of nearby solar systems that share common traits with each other. Most systems don't have many planets. The planets there are cold and they all share the same culture and ideas due to the Ords eventually winning the competition and ruling most of the Ordic systems. All of these planets in the Ordic systems had been impacted by similar asteroids, and as a result most life that emerged in the Ordic systems were slightly similar, and when each system started reaching out to each other communication was easier then most cases of other planets when they had reach out to each other. The whole area developed one language: Ordic. They had been unified now, but only because of the Ordic Empire forcing them to be under their rule.