Swarm

Swarm
The Swarm is a collection of varied insectoid races that seem to work with the void. First discovered by the Tateari, they have viciously attacked a number of Tateari colonies, and there seems to be no end to their numbers. Their ships are slow, coming in to systems at sublight speeds, but this also makes them harder to detect at long ranges, and they seem to be sending ships at just about every system, and moving on far faster than the sublight speeds they show indicate they should be able to go. It is unkown if the Swarm is actually a collection of races, or a single race that can geneticlly modify it's own members to suit various needs, as they tend to swarm in such numbers, that samples are almost imposisble to take on the battlefield, with troop positions constantly being overrun. With such problems in fighting them, preventing their ships from reaching a planet has proven the best method of stopping them, as it seems any ship able to reach planetside, is able to breed new Swarm at an alarming rate, indicating that each ship must have a "queen" or at least a highly advanced cloning facility on board.