Fiction:Chiboid Empire

United under Ryban the Superior over 2 billion earth years ago, The Chiboid Empire is a small, but rapidly expanding empire, bustling with trillions of Chiboids. The Chiboids work under a Mercantile Republic, trading with anyone with the right amount of money. This is called the Rybel Merchant System, where individual Rybels are payed handsomely to set up trade routes with several other empires, but ultimately end up paying huge amounts of money to the Empire, thus funding its continued expansion and defense. While not currently in an interstellar conflict, The Chiboid have won several wars in the past, their method of war being overwhelming the enemy's homeworld with a powerful EMP blast, then mopping up any remaining defense.