Ferminite

The modern Ferminites are grown in tubes and have robotic exoskeletons with organic innards due to their ancestors wearing hazard suits their entire lives and not naturally reproducing for millions of years. They rely on technology and cloning to survive and grow their own food. Ferminites were the ones to start the first Universal War.

## History and UWI

Due to the constant viral disease that the Ferminites experienced on their planet, genetic alteration was a key component of their late stage survival and something the Ferminites relied on. Their mutation capacity in their genetic structures was also faster than most life forms, and mutations occurred frequently to combat the super-viruses. In their late stage technological survival they'd constantly wear hazardous protection suits as such contagions that existed naturally in their body could completely cause extinction on other worlds. In their early spacefaring stage, as the Ferminites colonized other planets in their system, they elected to spending life mostly in special environmental suits, and to only allow births to take place artificially as to avoid infections or diseases which could be passed through sex. This over-practice became integrated into their larger society and even to the middle and lower classes as they advanced; their species adapting swiftly to these new behaviors.

Eventually after the discovery of Z-ion Force Manipulation, they began a campaign to end all dangerous diseases and forms of life they had on their planet. After completely eradicating and causing the extinction of deadly pathogens on their colony worlds, their expansion into the nearby Ferminal 2 system began, and there they encountered alien life. Due to their origins, the Ferminites were afraid of possibly encountering more danger and quarantined this world, and eventually elected to use a planetary bombardment to destroy the strange fauna. This was the beginning of their xenophobic mindset towards other forms of life.

Their colony world's exploration factions discovered life once again on another planet in the Ferminal 2 system. However, they had a more curious approach and rather than cleansing the planet, they elected to terraform its fauna and cleanse it of illnesses. Over the course of a decade, with special made CRISPR viruses using the recorded genetic structure of their own planet's super viruses, they were able to completely change this planet to their liking. The silicon life forms were now edible Cattle and the coral-like plant life were now crops. They made a possible danger into a benefit.

Soon they would streamline space travel technology by creating Z-Bridges. This caused their reach to grow and they encountered a race known as the Cronly, who were still in an industrial revolution phase. However, the Ferminites, with their fascist society and xenophobic mindset, still wanted to take the same approach they did on other worlds but were unsure of what to do now that they encountered another race. They elected to reform the Cronly's genome into being similar to the Ferminites and began a planetary invasion. The first wave was able to be held off by the Cronly and the danger this race posed proved to be difficult to the Ferminites. The Ferminites, already seeing the Cronly as a threat, decided the best course of action would not be to uplift then to Ferimnals as well as cause a competitive threat, but to remove the Cronly's sentience.

After mapping the genome, a virus was made and the Cronly were reformed like the aliens encountered before into a Cattle. This became the new policy of the Ferminites as they encountered more worlds, more life, and more races; making the Universe more devoid of sentient life. This would change when the Ferminites encountered the Intergalactic Council, and began a war with those races to subdue and convert them to either animals or Ferminites. They gave the worlds they conquered the option to join the conquest or become Cattle for the empire. The Ferminites would eventually lose the war, however, as the military might of so many other races subdued their empire. Their actions still had an effect on the Universe in the end as the majority of existing races were conquered, which is why only a small multitude still exist.

The Ferminites were nearly extinguished after they lost the war due to Intergalactic hatred. Their remaining forces were condemned to the homeworld they sought to escape and even after millions of years with no military; are still unfairly occupied and monitored by the Galacticu. The current Ferminite society is so far removed and evolved past their xenophobic ancestors and yet are still looked down upon by the Intergalactic society at large.

Two Races that did go missing that the Ferminites are not responsible for are the Dhume and the Ludanill. Both races disappeared in the early days of the Intergalactic Council, when trade and communication were very primitive and before the Ferminites even became a multisystem race. The Dhume disappeared quickly with no single member among them left or a trace of what happened; almost like they vanished where where stood. On the other hand, after communication from Ludanill stopped and a ship was finally able to arrive to investigate; it had been so long that no one knew what really happened. The buildings were too overgrown and the technology too aged. The Ludanill disappearance could've been caused by a number of things. It was on the border of the Holy Lands which includes the Yakka or the Invaders among the vast unknown of what the Holy Lands contain.