The Vire

The Vire began as an expedition of many different races; scientists, warriors, scholars, all the like. By now not even they remember exactly where in the Galaxy they began, or how many they had in their company. Yet the Vire unanimously know the stories of one aspect of their history: the day their scientists stumbled upon a strange device. The device that sent them into a parallel dimension to their own, a place they named the Rift. Though the events leading up to the Great Exodus are lost to history, the Exodus nevertheless happened and all those different races, all those different people, went through that portal to this strange and alien dimension. A whole new Galaxy to explore. A whole new life, free from the burdens of Jedi and Sith wars, of Republic corruption and Mandalorian pillaging, of the intrigues of the Hutts and Crime Lords. All this to their selves. It's no wonder why they kept the device a secret from those outside their own. The Force Sensitives that went along with the Exodus found that their powers were nigh on useless in this place, instead giving rise to every other inhabitant developing strange powers. These powers worked so similar to the Force, yet the Force-users found they could not feel the energies at all years later when all the others had developed these strange powers. The Rift held strange powers that changed the ones inside it, shaping all the various races into something...else. These "Rift Energies" changed even their ships and equipment, making them almost alive, perhaps the most notable side-effect is the fact that all their metals regenerate naturally from damage. Eons later, the various races that composed the Great Exodus were no more: all the Force-Sensitives slaughtered as heretics, the once small group of many races replaced instead with the hulking metallic-organic beings known collectively as the Vire, having integrated this regenerating metal into their own bodies as a means of defense and, furthermore, "enlightenment." Now, the Vire have mustered the ability to make devices to open portals to their former Galaxy. And they plan to eradicate this sodden, corrupted, filthy Galaxy of all the "heretics" and establish a never-ending empire of metal and brutality, their Holy Empress leading the Galactic siege from her bastion in the Rift.