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Unified Dathu Hives


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Species and Description:
The Dathu are an insectoid species with vaguely humanoid shapes along their upper body, with two or more arms. The lower half of their bodies however resemble what is typically expected of insect lifeforms, with four or more legs around their abdomens and thorax. 
(For more in-depth information, check the history)

The Yanthu are an Artificial species created by the Dathu to serve as their new warrior castes. The Yanthu, with the role they play in Dathu Society, have no base form, rather, are molded into several sub-species that serve various purposes on the battlefield. The Yanthu are split into two main overarching "Strains", the Alpha Strain and the Omega Strain. The Alpha Strain serve as a more "traditional" military arm, taking on humanoid shapes to serve as a counter to the terran and xeno armies in the Galaxy, created to battle in close-quarters combat or in urban environments. 

The Omega Strain are the more beastial aspect of the Yanthu, made as maddened living killing machines. The Omega Strain serve as the Attack dogs of the Aplha Yanthu, on occasion, are sent out ahead of the main force to weaken the targeted world for subjugation.

In their short bouts of conquests and the like, the Dathu have conquered a number of human and alien worlds along the fringes of the Old Empire, many of the local populations were either killed off, fled to neighboring, far stronger powers or enslaved by the Dathu, the conquered now forced to serve the Hives either as livestock to be broken down and harvested, as a cheap workforce or in rare cases, used as unwilling cannon fodder even below the Yanthu. 

Aldzir

Aldzir are a semi-marine mammalian species native to Nasj, an Earth-like Moon that orbits a Gas Giant. The Aldzir are covered from head to toe in thick fur. Their Fur comes in several shades of color depending on the region of their homeworld, the most common colors being Brown, Gray, White and or stripped colors.

The Aldzir have two sets of eyes, an adaptation of their semi-aquatic existence, their vision more sharper then the average human. The upper, smaller pair of eyes are made use to traverse underwater when scavenging for food, the bottom larger eyes are their primary ones for sight in the surface.

Aldzir eat and communicate via a trunk, although unimposing at first, inside a Aldzir trunk are tiny sharp fangs to aide them in consuming blood and shredded meat. Aldzir speak with high-pitched chirps, buzzes, and grunts, it is physically impossible for Aldzir to speak any other languages and often are in need of special translation collars or other such devices, or that an alien speak in their tongue. The Aldzir homeworld, before the Fall, was once one out of thousands of Imperial Resort Worlds, its unique and picturesque scenery made fitting for Imperial Aristocrats. 

The Aldzir themselves, with their girth and mass, were seen as fitting universal laborers, with few exceptions, were able to work in almost any climate. Some more bloodthirsty nobles had found the Aldzir as ideal warriors for gladiatorial arenas. 

Following the Empire's total collapse and proceeding Dathu Conquest, many terran nobles were among the first to flee what is now known as the Dathu Occupied Territories, bringing with them their Aldzir slaves, the slave families and other servants, although not an ideal situation, said slaves would be considered the fortunate ones, their fellow tribemen, and countless others had faced against the full brunt of the Dathu Invasion. 

Terrans and Others
A number of Terran Border Worlds had fallen to the early stages of the Dathu Invasion, many terrans now trapped within occupied dathu space with their xeno cohorts.

Allegiance: None, the Dathu owe no allegiance to any but to themselves, seeing themselves as the new and rightful rulers of the Old Empire.
How The Government Is Ran:
Military Strategy:
The Hivefleets of the Dathu prefer swarm tactics with a deadly blend of heavy capital ships and near endless swarms of smaller warships and fighter craft. Ground warfare is taken upon in a similar approach as legions of Yanthu soldiers are sent to besiege and overwhelm entrenched enemy positions and fortifications. 
-Dathon-class Supercarrier: The Dathon-class Supercarrier is by far the largest capital ship the Dathu Hivefleet has to offer. The Dathon Supercarriers are primarily designed to operate as the command and control center of all of hivefleet operations, and support for ground forces.

-Varush-class Dreadnought:

-Ghash-class Heavy Cruiser:

Aurud-class Battlecruiser:

-Zarin-class Carrier:

-Zinu-class Light Cruiser:

-Virzin-class Heavy Frigate:

-Uarsh-class Frigate:

-Hish-class Corvette:

-Kurk-class Space Superiority Fighter:
-Shazi-class Fighter-Bomber:
-Rishi-class Heavy Fighter:
-Kviru-class Interceptor:
-Thav-class Dropship:
-Kilk-class Gunship:
-Lashu-class Boarding Pod:
Janr-class Landing Craft

Alpha Strain
-Milites: The Milites were bred to serve alongside the Legionaries and Centurions, acting as light aerial infantry, made to engage and overwhelm the enemy in large swarms, unfortunately for the Milites, they're by far the weakest of the Alpha Strain, an individual could not pose much of a threat to a even the greenest of terran soldier.

-Legionary: The core of the Dathu servitor armies. The Legionaries, like all other Yanthu, primarily created as a counter human soldiers, and from birth are ingrained mentally with standard battle tactics and strategy, just enough information to give the most novice of troop something to fear.

-Centurion: The Centurions are a grade above their legionary brethren, and are given more autonomy on the battlefield, acting as low ranked officers in the swarm, leading other Yanthu into battle if a Dathu Overseer were not to be present. 

-Juggernaut: The Yanthu Juggernauts are truly a fearsome sight to behold. Clad in heavy armor and equipped with a plasma lance cannon, as their name implied, the Juggernaut's primary purpose was to act as shock heavy infantry or in some cases, acting as living weapon emplacements for Yanthu ground forces. Juggernauts are also known as deadly melee combatants, using their blast shield as a makeshift blade to cut through enemy infantry.  

-Umbra: The Umbra are a unique sub-strain among the Alpha Yanthus, taking on an authentically humanoid shape, unlike their vaguely humanoid or beastial brethren. The Umbras serve as an Infiltration Unit, bred to operate independently behind enemy lines, or as snipers in an active warzone. With such a role, the Umbra are giving even greater autonomy then the Centurions and Praetorians. 

-Praetorian: By far the highest tier among the Alpha Strains and the fewest in number, the Praetorians serve as the personal bodyguards of High ranking Dathu Commanders, Matriarchs and even the Queen Mother herself.

Omega Strain
-Ravager: The Main frontline fighter of the Omega Strain. The Ravagers are medium-sized berserk warmachines capable of untold destruction and death on the battlefield. They are moderately-armored, their large mandibles and various limbs are all capable melee weapons able to shred enemy infantry to bits. The Ravagers and their Omega kin often are the prime choice of Dathu Brood Masters as the first wave of a Dathu Invasion. In the middle stages of a Dathu Invasion, Ravagers become a sort of warhound for the Alpha Strain Yanthu.

-Reaper: Reapers are the aerial shock troops of the Omega Strain. Reapers are designed similarly to the Ravagers, with all their blade-sharp limbs and mandibles being capable melee weapons. Reapers are primarily skirmishers, sent to scout out and often harass the enemy via a hit and run strategy. Reapers are armed with poisonous stinger darts which can be shot out from their posterior.

-Behemoth: By far one of the larger members of the Yanthu overall. Covered in thick armored platting comparable to an Alpha Juggernaut and standing at ten meters in height, The Behemoth is a living siege engine, acting as the ultimate terror weapon, although the same could be said for the entirety of the Omega Strain.

-Decimater: The Omega Decimater serves as a sort of living tank, and to a lesser extent, serves as a lesser terror and siege engine compared to the Behemoth, but it has its purpose. Due to it's more small size, the Decimater often is ideal as Anti-Infantry beasts, making use of the highly corrosive and flammable substance deep within their bodies. As the name implies, and at will, a Decimater can eject the substance from their nozzle and wreak havoc to any infantry formations that dare stand in its way.

-Fast Attack Skimmer:
-Multi-Purpose Utility Transport:
-Main Battle Tank:
-Light Mortar Tank:
-Anti-Air Tank:
-Siege Walker:
-Battle Walker:

History:
Native to the Arid World of Dathon, in their earliest moments of evolution, the Dathu had their origins as tunnel-dwelling creatures, very much similar to Terran Ants. The ancient beastial ancestors of the Dathu however, were forced out of their tunnel networks from viscous predators, namely, the Urgok Rock Worm. Forced from their old habitat, the Ancient Dathu had to adapt to the harsh and unforgiving surface of Dathon, and it of course, was a slow process.

As the ages pass, the Dathu were soon becoming the Apex Predator of Dathon as many hives spread across the planet and dominated. Their intelligence grew and grew as their numbers increased, causing a strange, yet peculiar event that changed the course of Dathu Evolution, the Ancient Dathu were once a hiveminded species like any other, but as their numbers grew, the hivemind, although still present in some capacity even to the modern day, had increasingly grown weaker, the old biological caste system slowly bred out of the genepool. The Ancient three castes of the Dathu, the Matriarchs, the Warriors and the Workers, had become blurred and meshed as the species became one. 

Many Dathu were now fully autonomous, became Individuals, this drastic change to the Dathu led the way to the establishment of civilization. A thousand years before the Empire's fall, the Terran Empire had stumbled upon the world of Dathon along it's border, civilization that had reached it's colonial stage, the Dathu Hives stretching across several star systems.

First contact with the Terrans ended in bloodshed as the Empire and the Dathu fought a five year long war, a war the Dathu inevitably lost.
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